Thread by @ADifferentNarr1

1/ A thread on the connections of the Telegraph Journalist Juliet Samuel, whose recent article promotes @dontpayuk. For background, I recommend reading this article from @declassifiedUK: declassifieduk.org/how-the-uk-mil…. #dontpayuk

2/ The @declassifiedUK report mentions an article by Former MI6 Chief Dearlove, which references a story about alleged links between @jeremycorbyn and a Czech Spy in judging JC to be a threat to the nation: telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/0… #dontpayuk

3/ This argument - that @jeremycorbyn is somehow a threat - is repeated in this article by Juliet Samuel, which also references the security services planted story containing the Czech spy allegations: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…

4/ The main author of the Telegraph's puff piece article is none other than vehement anti-Corbyn journalist Juliet Samuel #dontpayuk
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5/ The article makes a big deal about the notion that #dontpayuk activists are "socialists". Of course this cannot be verified because they, of course, continue to be anonymised (while urging others to take actions that may put themselves at risk).

6/ In any case, what manner of socialists would speak to a journalist who conisiders Jeremy Corbyn a threat to the UK and who has endorsed this narrative when writing for a paper that has previously printed hit piece articles planted by the security services? #dontpayuk

7/ More on Juliet Samuel. Not only is she a Telegraph contributor, she's also associated with the Policy Exchange think tank, which promotes neoliberal domestic and foreign policy. #dontpayuk

8/ Other lumninaries associated with Policy Exchange include intelligence linked Tory MP Tom Tugendhat: declassifieduk.org/partygate-refe…
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9/ And Policy Exchange is itself regarded as one of the country's least transparent thinktanks. This from former @jeremycorbyn adviser Seumas Milne. dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/…

10/ I do wonder what he would make of the supposed socialists now associating themselves with anti-Corbyn contributors to this extremely right wing neoliberal think-tank. In any case, the #dontpayuk questions remain:

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Who are the "socialists" behind #dontpayuk?
How did they get contacts in the mainstream media?
Why was the Corbyn-hostile telegraph so willing to promote the views of supposed "socialists", to whom it is inveterately hostile?

12/12 For my own part, I can't & won't support an campaign with such connections, especially as I have no idea who is behind it. Hopefully this is the last I will write about #dontpayuk. I didn't intend to get into it until the defensiveness of its supporters piqued my curiosity.