Laura Kuensburg again....

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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.

e 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

Have you learnt anything about your cognitive bias then?

I'm voting Labour and always assumed the BBC had a slight left wing bias with individuals like LK showing more of a bias

So explain who all these new enthused posters are who have spent the last month posting incessantly about why we should vote for Labour with their “straight out the Labour playbook” posts and no other topics that are normally discussed on a parenting website.

And Peston is not an impartial journalist. He does not work for an organisation that is supposed to be impartial.

You may think he's not impartial but he works for ITV which is subject to the same Ofcom impartiality rules as the BBC is. He is obliged to be as impartial as any BBC journalist.

So explain who all these new enthused posters are who have spent the last month posting incessantly about why we should vote for Labour with their “straight out the Labour playbook” posts and no other topics that are normally discussed on a parenting website

Probably the same as the Conservative ones as well.

But I'm just a regular MN user who does not want to see the Conservatives in power...and is using MN as other posters do to raise my concerns and to pursue my agenda in this election. In the same way other users use MN to pursue their agendas about things.

Or else MN just becomes about parking and MIL threads....

You may think he's not impartial but he works for ITV which is subject to the same Ofcom impartiality rules as the BBC is. He is obliged to be as impartial as any BBC journalist.

You're right - I did suppose that as ITV wasn't state funded,then it didn't have to be as impartial as the BBC.

Those rules are fascinating.

"5.1 News, in whatever form, must be reported with due accuracy and presented with due impartiality."

When you criticise the BBC for being biased one way or the other, what do you mean? People seem to be saying that there is an institutional bias across the whole of the BBC..

But how does that work in such a large organisation? Who decides what the political bias should be? How is that communicated to all the people who work in news and current affairs? How is it enforced? Would everyone really agree to break the Ofcom regulations and forget all their training like that? How come all these journalists, who spend their lives chasing stories, keep quiet about what would be a huge scandal?

Isn't the Director General a friend of David Cameron's?

Sorry, whoever told me that was misinformed.

Have a look at this.

What does it say? I can't seem to see it without a subscription to the FT

What ViaSacra says makes sense. We sent off our postal votes weeks ago, day or 2 before voter registration was even closed. I could have told any canvasser that.

I finally found the clip where LK says "on both sides people are telling me the postal vote is looking pretty grim (for Labour)" - That's not the same as "I spoke to people who saw and counted postal ballots already."