Even just a couple of days after Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election as Labour leader, his words last year in support of a “kinder, gentler” form of politics lie trampled in the streets of Liverpool.

To represent its public face, the pro-Corbyn Momentum party-within-a-party uses clean, fresh, articulate young people whose sincerity and niceness just oozes out. Every inoffensive, meaningless, trite cliché is used in defence of the Leader whenever the TV cameras are around: “We just want to change the world for the better”; “Jeremy’s a different kind of politician”; “Jeremy isn’t like all the others – he tells the truth”. Their sincerity is no deception: these people actually seem to believe what they’re saying.

But then we go behind the curtain. We see what Momentum and its varied ranks of crank followers actually believe. We do this by gazing upon some of the items for sale in Momentum’s rival conference being held at the same time as Labour’s annual hate fest in Liverpool.

Momentum’s gig is modestly entitled “The World Transformed”, which says more about the organisers’ opinion of themselves than it does about their grasp on reality.