You do know the DAILY MAIL - and the SUN - is notorious for trying to swing any election in favour of the Conservative party. It and the SUN agitated the day before the EU Referendum, urging its readers to vote, 'leave'.
So what? The only pertinent issue is whether it's true.
Focussing on Diane Abbott as its headline today, is typical DM dirty tricks tactics. It omitted to mention that May declined to even appear on 'Woman's Hour'.
How is it dirty tricks to report on a Shadow Home Secretary who is so toweringly incompetent that her own party even tries to stop her going on TV. Never has a politician presented so totally disorganised and outright backwards, and she is Shadow Home Secretary! And quite how all that compares to May not wanting to appear on Woman's Hour is a mystery.
It is relying on its readers' basest, most racist and sexist instincts with it ridiculous 'scare story' that 'this woman' might be the next Home Secretary.
Yeah, because May isn't a woman is she
So she can't add up - but then lots of people are shy of figures - and she wasn't prepared in advance for the interview, being caught out asked about specifics of the police review.
She repeatedly screws up on practically every interview. It's not a case of forgetting figures, it's not knowing them and not having the intelligence of a five year old in attempting to fabricate them on the fly. Then it's a case of her lying outright and saying she read a report when she clearly did not.
OK, she screwed up on the specifics. How is that headline news, when May ducked and weaved the barrage of questions about security and police, Amber Rudd was a disaster int he election debate, and yet the DM falsely reported that Rudd's performance was a great success (it was not, by any means).
That's not a fact, is it? It's subjective. Corbyn consorting with a Muslim terrorist group holding placards about gassing the Jews is either a fact or it is not. Abbott forgetting all her figures, not being able to perform basic maths and lying about reading a report is a fact. Rudd's debate performance is subjective. Just to remind you, I never praised May or Rudd, so don't try and steer the argument astray.
I expect tomorrow's and Thursday's DAILY MAIL and SUN will have provocative headlines claiming the terrorist attacks are all Corbyn's fault. OK, so he attended a pro-Palestine rally in 2002.
What the DM doesn't say is that pro-Palestine was a popular movement. Israel did come under heavy international criticism. I recall speaking up for Israel and instantly lost dozens of followers on Twitter, so Corbyn is hardly doing anything that isn't 100% mainstream and parliamentarianist.
Did you read the article? You take from it that the criticism arises from attending a pro Palestine rally?
Really?
ETA Baron, you know perfectly well Diane Abbott did NOT say she would wipe the DNA database. It was a reference to innocent persons.
No it was not. This is what happens when people like you believe Abbott's lies without bothering to check the facts. Her exact quote, from 2010, was:
We shouldn't even have guilty people's DNA on the database indefinitely
Political commentator/comedian Mark Thomas campaigned for years to have his removed (he did a comic stunt protesting on Westminster's green in protest against having to write to the police for advance permission to demonstrate). He successfully had his personal details removed. It was a breach of the data protection act as he was never charged nor convicted and there was no reason for his DNA to be on a police database.
I don't give a rat's ass about Mark Thomas. I don't even know who he is.
So, nothing sinister about upholding privacy and human rights.
Nope, nothing sinister in championing the rights of terrorists and criminals:
- Calling HAMAS his friends
- Attending a rally with a banned terrorist organisation calling for the gassing of the Jews
- Attending an IRA memorial for terrorists living and dead
- Eulogising Martin McGuinness as 'a great family man'
- Calling the killing of Bin Laden a tragedy akin to 9/11
- Opposing 'Prevent'
- Voting against every anti-terror bill for 30 years and boasting about it
- Asserting that drone strikes against known terrorists are 'obscene'
- Refusing to call Islamic terrorists 'terrorists' and referring to them as 'freedom fighters'
- Blaming UK terror attacks on the UK
- Opposing shoot to kill (for 35 years until Monday this week)
- Opposing Trident
- Opposing the nuclear deterrent
And that's just Corbyn, before we even get on to Abbott and McDonnell and the rest of that sorry crowd - abolish MI5, scrap the security services, the list goes on and on.
But hey, Corbyn has called for extra bobbies on the beat so... we're safe.
