UK: Jewish Labour MP reveals she received more than 20,000 pieces of abuse in just 12 hours

Via Telegraph:

A Jewish Labour MP who criticised Jeremy Corbyn has revealed that she received  more than 20,000 pieces of abuse in just 12 hours.

Ruth Smeeth, the Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent, said Jeremy Corbyn should be "naming and shaming" supporters who are attacking moderate Labour MPs "in his name".

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Speaking to the BBC this morning the MP said: "Since the end of June I have received somewhere in the region of 25,000 pieces of abuse. 

"I got 20,000 pieces of abuse within 12 hours and once it starts on social media it keeps going."
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"It's vile, it's disgusting and it's done in the name of the leader of the Labour Party, which makes it even worse.

"I know that Jeremy Corbyn will condemn this, but it's not about condemning, it's about what people are doing in his name and what is now seemingly acceptable.

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