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Fiona Bruce quits as Refuge ambassador over Stanley Johnson ‘one-off’ comment

Fiona Bruce: would she have been better-off staying with Refuge and quitting the BBC?

Neither Fiona Bruce nor the domestic abuse charity Refuge wanted this; it seems to have been prompted by the sense of betrayal felt by domestic abuse victims – over words the BBC obliged her to speak.

Ms Bruce has quit as an ambassador for Refuge after saying on the BBC’s Question Time last week that it’s understood an incident in which former PM Boris Johnson’s father broke his wife’s nose was “a one-off”.

The charity has said survivors of domestic abuse have been in touch over the weekend to described how “devastating” Ms Bruce’s words had been to them.

Refuge’s position has always been that “domestic abuse is never a ‘one-off’; it is a pattern of behaviour that can manifest in a number of ways, including but not limited to physical abuse. Domestic abuse is never acceptable.”

Ms Bruce should have known that – but it seems that she was caught between a rock and a hard place, because she was “legally obliged” by her contract with the BBC to say the words that were given to her during the recording of the programme on March 9.

The BBC explained this in a statement on March 10: “When serious allegations are made on air against people or organisations, it is the job of BBC presenters to ensure that the context of those allegations – and any right of reply from the person or organisation – is given to the audience, and this is what Fiona Bruce was doing … She was not expressing any personal opinion about the situation.”

So it seems the BBC was at fault for telling Ms Bruce to speak words that were at odds with accepted facts about domestic abuse.

That certainly seems to be Refuge’s take on what happened: “While we know the words were not Fiona’s own and were words she was legally obliged to read out, this does not lessen their impact and we cannot lose sight of that.”

Contrast this with the Corporation’s attitude to Gary Lineker, who has been reinstated as host of Match of the Day after (rightly) refusing to retract his comparison of Suella Braverman’s words about Channel migrants with the rhetoric of Germany in the 1930s.

In both situations, the presenters knew (or should have known) what was right, but their bosses wrongly thought they knew better.

The BBC still hasn’t learned its lesson; Lineker is back in his job while an “independent” review of its social media policy takes place. This Writer can guess right now that it will demand stricter restrictions on presenters’ rights of free speech on other platforms.

And Suella Braverman is still othering and demonising Channel migrants.

In her latest Parliamentary appearance, she blamed vulnerable refugees for  the supply of illegal drugs in the UK:

So she hasn’t learned any lessons either.

Source: Fiona Bruce to step down as Refuge ambassador over Stanley Johnson comments | Fiona Bruce | The Guardian

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More views on Brexit and trade – and none of them benefit Jacob Rees-Mogg

Further to This Site’s analysis of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s response to a wine importer whose firm is jumping through many more hoops to get, after Brexit, the same result as before, let’s have a couple more perspectives on it.

The first is highly in-depth, courtesy of A Different Bias:

The second is a more personal view, examining a small business owner’s frustrations with Brexit – after being told that European businesses would love to trade with him, but Brexit made it impossible because the bureaucracy involved had increased too much:

None of this helps Rees-Mogg, and there’s a very good reason for it:

He was talking nonsense.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg is humiliated over Brexit by business owner

The director of a company that imports wine from the EU explained to the BBC Question Time audience how terrible bureaucracy has become since Brexit, and how much more difficult it is to do business.

He pointed out that there have been no benefits from Brexit – the promised money for the National Health Service never materialised and the Tories had to increase the amount we all pay in National Insurance in order to provide any more.

Tory panellist Jacob Rees-Mogg tried to fudge his way through by claiming that bureaucracy had been eased by his government’s decisions – but the businessman, who has experience of the reality, said in fact matters have been made 15 times more complicated:

Rees-Mogg clearly subscribes to the Michael Gove attitude that “we’ve had enough of experts”.

It’s because experts are going to hand his backside to him any time he tries to cross them.

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Debunked: Julia Hartley-Doodah’s wild climate change denials

In denial: Julia Hartley-Brewer denies the science on BBC Question Time. David Lammy (left) facepalms.

Broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer has made a few claims about climate change on the BBC’s Question Time on October 27 and, being a denier, you can guess that she wasn’t talking about time running out for us all.

Novara Media explains in this video clip:

Here’s some more information, courtesy of DeSmog on Twitter:

Who’s convincing you? Julia Hartley-Doodah, or the science?

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Live commentary: Labour’s urgent question on Tory leadership [VIDEO]

Keir Starmer wants Liz Truss to make a statement on the replacement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer – but she’s not even in the Commons Chamber.

Penny Mordaunt says she’s “detained on urgent business” – to hilarity from MPs, none of whom believe a word of it.

Mordaunt says the overriding priority is to restore financial credibility in the face of volatile global conditions – so no mention of the fact that the Tory government created all the problems.

