Here we go again. As the world mourns the death of Leonard Cohen — the great songwriter — at the age of 82, Louise Mensch has managed to add yet another Twitter gaffe to her ever-growing list. On hearing the news, the former Tory MP took to her social media to hail it as proof of America’s ‘enduring greatness’ unlike… Russia, which by comparison is ‘joyless’:
Alas there is a snag with her latest piece of Putin-bashing — Leonard Cohen is actually Canadian.
This is just one in a series of social media blunders:
2. Last year she attempted to demonstrate the ‘sewer that is Jeremy Corbyn’s support’ by pointing out that Twitter’s autocomplete function showed that the most common search words to appear by Liz Kendall’s name were ‘Nazi’, ‘Zionist’ and ‘Jews’. However, as each suggestion appeared next to an ‘x’, this means that the words were her own search history rather than the work of an evil Corbynista.
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