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>> Friday, June 05, 2009

Cameron to Hugh Edwards: "Even the BBC... will have to say these are good results" (smirk)

Nick Robinson (on a day when Labour failed to retain a single county council): "Gordon Brown is stronger than he was, but not by much."

Gordon: "I will not waver... I will get on with the job"


The job being what, exactly? Add your faves below.

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FLINT SHOWS SOME SPARKS

You couldn't make it up! Even as Gordon Brown is wading deeper into the mire of hypcritical cant during his press conference , Caroline Flint times the release of her resignation from Government. That's TWO resignations in one day!!!! Unbelievable. If you've been watching the Prime Ministerial press conference, what did you think of it? It's like watching a car wreck. Even John Major looks good compared to this....

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Not Shy

John Humphrys’s reticence about his pay packet wasn’t down to personal shyness after all. They’re restrained by a BBC gagging order.
Harriet Harman’s equality bill has its uses, says Andrew Gimson of the Telegraph. It seems that will un-gag them.
How brilliant of Miss Harman to turn this modish argument against the BBC, that home of modish causes.

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A GOOD DAY FOR LABOUR?

Been watching the BBC coverage of the local council elections. Quite remarkable. It seems that the angle the BBC has decided to push is best to admit that Labour is doing badly - but remember, they performed similarly in 2004 and then won in 2005! However the Conservatives have not really made a break through. (As they win everywhere) Meanwhile the Lib-Dems are on the up (Yes, even as they lose Somerset and Devon!). It's all through the looking glass stuff but fun to watch. Meanwhile Brown's reshuffle has been talked up even as most faces stay in situ! When John Major was in this weakened position, the BBC were all over his political corpse. But when it's Labour, and Gordoom, the subtle ploy is to somehow suggest that all the main parties are suffering and that we have been before with Labour and yet they came through to win! If one were to swallow this guff, one would be forgiven for thinking that David Cameron is the man in trouble.

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IN MEMORIAM - NULABOUR OPEN THREAD

Well then, today sees all sorts of political drama and/or farce. Gordon has reshuffled Darling, erm, back into the role he occupies as Chancellor - strong stuff my friends. Here's a thread for you to comment on what you observe. For what it's worth, I detect the BBC, UNBELIEVABLY, are still doing their level best for Gordon but we all know it's over, as Roy Orbison would have said. So....now it's over to you!

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Antony Jay

"But we were not just anti-Macmillan; we were anti-industry, anti-capitalism, anti-advertising, anti-selling, anti-profit, anti-patriotism, anti-monarchy, anti-Empire, anti-police, anti-armed forces, anti-bomb, anti-authority. Almost anything that made the world a freer, safer and more prosperous place, you name it, we were anti it."
Antony Jay, Telegraph, July 2007
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Andrew Marr

"..the final answer, frankly, is the vigorous use of state power to coerce and repress. It may be my Presbyterian background, but I firmly believe that repression can be a great, civilising instrument for good. Stamp hard on certain 'natural' beliefs for long enough and you can almost kill them off."
Andrew Marr, The Guardian Feb. 1999
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Jeremy Paxman

"But the bigger question is whether the BBC itself has a future. Working for it has always been a bit like living in Stalin’s Russia, with one five-year-plan, one resoundingly empty slogan after another. One BBC, Making it Happen, Creative Futures, they all blur into one great vacuous blur. I can’t even recall what the current one is. Rather like Stalin’s Russia, they express a belief that the system will go on forever."
Jeremy Paxman, The James McTaggart Memorial, 24th August 2007
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