Starmer thanks Mordaunt for acting for the PM: “I guess under this Tory government, everybody gets to be prime minister for 15 minutes.”

Now he’s making a big speech: “Where is the prime minister? Hiding away… The lady’s not for turning… up!

“How can we get stability when this prime minister has no mandate from her party and no mandate from the country?”

Mordaunt comes back with a cheap shot that Starmer won’t have his fifteen minutes as PM.

She says Truss has taken a tough decision, politically and personally, because it is in the national interest.

But that decision was to scrap her own policies – go against her political instincts. It means her policies and judgement were wrong. Doesn’t it mean that she is the wrong choice of prime minister?

Now Mordaunt is criticising Starmer’s political career, suggesting his record shows he does not support the national interest. Much of it is arguable – apart from the fact that he has abandoned all the pledges he made to Labour members in his own leadership campaign. This is true.

Tory Peter Bottomley says when circumstances change, it is time for policies to change – again ignoring the fact that circumstances only changed because Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng made it happen.

SNP spokesperson draws a contrast between Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon spending an hour answering questions on an independent Scotland and the UK prime minister running away and hiding from Parliament.

Angela Eagle describes the UK’s current economic turmoil as one of the largest humiliations it has ever faced – directly attributable to the actions of Liz Truss.

Liberal Democrat Ed Davey says the previous prime minister, Boris Johnson, trashed the public’s faith in the government – and the current prime minister trashed the public’s faith in the economy. He requests an apology – and doesn’t get it.

Hilary Benn asks why Liz Truss is still in office when it is clear to many – including MPs on the Tory benches – that she is no longer in power.

SNP representative says nobody in his party takes joy from the current crisis as it affects everybody in their constituencies.

Mordaunt is struggling – falling back on insisting that the Chancellor should be allowed to make his statement, rather than answering the questions.

Another harsh question: will Mordaunt accept that the possibility of “levelling-up” is dead?

Mordaunt lists Tory policies. They include the so-called “National Living Wage” that leaves working people claiming benefits and is therefore a nonsense.

Responding to Stella Creasy, Mordaunt draws jeers from all sides when she says “The prime minister is not under a desk… She is away for a very good reason.” What reason, then?

No answer. And if no answer is all Mordaunt has to offer – on top of no show from Liz Truss, then there is nothing to be said and the entire Tory government should rethink its future.

[At this point, my commentary ended as I had to take Mrs Mike to an appointment. I thought I had covered most of the event – wrongly. Below, please find a video clip of the whole thing.]

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Mocking laughter for Tory MP who said Johnson didn’t believe there was wrongdoing over Partygate

Straight-faced: Maria Caulfield presented the appearance of someone who genuinely believed Boris Johnson has not broken Covid-19 rules and lied about it – but the Question Time audience took a markedly different view.

So much for Tory insistence that the “heat” has gone out of the Partygate scandal!

Maria Caulfield, the Tory minister for patient safety and primary care, tried to repeat the mantra that Boris Johnson “didn’t believe there was any wrongdoing” in Downing Street when MPs and civil servants participated in lockdown-busting parties that he himself had forbidden in TV broadcasts.

Speaking on the BBC’s Question Time, she was greeted with mocking laughter from the studio audience when she said,

“I think misleading parliament, to be found guilty of that, it has to be a deliberate misleading, not inadvertently misleading.”

She insisted that Mr Johnson “has been very clear that there were wrongdoings around the Partygate situation” and “has apologised for that” and “made changes already to No 10”.

Pressed by another audience member on the fact that the prime minister had “held his hands up now, but only because he was found out”, Ms Caulfield claimed: “He genuinely did not believe that there was wrongdoing.”

You can see the reaction to that for yourself:

She was right that Johnson isn’t among those who have been fined for attending Downing Street parties – but failed to mention that only a first tranche of culprits have been punished. More will follow.

And the process has been delayed in some cases because it seems some senior civil servants and/or MPs are challenging a decision to fine them.

This could be because there is a question over whether the fines signify a criminal offence has been committed. If a challenge results in a court hearing that finds people guilty, they will definitely be guilty of a criminal offence.

So it could be that Ms Caulfield is simply spitting into the wind and her words may soon come back to haunt her if it turns out that she has been defending a criminal prime minister.

Source: Question Time: Tory MP mocked for claiming Johnson ‘didn’t believe there was wrongdoing’ over Partygate

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PMQs: Boris Johnson suffers meltdown over Ukrainian refugees

Meltdown: Boris Johnson lost his thread, his reason, and possibly his mind trying to defend his government’s execrable record on admitting Ukrainian refugees. The reason is clear: he’s trying to obstruct them as much as possible, but he can’t be seen to be doing so.

Boris Johnson’s appalling record of turning away hundreds of refugees from the UK – because they didn’t have the right paperwork – led to him suffering an apparent meltdown during Prime Minister’s Questions in Parliament.

