I heard they were Dominic Cummings latest SPAD and believe that anyone who wears glasses is sympathetic to Scottish independence and eating 4 tins of cold baked beans each day is the key to increased brain power and virility.
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They do this all the time. They seem petrified of being accused of bias so keep giving a sympathetic voice to deranged racists. As soon as anyone comes on from the further left of the political spectrum they’re roundly scoffed at and dismissed as naive.
far left apparently
Indeed. In the run up to the last election I heard Corbyn called a dangerous Marxist by several tories during interviews and not once did they get pulled up on it. FWIW I’m not one to subscribe to them being hugely biased one way or the other, they just seem to crap themselves at the accusations of being left wing.
And another outed Tommy Robinson supporter urging us to shut the borders. The show really has no credibility (if it ever did)
it’s certainly losing whatever it had , sad to see as somebody that used to avidly watch or listen to it
The radio version of it on R4 seems better to be honest.
Different audience Bruce. At least it will be free to air under Tory schemes.
Out of interest at what point did 'personal experience' and 'belief' become equivalent to facts and evidence?
Because they are categorically not equivalent.
Because they are categorically not equivalent.
At the point it became convenient for politicians to make it so. Trump was arguably the standard bearer with his alternative facts nonsense, but the Brexit campaign and their disdain for experts very much tapped into this Zeitgeist. Both benefited tremendously from people being not only uninformed, but misinformed.
I'm afraid the electoral commission have been asleep on the job and have not moved with the times anywhere near quickly enough, and so political parties have got carte blanche to say whatever they like because there is literally no come back at all for the spreading of lies. It's hard to think of another sector that would not be punished for doing so, but politics is fine and dandy.
As an example. Will anything happen to her because of this? Of course not.
Something needs to change. Standards are so low that nothing seems to matter anymore. A lot is to do with the internet, and so much nonsense and conspiracy flying around. People can believe whatever they choose, even in the face of overwhelming, contradictory evidence.
Look at the chequered past of our PM. He shouldn’t have even been an MP with his charge sheet
Cambridge have just created a new centre for democracy (or somesuch name), and they published a paper recently highlighting the parlous state of democracy across the west. It's as low as it's ever been. Politicians should own that, but it seems as long as they're personally positioned at the trough they don't really care. Public servants they most definitely are not any more.
They remind me more and more of Apprentice candidates, full of shine, bullshit and bluster, and generally out for themselves, with a clear comfort with selling their granny to gain personal success.
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