Recently, the routinely mischievous Sunny Hundal uncovered
a most inconvenient fact regarding the apparently large Twitter following
of disgraced former Tory PPC Mark Clarke, a luminary of the Young Britons’
Foundation (YBF) who is also involved with the so-called Trade Union Reform
Campaign (TURC), which does not want to reform Trade Unions but instead wipe
them out altogether.
Do not attempt to approach this person
Sunny noticed that, although the first few screens of
followers – Clarke’s newest – were relevant to him, after that, there were
literally thousands of phony accounts, those that were inactive, or had nothing
to do with Clarke or his activities. Mark Clarke looked to have bought around 50,000 of
his Twitter following. He thus gave the impression of dishonesty, and, worse, was unable
to come clean about it.
Andre Walker's following - phony accounts ...
Also involved with TURC is one Andre Walker, whose recent
record is even less distinguished than that of Clarke. Walker was
forced to resign from his post at Windsor and Maidenhead Council after he
was caught attempting to smear deputy leader Alison Knight. He accused the man
who recorded his phone conversation as a “left-wing
activist”, although he was neither left-wing, nor an activist.
... and more of them ...
And, it seems, Walker cannot help himself when it comes to
doling out smears, as I discovered yesterday when he began to smear me as a “communist”, although by this morning
this had been downgraded to “socialist”,
but reinforced by assertions about “socialism”
having killed 100 million people. Walker was quite certain that I wished such
an event to happen again.
... and more after that ...
Strangely, though, despite his
assertion that “Thank god [sic] no one reads your Twitter”, there was
favouriting and retweeting from my end (940 followers) but none from his (over
6,850 followers). Perhaps they were all at luncheon. I decided to have a quick
scan of the Andre Walker follower list: at first, this was as expected for
someone of Conservative disposition in media circles.
... and still they come ...
But after the first 50 or so came an unending list of those,
mainly without avatar photos, with names from India and Brazil. It was just as
with Mark Clarke. Hundreds and hundreds
of phony Twitter followers. One can only imagine the insecurity that Walker
must feel to resort to buying his Twitter following. It must be a sad world out
there in the Conservative movement.
... hundreds and hundreds of them ...
And, if Mark Clarke and Andre Walker have bought their
Twitter followings, how many more of their pals have done the same? Maybe they
consider it a logical step from the so-called Taxpayers Alliance, who have no
grassroots but claim to speak for all taxpayers. Maybe they just have an
inferiority complex which can only be assuaged by inhabiting their own particular
land of make believe.
... and they just keep on coming
Or maybe they’re just full of crap. You’ve been caught bang to rights, Walker.
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