James Cartlidge getting hung out to dry by Victoria Derbyshire, as he tried to bullshit his way out of the fact that the tory govt decimated our military, and that Kemi Badenoch would have had us involved in an illegal, catastrophic war

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Quite refreshing to hear a proper journalist grill a government minister in a grown-up manner, without resorting to lame attempts at childish gotchas

Give Victoria Derbyshire this gig permanently please BBC

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Wes Streeting on with Victoria Derbyshire, and not looking wholly shocked that Donald Trump and JD Vance are not the expert negotiators they claimed to be

Quick to chuck in the 'not our war' line too, and rightly remind everyone Nigel Farage & Kemi Badenoch backed it

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PROPER JOURNALISM ALERT:

Victoria Derbyshire is standing in for Laura Kuenssberg this morning

This is not a drill

#BBCLaurak is safe to watch

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Tom Skinner on #bbcqt, now Zia Yusuf on Laura Kuenssberg

What is it about unelected representatives of Reform appearing on BBC shows?

I wonder if John McAndrew, former head of Reform propaganda channel GB News, and Robbie Gibb appointee, might know?

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The only minor consolation of having the awful Michael Gove on Laura Kuenssberg this morning, is that it offers a reason to revisit this classic

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The whole purpose of Laura Kuenssberg this morning seems to be to make people panic as much as possible about war and energy

Now, Kemi Badenoch, whose bootlicking of Donald Trump would have had us fully involved in this war, making everything far worse

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Laura Kuenssberg ignoring the advice from Bridget Phillipson, and trying to panic her audience into believing there are going to be fuel shortages

More irresponsible scaremongering masquerading as journalism

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Ed Miliband having a reasonable tilt at trying to get through an entire interview, without calling Donald Trump an orange shit gibbon who hasn't got a clue what he's doing in the Middle East, or anywhere for that matter

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Because The BBC are all about impartiality and balance, I've no doubt there will be a feature on Laura Kuenssberg at some point, about the story on Reform's patriotic, man of the people, Richard Tice

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Whatever your thoughts on Starmer, The UK is much more likely to handle this Iran shit show in a rational fashion with him as PM

Supposed patriots like Kemi Badenoch, and Nigel Farage for that matter, would have just done whatever Trump told them to

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Kemi Badenoch:

"In case you haven't noticed, this party is under new leadership now"

Keir Starmer:

"Well yes, a lot of them certainly have a new leader, they're sat over with their new party now"

LOL

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Gutted I missed the combative interview between Laura Kuenssberg & Boris Johnson, where she challenged him over revelations in the Epstein Files about his collusion with Steve Bannon to undermine UK democracy

I only missed it, because it never happened

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Did I go to bed and wake up in 2022?

Why is Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Boris Johnson?

Is the greased piglet on the grift? Has the scruffy sack of shit run out of money again?

Why would we need to hear his thoughts on anything?

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I'm quite enjoying the overwhelming contempt that Billy Bragg clearly has for Jake Berry, who seems to be struggling to remember which party he represents these days, as he repeatedly defends the woeful record of the previous govt

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An initially interesting interview with Yvette Cooper predictably pivots to the usual BBC News agenda

Why are we having to endure Laura Kuenssberg anyway? Thought it was Victoria Derbyshire today?

You can't go making promises like that and then not delivering

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Kemi Badenoch hasn't thought those seat placings through

Nobody is listening to a word she is saying, as most people are looking at Mark Francois, sat immediately alongside her, and wondering what the fuck he is doing there

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Still huge amounts to do, but 'members of the public aren't seeing any change', because even in the areas where progress has been made, the likes of Laura Kuenssberg, Chris Mason, Henry Zeffman & co simply don't report it

The Robbie Gibb effect

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Kemi Badenoch states that the appointment of Peter Mandelson harmed the 'special relationship' with The US

Given that Donald Trump features in the Epstein files even more than Mandelson, and no doubt approved, if not requested his appointment, I doubt that

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Whether you'd vote for him or not, Zack Polanski has undoubtedly added an important extra perspective to political conversation in this country, which can only be a good thing

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As Davos is high on the agenda of Laura Kuenssberg this morning, presumably she'll be discussing the fact that Nigel Farage attended to 'stick it to the elites & globalist billionaires', only to find out he was there on behalf of a globalist billionaire

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The sacking him after finding a copy of his resignation letter before defecting to Reform part is true

As for the typos who knows, but is quite possible 😄

It is true

I can't vouch for the typos though

Kemi Badenoch:

"I showed strong leadership when faced with disloyalty & sacked Robert Jenrick."

Keir Starmer:

"She'd just read the resignation letter he'd left on the photocopier. What else was she going to do? Correct the typo's & hand it back to him?" 😄

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Such disingenuous, cheap point scoring from Kemi Badenoch

The tories & Reform might as well speed up the slow, painful merger that is currently taking place, & then all the unpatriotic, pro-Trump, bandwagon jumpers can be together

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Kay Burley says Boris Johnson reckons that outside of Parliament, no-one cares about MP defections

Just a thought, but their actual constituents who voted for them & who they were elected to represent might?

Tells you everything about the Westminster & media bubble

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Nigel Farage didn't get clearance from his handlers in Moscow and Washington to make an appearance this morning

So it's left to Richard Tice to awkwardly row back on their unpatriotic support of Trump

It's quite painful to listen to

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"I'm a bit horrified by what you've just said"

Good to see, Lisa Nandy refusing to take the childish bait from Laura Kuenssberg on a number of occasions this morning

Still think her best response would ultimately be to give Robbie Gibb the boot though

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Nathan Gill
His own connections to Russia
His unpatriotic bootlicking of Trump
His house in Clacton
His tax
His racist past

Just a few questions Nigel Farage didn't fancy answering on Laura Kuenssberg today

Dubai based patriot Richard Tice standing in for him

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"Any politician who continues to defend a tech billionaire who has enabled online abuse, forfeits the right to claim they are concerned about protecting women & children."

I think they were talking about Nigel Farage, but he just seemed to think it was funny. As usual

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