Social media platform hiding criticism of Red Tory leader
The Twitter/X social media platform appears to be protecting the feed of ‘Red Tory’ PM Keir Starmer from huge amounts of justified criticism – by hiding negative replies to ‘Sir Kid Starver’s’ posts.
For example, Starmer’s post of congratulations to Eluned Morgan on being ‘elected’ as Welsh Labour leader received a strongly negative response – unsurprisingly when Morgan was apparently manoeuvred into position by the party preventing any other candidates standing.
As of the time of writing, Starmer’s post received only 374 ‘reposts’, compared to 655 overwhelmingly negative responses – considered a sign of a disastrous tweet – but readers can only see two or three replies (and a couple of paid ads) before being presented with a message ‘Show probable spam‘ that hides the remaining 650 or so replies. Clicking to show those only reveals a handful more (and more ads) before repeating the ‘probable spam’ warning again:
Starmer’s posts, even on popular issues like the Olympics, typically receive only a few hundred shares (or ‘re-posts’) despite his follower count. Analysis of the right-winger’s followers has long shown him to have huge proportions of fake accounts padding his follower count, presumably in an attempt to create an impression of popularity, but these largely inactive fake accounts will not be interacting with his posts:
In sharp contrast, a typical post by his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, even on relatively ordinary topics, receives thousands:
But social media platforms should not be protecting politicians from scrutiny or criticism, a protection from which the unpopular Starmer – who is in Downing Street because of help from the fascist Reform party – appear to be benefitting.
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Polling less than Jeremy Corbyn did in Labour’s “worst general election results since …….( Put in your own date)” clearly has it’s compensations.
We all know the story about the house built on sand.
Out of interest, does Skwawkbox have a Blue Sky, or Mastodon account?
…or any alternative social media platform, apart from Facebook, of course.
On facebook theres a HUGE amount of mainly African Christians and a few muslim “digital creator” accounts posting positive comments constantly. As a muslim and dual Moroccan I have challenged some and they admit they do not live in the uk. Theres so many this has to be paid for.
We can help to reduce Starmer’s power by targeting for defeat anyone who seeks to benefit from a Labour candidate being sacked by him.
This would include the two Labour councillors who were shortlisted to take over as candidate from Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North and the councillor who took over after Faiza Faheen was sacked as candidate in Chingford and Woodford Green.
The next London Borough elections will take place in 2026.
And the Green Party probably has a good chance next time in Brighton Kemptown where the incumbent Labour MP was sacked at the last general election. The new MP is Chris Ward who is now PPS to Sir Keir Starmer.
https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2024/05/30/labour-announces-brighton-kemptown-candidate-to-replace-lloyd-russell-moyle/