Here’s the DWP’s ‘Universal Credit’ advertorial – and it’s worse than we expected
Look at the state of this.
It’s the controversial Metro advertorial extolling the alleged virtues of Universal Credit, written by Department for Work and Pensions spokespeople for the Conservative government and containing absolutely no journalistic integrity at all.
It has been widely criticised – to put it mildly:
https://twitter.com/thomasrumbold/status/1131113757130862592
£10 says "Paul" is an extra from Game of Thrones
— Gareth Davies (@Gareth_Davies09) May 22, 2019
https://twitter.com/jane__bradley/status/1131111880104337408
Very 1984. Not fake news. Conservative Party propaganda paid for by government funds. Surely that can't be legal?
— Timewalk Project (@Timewalkproject) May 23, 2019
Apparently the campaign to take Metro off newsstands and into skips hasn’t succeeded as well as some people wanted.
Complaints have been made to the Advertising Standards Authority and This Writer would certainly urge anybody who believes this advert was falsely presented as news, and/or who believes that it contains false information, to add their own complaint.
Here’s the link: https://www.asa.org.uk/make-a-complaint.html
Have YOU donated to my crowdfunding appeal, raising funds to fight false libel claims by TV celebrities who should know better? These court cases cost a lot of money so every penny will help ensure that wealth doesn’t beat justice.
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If this is false News . Metro should advertise it on it’s Front Page. If not false news then this should be advertised on their front page saying it’s not False.