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The Chair of Ofcom's term expires next year, and the Government is already looking for a replacement. Hopefully that will see an improvement.

But GB News will just go on to YouTube if they're really cracked down upon. I'd be happy with that, but it by no means goes away, nor can it be made to go away. Just as "Leveson 2" wouldn't make the Telegraph suddenly be fair to Starmer.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Wed Dec 31, 2025 8:48 pm The Chair of Ofcom's term expires next year, and the Government is already looking for a replacement. Hopefully that will see an improvement.

But GB News will just go on to YouTube if they're really cracked down upon. I'd be happy with that, but it by no means goes away, nor can it be made to go away. Just as "Leveson 2" wouldn't make the Telegraph suddenly be fair to Starmer.

If there was any inkling of meaningful sanctions against GBeebies I can imagine an army of lawyers being involved and even more abuse aimed at the government from elsewhere.

Yeah, possibly. The Ofcom rules seem they should be doing something. Is a judge going to throw all those rules out?

I see that most of the GBeebies staff spent the first 12 minutes of the new year carefully studying the firework display to find something to be angry about. I think they basically wanted 12 minutes of fireworks depicting the Union flag accompanied by the national anthem. Anything short of that would be considered woke and Unbritish.

Remember it's the left who do silly identity politics. The right is laser focussed on real issues.

Union flag? Pah, dreadfully woke symbol of 'so-called' Britishness, claimed by some of our colonial brethren (about whom we know nothing of their true loyalties). Plus of course the wantaway Celts. What's wrong with a nice flag of St George? Forever.

I've become aware I don't negatively associate the Union flag with far right ideology as much these days, certainly not as much as a decade or so ago when Nick Griffin was the poster boy, now in the obscurity that hopefully Yaxley will be in due course. St George's is the flag now that when I see flying, I think it's been hoisted up there by some violent, insecure, wife beaters, who burst into tears the moment they are in a dock. And I'm probably not wrong.

Tee hee.

Boiler wrote: ↑Sat Feb 07, 2026 11:25 am Tee hee.

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James O'Brien was equally as perplexed as to why his phones were quiet about the Mandelson affair. I'd like to think it's because an overwhelming majority of voters think shit happens and Keir's a fairly decent guy we should let get on with the job. I suspect that even that low bar of pragmatism is wishfulfiment bollocks.

Maybe we've just had enough of journalists.

The public might get more interested as the "pedo" angle is pushed harder. Before long, they'll be thinking that Mandelson was in. fact abusing girls himself and that Starmer knew and covered it up.

While I've never liked him much, I've always sympathized with the unsubstantiated shit he has had to put up with, solely because he's gay and was a councillor in Lambeth.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sat Feb 07, 2026 1:48 pm The public might get more interested as the "pedo" angle is pushed harder. Before long, they'll be thinking that Mandelson was in. fact abusing girls himself and that Starmer knew and covered it up.

While I've never liked him much, I've always sympathized with the unsubstantiated shit he has had to put up with, solely because he's gay and was a councillor in Lambeth.

So far Starmer has got the blame for Brexit, losing in 2019, the Post Office prosecutions, Jimmy Savile, lockdown. Have I missed any?

Hindenburg, sinking of the Titanic, release of the Black Death across Europe, and the murder of Abel.

Don't forget the Reichstag fire.

Youngian wrote: ↑Sat Feb 07, 2026 12:12 pm

Boiler wrote: ↑Sat Feb 07, 2026 11:25 am Tee hee.

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James O'Brien was equally as perplexed as to why his phones were quiet about the Mandelson affair. I'd like to think it's because an overwhelming majority of voters think shit happens and Keir's a fairly decent guy we should let get on with the job. I suspect that even that low bar of pragmatism is wishfulfiment bollocks.

Maybe, like me, they're waiting to see the evidence before passing judgement? I keep hearing people saying Starmer ignored the security services warnings but I've also heard the security services flagged no concerns. In a few weeks we will see the vetting procedures and know the information which Starmer based his decision upon as opposed to what we now know.
We've been through this 20/20 hindsight shit before with Savile, for example, where apparently everybody who ever met the cunt knew the details of his crimes and conspired to cover them up. It's bollocks, promoted by the very stupid and/or those driven by politically motivated wishful thinking.

I was listening to an interview with Gordon Brown on Radio 4 this morning where he explained that he had brought Mandelson back into government on the back of the fact that he had spent 4 years doing a very good job as the EU commissioner for trade. So bringing him back was a no brainer.