Thread by @carolecadwalla

So. I'm curious about something. My colleague @TimAdamsWrites was in Sedgefield last Sat with Boris Johnson. He told me single issue that most exercised voters was Jeremy Corbyn's failure to condemn Russia over Skripal..here's @tnewtondunn in the Sun on it
thesun.co.uk/news/10469823/…

@TimAdamsWrites @tnewtondunn And here's the Express pushing the same line. But here's the curious thing. Apart from these stories, this wasn't a mainstream story. In fact, nothing about Russia had cut through into mainstream..
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@TimAdamsWrites @tnewtondunn So, not to get into the gross hypocrisy of fact that Boris Johnson actually left Nato summit on Russia to party with a Russian oligarch, who coincidentally, he partied with on evening he left Sedgefield...
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…

@TimAdamsWrites @tnewtondunn ...or that while he was out there calling Jeremy Corbyn a threat to national security, he was personally blocking publication of a report into Russian interference theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

@TimAdamsWrites @tnewtondunn What I want to know is how did the Jeremy Corbyn/Skripal story cut through?? Because apart from stories by regime spokesman in the Sun & party mouthpiece, The Express, it just wasn't mainstream. So where & how did it cut through?

@TimAdamsWrites @tnewtondunn Which brings me to this graph from @davidcblood in the @FT. We don't know who was behind at least one third of politics ads in general election. Just as we don't know either what Dom Cummings was up to. It's almost impossible to track these things in real time...

@TimAdamsWrites @tnewtondunn @davidcblood @FT And while @whotargetsme & @rowlsmanthorpe & @josephmdurso & others did brilliant job of trying to track FB ads, this is yet another election that took place in darkness. But decisiveness of Johnson's victory & scale of Labour's defeat has succeeding in shelving this issue