Piers Corbyn, brother of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and a fellow die-hard left-winger, is having a blinder of a referendum day.
The rebel Corbyn – a weather expert and firm Brexit backer – did sterling work for the Leave campaign, filling his timeline with tweets that directly accused his brother of lying about his views.
One message from a Labour sceptic, which Piers retweeted to his 11,700 followers, said Jeremy “doesn’t believe a word he is saying”, and urged them to vote against him:
Other messages saw him palling up with strange bed-fellows for a former squatters’ rights activist: The Sun and Nigel Farage.
He showed his followers the tabloid’s “beautiful” front page, and also repeated a message from Ukip leader Farage – recently castigated by Jeremy for “racism” – urging them to “make history” with a leave vote.
It has long been supposed, not least by Heat Street, that Jeremy Corbyn’s heart is not really in Labour’s strident pro-EU campaign position.
Indeed he has hardly been able to avoid giving the game away himself, on live TV:
But the outburst may cause even further ruptures now that Piers Corbyn has come out in full opposition to what he delicately terms the #StupidINEU campaign.
TODAY MAY BE YOUR LAST EVER EFFECTIVE VOTE. Dont Vote away your right to vote!=> https://t.co/zUmOeShYAS #StupidINEU https://t.co/y6q4DeaHRl
— Piers Corbyn (@Piers_Corbyn) June 23, 2016
THIS IS YOUR LAST EVER EFFECTIVE VOTE UNLESS LEAVE WINS..#Piers #Corbyn https://t.co/zUmOeShYAS #VoteLeave #VoteHope https://t.co/pF0JfbruQE
— Piers Corbyn (@Piers_Corbyn) June 23, 2016
