John McDonnell has taken to social media today to confirm rumours that Che Guevara’s trademark beret was a gift from Jeremy Corbyn.
The beret, bought from Camden Market by Jeremy Corbyn in 1981 was given to McDonnell’s son Che Guevara during Jeremy’s 1972 peace mission to Cuba during which he foiled The Bay of Pigs invasion and broke the Cuban Missile Crisis stand off as intermediary between US President Jimmy Carter and Mikhail Gorbachev.
“Saying Jeremy Corbyn did’t end Apartheid in South Africa, broker the Good Friday Agreement and prevent the Cuban missile crisis is not only revisionist, it’s also racist.” A spokesman for Diane Abbott may or may not have told somebody.
“Next thing they’ll be saying is he is that he wasn’t imprisoned on Robben Island between 1964 and 1982. Free Jeremy Corbyn.”
The Rochdale Herald has taken the bold move of accusing everybody of being revisionist about Corbyn.
“It’s more likely that John McDonnell is Che Guevara’s Dad than Corbyn paved the way to The Good Friday agreement. For that to have happened Corbyn would have had to have been colluding with the Thatcher government between 1981-85. I don’t know if you remember there was this thing called the Miner’s Strike going on then. Scargill would have shot him at dawn, Thatcher would have done too.” Quentin Fortesqueue said with his head on his desk.
“He had a biscuit with Gerry Adams in 1981. That might have been il advised but it’s not like he planted the Brighton bomb is it? The Mail twittering on about Corbyn being a terrorist is just as revisionist.”
The Herald suggests everybody might like to grow up, or read a book. Or both.
