I hate saying this. I don't like conspiracy theories. But I'm afraid we've reached the point now whereby this campaign of never-ending smears and instantly provable lies about Corbyn begs a rather horrible question. What's in it for the people doing it?
By whom I mean: journalists, celebrities, former Labour MPs. If I were HMRC, I'd be looking at the bank accounts and tax affairs of each and every one of them. To say that something doesn't smell right here is the understatement of the century.
Nobody anywhere lies so constantly and so recklessly without there being a motive. What is it? What do these people have to hide?
Corbyn's such a humane man that if elected, I doubt he'll even bother to find out. But remember:
Corbyn's such a humane man that if elected, I doubt he'll even bother to find out. But remember:
Britain is the most corrupt country in the world. Source? The world's leading expert on the mafia.
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Through its overseas territories (British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Montserrat), Jersey and the City of London, Britain is the global leader in offshore tax avoidance. Not that the media will ever acknowledge that.
Just how deep does this go? How rotten to the core is this country? It's a cesspit of corruption. So along comes someone who might clean it all up with soap and a wire brush... and oh look. The heavy artillery's being used like never before.
When even the BBC are doing this so openly, so much in plain sight, the loudest of questions should be being asked. Peter Oborne's doing so. It's incumbent on actual, proper journalists with a conscience to start doing the same.
As recently as two-and-a-half years ago, I put a lot of this down to confirmation bias. Hermetically sealed bubbles of well-to-do private and Oxbridge educated journalists and politicians.
I don't now. It's deliberate. Including from a publicly funded broadcaster.
I don't now. It's deliberate. Including from a publicly funded broadcaster.
The same publicly funded broadcaster which has systematically refused to discuss or engage with the criminality surrounding the referendum... and even publicly denies Vote Leave broke electoral law when it's been found guilty of doing just that.
Note how little cut-through Oborne's had. Note how hard he found it to publish his article on this in the first place, despite his many decades of experience and prominence.
What does that tell you? It tells me: they're all in it together.
What does that tell you? It tells me: they're all in it together.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It's up to this whole movement to make that demand and make that demand and make that demand... it's just that in Britain, 'power' doesn't only mean government. It means mass media - public and private - and tax dodging corporations too.
In Spain in 2004, the power of social media transformed the election by getting the truth out there. It's up to all of us to do the same. Our country's whole future depends upon it.
