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Andrew Neil's interview with Jeremy Corbyn airs at 7.00

Here's the message going around Labour activists' whatsapp groups

Apparently it's "truly horrific". "Like, awful"

They're planning to "flood all the hashtags" to "push images and stories with positive message"
Just to clarify for all the people asking. These messages - which look to me like Twitter DMs? - were posted as a screenshot in a WhatsApp group for Labour activists, with the message "all hands on deck"

The messages have now been deleted
Just a guess, but I'd imagine the poster screenshotted their DMs rather than copying and pasting, which is a real pain when you've sent lots of little messages

I've contacted the poster for comment - no reply as yet
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Been digging into the economics of Labour's broadband plan. What's amazing - at least to me - is how much money you save simply by avoiding the costs of competition

According to the govt's own figures, providers fighting for the same customers adds £6.2bn to the total cost
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The government went into this last year in its Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review

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A few thoughts on Labour's plan to nationalise parts of BT

1. Wow.

2. Every poll and focus group I've seen would suggest this policy is going to be extremely popular. Not just the free broadband but the tech company tax - people are really angry about that issue
3. Buying BT is the easy bit. The hard part will be working out how this affects all the other firms, which could be hugely threatened by a state provider. I'll be looking forward to seeing more detail on those "access arrangements" McDonnell mentioned
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I'm told the cyber attack on Labour was a DDOS attack. Digital vandalism not a "sophisticated" surgical attack
I understand this has not been recorded as a Category 6 attack by NCSC, the lowest level of incident the cybersecurity services respond to
The emails from security PRs are a DDOS attack on my inbox
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