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3 Apr, 7 tweets, 9 min read
The Andrew Neil Code Of Conduct:

Take a tweet & deceptively suggest it implies something it doesn't.✔️

Use it to misrepresent the tweeter & attack #GBeebies' competitors.✔️

Amplify it to his servile 1,179,521 followers - 414,012 of which are, like him, fake.✔️

#drawandrewneil
⚡️Public Service Announcement⚡️

Use the hashtag #drawandrewneil to find magnificent entries to @MartinRowson's competition.

Deadline for entries: April 8th.

Credits for entries in previous tweet:

@mrleft1980
@DavidWaywell
@kevinwellsart

#GBNews credit: @Coldwar_Steve
Let's take a look at the "impartial" #GBNews presenters who definitely won't in any way be part of a partisan echo-chamber, that definitely won't in any way be just like #FoxNews, & definitely won't in any way seek to divide even further our already dangerously polarized country:
Right-wing Michelle Dewberry – Brexit Party candidate
Right-wing Inaya Folarin Iman – Brexit Party candidate
Right-wing Alexandra Phillips – Brexit Party MEP
Right-wing Dan Wootton – ex-Sun Brexiter
Right-wing Tom Harwood – Brexiter
Right-wing Liam Halligan – Brexiter
But #GBNews hasn't even started yet!

Why would anyone think it will almost instantly turn into #FoxNewsUK?🇬🇧

In 2018, Sky News Australia sparked outcry after it broadcast an interview with a far-right #nationalist #extremist who has expressed his admiration for #Hitler
Sky News Australia CEO Angelos Frangopoulos said “It was an error of judgment".

Angelos Frangopoulos is now CEO of #GBNews.

Draw your own conclusions - but don't say nobody warned you.

theguardian.com/australia-news…
The generous @BBC employed Mr Neil on & off for 25 years.

How does he repay their generosity? By slagging them off as some kind of 'woke mob', when even a cursory glance at the evidence demonstrates this is yet more self-interested misleading #bullshit:

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