money Pictured: Jeremy Corbyn plays video game that lets players kill Margaret Thatcher
Jeremy Corbyn has been pictured playing a video game modified to let players kill Margaret Thatcher.
The former Labour leader was pictured playing the Thatcher’s Techbase game on a console at Left-wing political festival The World Transformed (TWT).
A modified version of the first-person shooting video game Doom II, it was released in September last year by Jim Purvis of the 3D: Doom Daddy Digital developer.
Delegates at TWT – running parallel to the Labour conference in Liverpool and being held to raise money for the Scottish tenants’ union Living Rent – are able to play Thatcher’s Techbase on an arcade device.
On Thursday night, Mr Purvis tweeted a photograph of Mr Corbyn, the independent MP for Islington North, using the console and posing alongside it, with the caption: “He liked the game.”
A description of Thatcher’s Techbase written by Mr Purvis on its release read: “On Sept 24, Margaret Thatcher will rise from her grave. Only you can send her back to hell.
“Faced with the return of one of humanity’s greatest threats, you have no choice but to head to the 10th circle of hell: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Margaret Thatcher is back from hell, and the lady’s not for returning.”
The cover art for the game pictures Baroness Thatcher, who died in 2013, with devil horns, demon eyes, fangs and a gun for an arm.
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn was contacted for comment.
