"The UK is so vulnerable to being influenced by money coming in from people like Musk into our political system because we don't have any checks and balances." Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas discusses Musk and British politics. #Newsnight - ThreadSky

bbcnewsnight.bsky.social • 51 days ago

"The UK is so vulnerable to being influenced by money coming in from people like Musk into our political system because we don't have any checks and balances."

Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas discusses Musk and British politics.

#Newsnight

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d3rrick.bsky.social•51 days ago

Listen people. Listen to Caroline Lucas. She is, once again, right.

rosetriangle.bsky.social•51 days ago

I would say say newsnight is complicit in obfuscating the lobbying that occurs in politics

romylangford.bsky.social•51 days ago

ANOTHER DISGRACEFUL so called intervw the BBC has done wth Far Right US propagandists.DO NOT spend MY £ on this unhinged crap.Especially if like @faisalislam.bsky.social u fail to robustly counteract wth facts!The cretin saidJess never saw 1 victim,FI weakly said "some".She held their hands in court

romylangford.bsky.social•51 days ago

US Trumpers on BBC extolling Trump expansionism &a new "frontier" except of course whn it's Russia or China.
Then lies abt LA fires,then says the most egregious lies abt @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social .He obviously has NO knowledge of UK politics but bbc platform him.Starmer needs to sort this.

simonr13.bsky.social•51 days ago

The shameful truth.
We should not be open to these foreign agitators.

sueafc.bsky.social•51 days ago

Wake the fuck up Britain.

nickrider.bsky.social•51 days ago

US techbro Joe Lonsdale spouts fake stories on LA fires, Jess Phillips UK economy etc. @faisalislam.bsky.social didn’t interrupt cept with chummy ‘Joe you’re an interesting guy but..’ ! Muskites try to impose lies by repetition, so must be challenged. Sycophantic interviews suggest BBC has given up

andreas-tweets.bsky.social•51 days ago

I thought that Labour would’ve been all over this, but hey, maybe they’re worried about losing foreign contributions made directly or indirectly to themselves.
Shame on Labour…

adampellindeeve.bsky.social•50 days ago

This has always been the case but it tends to stay in the shadows. One good thing about Musk is that his narcissism is providing a spotlight for a problem that the establishment media would prefer to ignore.

tonero72.bsky.social•51 days ago

Listening to Newsnightlast night was chilling. Stark reality vs an alternative universe.
The four horses of the apocalypse.
1. Overpopulation: quadrupled in my lifetime.
2. Depletion of resources and natural world.
3. Global warming.
4. Information technology: vulnerability and disinformation.

exilefromgroggs.bsky.social•51 days ago

There's more. Musk has enough wealth to influence whole economies - even before inauguration. If he decides he wishes to harm the UK government, he can interfere in "the markets". It was never imagined that "the markets" could be influenced by individual political wills.

exilefromgroggs.bsky.social•51 days ago

(Good to see Newsnight on bsky, by the way.)

usmansmith.bsky.social•51 days ago

The UK parliament has been bought & sold since before the Rotten Boroughs.
The mother of parliament's has some public spirited souls, but most souls were sold long ago.
Look at what an MP is paid by those who did not vote for them but want to influence them.

willsig.bsky.social•49 days ago

Here’s one example of the facts you will never get from Regime media

WARNING - very harrowing:

stoicped.bsky.social•51 days ago

Beggars belief that Lucas talks about the truth then quotes Valencia as being flooded due to climate change. In 1957 Valencia was flooded so the built dams and no problems further. Guess what, they removed them to reinstall natural rivers.

bellfieldboy1960.bsky.social•51 days ago

There was no discussion. It was a typical BBC charade of talk without any information and absolutely no discussion that I could recognise as such. Newsnight is a shadow of itself under Esme Wren and shows the grip of Robbie Gibb at every editorial crux. Facile and irrelevant self serving media churn

rabelaisi.bsky.social•47 days ago

Could we please have a channel which carries no news about the USA - at least for the next 4 years.

edgraham.bsky.social•51 days ago

Murdoch press was doing it for years and he is Australian.

