It’s odd that as the BBC and Sky regularly cycle through the list of violent attacks on MPs they don’t mention an attempt to kill the then Leader of the Opposition.
2/ They also neglect to mention that time that the then Leader of the Opposition was assaulted.
3/ The BBC and Sky also forget to mention that time when an image of the Leader of the Opposition was used as target practice by serving soldiers
4/ It is understandable though why some members of the media won’t mention the violence against Jeremy Corbyn when they were writing headlines like this..
5/ The media were as silent at the time as they are now when the former head of a major religious lobby group called for Jeremy Corbyn to be sacrificed. An incitement against an MP is surely an incitement regardless of its source?
1/ The Tories excuse for being late to lockdown in 2020 is that they worried the public wouldn't want that sort of restriction or be able to handle it, so they had to delay it for as long as possible.
Rubbish.
This Thread with evidence from the time why that claim is nonsense.
2/ The Tories didn't lockdown until March 23rd but this poll from a month earlier (28th Feb) shows that public already had a desire for stronger restrictions..
3/ Many organisations didn't wait for the Tories to act. On March 13th (ten days before lockdown), the main football bodies decided themselves to suspend all games.(NB what I'm calling social distancing here means lockdown, we weren't using that word then)
The disastrous mistakes by the Tory government in dealing with #COVID19 were enabled by an Opposition leader who went out of his way to support very major decision (mistake) they made
WATCH two clips in this Thread from 2020 that remind us just how much Starmer backed the Tories
Clip 1 - Ridge gives Starmer opportunity after opportunity to criticise the government's obvious mistakes. He declines each time.
The fuel crisis and EU HGV drivers - media coverage Sky vs BBC
Two clips on this Thread, one from Sky, the other from the BBC. I'll make no judgement here. Watch them both, see which one gives you a better understanding of the situation. If you do, comment on what you think
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I fear the #SocialCare debate is going the way of the Brexit debate. A binary choice between two polar opposites with nothing in between. In this case raise Nat Ins or don't. Already the debate on the media is between these two points.
2/ There is very limited to no discussion on:
- The bigger issues: what sort of model of social care do we want in the 21st century?
3/ What is the best way to structure social care, the balance between private and public, between in home and residential home care, between council responsibilities and the government's and why shouldn't social care be structured like the NHS?
Thread with today’s Winston Smith news update
- the borders have not been shut
- there have not been 3 million vaccinations
- the schools are not shut
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2/ the borders AREN’T shut as the newspaper headlines shout.
People can still travel to the UK. They simply have to self isolate for two weeks once they’ve arrived here. The isolation is entirely unpoliced.
A vaccination, ie full protection, from the current vaccines needs two shots. So far only around 400,000 people have been vaccinated, ie had both shots. The rest have only had one shot.