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Thursday 19 September 2024

BBC Bozo And Laura K Shame

The BBC is not having a good time of it right now: quite apart from our free and fearless press relishing putting the boot in over anything to do with Huw Edwards, and the steady flow of claims about what may or may not happen behind the scenes at Strictly, there has been an entirely avoidable foot-in-mouth episode involving new political editor Chris Mason.


Mason discovered that Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Sue Gray was being paid more than the PM. Armed with this information, he continued as if in possession of the Scoop of the Century until Peter Oborne asked him, as one might, “How much do you get paid, Chris?” To which the answer was, rather more than either Ms Gray or Starmer, as Oborne proceeded to tell.

The BBC political editor (260K pa) thinks it's a story that the Downing Street chief of staff (170K pa) earns more than the PM (167Kpa). Welcome to political journalism! PS Laura Kuenssberg is on 325K, Nick Robinson 340K and Fiona Bruce even more”. And with mention of Ms Kuenssberg, we arrive at the Beeb’s crowning moment of current abject shame.

Yesterday, she proclaimedOne for the diary”. And what would be an event of such major import that it might be added to the diary? This is where the BBC once again generates more questions than answers, because that event is “Boris Johnson - The Laura Kuenssberg Interview”, which gets the prime time slot of 1930 hours on Thursday 3 October. Aren’t you all lucky?

Here in Portugal, there are the more appealing alternatives of rolling news channels (that’s factual TV, as opposed to Bozo’s propensity to talk well, but lie badly), or the latest edition of O Preço Certo. Sadly, the UK will be subjected to disgraced former alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson indulging in another bout of self-promotion and justification.

Mike Galsworthy was unimpressed. “Kuenssberg always seems unhealthily close to Boris Johnson. Given also Robbie Gibb’s continued role at the BBC - this interview smells of chums of Boris Johnson using our licence payer money to promote the man as his new book is coming out”. New book? What that? It is, imaginatively, titled simply “Unleashed”.


Harper Collins wants us to knowUnleashed is a candid, unrestrained, and revealing book by Boris Johnson, the Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In Unleashed, Johnson takes readers through all the big decisions during his time in power and why he took them. The challenges and crises, how they were resolved - or not - and how he nearly died from COVID”.

Will it be available in the fiction section of one of the public libraries that have survived all those rounds of Tory cuts? Bozo, after all, is a congenital liar whose ability to generate spontaneous trouser ignition is matched only by Reform UK Oberscheissenführer Nigel “Thirsty” Farage. How long, one has to wonder, has it taken to legal Bozo’s bumper book of lame excuses?

Moreover, how much insight will Ms Kuenssberg bring to events such as turning 10 Downing Street into Party Central during the pandemic, or lying to the Queen in order to improperly prorogue Parliament, or bung eye-watering amounts of money to those providing dodgy PPE, or indeed tens of billions spaffed up the wall, to use Bozo’s happy phrase, on Not Testing And Tracing?

What about a Brexit deal that is slowly but inexorably turning the UK economy into a basket case? What of his trying to whitewash Chris Pincher’s behaviour, the event that finally exhausted the patience of even the Parliamentary Conservative Party? And what will we learn about the role of the press in covering the not inconsiderable Johnson arse?

But those are not reasons for the BBC promoting Bozo; quite the reverse. The real scandal here is that the Corporation is willingly making itself an accomplice to another Johnson money-making scheme, and, worse, an effort to promote someone who has already proved himself to be an utter failure as a politician, and indeed, a failure as a professional human being.

The BBC board should hang their heads in shame. But you know they won’t.


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29 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kuenssberg has another problem apart from her usual far right propaganda bullshit.

She looks like her face and hair are eaten by moths.

Anonymous said...

If the UK persists with homicidal maniacs in charge:

https://youtu.be/za6tZB19E4c?feature=shared

Anonymous said...

Get over it BBC, your team lost. The fact both sides have the same game plan is irrelevant. An interview with a shamed and shameless liar, given by the person he used to lift the bed covers up when wanting to pass on the latest news? Sickbags on standby..

As for Johnsons book, or as Blackadder put it, "the greatest work of fiction since vows of fidelity were included in French wedding ceremonies", wow, I bet that's going to really lift the lid. On the toilet.

Anonymous said...

Ah, I see the misogynist incel has surfaced.

Anonymous said...

Bozo taught Keef "Freebies" Starmer everything he knows.

Anonymous said...

The Mason piece on the BBC website justifying why he did the Sue Gray story is simply bizarre. Some people get paid more than others, so what?

Anonymous said...

I really didn't think anyone could be more obviously a Tory stooge than Kuenssberg... but it seems I was wrong. The Augean Stable that is BBC News really does need cleansing. Perhaps the time when the BBC had a board of governors that was half Labour, half Tory really needs to return. Either that, or they're doing their level best to lose their Charter in 2027.

James said...

See her picture and what comes to mind is the footage of her really smiling at him; same as Emily Mathias' photo with Alastair Campbell at the restaurant table.

Anonymous said...

Tim, you really must stop this misandry and misogyny. The next step is anti-Semitism. Or something.

