TROUBLE BRUIN
THE Marx Memorial Library in Central London — whose trustees include Comrade Corbyn — is selling a Christmas card showing a Russian bear brandishing a stick outside a cosy cottage
(right). Does this threatening image tell us something about the policy of a future Labour government towards the millions who live in the countryside? TALK about unjoined-up government! Just days after Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg angered an international committee of politicians by failing to turn up to a meeting in Westminster, it’s emerged the Government has given his organisation £90,000. The money is from the Cabinet Office to promote on Facebook a £21,000 video which it made to sell Theresa May’s controversial Brexit deal.
UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE
WEEK: Jim Shannon, a DUP MP, said: ‘The EU are bullies and they haven’t been very helpful over the withdrawal.’