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Wasn't difficult to find if you read the BBC article fully... https://firstdraftnews.org/latest/thousands-of-misleading-conservative-ads-side-step-scrutiny-thanks-to-facebook-policy/ "With 12 days until polling day, the Conservatives massively stepped up its ad campaign on Facebook, running almost 7,000 ads and spending more than £50,000 between November 27 and December 3, according to the latest figures from Facebook’s Ad Library. First Draft accessed the Facebook Ad Library API to download all 6,749 ads from the Conservative Party between December 1 and December 4. Some 88% (5,952) of the most widely promoted ads featured claims about the NHS, income tax cuts, and the Labour Party which had already been labelled misleading by Full Fact."

Might be too late. This is from Sky Sports news... "09:22 WEST LOSING FAITH IN PELLEGRINI West Ham owners are losing faith in manager Manuel Pellegrini, Sky Sports News understands, and discussions are ongoing about whether he is the right man for the job. Last night’s performance against Arsenal is regarded as nowhere near good enough, and while hey desperately do not want to have to change managers mid-season, there are now real concerns about performances."

Call me crazy if you like, but I don't consider that to be the kind of characteristic I want in the man who wants to lead our charge out of Europe and into trade negotiations with sharks like Trump.

I agree to a point. Obviously the PM has no control over a single instance of poor NHS service like that and nobody in their right mind would blame him directly for it. However, Johnson's reaction to it was extremely telling. He was so desperate to avoid looking at the picture that he stole the guy's phone FFS. Did you see the look of panic in his eyes when the reporter challenged him about it? It's like he knew he had dug himself into a hole but had no idea how to get out of it. He was clearly looking for a dead cat to throw on the table. He's a f*cking pathetic excuse for a human being.

https://twitter.com/StevePeers/status/1204193205064994819?s=19 Indeed. We're almost at Putin levels of disinformation in this election campaign.

Unlike Laura K, this guy has actually provided the name of his source at the hospital

Yes, but I would take the word of the Yorkshire Evening Post journalist who originally reported this story over "my mate reckons it's fake" any day... https://twitter.com/DSheridanYEP/status/1204140106736656384?s=19 The boy's mum has not in any way "slagged off" the hospital staff as this woman is claiming, and the hospital has admitted there was no bed for him and apologised.

Too little too late. She has now become the story herself. In her tweet she refers to two senior Tory sources. It's her job to report their names if they are deliberately spreading falsehoods and using senior BBC 'journalists' as a conduit to smear opponents. That's the public interest story now.

Jesus - the absolute state of Kuenssberg's timeline. She's desperately trying to backtrack and hide it, but her total bias is there for all to see. It's embarrassing really. The credibility of the BBC news is now in shreds.

Is this like the situation the other day when a Tory MP made a video claiming that some Corbyn 'thugs' were trying to bash down the door of a market they had taken refuge in, and you could see through the glass it was actually just a couple of blokes with camera phones trying to get a picture? Yes, it seems it is... https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1204084397500256259?s=19 And the BBC's chief political correspondent obliges her masters by dutifuly sharing the story without bothering to check the facts. Deary me.

Is this like the situation the other day when a Tory MP made a video claiming that some Corbyn 'thugs' were trying to bash down the door of a market they had taken refuge in, and you could see through the glass it was actually just a couple of blokes with camera phones trying to get a picture?

Yes, of course. Labour should be doing much better against the most inept government in living memory. No arguments from me in that respect. That's one of the reasons I find myself so exasperated with the current situation, because Johnson should never have been allowed to get even remotely near number 10, let alone in a position where he could/probably will win a GE. Corbyn clearly polarises opinions, and everybody knows that you have to appeal to the centre ground to win a GE. If you think not having my finger on the pulse means not voting for the side most likely to win then I'll wear that badge with pride. I vote with my conscience, and that conscience tells me that I would sooner shoot myself in the head than ever vote for a cesspit of corruption and elitism, lead by that f*cking imbecile Johnson.

You're too f*cking right I'm angry. I'm angry that British politics has come to this. Quite how any sane, rational person could not be angry about the prospect of such a monumental bellend being elected as PM is beyond me. You yourself even admitted last week that you don't think he is fit to be PM. "But he's not as bad as Corbyn" - I can already tell will be the reply from most. Corbyn has many faults, and if elected I have no doubt his dithering and lack of leadership on many issues would cause serious issues, and his failure to do due diligence on some of the people he has associated himself with in the past would most likely come back to haunt him. But in terms of basic human decency, there is simply no comparison between them. If you offer me a party of incompetents lead by a narcissistic pathological liar with a class superiority complex, or a party of incompetents lead by someone who, despite being naive and probably misguided, has actually proved repeatedly that he has genuine empathy for disadvantaged people, then it is a total no-brainer. People railing against the more 'extreme' elements of the Labour manifesto need to understand that there is no hope of them winning a majority in this election, and the best they can hope for is a hung parliament and a coalition with the LDs and/or SNP. In this scenario, there is not a chance they would ever be able to enact any of their more extreme stuff anyway. That's why I'm more than happy to give them my vote, if it helps to remove the most unscrupulous, malignant and corrupt bunch of party-before-country bottom feeders ever to disgrace the halls of Westminster.

And now this as well... https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1203922486968147969 He knows exactly who that quote is aimed at. One one hand he makes a speech about how inequality is essential and the world needs people with low IQs, and then he comes out with this just for those very same people. This man is nothing more than a cvnt. A serial-lying, narcissistic, scheming, elitist cvnt with the moral quality of a cockroach.

Oh my days. This has to be his best performance yet... https://twitter.com/joepike/status/1204018593656180736?s=20 I just cannot fathom how so many people genuinely think this despicable pr!ck is the right man to lead the country forward.

But you're constantly telling us that Labour's manifesto is 'extremist' and unpalatable to most British voters. Yet here you are providing an explanation for why their policies will always be most popular. Which is it?

Interestingly, when parties and personalities are taken out of the equation, Labour's policies are in fact the most popular with the electorate... https://voteforpolicies.org.uk/survey/results/XdjvNqjuAbZ7fvu5#/total-results

Yeah despite losing today I think things are looking a lot better than they were a couple of weeks ago. Norwich and Watford are looking like they will take up the bottom two places, so we only really need to focus on getting above one more team, and it's incredibly tight above us. If we had held on to the lead today we would have been 14th.

F*cking criminal to throw that one away. Newcastle were poor and created very little. Comfortably the better team for 75 minutes and in the lead, and we still couldn't grind it out. I'd have taken a draw in those circumstances, but to give it away like that and lose it is gut-wrenching.

Is it? We still waste far too many good chances. If we had taken more of them today we wouldn't be in the position to throw it away the way we did.

Yep. we were so comfortably better for the majority of the game. Newcastle have been really poor and offered very little, yet we've still gifted them two goals and surrendered the game.

What planet is this tater on? "The tide has turned. Newcastle have the initiative now". We've been camped in their half since they scored FFS.

Came at him too fast. Couldn't react. It was exactly the same move as the goal he scored against Norwich in midweek.

Boufal on for Djenepo. Good move. Djenepo not been on form today.

Like I said earlier. He's one of the most unintelligent players ever to grace the PL.