After a week of silence on the Northern Ireland riots, Boris Johnson finally deigned to actually comment on the situation, saying that he's "deeply concerned"
But if he's as "deeply concerned" as he says he is, why on earth did it take him a week to even say anything?
The BBC and corporate media outlets, who have been dutifully downplaying the riots, suddenly sprung into action, pumping out articles uncritically framing the riots through Boris Johnson's self-declared "deep concerns".
BBC, ITV, Sky News, Express, Times, Evening Standard, MSN, City AM, & others all ran news reports & articles uncritically headlining Boris Johnson's "concerns", without bothering to mention the fact that the border he's created down the Irish Sea as one of the main causal factors
When Johnson decided to lazily scrawl a border down the Irish Sea onto Theresa May's shambles of a Withdrawal Agreement, he wasn't just blatantly breaking his promise never to do such a thing, he was also wilfully lobbing the Irish Peace Process onto his raging Brexit bonfire.
Johnson lit the blue touch paper in Northern Ireland and then retreated back into his comfort zone, then when the violence kicked off, he sat there for a week saying nothing, before issuing a glib statement saying how "concerned" he is about the chaos he helped cause.
Then all the dutiful scribes in the media hack pack uncritically repeat his idle "concerns", without bothering to explain that he's the arsonist who caused the chaos in the first place
UK media is as horribly unfit for purpose as our bone-idle, bigoted, philandering liar of a PM
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Bad-faith commentators are pretending that #BrexitRiots in Northern Ireland couldn't have been predicted
Here's a thread giving CREDIT to those who raised concerns before the EU referendum & DISCREDIT to those who dismissed these legitimate concerns with "project fear" rhetoric
CREDIT: @FrancesOGrady (General Secretary of the TUC) who spoke about the potential threat to the Irish Peace Process a week before the vote
Here's an occasionally updated Twitter thread of Another Angry Voice quotation pictures.
It was bad enough in Asimov's day when people tried to give parity to expert knowledge and ignorant opinion.
These days people have learned how to game Twitter by having deliberately shitty opinions for attention (far more attention than experts get for well-structured analyses)
The whole art of Tory politics is tricking poor and ordinary people into supporting policies that massively advantage the mega-rich, at the expense of everyone else.
I've seen a large increase in the amount of people trying to discredit my point by slinging mental health abuse & weaponised mental health terminology at me
At first this increase was driven by CUK supporters, then it was "Jo Swinson's Lib-Dems", now it's often Starmtroopers
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It's not like I never had Tories and assorted far-right polemicists coming at me with mental health abuse in the past, but it was usually just crude insults from that lot.
Liberal-capitalists are a lot more insidious with it, and there seems to be ever more of them.
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The most distasteful thing about it is how glib and sanctimonious they are about it
It's clearly one of the lowest debating tactics imaginable to try to attack and undermine the mental health of the person you disagree with, rather than debating the point they actually made.
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If you're terrified of @jeremycorbyn's radical hard-left economic plans, I've got some REALLY IMPORTANT ADVICE for you, should he become Prime Minister [thread]
You'll obviously be thinking about leaving the UK, but you'll want to be extra careful to avoid making the mistake of relocating to countries that already have scary hard-left policies like commie Corbyn's in place ... so you'll need to draw up a "No Go" list ...
If it's tuition-free university education you're afraid of, then Germany, France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Belgium, Spain, Austria, Greece, Argentina, India, Brazil, Mexico ... are out of the question.
Rory Stewart, an absolute bastard who voted in favour of Theresa May's unlawfully racist Hostile Environment is the guy everyone's suddenly fawning over.
Have you all lost your tiny little minds?
So let me get this right:
Rory Stewart, an absolute git who voted to slash disability benefits for people who have been declared too unwell to work is the guy everyone thinks is lovely?
Has everyone gone completely crazy?
So let me get this right:
Rory Stewart, an pro-Brexit Tory who backed Theresa May's shambolic deal x3, refused to rule out a "no deal" meltdown, and reaches out to Farage to help him deliver Brexit is the guy the #FBPE drones are drooling over?
British Steel need a £30 million rescue package in order to avoid insolvency and save 4,600 jobs.
This may seem like a lot of cash, but here's a THREAD to provide some context:
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£30 million to save British Steel is less than the £43 million in public cash Boris Johnson and the Tories spaffed on a "garden bridge" in London that never even got built!
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£30 million to save British Steel is less than 1/4 of the £133m the Tories wasted on hiring ferries that didn't exist/paying for ferry services that didn't operate/compensating rival transport companies over the unlawful 'no bid' ferry contracts they were handing out.