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[tsubaki]

"My great granddad knew the Quran by heart"

his great granddad was born in 1813

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

I'd love to know how Johnson went from clearly not knowing what conditions Khan had (and trying to cover it by refusing to say what they were) to knowing what conditions Khan had in four or five minutes. Is he wearing an earpiece in his right ear?

The earpiece will be edited out and repeated endlessly for days on the BBC news... Listened to Nolan on 5live, he was taken back by callers phoning in last at BBC bias, he had to park his paper review... BBC is probably beyond redemption.

 

[davek]

Marr = useless.

The BBC have actively thrown in their lot with the Tories at this election and it'll never be forgotten.

 

[gonetomorrow]

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Marr = useless.

The BBC have actively thrown in their lot with the Tories at this election and it'll never be forgotten.

Unfortunately, it will. We've no mind for these things any more. We're down at PC World or whatever jostling an old lady who's got her hands on one half of a telly we want for our "home entertainment centre".

 

[davek]

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Unfortunately, it will. We've no mind for these things any more. We're down at PC World or whatever jostling an old lady who's got her hands on one half of a telly we want for our "home entertainment centre".

They've been outrageously pro-Tory this time around. I cant remember anything like it.

That is already playing as one of the key features of the 2019 election. They may not be Fox News yet, but they have gone some way toward that political polarity and their reputation, such as it was, is in shreds.

 

[tsubaki]

Marr = useless.

The BBC have actively thrown in their lot with the Tories at this election and it'll never be forgotten.

I think he did alright - Johnson is like Blair (and medieval Popes) a bit that an interviewer can't really skewer him because he believes whatever comes out of his mouth, however nonsensical, is the truth.

This means the best way to get him is to just let him talk and make a fool of himself, which is what he did (and what Freedman did to Blair during the Iraq Inquiry).

 

[tsubaki]

Good old Gideon.

Not a popular fellow in Israel, but an outstanding journalist and author.

He usually is, but that is a risible piece that would - rightly - have been condemned as antisemitic had a British author published it.

You cannot describe "British Jewry" as a homogenous group like that, especially when there isn't that much evidence that there is any kind of community consensus on Labour (rather than the consensus that those who present themselves as the leadership of the community (or the establishment as he correctly refers to at the start) have adopted).

there is a better article here - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-general-elections-2019-corbyn-boris-johnson-losing-game

 

[Jebus_lives]

It's had the funding the boss of the NHS asked for. You could very well argue that because community care is under the auspices (and budget) of local councils, which really have seen funding cut (unlike the imaginary cuts the NHS has seen), you'd have a point, but it's the NHS that is political dynamite so no one ever mentions that, even though my wife is employed by a NHS trust when working in the community.

It's become a catch all term for Health and Social care I often find, as you point out.

 

[jaycee]

29 people on here think this is fine

 

[abelard]

29 people on here think this is fine

Good thing this is only 'relative' poverty then, so it doesn't actually count

 

[tsubaki]

Nice of Corbyn to remind everyone about the Home Office report into possible Saudi funding of extremists that still hasn't been released, nearly four years after it was completed (and two and a half years after it came up at the last election).

 

[orly]

Marr = useless.

The BBC have actively thrown in their lot with the Tories at this election and it'll never be forgotten.

He just left him to wallow in his own juices. It was very good and pretty damaging.

 

[davek]

I think he did alright - Johnson is like Blair (and medieval Popes) a bit that an interviewer can't really skewer him because he believes whatever comes out of his mouth, however nonsensical, is the truth.

This means the best way to get him is to just let him talk and make a fool of himself, which is what he did (and what Freedman did to Blair during the Iraq Inquiry).

I disagree. The best way to pin him down is to have an interviewer who cuts him short when waffling and playing for time and asks him questions he cant answer and underlines it to the audience that they cant answer them because they dont have a clue.

 

[davek]

He just left him to wallow in his own juices. It was very good and pretty damaging.

Nah, he did what he does with weak interviewers: takes the piss and walks off scot-free.

The BBC have pulled the wool over the eyes of other parties and promised that all were doing inteviews with Neil.

They are skewered on their deceit and it wont be forgotten.

They've tampered with this election in may ways, this one being the most glaring.

 

[davek]

29 people on here think this is fine

29 people who apart from a couple will remain anonymous: such is their weakness of character.