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We're back here are we? The tax-avoiding non-dom billionaire-owned Telegraph isn't a newspaper - it's a divisive #propaganda outlet, which has since 1945 supported the Tories & attempted to shape public opinion in whichever direction most benefits its tax-avoiding owner.
We're back here are we? The tax-avoiding non-dom billionaire-owned Telegraph isn't a newspaper - it's a divisive #propaganda outlet, which has since 1945 supported the Tories & attempted to shape public opinion in whichever direction most benefits its tax-avoiding owner.
The Telegraph has endorsed the Tories at every UK GE since 1945.
The personal links between the paper's owners & editors & the Tory leadership, along with the paper's right-wing stance & influence over Conservative activists, means it is commonly referred to as the
#Torygraph.
The personal links between the paper's owners & editors & the Tory leadership, along with the paper's right-wing stance & influence over Conservative activists, means it is commonly referred to as the
#Torygraph.
Even when Conservative support was shown to have slumped in the opinion polls and @UKLabour gained the ascendant, the newspaper remained loyal to the @Conservatives.
The tax-avoiding billionaire Barclay brothers purchased the Telegraph Group for around £665m in late June 2004.
The tax-avoiding billionaire Barclay brothers purchased the Telegraph Group for around £665m in late June 2004.
During the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the paper predictably supported the Better Together 'No' Campaign, & in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership Brexit referendum, it predictably endorsed voting to leave the EU.
During the 2019 Conservative leadership election, The Daily Telegraph endorsed their former columnist, liar Boris Johnson.
In 2019, former columnist Graham Norton, who left in 2018, said "about a year before I left, it took a turn" & criticised it for "toxic" political stances.
In 2019, former columnist Graham Norton, who left in 2018, said "about a year before I left, it took a turn" & criticised it for "toxic" political stances.
The Torygraph was fined £30,000 in 2015 for "sending an unsolicited email to hundreds of thousands of its subscribers, urging them to vote for the Conservatives.
Barclay, Murdoch & Harmsworth are selfish, dangerous anti-British propagandists.
#Leveson2
Barclay, Murdoch & Harmsworth are selfish, dangerous anti-British propagandists.
#Leveson2
https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1525460094506643456?s=20&t=38Xp_SkkOgK8YQRgKOySJw
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