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@MiketheSnow I dunno, I'm quite enjoying the daily BBC "here's a unique/inconspicuous person/business/industry that the government has failed and is unemployed/out of business/bankrupt".
Like the company that makes displays for festivals that earned £30mill last year and has done next to no business since March. HOW COULD YOU GOVERNMENT!
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@MiketheSnow said in British Politics:
@Frank said in British Politics:
Fuck Huawei ha ha
Watched the BBC 10pm News last night
5 stories
Huawei and 5G
Ghislaine Maxwell Denied Bail
Economic downturn in UK and unepmployment
Blackburn next town to be locked down
Queen talking to members of the armed forces via ZoomSurely to christ they should have led with
Blackburn
because if you don't sort your shit out the UK economy is going to get even worsethen the other shit
Huawei and 5G a smokescreen
You don't think missing off the world's only Super Power is the big story?
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Used to be a really avid listener to BBC Radio 4 - particularly the Today programme as I drove to work. Found myself listening less and less after I gave up work.
Tuned into Today a couple of months back. God, it was awful. Hectoring presenters looking for "gotchas" rather than insight and a lazy bias towards a London-centric viewpoint.
The BBC really needs a kick up its arse if it's going to survive in its current form.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
Used to be a really avid listener to BBC Radio 4 - particularly the Today programme as I drove to work. Found myself listening less and less after I gave up work.
Tuned into Today a couple of months back. God, it was awful. Hectoring presenters looking for "gotchas" rather than insight and a lazy bias towards a London-centric viewpoint.
The BBC really needs a kick up its arse if it's going to survive in its current form.
Completely agree. I moved over to Sky News but they are disappearing down the same "gotcha journalism" rabbit hole as well.
Kay Burley / Sophy Ridge / Beth Rigby all used to be great and relatively impartial. Now every time they interview anyone it seems they are argumentative for the sake of it, and constantly play gotcha trying to put clickbait headline words in a politician's mouth:
Sky: Thing X has happened. People Y are upset. Do you have an apology for People Y?
Politician: Well, Thing X has some other important details/nuance, let me outline our position..
Sky, interrupting: WILL YOU APOLOGISE TO PEOPLE Y?Next day Sky headline:
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@TeWaio said in British Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
Used to be a really avid listener to BBC Radio 4 - particularly the Today programme as I drove to work. Found myself listening less and less after I gave up work.
Tuned into Today a couple of months back. God, it was awful. Hectoring presenters looking for "gotchas" rather than insight and a lazy bias towards a London-centric viewpoint.
The BBC really needs a kick up its arse if it's going to survive in its current form.
Completely agree. I moved over to Sky News but they are disappearing down the same "gotcha journalism" rabbit hole as well.
Kay Burley / Sophy Ridge / Beth Rigby all used to be great and relatively impartial. Now every time they interview anyone it seems they are argumentative for the sake of it, and constantly play gotcha trying to put clickbait headline words in a politician's mouth:
Sky: Thing X has happened. People Y are upset. Do you have an apology for People Y?
Politician: Well, Thing X has some other important details/nuance, let me outline our position..
Sky, interrupting: WILL YOU APOLOGISE TO PEOPLE Y?Next day Sky headline:
POLITICIAN FORCED TO APOLOGISE / REFUSES TO APOLOGISE ABOUT THING X.Totally agree.
When Cummings made his statement in the No.10 garden, what really struck me was the almost complete lack of questioning of the bloke - just journalist after journalist queuing up for their moment in the limelight, foaming at the mouth and berating him for not agreeing with what they were accusing him of.
Just a complete lack of professionalism.
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@booboo said in British Politics:
@MiketheSnow said in British Politics:
@Frank said in British Politics:
Fuck Huawei ha ha
Watched the BBC 10pm News last night
5 stories
Huawei and 5G
Ghislaine Maxwell Denied Bail
Economic downturn in UK and unepmployment
Blackburn next town to be locked down
Queen talking to members of the armed forces via ZoomSurely to christ they should have led with
Blackburn
because if you don't sort your shit out the UK economy is going to get even worsethen the other shit
Huawei and 5G a smokescreen
You don't think missing off the world's only Super Power is the big story?
Have they though?
It's a plan by the current UK government for some time in the future when they may not be in power to enforce it.
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This should probably go in the stuff thread but oh well. Gold.
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@Bones said in British Politics:
This should probably go in the stuff thread but oh well. Gold.
Correct thread would be Stupid Shit You See On The Internet.....
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@Bones said in British Politics:
This should probably go in the stuff thread but oh well. Gold.
Two of Ms Dodds' constituents (possibly activists in her own local party) write bizarre puff piece comparing the little-known Shadow Chancellor to the PM of New Zealand. The Independent is so desperate that it publishes it.
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*** have learned ****.
Apparently the Russian State uses bots, RT, Sputnik and state-owned businesses as part of its disinformation campaign.
ISC Russia report here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/469886680/Russia-Report#download&from_embed
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@sparky said in British Politics:
*** have learned ****.
Apparently the Russian State uses bots, RT, Sputnik and state-owned businesses as part of its disinformation campaign.
As there's no "Russia swung the Brexit vote" smoking gun in the report, I guess it's time to start a new conspiracy theory.....
"There is no evidence of Russia trying to influence a Brexit vote, but evidence of Russia interfering in the Scottish independence vote, a campaign led by the SNP.
But there is evidence governments led by Blair, Brown, David Cameron & Theresa May repeatedly ignored the danger of Russian interference in UK elections.*Interesting that Russia supported the pro-Remain SNP & the PM's who ignored the dangers of Russian meddling were all strongly pro-Remain, don't you think?"
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@Victor-Meldrew tldr Boris & co are worse than the Ruskis?
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@sparky said in British Politics:
The Independent is so desperate that it publishes it.
The Independent has become so bizarre a newspaper than not even conspiracy theorists read it
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