A couple of years ago I asked Peter Jukes why he wasn’t covering the Integrity Initiative leaks which was a huge story at the time. He blocked me. 1/

I mentioned it to a few others as he appeared in conversations usually spouting anti Corbyn nonsense and he accused me of being recruited by Putin 2/

Now don’t get me wrong I’m sure Vladimir is indeed involved in misinformation ops but the idea that he goes round Liverpool recruiting Hackney drivers is frankly absurd. He just doesn’t.

So yesterday someone suggested I should support Byline media in a tweet on my TL. I politely pointed out I couldn’t trust them based on my experience with Peter. 3/

This prompted a response from Byline and some screenshots saying I was blocked for accusing Peter and Carole of being ‘operatives’ I hadn’t, somebody else did. I just replied

They then accused me of lying, not an accusation I can take lightly that so I replied that I wasn’t Peter was. I also pointed out I wasn’t the only one blocked for questioning Peters links to integrity initiative. 4/

Lo and behold.