They’re all being nationalised one by one after failure across the board of privitisation; not sure why Avanti needs its own article, this doesn’t feel like news to me (though I suppose “government actually does what it said it’s going to do” might pass for news).
Which 4 countries?
It’s not called “sideloading”, by the way, it’s called installing software on your own computer.
Oh right that makes more sense, here’s me looking it up on Wikipedia and thinking it has to do with American cowboy films or something.
Genuine question: what’s “American shot” and how are we paying for it?
Of course, there it is, they took their time on that one. It does kind of undermine the argument against the BBC though by posting fake quotes while waiting for the actual evidence.
What’s interesting is the BBC article from two years ago about the case contains much less bias.
That doesn’t contain the quote and was released months ago.
It’s not that I disagree with @BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 's sentiment here, I just think it’s bad to misattribute a quote like that, there’s enough misinformation going around as it is.
Was looking more for a link to an article. If they actually said that about the tribunal, that would be unhinged even by BBC’s standards.
Where did you see that?
The problem is that TV is a slowly dying format, so any attempt at saving the BBC is an uphill struggle even with the best will for it. Which I think is a shame, I think it’s culturally important. It needed to have evolved quicker and sooner, but how exactly I don’t know.
Good, that’s the only way to play this one.
The other alternatives: if all parties had contested it would split the vote. Any united progressive candidate would have trouble winning in Clacton. An all-party backed opposition candidate would have been unlikely and would easily be painted as “the establishment” by Farage.
As things are: an independent novelty candidate might actually have the best chance, small as it may be, of beating Farage if they can capture all the protest vote (the absolute majority of Clacton didn’t vote Farage in the last election). Or worst, most likely, case Farage wins a hollow victory unopposed by major parties, he hasn’t made his point, things stay the same only now he’s seen as wasting everyone’s time.
I don’t, really, separate issues.
People this slow are running our country…
Labour would get my vote if they actually did this.