Boris Johnson's lying ways seems to have spread to the whole party and the media

After Boris Johnson was shown to be the callous bastard he really is after he took an ITV reporter's phone and put it in his pocket after being asked to look at the photo of a sick little boy sleeping on a hospital floor there seems to be an immediate move by the Tories and their media supporters to distract people from this story or to rubbish it as Fake News

First we were told that ..

...A Labour activist has been wrongly accused of punching an aide to Matt Hancock – when footage clearly shows the adviser accidentally walking into his arm. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care was on a visit to Leeds General Infirmary in a bid to address the picture of Jack Williment-Barr when he was met by a protesters. A group crowded around the car, telling him ‘we do not want you in this country, we do not want you in this hospital’ before he drove off. It was reported that things ‘turned nasty’ when a protester ‘hit one of Mr Hancock’s senior advisers’ said to be Jamie Njoku-Goodwin. The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg tweeted: ‘So Matt Hancock was despatched to Leeds General (sorry not just Leeds Hospital), to try to sort out mess, heading Labour activists scrambled to go + protests, and it turned nasty when they arrived – one of them punched Hancock’s adviser’. ITV’s Robert Peston added that he had been told by ‘senior Tories’ that the aide had been ‘whacked’. There was also speculation online that the police may have been called to the incident. However, footage shows that no punch happened.


The protester is instead captured shouting ‘these people have devastated our country’ and waving his finger in the air on the street outside the hospital. The Tory aide, wearing a black suit jacket, then walks into his arm by accident. He looks back for a moment after his head is bashed and then walks on. Those who alleged a more serious incident had occurred have now apologised for their mistake. Ms Kuenssberg wrote: ‘Have video from Hancock leaving Leeds General just come through so you can see for yourself – doesn’t look like punch thrown, rather, one of Tory team walks into protestor’s arm, pretty grim encounter’. She later added: ‘Happy to apologise for earlier confusion about the punch that wasn’t a punch outside Leeds General – 2 sources suggested it had happened but clear from video that was wrong’.

Now many of us swiftly retweet stories  that have appeared but Laura Kuenssberg and Robert Peston are supposed to be professional and should have researched the facts . Admitting afterwards when you have given the wrong impression that you were wrong is not good enough.

And then as Munguin points out

WHAT A LOT OF FRIENDS THIS SENIOR NURSING SISTER HAS

AND HOW AMAZING THAT SHE TOLD THEM … AND THEY INDEPENDENTLY REPRODUCED THE STORY WORD FOR WORD

Well… more or less.
They seem to think that stopping in mid-sentence or adding the random word “fake” would make us think that that they had independently written their tweets without any help at all from Conservative Central Office.
What a good idea that wasn’t, James CLEVERLY??? So, maybe next time try a few variations in the wording.

Indeed, but Munguin may be pointing the finger in the wrong direction , because there are some accusations that the originator of the multi-twets has links to the self same Matt Hancock whose aid was not assaulted in Leeds.

Of course with the compliance of the Media , even if the claims from Conservative HQ  are not true and can easily be proved to be lies or the work of "Bots" the media who cheerily publish or broad cat them without any fact checking,  simply admit that they were wrong but seemingly make no attempt to investigate  from where these stories came from and if senior Tory party members were employed.

Boris Johnson cheerfully lies and gets away with it it now seems to have affected the rest of his party and their friends in the media including senior BBC reporters.