I WAS given the quiet heave-ho at a meeting on Monday by Momentum, the group set up to support Jeremy Corbyn.

I walked into the meeting at the Women’s Crossroads HQ in Kentish Town as it was filling up with Momentum members, made known who I was, when the man I spoke to – apparently one of its leading members – made it clear that I would have to leave.

To him, it seemed, it was a private meeting – and the Press had not been invited. What can you say? Don’t I always obey the rules and regulations of the game? Unspoken between us was the war, it seems now hotting up at the top of Momentum, between its founder Jon Lansman and the dark forces in the Labour Party who are bent on dismantling it.

Oddly enough, though I was an unwanted guest by Momentum, the man, at the head of the meeting, agreed with me that the vice-chairwoman Jackie Walker – whom I have written about in this column – had been treated unfairly by comrades when she was removed from her position a few weeks a ago. Jackie Walker had accused organisers of Holocaust events of not criticising other forms of genocide – a criticism, in fact, that was completely misplaced. The Anne Frank Foundation, which I have always supported, takes a leading role in combating racism in schools, for instance.

However, though Jackie Walker has quietly left her Momentum post, she is crowd-funding to pay for a defamation case against the Labour Party’s general secretary Iain McNicol which arose over her suspension from the party.

I gather Momentum members – many of them in Camden – soon collected £10,000 for her but then discovered that in fact she needed at least £50,000 to fund the law suit. Who knows whether they will cough up the extra amount. The question now is, apart from meeting in Kentish Town, what else does Momentum do?