Getting the political spectrum on Twitter to all chuckle at once is not the easiest of tasks, but a spoof Jeremy Corbyn account has managed it.
In what could either be a scathing parody or doting endorsement of the left, the account, entitled @corbynjokes, has generated more than 2,000 followers in the past 24 hours by tweeting election issues disguised as classic one-liners.
A disclaimer states: “Jeremy hasn’t heard or told a joke since 1964”, perhaps as a nod to previous comments made about the Labour leadership candidate and self-proclaimed “parsimonious MP’s” lack of visible humour.
One rightwing newspaper went as far as to describe the account as “the best thing about the Labour leadership campaign”. Read a selection of the best tweets below and make up your own mind.
A man walks into a bar, but it's not a bar anymore it's a luxury housing development with prices starting at £595k for a one-bedroom flat.
— @corbynjokes (@corbynjokes) July 24, 2015
Yo mama so fat that a combination of political negligence and corporate profiteering have led to her extreme weight.
— @corbynjokes (@corbynjokes) July 24, 2015
"What to you call a fish with no eyes?" "A predictable consequence of the callous underfunding of the environment agency"
— @corbynjokes (@corbynjokes) July 24, 2015
"What do you call a man in a brown paper suit?" "An all too visible example of the human cost of austerity politics"
— @corbynjokes (@corbynjokes) July 24, 2015
Why did the Mexican push his wife off of a cliff? Well that's probably a matter for the Mexican police, who do a great job considering.
— @corbynjokes (@corbynjokes) July 24, 2015
An English man, Welsh man and Scottish man were in a hot air balloon. An excellent example of a United Kingdom working for each other.
— @corbynjokes (@corbynjokes) July 24, 2015
Yo mama so poor because she worked three jobs to help pay for you to go to university. This is a disgraceful situation.
— @corbynjokes (@corbynjokes) July 24, 2015
"Why did the chicken cross the road?" "That is a very serious issue at the heart of agricultural and transport issues and not helped by PFI"
— @corbynjokes (@corbynjokes) July 23, 2015
