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June 21, 2005

The Scary-Important Downing Street Memos: Insignificant and Fake? [Retracted]

Correction/Retraction: This story is all wrong. Reuters used a picture taken from a website and labled it a picture of the actual memos. So there seal just comes from a web-site's mock-up. (Actually, it's a picture of another report, an official one, mis-labled as a pic of the Downing Street memo.)

Thanks to Say Anything for ferring this out, and actually calling Reuters about it.

It's too early to call them fake. (It's also rather unnecessary to do so, as they're insignificant.)

But...

The reporter who got hold of these trivial memos -- reflecting the opinon of one left-wing Brit government bureaucrat (see what I mean about insignificant?) -- says he destroyed the originals, and had his secretary re-type the memos.

Why is still unclear. Perhaps so that handwritten notes-- which might compromise the source -- would not be displayed.

What's also unclear is that IF these are re-typed copies of destroyed originals, how come the re-typed copies bear an offical government seal at the top?

One can only speculate. Perhaps the seal was stamped on to make the non-originals look more authentic. But if that's the case, then the reporter involved was trying to mislead his readership, and that doesn't lend credence to the rest of his tale.


posted by Ace at 06:40 PM
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Insignificant, fake, but could be true!

Posted by: on June 21, 2005 07:16 PM

Actually, ace, this may be the perfect opportunity to write your own insignificant and fake Downing Street Memo.

Posted by: on June 21, 2005 07:18 PM

Wheels within wheels within a Box of CrackerJack.

Posted by: bumperstickerist on June 21, 2005 10:38 PM

I'd rather we not get distracted by this "maybe they were fake" meme. They are insignificant, so their authenticity is irrelevant. I'd hate for us to get down the road, have their authenticity verified, and have to listen to a bunch of "see, we told you so, and you wouldn't have tried to claim they were fake if they are, as you now claim, irrelevant." This chain of events is so predictable it makes me nauseous.

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Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.
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🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over
"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
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No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.

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Now they've lost 84%.
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If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.

That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.

Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.
Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...
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🚨 BREAKING: Labour have lost 80% of all seats contested as of 2:25 AM.<
br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.


Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult.
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