Alex J-W

Clowns

So I am agreeing with you but that it won’t necessarily be material change to inflation/costs but perspective of it?

Media (new and old) can heavily skew. We have been here before in 2010 with the debt and immigration - where public perspective and reality are often quite far apart??

Agreed but once that is set in no amount of pay rises will change that perspective. As in our mind it’s going to be quite a while to change that perspective. Compared to say someone buying for the first time might not consider it expensive? This feels like it’s sinking into a vibes thing which

But prices have always gone up so this is maybe more about perspective? Or scale?

Worse in terms of the capacity to make national change. So much unnecessary duplication.

Do they understand their own history even???

It’s all so depressing and obvious at the time that when trusts were the majority we’d have the same problems as with LAs some good some bad and overall little evidence of outcomes (whatever they are) being significantly better as a whole. Just a much more complex and difficult to change sector…

Would be very interesting to see but would need to compare with LA costs I guess.

But uts not Europe’s fault or their responsibility to fix

I think they are just hitting out because they didn’t want this. Sadly be no trapped in a country where politicians seem held to hostage by lunatics

Opinion poll be turned into life changing policy. Amazing how the political establishment pretty much ignores the needs/desires of the public eg Iraq war but in this one issue with the tiniest slither of a mandate they went full on. Despicable failure of democracy rather than the opposite

It’s a reaction to the idiocy of the referendum when people’s rights and way of life were radically changed by a tiny majority made up of mostly people for whom it probably didn’t make much of a difference either way. Everything afterwards has been a reaction to the stupidity of allowing a glorified

No mate it really isn’t your job to pass judgement on our behalf. What a weasel

Assumed this had already happened

Seriously how can anyone publish something like this on the bbc. When did it turn into opinion columns the absolute dirge of newspaper publishing

The right do outrage better than the left - although the ‘left’ seem pretty good a few years ago at getting shorty about some use of language

To linekers tweets compared to wall to wall appearances of Farage and how ukip and reform were often bumped up the headlines etc

I think this is how the Overton window has got moved - the right will complain irrespective of content - but when you dig its normal about the comedy or drama rather than the news per se. Or even complaining that the BBC for presenting facts which do not conform with prejudice. Compare the response

The problem is print media is now become heavily controlled by oligarchs pushing very specific rhetoric as such reporting on the often with no comment just gives massive amplification to what’s become propaganda. Of your case is it’s not as bad as gb news I am not sure that is a great defence..

No I don’t accept that newspapers need to be reported anymore given how small their readership is

I wonder if it’s the website

But anything else would require knowledge and research to qualities I have long since given up with where Laura Whistledown is concerned

And the BBC is now complicit in amplifying these messages just as they were with Brexit and austerity before….

Time for the gov to flex its muscles with bbc news - I used to accept that the bbc would not want to criticise gov too strongly during the Tory years but it’s reporting is now completely hostile to the current gvt. Not sure a national broadcaster can sustain this….

BBC live news feed has this on the Sunday paper headlines. I know you are scrolling for the none right wing nut job papers but this was it. Broken bbc news continues. No doubt the other papers will be packaged in an other post but why do these always seem to lead. Why is print
Leading bbc news?

'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't.

'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't.

'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.

This is grim: ‘Professor Deborah Prentice revealed that counterparts at Russell Group universities had been "meeting with key people from Reform" and that "we've had people" doing the same, according to leaked comments made last week.’ VCs are already trying to please the far-right.

But but we want a gotcha desperately…

And the failure of bbc news for the last 15 years