PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

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.

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

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

Yah nothing will happen to lk, consequences are for proles.

FS at the mcshitter lauding the paras & posh af LK hounding a labour activist

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.

Is Boris in danger of being undermined by these protesters, ask Evan Davies on PM.

and the leading headline is Corbyn's refusal to explicitly back remain in a 2nd ref. love these guys.

Imagine being a Labour voter or potential one and not knowing which way you'd vote in a 2nd ref. I can't.

Not that hard to imagine tbf, just statistically insignificant.

The piss diamonds are piling in on Laura K, she’s getting ratioed Lilico-style.

(Any Americans care to translate that?)

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

I say to this court, don’t let this case be your Dred Scott moment.

jfc

pmsl some ratio on that baroness kuenssberg tweet

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’

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.

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.

xp I think most people who’ve been in the unfortunate situation where no one can tend to their sick child will get it.

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

maybe boris should've just run away like he did yesterday.

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

You say this but

BBC statement about Laura Kuenssberg pic.twitter.com/qzO9eZMMOj

— BBC News Press Team (@BBCNewsPR) September 18, 2019

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

Long night for the BBC news press team twitter account

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.."

xxp pretty sure I saw someone point out the guy she was retweeting was an obvious fash

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

I don't think there was malicious intent either, but whether it was malicious or not is beside the point.

it’s just plain terrible reporting

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.

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.

Did she delete the 'This is him here' tweet?

thats it remains up is some evidence of intent imo

xp no it’s on 15k replies

nah, still up

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.

Laura K to undergo social media training to keep her job challenge

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.

the whole bbc political dept needs liquidating and replacing with fawning McD creatures for a decade - just for the balance.

Rob Burley threatening randoms on Twitter with libel action for calling him out re: his inclusion of far right contributors to his programming.

He's claiming they'd do the same thing if it was a Tory activist berating Jeremy Corbyn, except I'm not sure they actually would and certainly not just chuck it out there without adequate context.

I hope this is really blowing up into something bigger than usual old outrage about the CBBCHQ

If they did actually point out every Tory or UKIP/Brexit activist who's gone ham at a Labour MP on Question Time they'd be covering nothing else.

xp they really wouldn’t! Remember, Jeremy Corbyn got smacked by a right-wing arsehole who snuck into a mosque and most of the commentariat were mirthful.

He's claiming they'd do the same thing if it was a Tory activist berating Jeremy Corbyn, except I'm not sure they actually would and certainly not just chuck it out there without adequate context.

The BBC certainly aren’t so forthcoming every time they’ve got Tory or UKIP councillors in the QT audience - always emerges after the fact.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17420529.question-time-faces-furious-backlash-over-audience-bias/

There are a lot of fucking truthers out there convinced that a blurry photo has him wearing a battery pack for a mic.

the bbc and baroness Laura have managed to unwittingly unite lots of people who usually spend their lives trash-talking corbyn, and concentrate all their trash talking energy towards the bbc political dept, boris and the tories for a news cycle - so job well done lads.

Whipps Cross is about ten minutes from where I grew up in London.
I used to walk through the grounds quite frequently in my teens.

it's really hard to say who's right here, let's face it.