#THREAD
Who is Alan Mabbutt?
A new Tory website paints union donations to @UKLabour, collected from workers in every sector, as some kind of problem.
In 2017, @Conservatives received 10 TIMES MORE in donations than Labour, much of it from dodgy Russians & non-dom tax-avoiders!
The website is "Promoted by Alan Mabbutt on behalf of the Conservative Party".
In 2021 he was (still is) the Conservative Party DG & Registered Treasurer, & was named by the Electoral Commission in this damning report into Johnson's #wallpapergate lies.
electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and…
In 2015, the Tories were embroiled in a scandal under Cameron when it was revealed they were spending £100,000/month on Facebook ads, the bulk spent on collecting email addresses - back then a new method of bombarding voters with political messaging...
theguardian.com/politics/2015/…
The Tories had several non-party branded websites aimed at sucking in data - registered to Tory HQ - one confronting reader with a map of Labour figures criticising Ed Miliband, inviting users to hand over their contact details, in tiny writing saying "promoted by Alan Mabbutt".
In 2019, Mabbutt made the world news for pushing lies & blatant antidemocratic #disinformation when the @CCHQPress twitter account changed its name to "factcheckUK" & set up fake ‘fact-checking service’ to endorse Boris Johnson during election debate.
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
A Tory disinformation website promoted by propagandist Mabbutt pushed the LIE that "the overall #CostOfCorbyn remains at least £1.2TRILLION over the course of the next Parliament, meaning hardworking taxpayers would be hit with an additional £2,400 tax bill on average each year."
In 2019 ex-Labour MP Ian Austin wrote to thousands of voters in @UKLabour marginal seats urging them to vote for Johnson over Corbyn: "We should lend the Tories our votes & stop Jeremy Corbyn!"
The strapline at the bottom of the letter states “Promoted by Alan Mabbutt” (CCHQ DG)
Also in 2019, the @Conservatives published & delivered to marginal constituencies more #propaganda, this time disguised as a newspaper being delivered by Royal Mail.
Minuscule print at the bottom states: ‘Promoted by Alan Mabbutt on behalf of the Conservative & Unionist Party’.
It's hard to get any information on the Tory Party Director General, its Registered Treasurer, & largely hidden shadowy propagandist Alan Mabbutt - he's not a household name (I could only find 1 photo of him) but in the name of democracy & transparency, maybe we can make him one!
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