Momentum, the ultra-loyal pro-Corbyn political group, usually cling to every word their leader utters.
So it puzzles Heat Street that they seem to have forgotten a major speech he gave just last week in which he railed against organisations that hold after-work drinks.
Despite their leader’s harsh words, Momentum has been recruiting extra volunteers with the promise of their own late-night drinking sessions to top off a day’s campaigning:
An advert hosted on the Momentum site, and plugged in sponsored Facebook posts, invites enthusiasts to join a Corbyn phone bank and ring round Labour members to shore up support in his leadership struggle with Owen Smith.
To sweeten the deal, after a day’s unpaid work the ad promises “in the evening, we’ll all head to the pub together.”
It comes less than a week after Corbyn slammed after-work drinking culture as “unfair” and discriminatory against mothers.
He said: “early-evening socialisation benefits men who don’t feel the need to be at home looking after their children.
“And it discriminates against women who will want to, obviously, look after the children that they have got”.
As well annoying those partial to a pint after work, Corbyn handily needled mothers and fathers by suggesting childcare is “obviously” a woman’s work.
Of course, as Heat Street pointed out, Corbyn followed his speech (incidentally in the very same building) by holding after-work drinks of his own – so his acolytes are no less hypocritical than him.