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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2021 18:23:54 GMT
Petrol stations have closed in cambridge due to runts panic buying, no doubt it will be food and toilet rolls will be next to panic buy and the scum will have their next front cover. Tesco Royston was a complete scrum this morning, end of days stuff. |
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Post by sport✅ on Sept 24, 2021 18:57:28 GMT
Petrol stations have closed in cambridge due to runts panic buying, no doubt it will be food and toilet rolls will be next to panic buy and the scum will have their next front cover. Tesco Royston was a complete scrum this morning, end of days stuff. Like Black Friday with cars \o/ |
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Post by Reviewer on Sept 25, 2021 6:56:58 GMT
The queues at the local petrol station have already started. People are queued onto the main road which means that’s at least 6 cars plus those at the pumps. Normally at this time there’s no one.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2021 7:12:12 GMT
Went shopping at sainsbury (the pumps were shut and twats were still trying to get in, I thought the gimp in the BMW was going to run over the cones, not that it would do them any good) the store was well stocked with food unlike the tesco near me but it didn't stop these utter runt from panic buying, this "piers morgan" was just filling his trolley with chicken, beef and pizza etc. No doubt he was filling up his car and loads of jerry cans yesterday
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Post by Tomo on Sept 25, 2021 7:31:42 GMT
Hmm. It's felt like this to me in the last 6 months to a year as well. All the threats of BBC cuts, management reform, accusations of not being British enough, Tories boycotting BBC news shows, Maitlis getting reprimanded, etc seemed to dull the edge of the BBC news. But I wondered if it was just confirmation bias on my part. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2021 7:32:41 GMT
www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/24/andrew-neil-almost-had-breakdown-at-gb-newsFearless anti-woke warrior Andrew Neil, who created his own no-nonense TV channel (where people could agree with the Sun / Mail / Express / Telegraph that all teachers, doctors and nurses are workshy civil servants who use any excuse to not put in a hard days work), nearly had a breakdown and had to go on holiday because the lights didn't work properly. Who is currently looking after the worlds smallest violin, I'd like to borrow it.
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Post by Reviewer on Sept 25, 2021 7:49:02 GMT
He’s definitely trying to go for some sort of sympathy and recover his career quickly, making himself out to be some innocent victim.
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Post by Reviewer on Sept 25, 2021 7:52:31 GMT
Hmm. It's felt like this to me in the last 6 months to a year as well. All the threats of BBC cuts, management reform, accusations of not being British enough, Tories boycotting BBC news shows, Maitlis getting reprimanded, etc seemed to dull the edge of the BBC news. But I wondered if it was just confirmation bias on my part. Part of their problem is they don’t seem to have many high quality journalists or at least the resources to do the research needed. What happened to the likes of panorama doing in depth documentaries about things? They never used to feel as biased as they can do to people now because of how they were presented. Now it’s more social media driven, sound bites or recycling what the parties say with someone jabbering on about it but not a lot of depth behind it. There are a couple of good journalists there but it’s not what it was. |
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Post by Danno on Sept 25, 2021 7:54:32 GMT
www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/24/andrew-neil-almost-had-breakdown-at-gb-newsFearless anti-woke warrior Andrew Neil, who created his own no-nonense TV channel (where people could agree with the Sun / Mail / Express / Telegraph that all teachers, doctors and nurses are workshy civil servants who use any excuse to not put in a hard days work), nearly had a breakdown and had to go on holiday because the lights didn't work properly. Who is currently looking after the worlds smallest violin, I'd like to borrow it. I have a collection, how many do you need? Also, how did he get this stressed when no cunt was even watching? |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2021 8:03:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2021 8:07:29 GMT
www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/24/andrew-neil-almost-had-breakdown-at-gb-newsFearless anti-woke warrior Andrew Neil, who created his own no-nonense TV channel (where people could agree with the Sun / Mail / Express / Telegraph that all teachers, doctors and nurses are workshy civil servants who use any excuse to not put in a hard days work), nearly had a breakdown and had to go on holiday because the lights didn't work properly. Who is currently looking after the worlds smallest violin, I'd like to borrow it. I have a collection, how many do you need? Well we could establish some sort of rota to go round his house and serenade him each evening. Probably easiest just leaving one there. With a packet of wipes (for Covid, not smearing bodily fluids all over his car. Or both) |
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Post by sport✅ on Sept 25, 2021 8:16:22 GMT
Part of their problem is they don’t seem to have many high quality journalists or at least the resources to do the research needed. What happened to the likes of panorama doing in depth documentaries about things? They never used to feel as biased as they can do to people now because of how they were presented. They're all highly paid HGV drivers now. |
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Post by X201 on Sept 25, 2021 8:19:59 GMT
Hmm. It's felt like this to me in the last 6 months to a year as well. All the threats of BBC cuts, management reform, accusations of not being British enough, Tories boycotting BBC news shows, Maitlis getting reprimanded, etc seemed to dull the edge of the BBC news. But I wondered if it was just confirmation bias on my part. Part of their problem is they don’t seem to have many high quality journalists or at least the resources to do the research needed. What happened to the likes of panorama doing in depth documentaries about things? They never used to feel as biased as they can do to people now because of how they were presented. Now it’s more social media driven, sound bites or recycling what the parties say with someone jabbering on about it but not a lot of depth behind it. There are a couple of good journalists there but it’s not what it was. What do you expect when the Tories have attacked it and constantly hacked away at it, while the Great British public just sat there and did nothing to protect it. This is the classic Tory privatisation playbook in action. 1) Underfund it for decades. 2) Get the public to hate it (Well done Momentum and Scottish Nats on doing the Tory’s dirty work for them) 3) “We know what will fix it. Privatisation” (See British Rail/Gas/Telecom/ et al. Now all part, or wholly, foreign owned.) And then you really will have something to moan about. |
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Post by simple on Sept 25, 2021 8:30:04 GMT
If you listen to stuff like From Our Own Correspondent you’ll see its not for lack of talent. I think a general dumbing down across the board (social media focus etc) coupled with being terrified of issues mentioned above (cuts, reprimands, license fee, etc) has got them playing super super safe.
