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Dim Bim tries to hoodwink us all – and gets community noted on ‘X’

Dim Bim Afolami: he’s been caught telling untruths.

This is from before the budget, but it goes to show how Tories try to hoodwink us with dishonesty.

Bim Afolami, Tory Treasury minister, tried to tell LBC listeners that average earners are better-off now than they were 14 years ago – because the nominal amount of money they earn is more.

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He neglected – deliberately? – to add that the cost of living has also increased by more than is covered by the increase in earnings.

There you have it, in the community note.

Mean household incomes have increased by 7.5 per cent but inflation has increased the cost of living by a whopping 47 per cent.

Under the Tories, average-earning households are much worse off than they were 14 years ago. And Dim Bim tried to hide it.


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Jeremy Corbyn should sue Nigel Farage over this outrageous falsehood

Stranglehold: The signer was actually interpreting a comment in a previous Nigel Farage TV appearance, but it works equally well to describe feelings across the nation at this right-wing mouthpiece’s misrepresentation of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The reason other politicians keep smearing Jeremy Corbyn with false accusations of anti-Semitism is that he keeps letting them get away with it.

Mr Corbyn’s attitude is that, if it isn’t hurting people other than himself, he’s big enough not to worry about it.

The problem with that is that it harms his supporters, who are also smeared with the same allegation; they may be said to be supporting an anti-Semite.

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Nigel Farage has appeared on GB News, saying the following:

This Writer knows of no occasion when Mr Corbyn has ever suggested that “the Jews run the world”, and I think Farage should be dragged into a courtroom to explain exactly why he said such a thing.

Sadly, I doubt Mr Corbyn will be bothered – and in this failure he is letting us all down.


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Is Environment Agency colluding with government to lie about bathing water quality?

The Environment Agency has been telling the government how to lie about the quality of bathing water, investigations have revealed.

Here’s Channel 4 News to explain:

According to Channel 4 News,

We’ve seen documents which show that almost twice as many English bathing waters would fail pollution tests – if the regulator [the Environment Agency] wasn’t legally allowed to disregard some of the worst results.

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Papers and emails show Government officials were also worried about negative press and wanted pollution incidents to be “better presented”. But the Environment Agency warned some options they gave could look like ‘greenwashing’.

The Government and the agency insist it’s perfectly above board and follows scientific best practice, but campaigners want the system to change, insisting public safety should come first.

Former musician, now clean water campaigner Feargal Sharkey has obtained a copy of the Environment Agency’s advice to the government, explaining how to – basically – lie to us about the amount of pollution in our waters:

In the TV report, an interviewee suggests that protection of the environment should be what the Environment Agency does, and not “spinning for the government”.

This Writer would certainly agree.

But it’s just another example of the corruption sweeping the UK.

It seems clear that the Environment Agency is not fit for purpose; when an organisation that is supposed to penalise water companies that break pollution rules is instead providing advice on how to hide such breaches, it does not deserve to continue.


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After workers refused to staff Israeli military fundraiser, Zionist cheerleaders paint it as intimidation

What a gang of sleazy liars we have cheerleading for the Israeli government and military on our social media.

Look what happened on February 4:

There you have it: the workers decided not to support the event.

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Now see how it was spun by this Israel apologist:

The comments following this ‘X’ post clearly demonstrate the enormity of the falsehood.

Shame on him. And this is just one of the many who are happy to distort the facts in support of the slaughter of innocents.


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Israel’s arch-liar is at it again

Eylon Levy: he’ll say whatever he thinks will get you to sympathise with his genocidal Israeli government and hate the almost defenceless Gazan people Israel is slaughtering.

Is he pathological? Is Eylon Levy unable to control his behaviour – stop himself from lying?

Of course, the answer is no. He’s perfectly capable of quoting genuine facts but his job is to mislead the rest of us. Or at least, it certainly seems that way.

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Consider his latest wheeze: claiming that serving members of the Israeli armed forces who were taken prisoner on October 7 are helpless hostages of Hamas, in danger of rape or other sexual crimes likely to be perpetrated by their captors:

Billel Boudouma’s response is accurate; I checked it with the “Bing Copilot” on my web browser. Before anybody whines about it, it’s the best that Levy deserves.

Here’s the response:

Yes, the Israeli soldiers who were taken prisoner by Hamas on October 7, 2023, are considered prisoners of war 1The Third Geneva Convention defines a prisoner of war as “any person belonging to one of the following categories, who has fallen into the power of the enemy: Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces” 1Since the Israeli soldiers were members of the Israeli Defense Forces, they fall under this definition and are therefore considered prisoners of war 1.

Feel free to check the sources yourself.

In the meantime, remember that Israeli spokespeople like Levy are habitual and constant liars – and, sadly, many of the UK’s mainstream media are colluding with them, whether consciously or not. Look at the report on the BBC’s recent behaviour.


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Richard Madeley’s ignorance builds support for striking junior doctors

Striking junior doctors: Richard Madeley seems to have done their cause a lot of good – by speaking in ignorance.

No sooner did the junior doctors go on strike – their longest yet, lasting six days – than ITV Good Morning Britain presenter Richard Madeley started insulting them.

