there is something mantid about Kuenssberg but clearly not all situations
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
I don’t like Laura K full stop. It’s not like that long since she was feigning ignorance over Tory MPs calling themselves the grand wizards, completely unshocking she’d go for some random member of the public the day a fucking cabinet member admitted “they didn’t mean to” flout the Saudi Arabia arms ban. No real injustice will ever be tackled while these bootlickers and morons insist on going after members of the public and not the people in charge.
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
great that's another night i won't sleep
too aroused for slumber, eh
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
why i oughta
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDzZjCMXYAAUkhT.png
"I am the one who can make the bhaji disappear..."
My recent NHS experiences have been pretty good all in all (a few tests for a long-term minor issue, a few reschedules of short stay surgery which couldn't really be helped, 8 hours for the actual day surgery which all went fine, then due to post-op infection (v hard to avoid for the treatment required) a surprisingly and reassuringly quick check-up at a day centre after calling 111 and then a 4 hour wait in A&E for non-urgent care on a late Summer Saturday night in London which you'd expect really) and all without one crabby dismissive attendee at any point but then I do live 20 mins from a gigantic teaching hospital in south London. Communication could've been better at some points in the process but nothing intolerable.
Not to detract from the legit criticisms of others but got to give the credit where due.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
This one is worse than the last one I posted, responding to a tweet by the BBC. She is very eager to point out he is a labour activist.
Turns out the man who challenged the PM is also a Labour activist— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) September 18, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
pretty good labour activism imo
― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
congrats laura, you've managed a new low
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
Shocked that the PM ran into an activist of Europe’s largest party (by membership). The biggest grassroots group in the country and it matters that BJ met one of them at a NHS hospital?
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
She’s acting like she discovered this rather than reading it on some dickhead’s Guido RT.
― coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
Yeah this is really bad from LK. "I'm not saying, and I'm just saying, but labour activist nudge nudge wink wink eh lads"
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
That's a big fuck-up, it's basically inviting a pile-on of a dude who's child in hospital. I'd be surprised if there wasn't some disciplinary action for that.
The PM lying to a citizen about there being no press there *right in front of the cameras* should be the story there.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
Just want to point out this follows a story in the Mail yesterday where they linked a video of some gammon abusing a Labour campaigner that came to their door, because fuck knows the dog whistles weren’t going hard enough.
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
Nothing will happen to Laura K, she’s still in a job after misrepresenting Corbyn’s views on shoot to kill and having a complaint upheld against her.
Well done for encouraging the hounding of a man with a sick newborn who is probably already experiencing more stress and worry than we can imagine and likely hasn’t slept for a week. You’re right, his decision to support a party he thinks will care for people better is damning— Abi Wilkinson (@AbiWilks) September 18, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
plot twist as aditya reveals that boris is actually the father of omar salem's daughter
Just to clarify: the man who went to Whipps Cross hospital to make a political point and grandstand for cameras was not the father of a sick little girl being treated there. It was the Prime Minister.— Aditya Chakrabortty (@chakrabortty) September 18, 2019
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
Yah nothing will happen to lk, consequences are for proles.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
FS at the mcshitter lauding the paras & posh af LK hounding a labour activist
― heard about you (||||||||), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:53 (four years ago) link
just heard with zero irony a discussion on R4 about political impartiality and so on in broadcasting, and the two guest interviewees were the ex torygraph writer + pal of boris/nigel + current editor of the Today program and some arsehole from LBC.
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Is Boris in danger of being undermined by these protesters, ask Evan Davies on PM.
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
and the leading headline is Corbyn's refusal to explicitly back remain in a 2nd ref. love these guys.
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
Imagine being a Labour voter or potential one and not knowing which way you'd vote in a 2nd ref. I can't.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
Not that hard to imagine tbf, just statistically insignificant.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
The piss diamonds are piling in on Laura K, she’s getting ratioed Lilico-style.(Any Americans care to translate that?)
