Had to laugh at this;
“Always suspected Stephanie Flanders doesn’t know what day it is…and here’s the proof from Guido on a Wednesday:
http://order-order.com/2012/05/03/flandering-about/?tw_p=twt
Stephanie Flanders @BBCStephanie
Just tried to vote. My polling station, in Hammersmith, had closed two hours early. Has anyone else had same problem?
Stephanie Flanders @BBCStephanie
My democratic outrage is now in abeyance. Apparently all stations closed because, er, today isn’t Thursday. Clearly I need an early night.
Fuckwit !! We’re doomed! Doomed, I say!
FFS!
And she is responsible for informing the nation as to the state of the economy on behalf of the massively dominating media power in this country.
No wonder economic confidence is so weak when she does not even know what day of the week it is.
God help us all….
as she is a Labour supporting hypocrite, i have no interest her credibility as the BBC economics editor
If Flanders (idiot) was to switch over from Channel 4 “At the Races” and watch Channel 4 + 1 “At the Races” and then place a bet, you still get the feeling she still wouldn’t be able to back the winner !
The main headline on the BBC news website is currently ‘Labour punish coalition at polls’. Is it just me, or does that headline imply that the coalition have sinned? Otherwise, why not just write something like ‘Labour make massive gains’, which doesn’t invoke the notion of right and wrong?
Jeff
This story needs to be hung around the BBCs neck, so their munchkins and muppets don`t keep using Twitter etc, to make up “ishoos” for the next days schedules.
The verb “To Flanders” joins the others “to Vaz”, to “Livingstone” “to Jowell” and “to Brown”….
Anyone know what the story is with the London mayor election? Did Boris get back in? Cant find anything on the BBC about it apart from how wonderful Labour is and how even though UKIP got 13 percent of the vote that they havent turned that in to any kind of gain while the greens got three new councillors elected.
Mailman
They aren’t counting until today. Result expected this evening.
This lady would complement Stephanie well..
Allegra Stratton @BBCAllegra
Shapps on stakes: “this looks like being a very close fought London election. If the outcome is marginal then I think people” …
I am pretty sure that on twitter, once you go beyond the 140 character limit, the rest gets lost to those trying to follow your train of thought, especially if they have a lot of feeds and break between them.
Another risible example of the BBC committing to an accuracy won’t fit system and trying to get the world to conform to them when they can’t handle it.
If a pol goes beyond the sound bite love, write a piece and link to the quote there.
The dumbing down of Twitterfied news has some awesome vanguards already.
Stephanie Flounders
anyone who let Ed Balls and Ed Millipede shag them can’t have a lot of brains
or taste
Certainly not both at the same time.
you’ve heard of double jobbers
well’they’re all what you would call double baggers
you would have to put 2 bags over their heads,just in case the first one came off
😉
Although I suspect that’s the ultimate BBC wet dream Jar.
“BBC’s Flanders drops a calendar clanger”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2012/may/04/bbc-flanders-drops-calendar-clanger
Dedicated to Ms Flanders?:-
“I didn’t know what time it was”
Thanks for posting that, George. I’ve listened to it twice already and added it to my Favourites.
When Jane Tracey brought this up on the open thread the other day, I just laughed. But this morning I remembered why “Two Eds” rushed to tweet her outrage. Wasn’t there a bunch of noise at the end of the last election (either regional or national, can’t recall which) about a few polling stations closing early or not everyone getting to vote because they all showed up 5 minutes before the closing, with the accompanying outrage about Labour voters getting disenfranchised?
This sort of ‘serious’ student politics:
http://www.nus.org.uk/en/news/news/nus-condemns-election-officials-as-students-denied-right-to-vote/
Well remembered, David! It was the last general election: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/07/election-polling-stations-lock-out
“General election 2010: Polling stations lock out hundreds of voters
Anger as high turnout sees many unable to cast their votes after queuing for over an hour in cities and towns across UK”
That was it. Thanks, Millie.