Ralf Little played the Tory party at its own game by rebranding his Twitter feed and it’s perfect
You’ll have seen by now the controversy around the Conservative Party’s Twitter feed rebranding as ‘factcheckUK’ during last night’s election leader debate.
Oh they've rebranded the Conservative HQ press account as 'FactCheckUK' yeah sure why not. pic.twitter.com/kwodENbkPO
— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) November 19, 2019
Lots of people thought it was an outrageous attempt to mislead the British public, although Tory party chairman James Cleverly saw absolutely nothing wrong with it.
So Ralf Little, no stranger at cutting Conservatives down to size, thought he’d give them a taste of their own medicine by rebranding his own Twitter account.
And as responses go, it was pretty much perfect.
1.
Yeah fact check that @CCHQPress you lying scumbags. https://t.co/u18hf2xr46
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
2.
Fact check. Boris Johnson is not telling the truth in this debate.
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
3.
Claims that Boris Johnson is always lying are categorically untrue. Sometimes his lips are not moving.
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
4.
It is deeply unethical to masquerade as a legitimate organisation in order to influence social media. The Conservative Press Office would never do that.
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
5.
The Conservatives have a thinly veiled agenda to slowly privatise the NHS. Any basic analysis of the statistics, facts, and literal quotes from high up Conservatives will show this to be true. We now feel the time is right to come out and say it proudly. #privatisetheNHS https://t.co/98QYmwkqFv
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
6.
You’re just a bunch of pussies. If you had any balls you would have done it. We rock. Food banks are ace. https://t.co/6QdTuSle29
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
7.
Suck it up snowflake. ❄️❄️❄️ https://t.co/JICnB5H9Iz
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
8.
The Conservative Press Office would never appear to be something it isn’t in order to spread disinformation. We resent the accusation. Also Boris Johnson has loads of kids but won’t say how many. https://t.co/CKWpvnUex7
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
9.
Corbyn looked ridiculous tonight because his glasses were slightly awry. HAHAHA. Vote for a statesman like Boris as the country deserves a man in an ill fitting suit and an Andy Warhol wig who decimated the London Fire Service then blamed them for Grenfell. #leadership
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
10.
You know you are you said you are but what am I? https://t.co/IPMBEUP5GE
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
11.
https://twitter.com/RalfLittle/status/1196901783647465472
12.
Reminder that we are not a fact checking organisation even if we claim to be. Masquerading as one is disgusting disinformation but… meh. We’re giving it tons. What you going to do about it scumbag electorate? You have no power. Suck it.
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
13.
Exactly. We’ll be fine and so will our mates. Now shut your peasant mouth. https://t.co/lrx4D2bzoB
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
14.
Not a Conservative voter apparently. Shame. This is exactly the kind of chap we like. https://t.co/VNl9mTznMj
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
15.
Marina, we all know that Boris was a shambles. We’ll learn from this and come back stronger. Hoping he’ll say “Get Brexit Done” a bit more, ruffle his hair, and say loads more easily verifiable lies. https://t.co/qBV9iTh8lM
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
16.
Woah! Where did you get those dude?! Was it Sophie the intern? That’s it, Boris will have to sack her. Which will be awkward because she’s blonde and he’s contributed a lot of taxpayer money to her start-up. Platonically obviously. https://t.co/HfWxPRHzgv
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
17.
Hate to say it but the feeling around the office tonight is that this is correct. https://t.co/KFq4dSWpn3
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
18.
No we didn’t.https://t.co/9BeuODCubp
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
19.
https://twitter.com/RalfLittle/status/1196916271268409349
20.
You know what, fuck it, I’m changing it back for 24 hours so that anyone who hasn’t seen it yet can understand the joke properly, and how utterly devious and disgusting it was of the real @CCHQPress to do it in the first place. See you in a bit…
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
21.
May seem weird for us to say this but, if we’re honest, we reckon @jeremycorbyn was the clear winner. Pay no attention to misleading accounts like the one below. https://t.co/BoOz6ps7DD
— Conservative Press Orifice (@RalfLittle) November 19, 2019
And just to make the circle complete – sort of – Little was then locked out of Twitter for pretending to be something he wasn’t.
A message from @RalfLittle:
Just been logged out of my twitter account without explanation. Assume I’ve been suspended. Which is fine. But only if the @CCHQPress account is suspended for the same thing. Please continue to press the issue with twitter in my absence.
Ralf x— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) November 20, 2019
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