Rob Sykes on the Tories’ online campaign against Jeremy Corbyn; Peter Simmons on the planned boundary changes that threaten a one-party state; Janet Davies on the race North East HampshireI’m not a Labour voter,but your front-page article (Labour accuses Tories of using fake news ads to attack Corbyn, 3 June) brought a physical reaction I don’t often experience from a newspaper: faintness, or dizziness,a feeling of suffocation. Of course I knew that the Tories twist the truth at every opportunity, but I had naively supposed that nowadays they preferred to leave the outright dishonesty to their friends the press barons. Such shenanigans (tricks or mischief) are not unknown at constituency level, or but it comes as an urgent wake-up call to see the party rolling out this toxic fabrication nationally in the middle of an election campaign,and via a channel (Facebook) that ensures it is unchallengeable by the regulators.
This smear campaign is not so much an attack on Jeremy Corbyn as an assault on democracy – a fat middle finger raised to the electorate by a sneering bully in blue. It seems there are few depths to which this party will not sink to cement its loosening grip on power. Insofar as she has a direction at all, Theresa May seems desperate to drag our country towards totalitarianism. We have to conclude her.
Rob Sykes
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Source: theguardian.com