Dude losing a job us hardly a consequence....
Last I checked raping a child is a felony which is a criminal matter.
Until these pests start getting the rope, society wont heal.
No argument here:(
the whole thing is a bit weird though - his assosciation was known since last year, and he was transparently visiting Epstein in prison. Why now?
forced to confront it because of the bday book I suppose. which is pitiful but our media... goddamn we need a return to old school journalism, I just can't see how it happens without newspapers.
I just can’t see how it happens without newspapers.
Sucks that billionaires own the privately owned media, and what they don't own they can just buy. That's where national news services should step in.
defend the beeb at all costs. it's imperfect but better than dang near anything we have.
That's... Out of date at best.
The minutes from the BBC's March (April? Around then) 2025 meeting specifically include the progress made on their overarching aim to 'win the trust' of Reform voters, using programming, editing choices, etc. As in, explicitly.
The BBC have never recorded, or evidenced, am intention to appeal to a specific section of voters before. No other political party has ever been singled out as the BBC's ideological goalposts, not even when a party had been in power for over a decade, or when a party wins a massive majority of votes.
Reform UK are the first, and only party that is officially courted by the BBC. And no, there has been no mention before or after of any effort to balance viewpoint or maintain the trust of any other voters or (hilariously, I know) maybe go for some sort of neutrality.
I'm not linking to the minutes, because it's only available as a pdf, because nobody should change their minds on the basis of a random link on social media, and because plenty of people have made a concerted effort to 'spread the word' apparently believing that if people actually see in black and white 'we the BBC are aligned with Reform UK and have been for a while now', posted by the BBC on a BBC platform, maybe they'd stop saying 'the BBC is the truth incarnate and anybody who criticises it is a troll, foreign, or a leftist'.
I won't post the link, because I don't think people do that. I haven't seen any evidence of it. Either most British ppl on social media support Reform and think BBC fealty is perfectly natural, or most are pathological liars, trolls, bad actors, or just don't really care about much of anything.
I console myself with the assumption that most normal Brits are not on social media, that the right wing tend to be over represented online, and that I don't spend much time in the left wing arena because, well, it's not a fun place to be.
Anybody else? Google the minutes. It's 3 pages long, you can read the whole thing in a minute or so. Then you can Google historical precendent, I suppose, or some sort of keyword search for previous equivalents, but you won't find any.
And then, or if you can't quite be bothered to do that: doing tell people that the BBC is fantastic and you'll 'protect it at all costs' until you have done that minimal amount of research and agree with the policies. You can probably extrapolate that to any company, really.
Otherwise, people can only assume that you're one of those voters.
a week later you reply with this screed and expect what?
what's out of date?
pfft, god forbid you allow your mind to be swayed by factual reporting gha the nerve
you won't post a link because you're lazy and it probably doesn't actually endorse your premise.
and I won't read it, because I'm already done with this convo. shows up 7 days later and expects people to give a shit? did you read this 7 days ago and spend all that time working out a reply?
Or just really slow?
Otherwise, I can only assume you're one of those numpties.
The Brits are very good at hanging fringe elements out to dry. Show me when they held someone to account who had real power and not an over-the-hill/failed politico.
The deputy prime minister was forced to resign just last week. The only higher position than that is PM.
Losing your job is unfortunate but a mild response for what many of these people did. Show me when they put one of these cretins in prison.
The deputy PM only avoided paying tax IIRC
People go to prison for tax evasion, at least in civilized countries they do.
Even calling it tax evasion is a stretch, she had a complicated situation involving a trust set up for the house she had with her ex to insure her severely disabled son would be taken care of, then she claimed her new flat was her primary residence leading to a lower rate of stamp duty. She got some advice that said it was ok but was then told she should seek specialist legal advice to check that which she didnt and now has to pay back 40k.
Its not good, and she was right to step down, especially as housing minister, but its hardly a grievous sin.
Try to under pay your taxes by 40k and report back yourself lol
Let's not down play felonies.
Well for a start felonies arent a thing in the UK, and havent been for 60 years, but also if it is genuinely due to error and HMRC dont think its been done deliberately as tax evasion then yes you can just self report and pay the tax owed plus late fees.
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