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Denzil_DC

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2. The instant pushback from Snowdon reads like his cage has been well and truly rattled!

Reply to LeftishBrit (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 19, 2017, 05:33 PM

Oct 2017

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Christopher Snowdon ✔ @cjsnowdon

Jolyon Maugham is getting 1000s of RTs by pretending the Treasury’s April 2016 Brexit predictions have just been leaked to him. Tragic.

He's still insisting this report is the command paper I mentioned in the OP. The Brexiteer trolls he's attracting are lapping it up. He's supposed to be some sort of journalist. It took me less than five minutes to disprove his claim.

I've searched the PDF for key phrases in Maugham's screencapped quotes, and they don't appear anywhere in the command paper.

Some of the screencaps include superscript note numbers, which I don't think is standard in command papers, and suggests to me that Maugham hasn't paraphrased those quotes, as if he had, why would he include note references?

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Glad Maugham is pressing on with this. 'Cleverly' is not well-named! LeftishBrit Oct 2017 #1

The instant pushback from Snowdon reads like his cage has been well and truly rattled! Denzil_DC Oct 2017 #2

Maugham has attempted to engage with self-appointed naysayer-in-chief Snowdon. Denzil_DC Oct 2017 #3