Michael Rosen is such an engaging presenter of BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth that his considerably less pleasant political side still keeps springing nasty surprises.
Here he was on Twitter this very morning trolling the British Jewish Board of Deputies:
Here he was on Twitter this very morning trolling the British Jewish Board of Deputies:
As you'd expect, he's had well over a thousand 'likes' from his Corbynista followers, delighted to have got one over on the Jews.
There's just one problem though: The Board of Deputies had protested to the Government about Andrew Sabisky's appointment, yesterday, 12 hours before Michael Rosen sent out that tweet.
In true Corbynista fashion, when it was pointed out to him (within the last half an hour) that "they posted condemning his appointment long before you tweeted this", he replied (to yet more 'likes' from his adoring fans), "I can see ‘registering our concerns’. Is that ‘condemning’?"
Well, he clearly didn't look very far. The Board of Deputies tweet in full was:
If that's not 'condemning', then what is?It is right that Andrew Sabisky is no longer working for the Government. We had registered our concerns with Downing St earlier. There can be no place for such views in our politics.
As a consummate wordsmith, he knows that, of course. He just doesn't want to lose face in front of his fanatical fans and is trying to bluff and blag his way out of having to apologise to the hated Corbyn critics at the Board of Deputies.
Tut, tut! What would linguist Dr Laura Wright say, Michael?
