Has the BBC become a Tory tool?

BrianW said:
You don't say.

I thought Farage had a fucking season ticket to QT.
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Not just that though. It's far worse when you look at how many people come on from 'think tanks.' Often think tanks with very shady funding, where they are clearly not there to express their own views, but the views of whoever is funding their organisation. And it's not a surprise that many of these think tanks are set up mainly to promote the interests of the sorts of people who can afford to fund them, which means they're typically right wing.

I was also looking at the journalists they invite on. There are five journalists that appear on the list of most common guests (more than 9 appearances between 2014 and 2023). They are:

13. Isabel Oakeshott: Tory and Reform groupie, Brexit supporter
13. Julia Hartley-Brewer: right-wing caricature, Brexit supporter
12. Kate Andrews: The Spectator and Telegraph, formerly (the highly secretive, tobacco-industry funded) Institute for Economic Affairs and Adam Smith Institute, Brexit supporter
12. Tim Stanley: Telegraph, has supported the Tories, but supported the SDP this year, Brexit supporter
10. Camilla Tominey: Telegraph and GB News, Brexit supporter

So of the only five journalists that appear in the most common guests list, every single one is a Brexit supporter, every single one regularly contributes to an explicitly right-wing media organisation, and other than Tim Stanley, not only are they all clearly right wing, but very right wing with opinions that are fringe minority views.
 
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The Future’s Blue! said:
What did she try to do?
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Gotcha question about standing with tameside residents to stop a housing development in 2017. Yet she supports them now.

Raynor told her the residents supported more housing but this exact development was in the wrong place and it was built somewhere else.
 
Bullshit. She's a politician. Now playing the game of her elevated position in the government - though previously pandering to the views of the local folk who voted her in.
If the nimbys shouted she was politically and duty bound to shout with them.
She's now promoting policy to fast-track compliant housing proposals.
I'm all for it...
 
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