Laura Kuensburg again....

[chomalungma]

She has been talking about the postal votes and how they look for the Labour party.

Either it's misinformation she's been given, or she is just telling what she knows.

Either way, she should know the law about postal votes.

"Anyone attending a postal vote opening session has a duty to maintain secrecy. Ballot papers will be kept face down throughout a postal vote opening sessio"

"It may be an offence to communicate any information obtained at postal vote opening sessions, including about votes cast, before a poll has closed. Anyone with information to suggest this has happened should report it immediately to the police"

She should be aware of the rules and know when to keep quiet. I would have thought that since she had been caught out recently with tweeting fake news from Conservative sources, she would have been more careful.

As I said in my earlier post, postal votes are opened and verified ahead of the poll. It is usually quite easy to see who has been voted for, even if the papers are upside down. Councils vary in how strongly they enforce rules about taking tallies by the agents. I've been an agent for a political party and was able to count a sample of votes as they were being opened.

If anyone is wondering why so many Labour voters have drifted away from the party the bullshit that is this thread is a prime example. There are children going hungry, families being pushed into debt and relying on charities to eat because the benefits they’re entitled to aren’t being given to them, an NHS at breaking point, councils barely surviving and the only viable opposition is too busy sniping at shadows and talking about nationalisation and other 1970s student politics favourites to do anything about it.

@emberember your experience does not matter. :) The target is Laura as usual.

I think Laura Kuenssberg is great. I've really enjoyed listening to the whole brexitcast/electioncast team over the last few months - they've done more to keep me engaged in the political process than any of the actual political parties.

I also really like LK. All the women journalists have been fab. The best thing about this sorry mess.

I also like LK and Steve Mason especially. Brexitcast/Electioncast has been great.

I really enjoyed a 5Live/BBC2 morning on Monday (I think) where they had 3 political experts (NOT Politicians) on a panel and the audience could ask them anything about any policies, manifestos or even any random questions about politics. It was really informative and refreshing to hear without any spin, lies, claims or talking over each other.

You don't own LK. She's not your employee. Stop being so ridiculously entitled

I think a BBC journalist should be impartial and not tweet fake news.
The BBC that we fund and is supposed to be impartial.

Don't you think that?

If anyone is wondering why so many Labour voters have drifted away from the party the bullshit that is this thread is a prime example

What's bullshit about not expecting a BBC journalist to check before tweeting fake news and not to break electoral rules?

Can you explain that?

I don't think it was fake news, was it? Things look shocking for Labour. I doubt very much that's fake.

Is LK the only BBC Hack you hate Chomalungma (welcome to MN, btw, interesting 1st thread) or do you dislike lots of journos?

Ali Velshi does a good TED talk about journos trying to avoid fake news.

Tbf chomalungma has been here trolling for Labour for a while

Both LK and Peston have been dire this year - both Very to pass on “comment” from a “senior Conservative source” who is never named, as news. They’ve each done their bit for the Tory propaganda machine. Very disappointing - these are senior journalists who should know better.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I like LK.

Laura, if you’re reading this, don’t let the haterz get you down.

The journalists have been the best thing about this shitshow.

I used to think she got a hard time unfairly but have totally changed my mind during this campaign due to her increasingly unprofessional, sloppy and partisan reporting. Her tweets the other day blaming a Labour activist for punching Matt Hancock’s aide - shown to be false within minutes - were so far below what we should expect from the BBC’s most senior political journalist. She needs to step down.

She's supercilious and sneering, can't stand her attitude at all.
About time she was replaced.

LK is great. Interesting and gutsy against all the crap that is thrown against her. No she is not perfect but she is not a Tory stooge and has had much perceived anti-Tory content especially about Brexit.

The labour left seem to really hate her and dress it up in concern about impartiality.

No idea if it’s true about the postal votes but it does seem a case of “shooting the messenger”. If Labour do lose this badly then it’s easier to blame LK than the car crash that is JC’s time as leader.

Is LK the only BBC Hack you hate Chomalungma (welcome to MN, btw, interesting 1st thread) or do you dislike lots of journos

I have been here for a while.

I used to have respect for her. I was impressed with how hard she worked and the reporting she did.

But recently, it's been alarming to see how the impartiality the BBC has stood for has gone down hill

Oh - and as for BBC journalists, it's a good thing John Humphreys has gone. You only had to listen to his bias on the Today programme to see where he stood.

Laura, if you’re reading this, don’t let the haterz get you down

If you're reading this, then learn to check your 'unnamed source' because they may have an agenda and don't forget that tomorrow is the day of the election so no revealing any exit poll results till 10pm.

I'd like to think LK might be too busy to read the incoherent burblings of a bunch of opinionated old women.

Weird that left-wingers think that the BBC has a right-wing bias, and right-wingers think that the BBC has a left-wing bias.

I've been reflecting on this a lot lately

I’ve always assumed that the Labour bots are young people, mostly guys, who sit there all day copying and pasting blurb. They don’t give a toss about the rest of the mumsnet chat as long as they can spread the word according to Jeremy.

Peston asked Al Johnson how it felt to throw the DUP under a bus. It didn't feel like an 'pro-Tory' question at the time.

She was the one who made up the punching story?
Are there no consequences?
Well tbh if the prime minister can get away with everything short of murder why should we hold a mere journalist to account?

She won’t have got that info from people who’ve opened and looked at postal votes.

It’ll be from Labour canvassers, who will be being told repeatedly on the doorsteps ‘I’ve already voted, and I didn’t vote Labour.’

That will have fed back to Labour HQ, and someone there will have mentioned it to journalists.