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  • I completely agree.

    That said, misrepresentation should be highlighted and in the last couple of pages alone we’ve had

    • “Starmer praises Thatcher” which is huge if true. But it isn’t
    • “Starmer has advocated for the Israeli government’s right to commit war crimes” which is incendiary at the moment, even more so with the human rights background. A kind interpretation is that this is an inaccurate representation. I’ll leave the less kind interpretation to others.

    Let these go unchallenged and it becomes, insidiously, accepted ‘fact’. And that’s how it starts.

    To be clear, I’m not a particular fan of Starmer but I’m much less of a fan of the inaccurate shit that gets chatted.

  • Sorry I was taking the piss.

    But you're probably right. It shouldn't be made light of. But after beards there's nothing the left likes more than a bit of hyperbole.

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