Abolish the BBC Y/N

he is about as funny as most comedians with the added bonus of having a mystery daft accent that is NOT scottish, not fucking anything tbf!

Oti Mabuse, Gillian Smart, Mishal Husain, Kawser Quamer and Alina Jenkins are the only reasons I wouldn't say television should be abolished altogether.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

All Britain tensely awaits the verdict.

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Cheers break out in certain pubs in W1.

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— Peter Hampson (@IvansMeads) March 31, 2019

Mentioning Orwell automatically means I'm sceptical of that post but there might be interesting bits of detail that explain, and it does name names.

shouting at the sky, Kuenssbergs gonna Kuenssberg etc, and also I'm 2 days late, but I am not liking the wording in the bottom section of this at all
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49972097

"a fair hearing from the EU ... just doesn't appear to have happened"
"Sources say the EU ought to listen 'to the people who won the referendum, not the people who lost'"

accurate, impartial, independent and fair ™

while I'm happy to be subsidising simpering CCHQ fanfic, maybe next time they ought to not make such a fuss when someone says the Klan man is possibly a bit racist.

So did they do good last night? Fiona Bruce also seemed ok? Wonder if there was more care or scrutiny with the QT special last night

corbyn’s manifesto has radicalised them

QT was good last night entirely because it wasn't at all like QT, we will be back to the usual rigmarole next week.

Facebook Tories moaning like fuck about it, looking forward to being told in the pub

Just watched it (skipped Sturgeon). Thought Fiona Bruce did a great job and I felt like everyone was properly held to account with an interesting range of policy questions.

(Lol at that fucking Morales melt tho')

Think there will be a lot of complaints sent in to the been about it from Tories. Don't know what a Lib Dem will do beyond hide under the sofa

they have been spoilt by years of a version of laughable public scrutiny in bbc studios that usually involves a back massage and a pre-broadcast agreement on what questions will be asked. They don't like it up 'em!

Emma Barnett is going to chair a 'young people's Question Time' on 9 December

bbc do have a tradition of letting blond haired lunatics loose on young people tbf

Just watched it (skipped Sturgeon)

Worth watching Sturgeon to see someone actually tell Fiona Bruce she's misinterpreting. It's a very good demonstration of what it looks like when a party leader believes what they're saying rather than parroting rehearsed lines and panicking when challenged or asked to deviate.

Anyway, we seen this doing the rounds on Twitter?

https://t.co/PjhAQsWLoH

new polls looking v good for tories and v bad for Labour in scotland and resolutely unshifting for the Labour-Tory gap. i don’t know where you all find your optimism from.

there was at least some poll variance in 2017 but this seems resolutely unfavourable across the board including that MRP tracking done by Datapraxis. (i know it’s still only as good as the data that goes in but still).

wrong thread.

Wrong electorate

Will try and watch Sturgeon later.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/nov/24/jack-whitehall-review-o2-arena-london

this guy sounds absolutely hellish from this review.

" he has always come across as the Conservative party in standup form"

I don't know how much they pay this cunt but he sounds bad. A search shows he is all over the bbc and according to them is: "one of Britain's favourite comedians". He's a posh Tory cunt who does a tv show with his dad .. no wonder the UK is so fucked.

I have been out of the UK for ages and back a couple of years and one thing I can't figure out is Jack Whitehall, is he supposed to be unfunny? Is he doing a parody of a posh guy who isn't funny but gets by on confidence alone? I feel like it isn't a joke, he is just that terrible, but then why is he always on TV, sometimes with people who are actually good? Do some people actually like him? Why?

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, February 25, 2019 12:03 AM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Bantz, fella. The Archbishop of Bantlebury. Lord Bantlington. Etc.

― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Monday, February 25, 2019 12:06 AM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Death to bantz, double death to posh boy bantz.

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, February 25, 2019 12:16 AM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I've never knowingly seen him, but double death to posh boy bantz sounds good to me.

the Brian Logan review of his 02 show is excellent stuff btw!

He was actually good as an irritating clueless poshboy cunt in "Fresh Meat" but that was, er, acting.

BBC making the biggest splash they can with this story, it seemed to take up the first 10 minutes of the 10 o'clock news on R4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50552068

It's a shameless attack. Same w/ Laura K's "not saying just saying" tru colours, the editing out of the jeering of bojo, etc etc. I was never naive about the bbc, but I can't remember seeing them stan for the tories so much in such a short space of time, with such fervor.

Retroactively - given the last couple of weeks - I would really like to change my vote in this poll to a firm 'N' instead of my initial 'it's bad but 'Y''. Never thought it could be as bad as reported here, but it is. My new vote is:

Abolish the BBC: Y (but find a good home for Catherine Southon).

*I was never naive about the bbc: I didn't watch enough to be convinced to watch less.