sadmanbarty
Well-known member
"hold their noses"
not the most tactful turn of phrase
"hold their noses"
A medical secretary has claimed her Facebook account was hacked after it was used to post false information claiming that a photograph of an ill boy on the floor at Leeds General Infirmary was staged for political purposes.
The woman denied posting the allegation that four-year-old Jack Willment-Barr’s mother placed him on the floor specifically to take the picture which became symbolic of the NHS’s troubles after it appeared on the front page of Monday’s Daily Mirror.
“I was hacked. I am not a nurse and I certainly don’t know anyone in Leeds,” said the woman, whose name the Guardian is withholding because she says she has received death threats. “I’ve had to delete everything as I have had death threats to myself and my children.”
Claims that the photo was staged spread rapidly across social media and messaging services on Monday night, potentially reaching millions of people after being amplified by Conservative politicians, celebrities and some journalists.
Despite the claim that the photo was staged having been acknowledged as false, it has continued to spread on both Facebook and Twitter, largely through individual low-follower accounts cutting and pasting the original text to share with their friends.
One version, posted by a man who claims to work for the British army’s intelligence corps, has received 2,000 shares on Facebook; another, from a person saying they were a former soldier, has received a further 500.
The same claim was shared on Twitter, where it was spread by much more significant accounts. The Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson retweeted screenshots of the Facebook page to her followers twice, telling them “I presume this is genuine”, and adding later that the photo was “100% faked”. Her posts have received thousands of retweets between them.
Peter Oborne
the fundamental nature of the british electorate is really people wanting to pull themselves up. they want to make there own lives better. thatcher was very good at speaking to that. it's lower-middle class, middle england aspiration.
labour speak as though the country's just looking for a handout and it doesn't win them elections. this thing of hopening to weaponise the nhs and school shortages your way to power doesn't work.
new labour was essentially a project of redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor disguised as a party for middle englanders. you can have progressive policies, just don't make them the focal point of your rhetoric.
Ha. I'd assumed it was someone else and he was just sharing it. Fair play to him.
Boris Johnson just drove a JCB with "Get Brexit Done" plastered across the front through a wall of bricks with "Gridlock" printed on them.
Well I'm out of this election cos my postal vote form hasn't turned up.
Well I'm out of this election cos my postal vote form hasn't turned up.
It's Frankie Boyle. I feel like giving it a standing ovation after reading it in the office.
You won’t be surprised to learn that I won’t be voting Tory on Thursday, for much the same reasons that I won’t be spending the day kicking children and pensioners into traffic.