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Once Bitten, Twice Bitten.....*No one is happy with things as they are but let's vote the same party back in with a view to keeping them exactly the same...
Once Bitten, Twice Bitten.....*No one is happy with things as they are but let's vote the same party back in with a view to keeping them exactly the same...
Thats got to be worth a watch, her trying to be 'relatable'. Hope they ask him about the dodgy deals.
Want to see Milliband on every news outlet today highlighting the tory hypocrisy. They've been trying to spin it with lies again this morning
On 'The One Show' ??!?
Thats got to be worth a watch, her trying to be 'relatable'. Hope they ask him about the dodgy deals.
Want to see Milliband on every news outlet today highlighting the tory hypocrisy. They've been trying to spin it with lies again this morning
I used to laugh about people calling the BBC biased towards any particular party, but they've really been quite lax on the Tories this election cycle.
I used to laugh about people calling the BBC biased towards any particular party, but they've really been quite lax on the Tories this election cycle.
I used to laugh about people calling the BBC biased towards any particular party, but they've really been quite lax on the Tories this election cycle.
Cameron put ex tories, including a murdoch man who attended cameron;s wedding, at the heart of BBC politics. Keussenburg is never on record as being a tory, but every other political editor at the BBC TV political team have all been paid up members of the tory party itself at one point or another. Given there are barely 100,000 tory party members at any time, that takes some doing in a country of 65 million.
Didn't here that complaint when the Tories have already upped insurance tax by 10%
Sounds an awful idea- surely people using private takes some strain off the NHS and where private does use NHS infrastructure, surely that provides an additional source of funding?
If the Tories don't reign back on this strong and stable coalition of chaos repetition it's going to rebound on them. People with no interest in politics at all are already irritated by it, and there's a long way to go. Also I wonder how long it will be before people question what a strong mandate for negotiation means, I can't be the only one that wonders why Germany, France and Poland et al should give a toss what her majority is. Maybe crap campaign management will provide a chink of hope for those against them after all.
Want to see Milliband on every news outlet today highlighting the tory hypocrisy. They've been trying to spin it with lies again this morning
I don't doubt you but do you have a source or list or anything?
Andrew Neil is obviously right-wing, but I think he does a pretty impartial job when interviewing. Can't say the same for Dimbleby, he's openly biased and shouldn't be in the job.
The BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, was once chairman of the Young Conservatives. His former senior political producer, Thea Rogers, became George Osborne's special advisor in 2012. Andrew Neil, the presenter of the BBC's flagship political programmes Daily Politics and This Week, is chairman of the conservative Spectator magazine. His editor is Robbie Gibb, former chief of staff to the Tory Francis Maude.
Perhaps they are over-selling the point, but surely it matters if EU negotiators know she has strong political backing back home? For example, she is more likely to get away with a 'hard Brexit' given a huge mandate, which, somewhat, strengthens her hand in negotiations.Quite, why does anyone in the EU care whether she's got a 10 seat or a 200 seat majority, it's not going to make any difference in the negotiations
Perhaps they are over-selling the point, but surely it matters if EU negotiators know she has strong political backing back home? For example, she is more likely to get away with a 'hard Brexit' given a huge mandate, which, somewhat, strengthens her hand in negotiations.
Perhaps they are over-selling the point, but surely it matters if EU negotiators know she has strong political backing back home? For example, she is more likely to get away with a 'hard Brexit' given a huge mandate, which, somewhat, strengthens her hand in negotiations.
That Corbyn speech seemed to be preaching to the converted. Could be damage limitation perhaps? Lock down the vote we already have? Lots of stuff about cuts, bankers, big businesses and rigged systems. But unless I missed it there was no mention of the deficit/debt, immigration or security, areas where people have concerns about Labour. Maybe the manifesto will tell us more.
Well, knowing how precarious or not her support is back home for whatever position she adopts surely does change how EU negotiators respond to that position? For one thing, it tells them how credible the (threat) position is.Yes it will be easier for her to get away with what she aims for in the UK ie have less opposition within the UK but don't see how that affects the EU point of view. Whatever deal is agreed has to be approved by 27 different countries in the EU and every government in each of those countries will have a different level of majority.
Like the 'asking for a friend'
Is he still an MP?Ed's actually quite entertaining on Twitter these days. If only he'd shown that side of himself when he was leader...
Is he still an MP?
True but besides the point. It is madness but a 'hard Brexit' could be useful threat in negotiations if the other side can believe that she will go ahead with it and can get away with it. These latter two depend largely on her support back home.The only thing an insistence of walking away and using only WTO agreements strengthens is the idea that the woman is insane.
The only other country in the world that trades under WTO rules exclusively with no bilateral agreements of any kind is North Korea.
True, but that surely still takes some pressure off the NHS.And in many instances, people are choosing to go private because the NHS is either too slow or cannot provide the certainty with appointments that people require.
Well, knowing how precarious or not her support is back home for whatever position she adopts surely does change how EU negotiators respond to that position? For one thing, it tells them how credible the (threat) position is.
Well, I am guessing that the whole point of negotiations is for both sides to try and lessen the pain for themselves. As such, the EU's position cannot be entirely inflexible whatever May says.But the EU have accepted that the UK is leaving, so what threat is there. If May doesn't want to accept the terms of remaining a part of the club even if only as an associate member and it is a hard brexit then the EU have already anticipated that this will be the case. No-one will win but the biggest losers will be the UK.
It makes little sense unless she still thinks she can have her cake and eat it which is why the EU are so bewildered by her attitude.
Well, I am guessing that the whole point of negotiations is for both sides to try and lessen the pain for themselves. As such, the EU's position cannot be entirely inflexible whatever May says.
Well, I am guessing that the whole point of negotiations is for both sides to try and lessen the pain for themselves. As such, the EU's position cannot be entirely inflexible whatever May says.
There's another one from an academic rather than Owen Jones here - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/14/bbc-political-bias-news-nick-robinsonThanks Noggy. I think the Guardian piece would have been more effective if it had stuck to the people and their history rather than 'the privatisation of the NHS' but the gist is there.
The current notion that there is obvious bias at the BBC – whether it be of the right or the left – that can be “investigated” and presumably purged, is troubling.
The BBC is massively left wing.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/17/bbc-leftwing-bias-non-existent-myth
You can go through all the others in a similar way. All the appointments that could be made by politicians have been given to tory party members or supporters as well.
Its definitely biased to right wing, but that is a symptom of the real problem, that the BBC tends to always be biased to the government. In a private media company, its a problem but par for the course, in a state broadcaster that sells itself, and is even mandated by law to be impartial, it should be unacceptable.