Parsimonian

Dear @BBCNews. I pay for your service and expect the news to include the truth and all of it. If Prime Minister Johnson is found in court to have lied and misled parliament, this is headline content. Why was it not reported?

Starmer declares a two grand gift for half a dozen pairs of glasses: National outrage, Starmer's a liar, he's on the take, demands for a GE. Farage is secretly bunged with £5,000,000 by a crypto billionaire: Barely gets a mention. @BBCNews @GMB @itvnews @SkyNews @Ofcom @lisanandy

@nw_nicholas @susan_bagheri It *would* be unbelievable, if you started from the point of believing he actually was a journalist.

This is unbelievable. Chris Mason reporting on the Farage £5m donation and doesn't mention the rule that new MPs must report all donations in the 12 months prior to being elected. Unbelievable.

‘Like’ if you don’t believe that a Thailand-based crypto-billionaire would give Farage £5 million and expect nothing at all in return. ‘Repost’ if you think the donation should have been declared in accordance with parliamentary rules.

@BBCPolitics One for Chris Mason 🤣 🤣 🤣 x.com/pippacrerar/st…

@BBCPolitics Over to you, @ChrisMasonBBC, we're waiting for you to do this as a main story on the 6pm news...

I know there is a lot of news around but can someone at the Beeb explain to me how a man they keep telling us might be the next PM getting an undisclosed donation of FIVE MILLION POUNDS from a Thai based crypto dealer (with a BS explanation about it being for lifelong security) is not even a news story when the man he wants to replace led the news for days over some glasses and Arsenal tickets?

Farage received £5m from donor before he became MP bbc.in/49bQDqf

This is Nigel Farage at a Reform Party Conf mocking Keir Starmer over the freebie glasses Starmer received. It is now revealed Farage received an undeclared £5 million gift from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne. Farage is a HYPOCRITE.

Reform leader Nigel Farage received £5m from donor before he became MP bbc.in/4t3erE0

EXCL: Nigel Farage was given an undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in general election @Annaisaac reveals theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@ZiaYusufUK Are you new to politics?

Now we have the full list of Labour MPs who voted to save Starmer from an ethics probe, we are organising an almighty saturation of their constituencies with literature and ads. Crucial their voters know they prevented due process on the most unpopular PM in history!

@gpchatbot @KernowQ @BBCr4today @bbcnickrobinson @bphillipsonMP Completely agree, I thought Robinson was arrogant and unprofessional this morning. How standards have fallen.

I grew up with @BBCr4today when it was probing but fair. Listening to @bbcnickrobinson interviewing @bphillipsonMP earlier I was horrified at the level of contemptuous sneering she had to endure. The BBC cannot be trusted with political journalism. Robinson is unfit for post.

Brainwashed crank @latimeralder “Nobody is following us so why are we doing it?” Rest of world. “You ignorant lying brainwashed crank”

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake". So if Starmer is as useless as his opponents all like to make out, why are they all clamouring for his removal?

Oh look ! Man who day in, day out whips up anger about "foreign criminals" in order to further his personal ambitions, now himself under investigation by the police for accepting illegal foreign donations👇 Populists, never knowingly trustworthy

@AllisonPearson @RachelReevesMP So predictable. So wrong. (You, of course)

Another disaster to chalk up to Chancellor @RachelReevesMP Claire’s Accessories to close with the loss of 1300 jobs. Labour has created historically hostile conditions for the High Street. The People’s Revenge will wipe out Labour on 7 May.

EXCL: Police are assessing evidence about donations to Robert Jenrick’s campaign to become Tory leader in 2024 after a referral from the elections watchdog. Information was passed on by Electoral Commission, which is understood to have been investigating allegations that almost £40,000 of donations to his leadership campaign before he defected to Reform UK, were from foreign source in breach of electoral rules. Cracking reporting from @rowenamason theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

This may well be the most effective dismantling of a journalist by a politician that I have seen in recent times. I say that with full consideration of the context. On LBC, Lewis Goodall appears to steer the discussion towards a predetermined conclusion, presenting assertions that do not align with the available facts and constructing a narrative that does not withstand scrutiny. In doing so, he goes as far as to suggest, almost to press for, the establishment of a Privileges Committee to investigate Keir Starmer. Yet the substance of that demand does not appear to be grounded in evidence, but rather in the continuation of a narrative that he himself is attempting to shape. There is a consistent pattern in his approach. Wherever he appears, there is a tendency to impose a storyline that extends beyond what the facts can reasonably support. If one were to look for an example of the more troubling aspects of modern political journalism, this would be difficult to overlook.

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