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UnfairRepresent
01/16/22 4:09:24 PM
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Boris Johnson has been accused of targeting the BBC in a desperate attempt to save his own premiership, as the Labour leader accused him of breaking the law by attending lockdown parties and then lying about it.

A number of Tory MPs are said to be poised to demand Johnsons resignation amid anger from constituents over allegations of a party culture in Westminster while coronavirus restrictions were in place.

There have been reports that up to 35 of the 54 letters needed to trigger a vote of no confidence are already in, though the actual number is a closely guarded secret.
As Downing Street hoped to find ways to contain the crisis, the culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, one of Johnsons most loyal allies, confirmed on Sunday the BBC licence fee will be abolished in 2027 and the broadcasters funding will be frozen for the next two years.

Though the move will force the corporation to close services and potentially make thousands of redundancies, it is likely to prove popular with Conservative party members and supporters, as well as the rightwing media who have yet to call for Johnson to quit.

The prime minister thinks those reporting on his rule-breaking should pay consequences, whilst he gets off free, said Lucy Powell, the shadow culture secretary.

Ian Murray, the shadow Scottish secretary, described the announcement as a last-ditch attempt [by Johnson] to save his failing premiership.

The BBC funding cut, which could fundamentally change the corporation as it enters its centenary year, appears to be a central theme of Johnsons fightback strategy, which is reportedly called Operation Red Meat.

Other measures said to be in the pipeline include a renewed drive to stop people crossing the Channel in small boats, measures to tackle the NHS operations backlog, extra investment in skills and lifting Covid restrictions on 26 January.
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Although the BBC had been braced for bad news for some time Johnson declared that he would consider abolishing the licence fee in the 2019 election campaign (on a day when a hospital scandal was dominating the headlines) one government insider said the announcement had not been expected this weekend.

Some Tory MPs have been particularly critical of the way the BBC has covered Johnsons latest leadership crisis, with the backbencher Michael Fabricant even claiming at the weekend that relentless coverage of anti-Johnson comments in news reports amounted to a coup attempt against the prime minister.

No 10 insiders insisted on Sunday that these reports were not a factor in the licence fee decision, which they said was the culmination of a process going on for more than a year, but the Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, claimed there was a link Slashing the funding of a beloved national treasure just because you dont like the headlines on the 6 oclock news is no way for a responsible government in a democracy to behave, he said.

With Downing Street still reeling from revelations that its staff had partied the evening before the Duke of Edinburghs funeral, it was forced to deny a claim that the prime minister failed to intervene to cancel a 20 May party last year when he had the chance.

Reynolds is one of several No 10 figures expected to leave after the senior civil servant Sue Gray publishes her report on the scandal. On Sunday Oliver Dowden, the Conservative party chair, said Johnson was committed to implementing a change of culture in Downing Street to stop these problems occurring again.

With many Tory MPs waiting until the Gray report comes out, the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, said there was no need to wait because it was already obvious that Johnson broke the law [and] then lied about what happened.

Starmer was referring to Johnsons statement to MPs last week in which he all but admitted that the party he attended at No 10 on 20 May 2020 was against the rules. Starmer said the PMs admission that he was at the event showed he was not telling the truth when he told MPs before Christmas there had been no parties at No 10.

Six Conservative MPs had publicly called for Johnsons resignation by late Sunday and one backbencher said that he knew there were a lot of letters written but not necessarily sent yet to the chair of the Conservative 1922 Committee demanding a confidence vote.

The MP said the mood in his red wall constituency had gone from anger to ridicule and that Johnson had become the butt of jokes among some who voted for him in December 2019. The backbencher said the term shitshow was used a lot last week [by Tory MPs] and that they were waiting for the forthcoming report into the partygate scandal before deciding what to do next.

James Johnson, a Tory pollster, delivered a similar insight into popular revulsion with the PM on Sunday when he tweeted the findings from focus groups carried out with long-term Conservative voters, and people who backed the party for the first time in 2019, and he reported that calls for the PM to quit were almost universal.

Full Article: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/16/boris-johnson-accused-of-targeting-bbc-to-save-his-premiership

https://youtu.be/Z-LPbvvVnM4

I'm starting to think Boris is literally worse than Trump.

At least most people hated Trump, everyone just ignores and makes excuses for Boris. And he's smarter too.

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Punished_Blinx
01/16/22 4:18:41 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
At least most people hated Trump, everyone just ignores and makes excuses for Boris.

Isn't he on extreme damage control because people aren't ignoring it?

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R1masher
01/16/22 4:20:20 PM
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My wife watches those bbc videos all the time

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Very_Unreliable
01/16/22 4:22:55 PM
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state run media is always good, how dare he cut their funding.

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spikethedevil
01/16/22 4:28:51 PM
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https://mobile.twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1482443160542396422?cxt=HHwWjICy_eeM2ZIpAAAA

Yep definitely being ignored.

As much as I want him to resign he will most likely have to be dragged out kicking and screaming.

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Xavier_On_High
01/16/22 4:35:27 PM
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As always, you're using this as an excuse to bash the British people, when in reality Boris is less popular than he's been in a long time.

People hate him, they just can't get rid of him.

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UnfairRepresent
01/16/22 4:45:59 PM
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Xavier_On_High posted...
As always, you're using this as an excuse to bash the British people, when in reality Boris is less popular than he's been in a long time.


