The Tories are lying through their teeth about the NHS on social media.
Just look at the state of the Tweet they sent out accusing Labour of lying about their intentions towards the NHS.
Before we get to the meat of the criticism, there's the crude social media illiteracy of it to deal with.
Everyone knows that it's pathetic to beg for retweets once in a Tweet, let alone doing it twice. And anyone who hasn't learned by now that all-capitals use of "FACT" or "FACTS" is almost inevitably followed by a load of lies really shouldn't be allowed unsupervised access to the Internet should they?
Aside from the cringeworthy social media illiteracy, one of the first things to jump out is the turn of phrase "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly made it clear that ...".
We've been assured by a notorious liar who has twice been sacked for lying, repeatedly lies to parliament and the public alike, and even lied to the Queen about his reasons for suspending parliament ... so we'd better take him at his word eh?
Then let's look at what the proven liar is assuring us about:
Apparently the Tories say they'll never agree to any free trade deal that puts the NHS on the table ...
But if this is true, why on earth did Boris Johnson whip his Tory MPs into voting down a Labour party motion to rule out a post-Brexit NHS privatisation frenzy?
If there are "no circumstances" in which they'd allow it to happen, why on earth did they feel the need to shoot down legislation aimed at making it legally impossible for it to happen?
It seems as if, shock horror, the Tory party might not be being entirely honest here!
Then there's their reiteration of their spectacularly misleading new "Get Brexit Done" propaganda trope.
Anyone with the remotest understanding of the actual Brexit process must understand that finalising the Withdrawal Agreement is only actually the end of phase one of a multi-phase process, and furthermore that if the withdrawal deal is hastily botched by an incompetent Prime Minister, it will cause all kinds of problems, deadlocks, and delays further down the line.
But unfortunately we've now entered the age of idiocracy in which mainstream media journalists actually praise political parties for glib content-free sound bites like "Get Brexit Done" or "Bollocks to Brexit" whilst vitriolically damning anyone who dares to venture any political position that can't be expressed in three words or fewer!
We've entered a dangerously dumbed-down, attention deficit political era where a three word lie has infinitely more political currency than a few sentences of truth, and things only seem to be getting worse.
Hence political pundits these days expend infinitely more effort criticising the font a dishonest political trope is written in, than the zero effort they've expended on explaining that the actual words are lies!
Then finally we get to the infographic itself, which starts off accusing the Labour Party of telling lies, right above a massive £9.2 billion whopper of their own.
The duplicitous Tories state that "the NHS is not for sale" as they're actively carving it up for the benefit of their private profiteer mates at a historically unprecedented rate!
And this isn't just some wild accusation by a small independent blogger, it's evidenced by their own damned figures, which show an all-time record £9.2 billion of the NHS budget distributed to private profiteers in 2018, up 14% from the previous year!
The Tory party are now so used to being not held to account by the mainstream media that they feel emboldened to spread outright lies all over social media, safe in the knowledge that nobody in the old media will actually call them out on it.
And this is why independent media is so important.
Yes, 'Tories are telling lies' is as surprising as 'bear shits in woods', but somebody still needs to do the work of spelling out how dishonest they're being, and what the actual reality is, while most of the mainstream media occupy themselves with the much more important task of uncritically regurgitating whatever ridiculous lies they've been spoon-fed by anonymous 'government sources'.
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