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Originally Posted by Damien
The Sunday Times is hardly an anti-Conservative paper although both The Times and the SundayTimes have more editorial freedom than The Sun does.
Usually it's the left who becomes paranoid about every single newspaper article critical of 'their side' being part of a larger game concocted by the evil proprietors of those newspapers. A single negative article about the Government must be because Rupert Murdoch wants Boris Johnson out? That's overstating it a bit. If it's true then why trust The Sun instead? Other than one paper is saying something you disagree with and the other isn't. Murdoch decided to use The lower-circulation Sunday Times to start the move against Johnson but uses the higher-circulation Sun newspaper to defend him?
This is the standard retort now to every negative article about Labour or the Tories. It's a smear, it's a hatchet job. There is an entirely loyal breed of voter now who only accepts the word of the Government as the truth and anyone holding them to account as lairs, people who seem to trust the state (or their political party if they're not in government) without question.
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Damien, I’m not saying the government cannot be held to account, hell, I don’t agree with our borders being open, people not being adequately tested if they’re from hot CV zones.
But if people want to be critical, they have to be correct and fair in their criticism. That means, if they’re going to accuse the Prime Minister of not listening, when he actually was, then need to be spot on in their assertions.
That Sunday Times hit piece was an absolute disgrace, did you watch the clip of Maajid Nawaz, I linked to above?
He is absolutely spot on, I urge people to listen to what he says. Again, it highlights hindsight is a good thing, but we cannot blame any one for not having it, including the UK Government, for not having hindsight, but the Sunday Times is trying to rewrite history here and it’s is totally wrong.