Plus as a state boardcaster at a time of national emergency they’re always going to become a communication tool for the government
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2021 9:19:53 GMT
The BBC have also been guilty, from Birt onwards, of regularly shooting themselves in the foot too. But they are certainly now so toothless that there is no going back to holding the government to any sort of account.
They have of course been more than ably assisted by most of the press, ever since Murdoch arrived on theses shores and began polluting every corner of the country with his foul, miasmic stench. Ask a random who killed tragic princess of fringes Diana, and it was evil Martin Bashir of the traitorous BBC, as oppose to the papers paying the paparazzi she was trying to escape from.
The genuine tragedy is that one of things Britain could most proud of on the world stage is being torn down by people who shame this country every day.
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Post by Dgzter on Sept 25, 2021 10:48:59 GMT
What do you expect when the Tories have attacked it and constantly hacked away at it, while the Great British public just sat there and did nothing to protect it. This is the classic Tory privatisation playbook in action. 1) Underfund it for decades. 2) Get the public to hate it (Well done Momentum and Scottish Nats on doing the Tory’s dirty work for them) 3) “We know what will fix it. Privatisation” (See British Rail/Gas/Telecom/ et al. Now all part, or wholly, foreign owned.) And then you really will have something to moan about. Okay, so I don't necessarily disagree with your general point and overall analysis, but just as when we used to have these discussions back on the EG forum I find your dig at 'Scottish Nats' peculiar in this context. The piece quoted above obviously comes from The National, which is the only independence supporting newspaper in Scotland; and it reflects, as I'm sure you know, a growing frustration within indy-supporting quarters and those either supportive of the Scottish government or the SNP more generally that the BBC, and in particular BBC Scotland, deliberately frame news items relating to the devolved administration, the wider independence movement, and the SNP as a party in the most unsympathetic of lights. The 'SNPbad' narrative of Twitter meme fame. And that this stands in stark contrast to the ways in which stories relating to the UK Government or the Scottish Conservatives are typically presented. (None of which is also helped by the fact that BBC Scotland's chief political editor is a known unionist, who once literally tore up an SNP manifesto booklet on the steps of Holyrood for a media clip when covering a story on a minor policy change.) Highlighting or drawing attention to this perceived discrepancy is clearly what that analysis conducted by The National is all about. Are you suggesting that they are wrong to do so? If you or I happen to have concerns that the current editorial direction of BBC Scotland is potentially tainted by political bias, is airing that criticism not valid? I don't want to see the BBC defunded, and I certainly don't want to see it privatised. But it surely can't be the case that I just need to suck it up and not criticise what I perceive to be their abject failure in negotiating the political landscape of the last ten years out of fear of enabling the Tories to sell it off? They've already installed their man as Director General, and the language coming out of his mouth, co-opting all the current buzzwords of the on-going culture wars, using 'woke' as a pejorative, nauseating tripe about a return to British values in programming etc., is ... less than encouraging. It just all feels so irretrievably fucked  |
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Post by elstoof on Sept 25, 2021 11:02:09 GMT
When do we think every fuckers car will finally have a full tank and they can’t panic buy even if they wanted to
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Post by askew on Sept 25, 2021 11:07:24 GMT
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Post by gammonbanter on Sept 25, 2021 11:08:45 GMT
When do we think every fuckers car will finally have a full tank and they can’t panic buy even if they wanted to I just want to them realise that they're scrotums. |
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Post by gammonbanter on Sept 25, 2021 11:11:22 GMT
Are they limiting supply to £30 or something similar? Actually, do they even have the ability to do that? They could wack the price up to £5 a litre (on public forecourts) that would definitely help.
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Post by sport✅ on Sept 25, 2021 11:19:02 GMT
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Post by elstoof on Sept 25, 2021 11:30:38 GMT
I don’t know if limiting supply will help much, these shithouses will just go and queue at another station straight afterwards
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Post by Tomo on Sept 25, 2021 12:19:03 GMT
Didn't Panorama get completely defanged recently because of something it exposed which the government didn't like? Can't remember exactly what it was, but seem to remember there being a specific incident.