Fortunately, Ash Sarkar was there to put him straight (alongside Susanna Reid, in fairness):

But the damage was done – to Madeley.

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You see, we already had this debate when still-new Health Secretary Victoria Atkins tried to suggest that junior doctors were “doctors in training”. They’re nothing of the sort; these are fully-qualified medical practitioners.

And it didn’t take long for the backlash to begin:

Still Madeley did a lot of good to the junior doctors’ cause by insulting them:

And striking junior doctors are building support for themselves in surprising ways – like this:

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Sunak’s lie-a-day: he says the Tories are cutting taxes – but you’ll be paying more

Grinning idiots: Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt have falsely claimed that they are cutting the amount of tax that people will pay.

Peter is back!

The legendary Stefanovic has returned from his Christmas and New Year break to tear apart Rishi Sunak’s ridiculous claim to be cutting the amount of tax his government is taking from the people of the UK (in fact, you will pay much more).

As This Site explained here, because Sunak’s Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has frozen the thresholds at which people start paying taxes at particular rates, and pay rises have been taking place, this means more people will pay more tax.

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Here’s the video clip. Share it with everyone you know. They’ll thank you for it.


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Sunak says Tories have cleared the asylum-seeker backlog. Have they?

Stop the lies would be a better slogan: Rishi Sunak reckons his government has cleared the backlog of asylum-seekers who need a decision on whether they may stay in the UK – but in fact the number of people awaiting a decision has grown.

No.

The media has been abuzz today (January 2) with false claims by the Tories and their leader, Rishi Sunak, that they have cleared a more-than-92,000-strong backlog of asylum claims by refugees who have crossed the channel or come here by other means.

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Here are a couple of examples from the social media – and you can see very clearly that the claims are false because the facts are provided in the context notes:

Notice also that we are not being told how many people were allowed to stay and how many are being sent away.

So not only is there a falsehood in the number of cases in the system – the number of legacy cases in December 2022 would have been the same as the number on June 28 that year and any new cases would not have been counted. 100,000 more cases have begun in the last year-and a half – but of even those cases, 4,500 have not been cleared.

With 87,500 cases cleared and 104,500 not cleared, what is also clear is that Rishi Sunak has been lying his little-boy pants into cinders yet again.


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Has James Cleverly been lying about migrant boats coming to the UK?

Migrant boats: but this image was taken at a different time of year – nobody in their right mind would try the crossing in the middle of winter storms.

One would have thought ‘Rohypnol Jimmy’ had more to worry about than lying to the public about boats-ful of “illegal” migrants coming to the UK over Christmas.

But no.

Look below for an ‘X’ post from Ian Hodson, quoting Cleverly’s latest nonsense.

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Cleverly’s saying there weren’t any boats crossing the English Channel over the Christmas period, for the first time since 2018 – but the context note points out that this is probably because the weather has been particularly stormy and you’d have to be insane to try to make the crossing in such conditions.

So he’s peddling a lie – because he wants us to think that the lack of crossings is a result of his government’s policy on migration, and that isn’t right.

How much of the rest of what the Tory government says about cross-channel migration is also a lie?


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Dis-Influencers: Israel’s secret fifth-column* pushing lying anti-Palestine propaganda

Dis-influencers: they try to flood your social media with falsehoods, to blind you to the facts.

What connects these social media phenomena?

  • A post falsely suggesting that images of parents mourning their babies were of actors with dolls.
  • A clip said to be of a Palestinian nurse in a Gaza hospital, saying that Hamas had a base there and she sympathised with Israel.
  • A clip showing a car doing doughnuts in a US street, the passengers waving what were described as Palestinian flags (there was actually a flag of Cuba).
  • A claim that pro-Palestinian activists planted material on a Canadian university campus to increase anti-Semitic feeling.

They’re all examples of dis-influencer activity, according to Marc Owen Jones, an associate professor in Middle Eastern Studies.

Dis-influencers are people who try to influence others with disinformation – information that they know is false but deliberately present to others as factual in order to mislead.

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The Israeli government and its cheerleaders are heavily involved in dis-influencer activity, it seems – as explained in the following video interview with the UK journalist, also called Owen Jones:

This Writer reckons Marc Owen Jones makes a good point.

The ‘doll’ story was picked up and published as factual by the Jerusalem Post, which subsequently published this retraction:

… as spotted by Marc Owen Jones:

Look at the comments by the reporter, quoted below. Totally unrepentant. I wonder whether this person has changed their tune now:

The claim in the video was that we can’t tell who starts these falsehoods because they are picked up and spread by so many mouthpieces. This seems to be borne out by the following:

I’m sure you get the point.

The argument put forward by Marc Owen Jones – and Owen Jones – is persuasive.

So next time you see someone making bold claims about the depravity of Palestinians, Gazans, and/or Hamas… don’t be too quick to believe it. And see if it isn’t debunked within days – or even hours.

*For clarity, I’m aware that a fifth column is actually “a group within a country at war who are sympathetic to or working for its enemies”, but it seems the closest description of what these people are. Is there a word for a group within one country who spread lies in order to further another country’s interests?


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