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Thursday 5 April 2018

Tories Saved By Corrupt Press

Our comedy Foreign Secretary, London’s formerly very occasional Mayor Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, was shown yesterday to have fouled up big time in making statements about the Salisbury poisoning which were not true. The nerve agent used in the attack was not confirmed by Porton Down as being manufactured in Russia. Bozza claimed it had been. For him, dishonesty comes naturally. Hence his being unfit for the job.
She's too weak and indecisive to act ...

But Theresa May is too weak to sack the SOB. And so began the exercise in framing the whole affair as another way to kick Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Yes, really. How could that be achieved? Watch and learn, as they say.
... despite his witless foul-up, so ...

Step 1: Bozza fights back on Twitter. “It is lamentable that Jeremy Corbyn is now playing Russia’s game and trying to discredit the UK over Salisbury attack. Let’s remember the key facts: 1) Porton Down identified nerve agent as military grade Novichok; 2) Russia has investigated delivering nerve agents, likely for assassination, & as part of this programme has produced and stockpiled small quantities of Novichoks; 3) Russia has motive for targeting Sergei Skripal. 28 other countries have been so convinced by UK case they have expelled Russians. In contrast, Jeremy Corbyn chooses to side with the Russian spin machine”. Did Jezza side with Russia? No, but that was now the line to take.
Step 2: the perpetually thirsty Paul Staines and his rabble at the Guido Fawkes blog write up Bozza’s rant, stressing that Jezza is the one Wot Done It. Under the headlineCorbyn Parrots Kremlin Line”, teaboy Alex “Billy Liar” Wickham tells “Corbyn’s Twitter outriders Aaron Bastani and Alex Nunns are tweeting out conspiracy theorist Craig Murray’s Kremlin lines to take. The government spin failure today should not detract from the fact that Russia still did it and Corbyn is actively siding with the Kremlin”.
Bastani and Nunns are “Twitter outriders”? No. Just no. But the sub-boot boy division of the Murdoch press had done its job. All that was now needed was for the Super Soaraway Currant Bun to amplify the message. To divert attention from the BBC and Guardian.
Step 3: today’s Sun editorial tellsThose who gave Putin his PR victory over the Salisbury spy poisoning attack should be ashamed as we need to stay on the front foot … The journalists who hyped up the Porton Down 'story' and Twitter's Corbynite conspiracy morons have embarrassed us”. Yeah, they done it! And who else was responsible?
Corbyn and his fellow Kremlin stooges on Labour’s front bench. And Twitter’s Corbynite conspiracy morons who help Russian sites and bots spread every sliver of anti-West or anti-Tory propaganda … Corbyn wants ‘proof’. What, exactly? A confession signed by Putin in blood? We doubt even that would satisfy him”.
... he rides (or maybe waddles) to the rescue ...

What happened to Bozza? Just one mention of “The Foreign Secretary”. No mention of the B-word. He’s in the clear. The lying is glossed over. “Look over there” succeeds again.
... because she's got the Tories' backs

And that, folks, is why Theresa May cut her deal with the right-wing press. No Section 40, no Leveson Part 2, and in return all those little local difficulties will be taken care of. The downside is that the little people keep getting screwed over, but hey ho.

Another day in the continuing saga of corruption and power. I’ll just leave that one there.

6 comments:

Ted Bangor said...

Well, paint me surprised.

Or I would be had I - and others - not predicted exactly this in the comments to one of Tim's insightful pieces, yesterday.

Anonymous said...

Oh that's nothing. The twisting of news into an attack on Jeremy Corbyn has now gone beyond comical hysteria into outright evil corruption.

For example, a couple of nights ago Channel 4 TV “News” and Guru-Murthy introduced its daily propaganda with the words “Jeremy Corbyn may have fanned the flames......” because he attended a meeting with left-wing Jews during Passover. The original demonstration by right-wing Jews (and the usual New Labour spivs), self described as “mainstream”, was of course NOT described as fanning flames. This was followed by the gobshite right-wing meff Crick who jeered at the left-wing Jews because they had the gall to express contempt for Israeli government mass murder and land-theft actions. Crick, eloquently brushed off by Corbyn, ended his venomous bilge by sneering, “The damage may be irreversible”. He should live so long, dyed receding hair and all.

Naturally, C4 “News” and Guru-Murthy would say THEY weren’t fanning any flames, no sirree Bob. Which is just one more reason British mainstream media and its corrupt employees are held in utter contempt, liars and cowardly hypocrites to a man and woman, untrusted creeps the lot of them. The Snow Bullshit Show long ago sold out and is now every bit as unprincipled – often much worse – than any of the others. It’s narcissistic crap dressed in stupid ties and socks.

Meanwhile, still no further news on the Israeli government murder of seventeen protesting Palestinians. Presumably because the murderers too weren’t “fanning the flames”, even though the Israeli government, entirely coincidentally you understand, immediately described the victims as “provocative”.

When you get that kind of thing as "standard" - "weapons of mass destruction" anybody? - why be surprised when there is wide spread suspicion the Skripal atrocity could even be a false set up by "intelligence" services bent on a smear. After all, if they'll lie to cause distant wars with millions of innocent victims they'll think no more of killing two people in Salisbury than they would of swatting a fly.

What a right-wing rat hole British mainstream press and broadcast media has become. We can only hope their damage is not, to coin a word, irreversible. If not, the direction we presently travel toward is entirely predictable.

People can't say they haven't been warned.

Jonathan said...

They will get their Karma soon..
Jeremy has always been on the right side of history.
Speaking truth to power what our supposedly free press is supposed to do, but has now abandoned and now left to bloggers and Jeremy Corbyn to hold our corrupt government to account.

This government may hang onto 2022, but they will be hammered for it... History will not forget Tezza and Bozza's stoking the flames of war.

Matt said...

The OPCW has concluded their investigation and found that it is Corbyns fault.
He has been distilling beetroots from his allotment in his garden shed.

Anonymous said...


It all feels a bit familiar


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHIAYpckE3c

Ed said...

Do you read the three Johnson "It is lamentable" tweets to suggest that Corbyn was briefed with his points 1) 2) and 3)?

No, sorry, I'm taking the liar seriously again.