Oh Dear Dirty Tricks From Labour.......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65211469
...be careful, that works both ways if you want to get into that game.

[Gromit]

Dirty tricks how exactly ?

Are you disputing that

// Under the Tories, 4,500 adults convicted of sexually assaulting children under 16 served no prison time. // ?

The Tories have to defend their record. So expect more difficult questions.

[Untitled]

truly despicable ad and a very disappointing move from the leadership... pleased to see it has been heavily condemned by labour supporters on social media... it ought to have been removed by now... the conservatives have done huge harm to children in the uk for the past 12 years but labour has ziplined straight past them to make dishonest and possibly illegal smears that they cannot possibly believe are true... i sometimes wonder if kier starmer actually understands the case against the tories.

all that being said i truly am not interested in any tories posing at being "offended" by this though... nobody who calls themselves a tory - not a single one - has any moral high ground whatsoever to be condemning these tactics as the party has been using them for years with the venomous encouragement of their members

[rowanwitch]

Could be a dirty run up to the next election where no party will emerge smelling of roses. Don't they realise this sort of campaigning can mobilise the opposition, and their own teams of dirt hunters

[Untitled]

tory dirt hunters aren't going to be suddenly mobilised by this... but they will probably take the opportunity to turn on the water works and play the victim... and it will probably work

quite an inept move by labour

[jno]

hardly a dirty trick, any more than a Tory MP offering to leak documents for money is a dirty trick. You might think them bad behaviour, but they aren't tricks, dirty or otherwise.

[Untitled]

putting sunak's face next to a claim that he doesn't want child sex offenders arrested is dirty to be fair

[ToraToraTora]

12:29, no this is about Labour accusing the PM of going soft on child abuse.

[Zacs-Master]

Even if it’s true?

[Zacs-Master]

That ^^^ was to untitled.

[davebro]

damn savages....

[Untitled]

if what isn't true?

[Zacs-Master]

That he doesn’t want child sex offenders arrested / sent to prison.

[ToraToraTora]

ZM, I don't think any politician of any party or come to that any right thinking human being thinks that child abusers should not go to jail.

[Gromit]

I assume that is the Tories’ record since 2010.
So all of the 5 Conservative Prime Ministers ( and their Home Secretaries ) bear some responsibility.

Next you will be saying the claim that the Tories have let in 50,000 illegal immigrants is a dirty trick. It isn’t, its just an inconvenient truth.

[Untitled]

the poster specifically claims that sunak does not want child rapists to go to prison... i am extremely anti-tory but i really don't think anyone could possibly think that is true lol

[jno]

am I right in remembering Boris accusing Starmer of not prosecuting Savile?

[naomi24]

//hardly a dirty trick//

No? The man has only been Prime Minister for a few months so not only is it a dirty trick, it's a lie.

//The data appears to come from Labour research released earlier this week that said that more than 4,000 convicted child sex offenders have avoided jail terms since 2010, when the Tories came to power under David Cameron.

Former Justice Minister, Rory Stewart, said: "Is someone going to point out that this is about laws, sentencing guidelines and judicial practices? That were not and would not be different under Labour? //

Labour is doing what it always does.... scraping the barrel... and that's the best it can do. I wonder what shameful specimen came up with that tripe?

[royfromaus]

Is this the same Labour Party that campaigned to stop a plane load of Jamaican rapists and murderers being deported?

[Peter Pedant]

it is because she doesnt agree with the content and this is the nearest to saying the labour view is a load of loo-loo,

NOT she thinks paedos shd be given tax perks

The Tories have to defend their record. So expect more difficult questions. - (no slammer for convict pervz)

this is a judgy baby thing innit? MPs dont sentence or draw up sentencing guidelines - the judiciary does
( separate since 1689 - those two yeah)
this is

[Gromit]

It could be worse. He could be being accused of being a Communist spy :-)