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Owen Jones🌹
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I interviewed Tim Martin - hardcore Brexiteer, founder of Wetherspoons - about Brexit, and about why he paid his workers poverty wages. It was an absolute car crash theguardian.com/global/video/2…
I asked Tim Martin why he paid his workers poverty wages: he had no answer, other than to laugh and call the question "childish". He's been on TV many times, why's he never been asked? Why are other bosses not asked? It's a huge failure of our media. theguardian.com/global/video/2…
By the way, the idea for this video was my amazing colleague @MaeveShearlaw who directed and produced it, and the brilliant Shay Notelovitz edited it. Please give them love 👏🏻👏🏻
A former Wetherspoons manager got in touch to tell me what it's like being forced to push Tim Martin's political agenda against the will of staff
Another former Wetherspoons member of staff tells me they faced the threat of investigation and dismissal if they didn't help promote Tim Martin's political propaganda
Yet more Wetherspoons staff are getting in touch. Not only are they paid derisory wages, but they're turned into Tim Martin's political footsoldiers against their will.
Another Wetherspoons member of staff gets in touch: they had their bonuses docked because they didn't share Tim Martin's political propaganda.
Are you a current or former Wetherspoons member of staff who wants to get in touch about your experiences working there? My DMs are open - 100% confidential, your anonymity will be protected at all costs.
I've been utterly inundated with genuinely shocking stories from former and current Wetherspoons staff members. More soon.
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There is no personal vendetta. You are the licence payer funded BBC flagship politics interviewer, and the Chairman of a hard right magazine whose articles praise the Wehrmacht, claim black people have lower IQs than white people, and defend Greek neo-nazis. These are facts.
You hired a Nazi, @afneil - the world's leading Holocaust denier - David Irving. According to Deborah Lipstadt, who Irving sued, you rescued his "reputation from the ignominy to which it had been consigned." Maybe you want to sue her too. Word of advice. It didn't go well for him
The fact you announced you were hiring a Nazi, @afneil - yes, a Nazi, the world's most famous Holocaust denier - caused outrage even amongst Conservative MPs. And then you think you can host an impartial BBC discussion about the media's role in legitimising the far right.
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The Spectator, a magazine which has printed articles defending Greek neo-Nazis and entitled 'In Defence of the Wehrmacht', has published a defence of Macron's abandoned honouring of the French Nazi collaborator Petain, who sent Jews to the gas chambers.
Petain was an enthusiastic Nazi collaborator who introduced anti-Jewish laws without the Germans even asking, and personally intervened to make those laws harsher. Is that mentioned by The Spectator? No. Petain's regime sent 77,000 Jews to Nazi camps. theguardian.com/world/2010/oct…
There is not one mention of Jews in The Spectator article on Petain. Erasing any mention of his enthusiastic persecution and complicity in the Holocaust - in order to justify honouring him - is revolting historic revisionism.
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Genuine question. Why is the Telegraph treated as a respectable news organisation, whose journalists are held in high esteem, well-connected, invited to all the press conferences, to gatherings and parties of the great and the good - but, say, The Canary is beyond the pale?
By the way, this tweet isn’t an endorsement of The Canary. The question is why The Telegraph is treated as respectable - a paper which twists news for partisan purposes, peddles lies, has published front page anti-Semitism and Boris Johnson’s Islamophobia - while The Canary isn’t
There are those responding saying: well I have equal contempt for The Telegraph and The Canary! That doesn’t answer the question as to why one is respectable and mainstream and one isn’t. There is no valid defence of this which isn’t utterly disingenuous.
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