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Dec 9, 2019 16:29
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson snatched a journalist’s phone out of his hand and, in a bizarre move, stuck it in his own pocket after the reporter tried to show him a photo of a sick boy forced to sleep on a hospital floor.
- BBC reporter roasted for focusing on fake news of Labour activist ‘punching’ official at Leeds hospital protest
A BBC reporter is feeling the heat on Twitter for deflecting from protests at a Leeds hospital by claiming, without evidence, that a Labour activist punched Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s advisor – which was fake news.Dec 9, 2019 23:52 - Protesters don Andrew Neil masks to TAUNT BoJo at fish market campaign stopUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has gone to great lengths to avoid an interview with Andrew Neil, but there was no avoiding a mob of angry protesters wearing masks of the veteran journalist’s face at a campaign stop on Monday.Dec 9, 2019 14:42
- ‘Once bitten, twice shy’: DUP’s Arlene Foster claims BoJo ‘broke his word’ on Irish Sea customs borderDemocratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster claims UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson “broke his word” on Brexit and is leaving Northern Ireland in a precarious trade position with his plans for a customs border in the Irish Sea.Dec 9, 2019 12:14
- ICYMI: The art of the snowflake – Turner prize judges can’t bear to choose a winner (VIDEO)The winner of this year’s Turner prize for visual art is snowflakery. The four finalists asked whether in keeping with the times they could all win – and the judges agreed!Dec 6, 2019 16:59
- BBC reporter roasted for focusing on fake news of Labour activist ‘punching’ official at Leeds hospital protestA BBC reporter is feeling the heat on Twitter for deflecting from protests at a Leeds hospital by claiming, without evidence, that a Labour activist punched Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s advisor – which was fake news.Dec 9, 2019 23:52
- Out of sight, out of mind: BoJo grabs journo’s phone, puts it in pocket when asked about 4yo sleeping on hospital floor (VIDEO)UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson snatched a journalist’s phone out of his hand and, in a bizarre move, stuck it in his own pocket after the reporter tried to show him a photo of a sick boy forced to sleep on a hospital floor.Dec 9, 2019 16:29
- Protesters don Andrew Neil masks to TAUNT BoJo at fish market campaign stopUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has gone to great lengths to avoid an interview with Andrew Neil, but there was no avoiding a mob of angry protesters wearing masks of the veteran journalist’s face at a campaign stop on Monday.Dec 9, 2019 14:42
- ‘Once bitten, twice shy’: DUP’s Arlene Foster claims BoJo ‘broke his word’ on Irish Sea customs borderDemocratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster claims UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson “broke his word” on Brexit and is leaving Northern Ireland in a precarious trade position with his plans for a customs border in the Irish Sea.Dec 9, 2019 12:14
- Pedalling porkies? BoJo claims CYCLING on the pavement is the ‘NAUGHTIEST’ thing he’s ever doneBoris Johnson has confessed to having occasionally used pedestrian-only areas to ride his bicycle, claiming the infraction is his gravest sin. Judging from social media reactions, basically nobody believes the prime minister.Dec 8, 2019 15:05
- Will ‘get Brexit done’ ever end? Johnson hits back at haters mocking his campaign slogan with… more Brexit mantra!Boris Johnson has been lampooned for repeatedly recycling his Brexit slogan during a debate with Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn. Unfazed by his critics, the Tory leader has continued to flood Twitter with his polarizing campaign mantra.Dec 7, 2019 14:23
- ICYMI: The art of the snowflake – Turner prize judges can’t bear to choose a winner (VIDEO)The winner of this year’s Turner prize for visual art is snowflakery. The four finalists asked whether in keeping with the times they could all win – and the judges agreed!Dec 6, 2019 16:59
- ‘Fairly hefty clanger’: Channel 4 misquotes BoJo as saying he wanted control over migration of ‘people of color’British broadcaster Channel 4 has apologized for, and deleted, a video misquoting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as saying he wanted democratic control over the migration of “people of color.”Dec 6, 2019 15:21
- ‘Cold hard evidence of Brexit harm’ or ‘nonsense’? Corbyn reveals secret report downplayed by PM JohnsonJeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson have traded blows after the Labour leader produced what he says is an official UK govt document that proves the PM’s Brexit deal will have damaging effects for the UK, especially Northern Ireland.Dec 6, 2019 13:59
- ‘Don’t really understand money’: Tory candidate heckled after saying disabled people should be PAID LESS than minimum wageA Tory candidate has been filmed at a hustings event being jeered after claiming those with learning difficulties shouldn’t be paid the minimum wage because “it’s about the happiness to work.”Dec 6, 2019 11:25
- Boris Johnson compares leaked NHS dossier to ‘UFO photographs’Boris Johnson has dismissed leaked documents purporting to show that his government put the NHS on the table in secret trade talks with the US, saying that the suggestion was akin to claiming that UFOs exist.Dec 5, 2019 18:06
- ‘I watched friends being rescued’: Google ‘stumps’ social media with jovial cartoon marking devastating rains of 2015Google’s December 5 ‘doodle’ seems to have missed the mark by commemorating the UK’s heaviest single day of rainfall with a lighthearted animation which fails to acknowledge the death and devastation wreaked by the deluge.Dec 5, 2019 17:16
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