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Someone needs to get a hold of the Tory press office. After superimposing footballer Harry Maguire’s face onto a tweet about Rishi Sunak cancelling the Super League, Tory Twitter has committed another offence.
Yesterday we shocked the world with the chilling tale of Labour’s ruinous mismanagement of our amazing capital city.
But Labour’s failure extends far beyond London.
Today, we expose a tale equally chilling – this time in Birmingham.#LifeUnderLabour pic.twitter.com/AOfoewJ0xp
— Conservatives (@Conservatives) March 26, 2024
As part of a video series called ‘Life under Labour’, CCHQ spotlights various Labour-run cities (first London, now Birmingham) to illustrate how dystopian life is in these metropolises. Each video looks suitably grave, replete with warnings about “eye-watering council taxes”, a reduction in bin collections, and at-risk jobs. There’s just one problem: in the latest installment, the voice-over says “Birmingham, 2024”, but the stock video at the two-second mark was filmed in New York and is at least three years old. Rishi, put everyone our of their misery and call an election…
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SubscribeAh the perils of using stock footage from the cheapest source to be found. One would have thought somebody would pay enough attention to get at least the right country. Manchester or Liverpool would at least not be missing the mark by a whole ocean.