Lily Allen's 'Emotional' Reaction To The Labour Manifesto Actually Had People Believing She Was Crying

Apparently some people haven't heard of a little thing called a filter.
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Lily Allen has tricked some people into believing she’d had an emotional reaction to the Labour manifesto.

The singer posted a video of her appearing to be moved by the party’s election pledges, which leader Jeremy Corbyn unveiled on Thursday.

It showed Lily using a filter on the Tik Tok app that simulated tears.

She then remarks: “Guys, I’ve just watched the Labour manifesto.”

In a separate post she concludes: “I think it’s the best manifesto I’ve ever seen.”

pic.twitter.com/IktS6MHrFb

— LILYALLEN2.0 (@lilyallen) November 21, 2019

And while the post was clearly tongue-in-cheek, there were certain corners of the internet who believed Lily was actually crying, with some news outlets also reporting it as truth.

Of course, her long-term foe Piers Morgan had something to say about it, writing on Twitter: “Christ”.

Christ... 🙈 https://t.co/LuiNwJC3uz

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 21, 2019

Luckily, there were some people keen to point out that Lily was not crying real tears...

The amount of people biting on those Lily Allen videos, she is trolling all you right wingers ffs 😂 using a crying filter and everything 😭

— Luke McMahon (@Lukesagooner) November 22, 2019

Bless all the boomers on my feed who don't know the lily allen video has a tiktok filter and she isn't actually crying

— Iz 🦎 (@devilmeadow) November 22, 2019

How long before people realise Lily Allen wasn’t crying and was using a TikTok filter instead? pic.twitter.com/FYUbyOdX5I

— Hampshire magician (@Sean_Boon) November 21, 2019

THOUGHT I’D WRITE IN ALL CAPS SO THE BOOMERS LOSING THEIR MINDS WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT LILY ALLEN IS USING A TIK TOK FILTER AND IS NOT REALY CRYING K THANKS BY #OkBoomer

— greensophie (@spohiegeren) November 21, 2019

This lily allen thing has been crying myself!! 😂😂 ITS A BLOODY TIKTOK FILTER YOU NUMPTIES 😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/HSO9HUWnqb

— Jess-mae✨ (@Jessica_mae_G97) November 21, 2019

i’m SCREAMING that lily allen is trending bc tories think she’s crying over the labour manifesto when she’s just using a tik tok filter 2019 is full of gifts

— jess✨ (@jess__bremner) November 21, 2019

You know the generation gap is bad when people actually think that Lily Allen is crying instead of realising it’s a tiktok filter

— alex (@alexhowex) November 21, 2019

please can you all clarify that you understand Lily Allen “crying” is actually tik tok filter???

— Ellie Varley (@ellievarley13) November 21, 2019

the british media not realising that lily allen used a crying filter on tik tok has to be the funniest thing that's happened this month

— ummokthenperry (@ummokthenperry) November 21, 2019

I can’t believe people think that video of Lily Allen is actually crying at the Labour Manifesto it’s a fucking filter are you joking

— eve (@Evecharlotte25) November 21, 2019

Lily has regularly spoken out against the current government and the Conservative party and had earlier shared a photo of her polling card on Instagram with the caption “Tories OUT”.

After the Labour Party’s manifesto was released, leader Jeremy Corbyn hailed its “radical” and “ambitious” vision.

It includes plans to tax the very highest earners to fund investment in public services.

There are also proposals to renationalise some services, including Royal Mail.

The ability of Labour to raise their stated sums by tax have been branded “quite doubtful” by the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

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