Politics Thread 5

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by Preezy » Wed Nov 14, 2018 3:37 pm

Errkal wrote:I would love it if it turns out spray paint has some sort of animal product in it.

A fox licked the paint and died. strawberry floating vegan bastards :(

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by Winckle » Wed Nov 14, 2018 3:43 pm

Vermilion wrote:Vegans really don't help themselves when it comes to PR.

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by KK » Thu Nov 15, 2018 7:23 pm

Japan's new cybersecurity minister admits he's never used a computer

The Japanese prime minister has appointed Yoshitaka Sakurada, 68, as head of the government's cybersecurity office, despite him having never used a computer.

When asked on Wednesday questions relating to the use of USB drives in nuclear power plants, Sakurada appeared confused. "I don't know the details well. So how about having an expert answer your question if necessary?" said the man who, himself, is supposed to be the expert.

‘I have been running my own business since the age of 25, I order employees or secretaries to use the computer’

"I don't type on a computer."

This isn’t the first time he has caused controversy, as he is also overseeing the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun said that he has a "knack for giving baffling replies", and that his responses to questions about Olympic preparations "showed a stunning lack of understanding of basic issues concerning the event."

Not just us in the UK (and Australia and USA) with incompetent politicians, then.

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by Lex-Man » Fri Nov 16, 2018 12:57 pm

Hyperion wrote:UK austerity has inflicted 'great misery' on citizens, UN says

It was the right thing to do


It's basically what we've all known for years.

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Cuttooth » Fri Nov 16, 2018 1:01 pm

A fifth of people below the poverty line and 1.5 million people "destitute" because of a political ideology to screw over the poor and vulnerable.

strawberry float the Tories and all who enable them.

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by Hexx » Fri Nov 16, 2018 1:32 pm

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by Garth » Fri Nov 16, 2018 3:02 pm

Who is on the 'editorial policy unit' and decided that was a satisfactory solution? :|

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by Hexx » Fri Nov 16, 2018 3:09 pm

Garth wrote:Who is on the 'editorial policy unit' and decided that was a satisfactory solution? :|


I don't know. Between that an Andrew Neil stuff in the last few days, the BBC isn't even pretending to be unbiased anymore.

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by Garth » Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:26 pm

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by Moggy » Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:40 pm

Amber Rudd spent a long time on the naughty step. :lol:

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by Moggy » Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:41 pm

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by Knoyleo » Fri Nov 16, 2018 5:20 pm

Hexx wrote:
Garth wrote:Who is on the 'editorial policy unit' and decided that was a satisfactory solution? :|


I don't know. Between that an Andrew Neil stuff in the last few days, the BBC isn't even pretending to be unbiased anymore.

Topical Corbynista. :roll:

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by KK » Fri Nov 16, 2018 6:40 pm

Jeremy Clarkson, The Sun wrote:THIS week, a BBC sports reporter called Dan Roan was caught in an off-camera moment claiming that because the owner of Leicester City was a billionaire, the girl who died with him in the helicopter crash must have been his mistress.

It’s a logic I don’t fully follow.

I’m an avid reader of Dear Deidre and I’m fairly sure that none of the people who write in to say they’re having affairs is either a billionaire or a member of the Royal Family.

No matter. The people of Leicester were very cross with Mr Roan and the BBC is being forced to pretend it was as well. But how can it do that?

Well, how’s this for an idea. Next time he appears on screen, instead of saying he’s a sports reporter, put up a caption saying: “Dan Roan: bitter little socialist.”


Jeremy Clarkson, The Sun wrote:WE still have no news on who will become lead presenter on the BBC’s hilarious Newsnight show and nor do we know who’ll take over from David Dimbleby on the equally funny Question Time.Just one thing is for sure. If your name is “Mr” something, don’t bother applying.


Jeremy Clarkson, The Sun wrote:HAVEN’T watched Dr Who since I was a small boy and I didn’t understand it even then, but I’m told the current series is in trouble — with viewing figures in freefall.

Angry fans say it’s littered with ham- fisted attempts to ram LEFTY dogma down our throats, and if you look at the storylines, it seems they do have a point.

The Doctor has witnessed a man giving birth and has visited a civil rights activist in Alabama in the 1950s. It’s not so much “exterminate, exterminate, exterminate” as “indoctrinate, indoctrinate, indoctrinate”.

Next up, I should imagine, the Tardis will be serviced free of charge by a nice, beardy man called Jeremy Corbyn. The BBC really is having a hard time with being neutral these days.

