Whoever is behind the (still anonymous, and still
misbehaving) @toryeducation Twitter feed cannot drop the bone when it comes to
anyone, but anyone, who is of dissenting view. Thus there has been more
childishness displayed towards Toby Helm of the Observer, as well as a particularly defamatory attack on author and
former children’s laureate Michael Rosen.
Yes, "Oiky", YOUR SpAds
So last night came the trolling of Helm’s own Twitter feed,
but sadly @toryeducation didn’t get a bite. So he changed tack and pretended
that Helm’s article had made a false assertion against the information source
that is really not being run by Dominic Cummings and Henry de Zoete, honestly.
And here Rosen was involuntarily co-opted in yet another attempt to discredit
Helm.
Helm’s
latest Observer piece contained this: “Last
week @toryeducation launched an extraordinary attack on the author and former
children's laureate Michael Rosen, accusing him of being a member of the
Socialist Workers Party”. Well, whoever was working @toryeducation
yesterday evening was not a happy bunny at reading that, and duly went into
attack mode.
“One of many @tobyhelm
fictions this weekend was [that] we called @michaelrosenyes a ‘member’ of SWP”
protested neither Cummings nor de Zoete. So one might think that some form of
words had been used that could not be interpreted as having that meaning. Well,
it’s only last week, so as Cilla might have said, shall we have a look and find
out? Why, yes we shall.
And look what we found: just after 1330 hours on 13
February, @toryeducation referred to “SWP’s
@michaelrosenyes” not once, but twice.
There can be no other inference than that Rosen is part of the SWP. And how can
one be part of the SWP, other than by being a member? Toby Helm was spot on,
and Cummings and de Zoete (allegedly) are bang to rights.
I do hope the fire extinguishers are working over at Great
Smith Street this morning. Because there is an immediate need to deal with two
pairs of burning trousers before Michael “Oiky”
Gove’s retinue of polecats find themselves in the nearest A&E with third
degree burns.
Expect Dominic Cummings and Henry de Zoete to appear very
soon on the list of prospective Tory Parliamentary candidates – with that kind of whopper telling ability,
they’ll be ideal Conservative MP material.
2 comments:
I can only assume @ToryEducation is one of 2 things:
1) A Tory mouthpiece made to look so bad that they make Gove look competent.
2) A fifth columnist trying to make the Tories look stupid.
Surely no-one can think the account does Gove or the Tories any favours?
If you subscribe to my theory that the whole Gove DfE is devoted to smashing state education and hiving it off to Rupert and Capita and so on, the point of @toryeducation is to demoralise and smear anyone who tries to oppose this. The fact that he's a laughable clown indicates that this is probably done with plausible deniability, at a distance from Cummings and de Zoete, but nevertheless in concert with them. There's even a name floating around if you look not very hard, who hasn't been mentioned in the Helm coverage for some reason.
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