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Thread #168430   Message #4154010
Posted By: Steve Shaw
28-Sep-22 - 04:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
I've actually complained to the BBC in the past about Kirsty Wark (about how, in a particular interview, she blatantly indulged the Tory whilst not allowing the Labour spokesman to get a single sentence out). I got nowhere, of course. She was like a dog with a bone last night over the alleged racist remark by a Labour MP. It came up again on Today this morning and I thought Starmer handled it well, though the interviewer was less aggressive. It was a clasp-a-hand-to-the-head moment when I first heard about it yesterday, knowing how the media would go into a frenzy over it. Whilst not wishing to indulge in whataboutery here, I couldn't help recalling how the Tories managed to brush off Muslim women wearing letterboxes looking like bank robbers, flag-waving piccaninnies and bum boys in tank tops. A double standard, one which Labour have got to be a damn sight more savvy about.