Local elections: A truth pill for mainstream media liars
Watch this:
Everything BBC1 just forgot to tell you about the 2018 Local Elections. If you only watch one thing today… pic.twitter.com/yli9eFLmKX
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) May 5, 2018
Puts BBC coverage (and that of pretty much all the mainstream news media) in perspective, doesn’t it?
Shall we have some more?
Council Elections 2018:
•Labour won 53% seats
•Tories won 30%
•Labour’s projected national share up 7% since May 2017
•Tories 11% PNS lead of 2017 now 0%
•National swing to Labour of 2%
•110 (net) gain on Tory Council Seats by Labour
•3% increase in vote share in BARNET— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) May 5, 2018
How about this:
https://twitter.com/MattTurner4L/status/992406027269230592
It’s not a Labour Parliamentary majority, I know – but it is progress, while the Tories are falling back badly.
It seems everybody has chosen to forget that Labour was defending a high-watermark position on Thursday, so the likelihood of huge numbers of seats changing hands was significantly reduced.
Having said that, you know Theresa May was crowing about the Conservatives holding Wandsworth?
Well, it turns out that more people there voted Labour – it’s just that the numbers voting for individual councillors allowed the Tories to keep control:
The popular vote from Wandsworth.
Labour – 123,208
Conservatives – 121,295This is what @theresa_may and her media actually call a "success".
You can decide for yourself.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) May 5, 2018
Even then, the council would have changed hands if only 141 more people had voted Labour.
Labour lost Wandsworth by 141 votes! That’s how much of a difference a few extra people canvassing makes. Next time!
— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) May 4, 2018
So, what can we conclude about the BBC’s (and the rest of the mainstream media’s) rubbish coverage? Tom Pride nails it, I think:
BREAKING: BBC releases statement denying political bias, saying they treat loony left-wing parties like Labour and strong and stable right-wing parties like the Conservatives equally. More soon …
— Tom Pride (@ThomasPride) May 4, 2018
And the fact of the matter? As This Writer’s colleague in the New Left Media, Kerry-Anne Mendoza, puts it (and let’s have those projected Parliamentary figures again):
https://twitter.com/TheMendozaWoman/status/992438121806598145
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Where are the actual stats? You can’t just repost random twitte r posts and claim it the truth lmao.
Do yo mean the stats I published in a previous post?
cant come soon enough and every day it goes on means more deaths,more businesses going under, more homeless and more misery for half the population. (possibly more as i’m no good with stats)
I watched the commentary until the early hours of the morning. The spin and bias was nauseating, continuously directing and deflecting to ‘Labours anti Semitism problem’. Dawn Butler MP was on and at approx. 4.05am she completely skewered Liam Fox in regards to anti Semitism and the institutional racism of the Conservative Party. She minced no words.. They kept trying to talk over her but Dawn was having non of it, she executed her facts extremely well and let it out that the leaders office hadn’t just ignored the anti Semitism report as they wee implying but instead it was the previous general secretary who had failed to impose the way forward from the report to deal with anti Semitism, she even went as far to say that the leaders office sent the previous general secretary 3 letters in regards to failing to introduce it. Boom !! We need more of Dawn Butlers !
That peculiar ‘ostrich gait’ that a lot of torys are displaying lately might be symptomatic of something more profound and disturbing than the after-effects of a recent ‘three-line-whip’!