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Starmer's new director of comms is swimming balls deep in controversy (www.thecanary.co)

submitted 1 week ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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Who remembers Portland Communications? The PR firm involved in the coup against Corbyn? Well, Starmer's new comms boss Tim Allan does...

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[–] Networkcathode@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

swimming balls deep?

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh wow. That's the actual headline. Hasn't been altered. 🤣🤣 What sort of two bit publication is this?

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The canary. Seemingly one person's blog trying to masquerade as a bigger publication. It's been around for a while and has always been shit.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I thought The Canary was highly recommended as an independent news source. Is their reporting inaccurate? I'm not British, so it's hard to tell.

[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 3 points 5 days ago

No its a far left agit prop site. As worthless as sqwarkbox to me.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago

It looks on par with the Daily Star to me.

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago

i think the writer doesn't know what balls deep means

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

Are they in a competition with the Tories to see who can be the most heartless bunch of cunts?

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

This is awful. He should go back to doing "Tim the Toolman Taylor" and "Buzz Lightyear". Giving up his acting work to become a far-right piece-of-shit bigot cunt was a poor career choice.