They do have a clear conservative bias. The fact that Bojo decided to take the piss out of them probably hasn't gone down very well though.but apparently laura and the BBC is all about the BJ and they are a corrupt biased conservative mouthpiece - im looking forward to the mental gymnastics to justify this
So Boris' punishment for not having to come under major scrutiny from Andrew Neil is that he doesn't have to come under major scrutiny from Andrew Marr.but apparently laura and the BBC is all about the BJ and they are a corrupt biased conservative mouthpiece - im looking forward to the mental gymnastics to justify this
Yeah, so the UK pays about average for what is a fairly average service. Other countries with similar spends produce better results because they don't fund everything under the sun and they don't embark on stupid IT projects or PFI schemes. The NHS could get a lot more value from its budget if it was run more efficiently. The amount of money it gets is not the main issue.We spend less on healthcare as a percentage of GDP than..well, a lot of OECD countries. In fact, our spending per person is almost exactly the OECD average.
https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm
You can see here as well the PPP adjusted figures:
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org...-spend-half-much-per-person-health-u-s-spends
A lot of British people want top quality healthcare, education, roads, defence, politics etc etc without spending the appropriate amounts of money to do so.
It's not difficult to nail this particular dismount. Boris doesn't like accountability or scrutiny - hence avoiding the channel 4 debate and hiding from Neil. Precluding him from lengthy interviews he likely doesn't want anyway isn't necessarily the terrible threat you perceive it as. You could even say it cheaply protects the BBC's reputation while offering the Tories an out. At any rate I'm pretty sure Tory HQ would take the quid-pro-quo of not landing the Marr interview in return for not having to do the Neil one.but apparently laura and the BBC is all about the BJ and they are a corrupt biased conservative mouthpiece - im looking forward to the mental gymnastics to justify this
What are you blathering on about?but apparently laura and the BBC is all about the BJ and they are a corrupt biased conservative mouthpiece - im looking forward to the mental gymnastics to justify this
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Embarrassing for sure but she wasn't being celebrated for her nazi sympathies, but for her role in being the first female parliamentarian. Although I fully expect to be accused by Sweet Square of fancying Teresa May for saying so.Also what about Theresa May celebrating a literal Nazi admirer?
Embarrassing for sure but she wasn't being celebrated for her nazi sympathies, but for her role in being the first female parliamentarian. Although I fully expect to be accused by Sweet Square of fancying Teresa May for saying so.
You can use terms such as seizing private property all you like but there's no evidence this is the case and that those assets won't still legally belong to the firm even if they're not accessible. These are asset-locked investments and there's many ways you can build up the shares.There's a huge difference between a company freely deciding to offer stock options as a means to attract and retain key employees, and the government seizing private property.
The other major issues with the policy:
It's a mind bogglingly dumb policy. I think Labour imagine modern business is much like it was in the 1970s, with a neat division between 'workers' and 'bosses' and shareholders.
- It only applies to companies with more than 250 employees. Any company approaching that mark will be strongly disincentivised from hiring more staff, presumably electing to outsource functions. Any company with 300 employees will I'm sure look at firing 50.
- What happens with M&A activity? When a UK company is purchased or merges with a non-UK company not subject to this policy?
- What about groups of companies, especially across national borders?
- It's also just going to mean companies defer dividends and wait for a less extreme government, or decide to transfer value to shareholders through share buy-backs.
If Labour wants worker representation on company boards, then just do that. But this scheme is economically illiterate and dangerous.
You mean the Sun won’t be running a front page like this?So Boris' punishment for not having to come under major scrutiny from Andrew Neil is that he doesn't have to come under major scrutiny from Andrew Marr.
Let's just hope no asks him what the naughtiness thing he's ever done is......It says a lot that a UK Prime Minister won’t even answer the question ‘How many children do you have?’.
Yeah... I am sure the likes of the media and yourself would be just as happy with that excuse if it was the Labour party.Embarrassing for sure but she wasn't being celebrated for her nazi sympathies, but for her role in being the first female parliamentarian. Although I fully expect to be accused by Sweet Square of fancying Teresa May for saying so.
Not at all - the minimum wage was one of Labour's great achievements. The process for setting it should be independent from the government of the day though, as envisaged by the legislation.Are you against a minimum wage?
That's just factually incorrect. Copied directly from Labour's manifesto:You can use terms such as seizing private property all you like but there's no evidence this is the case and that those assets won't still legally belong to the firm even if they're not accessible. These are asset-locked investments and there's many ways you can build up the shares.
We will give workers a stake in the companies they work for – and a share of the profits they help create – by requiring large companies to set up Inclusive Ownership Funds (IOFs). Up to 10% of a company will be owned collectively by employees, with dividend payments distributed equally among all, capped at £500 a year,
and the rest being used to top up the Climate Apprenticeship Fund. The cap will rise to ensure that no more than 25% of dividends raised by IOFs are redistributed in this way.
