The Sun has a new chief political correspondent \u2013 and she\u2019s an old favourite of Rats in a Sack.<\/p>\n
Martina Bet, promoted internally to the role after predecessor Noa Hoffman left to join Michael Gove\u2019s Spectator, most recently made these pages after writing a story claiming that the Labour government had classified the Union flag and Cross of St George as \u201ctools of hate\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2018Fury as flying Union flag on lampposts is branded \u2018a tool of hate\u2019 in \u2018divisive\u2019 leaked \u2018cohesion\u2019 review\u2019, ran the headline on her story in March which quoted, inevitably, Reform deputy leader Richard Tice as saying: \u201cAbsurdly, this says our national flag is a tool of hate\u2009used to intimidate. The whole paper is a divisive nonsense that should be consigned to the bin.\u201d<\/p>\n
The paper which is divisive nonsense that should be consigned to the bin was, of course, Bet\u2019s Sun. The leaked report, rather than dubbing the flags \u201ctools of hate\u201d, actually says that the \u201cextreme right has tried to turn symbols of pride into tools of hate\u201d. Furthermore, the draft was a version which was never going to be published, and the words were not in the final version officially published.<\/p>\n
Still, it\u2019s not Rats\u2019 favourite example of Bet\u2019s political journalism. Back in 2019, as Britain was being torn apart by the EU wars, Bet, then of the Daily Express, bizarrely claimed the Supreme Court was set up by Tony Blair in 2005 in order to block Brexit 14 years later.<\/p>\n
Bet wrote that \u201cunearthed reports\u201d showed that Blair was responsible for establishing the final court of appeal in the UK \u2013 even though that was widely known as, er, he was prime minister at the time.<\/p>\n
Under the headline \u201cBrexit bombshell: Why Tony Blair is behind Supreme Court ruling on Parliament shutdown\u201d, Bet wrote: \u201cTony Blair is responsible for the location of the explosive Supreme Court battle Boris Johnson is going to fight on Tuesday over the highly controversial prorogation of Parliament, unearthed reports reveal.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs Mr Johnson and his key advisor Dominic Cummings prepare for the legal battle, the reason this ruling will be made at the Supreme Court can be revealed \u2013 and it is all because of Tony Blair.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe former Labour Prime Minister controversially swept aside 1,400 years of history by setting up a new US-style Supreme Court in place of the Law Lords in 2005.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe House of Lords lost its judicial functions upon the establishment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in October 2009, when Constitutional Reform Act 2005, introduced by Mr Blair, came into force.\u201d<\/p>\n
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