Every time they mention Donald Trump, you can actually hear them swallowing their own sick. There is a palpable sense that they hate him and an assumption that you do too.

This may be correct. It’s hard to find a Trump fan on this side of the Atlantic, but it’s not the BBC’s job to reflect this.

Naturally, the BBC has embraced the #metoo movement and, keen to show off its pioneering spirit, is now only giving frontline jobs to women. Bravely, Nick Robinson auditioned this week to be host of Question Time, but there is literally no way in hell he’ll get the gig.

It’ll go to a woman, same as the Radio 2 Breakfast show, and the drive-time show and, indeed, the role of Dr Who.

After about 50 minutes, I decided I’d pitch the BBC a film that proves once and for all that pigeons definitely have wings.

Back in the summer, a BBC chief actually said that the days of middle-aged white men standing on hills telling the viewers things are over. On that basis, there will be no more Attenborough. Maybe that’s why his next series is being made by Netflix.

I watched a BBC film this week. It’s called Denial, it has a stellar cast and the storyline is this: The holocaust did happen.

I’m aware that there are three or maybe four people in the world who think it didn’t, but making a whole film to prove them wrong seems silly. It’d be like making a film to show everyone that the world is round.

But even though we know about the Holocaust, the hero of the piece — Rachel Weisz — becomes increasingly shrill throughout the movie, shrieking over and over again about how the gas chambers were real. We know, love. Calm down.

But then I was distracted because Rachel was in the middle of a speech about all of the other things that are undeniable. I waited a moment because I knew it was coming, and yes!!! There it was: Global warming.

I spent many happy years at the BBC and made many friends. I like it. I think it’s a valuable institution.

But there is absolutely no doubt that these days, it’s been hijacked by people who wouldn’t know the concept of “unbiased” even if it leapt out of a hedge in a pirate costume and bit their foot.


Paul Dacre, former Daily Mail editor wrote:It’s the country’s worst kept secret that the Guardian is the in-house newspaper of the BBC, that subsidised behemoth. If the Corporation, Britain’s main news provider and its thousands of journalists – far more than employed by Fleet Street – hold the same financially irresponsible views as its in-house crib sheet, then Britain has a huge problem if it is ever going to return to economic solvency.

The BBC subsidariat will diminish in power as the streaming giants undermine the licence fee. And because nature abhors a vacuum, a right-of-centre TV network will one day take root in this country.


Andrew Neil, Twitter wrote:The Mash Report is self satisfied, self adulatory, unchallenged leftwing propaganda. When it comes to so-called comedy the BBC has long since given up on balance, on radio and TV. Nobody seems to care. And I don't want rightwing comedy, whatever that is. I'd just like comedy. Which is in really short supply. On TV and radio.

Must be bash the BBC fortnight.

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Vermilion » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:09 pm

To be fair, The Mash Report really IS gooseberry fool.

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by Alvin Flummux » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:15 pm

Clarkson might prefer a Doctor Who episode where the Doctor joins Goebbels in exterminating some Jews. [/grossexaggerationforeffect] But I mean, since he's a banana split and all, it's probably not too far off the mark.

Nothing wrong with historic episodes set during pivotal episodes in history that *gasp* the left were a part of, nor is there anything wrong with addressing difficult or uncomfortable topics. It's a family show, but that doesn't mean it has to avoid that stuff. Hell, the children watching it might stand to benefit from it, because clearly the grown-ups bitching about it don't know how to handle things like that.

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by DML » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:18 pm

Why would Clarkson have a problem with the BBC? Toughie.

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by Moggy » Fri Nov 16, 2018 8:29 pm

Clarkson threw a hissy fit because his food wasn’t warm enough and thinks calling Asian people “slopes” is the height of comedy.

Dacre was a hate filled dickhead whose newspaper has increased in sales since he left.

Andrew Neil wears the tie of a shadowy right wing think tank and spends his time of Twitter mocking the name of an award winning journalist that tirelessly worked on exposing Neil’s mates.

There’s little need to take any heed of any of those banana splits.

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by Squinty » Fri Nov 16, 2018 9:11 pm

Hexx wrote:
Garth wrote:Who is on the 'editorial policy unit' and decided that was a satisfactory solution? :|


I don't know. Between that an Andrew Neil stuff in the last few days, the BBC isn't even pretending to be unbiased anymore.


They actually just put that Andrew Neil tweet up on national television. BBC are so strawberry floating stupid at times, it hurts my brain.

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by <]:^D » Sat Nov 17, 2018 10:31 am

jesus christ its enough to make you jump off a bridge :fp:


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