John McDonnell accuses The Sun of lying about him. And they could be breaking election law. Again.

It is an offence to make or publish a false statement of fact about the personal character or conduct of a candidate in order to affect the return of a candidate at an election.

Through printing these lies, and including a quote from McDonnell’s opponent branding him a “hypocrite” based on falsehoods, it seems the paper could be guilty of breaking the law.

Cutting through the bullshit

But McDonnell is very aware of the lies that papers like The Sun propagate. He stated:

We’ve just cut through that. People no longer believe their lies anymore. And they are lies. They make up stories. They invent things. And they just abuse people all the time. I think people have had enough of that sort of politics. They’re just not listening to them anymore.

And he believes things are changing:

We now have a form of media which is much more democratic and open and no longer controlled by the oligarchs.

Burn The Sun

And it seems many social media users agree. Several are posting images of them burning or binning The Sun.

This election, we do have a chance to cut through the bile of the right-wing media; a media that is attempting to convince us to vote against our own interests in favour of the interest of the billionaires who run them.

We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to vote for something different. Let’s do this.

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