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Jun 4 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
A stark reminder about the UK MSM. In 2015 Mr Whittingdale replaced the BBC board with compliant types. The Telegraph, Mail, S#n, GB news, the Express & Spectator are riven with client journalists. All #Brexit fanatics, all desperately lying and misleading to keep to narrative.
It all, in the end, comes back to #Brexit. The accurately predicted outcomes are staring us all in the face. The dam is full to bursting. Unelected 'commentators' do Brexiteers bidding. Misleading folk on a huge scale. The UK media *is* a disgrace. For the exact opposite reasons
the #BackBoris cultists and bots would have you believe. It's showdown time. I urge all opposition activists and parties to work together to save the next twenty years of our politics, and our democracy.

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