After the leader election debate between Corbyn and Johnson I was of the opinion that it was a bit of a draw with noone coming out on top, however events that came to light after that changed my opinion.
During the debate Corbyn waved a freedom of information document around on negotiations between the Tories and the US which had been heavily redacted (for redacted read censored).
“Every single line of this document, redacted out. A document here, of US-UK negotiations. Summary of specific negotiating objectives: full market access for US products to our National Health Service. You’re going to sell out our NHS to the United States and big pharma.” ~ Jeremy Corbyn
Now here's why I now feel that it was a car crash for BloJo......
- The Tories obviously had the rebranded twitter account ready to go live if they got hit with something that they couldn't counter and this was it.
- Soon after Corbyn made that statement the rebranded FAKE factcheck branding was put up on the twitter account trying to claim Corbyn was the liar to cover the impact of the documents.
- If the document was not factual why didn't the Tories mentioned it afterwards. They never claimed the document was fake. They never claimed it was incorrect.
- It was so important they were prepared to risk having their twitter account suspended by contravening twitter's rules.
- Every Tory i've seen interviewed since claimed they did it to exposed Corbyn lies, never mentioning the document.
- The fact that they havnt claimed the document is a pack of lies is telling. If the document was incorrect or fake BloJo could have easily said so in front of millions of people. He didn't, all he could do was bluster his way through it and continue with the Tory mantra that the NHS is not for sale which now people can see is the biggest lie of the lot.
- Since then BloJo has pulled out of a 2nd head to head debate scheduled on channel 4 as they obviously know its going to get mentioned again and they cant counter it because the document is factual.
- Regardless what the Tories claim the NHS has been being sold off to private companies for years. It's just done stealthily with Virgin Care one of the biggest health care providers.
Pollster YouGov found Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn were roughly neck-and-neck in the contest, with 51 per cent of the audience saying the Tory leader won and 49 per cent saying the Labour leader. But among undecided voters Mr Corbyn was judged to have won a decisive victory, with a 59-41 per cent lead over Boris Johnson as best performer among that group.
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Election debate: Corbyn accuses Boris Johnson of wanting to ‘sell NHS to Trump’ after Brexit
Leaders' election TV debate cancelled after Boris Johnson refuses to take part
Virgin awarded almost £2bn of NHS contracts in the past five years
Johnson v Corbyn: The ITV Debate | ITV News
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