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Hi🦀#BenHouchen🦀fans

Welcome to the 2nd #BoondoggleBen thread, a continuation of Monday's work.

If there is anyone out there with more technical ability than me, I'd be grateful if you could sort a thread unroll

🦀#ToriesOut315🦀
Firstly, a classic of the genre:

On Easter Monday last year, @TheNorthernEcho disgracefully connived with #BentBen to run a fake story about 1,000 new jobs at a new cable factory in #Teesside.

Scott Hunter of TVM was on their case:

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teesvalleymonitor.com/thousand-more-…
In February 2023, Ben's corrupt crony Middlesbrough Mayor Andy Preston, was fighting a (doomed) re-election campaign, and he needed a boost from a #BentBen Bob-The-Builder Bullsh!t Bingo press release

#BoondoggleBen #ToriesOut315

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Hi everyone

Welcome to my #BoondoggleBen thread.

Today's theme is an exploration of #BenHouchen's cynical, repetitive stunts regarding future Infrastructure projects which will never exist.

So, before I go further, a brief recap of his MO....

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....As follows:

A press release/photo op dutifully carried verbatim by his local client media @TheNorthernEcho and @TeessideLive

A huge "cash boost" which can never be fact-checked, verified or audited

A word-salad of bullsh!t bingo buzz phrases such as....

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#BentBen's word salad:

*⃣Job Creation*⃣High Wage jobs*⃣Highly Skilled Jobs*⃣Good Quality Jobs*⃣CleanEnergy*⃣
NetZero*⃣Hydrogen*⃣Low Carbon
*⃣Carbon Capture*⃣World Leading*⃣World Beating*⃣Innovation*⃣Shovel Ready*⃣

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