Now he’s crowing about his Brexit deal, will Boris Johnson be allowed to forget THIS?
Think before speaking (or publishing): Boris Johnson should account for a Tory constituency association’s apparent demand for activists to tell LIES in order to sideline honest politicians from other parties.
Why have Tory Party members been sent an email urging them to use “dubious claims” to “crowd out genuine news” and sideline “honest” politicians?
The demands, in a Conservative Party email, indicate clear support for dishonest politicians and for fake news. Don’t they?
It seems Labour leader Keir Starmer has been mining a newsletter published to Tories on Peter Bone’s Wellingborough constituency. Bone now has some hard questions to answer!
Sadly, Starmer was unable to use the information in the newsletter to his best advantage during the last Prime Minister’s Questions of 2020 – because of his own poor track record.
After he asked whether the newsletter contained advice that Boris Johnson had taken – or had been written by Johnson, our failure of a prime minister was able to turn the tables simply by pointing out that the people of the UK would like to see any sign of an opinion at all from Starmer.
He said,
I think what the people of this country would love to hear from the right hon. and learned Gentleman in this season of good will is any kind of point of view at all on some of the key issues.
In the words of the song, “All I want for Christmas is” a view, and it would be wonderful if he could produce one.
It is a perfectly valid viewpoint about Starmer. But it does not excuse Wellingborough’s Conservatives or the contents of their newsletter.
Why did they write in praise of
Donald Trump’s use of “dubious claims”, “weaponising fake news” and using falsehoods to “crowd out” the truth.
Why did they say,
Fake news often makes headlines and crowds out genuine news. Honest politicians therefore find themselves pushed off the front pages
and then go on to urge Tories to
say the first thing that comes into your head. It’ll probably be nonsense but it knocks your opponent out of his stride and takes away his headline
in a clear exhortation for Tories to dishonestly create “fake news” stories?
And will Johnson ever be bothered to answer these questions?
Source: Boris Johnson quizzed over Tory newsletter urging activists to ‘weaponise fake news’ – Mirror Online
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