Kremlin-linked actor’s hatchet job on Britain
AN American newspaper accused of virulent anti-British bias has recruited a formerly Kremlin-backed comedian to deliver a hatchet job on Liz Truss and the UK.
The New York Times yesterday published a video made by Tom Walker about ‘a nation falling apart at the seams’.
The British actor poses as spoof TV reporter Jonathan Pie and his six-minute monologue quickly turns into a rant about Tory greed and cruelty.
The Left-wing newspaper failed to mention that Walker, who has produced a string of UK-bashing videos, made his name on Russia Today, a broadcaster used by Vladimir Putin to churn out propaganda.
‘Boris Johnson was born a Tory, he was born a heartless b****** whereas Liz Truss made the choice to be one,’ he says. ‘She made the choice to back big business and screw anyone who gets in the way of profit.’
The NY Times once dubbed ‘The Gray Lady’ for its restrained and authoritative reporting, published a link to the video in its opinion section. It said that ‘caught in a swirl of crises and feeling abandoned by their Government, Britons are angry’ so it had turned to Mr Walker to take viewers ‘on a tour of broken Britain’.
It warned: ‘The video contains some strong language and adult humour you don’t normally see in The Times, but we think Mr Pie is the perfect conduit for the frustration and desperation of millions of Britons.’
After saying that Miss Truss was voted prime minister by 200,000 ‘ mostly extremely wealthy’ Conservative Party members, Mr Walker suggests in an increasingly frenzied lecture that she sees ‘thousands of frozen corpses of old people sat in armchairs as an “Invest in Britain” billboard in the making’. Hundreds of thousands of UK households will this winter have to choose between food and heating, and hospitals will have to choose between heating wards and life-saving surgery, he claims.
‘People dying of hypothermia because they can’t afford your extortionate prices, that is evil,’ he tells the new Prime Minister.
He also lambasts water companies claiming that after ‘years of privatisation and under investment, and thanks to Brexit’ they can now hurl human waste into the Channel while giving billions to shareholders.
Mr Walker has said that Russia Today had been ‘very good to me’ although he cut his ties with the broadcaster in 2016.
The NY Times has been accused of obsessively portraying Britain – particularly since Brexit – as riven by prejudice and crumbling into irrelevance.
Former Downing Street chief of staff Nick Timothy tweeted: ‘Jonathan Pie: from Russia Today to the New York Times. Difficult to know which hates Britain most.’
‘Frozen corpses sat in armchairs’