According to Amelia Tait’s analysis Corbyn’s digital manifesto seems to combine vague platitudes, sound ideas which have already been proposed or even implemented, and cans of worms of various sorts.
However it’s the policy’s guru, Richard Barbrook, rather than its content, which has been attracting most media attention today.
Politics Home reports how he blamed Portland Communications for Labour infighting, and described concerns about antisemitism as ‘the demonisation of the Palestinian cause’.
Guido Fawkes points out that he describes himself as a ‘cybernetic communist’ who wears a badge associated with support for the IRA.
Barbrook has since claimed a different significance for the badge.
If so, that’s an advance on Jeremy Corbyn’s position.
