To think BBC news is lost to us now - bloody Farage on this morning

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Why is he being platformed yet again to repeat the surely libellous and undoubtedly inflammatory language about KS and JP spouting from Elon Musk. Saying it's free speech?! Just irresponsible and vile. Even the way he refers to the PM as Starmer is just so rude and disrespectful.

I'm a massive supporter of the BBC and the licence fee but the news branch has clearly been infested with Tory supporters in high places and it's just not what it was now.

It's reputation and standing is being shredded😓.

Musk isn’t an idiot. I was pointing out that it is extremely weird for someone like him to be familiar with someone like Tommy Robinson. That is like Jeff Bezos being familiar with the BNP. It’s bloody odd.

Exactly

It is funny how it is always the left who think they should get to decide what is truth and who is stirring up hate and division. And it’s never their own side. That lovely tolerant group who call everyone who doesn’t agree with them racist ignorant scum but claim that it is others who are stirring up devision.

YABVVU. You can’t just expect the BBC to give platform to politicians who only represent your political views. Whether you like it or not, Farage is a well liked politician and is gaining in popularity. The BBC is publicly funded so it needs to reflect a balance of opinions.

Well this thread isn’t going the way OP had hoped. Oops.

He’s an MP and a party leader. Of course the BBC give them airtime. They even have Lord Buckethead airtime during election campaigning.

😄 How very true. Things have certainly changed on here and I’m glad they have.

Has the OP (or anyone) explained yet what he said that was libellous?

I prefer CNN these days, they actually let the people they're interviewing finish a sentence without "that's all we've got time for" and then cutting to the weather. Not because they're trying to censor people but because they're trying to get too much in.

Also all the budget cuts have meant dropping the good stuff like Press Preview, which Sky News still does but annoying there's an ad break in the middle.

I also dislike the endless sports news. There is so much actual news happening that needs covering, if people want to know who won a football match they either watched it at the time or looked up the scores as soon as, they didn't sit and wait for a news channel to cover it.

Libelling somebody doesn't mean free speech, you don't get to call someone a rape apologist just because you feel like it.

Really? And who’s going to stop Musk?

Pathetic Starmer, Phillips and whose army?

I don't expect the BBC to only cover or give a platform to people who represent my political views. I find it interesting when they have political representives even from China and Russia because I like to see all sides even if I don't agree with them.

But I think all the people they have should be respectable people. I wouldn't have a problem with them interviewing Kemi or Boris or Gove or anyone like that. What I object to is the D list attention-seekers who don't actually know much about politics being treated like they're the same level as everyone else. You don't have Taylor Swift and the cast of Teen Mum at the same party (and pretend they're equal in their contribution to entertainment).

Completely agree. He only has four seats. I don't see the Lib Dems on TV as much as him. He's been on QT 38 times! It's as though someone has an agenda.

@Almn0etd what a pathetic response.

Hopefully the Courts of England and Wales.

This post would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic.

That’s not how things work.

You do know that Musk is part of the most power government in the most powerful country in the world?

@Almn0etd so you've never heard of defamation?

I hope you aren’t implying that we should have Musk or any other US citizen dictate what happens in the UK

I like a democracy

The BBC fall over themselves to give Farage airtime. Its pathetic

How naive

Do please explain further

Exactly. The idea that the BBC is 'Tory' is laughable. It has an overwhelming left-wing bias, which it barely bothers to hide. At times, it seems more like a propaganda unit for sneering metropolitan liberals.

It is beyond gullible to think that UK courts can get Musk to do anything.

He can and does say whatever he likes.

People on this increasingly irrelevant and economically stagnant small island need to get used to living a world as it is, not as they would wish it to be.

Our incompetent and corrupt governments over the last 25 years have made us too weak to have any standing to be able to defend itself.

so you are doing us down - interesting way to influence a democracy

US is 25% of global economy. A quarter of what matters on the planet happens within the borders of the US. The decisions which matter and affect us all are made by the US government. What makes you think our government or courts have the will, the resources or the stomach to take on the US government?

Not sure why this is even a debate.

As I say Musk can and does say whatever he likes. That’s just a fact. Do you see anyone attempting to stop him?

100% this and quite frankly I welcome the upheaval. Blair's government put down roots that have been impossible to dislodge, despite 14 years of supposed Tory rule. We need to restore balance away from the far left to a more centrist position.

What is ‘doing us down’? Stating facts?

Stating anything other than facts would just be fantasy, right?

And how would that help?