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Now here’s an interesting post from Redcar’s Tory free school meals denying MP, @JacobYoungMP ... (Thread)
Seems innocuous enough, but consider what he’s actually doing here - it’s clearly a thinly-veiled snipe at the Welsh (Labour-led) government. Nothing new there, right? 1/
Seems innocuous enough, but consider what he’s actually doing here - it’s clearly a thinly-veiled snipe at the Welsh (Labour-led) government. Nothing new there, right? 1/
But Jacob has a tendency to omit certain “inconvenient” facts when he senses the opportunity to score cheap political points on social media... In this case, Jacob has overlooked the fact that the action in Wales was enacted following concerns raised by a... Tory. /2
Yes, as the attached article states, it was concerns raised by Conservative MS Russell George who said it was “unfair to force independent clothing and hardware retailers to close whilst similar goods were on sale in major supermarkets” - /3 https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2020-10-22/supermarkets-in-wales-will-only-be-allowed-to-sell-essential-items-during-covid-19-fire-break-lockdown
This is something our Jacob fails to acknowledge - despite the fact that it succinctly answers his attempt at a loaded question. I wonder why? The point here is that Young, like many new Tory MPs seems to use social media as a platform to mislead /4
and misinform his followers in order to maintain divisions and sensationalise and distort certain narratives. A bit like a troll - only he’s getting very well paid for his troubles... Either way we should expect more from our elected members. /Ends
