littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Anyway, given her track record, it's almost certainly just total bullshit.
The dubious journalism of the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg
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if there was a problem with her honesty and integrity she is guaranteed a Tory vermin press job on twice the monies (including the current bribes on top off bbc salary). They love lies, corruption and reinstating disgraced ministers/staff.
Why would she care? She will be better off sacked and disgraced than doing 'actual' journalism
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Why would she care? She will be better off sacked and disgraced than doing 'actual' journalism
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Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Well caused another twitter storm today. Reporting that postal votes don't look good for Labour. How can she know? I thought they didn't get opened until the count?
There was a Tory last week who said postal votes were looking good. Can't remember which cunt it was tho. I thought at the time that can't be legal.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
Dominic Raab.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Cheers.
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hiraethified
Well BBC saying they don't believe they have broken electoral law but strangely have pulled today's politics live off iplayer.
I used to jump to the defence of the BBC news. Those days have long fucking gone.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
They might be right but when you're reduced to 'well it's not actually illegal' as an excuse you're not looking good are you.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
They have ruined their worldwide reputation for impartiality during this election. I feel sorry for the other journalists who work there & will be tarred by the same brush.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Well BBC saying they don't believe they have broken electoral law but strangely have pulled today's politics live off iplayer.
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Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
There's a very detailed explanation about the postal votes thing here:
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hiraethified
Yeah, I've no doubt there's still plenty of decent journalists there who must be well pissed off seeing fucking idiots like Kuenssberg trashing the company's reputation - although why she' hasn't been given a corporate slap down is anyone's guess.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
^^^This^^^ is spot on.
LK is acting like a twat making the statement she has. The fact that the BBC have pulled the iPlayer copy of the show says a lot. Mrs A and I work in Local Govt and were literally open mouthed at this stunt.
She's either lying or breaking the law - possibly a bit of both - either way, I'm a bit pissed off at effectively paying her salary to promote the fkn Tories when she sees fit. Luckily for us lots of people have reported this to both ofcom and the electoral commission already. And, the UK fine for this is unlimited (£5k in Scotland) and/or imprisonment.
News about #sacklaurakuenssberg on Twitter shows the depth of feeling on this
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
I think there's a duty of care issue too, and not just for Laura K. Quite a lot of the senior political correspondents across the industry seem punch drunk, exhausted. Yeah, yeah it's very well paid - but there's consequences to being plugged into an relentless (mis)information avalanche and trying to filter, interpret, report etc. over such an extended period of time. Those consequences are really, really showing.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Thanks for providing a link to what Craig Murray thinks
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
if you prefer News about #sacklaurakuenssberg on Twitter for latest rather than top tweets
I had to Google who Craig was/is
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
That's the same, but thanks. Might be the settings on my end.
she's not though is she - she's credulously repeating what she's been told by some politicians who're lying or breaking the law (almost certainly the first)
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Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
My understanding is that it is an offence to communicate any information obtained at a postal vote or verification count session whether you attended that session or were passed the information by a third party.
As for credulously - I'm not sure, personally. She could be lying/making it up with the intention of swaying polls.
We really have no way of knowing.
As has been said, there is no way of getting the genie back into the bottle - her statement should not have been made.
Azrael
circling Airstrip One
Well BBC saying they don't believe they have broken electoral law but strangely have pulled today's politics live off iplayer.
The police may disagree, hopefully via a caution+3 accompanied by summonses and search warrants.
If they decide otherwise, then following Thursday, election courts might be looking at a sudden upsurge in business.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
They're not, we don't know what they're doing. Unless something seriously dodgy is going on, LK is essentially making stuff up.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Alternative view, it's all in the maths:
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I don't think so.
PV agents (really sub-agents) do feed back ball-park numbers that, presumably, do get fed up to region, up to national etc. I think LK is just blabbing about the loose talk she's heard from her contacts. I suspect that the Lab 'info' might have been made up by her contacts in CCHQ, though.
8ball
Merr xmas...
My guess, and I think possibly yours, is that the Been are shit scared of the Tories right now.
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