Followers of British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would have been forgiven for thinking the avowed socialist had gone entirely off the reservation Monday morning, as his official Twitter feed turned into a perverse and often baffling tirade.
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The Twitter account of United Kingdom Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was apparently hacked Sunday night, tweeting a few nonsensical, vulgar but maybe still topical tweets that all disappeared within moments.
The rogue tweets were swiftly deleted.
In a reference to Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent system, which is up for renewal, the account put out a simple two-word proposal: “f*** trident”.
Mr Corbyn’s Twitter was commandeered by an anonymous con who posted a series of profane tweets.
The nationality of the hacker has been widely speculated, with a number of users suggesting the phrasing of the Cameron tweet was characteristic of the Scottish vernacular, while others claimed the fourth tweet used an Australian slang term.
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Corbyn’s comments follow a reshuffle of his top team, where he gave the key defense policy occupation into a fellow critic of the nuclear arms capability of the UK.
