The Sin Bin • Re: coronavirus and sport ?
Anyone been looking back at the Prof. John Ashton timeline of events?
He basically predicted exactly what would happen on Question Time back in early March, and was of course ridiculed, especially when he was found to have Labour connections.
Many right wing social media accounts jumped straight on him. One described him as a 'loony hardcore Corbynista lefty', so of course, the smears gained traction. There was the usual anti-semitic smear, various pastings in the tabloids, and calls not to politicise the situation.
Anyway, turns out he was bang on with his prediction.
It's an interesting rabbit hole to disappear down. Start with Question Time on March 12, then look at social media and news articles from after the show. This article from a month later gives a decent roundup of what happened, there's a clip from his appearance on QT, too.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/p ... ssion=true
He basically predicted exactly what would happen on Question Time back in early March, and was of course ridiculed, especially when he was found to have Labour connections.
Many right wing social media accounts jumped straight on him. One described him as a 'loony hardcore Corbynista lefty', so of course, the smears gained traction. There was the usual anti-semitic smear, various pastings in the tabloids, and calls not to politicise the situation.
Anyway, turns out he was bang on with his prediction.
It's an interesting rabbit hole to disappear down. Start with Question Time on March 12, then look at social media and news articles from after the show. This article from a month later gives a decent roundup of what happened, there's a clip from his appearance on QT, too.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/p ... ssion=true
Statistics: Posted by King Street Cat — Tue May 26, 2020 10:32 pm