31% still openly support him in a 19 way split and you're bragging about it as a shocking figure.
His MPs still support him.
He's literally taking down the media that doesn't support him.

And

https://youtu.be/TBGhY1FzrFk

No matter what the "Report" says, Boris can just sit on it.
Even if it leaks, Boris can just ignore it.

People hate him, they just can't get rid of him.

It's almost like Tories got an 80 seat majority due to the population overwhelmingly supporting him which is why they can't get rid of him.

It's also almost like this is Boris' 11th or 12th scandal that would have killed anyone who wasn't a Tory in their tracks and in a month or two, people will move on and Boris will still be PM.

Boris is a horrible horrible man but you can't let the British people off the hook for this. Even now a massive chunk of the country doesn't care and a third still supports Boris. The reason why we're still in this jam, the reason why Brexit happened, the reason why the NHS /HGVs are in crisis is because the country is too right wing and keeps making excuses for their problems.

That's not "Bashing British People" it's completely valid criticism. Which to be honest we need a lot more of. It's been like this for what? Nearly 20 years now?

Remember what happened when the Lib Dems tried to give the Tories a chance in the coalition? I bet you don't.

I'll give you a clue: It was a different chours of the same damn song.

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Xavier_On_High
01/16/22 4:50:31 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Remember what happened when the Lib Dems tried to give the Tories a chance in the coalition? I bet you don't.

Dude, shut the fuck up, I voted in that election.

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FurryPhilosifer
01/16/22 4:51:28 PM
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Aw, but he's trying his best! He's so personable with his not at all fake chummy buffoonery.

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FortuneCookie
01/16/22 4:51:41 PM
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British Trump strikes again!
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UnfairRepresent
01/16/22 4:51:54 PM
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Then why are you more angry at me than Boris if that's true?

You know I am right.

https://youtu.be/PDNZX2nql2Y

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StarsOfCCTV
01/16/22 4:59:33 PM
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It's for the best. It's silly that if I watch ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, any other Ad supported channel or any Satellite TV channel live then I need to pay a fee 170 a year.

It's also pretty impossible to enforce. How are you going to know if someone is watching iPlayer or streaming live TV.


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FurryPhilosifer
01/16/22 5:01:52 PM
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StarsOfCCTV posted...
It's also pretty impossible to enforce. How are you going to know if someone is watching iPlayer or streaming live TV.
TV detector vans of course!

My preferred method is that the license fee is replaced with a tax and the BBC's programming is reduced in scope for entertainment stuff.

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David1988
01/16/22 5:06:59 PM
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List BBC sluts in politics

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spikethedevil
01/16/22 6:13:57 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


Shes regenerating in the Autumn and why would they cancel one of their highest rated shows?

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FortuneCookie
01/16/22 6:55:07 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


It's okay. The show can still be done on a budget:

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Zikten
01/16/22 7:27:20 PM
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spikethedevil posted...


Shes regenerating in the Autumn and why would they cancel one of their highest rated shows?

Do we know who the 14th Doctor is?
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Kami_no_Kami
01/16/22 7:30:40 PM
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List more BBC Johnsons in politics.
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spikethedevil
01/16/22 7:31:18 PM
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Zikten posted...
Do we know who the 14th Doctor is?

Not yet.

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Xavier_On_High
01/16/22 10:51:48 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Then why are you more angry at me than Boris if that's true?

Baby, how can you say that? You know I'm more angry at Boris than at you

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Background_Guy
01/16/22 10:53:52 PM
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The British people saw the US go crazy under Trump for two years... and then they chose to elect their own copy of Trump. Seriously nuts, yo.
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BlackBlueButts
01/16/22 10:54:44 PM
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Boris likes his steak and oven chips.

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UnfairRepresent
01/17/22 1:00:13 AM
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Background_Guy posted...
The British people saw the US go crazy under Trump for two years... and then they chose to elect their own copy of Trump. Seriously nuts, yo.
There's a lot of that going around sadly

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kuwab0
01/17/22 1:01:30 AM
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BlackBlueButts posted...
Boris likes his steak and oven chips.
VeGAN Sausage Rolls

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Kakapo
01/17/22 1:12:41 AM
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Petty autocrat does something petty and autocratic

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UnfairRepresent
01/19/22 6:47:00 AM
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Kakapo posted...
Petty autocrat does something petty and autocratic
and keeps getting away with it

Tories will still win the next election

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UnfairRepresent
01/20/22 6:36:54 PM
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https://youtu.be/bgq4fw6o8Gc
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ScazarMeltex
01/20/22 6:49:57 PM
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Nope, nothing authoritatian here, move along.

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UnfairRepresent
01/22/22 4:13:00 PM
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He's also now removing all covid restrictions as a PR MOVE to save his skin

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spikethedevil
01/22/22 9:55:40 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
He's also now removing all covid restrictions as a PR MOVE to save his skin

Massive facepalm at this decision.

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kingdrake2
01/22/22 10:00:43 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
He's also now removing all covid restrictions as a PR MOVE to save his skin


it'll be his 14th scandal soon enough. they're all going to get sick.
all the ones who aren't vaccinated anyway.

shit doesn't last very long if boost vaccinated and wont end up clogging a hospital 90% of the time.
though quarantining for 5-10 days sucks.

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