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
turns out the man who stood in front of the tank is a Beijing Students Autonomous Federation activist— Laura Kuenssberg 1989 (@iammightor) September 18, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
I say to this court, don’t let this case be your Dred Scott moment.
jfc
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
pmsl some ratio on that baroness kuenssberg tweet
― heard about you (||||||||), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
Just had a gander on FB and the usual melt suspects who go mad when Owen Jones argues with a civilian on Twitter because it’s a pile on are all ‘pfft, nothing to see here’
― coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
Most people will just nod along with the bit about the hospital being understaffed and not care at all about the guy's political affiliations.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
First the lefty neighbours shopping him to the police, now some Corbynista shouts at him in a hospital, nobody knows the trouble Boris has seen.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
xp I think most people who’ve been in the unfortunate situation where no one can tend to their sick child will get it.
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
I had no idea Labour activists have children. Thanks.— Michael Rosen (@MichaelRosenYes) September 18, 2019
Quelle surprise. People will be shocked. You couldn’t tell from my @Twitter profile. My Labour values are WHY I back proper support for the NHS. I am not ashamed of them. https://t.co/DZMqOprMML— Omar Salem (@OmarSalem) September 18, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
maybe boris should've just run away like he did yesterday.
― koogs, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
So I rang 03700 100 222. Me: I wish to make a complaint about a tweet from a BBC political journalist.Person: Laura Kuenssberg?Me: Yep. How did you know?Person: You're not the first.Me: And I won't be the last.— jennylandreth (@jennylandreth) September 18, 2019
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
You say this but
BBC statement about Laura Kuenssberg pic.twitter.com/qzO9eZMMOj— BBC News Press Team (@BBCNewsPR) September 18, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
Wow
Here, for instance, we see a Telegraph columnist spreading the nonsense conspiracy theory that he was micced up (by who? Why?) and retweeting somebody actually trying to suggest that the man's daughter doesn't exist at all. Very cool and normal stuff from the press here. pic.twitter.com/Wn4aT7DF7f— Sadie Cash (@SadieCashbat) September 18, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
Long night for the BBC news press team twitter account
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
one of my fave quotes from a fawning transparent tory bbc hack recently was from Nick Robinson where he said (talking about their impartial quality journalism) "it's our job to turn the light on, but if you (the listener/viewer) don't take notice.."
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
xxp pretty sure I saw someone point out the guy she was retweeting was an obvious fash
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
yeah i’ve got no expectation that she’ll suffer any consequences from reporting a story about the pm nakedly lying to the father of a sick seven-day-old girl about the presence of the media right in front of the media as ‘he’s a labour activist and here is his twitter’ but i like to imagine it’ll be at least a minor inconvenience
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
I don't think there was malicious intent either, but whether it was malicious or not is beside the point.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
it’s just plain terrible reporting
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
I don’t think she’s earned the benefit of the doubt given her history. Her tweets are almost always slapdash and careless, idg why she is so highly regarded.
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:32 (four years ago) link
Also even less inclined to give any benefit of doubt considering every fascist on twitter has been spreading fucked up conspiracy theories and racism about this guy & his family. Is this the kind of stuff you’d expect from Guido and the various fash rags? Yes. Should anyone put up with this from the state broadcaster? Definitely not.
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
Did she delete the 'This is him here' tweet?
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
thats it remains up is some evidence of intent imo
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
xp no it’s on 15k replies
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
nah, still up
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
The BBC press team is now retweeting Spectator articles defending Laura K. This doesn't feel like defensible behaviour and I feel like at some point the outrage is going to grow and they're going to move from wagon-circling to self-flagellation like they usually do in these situations. She'll be required to trot out some prewritten Mea Culpa and keep her job.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
Laura K to undergo social media training to keep her job challenge
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
It’s quite a dead cat to throw out there and I feel the story would have been brushed over in the usual way had it not been for this. I’m seeing people who spend their lives on twitter ranting about Corbyn angry about this - they may have fucked it. She needs firing but her horrendous “we have to platform the fash & every right wing think tank that’d sell you for parts” producer Rob Burley even more so.
― gyac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link