A UK Minister Photoshopped the ex-PM from a rocket mission

[mathieuh]

And now Shapps is claiming he wasn't aware it was edited.

It really is remarkable how bad politicians' memories are. Every time they get caught out they miraculously forget everything.

[notahacker]

Shapps (or his pseudonym) once had a side gig selling $497 eBooks that promised to earn you $20k in weeks and scraping software for SEO spammers, so he definitely is tech-savvy and cynical enough to at least ask someone else to Photoshop Boris out...

He forgot about using a pseudonym and having a side business when asked too.

[ben_w]

Not to defend him[0], but humans in general have fairly flawed memories and can often end up with false memories after seeing fake photos of themselves.

[0] course he should've known, the photo is framed in a way that only works with the missing PM, and is a bad enough photoshop job that I can still see BJ's elbow.

[pjc50]

> Every time they get caught out they miraculously forget everything.

There's no cost to this, because tomorrow the media and your supporters will forget everything as well. Unless the media really want to use it against you.

[samwillis]

Even if it's true that he was unaware, that just shows how bad the people he employs are. It's farcical, you are your team, if his team are crap it's because of him.

[hikkan]

Norway isn't European I guess.

[mrlonglong]

Bloody Tories!

[mcv]

Oh my god. That's straight out of Stalin's playbook. Erasing Boris Johnson the way Stalin did to Trotsky.

[jojobas]

It wasn't Trotsky, it was Yezhov, the man in charge of NKVD during the worst of the purge. Fun fact: of all occupations/organizations NKVD officers were at the highest risk of a speedy trial and execution.

[antihero]

I mean the tories are bastards but I don’t think Sunak is going hard with an ice pick any time soon.

[cm2187]

Stalin erased Trotsky a bit more violently than we are contemplating here.

[AstixAndBelix]

Comparing every single thing to the evils of nazism and communism is a bit too trite. I know that most people default to last century's events because they are the only ones fresh enough to have a grasp on, but deleting people from inscriptions, annals, murals, paintings, coins, etc. has been a common practice throughout history.

Saying "this is just like what emperor Flavius did!" causes a lot less outrage than saying "this is just like what Stalin did!", even though they are both true. This is why, unless a phenomenon was exclusive to a certain ideology, I feel like constantly mentioning nazis and commies is just a rethorical tool

[LightG]

My country is an international embarassment.

Someone make it stop.

Please.

[throwaway4good]

Is it not more likely that this bojo character has photoshopped himself into the photo?

[blitzar]

He probably photoshopped the rocket into a photo of himself, and now we have gone full circle and removed him from it.

[_trackno5]

Nope, look at both pictures and you can see the one posted by the MP is altered. There are clear editing artefacts

[lucideer]

His elbow remains in the photo

[raverbashing]

Yes I think it's likely as well

(People are missing the subtle humour of this post.)

[_dain_]

No