Westminster Politics

Let's play a game of Casual Reader. Imagine you're browsing the BBC website when you stumble across this main headline.



And then you read the first few paragraphs.



Why do they write this with such ambiguity? Why does it not directly say who the "far right groups" are and how they're unrelated to the Pro-Palestinian march (which is more of an anti war march than anything else). Why does it create an air of uncertainty over what they're actually trying to report?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67383065

Well I have just been watching the parade and there were a number of pro Ukrainians there.
 
Let’s defend the Cenotaph by attacking the police defending the Cenotaph.
 
Oh, well this looks like news to me, so i'm guessing this would be on the BBC webs...

What a surprise. The Tory controlled BBC have no reports on the far right, Braverman enabled idiots disrupting armistice.
We are living in a fascist state.
 
On the positive side from the reports it’s seem like there’s less than 3,000 far right supporters. It’s really only a tiny fraction of British society.
 
On the positive side from the reports it’s seem like there’s less than 3,000 far right supporters. It’s really only a tiny fraction of British society.
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They're not in London this weekend.
 
Weird how that same logic is never applied to other groups by the politicians and media, isn't it?
Daily Mail trying their best to cover up who is doing the fighting



The really strange thing is in the UN votes the UK has been surprisingly pretty decent. Voted yesterday to declare Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestine as illegal. Means nothing overall sadly.


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They're not in London this weekend.
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The really strange thing is in the UN votes the UK has been surprisingly pretty decent. Voted yesterday to declare Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestine as illegal. Means nothing overall sadly.

HIstorically we have been, because of the relative independence of the Foreign Office. To be honest as the UK's power has waned, we have never really stepped out of line at the UN. Our last veto may have been as far back as Southern Rhodesia in the 1970s. I suspect that we hide behind the US veto a lot, and we are allowed to 'vote our conscience' as we know the measures will never pass.
 
So the march came and went, 300,000 people with close to no trouble from the solidarity marchers. Meanwhile a bunch of far-right smooth brained idiots, galvanised by Cruella decide to storm the cenotaph and fight the police. Really went to plan there eh Cruella?
 
So the march came and went, 300,000 people with close to no trouble from the solidarity marchers. Meanwhile a bunch of far-right smooth brained idiots, galvanised by Cruella decide to storm the cenotaph and fight the police. Really went to plan there eh Cruella?
Fortunately for her not many news outlets are reporting the fights with police in a direct way.
 
HIstorically we have been, because of the relative independence of the Foreign Office. To be honest as the UK's power has waned, we have never really stepped out of line at the UN. Our last veto may have been as far back as Southern Rhodesia in the 1970s. I suspect that we hide behind the US veto a lot, and we are allowed to 'vote our conscience' as we know the measures will never pass.
Cheers for this.
 
Why are the news outlets calling the far group counter protesters, they weren't there to protest but to get coked up/drunk and cause trouble
 
Why are the news outlets calling the far group counter protesters, they weren't there to protest but to get coked up/drunk and cause trouble
Because calling them "the EDL" would show that Braverman's dog whistling about how "Islamists" were going to cause the problems today turned out to be the complete and utter shite.
 
Why are the news outlets calling the far group counter protesters, they weren't there to protest but to get coked up/drunk and cause trouble
They’re also grouping them together with headlines like “92 arrested at protests today”, It really shouldn’t be that difficult to use more precise language, seen as the original protest passed without incident.
 
On the positive side from the reports it’s seem like there’s less than 3,000 far right supporters. It’s really only a tiny fraction of British society.
It'll be like the infamous Sex Pistols gig at Free Trade Hall. Hardly anyone was actually there, but all those who were will end up on the Starmer Party's 'Future Candidates Programme'.
 
They’re also grouping them together with headlines like “92 arrested at protests today”, It really shouldn’t be that difficult to use more precise language, seen as the original protest passed without incident.

Not without incident, there was a woman who they are trying to arrest for a hate crime for having a sign implying that the Israelis are akin to fascists. It's good to see what the police budget gets spunked on isn't it?