Labour activists paid for smear campaign against journalists

[butchstewie]

This is absolutely disgraceful.

Labour activists paid for smear campaign against journalists

[swisstoni]

What an odd and fairly sinister thing to be spending their time doing.
Any claim to the moral high ground for this crew is surely shot through, and only 18 months in power.

[M1AGM]

Lowe posted yesterday that labour activists tried to screw up a party fundraiser he held last week by buying up all the tickets so nobody would be there. His team spotted what was going on so just allocated additional tickets to add to the ones labour had been buying up, and thanked them for their financial support. The event was a success.

Labour are getting desperate.

[W124Bob]

M1AGM said:

Lowe posted yesterday that labour activists tried to screw up a party fundraiser he held last week by buying up all the tickets so nobody would be there. His team spotted what was going on so just allocated additional tickets to add to the ones labour had been buying up, and thanked them for their financial support. The event was a success.

Labour are getting desperate.

Labour need to remember tactics like this work both ways!

[xstian]

M1AGM said:

Lowe posted yesterday that labour activists tried to screw up a party fundraiser he held last week by buying up all the tickets so nobody would be there. His team spotted what was going on so just allocated additional tickets to add to the ones labour had been buying up, and thanked them for their financial support. The event was a success.

Labour are getting desperate.

Do you have a link to this?

[Rufus Stone]

butchstewie said:

This is absolutely disgraceful.

Labour activists paid for smear campaign against journalists

Seems fair. After all, journalists are being paid for the same against Labour.

[Slow.Patrol]

xstian said:

Do you have a link to this?

[Ashfordian]

butchstewie said:

This is absolutely disgraceful.

Labour activists paid for smear campaign against journalists

I suspect your eyes are slowly being opened to how much of this works.

And you'll be able to see the Labour activist account assigned to PH has already commented on this thread and has been doing the same in many others threads over the long term...

[swisstoni]

Ashfordian said:

I suspect your eyes are slowly being opened to how much of this works.

And you'll be able to see the Labour activist account assigned to PH has already commented on this thread and has been doing the same in many others threads over the long term...

If true I hope they aren't paying much. Sounds like another procurement scandal.

[xstian]

Slow.Patrol said:

xstian said:

Do you have a link to this?

I don’t see any mention of Labour activists. How do we even know if there is any truth in that statement at all?

[isaldiri]

W124Bob said:

M1AGM said:

Lowe posted yesterday that labour activists tried to screw up a party fundraiser he held last week by buying up all the tickets so nobody would be there. His team spotted what was going on so just allocated additional tickets to add to the ones labour had been buying up, and thanked them for their financial support. The event was a success.

Labour are getting desperate.

Labour need to remember tactics like this work both ways!

What makes you think it doesn't already (and always has) worked both ways but perhaps people had been less incompetent to not get found out......

[sparta6]

Rufus Stone said:

butchstewie said:

This is absolutely disgraceful.

Labour activists paid for smear campaign against journalists

Seems fair. After all, journalists are being paid for the same against Labour.

Journalists are professionals.

I realise it's the Winter Olympics but Labour are starting on a slippery slope...

[9.3]

Who remembers dear old Derek Draper and Labour List? Leopards never ….. etc etc ..

[remedy]

Ashfordian said:

butchstewie said:

This is absolutely disgraceful.

Labour activists paid for smear campaign against journalists

I suspect your eyes are slowly being opened to how much of this works.

And you'll be able to see the Labour activist account assigned to PH has already commented on this thread and has been doing the same in many others threads over the long term...

It feels somewhat ironic that today Stewie is disgusted at this, but yesterday was arguing how the likely story for the Ukrainian boys was as the article was written about them being Russian assets...

[DeadShed]

The headline, as normal, doesn’t seem to represent the facts. From what I can put together it seems the think tank paid a US PR feel to investigate a journalist for any dirt they could find.

It seems very much like they wanted to intimidate a journalist, which is not right, but also not what is being claimed in the Times headline.

Happy to be corrected if someone has more information from behind a paywall.

[simon_harris]

remedy said:

Ashfordian said:

butchstewie said:

This is absolutely disgraceful.

Labour activists paid for smear campaign against journalists

I suspect your eyes are slowly being opened to how much of this works.

And you'll be able to see the Labour activist account assigned to PH has already commented on this thread and has been doing the same in many others threads over the long term...

It feels somewhat ironic that today Stewie is disgusted at this, but yesterday was arguing how the likely story for the Ukrainian boys was as the article was written about them being Russian assets...

He is just annoyed he didn’t get the contract…