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Edwin Hayward Profile picture
@edwinhayward
Jan 29, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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This is a verified blue tick Times columnist still spreading the discredited false claim that Brexit somehow advantaged the UK when it comes to the vaccine.

Has long since been fact checked to death and found false by many separate sources.

Status: Flat Earth.
Here's the Channel 4 Fact Check team...
channel4.com/news/factcheck…
BBC Fact Check

"But the idea that Brexit enabled the UK to press ahead and authorise [a vaccine] is not right.

It was actually permitted under EU law, a point made by the head of the UK's medicines regulator on Wednesday."

bbc.co.uk/news/55163730
Full Fact
fullfact.org/health/coronav…
Institute for Government
instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/covid-vac…
France24
france24.com/en/tv-shows/fa…
So this isn't an "opinion" matter. There's aren't two sides to a fact.

Brexit did not help the UK vaccine rollout, period.

Also worth noting: it's a marathon not a sprint, and the EU is ahead of the UK on vaccinations now.

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Jul 7
THREAD: The BBC have been having an absolute shocker the last couple of days.

Let's concentrate on 3 specific examples.

Example 1: Laura Kuenssberg's diabolic introduction to her interview with Ed Davey.

No spoilers. Wait until the end. It's worth it.
Example 2: The case of the quietly changed headline.

Original one (left)


Changed version a few hours later (right).


Remember, the one on the left is the one most of the BBC News website visitors will have been exposed to. web.archive.org/web/2024070606…
web.archive.org/web/2024070622…

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Example 3: Eye-popping headline and bizarrely framed article about the Far Right's failure to meet expectations in France's election.

Objectivity be damned.
archive.ph/kkQx5
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Jul 2
This is not the election for protest votes.

For the first time, we could demote the Tories to third. Winning fewer seats than the LibDems would wipe them out as a political force.

Polls suggest this is within reach, but we need tactical voting to get us over the line.

1/12
Our choice is stark:

5 long years of the Tories in Opposition, pushing a hate-filled agenda of culture wars and immigrant-bashing.

Or the LibDems in Opposition, holding Labour to account on the issues that matter, with the Tories fuming, impotent, on the back benches.

2/12
If the Tories are in Opposition as the 2nd largest party, they get:
- 6 questions a week at PMQs
- Guaranteed coverage from media outlets with "due impartiality" requirements
- 17 Opposition Days to push their agenda and hold votes
- Almost £1 million in extra Short Money

3/12
Read 12 tweets
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Jul 2
You have a huge decision to make on Thursday:

1) Tories in Opposition. 5 years of endless culture wars & immigrant-bashing.

2) LibDems in Opposition. Tories powerless & voiceless on the back benches.

If the Tories are pushed into third, everything changes. Here's why:

1/12
Coming second would let the Tories rebuild as the official Opposition and continue to push their divisive hate-fuelled agenda.

But coming third should finish them. It might take time, but they'd be walking dead.

Second place brings substantial benefits:

2/12
Benefits of being the official Opposition:
- 6 questions at PMQs
- Guaranteed media coverage from outlets with "due impartiality" requirements, e.g. the BBC
- 17 Opposition Days to set the agenda and force votes
- Extra Short Money (nearly £1 million)

And there's more:

3/12
Read 12 tweets
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Jul 2
You have a huge choice to make on Thursday:

Tories in Opposition. 5 years of endless culture wars & immigrant-bashing.

OR

LibDems in Opposition. Tories powerless & voiceless on the back benches.

If the Tories are pushed into third, that changes everything. Here's why:

1/12
Coming second would let the Tories rebuild as the official Opposition and continue to push their divisive hate-fuelled agenda.

But coming third should finish them. It might take time, but they'd be walking dead.

Second place brings substantial benefits:

2/12
Benefits of being the official Opposition:
- 6 questions at PMQs
- Guaranteed media coverage from outlets with "due impartiality" requirements, e.g. the BBC
- 17 Opposition Days to set the agenda and force votes
- Extra Short Money (nearly £1 million)

And there's more:

3/12
Read 12 tweets
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Jul 1
Here's a significant new Tory scandal, a hit job on Keir Starmer which somehow contrived to draw in an indirect attack on Jewish faith.

(Long tweet. It is necessary to cover the scandal in full. Please expand to see the whole thing.)

They are attacking him for saying that he would "clock off work at 6pm if he became Prime Minister".

They also said "You deserve better than a part-time Prime Minister."

There are two big problems with this.

Problem number one: That's not what he said. The Tories are quoting selectively out of context, like a film poster which reads "spectacular effects" when the original review said "spectacular failure, with lacklustre effects".

It was only ever about Friday evenings, not every day.

Here's what Keir Starmer actually said:

-- transcript starts --
Keir Starmer: We have had a strategy in place and we will try and keep to it, and that it is to carve out really protected time for the kids. And so on a Friday - I have been doing this for years - I will not do a work-related thing after 6 o'clock - pretty well come-what-may.
Chris Evans: Regardless?
Keir Starmer: Yeh. Now there are a few exceptions but that's what we do. My son goes kick-boxing and so I often take him there. My daughter goes swimming and cheer-leading now, so I have been to see her in cheer-leading competitions.
Chris Evans: So you're going to ringfence that time?
Keir Starmer: Yeh. And I want to. One, because I am a dad and I love them. They're my pride and joy and I don't want to lose that time. Two, I don't believe in the theory that you are a better decision-maker if you don't allow yourself the space to be a dad and to have fun for your kids. Actually, it helps me. It takes me away from the pressure. It relaxes me. I think actually, it's not only want I want to do as a dad, it is better.
-- transcript ends --
SOURCE


Problem number two: There is also an essential and important faith element to the story.

Keir Starmer has been completely up front about carving out time on Friday evenings to participate in his wife and family's Shabbat dinners. This is something he has repeatedly talked about, for many years, for example in this Jewish Chronicle story of July 2023.


So the Tory attack was not only in bad faith (forgive the pun) but it could also be taken as a slight on Keir Starmer's family's choice of religious practices.

And yet it's not just the official Conservative Twitter account putting the boot in. (Tweet linked below, with screenshot in case they make it go away.) Individual Tory MPs are at it too.

thejc.com/news/our-famil…
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An example of Tories shaming themselves (two for the price of one if you see who posted it and who retweeted it).

As ever: screenshot in case it goes away.

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Another 2-for-1 of shame...

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Jul 1
Two futures:

Labour in Government. Tories in Opposition. 5 years of endless culture wars & immigrant-bashing.

Labour in Government, LibDems in Opposition. Tories powerless & voiceless on back benches.

If the Tories come third, it changes everything. Here's why:

1/12
Coming second would let the Tories rebuild as the official Opposition and continue to push their Hate agenda.

But coming third should finish them. It might take time, but they'd be walking dead.

Second place confers substantial benefits:

2/12
Official Opposition benefits:
- 6 questions at PMQs
- Guaranteed regular media coverage from the BBC and other outlets that have a "balance" requirement
- 17 Opposition Days to set agenda and hold votes
- Extra Short Money (almost £1 million)
And there's more:

3/12
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