AND HERE WE GO - THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTION THREAD

[Lord Tyrion]

May tried that tack and it failed miserably.

One for you. There was a piece on the news last night regarding ex-pats voting. It got me thinking, what consituency do you vote in when you no longer live in the UK? Is it where you last lived?

 

[Hobbit]

One for you. There was a piece on the news last night regarding ex-pats voting. It got me thinking, what consituency do you vote in when you no longer live in the UK? Is it where you last lived?

In the last constituency we lived in in the UK.... rock solid SNP! Nicola gets my vote. FREEDOM!

 

[Lord Tyrion]

In the last constituency we lived in in the UK.... rock solid SNP! Nicola gets my vote. FREEDOM!

I believe you can vote out of the country for a 15yr period. That remains your constituency then for that time?

Good luck on the freedom train, releash the shackles

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Was the tweet on Twitter or on a BBC site. She's entitled to an opinion, and I don't mind her expressing it providing when she's representing the Beeb, conducting an interview she behaves professionally.

Her BBC Twitter account, username is bbclaurak

 

[ger147]

Her BBC Twitter account, username is bbclaurak

It's her personal twitter account. You are free to moan about what she has used as her twitter account name i.e. including the letters BBC, but is is NOT a BBC account, it's her personal twitter account.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

It's her personal twitter account. You are free to moan about what she has used as her twitter account name i.e. including the letters BBC, but is is NOT a BBC account, it's her personal twitter account.

There is absolutely nothing on that account that is personal, it is 100% job related, whether or not it is sanctioned by the BBC it is her professional account.

 

[ger147]

There is absolutely nothing on that account that is personal, it is 100% job related, whether or not it is sanctioned by the BBC it is her professional account.

I am simply correcting your previous error. It's not a matter of opinion, it's a matter if FACT that the account is NOT a BBC account, it's her personal account.

I have no view/opinion on what she uses it for, any perceived bias etc.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

I am simply correcting your previous error. It's not a matter of opinion, it's a matter if FACT that the account is NOT a BBC account, it's her personal account.

I have no view/opinion on what she uses it for, any perceived bias etc.

I didn’t say it was A BBC account, I said it was HER BBC account, ie, the one she uses for her job.
Hopefully that has cleared up your misunderstanding.

 

[Imurg]

And there is the proviso "tweets or retweets here aren't necessarily my opinion"
Pretty much everyone in the public eye who works for TV/radio/media will have this

 

[Deleted member 16999]

And there is the proviso "tweets or retweets here aren't necessarily my opinion"
Pretty much everyone in the public eye who works for TV/radio/media will have this

Fine, why delete it then?

 

[ger147]

I didn’t say it was A BBC account, I said it was HER BBC account, ie, the one she uses for her job.
Hopefully that has cleared up your misunderstanding.

I refer you to my previous answer, it is NOT a BBC account, it is not HER BBC account either, it's simply HER account. The test? She would NOT lose her account if she leaves the BBC and moves to Sky News as an example, altho presumably she would update her username. 😉

 

[Imurg]

Fine, why delete it then?

I neither know nor care, you'd need to ask her...
Just saying that just because someone retweets something it doesn't automatically mean they agree with it..

 

[spongebob59]

Gove was meant to stand in, but I read somewhere CH4 declined this.

Rumour that Channel Four has commissioned an ice sculpture of Boris Johnson to melt during tonight's televised debate on climate change. And yet he still doesn't want to go on...

 

[Deleted member 16999]

I’m genuinely not sure you are correct as every Official BBC site, Radio/TV/Programmes all start with @bbc

 

[Deleted member 16999]

I neither know nor care, you'd need to ask her...
Just saying that just because someone retweets something it doesn't automatically mean they agree with it..

Oh ok.

 

[harpo_72]

IFS report ? Any comments?

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Latest Mori poll for Scotland

https://twitter.com/x/status/1200021931178807296

Predicted seats
SNP 48
Tories 6
Lib Dems 4
Labour 1

Sounds about right. SNP polling more supporters than Tory/Labour combined.

 

[Old Skier]

Why do you expect balance when I consider the prospect of a Tory government miserable. I would prefer almost anything other than a Tory government but that isn't going to happen.

Actually - I would be less depressed were it a Tory government with a leader NOT Johnson. He is quite unfit for the position of PM - he can't even be trusted by his party to be put under scrutiny by AN.

Still not said who you would prefer

 

[Reemul]

I am off work today unwell and have had the bbc news station on in the background for a large amount of the day.

Today seems to be Lib Dem day, every story, every news piece is about the lib dems and how many are changes to them with tactical voting. There is no mention of their poll results showing Jo Swinson popularity has fallen off a cliff and the libs are not doing well at all. In fact if you just listened to the bbc today you would think they are fore runners to win by a landslide.

It's all a bit odd, like the BBC have some sort of remain agenda......

 

[USER1999]

IFS report ? Any comments?

Ok, so both are unsustainable, I can believe that. However, one of them is bonkers out there, and the other just a bit daft. The headlines imply they are at the same level.