Nick Robinson, the man who was thought a likely candidate to make a good PR monkey for the Labour Party, [perhaps Laura Kuenssberg wasn’t available] and who wrote to his BBC colleagues to tell them to lay off Corbyn [as if they were ‘laying on’ him to start with] gave his local MP, one Jeremy Corbyn, a lovely little interview this morning on the Today show…nothing too hard or too controversial for a Monday morning…in fact when Jeremy asked Robinson to lay off he did…several times. Must be nice to control what an interviewer asks you.
This was the same Robinson who later said the Tories were ‘slashing’ local government spending. Now ‘slashing’ is a highly loaded term and comes at the issue only from one side…the Left’s. This approach says only one thing…that there is no reason for these reductions in spending, it’s just a political decision. Robinson doesn’t indicate that there are very good reasons for these reductions….due to Labour’s reckless gamble with the light touch, risk based regulation of the banks and its massive borrowing and spending spree.
I wonder why the man who knows Corbyn so well, who was alarmed at any hint of anti-Corbyn reporting, who has Corbyn as his MP, who was thought a good candidate to be a Labour spinner, would take that stance?
Yes, “slashing”. Twice he considered it an acceptable word for the BBC to use to describe public spending plans.
We never hear the description “spending reductions” anymore.
If only we could ‘slash’ the BBC !
I am so pleased for Nick that Jeremy is his local MP, as he kept on reminding us. It sounds as if they often share a lentil stew at each other’s houses. How cosy. Good job for Nick that that other Jeremy, you know, the nasty one, Mr Cunt, isn’t his MP. That would never do.
Slashing. If only. They might start on the billion plus each year monitoring Diversity and Equality, something that Dave and his cabinet would never contemplate.
I loved the Nick picture. Where did it come from?
George Square, Glasgow, I believe.
Maybe Nick could turn his attention to ‘slashing’ the private sector’s funding of the £47 bn deficit of the public sector local government pension scheme.
He might also like to consider ‘slashing’ the totally unfunded £280 bn NHS pension liability to be carried by the private sector’s children and grandchildren, while their parents are fully funding their own care.
Absolutely.
Does this ever get an airing with the BBC, I think not, they easily bat this away with the Sawotka mantra that everyone should have these pensions, move on, nothing to see here, all cheered on by QT audiences stacked with Public Sector clients.
Maybe the BBC can dig out a Bowie track to go with the next Marr soundtrack of the week, perhaps with an intro by an amazingly fortuitous ‘guest’ choice from around the dinner set….?:
http://order-order.com/2016/01/11/richs-monday-morning-view-149/
And I am absolutely sure the Marr Squeeze incident was entirely impromptu, and no Marr Beeboid accidentally let slip beforehand that the PM was going to be a guest.