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    Farage and Reform not properly scrutinised by broadcasters, say BBC viewers
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    Farage and Reform not properly scrutinised by broadcasters, say BBC viewers

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    1. unbelievablydull82 on

      The cowardness shown towards these nakedly crooked “politicians”, and their far right thugs will be looked upon with shame in the future, if the future doesn’t end up a disaster, thanks to these hideous ghouls.

    2. JackStrawWitchita on

      Worryingly, the more racist and corrupt Farage is revealed to be, the higher his poll numbers go. Perhaps we need to be asking why so many voters are attracted to blatantly xenophobic politicians?

    3. Brother-Executor on

      Same could be said about Labour and their policies…

      Chagos
      China spy case
      The state of the economy
      Grooming gangs

    4. Enron_Hubbard1 on

      The BBC board of directors must be held to account. If the BBC is a national, impartial service, with a royal charter (no less) to ‘educate, inform and entertain’, then surely it is not beyond parliament to step in and ban political donors from its board.

      There has been a clear mandate given from on high to smear and undermine Labour at every paltry turn, while giving as much air time to Farage and Badenoch as possible – with a flagship political talk show hosted by Laura Fucking Kuenssberg (who should really just jump to Sky/Fox ‘news’ already). A board full of Tory donors who muzzled their own staff from criticizing the impotent Tory government not too long ago.

      If I were Starmer, I’d implement Levenson 2 straight away and include the BBC in that. We’ve seen the chaos caused by an elitist plutocratic media, it’s going to take generations to wash Trump out of the US’s hair. Don’t let the same 0.1%ers gloss over the hobbling effects of austerity/brexit/bungled pandemic by misdirecting attention to ‘brown people coming over ‘ere, ruining everything, it’s their fault!’.

    5. TheFergPunk on

      The media does largely seem to give Reform belly rubs compared to their contemporaries given the stuff Reform comes out with.

      Im no fan of her, but Dianne Abott had an interview on LBC years ago where she gave some incorrect figures. They were very off. This was a self admitted mistake but was enough to brand her an idiot forevermore.

      Zia Yusuf representing Reform went on LBC and quoted figures regarding savings that would be made by cutting DEI spending from the government. They were also very off, in fact more so than Abotts figures. And this wasn’t a mistake, this is party policy. He doubled down on it.

      Yet Im not seeing the charactitures by the papers to label them as thick as a result like I saw with her. I never saw a BBC article about this miscalculation like I saw with Abott.

      That’s the thing, their miscalculation is worse as they aren’t admitting it’s a mistake, let alone the miscalculation being bigger. Yet very little noise on it considering the magnitude and doubling down.

    6. PJBuzz on

      I watched a YouTube video recently where there was a debate with anti-vaxxer and a doctor. On screen they showed a “fact check” for the claims made.

      I honestly feel like we need to start doing this to politicians as much as is technically possible. It needs to be checked as quickly as possible and they need to be held to account for their comments as close as possible to the point they’re made, rather than days later.