Just imagine if this story happened during the general election campaign and not in the silly season 4 years before a general election
https://twitter.com/Ned_Donovan/status/770579305562836992
4:30pm – Richard Barbrook's old emails reveal he defended a banned book about 'good' and 'bad' paedophiles. https://t.co/vcqXjspNAg
— Ned Donovan (@Ned_Donovan) August 30, 2016
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this story, perceptions can sometimes matter more than the facts. Either Jeremy Corbyn and his team didn’t know about Richard Barbook’s background or they didn’t care about it, either option is pretty damning about the political nous of Jeremy Corbyn and his advisers.