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Jeremy Corbyn – job one: Baffle the tourists

Political sketch by Conrad Landin

TOURISTS outside the Sanctuary House Hotel in Westminster were baffled.

As they pressed their noses to the glass, they saw a crowd gripped by a middle-aged trade unionist on a small TV screen.

Corbyn’s invited congregation of students, trade unionists and long-suffering stalwarts of the Labour left zigzagged from nailbiting silence to cheers of joy as the scale of their victory emerged.

But even when the crowd was at its happiest, there was no escaping the sense of disbelief.

Bemusement returned when a US family entered and quietly ordered a pub lunch. Little did they know that the man himself — and the leading lights of global media — would soon be in their midst.

Naturally, the tourists were treated to a fireside chat with Jezza, who went on to pay tribute to their Chicago homeland when he addressed the assembled. Cue chants of “USA, USA.”

Pity the right-wing hacks who sneaked in hoping for another supposed Hamas scoop.

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