OK. I really hope you guys don't mind, but I have to say this. It's not humorous but if I don't say it, I might explode - and this is a safe place to say it.
So, how has it come to this? We are living through a despicable, utterly shabby time in politics:
We are watching a future leader of Labour get elected on the back of violence against women. Stuff all this 'plausible deniability' nonsense. Momentum's leadership are accountable to Corbyn - even if he's distanced himself from them, circuitously, like some mazy, off-shore tax evading accounting system. They're his team.
And stuff all this weak 'condemning of this behaviour'. We know that's not a condemnation. This is what it is: it's an excuse to those who desperately, desperately want to believe, who want to be lied to, to ignore what is really, actually going on. It gives them just enough to put their hands over their eyes, their fingers in their ears and cravenly claim to 'not realise what is going on'.
That is not acceptable. It's not acceptable on the part of Corbyn. It is not acceptable on the part of his - adult - supporters. You cannot be allowed to lie to yourself that this is not happening. It;s disgraceful.
It's beyond disgusting. We've seen many of the completely insalubrious elements of 'Leave' - from the nasty wing - perform this manouevre, and we have been disgusted with it. We have found it abhorrent to see xenophobia and racism used and unleashed. We've been appalled at people willingly accepting the half-hearted untruths that 'such and such a thing wasn't intended that way' or 'is nothing to do with me'. We've been shamed that people have willingly accepted any weak opportunity to close their ears and eyes.
What an absolute betrayal to see the Left perform the same, shabby, manouevre.
I can already hear the minimisers and apologists on Twitter. And beyond that, the utter silence of those willing to accept the limp distancing of Corbyn as enough to permit them the excuse of ignoring this - because they are just so desperate to believe that this is the hope of the LEft.
It isn't. Future Emma Goldbergs won't be dancing in this Left dawn - they'll be being harrassed.
Corbyn's campaign is going to be won on the back of violence against women. How on earth have we become so desensitised, in such a short space of time, to such an appalling state of affairs? What on earth has happened?