10 Downing Street "Senior communications aide" attempts to ban Journalists

Comedians become "successful" by getting gigs on TV, so guess why there aren't many successful "right of centre" comedians, could it be because TV companies don't want to risk offending by hiring them?
 
Government shouldn't be able to pick and choose but at the same time some of today's "media outlets" are just pure propaganda, they start from the basis of being anti-Brexit or anti-Trump and just make up their stories from there. We're not quite up there with the USA yet but Brexit coverage has still been heavily biased. Corporations need to be made just as accountable as government and fines isn't enough with the money they make.
 
mmj_uk said:
Government shouldn't be able to pick and choose but at the same time some of today's "media outlets" are just pure propaganda, they start from of the basis of being anti-brexit or anti-Trump and just make up their stories from there. We're not quite up there with the USA yet but Brexit coverage has still been heavily biased. Corporations need to be made just as accoutnable as government and fines isn't enough with the money they make.
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As accountable as Government?

That's laughable given Boris is never held to account for the rubbish and lies he comes out with.

Or how the Brexit campaign lied about £350m go the NHS.
 
mmj_uk said:
Government shouldn't be able to pick and choose but at the same time some of today's "media outlets" are just pure propaganda, they start from the basis of being anti-Brexit or anti-Trump and just make up their stories from there. We're not quite up there with the USA yet but Brexit coverage has still been heavily biased. Corporations need to be made just as accountable as government and fines isn't enough with the money they make.
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Are you similarly outraged at the 40 years of lies about the EU?
 
As one of the older people on this forum, I'm horrified that some people think it's OK for the government to cut off access to publications they don't like, and avoid any real scrutiny of what they're up to by the press. This is the road to Putin-style dictatorship. What next, a new Ministry of Truth making all other news outlets illegal ?
 
Quartz said:
Except they didn't lie. The claim that they did was thrown out of court.
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Except they did lie, it was just decided that it's allowed. Like I say, no accountability.

Making a false statement about statistics does not amount to misconduct in public office, High Court judges said, as they explained why Boris Johnson will not face a private prosecution for claims he made during the EU referendum campaign.
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https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-johnson-court-bus-claim_uk_5d1c9bc0e4b082e55372c5d0
 
wozzizname said:
As one of the older people on this forum, I'm horrified that some people think it's OK for the government to cut off access to publications they don't like,
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As one of the older people on this forum I'm horrified that some people think it's okay for state-funded broadcasters to be blatantly biased.
 
Quartz said:
As one of the older people on this forum I'm horrified that some people think it's okay for state-funded broadcasters to be blatantly biased.
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As one of the older posters on here I'm horrified you get turned on by cats having sex.

How great is it being able to make unsubstantiated claims?
 
wesimmo said:
As accountable as Government?

That's laughable given Boris is never held to account for the rubbish and lies he comes out with.

Or how the Brexit campaign lied about £350m go the NHS.
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They promised the funding would be given to the NHS, even though it wasn't ever stated that the NHS would be receiving the entirety of the £350m, the bus simply said "We send £350m to the EU, let's fund the NHS instead".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44495598
 
wesimmo said:
No they didn't.

That is a promise made by May some time after the Referendum campaign.
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Let's establish something here, the Leave campaign wasn't a party running for government, it couldn't actually make specific promises on anything. When it said "We send £350m to the EU, let's fund the NHS instead", it wasn't a lie in any sense. We did send £350m a week to the NHS as a gross figure, and following that was a broad suggestion that we fund the NHS instead.

Yet despite that, to appease Remainers, Theresa May actually promised that additional level of funding to the NHS, but even still you act like that never happened. It's boring and pathetic.
 
Roar87 said:
Let's establish something here, the Leave campaign wasn't a party running for government, it couldn't actually make specific promises on anything. When it said "We send £350m to the EU, let's fund the NHS instead", it wasn't a lie in any sense. We did send £350m a week to the NHS as a gross figure, and following that was a broad suggestion that we fund the NHS instead.

Yet despite that, to appease Remainers, Theresa May actually promised that additional level of funding to the NHS, but even still you act like that never happened. It's boring and pathetic.
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What's boring and pathetic is trying to rewrite history.

The implication of the billboard was clear, and it was a lie.

A lie that Boris Johnson, amongst a plethora of lies about the EU both before and during the campaign, was happy to get behind.

He's then continued to lie about the EU while he was campaigning to be PM. And if he didn't lie he showed a scary ignorance of EU law considering he's supposed to be negotiating a deal.

That May then provided a small part of the required funding to properly support the NHS and attributed it in part to Brexit doesn't make the billboard any less if a lie at the time.
 
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