This is just weird now. This article even contains a lengthy & detailed dismissal of the confected ‘scandal’ from the *only qualified person prepared to go on the record*…
https://www.thetimes.com/article/4bb9dd14-f311-4b50-a51f-ba84a085ef1e?shareToken=11bc090c6b96be7222d544c3e6b46fcd
https://www.thetimes.com/article/4bb9dd14-f311-4b50-a51f-ba84a085ef1e?shareToken=11bc090c6b96be7222d544c3e6b46fcd
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Tory Bank Robber = Labour shoplifter!
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/07/13/failed-firms-and-cv-boasts-little-known-new-reform-uk-mps-past-comes-under-scrutiny/
My oh my! What a scandal!
And ReformPLC's finances?
What sums are we looking (or rather not) at there?
It is their MO: Brush over Tory transgressions, falsely equivilate & shine a light on Labour errors. At present, 85% of UK media is effectively operating as the Official Opposition.
It has been neither neutral nor reliable for news for longer than that...
These days I live on the continent (thankfully), Dutch public broadcast news is much better, and Belgian(Flemish) output (for a 5M audience) puts them both to shame (on most subjects).
1. Why has the employer kept the documents this long - GDPR states 6 years max once the matter is closed?
2. The employer who released confidential internal info when it is a private company have breached GDPR therefore Reeves can sue them.
The Times article.
BBC should be reorganised much as happened in Poland when Tusk closed TVP.
I had been starting to worry that Reeves was failing. But the sudden rush to smear her (no jingle available) tells me she's doing really well.
A competent economist with labor party leanings & massive majority.
She is laying the foundations for a gradual clawback of the public assets & revenue the Tories switched to those owning them.
So the MSM must attack her & mobilise the hard of thinking readers.
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/history/the-english-city-that-slipped-into-the-sea/
The initial BBC “story” is an excruciatingly dull read which is always a key tell that there is no actual story.
And they still keep pushing it
And now The Times has joined in on the non-story
I have concerns about Labour’s naive economic policies but this is just pish.
I noticed on the late news last night here in Scotland, Vance's incorrect statements about the abortion clinic buffer zone were presented, with absolutely no comment on their inaccuracy.
News isn't supposed to be whatever confected outrage the right wing MSM decide to give focus to.
Most decent people want to be reliably informed of real breaking news.
Factual, truthful reports, not biased, petty political gossip. Represent the people not bosses
Freedom of the press does not mean that right wing billionaires should be able to dictate their agendas to client journalists and the public just has to suck it up.
The UK has to avoid a Musk/Trump style coup #Breturn
Chris Mason, cringeworthy, the Uriah Heep of political journalists.
Bruce is abysmal on BBCQT, and their *top* two, Kuenssberg and Robinson, don't even bother to hide blue rosettes.
Yet BBC has Victoria Derbyshire, Clive Myrie - both so much better
The May and Johnson appointees now dominate the board.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68999222.amp
Very uncritical of the source of initial allegation: a gammon Trump supporter with an axe to grind.
Someone somewhere is drip feeding this & the press is lapping it up.
https://bsky.app/profile/athanklesstask.bsky.social/post/3li2ly5ekn22b
That’s not how cabinet positions work 😂
It's Linkedin. The least authoritative source on the internet, where people can freely type anything they like and not be fact checked.
It’s always about the biscuits with you people.
*hastily shuts cupboard door behind him as packet upon packet tumbles out*
I bet you go straight for the chocolate digestives in meetings.
I do of course lick all the other biscuits as well.
Let's try to end this corruption rather than victimise the underlying.
In terms of throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks, they've certainly pasta red line marking the boundary of the ridiculous.
I wonder if you'll ever come to realise that, much what was written about Corbyn wasn't true or accurate. It was fabricated, exaggerated to make him lose.
That got less coverage than reeves linked in profile.
What a joke @bbc-politics.bsky.social
How low the BBC political "journalism" has sunk.
For those struggling with how far down into the dirt this story has had to dig.
"Just Dance" by Lady Gaga was top of the UK single chart when this apparently happened.
Osama Bin Laden was still alive.
Fred Goodwin of RBS excessive spending fame was still a "Sir"
Our press, ( Liz Truss voice)
'Is a disgrace'
"The same expense claim also shows Reeves billed the company £9.40 for sweets for her team, £4.92 for biscuits for an away day and £1.34 for a birthday card."
According to an anonymous source.
Though apparently, she only watches TV, so she can chat at the water dispenser with the other girls from the accounts typing pool.
Massively frustrating to see people wilfully misled.
How much was paid for PPE?
How much was spent at the Downing Street Covid parties?
How much did it cost for Boris to redecorate No 10?
Tired of lies shouted loud and corrections mewled between the Corby trouser press ads.
What about Rees mogg?
Sunak?
I'm all for hounding out corruption and can't stand labour. But can we prioritise pursuing the big offenders please?
It’s just constant bullshit thrown at a sitting government. No different to Fox News now unfortunately.
"She did not face any disciplinary action .... All expenses were submitted and signed off in the proper way."
Investigative journalism at it's very finest.
That BBC? 🤔
Still have a soft spot for the BBC but it’s news team, bar a couple of them, eg Victoria Derbyshire has gone soft on their ability to hold people to account.
If a non-conservative politician hasn't dotted an 'i' or crossed a 't' years ago, the conservative media explodes with rage.
Rupert has to go NOW.
The truth and evidence do not matter.
The Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Express etc are no longer seeking to find out the truth. Smear and lies.
I'm just surprised that you find it weird. It's what they do.
All the quality independent journalists left.
You have lickspittlesand dross talking about upholding BBC values. While toeing the Tories line.
🤔
I wonder who owns it..... )
This ‘in-depth investigation’ into a non-story has forced me to rethink.
It’s petty and agenda driven.
They both, along with Tim Davie should be removed from office.
It's quite clear that circumstances have changed and the liars on the right no longer play by an established set of rules.
Come on Times, what happened to your investigative skills?
Murdoch again?
Staggering the lengths being gone to in order to find a story here. No attempts to do likewise with the former govt, let alone the Russian £ links to both Tory and Reform parties? I’m sure @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social will have a view
The people who own the media are scared of what Labour will need to do to their unfettered wealth and will do anything & everything to undermine them.
Pathetic.
Exactly what we need right now 💪
misogyny?
* Nothing.
** It isn't.
https://bsky.app/profile/klarleonard.bsky.social/post/3li7g7yshic2c
campaign’s “Obama is not American” baseless crap set to destabilise the opposition. Shameful!
I got a ‘c’ in maths..
Which is more than most of the heads of our major banks!