Can anyone find a clip where Corbyn says this? I can only find a tweet where a user paraphrases a video where he says something entirely different https://twitter.com/jamin2g/status/1099301508418596864?s=21 …pic.twitter.com/DoIrLZ5iRo
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love to see the top 'centre left' paper report a literal tory spin account who called Diane Abbott a 'disease' as an honest actor
That’s exactly what it seems. The ‘quote’ uses the Twitter comment which wasn’t actually what Corbyn said.
What is upsetting is a number of journos have quote-tweeted this as if it is verbatim. It isn't. But the damage is done because a majority of people won't bother to play the video and just take it as read. This is how pernicious the whole business is.
Not like I haven't got much to do on a Sunday evening, but I transcribed the 44 sec video.pic.twitter.com/kzdyjfWUHM
That's how I read it too, made to look like a direct quotation.
I think they’ve written it deliberately vague so as to create the impression, but also to be able to deny culpability if challenged. Deliberately framing
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