A Political Thread pt. 2

[Saintjay]

Good Morning Britain episode leads to 8,200 complaints to Ofcom

Media regulator Ofcom is assessing two controversial interviews on Monday's episode of the ITV show.

www.bbc.co.uk

I'm finding this whole thing a bit overblown. I'm curious, all the Tory politicians involved in hosting on the likes of GBN and LBC, have they ever interviewed fellow MPs? I feel like they must have at some point.

Depends if the Tory MP's were also interviewing there husband, wife or partner i guess. If they're unbiased and impartial i can't see the issue. I can see how others might think it's not possible.

Then again GMB don't exactly go in for asking difficult or probing questions that are likely to get Balls in the dog house when he gets home.

Personally i think he was a tad condescending with Sultana but still think it's all a storm in a tea cup.

 

[ncurd]

Depends if the Tory MP's were also interviewing there husband, wife or partner i guess. If they're unbiased and impartial i can't see the issue. I can see how others might think it's not possible.

Then again GMB don't exactly go in for asking difficult or probing questions that are likely to get Balls in the dog house when he gets home.

Personally i think he was a tad condescending with Sultana but still think it's all a storm in a tea cup.

Well one major difference is that Ed Balls isn't an MP and hasn't been one for some time.

But I agree GMB hardly dresses itself up as a news program and they gave time to the Shadown Home Secretary. Whom on this matter I'm guessing was largely supportive of the government.

This said I'd remove Balls from interviewing politicians anyway whilst his wife is a member of governement.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Balls interviewing his wife was a ludicrous editorial decision. GMB may not be a hard hitting news programme but it still regularly interviews politicians and has a decent audience. It will hard enough for Balls to be impartial regardless, but interviewing your wife?

Mind you, Cooper showed a remarkable lack of judgement too - she should have declined to be interviewed by him.

Perceptions of conflicts of interest are as damaging as actual conflicts.

 

[Amiga500]

Did he ask decent questions that others would have asked?

Did he get decent answers to the questions he asked?

If answer to both of the above is "yes", then what's the problem?

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Massive Conflict of interest. Perception matters.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Deckchairs on the T.itanic come to mind

 

[Which Tyler]

Drone footage of the fascist rally in Brighton last night

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Did he ask decent questions that others would have asked?

Did he get decent answers to the questions he asked?

If answer to both of the above is "yes", then what's the problem?

If you'd have been happy ahead of an Eng v Ire game to see Wayne Barnes reffing we'll leave it at that. There's a reason for going the neutrality route and I'd say that's pretty important when holding elected politicians to account on national TV.

Never watched GB news but if you had Tory MPs interviewing each other, that's just nuts too.

 

[General Melchett]

It was a bad call IMO. If Balls wipes the floor with a Tory or Reform politician (like he did with Farage when quizzing him on the economic aspects of his manifesto) in the future then he's leaving himself wide open to being accused of being biased and inconsistent. Some may even accuse him directly on air. Some opposition MPs may even have a dig at Cooper when she's answering questions in the HoC.

I suspect he and Cooper wanted their Richard and Judy moment on TV but it was a bad call IMO. They'd have been better off going on Celebrity Pointless after she leaves office.

 

[General Melchett]

Hopefully last night was a turning point with the riots that were feared.

I wonder if the lengthy prison sentences and mugshots of those sent down being plastered all over the media did the trick. The anti racism demonstrators demonstrated how to demonstrate against racism. No need for violence. Just shows what a bunch of mindless thugs the far right are.

I also saw a bit of Farage's youtube update where he was trying to distance himself from the riots and was also having a moan about needing extra security. He really is the worst of the worst. He knows full well what the consequences of his words could be and yet he doesn't have the balls to own his part in it all and tries to play the victim.

 

[Which Tyler]

The real story of the website accused of fuelling Southport riots

The BBC tracks down a Canadian hockey player, a dad in Pakistan and a Texan named Kevin linked to Channel3Now.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

Labour donor bags plum UK Treasury job

Banker Ian Corfield is appointed to a top role in the civil service just months after donating thousands of pounds to Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

www.politico.eu

Not a good look

 

[Reiser99]

Labour donor bags plum UK Treasury job

Banker Ian Corfield is appointed to a top role in the civil service just months after donating thousands of pounds to Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

www.politico.eu

Not a good look

Definitely. It's disappointing that already they seem to be trying to influence civil servants with people who support them.

I did find it laughable though that the Tory MP felt he could criticise it though.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Definitely. It's disappointing that already they seem to be trying to influence civil servants with people who support them.

I did find it laughable though that the Tory MP felt he could criticise it though.

Whilst the hypocrisy is laughable, ultimately someone needs to point out the appearance of impropriety.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Definitely. It's disappointing that already they seem to be trying to influence civil servants with people who support them.

I did find it laughable though that the Tory MP felt he could criticise it though.

It's kind of his job.

Now Labour are in power and in the spotlight, guess what, we're going to find out they're pretty fallible too. Just hope for all of us they don't plumb the same depths as the latter years of the Tories.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

The real story of the website accused of fuelling Southport riots

The BBC tracks down a Canadian hockey player, a dad in Pakistan and a Texan named Kevin linked to Channel3Now.

www.bbc.co.uk

and here I thought the Charlottetown reds were such nice guys

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

Some pretty wild tweets in there, but I'll let others find them

 

[McTallshort]

Didn't realise Britain First was founded by a vicar

Belfast violence outrageous, says far-right campaigner

Jim Dowson criticises those behind trouble after an anti-immigration protest.

www.bbc.com

 

[Amiga500]

If you'd have been happy ahead of an Eng v Ire game to see Wayne Barnes reffing we'll leave it at that.

Ah, but this is people complaining about Wayne Barnes after the game even if he called it straight down the middle.

That's a pretty crucial difference.

 

[Amiga500]

Labour donor bags plum UK Treasury job

Banker Ian Corfield is appointed to a top role in the civil service just months after donating thousands of pounds to Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

www.politico.eu

Not a good look

Dunno.

Who did the appointing?

If it were entirely other civil servants who knew nothing of the donations, is that not fair game?

Or is the problem not just direction from above on who to hire, but on what the hired may do in the job that is impartial?