Lib Dem Leader Meets BBC Boss To Complain About Level Of Reform Coverage
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Lib Dem Leader Meets BBC Boss To Complain About Level Of Reform Coverage
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/ed-davey-meets-bbc-boss-complain-unbalanced-coverage-liberal-democrats
Posted by F0urLeafCl0ver
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Its about time someone took them to task
The bias is blatant and obvious
Reform should have as much coverage as the Green party.
That’s less than the SNP , much less than the Lib Dems and far less than the Tories.
(I am going on MP numbers)
In fact they should give the Tories more coverage.
He’s totally right. In fact, I would be comfortable betting that Reform would still be a fringe party if it weren’t for the relentless coverage. And it’s fair to say the BBC has led the way. The Daily Mail seems to support Reform now but was 100% behind the Tories until very recently.
To be honest, I have no idea what the Lib Dems are about. Everything I have heard about them is positive and sensible. For example, they are pushing hard to clean up the rivers, Davey is a caregiver for his wife and genuinely wants to clean up the NHS (and seems to have the common sense and ability to do it).
That said, Davey was in charge of Post Office during the coalition government and seems to have ignored signs that something fishy was going on. Also, every Tory I know voted Lib Dem in the last election so there must be something awful about them.
The point is, no one in my life is able to explain what the Lib Dems are about and we all pay attention to the news. They’re never reported on.
The Beeb will probably respond by inviting Farage on Question Time, the evening news, breakfast news and multiple radio interviews in order to discuss the issue
Good. The Lib Dem’s have over 70 seats compared to the 4 Reform have and the coverage levels are night and day.
I’ve never heard the Lib Dems say anything of relevance. Maybe thats why they don’t get coverage
I’m more annoyed about the constant Trump coverage. I’d say there is more coverage over US politics than UK politics on British news channels in general. Unless it directly affects the UK, I’m not interested. We’ve go enough problems of our own, thanks.
BBC is propaganda Machine paid by taxpayers while working against them.
Reform is currently leading to the polls to the point there is a serious chance they will form a majority government. If that happened, it would be the first election since 1910 where a party other than Labour or the Conservatives won power. Reform UK has the mass appeal needed to form government.
The LibDems do not. They are not in the political position Reform is, and they appeal to a far smaller portion of the electorate than Reform does.
They get less coverage because they matter less. Maybe Ed Davey should consider trying to get more support instead of complaining to the BBC because he’s too irrelevant to get the kind of media coverage major political parties get.
Because they’re utterly boring and resonate with people who think they’re too altruistic to vote for the Tories, and too posh to vote Labour. Just look at the areas they do well in.
What’s the most radical policy they have on immigration, the economy and the NHS? More of the same.
What is this weird idea that media coverage needs to be proportional to number of parliamentary seats?
Using that logic almost all media coverage would be Labour with a small amount of Tories and virtually nothing for all the other parties.
Essentially this has never been an issue before, the Greens have received hugely disproportionate media coverage for years and not a peep from anyone about it or what about Plaid Cymru?
As with many things it’s only a problem because it benefits ‘team bad guy’
Maybe if the Lib Dem’s had something vaguely interesting to say the media would want to cover them a bit more.
if labour and the tories actually pulled their fingers out their arses. reform wouldnt have a chance
well what do they stand for… Freedom Right
They could have leapt up and screamed repeal the censorship of the OSA.
They stand for freedom why are they not screaming to set up education centuries for migrants so they can fall in love with our liberal democracy…
Nope on all of the above.
The silence from them on the issues in the news is deafening
Nope they are not fighting but just doing nothing to make a name for them self except in one area bitching about reform who are doing shit… not even good shit but doing shit…
The amount of coverage Nigel and reform get you’d think they were the second party. I guess the BBC have realised their favourite party are now toxic as hell and have switched to backing reform. Biased Broadcasting Corporation.
They have led every national opinion poll since the start of May, at the very least there is a serious possibility (at least a double digit percentage) that Reform could not just be in government but govern alone. What is the possibility of that happening with the lib dems? Just about possible they could be in government if there is a hung parliment, though very unlikely and basically no chance the lib dems could win a majority. Obviously the current makeup of seats in parliment matters too, but the fact that Reform is perceived as a potential government in waiting should not be ignored.
It’s the BBC, they probably asked Farage into the meeting for the sake of ‘balance and neutrality’.
It’s probably due to the fact that the lib dems are essentially a group of nothing, there’s not really much to report on apart from a few nods and perhaps a raised eyebrow now and then.
Good. You’d never know the Lib Dems were the third largest party considering how little coverage they get
The fallback argument is always “Yeah but Reform is popular. No one knows who the Lib Dems are”
Completely missing the fact that… exactly. Because they get zero coverage from mainstream media. Think of it as advertising. If you’re not allowed to tell people you have a product they may love, they’ll never know it exists. Give them the media attention and therefore at least a chance to prove whether they have appeal to voters or not.
I mean I imagine it’s because a story about reform , what next bad thing kier starmer does or what new scandle we have with the tories sells papers and reads . Don’t think Lib Dem’s really get those paper sales but I could be wrong