An abiding backdrop to the 2019 Election campaign has been the entirely false story that LibDem leader Jo Swinson took pot shots at squirrels.
The story & Swinson’s take on it is here:
https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/11/jo-swinson-denies-firing-stones-at-squirrels/
One might say that such stories only gain circulation because they seem to be believable but I’ll leave that to the prejudices or otherwise of the reader.
At the same time a tweet from Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn to myself in 2011 on squirrels has resurfaced (He was just a backbencher then & I was much as I am now a hirsute socialist).
The tweet refers to myself and my partner Megan feeding some tame-ish squirrels in York.
Corbyn is wrong btw about the beards, Squirrels dont have beards although again one senses the comment was light hearted
@kmflett grey or red squirrels in York and what length of beards?
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