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Davie stood for election as a Tory in the 90s but didn't get elected.

I'm not trying to prove them innocent. I'm saying it would have been easy to miss when you're waving the programme through. The broadcaster may well be liable but given it wasn't them that intentionally spliced video segments, I'm just saying you can see how easy that would be to miss.

I'm not getting into all of these but critical race theory doesn't exist in the UK. Net zero and climate change are scientifically cast iron. Having people argue against cast iron science isn't 'giving both sides', it's pretending one side is equal to the other when it isn't. Israel/Palestine the BBC like every other organisation has played to the Israeli side. Gender ideology I think everybody has lost their heads over a minor side issue tbh. Brexit largely happened because of the BBC giving farage a platform when he was a nobody in the years before. A lot of the right these days seen to think balanced reporting equals everything they believe being reported as fact. You're giving that impression yourself.

The BBC didn't make it. It was made by an independent production company and nobody noticed the cutting of the speech because, let's face it, it's still two bits of the same speech.

Ok well you don't want to and I do want to so we're even

The public are led by incessant calls to abolish the BBC and claims of bias from the 85% of the media that are Tory supporting or right wing. Because they want hemegomy and only right wing voices. The public being easily led isn't really a debate at this point.

It's as if my post doesn't exist though. That's the point. You've chosen to ignore the post that sets out the research into this.

One of the most extensive pieces of content analysis in recent years was conducted for the BBC Trust by Cardiff University. This research, amongst other things, examined the BBC’s coverage of immigration and the EU – two of the most divisive issues in British politics. What researchers found was that conservative perspectives were more prevalent in BBC reporting, and that while the balance between the two major political parties tended to be broadly equal, Conservative featured more regularly than Labour. This rightward leaning reporting has also been confirmed in analyses of guest appearances on programmes like BBC Question Time, and a forthcoming piece of research has confirmed that the right has a slight edge in terms of political guests on BBC programme, and interestingly that the BBC favours right-wing over left-wing Labour MPs, and the right of the Conservative Party over more moderate Tories – not quite the centre ground some have assumed that the BBC adopts. Academic research on the BBC’s coverage of the referendum by Loughborough and Cardiff, meanwhile, has found that while the BBC struck a careful balance between the two sides in the referendum, the whole debate was markedly dominated by the Conservatives and UKIP. When it comes to question time, all of the most seen journalists have been right wingers like Isabella Oakeshott, Julia Hartley-Brewer and very right wing think tank people like Kate Andrews. The BBC have had farage on countless times at times when he was polling way behind others or not even in a UK parliament seat.

I don't.

I think reboots annoy me more than sequels TBF. Why remake something everybody loves and which you can only make worse

It just needs to report facts, whichever way they lean. That's what impartiality should mean. If somebody's lying call them out rather than pretending there's two equal sides. That's where it goes wrong. The BBC needs protecting precisely because it attempts to provide balance, even though it fails in both directions sometimes, whereas GB news, the mail, express and telegraph that attack it so much clearly don't do that.

Yeah been like this for ages now, it's boring. Milking franchises over any attempt at ingenuity.

What's your agenda for the trust before I sign up? Can you give us some information about what changes you'd like to see?

No fan, no matter how they see things, is "part of the problem". None of us have any effect on KP or LCFC. This ridiculous "you're either with us or the enemy" type rhetoric is really stupid imo.

What id like is for the club to explain what's going on so we either know if this picture is accurate or not. If it was all on him you'd assume that might have been noticed, so if it isn't then tell us what's going on.

While that is likely true, that's also a hugely right skewed use of panelists on news and similar programmes. It's often noted how many times farage has been on question time Vs ed Davie or Caroline Lucas and her subsequent green party leaders. Journalistic panellists also skew heavily rightwards, with use of right wing think tanks a real issue.

Private eye on point

No, my closest Aldi is in Newquay. Great western beach there.

I'm surprised we can find common ground on a wealth tax but yeah it's so obviously the one form of taxation that wouldn't hit them electorally they surely will take the chance to use that? There's a lot of talk of us looking at Denmark's immigration system (minus the big payments Denmark makes) so there's likely going to be movement there soon. If you give me a wealth tax I'll give you gp charging, how about that 🤣

Tbf this is the view from my local Aldi car park so I don't mind too much 😜

And maybe it is coming but it won't end well for them. I do think they are held to a different standard than the last government. They lied comprehensively at every election, including over tax, yet some don't seem to ever quite admit that. Once you set out such clear manifesto promises they'll be fools to break them. They already know they have an uphill battle with media and social media, maybe labour need to learn to play the Tory game and just ignore reality, don't raise the taxes and just tell everything is fine when it isn't. If they do need to raise taxes which ones should they raise in your opinion?

Precisely why I think they're just rumours from trouble making right wing rags. They've created a narrative around the coming budget that may or may not turn out to be true, but if it isn't then they've formented a lot of discontent simply by making things up. It's going to be an interesting budget after all the noise.

Yeah good shout

I'm not sure you need to leak to know an income tax rise is going to be unpopular. They have all sorts of focus groups, surveys etc. I think it's just papers selling papers tbh but you might be right.

Perhaps your explanation was true in the days of inside rights and inside lefts in the early days of football but it hasn't been like that for decades. A number 10 nowadays refers to the 'trequartista' type position that somebody like Riquelme played. It's between the oppositions midfield and defence. It usually doesn't have much defensive duty attached to it. For Leicester the closest we've had was Okazaki playing behind Vardy, though he worked a lot harder than your usual number 10. A number 8 is usually considered to be a box to box midfielder. Think Gerrard, who literally wore number 8, early Roy Keane, Bryan Robson.