Don’t worry, Chris, there’ll be momentary concern and then relief when they realise the mainstream media are dutifully burying the story.https://t.co/z2Xqe5bbdc
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) February 13,
Too cynical of me? Well, both yesterday morning and yesterday afternoon I checked the BBC News Scotland homepage. Excluding sport, there were 26 news stories listed, and not one of them was the revelation that the director of a Labour think tank (which boasts about having been “built” by a grim Rogue’s Gallery of Starmerite MPs including Rachel Reeves, Wes Streeting and Lisa Nandy) wants asylum seekers treated as human trash and dumped in the north of Scotland, in much the same way that a Tory government once wanted to dump nuclear waste there. It’s hard to think of any other democratic country in the world where a national broadcaster wouldn’t deem such remarks to be one of the top 26 news stories of the day.
In fairness, other parts of the mainstream media haven’t played along with the BBC in burying the story to save Labour’s blushes – it’s reported in, for example, the Times, the Scotsman, and the Herald. And with the power of social media, the LBC tweet in which the actual video of Josh Simons’ comment appears has been viewed 1.9 million times. With comical predictability, the Daily Record have tried to turn the story on its head by portraying Anas Sarwar as a Rambo-type figure “slapping down” Simons. But anyone who thinks Sarwar carries more authority than Simons in the Labour party under Keir Starmer is utterly deluded. Wikipedia describes Labour Together as a “highly influential group upon the current Labour Party, and [is] seen as an “incubator” of its next manifesto”.
