O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

[Magpies1959]

The NHS has probably spent £350 million blowing smoke up it's own ar$e on banners and signs, congratulating itself on it's 75th anniversary. What a waste of money.

[i961pie]

Many of those wouldn't have actually watched it on GB news but on YouTube and other media outlets etc.

[Magpies1959]

Certainly Pedro, it's really pissed the likes of you and EP off job done.

[Old_pie]

I watched Have I got News for You this evening, and would love someone to tell me how it passed Ofcom scrutiny.

Was there anything in particular that you thought was contentious?

[Elite_Pie]

Certainly Pedro, it's really pissed the likes of you and EP off job done.

Rather ironic coming from the snowflake who gets offended by a few jokes on HIGNFY!

[SwalePie]

Having seen the comment I decided to watch it and couldn't see anything that was out of order tbh. What was it you thought might cause offence 59?

[the_anticlough]

Having seen the comment I decided to watch it and couldn't see anything that was out of order tbh. What was it you thought might cause offence 59?

Now he's going to watch it as well

[Notsohumblepie]

Having seen the comment I decided to watch it and couldn't see anything that was out of order tbh. What was it you thought might cause offence 59?

The OFCOM procedure does have a hint of imbalance . If you make a complaint against the BBC , you are forced to go through the BEEBs internal complaint procedure first .

If you complain against anyone else OFCOM go straight to address the issue, thus providing a far easier target to aim at.,

Whether that's due an absence of internal procedures elsewhere I don't know, but it does seem a little unfair.

I didn't watch the program in question, so I can't comment on its content.

[Magpies1959]

The programme had the host who joined in with the other four, panellists just taking the mick out of the Tory Party Conference. Fair enough if a few jibes going the other way were on offer, but it just gets tiresome after a while, and obviously set up to bash the government, not particularly neutral. Carol Vordeman was completely out of her depth, but it was amusing to see her struggle to change her facial expressions, plastic fantastic. I am all for political satire, but half an hour of one sided stuff week after week, from a supposedly neutral national broadcaster, does grind a bit.

[i961pie]

I stopped watching it years ago mainly because I cant stand Hislops smug face, he always looks so pleased with himself.

[Old_pie]

The programme had the host who joined in with the other four, panellists just taking the mick out of the Tory Party Conference. Fair enough if a few jibes going the other way were on offer, but it just gets tiresome after a while, and obviously set up to bash the government, not particularly neutral. Carol Vordeman was completely out of her depth, but it was amusing to see her struggle to change her facial expressions, plastic fantastic. I am all for political satire, but half an hour of one sided stuff week after week, from a supposedly neutral national broadcaster, does grind a bit.

I'm sure there will be a lot of ammunition provided in Liverpool this week for next weeks show

TBF the current set of Tories do set themselves up very nicely as does Trump. Who are the colourful Labour candidates?

It did occur to me that some folk using this board would find some difficulty in finding parts of the female anatomy in S****horpe.

[Magpies1959]

I may put myself through watching next week's episode, just to see if they do actually take the mick out of Labour too.
The ginger growler is quite colourful, and not shy at showing people what a woman is.

[jackal2]

The programme had the host who joined in with the other four, panellists just taking the mick out of the Tory Party Conference. Fair enough if a few jibes going the other way were on offer, but it just gets tiresome after a while, and obviously set up to bash the government, not particularly neutral. Carol Vordeman was completely out of her depth, but it was amusing to see her struggle to change her facial expressions, plastic fantastic. I am all for political satire, but half an hour of one sided stuff week after week, from a supposedly neutral national broadcaster, does grind a bit.

Have I Got News For You has never been balanced, but I wouldn't necessarily single it out. It's just one of many BBC programmes whose overall political agenda is very clear. The BBC and the predominant political direction of its programming is a product of the way it's funded, demanding public money with menaces. Therefore, complaining to the BBC or Ofcom about individual programmes is largely futile.

There's no guarantee that if the BBC was finally forced to earn it's own keep it would change it's political leaning - indeed it might play even more to the tastes of its current audience to retain them for commercial survival - but at least we could dispense with the complete fallacy that it is a politically neutral state broadcaster, and people would only have to pay money to the BBC if they actually want to watch or listen to its content.

[PedroTheFisherman66]

Certainly Pedro, it's really pissed the likes of you and EP off job done.

That answer sounds a little like Brexit means brexit...!

[the_anticlough]

panellists just taking the mick out of the Tory Party Conference.

Aah, were they being mean?

Isn't it the job of satire and satirists to poke fun at the powerful (i.e. those in power)? Last week, the news included the annual conference of the governing party, so you'd expect a news review to pick up on it, and the job of the show is to satirise it.

Anyway, haven't you disavowed the Tories? Reform should welcome a critique of their rivals. Or are they just tories in disguise