My brush with the pro-Corbyn Twitter mob
From our UK edition
When my old friend – a lifelong Labour supporter – told me he was voting Tory at the election, I posted a message on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RevRichardColes/status/858296208477040640 That was that, I thought. But then the replies started piling in. One of the first responses came from someone who thought my friend would regret his decision if he ever needed the NHS. ‘He’s an NHS consultant’, I replied. Even that didn’t stop the disbelief: many of those responding struggled to believe that someone working for the NHS could possibly vote Conservative. Was my friend real, they demanded to know. Admittedly not everyone thought I was making it up.
