Joe Lycett

[WBA123]

I read my news on my phone, I don’t particularly look at which news outlet has provided an item, I just flick around.

You’re absolutely obsessed with the Daily Mail, you must be the one reading it to be so well informed as to who offered the article!

What really narks me about this so called comedian is this.

If you’re a female in the Tory Party you’re fair game to be attacked in the most horrible ways verbally by comedians etc.

If the same treatment was given to a Labour or Lib Dem female the media would be all over it calling it “hate crime” and “misogynistic”.

The Left want it all one way,

I have no problem with “humour” and the p I s s taking of any MP, before you were born the BBC’s “Not The 9 O’Clock News” was absolutely savage on Thatcher but it was also savage to Labour and other parties, it wasn’t a constant singling out of the Right.

One of the jokes about Thatcher read by an impressionist doing the BBC’s Angela Rippon went........

“Mrs Thatcher is extremely concerned about the number of out of work young black men,



There simply isn’t enough of them!!”


Really cutting stuff but funny, the difference was that the content was during a comedy programme, not on a new BBC flagship programme.

I’d feel exactly the same if Starmer had been the guest and then on the same show a Right Wing comedian had been a guest taking the p I s s........it’s out of place and it’s a cheap shot.

The BBC has completely lost its direction.

As for the Director General being a Tory.

You know full well that having someone who is more Right Wing at the top of this organisation actually has very little impact, the organisation is rife with Left leaning people abd the figurehead has no real impact.

I don't agree with your last statement. The Director General has quite a say in what happens at the BBC.

They will never keep people happy, people on the right will accuse them of being left - and many on the left accuse them of being on the right.

The beauty of the BBC is that it is a British institution that embodies everything good about this country. We need an impartial news service, and one that can scrutinise the Government - otherwise we become a banana republic. I didn't agree with how many times QT had Farage on the program, but understood he had to be on there in the interest of balance.

I have a couple of issues when we talk about the BBC, one is they try too hard to be impartial. There could be 1000 scientists who have an accepted version about something and 1 scientist who disagrees and in the interest of balance they'll get that guy on. This is why Brexit was a disaster for the BBC, they were using people like Tim Martin who in reality had very little knowledge of our trading relationship with the EU on their programs for 'balance'. And their coverage of Brexit, in my view, turned into being a disaster - all because they sacrificed certain credible news elements to satisfy national perception of their impartiality.

And the 2nd is that because they are generally a credible news source, I use them for news a lot - and before anyone comments - they are absolutely a credible news source. It means non credible news outlets will try to discredit them. Hence why you have Daily Mail readers frothing at the mouth about how bad the BBC is. I just find it very coincidental how your post virtually mirrored the front page of the Daily Mail yesterday.

It would be a sad day if the BBC no longer exists. And exactly what these toe-rag media barons want.

[mickd1961]

I don't agree with your last statement. The Director General has quite a say in what happens at the BBC.

They will never keep people happy, people on the right will accuse them of being left - and many on the left accuse them of being on the right.

The beauty of the BBC is that it is a British institution that embodies everything good about this country. We need an impartial news service, and one that can scrutinise the Government - otherwise we become a banana republic. I didn't agree with how many times QT had Farage on the program, but understood he had to be on there in the interest of balance.

I have a couple of issues when we talk about the BBC, one is they try too hard to be impartial. There could be 1000 scientists who have an accepted version about something and 1 scientist who disagrees and in the interest of balance they'll get that guy on. This is why Brexit was a disaster for the BBC, they were using people like Tim Martin who in reality had very little knowledge of our trading relationship with the EU on their programs for 'balance'. And their coverage of Brexit, in my view, turned into being a disaster - all because they sacrificed certain credible news elements to satisfy national perception of their impartiality.

And the 2nd is that because they are generally a credible news source, I use them for news a lot - and before anyone comments - they are absolutely a credible news source. It means non credible news outlets will try to discredit them. Hence why you have Daily Mail readers frothing at the mouth about how bad the BBC is. I just find it very coincidental how your post virtually mirrored the front page of the Daily Mail yesterday.

It would be a sad day if the BBC no longer exists. And exactly what these toe-rag media barons want.

"It would be a sad day if the BBC no longer exists. And exactly what these toe-rag media barons want."


If BBC News disappeared it'd be no loss at all, it's overly woke and Left Wing.

BBC would be a miss in terms of documentaries and high quality drama and period programmes but increasingly, the quality in these areas is being matched and often beaten by streaming giants.

[WBA123]

"It would be a sad day if the BBC no longer exists. And exactly what these toe-rag media barons want."


If BBC News disappeared it'd be no loss at all, it's overly woke and Left Wing.

BBC would be a miss in terms of documentaries and high quality drama and period programmes but increasingly, the quality in these areas is being matched and often beaten by streaming giants.

Yeah, lets scrap BBC news and rely on the Daily Mail. That great and credible news source of information.

BBC news is woke and left wing in your view, because the Tory propaganda newspapers have taught you to believe that.

[mickd1961]

Yeah, lets scrap BBC news and rely on the Daily Mail. That great and credible news source of information.

BBC news is woke and left wing in your view, because the Tory propaganda newspapers have taught you to believe that.

You once stated on here that even your own wife tells you that you're arrogant.

I can't see any point in arguing with your missus.

[Albionic68]

The BBC News is largely factually accurate yet has a left of centre bias, courtesy of Media Bias Fact Check.....

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bbc/

...... walks away and minds own business 😊 .

[mickd1961]

The BBC News is largely factually accurate yet has a left of centre bias, courtesy of Media Bias Fact Check.....

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bbc/

...... walks away and minds own business 😊 .

Thanks for that 68.

[Dubbag]

You once stated on here that even your own wife tells you that you're arrogant.

I can't see any point in arguing with your missus.

I was enjoying a nice crisp butty when I read that...half ended up on the computer screen...

[mickd1961]

I was enjoying a nice crisp butty when I read that...half ended up on the computer screen...

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[WBA123]

You once stated on here that even your own wife tells you that you're arrogant.

I can't see any point in arguing with your missus.

I agree. Wish I'd have learned this a few years earlier!

[baggieal]

"It would be a sad day if the BBC no longer exists. And exactly what these toe-rag media barons want."


If BBC News disappeared it'd be no loss at all, it's overly woke and Left Wing.

BBC would be a miss in terms of documentaries and high quality drama and period programmes but increasingly, the quality in these areas is being matched and often beaten by streaming giants.

The licence fee should be pulled from the BBC and perhaps like independent channels they can start to earn their keep as opposed to paying people like Jug Ears obscene fees!

BBC news is about as depressing as Livermore and Reach on the touch line waiting to come on!