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Who remembers Portland Communications? The PR firm involved in the coup against Corbyn? Well, Starmer's new comms boss Tim Allan does...

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[–] Networkcathode@piefed.social 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh wow. That's the actual headline. Hasn't been altered. 🤣🤣 What sort of two bit publication is this?

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The canary. Seemingly one person's blog trying to masquerade as a bigger publication. It's been around for a while and has always been shit.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I thought The Canary was highly recommended as an independent news source. Is their reporting inaccurate? I'm not British, so it's hard to tell.

[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days ago

No its a far left agit prop site. As worthless as sqwarkbox to me.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

It looks on par with the Daily Star to me.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 days ago

i think the writer doesn't know what balls deep means

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 8 points 3 days ago

Are they in a competition with the Tories to see who can be the most heartless bunch of cunts?

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago

This is awful. He should go back to doing "Tim the Toolman Taylor" and "Buzz Lightyear". Giving up his acting work to become a far-right piece-of-shit bigot cunt was a poor career choice.

/s

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And further to that, to Liberals; notice the strange coincidence that your neoliberal politicians keep opening the door to more fascism.

Consider what the contradictions of liberalism are that force them to keep turning to more and more hateful, oppressive and authoritarian policies to keep the contradictions from toppling the system. C’mon, plenty of you know deep down that over 500 people, most of them retirement age (including retired vicars), arrested under terror legislation is ‘a bit much’ and deep down you know that more culture war bullshit isn’t making anyone’s life better it’s just theatre to distract people from the real issues. C’mon your so close to a revelation!

[–] bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

I don’t think they’re close. Even when the R happens, they won’t be close.