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Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

TACD posted:

Was trying to find out exactly what the Starmer / Saville thing was since I missed it and:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-hits-back-at-boris-johnson-over-jimmy-savile-slur-2b38c5l05

Seems like quite strong language from The Times, they’ve started rolling out the same language they used to sort-of-not-quite call Trump a liar

As they say about parliamentary privilege there, it's because it's such an offensively loaded claim that it would be an easy libel case. Posted at the end of the last thread was Raab showing how dangerous it is to repeat without parliamentary privilege

https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/1488428780683243526

So yes, the Times will spare no expense to make it clear that it's baseless because they could be sued for implying it.

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Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

At least this time the press actually cares that a bunch of childfuckers are harassing the nominal left.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Starmer can't sue Johnson either because it was said in the House of Commons so he has privilege. Other Tories have been very careful not to repeat the allegation as Johnson made it.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009


Saw a few blue ticks on Twitter saying that the Russian military has been told to prepare to invade. Would be pretty funny if Johnson stupidly saying we were only using the diplomacy to trick them while we fortify ended up being what causes this to kick off.

Not funny as in actually funny, darkly funny that war is caused because our embarrassment of a prime minister wanted to distract from his myriad crimes and scandals by trying to be Churchill and ending up more like Fredrick North or Chamberlain.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

COMRADES, THE RED WIND IS UPON US

oh it's just destroying poo poo and making people miserable?

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Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Wasn't expecting to wake up to ground invasion of Ukraine. Thought he'd stick to Donbas. Been funny watching Johnson try and act like NATO gives a poo poo about what he has to say about it though.

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