The Politics Thread

Victoria Derbyshire needs to push her down a flight of stairs more often

It's not like there would be any witnesses, given the BBC's use of AI cameras these days, which occasionally go a bit Tesla during bulletins

 

The other Fiona Bruce is less biased towards the Tories.

 

On a side note: are the BBC in debt?

You just have to look at their news bulletins these days and you can't miss the cost-cutting measures: Fiona Bruce or Sophie Raworth wearing the same outfits they were wearing a week ago; cameramen binned off en masse for AI-controlled cameras; nobody in the newsroom behind the presenter; local news in places like Oxford and Cambridge unceremoniously binned off late last year; sending the D-team out to Ukraine instead of Clive Myrie, Jeremy Cowen or Lyse Doucette; a regular stream of people you've never seen before delivering pieces to camera; an equally constant stream of people headed out the door, for example Emily Maitliss, Jon Sopel and Joanna Gosling all leaving in the last year; constantly trying to divert the conversation towards the BBC news app, or even their socials

It's like being in a branch of a supermarket where it hasn't been announced that it's closing, but you can't help but notice that certain items haven't been restocked in the week or two since they ran out

 

Well, someone disagreeing with both their accounts appears to be the No 10 Press Office...
Mind you, the clamour for the release official tapes of the call is amusing! Would be good to hear the allegedly Russsian-only speaking Putin conversing in Latin with Johnson!

 

A lot of Twitter users are about to be arrested, judging by the replies...

 

In other news, I think it's time that somebody looked into bullying at the haunted chimney's departments...

 

There's always a Conservative Home article...

 

This is not satire

It should be, but it is not

 

"You're taking up a lot of police hours and they don't have many because we got rid of so many of them".
Fascist ****.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

 

Snowflakey? The man took his nanny to protect him when he was canvassing, FFS.

 

Once again I find myself asking the same question: why do the BBC keep inviting so many GiraffeBallsack News husks onto their political probramming? You never see anyone from Channel 4 News, do you?

 

For the same reason that Farage lived on Question Time for years.

 

The difference is that, at the time, the waffling gargoyle wasn't on a rival channel

The fact the BBC routinely give airtime to people from a rival channel, and just the one rival channel, is genuinely baffling considering the people from that rival channel then go back to their broom cupboard in Ealing and blurt out how the BBC won't let their voices be heard

 

What's baffling about it? Both channels are run by Tories for Tories.
How else are they supposed to promote their batshit, culture war bullshit?
Nobody's heard of half of their reporters, so they have to give them exposure on the BBC.

 

That is a theory which was doing the rounds a year or two ago: GrotesqueBlancmange News was created as vehicle to give credibility to moronic and/or insane grifters like Crafty ****er, Dan Woottoonn, Tom Hardofthinking, Mark Stain et al - and the BBC are gleefully going along with it, which begs a whole bunch of questions more prescient than "So, when will Krishnan Guru-Murthy be on Daily Politics?"

There's a slight issue with that, given most of them were being platformed by the Murdoch-owned talkRADIO until that got booted off Youtube due in no small part because of Woottoonn and Halfwit-Brewer habitually burbling out Covid misinformation, and the fact Halfwit-Brewer and Hardofthinking were fixtures of BBC political programming before the channel launched, but there was certainly an increase in Crafty ****er appearances on the BBC off the back of the launch

 

On the subject of right wing bilge dispensers...

 

Old words for the modern Tory party. Haven't changed much, have they?

 

At least get the number of stars right. Yeesh...

 

12% approve, roughly double that would vote for them.