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Theresa May breaks law in #BBCQT special #GE17

Posted on 3 June 201720 June 2017 by Paul Smyth

The SKWAWKBOX Apart from some desperate spinning by the Tories and their pet media – including an email from party chair Patrick McLoughlin criticising Corbyn’s lack of enthusiasm for incinerating millions – there’s a huge consensus that Jeremy Corbyn won last night’s BBC Question Time special by a distance, in spite of aggression by a number of Tory plants in the audience who were allowed more questions than anyone else. Even some right-wing commentators agreed:…

9 Tories of 120 #BBCQT audience ask 29% of questions. Still #CorbynWins #GE17

Posted on 3 June 201720 June 2017 by Paul Smyth

The SKWAWKBOX The BBC Question Time Leaders’ Special tonight was a remarkable event, because there was only one Prime Minister on show and it was not Theresa May. What makes it all the more remarkable was not the composition of the audience, but the balance of the questioners. It is called Question Time, after all. The audience consisted of, at a rough count, 120 people. Out of 120 people in a 90-minute special, not everyone…

Ever wondered why the Sun, the Telegraph, Daily Mail & Daily Express were so desperate to leave the EU?

Posted on 2 June 201720 June 2017 by Paul Smyth

Veritas et Libertas To protect their wealth from tax authorities, Britain’s tax avoiding media barons wanted you to leave the EU and now they want you to vote Tory on June 8. Ahead of the EU referendum, pro-Brexit media blamed the EU for increasing the increasing number of migrants, accused Angela Merkel of bullying Britain, condemned High Court judges as “Enemies of the people”, influencing British people to vote to leave the EU. Just like…

Theresa May ‘under investigation re Brexit profits’

Posted on 2 June 201720 June 2017 by Paul Smyth

The SKWAWKBOX Theresa May’s woeful start to her General Election campaign – which has seen Labour gain thirteen percentage points in voting intention polls – looks set to become a full-blown disaster. Reports are beginning to emerge from multiple sources suggesting that Mrs May is under investigation by the Propriety and Ethics group of the Cabinet Office in connection with an alleged failure to declare an enormous conflict of interest on Brexit related to profits…

The huge, hidden Tory #NHSBOGOF fire-sale #NaylorReport #GE17 #NHS

Posted on 1 June 201720 June 2017 by Paul Smyth

The SKWAWKBOX The SKWAWKBOX published a video this morning that an observer had created concerning the Naylor Report, which Theresa May said – without explaining – that she fully supported. May treated it as if the ten billion pounds implementing Naylor will cost was an additional Tory investment in the NHS – but in fact, it’s the opposite. £10bn is the cost of forcingthe NHS to sell off its assets on a BOGOF (buy one…

May loves #NaylorReport. EVERYONE must see/share (video) #GE17 #NHS

Posted on 31 May 201720 June 2017 by Paul Smyth

The SKWAWKBOX The SKWAWKBOX has been inundated over the last couple of days by people sending the link to a video, with messages to the effect of ‘you must do something with this’. Having watched it, they’re absolutely right. During her TV interview with Andrew Neil last week, Theresa May repeated her usual nonsense ad nauseam, but when asked about Tory plans for the NHS, she only talked about The Naylor Report. May admits that…

New YouGov projection – HUNG PARLIAMENT

Posted on 31 May 201720 June 2017 by Paul Smyth

TheCritique Archives by Martin Odoni Without wishing to get too excited too quickly, I thought I should leave this here. The polling company, YouGov, are actually predicting that the Conservative Party will fall sixteen seats short of an overall majority in the House of Commons! You read that right, everyone, the latest projection is a Hung Parliament. From a twenty-plus-point lead for the Tories about five weeks ago, to a Hung Parliament! We need to…

Tories and undecideds flock to Labour after #BattleForNumber10 #GE17

Posted on 30 May 201720 June 2017 by Paul Smyth

The SKWAWKBOX If you’re watching BBC News or Sky News right now – or if you buy a right-wing newspaper on Tuesday morning, you might have the impression that Monday night’s ‘Battle for Number 10’ on Sky News and Channel 4 was a hard-fought draw or even a win for Theresa May. It really is getting stupidly transparent: Newspapers and Corbyn: it gets to a point where you just have to laugh at them. #BattleForNumber10#TheresaMayGifspic.twitter.com/sws2mvihvb…

I’m switching Tory to Lab for JC’s defence approach (video)

Posted on 29 May 201720 June 2017 by Paul Smyth

The SKWAWKBOX In this striking video clip from this morning’s Victoria Derbyshire programme on the BBC, a Tory voter explains why he’s switching to Labour because of Corbyn’s approach to foreign policy: Ex Tory voter says Jeremy Corbyn’s approach to foreign policy is resonating with him in wake of Manchester attacks pic.twitter.com/GIyLg8gZ0M — We Are His Media (@ReclaimTheNews) May 29, 2017

Shocking revelation: Tories SECRETLY met IRA leaders at the height of its terrorist campaign

Posted on 28 May 201720 June 2017 by Paul Smyth

Pride’s Purge According to former IRA activist Danny Morrison, senior Tories secretly met IRA leaders in 1977 – when the terrorist organisation was at the height of its bombing campaign: Danny Morrison is famous for coining the phrase ‘Armalite and ballot box‘ to describe the Provisional IRA’s then strategy of pursuing armed struggle while at the same time Sinn Féin contested elections. Douglas Hurd is one of the Conservative Party’s most senior elder statesmen and later became Home…

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