Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Tamas]

As a sign of the newfound national unity, Labour and the Tories are in unison over their attack on the BBC, which apparently both managed to be highly unfair to the PM and the Conservatives, while also contributing to Labour's defeat.

[garbon]

Yeah, insane.

[Tamas]

Yeah, insane.

I think this whole tribalism thing will get far worse before it gets better.

[Sheilbh]

This is old stuff.

The Tories have always accused the BBC of being biased against them/threatened the licence fee certainly at least as far back as Thatcher.

Labour have normally focused on the (genuinely) biased print media but also have long standing issues with BBC reporting (again, at least since Blair) and reporters. It used to particularly be focused on Andrew Neil and Nick Robinson given their extra-curricular right wing leaning.

What seems new is the new media on the left whose business model probably kind of depends on delegitimising the BBC/old media (the Canary, Skwawkbox, Novara). Plus changing viewing habits - more people are consuming clips on their phones than an entire news programme. Because of both of those things it is easy for things to be taken out of context, or a genuine mistake to be snippets and shared millions of times.

What is also new is (as with MPs) the abuse female journalists get which is insanely out of proportion. Laura Kuenssberg is a particular victim of this.

[Oexmelin]

What is also new is (as with MPs) the abuse female journalists get which is insanely out of proportion. Laura Kuenssberg is a particular victim of this.

Yes, a Quebec MNA (same as MP) recently read in the Assembly a sample of messages she has received. Just atrocious.

[Josquius]

It's truly bizzare that the tories think the brexit broadcasting corporation is biased AGAINST them.

[Syt]

Uri Geller
@TheUriGeller

Met with #borisjohnson's team, gave @BorisJohnson a spoon which belonged to Golda Meir. I energised this spoon with #PositiveEnergy as part of my strategy with the #mindpower of the #UK public to ensure that #JeremyCorbyn did NOT end up as #primeminister!
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11:26 AM · Dec 16, 2019·Twitter Web App

[Valmy]

I will save the UK with the power of....A SPOON!

[Agelastus]

It's truly bizzare that the tories think the brexit broadcasting corporation is biased AGAINST them.

It's truly bizarre that Labour think the (anti-)Brexit Broadcasting Corporation is biased AGAINST them.

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On a serious note before the election I only ever saw Kuenssberg on TV and she came across as pro-Europe and anti-Tory. So when I saw all the accusations against her of pro-Tory bias during the campaign I had a distinct feeling of having stepped through the mirror.

As Sheilbh said both parties have accused the BBC of being biased against them before. It feels a little more strident this time but not by very much.

[The Minsky Moment]

Uri Geller
@TheUriGeller

Met with #borisjohnson's team, gave @BorisJohnson a spoon which belonged to Golda Meir. I energised this spoon with #PositiveEnergy as part of my strategy with the #mindpower of the #UK public to ensure that #JeremyCorbyn did NOT end up as #primeminister!
https://buff.ly/2PT0msp
11:26 AM · Dec 16, 2019·Twitter Web App

But I thought there was no spoon???

[The Minsky Moment]

It's truly bizzare that the tories think the brexit broadcasting corporation is biased AGAINST them.

It's truly bizarre that Labour think the (anti-)Brexit Broadcasting Corporation is biased AGAINST them.

Outstanding - proof that the BBC is still getting the job done.

[Richard Hakluyt]

The BBC is fairly centrist.....and thus offends all 

[Duque de Bragança]

Still no word by the Libdems about the BBC? 

[The Minsky Moment]

Perhaps they have something to say in a few days after wiping the bootprints off their faces.

[Josquius]

It's problem tends to come from its desire to be impartial. Showing all sides of an argument even if one side is the world is round and the other is that it isn't.
With the election it wasn't so bad that I gather, Kuennsberg excepted, but on Brexit it needs to take a huge amount of the blame for its policy of false equivalence.