LBC Chit Chat #12

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Bobby Chariot said:
Yeah, would have to imagine something has happened.
Richard Spurr, don't know what to make of him, seems a bit all over the place at times, he rushes it reading the front pages, and often just rambles away to himself.
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Perhaps he came in at short notice and didn't have much time to prepare.

Slightly off topic - I bet Sir Ed Davey isn't looking forward to PMQs today! 😨
 
We've had a glimpse into the future over the last couple of days. Sir Ed Davey was a minister who was head of a department that totally ignored the complaints of a group of people subject to the most vicious and unfair treatment imaginable. He subsequently took £275,000 from the legal practice defending the criminals at the Post Office. It's a slam dunk case of egregious incompetence that would have seen a Tory kicked from pillar to post for days. Heard the first bit of O'Brien today and his angle ? Well obviously not to criticise the ex minister but to demonise Conservatives making the justified criticisms.
 
thewittowoo said:
We've had a glimpse into the future over the last couple of days. Sir Ed Davey was a minister who was head of a department that totally ignored the complaints of a group of people subject to the most vicious and unfair treatment imaginable. He subsequently took £275,000 from the legal practice defending the criminals at the Post Office. It's a slam dunk case of egregious incompetence that would have seen a Tory kicked from pillar to post for days. Heard the first bit of O'Brien today and his angle ? Well obviously not to criticise the ex minister but to demonise Conservatives making the justified criticisms.
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What this shows is a big fault line in the approach of James O'Brien where he is trapped by his own name calling. Even worse Sir Ed Davey is one of his Remain heroes.

Fortunately some at LBC remember that they are journalists.

 
Maggie Moggy said:
Perhaps he came in at short notice and didn't have much time to prepare.

Slightly off topic - I bet Sir Ed Davey isn't looking forward to PMQs today! 😨
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He didn't show up and I heard he was absent due to a "personal" matter. I hope he was busy penning his Member of Parliament resignation letter and researching how to hand back his Knighthood, as well as penning his letter to resign as leader of the Lib Dems.. Odious hypocritical man.

I binge watched all 4 episodes of Mr Bates v the Post Office last night and it was absolutely harrowing to watch and it made me cry watching what those poor people and their families had to go through.
 
I thought the SNP minister was SPOT ON today during PMQ's. Try and catch his questions to the PM today. Shame Sir Kier doesn't have the same delivery.
 
The past 2 morning's now - an ex-Post Office worker on with Nick, now has a shop called - Penny's Pies, Cornwall, rapidly expanding little business, remember the name, Penny's Pies.
"Do you do Pasties too?...mmm..lovely"
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I'll say it again Penny's Pies
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Ndrangheta said:
The great, magnificent, wonderful, brilliant, British newspaper industry did pretty much duck all ... ask Nick about that. :rolleyes:
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A tad unfair. This is from a piece in yesterday's Telegraph, pointing out that it took a TV docudrama to get the public and authorities excited about the case.
The first investigation of the case wasn’t actually published until 2009, by Computer Weekly’s Rebecca Thomson, who by now had managed to gather seven sub-postmasters willing to speak out. Since then, Computer Weekly has published around 350 stories about Horizon.
Data published recently in The Sun shows that, once the niche mag had got the ball rolling, the mainstream press weren’t far behind. The Times published 383 stories about the scandal in the 15 years before the ITV drama, and the Daily Mail 343. The Daily Telegraph published 234, The Sunday Times published 152, the Daily Express published 127, and The Sun itself published 101.
 
Maggie Moggy said:
A tad unfair. This is from a piece in yesterday's Telegraph, pointing out that it took a TV docudrama to get the public and authorities excited about the case.
The first investigation of the case wasn’t actually published until 2009, by Computer Weekly’s Rebecca Thomson, who by now had managed to gather seven sub-postmasters willing to speak out. Since then, Computer Weekly has published around 350 stories about Horizon.
Data published recently in The Sun shows that, once the niche mag had got the ball rolling, the mainstream press weren’t far behind. The Times published 383 stories about the scandal in the 15 years before the ITV drama, and the Daily Mail 343. The Daily Telegraph published 234, The Sunday Times published 152, the Daily Express published 127, and The Sun itself published 101.
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It's an odd one because the story has been around for years and certainly has had coverage in the media. I've known about it for a long time so it's been out there. It's taken the TV drama though to really get the public's attention. That and it's coming up to an election so everyone wants to be the good guys now.
 
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