@ianpatterson.comTwo stories today reflect badly (again) on the Tories. They claimed whilst in office to be controlling govt expenditure. Well, both the NATS air traffic issues and the NAO National Grid expansion stories today are directly from underinvestment during the Tory years.
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@jessgulliver.bsky.socialEmma vrs Kemi #bbcr4today
@ianpatterson.comSo the balaclava clad bumpkins who are in the news at the moment have doxed RNLI volunteers? Yet their 'leader' led a protest outside the Daily Mail yesterday (in black shorts - Google it, an awful sight) because his mother was doorstepped. (not doxed, just doorstepped). #bbcr4today
@ianpatterson.comDear #bbcr4today your coverage of the Trump $5000 give away is revealingly parochichal. Its *incredibly* British-media-bubble to lead with the Thatcherite 'how would he pay for it',. The UK is essentially the only country where the media obsess over govt spending as if it were household bills....
@ctheo24.bsky.socialThis is a timely reminder of why I have not listened to #BBCR4Today for 10 years. #ScrapBBCLicenceFee
@lauraphillips.bsky.social#BBCr4today absolutely desperate, sickening, heartbreaking 7.46 am interview by Emma Barnett with ‘Christine’, survivor of violent drug gang abuse. She said of her abuser: “he was the only consistent person in my life”.
She didn’t realise that she was being abused. #BritainsForgottenGirls
@ianpatterson.comThe Tories hate performative politics? That'll be why they stayed away en masse then from the Foreign Secretary's Israel speech in the Commons yesterday. #bbcr4today Edward Leigh, father of the House and an old establishment Tory, wholeheartedly back the govt, unlike their child at the despatch box.
@ianpatterson.comAppealing to listeners for personal experience over A&E can be dangerous #bbcr4today Anecdotes do not statistics make, or whatever the saying is. I had to go to A&E a few weeks ago. Was seen about an hour after arrival (and the waiting room was only half full - on a Thursday daytime). ...
@ianpatterson.comAwful and fundamentally wrong logic by #bbcr4today The presenter is constrained by a First Past the Post mindset which is utterly wrong to use to view German elections. The largest party didnt get an overall majority: they therefore did not get a mandate. the public's view is represejnted by the...