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British Politics

Been on holiday for a few weeks, surprised to find no general discussion of British politics so though I'd kick one off.

01 June 2019 at 06:29 AM
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That would be a war not a one-sided genocide. You have nothing so say against Israel's genocide because, like all creepy incel extremists up and posting in anger at 5am, you hate Muslims.


by jalfrezi

That would be a war not a one-sided genocide. You have nothing so say against Israel's genocide because, like all creepy incel extremists up and posting in anger at 5am, you hate Muslims.

Wong again. I don't really have much to say about Russia's genocide either because unlike you have have better things to do with my life than argue for thousands of hours with strangers and bots.

However, here are just two of many examples of where I have been critical of Israel.

by Elrazor

Just because Hamas committed something truly horrific on 7/10 does not give Israel carte blanche to do what they want in response, and there are undoubtedly some in their war cabinet that would go much further than they have done thus far.

by Elrazor

I don't think anyone really knows the reality of the situation on the ground, so whether Israel has broken international law and/or committed war crimes is a matter for the intentional courts. The overall point I am making is it looks more and more likely that they are guilty.


by jalfrezi

And it's your belief that a cabal of "overprivileged delayed-adolescent graduate bluehair nosering kids" are in charge of the BBC news rooms and are pushing the heavily pro-Reform agenda?

Their splicing was well offside though and was indeed downright Orwellian, akin to Stalinist Russia removing "unpersons" from official photographs. Never had time for Trump's bellowing about "Fake news" before but the beeb's antics actually give him credibility in this regard. Was pretty reprehensible what they did, to go with the pro Hamas thing.


Perhaps you missed the part where I said "as bad as that was".

Davie and Turness, who bent over backwards to please Robbie Gibb's right wing stance, clearly didn't go far enough and in the end the far right got rid of them.

Responsibility for the taming of the BBC goes all the way back to Blair and Campbell.


Blair & Campbell were awful and built on awful. It goes all the way back to thatcher


Frankly, irrespective of bias, BBC news is such poor quality now that it's hard to care if they abolish it.


by jalfrezi

Perhaps you missed the part where I said "as bad as that was".

Davie and Turness, who bent over backwards to please Robbie Gibb's right wing stance, clearly didn't go far enough and in the end the far right got rid of them.

Responsibility for the taming of the BBC goes all the way back to Blair and Campbell.

No I didn't miss that and am aware you acknowledged it, but you seemed to be more annoyed at the blue haired nosering comments than the Beeb's Orwelianism, is all.


Not really, but I found it odd for 57 to focus more on the alleged blue haired nose ring aspect than the once cherished and widely respected BBC and its editorial independence completing its transformation into a far right mouthpiece thanks to Robbie Gibb.

There’s no way back from this I fear, not for the BBC and not for the UKs independence from vile and malevolent influences.


Reminder of the BBC newsroom's output as orchestrated by blue haired nose ringed lefties:





Was that entirely the BBC's fault

I pointed out during brexit that no pro EU MEPS were standing up and arguing for our EU membership. ~No-one could name any of them but could name 3 or 4 MEPS campaigning hard to leave

I seriously doubt they were being silenced.


I can find a similar pic of Question Time invitees showing how many times Farage and other Reform extremists have been on.


Picture of Corbyn in a funny hat aside, I still reckon the BBC is more left than right leaning.


Of course they are and only an idiot would argue otherwise. However, they are still by far the best and most politically neutral media outlet in the UK.



lol @ those Tommy face swaps on X


by corpus vile

Picture of Corbyn in a funny hat aside, I still reckon the BBC is more left than right leaning.

Of course right wingers such as yourself think the BBC is more left wing than right, a simple point that escapes even some simpletons.

You'd need to explain its overplatforming of Farage and Reform over the past few years in relation to other minority parties if you want to argue that coherently.


by jalfrezi

Of course right wingers such as yourself think the BBC is more left wing than right, a simple point that escapes even some simpletons.

You'd need to explain its overplatforming of Farage and Reform over the past few years in relation to other minority parties if you want to argue that coherently.

I'm not right wing. Farage is in the news as of late with speculation that his somewhat dodgy and rather xenophobic party could be in power come next election, unlike other minority parties, so obviously he's going to get coverage. It also depends on what type of "overplatforming" you mean. Here's a beeb piece on a reform party member for example, regarding his "disgusting X posts"

Here's another not exactly fawning article speculating on how they'd run the country if they did get in, with ample weight given to critics of their policies/pledged reforms.

So it's all about the context innit?

Add that to again the apparent endorsement of a Hamas propaganda vid (superficially at least), their reprimand of a newscaster for saying pregnant women instead of people, combined with a thought crime-esque facial expression and again their downright fake news editing of the Orange One, then yeah, you can make a valid argument that they lean more left than right.


by corpus vile

I'm not right wing.

If you disagree with Al Jalfrezi, you're Far Right - that's how his simple mind works.


No, you’re far right. CV is merely right wing, though like most right wing people and no left wingers he will probably say he’s “neither left nor right”.


by corpus vile

I'm not right wing. Farage is in the news as of late with speculation that his somewhat dodgy and rather xenophobic party could be in power come next election, unlike other minority parties, so obviously he's going to get coverage. It also depends on what type of "overplatforming" you mean. Here's a beeb piece on a reform party member for example, regarding his "disgusting X p

Bias in the newsroom extends much further than reporting factual events such as the ones you’ve cited.

Selecting a majority of right wingers for QT panels, with UKIP/Reform massively over represented in appearances for many years for instance. This isn’t the recent phenomenon you’re claiming it is.


First search gave this


Hardly surprising when you consider that Davie himself is right wing, as are the BBC board members including former Tory spin doctor Robbie Gibb. Poor Davie just wasn't right wing enough for these times.


Again, really consider it a stretch to regard the beebs as a right wing mouthpiece, and that's being kind, but whatever floats your proverbial boat.


Consider it a stretch to regard academic research as valid? Ok, dude.




Got wind of the coup rumours earlier today and held my fire, but now...

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