The Ranting Rightie Thought Police are on to you.

Anonymous said...

Another unfathomably-feted journalist.

Anonymous said...

Lest we forget, this is the reality of Kuenssberg:

https://theswamp.media/laura-kuenssberg.

While she was at Georgetown Uni her husband was at Harvard Uni. One guess at who they fellow-travelled with while paying enormous tuition fees.

She is also the granddaughter of Scottish high court judge Lord Robertson. His brother James Wilson Robertson was Governor-General of Nigeria. Kuenssberg’s sister was a high commissioner to Mozambique.

Clearly well qualified to peddle far right propaganda for the Ministry of "Truth".

Anonymous said...

For those who hold blue, red and yellow tories in contempt:

https://palestinecampaign.org/events/national-march-for-palestine-to-labour-conference/

Anonymous said...

The BBC, Bozo and Kuenssberg?.....Pffffttt compared to the opinions of Colonel McGregor.

https://youtu.be/5y493pJQhD0?feature=shared

Anonymous said...

6 comments from the ‘incel misogynist’ (well-named).
Is this ‘balance’, Tim?

Anonymous said...

Alexa, can you get me Offcom please ?

Anonymous said...

20:48.

Awww.....stop whimpering, boy. Learn to take your hot crumpet* from behind without blubbing.

Meanwhile, this excerpt from a Ken Klippenstein opinion piece should help you have a "nice" Quisling day:

A $1 trillion Pentagon budget isn’t enough, at least according to an audacious column by Hal Brands, American Enterprise Institute senior fellow and Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor (lol) of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins graduate school of “advanced” international studies. Crazy as that might sound — and it is crazy — Brands is expressing a view commonly held in the national security world. As James Bond put it, “The world is not enough.” Pull up just about any four star general testifying before Congress and you’ll see. Missile gaps, collection gaps, processing gaps, competitive gaps, drone gaps, AI gaps; the list is endless. They never say how they can prioritize the resources they do have better. Because no one makes them. The assumption is more, always. That hasn’t been challenged in more than 20 years.




*This refers to the bakery product, not the well-known colloquialism. Before you splatter your keyboard with more rabid phlegm. Only here to help.

A COCKNEE TAXI DRIVER RITES said...

'Ere, wot's orl vis abaht Boris an Lawrer. Lye orf I sye.

Dey go gryte togevvah. Shud get married dey shud. Myke a gryte pairer Pearly King an Kween selln sekind and tires dahn de Owld Kent Rode. Propah tories bowf.

I ad dat Wez Streetn in the backer me cab last week. Worra geezah. Sold me some tabs at a cut price. Wannavus ee iz.

Gawd bless the Prince an Princesser Wiles an orl oo sile in dem.

Anonymous said...

Gosh... U OK, Hun?

Anonymous said...

'Face and hair are eaten by moths' ...I criticize Boris Johnson but do I go on about his physical appearance ? No. It invalidates arguments. C'mon and do better.

Anonymous said...

Never mind moth eaten far right Kuenssberg. Get a load of the newly acquired mirthless grin on far right Starmer's grid a la Shapps and Hunt. Risky pr business this because he has such awful teeth - doubtless soon to be corrected by 'political donations' from Teeth International Inc., Madison Avenue, free recuperation then in a Manhattan apartment just down the road from the Epstein bordello. Might as well, the glasses-and-knickers ploy backfired disastrously.

Still, far right blue tory sleaze got replaced by far right red tory corruption. What could possibly go wrong for far right tories........

Anonymous said...

Maybe because your standards and your cultural references are not stuck in the Stalinist and treachery-obsessed 1940s.

Anonymous said...

I bet the moths died from poison.

Anonymous said...

Kuenssberg bad image problem can't compare to Reeves and her voice like a leaking whoopee cushion. That's after her and Starmer's kid starving and kill pensioners activities. More to come in October. Getting their thievery in early.

Anonymous said...

There is a unifying factor to the BBC, Bozo, Kuenssberg and Zionist-without-qualification Starmer: They all want to start World War 3.

That was too much even for the senile old divvy Zionist Biden. He vetoed Starmer's war intensification proposals during the latest Starmer cringe visit last week.

But British Quislings need not give up their yearning for the Great White Flash In The Sky. It's still possible, even likely at the present rate.

So keep practicing the nuke drill.

1. Bend over.
2. Open legs.
3. Insert head between legs.
4. Kiss your arse goodbye.

After all, it's what you really, really want.

Anonymous said...

How Keef "Glasses and Knickers" Starmer and Labour Together are corrupt lying far right gobshites:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/14/corbyn-had-flown-too-close-to-the-sun-how-labour-insiders-battled-the-left-and-plotted-the-partys-path-back-to-power?

Anonymous said...

I got as far as "BBC", then fucked it off. "Harrods" has the same effect.

Two cheeks of the same London arse.

Anonymous said...

Put the bag of glue down.

Anonymous said...

And yet all the recent rioting was by Northern racists in Northern shitholes...

Anonymous said...

13:24.

Gosh. U R still not OK R U Hun.