It may have been.
I just find it ironic you're questioning the anti-racist credentials of Sarkar whilst at the same time posting articles from a website which recently hosted an article wishing Muslims weren't able to vote.
UK General Election - 12th December 2019 | Con 365, Lab 203, LD 11, SNP 48, Other 23 - Tory Majority of 80
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I just find it ironic you're questioning the anti-racist credentials of Sarkar whilst at the same time posting articles from a website which recently hosted an article wishing Muslims weren't able to vote.
So the death of Gary Rhodes, investment into Manchester City and pictures of the Milky Way are all deemed more important by the BBC than the Tories' plan to have the NHS on the table in any trade talks.
In response to a post showing the BBC political editor minimising the concerns of British Muslims your first instinct was to focus on the messenger.
The media won't make a meal of it the same way they would if it was Labour or another party. It will be a small headline then disspear from the headlines. It's difficult to battle that.
Doesn't provide evidence that they've agreed? That's about as strong an Trump's argument that it was never a quid pro quo because although he demanded an investigation in return for the aid Congress had allocated Ukraine, nobody actually said the words "quid pro quo".
Although we have indeed had discussions 7 rounds of talks about providing US Big Pharma companies access to the NHS, we have never considered giving US Big Pharma companies access to the NHS.
Mental gymnastics at it's finest.
Pretty standard for Laura now. They should demote her and promote Faizal Islam from his economics role, he was good at Sky.
The BBC are being given ample opportunity to show that they will treat the issues that the Labour party have with antisemitism and the Tories with Islamophobia with equal weight. We'll see....
Oh yeah? Well Kuenssberg's busy doing due dilligence and is starting to think this is all a bit of a nothing burger.
Jesus christ, is he trying to look like an insensitive ass or something?
They’ll just do what they did during the Tory leadership contest - promise they’ll look into it and then post election quietly drop it or downgrade it to something broad and vague like “investigating bigotry in British politics” with a GCSE politics essay’s level of focus.
Laura thinks something bad for the Tories is a nothing burger? Ah, must be nothing then..
Perfectly put. I agree.
Neither of you have read my post in the context of the post I was responding to.
The response on all this should be very easy i don't understand how his aides haven't advised him of the right lines.
You apologise that the processes weren't working which caused hurt and dissatisfaction. You quote the numbers to provide scale (backlog of 130 complaints i think i last heard), say it's got no place in the party and that anyone found doing it will be expelled. Explain how the processes have been reformed, how some independent oversight has been added and how it's now working better but we'll continue to strive to improve that process.
No one can argue with that and then you move on to Boris and his parties record....
He'd then be asked why he hasn't managed to achieve this despite being leader for 4 years etc. etc. I agree his current stance isn't doing him any favours, and whilst he refuses to apologise it will more than likely keep being brought up.
He's a stubborn old git and a terrible politician. Driven by his own set of morals and incapable of adapting to other people. He would make a terrible leader in my eyes and his saving grace in my own lukewarm support is how much a disaster Johnson would be over 5 years.
And as you or another poster has said, it's odd because he has apologised before, so it is clearly a change in strategy.
Exactly, its not rocket science. Anyone who has spent more than 5 minutes in politics should be capable of giving an answer to this stuff that shuts it down pretty fast. Then again I suppose if Corbyn was willing/able to do so, he'd have done it months ago when this whole thing started. It's very confusing why he hasn't done so.
But you basically dismissed the content of Sarkar's point based on the fact she defended the Warsaw ghetto graffiti incident... yet you happily post a Spectator article, whilst knowing they frequent publish racist articles? Is that not a double standard?
Very diligent indeed, managing to sustain an average reading pace of 4 pages per minute for 30 minutes while also managing to observe everything else that is going on to a degree that she can also tweet 15 times.
Quite the lady is Laura. Or.... I wonder if she got a text from her Number 10 sources and quickly relayed the party message.
How long do we think before the Tories officially come out with their excuses and what do we think the chances are that it ties into Laura's narrative?
Surprised if we will see any headlines
Andrew Neild looks to have a ''field day' with such as Corbyn and Johnson, and most other politicians because when faced with an apology request they all try to 'Brass it out' with him, a bit like Michael Howard did with Paxman on News night a while back. As you say all they have to do is answer his question directly, but no politician can do that without 'gagging'.
Public apologies are ripe areas for such entanglements in these one-to-one interviews and now become more important than the politics. Why such as Neild, Maitlis and other interviewers seem to think that revealing that politicians have feet of clay, is beyond understanding, we all know that FFS! Put their feet to the fire on substance..
It's probably researchers and fact checkers at the BBC that are going over it for her. Its not far fetched to interpret this as an attempt of a narrative grab from Labour to bury the interview last night the best they can.
Since the last election there have been:
5.3 milion registrations applications from Under 25s,
5.7 million from 25-34s,
3.2 million from 35-44
and a combined 4.6 million of 45+.
It should be stressed that these are not new registrations a lot of people, especially older ones, will have moved etc, HOWEVER there has been an absolute record of 11 million applications from people under 34 and even if a quarter of them (I expect the figure to be more than half) are new voters then expect the Conservatives to be dished with another youthquake!
I'd assume so. They've probably been sitting on it waiting for the right moment to drop, and after that car crash interview decided there wouldn't be a better time.
Since the last election there has been 5.3 milion registrations applications from Under 25s, 5.7 million from 25-34s, 3.2 million from 35-44 and a combined 4.6 million of 45+.
It should be stressed that these are not new registrations a lot of people will have moved etc, HOWEVER there has been an absolute record of 11 million applications from people under 34 and even if a quarter of them (I expect the figure to be more than half) are new voters then expect the Conservatives to be dished with another youthquake!
Now they just have to progress from signing up online to actually going out and voting.
Social media is playing a vital role in informing people and getting them to register and hopefully out to vote too. I was looking last night just on twitter and hundreds of celebrities with millions of followers were encouraging people to register. Adele of all people hadn't tweeted in a year and she put out a message last night.
There is a huge sense of importance around this election, young people are fully engaged and hopefully it will remain so for another two weeks.
Fingers crossed. Is anyone doing voting parties or pub crawls? Could be a fun way to get people to the voting booths.
Will they be able to find the polling stations without google maps?
Ready to bring back Screaming Lord Such and 'The Monster Raving Looney Party... elections will be fun once more!
Quick Laura back to anti-semitism, divert divert divert
"We want Brexit NOW, worry about NHS later'. That is what the electorate will say.
Wrong. A lot of people were swayed by more money to the NHS slogan in the referendum. There has been countless programs and documentaries where people especially older ones reliant on it have expressed this and they feel they have been lied to. NHS is the top issue for voters in this election people won't ignore something as damaging as this to the service.
What about Riley and Obermann?
Well ouch. Anyone considering voting Tory needs to read this right now.
Being a winter election isn't it the older demographic who are less likely to turn out? Or is it always students?
Riley has gone batshit crazy and I don’t really agree with the whole #nevercorbyn lot. Extremes on both sides.
@esmufc07 Fair’s fair.
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