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IS OUR MAYOR A CONSPIRALOON?

Our Reverend Mayor continues to deploy his limited intellect to poor effect. Now he’s spreading fake news through his personal Facebook account:

Alas, had the Reverend bothered to do some basic research rather than believe any old bollocks he reads on the internet, he would have discovered that the mass pilgrimage for Arbaeen, a religious festival, to Karbala in Iraq takes place every year and is nothing to do with ISIS.

The religious festival and pilgramage are also reported in the media so there’s no conspiracy of silence about it whatsoever.

The Reverend might also like to note the website his Facebook ‘news’ is promoting – http://www.voiceofshadows.com/ – has sections on ‘Aliens’; ‘Conspiracies’ and ‘Mysteries’.

So there’s just a few giveaways there for the slightly discerning reader …