“Under Britain’s unwritten constitution, it is the role of the opposition to provide to provide a potential alternative government that is ready to take office whenever the opportunity arises” thunders THE TIMES (June 29) following an apparently leaked Civil Service worry on the state of Jeremy Corbyn’s health.
Under Britain’s unwritten Constitution elements in the Security Services have forged documents calculated to queer the pitch of the Labour Party, .
In 1924 there was the bogus Zinoviev Letter, published in the unspeakable Daily Mail, which saw off Labour’s hope of continuing in office, and ushered in more years of Conservative rule and drove the last stake in the corpse of the Liberal Party.
The security spooks also put it about when Harold Wilson was in power that he was a Soviet agent.
And today THE TIMES itself is alleging that Michael Foot the late and much loved Labour leader’ was a traitor and in the pay of the Soviets. When Foot was alive the SUNDAY TIMES published the self- same lie and lost a Libel Action taken by Foot and had to pay him substantial damages..But now he is dead shameless liars and gutless liars in THE TIMES are not liable for damages.
And THE TIMES has been to the fore in labelling Labour members who are not paid- up FOES OF PALESTINE as anti-Semites.
The Infamy of Britain’s secret services collusion with the Gutter Press long preceded the Zinoviev Letter.
In the 1880s on the morning of the day Lord Salisbury’s Government was about to introduce a Coercion Bill for Ireland THE TIMES, under the heading “PARNELLISM AND CRIME” sought to implicate the Irish Party Leader – Charles Stewart Parnell, his party, and the Irish Land League and its leader, Michael Davitt, with incitement to murder. Parnell did not sue for libel, reckoning that the action would be held in a London court before an anti-Irish jury. But a member of Parnell’s party did sue, Eventually the Government instituted an enquiry
and emptied some gaols of their most malleable inmates to perjure themselves on behalf of the Government and THE TIMES. Eventually THE TIMES presented their Star Witness,
Richard Pigott, an Irish Journalist, who presented what was purported to be a document written in Parnell’s own hand. Unfortunately Pigott, who had himself written the document,
had given himself away with a misspelling and fled from the Enquiry. A warrant for his arrest was issued, but he fled to Madrid and shot himself.
Unfortunately THE TIMES, although it lost credibility and was almost bankrupted by the affair, has survived Pigott by about 170 years with its dishonour nearly intact.
STOP PRESS! STOP PRESS! READ ALL ABOUT IT!
July 4th TIMES HEADLINE – “Labour poll support at record low.”
I’ll bet there’s much snorting of Coke at “Britain’s Most Trusted National Newspaper
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