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That's interesting MM and I think these are the kind of dilemma's many voters will be facing next week. For me I just want a majority winner because we desperately need a government that has the power to make decisions and implement policies etc without challenge. Yes, some will be bad, some slightly better but another hung parliament will in my view continue to hinder the country with regards to getting on with business both from an economic and social perspective.
With this in mind I will no doubt place my cross slightly right of centre, not that it will make any difference though considering Nottingham South is one of the safest Labour seats in the East Midlands.
I actually agree with this and I think it's one of the reasons for the political climate we find ourselves in of people vs the elite.
Rather than being a question of censorship and political correctness (although that is a factor) I think it's just a question of inequality working against 'normal people' in certain industries.
To get on TV as a comedian or in any other capacity you basically have to have rich parents who can pay your rent in London while you work as an unpaid intern for a couple of years and work your way up. Being sent to a private school helps too because your schoolmates will end up as TV producers so you have a network of ready made connections.
These people almost always come from middle class families with a liberal outlook, are university educated and so on. Therefore the only views that get broadcast are of the liberal elite. (I'm over simplifying but you get the point).
Ah right wing comedy. Not heard of that since Bernard Manning snuffed it. Though I don’t know whether you’d call him particularly right wing or political. Can’t think of anyone else.
There’s that Titania McGrath account on Twitter as well. I bet the person who does that is a hoot at parties.
Well that's like Trump slamming 'the media' even when they played a key role in getting him elected with years of blanket coverage (way more than other candidates combined). It's just a smokescreen.
What I see with the BBC is news leads and correspondents continually making jibes against the labour leadership, endless trips to Stoke for vox pops with leavers, presidential-style coverage being given to Johnson even when he'd resigned and was just a back-bencher, and the list goes on and on.
Let's see if this Neil interview happens, it's getting such a big build up as a trial that Johnson should face, setting him up to come through shining on the other side.
Anyway, we all know the main threats to the BBC's existence come from the right. It's no wonder they're running scared and shaping their content to keep them off its back.
Andrew Doyle does Titania. He just toured with Tom Walker and was the co-writer of "Jonathon Pie". He's actually left wing - just is able to laugh at the ridiculousness of of the middle-class left wing identity politics types.
There are plenty who exist who have spoken about their frustration of political vetting and censoriousness within the industry; Leo Kearse, Alistair Williams, Konstantin Kisin, Graham Norcott (finally made a breakthrough this year as the BBC have realised their their stand-up comedy show viewing figures are at record lows).
Geoff Norcott is the only one I can think of but I've not seen him on TV for a while.
Has anyone seen Kumar's attempt at 'comedy' at the Lord's Taverners do? He went down like a rattlesnake in a lucky dip - someone threw a bread roll at him.
That was the funniest bit.
The only laugh was had by the idiot who booked him in the first place.