Labour are just annoyed as Elon is negative about them. Had he been positive we would not be hearing a thing about this!

debeva49.bsky.social•51 days ago

Don't forget politicians being influenced and accepting money from Israeli lobbyists 💰💰💰💰 totally corrupted and bought.

konstantlady.bsky.social•50 days ago

I agree, and why is the reform leader always on tv when they only have 5 MP’s why not put the liberal party MP’s in the tv more there are 70 of them. I now skip all media where reform are talking, as they add so little truth to the debate.

4joedirt.bsky.social•47 days ago

While watching the confirmation hearing, it's obvious how unqualified and ignorant Pete Hegseth is. In no world should he be confirmed. However, we have already lost our war against fascism & our representatives have no guts so he will be confirmed. He will be Hitler's right hand man, I mean Trump's

red-jones.bsky.social•49 days ago

No, you just focus on running the country, and less on him. He's best off worrying about his own country's problems anyway.

robe87.bsky.social•51 days ago

Let's clamp down on the billionaires bankrolling the madbunch of clowns

aloft1961.bsky.social•51 days ago

Nor did the U.S. and look what’s happened to us.

len-day.bsky.social•51 days ago

The government has to be more dynamic in its response to people such as that Musk character, otherwise he and his ilk will run rings round them.

sheanndie.bsky.social•50 days ago

It seems the US doesnt have checks and balances either.

awheatley24.bsky.social•51 days ago

Re the issue of Trump blaming the Californian Governor for not allowing the water, (actually in a different part of the state) much as I admire C Lucas I don't think one can just say don't discuss Trump's load of rubbish, because it is helpful to have the details to correct the myths on S Media.

just-me123.bsky.social•51 days ago

There were plenty of 'checks and balances' when it looked like Corbyn could win.

etgokmen.bsky.social•51 days ago

Please someone tell me what happened the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA)’s £500 max. donation treshold from a foreigner?

timlagor.bsky.social•49 days ago

Hope she mentioned Tufton street and your rabid enthusiasm for IEA spox

annika777.bsky.social•51 days ago

Neither do we, anymore.

huzee.bsky.social•51 days ago

and with that Newnight provided a platform to Joe Lonsdale, acolyte of Peter Thiel - Musk's PayPal sidekick -, and yet another self-serving corporate vampire, to spout nonsense

jff1.bsky.social•51 days ago

We need to remember who put the Chairman and Director-General of the BBC in place. Their idea of impartiality was to reduce Newsnight to it's current "debate" format and to give air time to current Tory (dangerous)mischief, as well as Farage, etc. Lies and misinformation, the order of the day?

tobermoree.bsky.social•51 days ago

Foreign contributions to any party should be completely banned. We should set up a finance from central government that gives a baseline funding to all parties. The rest they can raise from UK institutions, individuals etc.

jwvbsky.bsky.social•51 days ago

Sad but true

andycole65.bsky.social•50 days ago

Banning foreign donations is an obvious thing to do, but may in practice be difficult to do. Musk has chosen to be very overt, I suspect he has no intention to donate and this is a stunt, but he could easily obscure the source of a donation if he wished through a UK based company.

rickiticki2.bsky.social•49 days ago

People like Musk? What about people like Bill Gates?

ukanarchist.bsky.social•47 days ago

The only thing you can look forward to is frappage will be orchestrating the daily race riots from number 10 rather than down the pub, the guy is incapable of making any statement without making it about race, ask him about transport policy, forrins innit

thelastgirlyswots.bsky.social•51 days ago

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The post we linked to should have been this one on Bluesky!

#BBCNewsnight
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https://bsky.app/profile/thelastgirlyswots.bsky.social/post/3lfdvahdvjk2b

thelastgirlyswots.bsky.social•51 days ago

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Glad to see you are posting regularly on Bluesky - but why aren't other BBC News accounts doing the same and copying their posts across to a platform Not controlled by an offensive and ill-informed US billionaire?

Also why don't you announce this and replace the infuriating QR code with this? 🤔

proeurovegan.bsky.social•51 days ago

She’s right of course

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