Austerity is a myth says Alex Deane.
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| Alex Deane. |
Meet
Alex Dean,
a British
writer, political commentator and consultant.
He
served as Chief of Staff to
David
Cameron
and
Tim
Collins
during
their respective periods as
Shadow
Secretary of State for Education.
Alex
Deane is another of these newspaper "previewers", so
favoured by Sky Television News, because presumably they agree with
the Sky News version of truth and news. Thus so it was that last
night (2nd September) Alex Deane found himself on the sofa of the Sky
studio
previewing the
(following)
morning papers. The front page of the Guardian provided the highlight
of the programme with its story under the headline "Clegg:
Osborne casually cut welfare for poorest to boost Tory popularity".
As Cameron's former Chief of Staff, and clearly not an admirer of
Nick Clegg, Deane launched into a bizarre
outburst of warped logic and twisted recollection of events,
defending and supporting George Osborne and his economic policies
whilst at the same time pouring scorn and criticism on Clegg.
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| Rachel Shabbi |
Matters
really came to a head when Deane dismissed the Guardian claim that
Osborne
had taken the austerity axe to welfare in order to boost conservative
party popularity. This generated a heated exchange between Deane and
Rachel Shabi who was sharing the Sky sofa as the other previewer,
particularly when Deane made the extraordinary claim that austerity
was in fact a myth and that this country was enjoying the benefits of
increasing public expenditure over the past few years. This caused
the exchanges between Deane and Shabi to become even more heated, to
the obvious embarrassment of Stephen Dixon, the Sky News anchor,
who remained silent as Rachel Shabi ripped into the former Chief of
Staff for Cameron with numerous examples of how austerity and cuts
had destroyed peoples lives, particularly the poor and sick.
Austerity was not a myth to the hundreds of thousands of families who
had been severely adversely effected, in order to Boost the
popularity of the conservative party.
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| Stephen Dixon. |
How
Sky can persist with inviting these biased and patronising paper
previewers can only be explained by Sky seeking to ensure that only
those complying with the Sky editorial policy will be allowed through
the doors. Clearly, they made a huge blunder in allowing Rachel Shabi
onto the sofa.
How
anyone, no matter how supportive of the Conservative party they may
be, can describe austerity and its effects on peoples lives in this
country, as a myth existing only in the minds of a few, is
inconceivable.
Alex
Deane demonstrated last night that he is in complete denial of fact
and reality.
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