[Tubby Isaacs]

It might do. I'd be surprised if Zack picked it up though.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Christ. This is indeed "brave". Unless it's a joke.

[Boiler]

So brave, it's gone!

[Tubby Isaacs]

It seems indeed to have been a joke. It's the bit at the end, about imposters.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ ... 6acea7?6ap

[kreuzberger]

Without the tweet, it is difficult to unpick what was happening there.

The fact remains that a fair few hacks directly messaged 10-ers and got the dirt by return, chapter and verse. It seems rather unlikely that there was an outbreak of 90s-sytle phone spoofing on Monday evening.

That these hacks won't reveal these sources is not relevant. It merely means that they now possess digital Semtex that could blow Downing Street to smithereens.

Oh dear.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The disappearing tweet was a report of someone in Number 10 saying that the journos must have spoken to impostors. The OP deleted it because he now thinks it's a joke against themselves, because nobody's coughed. I think it's a joke too, there's no way you'd take the big political correspondents on like that.

Perhaps the joker was thinking of The Times who managed to get quotes about Mamdani from Bill De Blasio, wine merchant, instead of Bill De Blasio the former NYC mayor.