At the end of November 2023, a video with the participation of the British Prime Minister, who supposedly proves: the politician is so far from voters, which does not have basic skills in handling tools, spread in Telegram channels. We checked the reliability of such publications.
In the viral video, the head of the British government Rishi Sunak is captured at the table in a certain workshop. A girl sitting on the left hand from a politician gives him a hammer, and the Prime Minister begins to beat them on a certain object, but not the shock side (boyfriend), but a side. The interlocutor Sunaka at the same time smiles and nods approvingly.
Russian -speaking bloggers ridiculed the behavior of the British prime minister, convicting him in the inability to handle the simplest tool and isolation from the life of ordinary people. Similar posts came out, in particular, in Telegram channels of TV presenters Vladimir Solovyov (236,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) and Ruslan Ostashko (109,000), as well as channels "Ribbon"(156 000),"Putin in Telegram"(146 000), Voblya (136,000), "Pool N3"(124,000),"Militarist"(113,000) and"Banks, money, two offshores"(108 000). The authors of a number of publications, commenting on the video, were not shy in expressions: “The whole world knows that even a hare can be taught to smoke. Now the whole world knows that the monkey Sunak cannot be taught to use a hammer ”(“Yakov Kedmi")," After what the British prime minister did with the hammer, he was obliged to marry him "(360TV), "When he did not hold anything heavier than the heer transgender in his hands" ("Alexander Semchenko"). We talked about the news and some media (for example, "Tsargrad"), As well as users Facebook*, X (former Twitter) and Tiktok.
On November 23, Sunak visited the County of West Yorkshire, where in the city of Farley he met with representatives of small businesses. Among them was Emma White jeweler - it was she who was captured on a viral video. “Basically we talked about jewelry, and he even bought a star for a small Christmas decoration,” - told Girl newspaper Yorkshire Evening Post. It was this episode that fell into the video.
In the Russian -language segment of social networks, the record became viral in two versions: short (7 sec.) And length (17 sec.). In the first case, the dialogue between Sunak and White is not heard, he is drowned out by a sunset voice - this fragment The broadcast of the British television channel ITV. Short video actively distributed Critics of Sunak in the UK, primarily representatives of the opposition Labor Party.
After this version of the video became viral, journalists Turned Attention that events pulled out of context. On a longer record, a dialogue between the politician and the entrepreneur is heard. She gives him a hammer lying, to which Sunak asks in surprise in surprise: "Oh, sideways?" (“Ah, by the side?” - Eng.) Having received an affirmative answer, Sunak begins to wield a hammer in accordance with the recommendation received (and even hits harder when the girl asks for this). However, the authors of Russian-speaking Telegram channels did not confuse the dialogue in the point of view of the English language, and they distributed it with the same submission as the British opponents of Sunak in the case of a cropped version.
On an even longer record shown on the BBC air, it is clear that the White sitting next to the politician not only verbally gives him advice, but also directly shows a finger to the side of the hammer and only then gives him to Sunaku.
Yorkshire entrepreneur several times Commented The situation on your Instagram*account*. “The world is crazy! <...> Just in case, this is how you use a good ironing hammer to do such a job, ” - wrote She is November 25. A few days later in an interview with a local newspaper jeweler explainedthat she simply did not have a tool that should have been used when working in a video shown on video, and the one that she eventually issued the prime minister is intended for other purposes and his battles should remain smooth.
So far, the British media (for example, The Guardian And The Independent) wrote about how the Laborists began to spread a cropped and therefore misleading version of the video, Russian publications vying They told About how For Sunaka stood up The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. IN post In its Telegram channel, the speaker of the Russian Foreign Ministry correctly retold the story, and then, on the basis of this case, made this conclusion: “Exactly today, at the time of the publication of this manipulative post of the Labor, Rishi Sunak became Rashi Sunaku, from the word Russia. This is exactly what in the West they do with Russia, when certain fragments of video, audio recordings are taken, pieces of quote torn from context, they tell only about some part of our steps, and present all this with the opposite meaning. ” This publication Zakharova reputed In his channel, in particular, Vladimir Solovyov, who had been posted there for ten hours earlier with “not able to use the hammer” Prime Minister of Great Britain.
*Russian authorities They think META, which belongs to the social networks of Facebook and Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in the Russian Federation are prohibited.
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