I think the automatic enrolment scheme is a very good thing. It doesn't deprive anyone of their property - it sets a minimum level of pension contributions, much like a minimum wage.Do you have the same opinion of forced pension contributions and the recent automatic enrollment schemes? This is much less of a money grab than that was especially in it's original form.
If you believe that then you cannot question their economics.And New Labour were equally loyal adherents to it.
Maybe he doesn't actually know.It says a lot that a UK Prime Minister won’t even answer the question ‘How many children do you have?’.
No, what it means it Labour needed to find a way to put this story to bed so the spotlight can shift to the Tories and their own problem with racism. I don't think there's a chance of that happening until Corbyn goes.Yeah... I am sure the likes of the media and yourself would be just as happy with that excuse if it was the Labour party.
Imagine the uproar if Labour MP's were unveiling a statue to a nazi supporting Jew hater regardless of their other 'achievements'. All it shows that they don't actually care about racism or antisemitism unless it can be used as a stick to beat Labour. It's pathetic.
But they have shown a quite clear Tory bias in separate incidents in the last few weeks. Just because they do this doesn't make that not true.but apparently laura and the BBC is all about the BJ and they are a corrupt biased conservative mouthpiece - im looking forward to the mental gymnastics to justify this
I doubt it. The Labour membership are remainers but the Corbyn revolution is far more important to them, in my estimation anyway.Those ideologues would have gone to the greens in a tactical voting setup.
Not every journalist who works for the BBC is pro-Tory or pro-Johnson, but Kuenssberg clearly is. If you follow her on twitter her bias is clear and obvious, always questioning Labour's position with rational thinking yet leaping to the defence of the Tories and Johnson in particular without the same level of scepticism.but apparently laura and the BBC is all about the BJ and they are a corrupt biased conservative mouthpiece - im looking forward to the mental gymnastics to justify this
Ironically not even the first woman elected either.Embarrassing for sure but she wasn't being celebrated for her nazi sympathies, but for her role in being the first female parliamentarian. Although I fully expect to be accused by Sweet Square of fancying Teresa May for saying so.
That video of her watching Johnson speaking and having a beaming smile and laughing. So gross.Not every journalist who works for the BBC is pro-Tory or pro-Johnson, but Kuenssberg clearly is. If you follow her on twitter her bias is clear and obvious, always questioning Labour's position with rational thinking yet leaping to the defence of the Tories and Johnson in particular without the same level of scepticism.
Any socialist leader will get the same shit as Corbyn has. Just like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar have been accused of it in the States... even Bernie has been accused of it and he's Jewish.No, what it means it Labour needed to find a way to put this story to bed so the spotlight can shift to the Tories and their own problem with racism. I don't think there's a chance of that happening until Corbyn goes.
Or how about you don't choose a leader who is a walking closet of skeletons for the media to rummage in?Maybe we just let the media pick the Labour leader for us in future... a nice right winger they can get on board with. Will save a lot of bother.
If this is the standard there is absolutely zero problem of antisemitism with corbyn. None.Embarrassing for sure but she wasn't being celebrated for her nazi sympathies, but for her role in being the first female parliamentarian. Although I fully expect to be accused by Sweet Square of fancying Teresa May for saying so.
Not celebrating Hitler for his genocide but his role in being the first the popularise the Chaplin stache.Embarrassing for sure but she wasn't being celebrated for her nazi sympathies, but for her role in being the first female parliamentarian. Although I fully expect to be accused by Sweet Square of fancying Teresa May for saying so.
Miliband was snapped in an akward pose eating a bacon buttie and it was national news for daysOr how about you don't choose a leader who is a walking closet of skeletons for the media to rummage in?
He doesn't really though does he. When you consider things like how Boris repeatedly hired famous anti-semite and racist in general Taki Theodoracopulos to write for the Spectator and all the other skeletons he has. For anything Corbyn has done and been slammed for, you can generally find that Boris did something similar and worse. But there's feck all to be done when for example Boris is dodging debates left and right and then Telegraph come out with this frontpage headline:Or how about you don't choose a leader who is a walking closet of skeletons for the media to rummage in?
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Unless you're Jewish, I don't think it's your place to tell a group of people what to be or not to be offended by.If this is the standard there is absolutely zero problem of antisemitism with corbyn. None.
Yeah manThe fact that you're defending a Nazi supporter to help make your point says it all really. You're a disgusting anti-semite by your own standards.
And you have nothing to say. I rest my case.Yeah man
I hereby invoke Godwin's Law, and I rest mine.And you have nothing to say. I rest my case.
The UK has what amounts to a unwritten constitution, hence the two 'big dog' political parties fighting it out for power, is the only thing that has a chance of working. The 'Will of the People' etc has nothing to do with it, as demonstrated by the failure to implement the referendum result.This is what is wrong with your system.
“Ditch all the rest”. Trying to capture the “will of the people” in two polar opposites that nobody likes is why you got such a polarised mess of a political system.