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Post by X201 on Sept 25, 2021 13:34:07 GMT
What do you expect when the Tories have attacked it and constantly hacked away at it, while the Great British public just sat there and did nothing to protect it. This is the classic Tory privatisation playbook in action. 1) Underfund it for decades. 2) Get the public to hate it (Well done Momentum and Scottish Nats on doing the Tory’s dirty work for them) 3) “We know what will fix it. Privatisation” (See British Rail/Gas/Telecom/ et al. Now all part, or wholly, foreign owned.) And then you really will have something to moan about. Okay, so I don't necessarily disagree with your general point and overall analysis, but just as when we used to have these discussions back on the EG forum I find your dig at 'Scottish Nats' peculiar in this context. The piece quoted above obviously comes from The National, which is the only independence supporting newspaper in Scotland; and it reflects, as I'm sure you know, a growing frustration within indy-supporting quarters and those either supportive of the Scottish government or the SNP more generally that the BBC, and in particular BBC Scotland, deliberately frame news items relating to the devolved administration, the wider independence movement, and the SNP as a party in the most unsympathetic of lights. The 'SNPbad' narrative of Twitter meme fame. And that this stands in stark contrast to the ways in which stories relating to the UK Government or the Scottish Conservatives are typically presented. (None of which is also helped by the fact that BBC Scotland's chief political editor is a known unionist, who once literally tore up an SNP manifesto booklet on the steps of Holyrood for a media clip when covering a story on a minor policy change.) Highlighting or drawing attention to this perceived discrepancy is clearly what that analysis conducted by The National is all about. Are you suggesting that they are wrong to do so? If you or I happen to have concerns that the current editorial direction of BBC Scotland is potentially tainted by political bias, is airing that criticism not valid? I don't want to see the BBC defunded, and I certainly don't want to see it privatised. But it surely can't be the case that I just need to suck it up and not criticise what I perceive to be their abject failure in negotiating the political landscape of the last ten years out of fear of enabling the Tories to sell it off? They've already installed their man as Director General, and the language coming out of his mouth, co-opting all the current buzzwords of the on-going culture wars, using 'woke' as a pejorative, nauseating tripe about a return to British values in programming etc., is ... less than encouraging. It just all feels so irretrievably fucked There was a *very* long letter in Private Eye a few weeks back from Peter Hitchens, the main point of it was him objecting to the the fact that Private Eye had caught him bang to rights on a subject, but in his VERY long letter he went on to accuse Private Eye and its readership of becoming increasingly "leftist". In the following edition a reader wrote in to say that they thought that the political stance of the Eye was more or less where it has always been and that Hitchens accusation of bias came from the fact that it was he who had moved further to the right and was now looking at Private Eye from a relative perspective and interpreting it as the Eye and its readership moving left, when it's actually him who has gone right.
That's how I see the accusations of BBC bias. The BBC is pretty much where it has always been, its just that Momentum have gone further left and now interpret it as biased against them. The Scottish Nats are pushing for independence and again claim bias against themselves. The Daily Mail and Telegraph (as well as their ingrained hatred of the BBC) have moved to the right of the current Conservative Party* and again, the BBC is biased against true Conservative values.
The BBC is in a position where it is always accused of bias by someone. Its just that politics at present has veered off in so many directions staying in the centre makes you a "centrist melt" in everyone's eyes.
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Post by Dgzter on Sept 25, 2021 13:56:00 GMT
That's how I see the accusations of BBC bias. The BBC is pretty much where it has always been, its just that Momentum have gone further left and now interpret it as biased against them. The Scottish Nats are pushing for independence and again claim bias against themselves. The Daily Mail and Telegraph (as well as their ingrained hatred of the BBC) have moved to the right of the current Conservative Party* and again, the BBC is biased against true Conservative values. Cheers for the reply and setting out your position. It's not one I share, I'm afraid, particularly in relation to the political output of BBC Scotland. With a changing of the guard and under new editorial direction, their approach to domestic politics in Scotland has noticeably changed since even those halcyon days leading up to the 2014 referendum. And, to my mind, for the worse. And you may well be right about Momentum moving further to the left, and the right-wing media and tabloid press moving further to the right, being the cause for some misguided re-evaluation of the BBC's neutrality across the UK more generally. However, this surely cannot then be applied to Scottish voters still seeking self-determination, as the very point of these people is that they have not moved politically/ideologically in either direction. |
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Post by Matt A on Sept 25, 2021 14:02:03 GMT
The BBC being accused of being Pro Remain was rubbish, I think perceptively the two choices with Brexit was stay the same or make a gamble so I don't think you could report the subject and not have an implied bias towards staying the same. The biggest factor for me was economics, and if you think that in terms of economics the gamble wasn't one with any potential speculative gains, the best leaving the EU could mean was the economy wouldn't get worse. I guess medium to long term, new deals but that's not something you could predict or count on in any meaningful way.
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Post by Whizzo on Sept 25, 2021 15:00:06 GMT
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Post by askew on Sept 25, 2021 18:08:59 GMT
I see the Telegraph are angry BP blamed it on Brexit.
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Post by Whizzo on Sept 25, 2021 18:19:21 GMT
Don't mention the Brexit!
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