We all know the situation, and I can illustrate it with a few tweets:

So the UK demands a mountain of paperwork – somebody was asked for a utility bill; who thinks to bring one of those along when they’re running for their life? – and turns people away in any case.

Reading from a file (!) Johnson tried to say this wasn’t true – but his claim about visa centres being open across eastern Europe rang false after the BBC had revealed a “pop-up” centre for Calais – discussed in Parliament yesterday (March 8) had failed to appear today.

His speech fell into hesitation and incoherence partway through. He managed to pull himself together enough to deliver a rehearsed line about the importance of checks – but was almost immediately contradicted by another questioner:

“When will refugees from the Ukraine be welcome in the United Kingdom?”

I think we all know the answer to that, under Johnson’s government:

When they no longer want to come here.

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Why is James Cleverly refusing to talk about UK weapons being used against Palestinians?

James Cleverly: He was once described as “the Tories’ go-to eejit when they need someone to tweet absolute nonsense or defend the indefensible”. Now it seems he’s not even bothering to say anything at all.

Here’s another story that should be all over the BBC’s prime-time news but, for some reason, seems to have been missed by the mostly-Tory news team there.

The information comes from Declassified UK, an independent investigative site run by Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis. This Writer follows Kennard on Twitter and I am impressed by the information he provides and the opinions he puts forward. Therefore I think his site is trustworthy.

Here’s what it says:

Middle East Minister James Cleverly may be breaking the Ministerial Code by failing to answer questions put to him in the House of Commons. The Code demands that ministers have a duty to “be as open as possible with parliament” and to “give accurate and truthful information”.

The questions were about whether military equipment from the UK was used in Israel’s bombardment of Gaza in May – which killed 66 Palestinian children.

The best response anybody appears to have received – to 14 questions that Declassified has identified – is that the UK “takes its export control responsibilities very seriously”. That is not an adequate answer.

There is an obvious conclusion to be drawn from this – and I’m sure you don’t need me to spell it out for you.

But Cleverly certainly won’t spell out the facts for all of us unless he is forced to do so.

And, given the huge prominence the Israel-Palestine conflict received in the news during May, the absence of such pressure from mainstream media outlets like the BBC is deeply disturbing.

Britain’s Middle East minister James Cleverly is regularly refusing to provide answers to written questions posed to him by members of parliament, especially on UK arms exports to Israel, contravening House of Commons rules.

Source: Foreign minister James Cleverly accused of breaking UK…

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‘Left-wing’ Mash Report axed by BBC to make way for ‘new comedy’. It won’t be funny!

“Blatantly Backing Conservatives”: I know this image refers specifically to BBC News. It seems with the arrival of ‘Tory Tim’ Davie, the Corporation’s right-wing bias is spreading to its comedy output. Look out, drama and documentaries!

The BBC has axed Nish Kumar satire show The Mash Report on the grounds that it was biased toward the political left.

Director General ‘Tory Tim’ Davie at first said he would not make big changes to the corporation’s comedy output, saying that comedy had always “poked at authority”.

He seems to have changed his mind.

Of course, ‘Tory Tim’ is at a bit of a disadvantage when referring to political bias, since it is widely understood that he owes his position to Tory intervention:

Mash had been a target for right-wing commentators since 2018, when Andrew Neil singled it out while complaining that the corporation’s comedy output was too left-wing.

Neil is, of course, chair of that ultra-right wing publication The Spectator, so he’s a fine one to complain about bias!

Asked for a comment on Twitter, Nish Kumar responded with this:

Was this something he wasn’t allowed to do on the televised show, and he was taking the opportunity now?

Meanwhile, let’s have a look at the kind of bias supported by a show with similar ratings to The Mash Report. I refer to Question Time. This is an actual question from the March 11 edition:

Do I need to spell out the wrongness of the question and the thinking behind it?

This Writer certainly wishes Kumar, and co-presenter Rachel Parris, a brighter future beyond the Beeb.

As for the corporation’s new comedy output: I look forward to seeing the new wave of diversity heralded by ‘Tory Tim’.

Looking at comedy history, I think we’re about to be deluged with right-wing material that simply isn’t funny.

Source: The Mash Report axed by BBC bosses after claims of ‘left-wing bias’ | Metro News

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Tory opinion poll asks ‘degrading’ question about disability – and it will help form national policy

As a man in a relationship with someone who has a disability, I can confirm that this is disgustingly inappropriate.

What do you think of this tweet by the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire?

Four those who can’t read images well, the question is: “Do you agree or disagree that you would be happy to have a physical relationship with a disabled person?”

The implication is that people with disabilities are sub-human and should not enjoy the same relationships as the rest of us – and that shows despicable prejudice by the Tory government.

As I say, my own partner has a disability so I know this subject very well.

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Health Warning: Government! is now available
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The first collection, Strong Words and Hard Times,
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