It will be interesting to see how the BBC and Sky News begin to realise that the growing signs of distress in the global economy might turn out to be of more personal significance to their viewers than small boats crossing the Channel
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As I recall, both made the 2008 Financial crash into Gordon Brown's _fault_, and used it to help install a Tory government. They can blame immigrants, and more importantly, a government that can't stop them, for everything.
aug 29, 2025, 8:55 am • 3 1 • view
Even with the Peston mess at the time, I suspect that the BBC in particular has a leadership that will be far less able to handle the coverage and fallout of a financial crisis professionally than in 2008
aug 29, 2025, 8:45 am • 38 2 • view
Would love to hear your views on the Peston mess?
aug 29, 2025, 9:05 am • 1 0 • view
They'll just blame immigrants for it.
aug 29, 2025, 8:43 am • 3 0 • view
Some will, but that doesn't help much if the gilts market collapses or tech firms go bust and voters start also blaming political and business leaders. Remember Fred the Shred?
aug 29, 2025, 8:46 am • 7 0 • view
They'll look to find a way to blame immigrants. The rich and powerful always do. youtu.be/mcJmzEawWi0?...
aug 29, 2025, 9:01 am • 1 0 • view
Ah yes, time to revisit that very prescient phrase…‘it’s the economy stupid’.
aug 29, 2025, 10:13 am • 0 0 • view
Having allowed their agenda to be set by the ravings of the RW press/the X echo chamber, they’ve whipped up an issue that was hardly on many people’s priorities, and made it their daily fare. Meanwhile, people can’t pay their bills, & a lot of our infrastructure is crumbling, but ‘small boats’!
aug 29, 2025, 9:11 am • 0 0 • view
They will double down in blaming migrants and the £49 per week paid to asylum seekers who can be used on our new unemployed. They are a lost cause I’m afraid.
aug 29, 2025, 8:50 am • 1 0 • view
I'm sure they'll find a way to blame the Labour government for the global economic collapse that is coming our way. It worked in 2008, after all.
aug 29, 2025, 9:11 am • 0 0 • view
we're dealing with everyday life market processes that hit voters from different milieus directly. To default to "muh all voters stupid" tropes you can see spreading among the UK and US liberal/left is to fatalistically embrace defeat before a fight is even started
aug 29, 2025, 9:18 am • 3 0 • view
At the moment the over the top fatalism among the UK and US liberal/left worries me as much as a lot of what the Right produces
aug 29, 2025, 9:19 am • 4 2 • view
Do you believe such fatalism is a sincere stance ppl hold, or is it more performative “woker than thou” signaling at work? (Not doing the left any favors either way, obvs.)
aug 29, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Fair point. I try not to give into fatalistic musings, but the screens of the right being met with demure or shrugging from liberals is...well, it's not exactly encouraging.
aug 29, 2025, 9:32 am • 0 0 • view
*screeches Autocorrect is such a blessing /s
aug 29, 2025, 9:33 am • 0 0 • view
I understand the sentiment but what precisely do you think will make the BBC change? There's been reviews of the BBC's economics coverage that detail the risks to impartiality of the way it reports but nothing changes. This is about power and influence not truth. And power is with the right.
aug 29, 2025, 9:02 am • 1 0 • view
That assumes discourses are always fixed. At the moment the over the top wallowing in fatalism among the UK and US liberal/left worries me as much as a lot of what the Right produces.
aug 29, 2025, 9:20 am • 0 0 • view
It's not fixed, but it's also irrelevant if the institution itself has no incentive to change. The right understand this, it's why they whip up noise, but also why they meddle in appointments and AstroTurf campaigns like "Defund the BBC". Hoping the discourse will change is not enough.
aug 29, 2025, 9:23 am • 1 0 • view
People crossing the Channel in small boats will be blamed for it, though.
aug 29, 2025, 8:44 am • 0 0 • view
Why realise reality when you can manufacture it?
aug 29, 2025, 8:46 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 29, 2025, 9:38 am • 0 1 • view
“Financial crash leads to increase in small boat crossings.” Etc etc
aug 29, 2025, 8:52 am • 1 0 • view
Actually I think they have a solid plan for when something happens. They will be able to go live to wherever the print media were covering yesterday.
aug 30, 2025, 8:28 am • 0 0 • view
BBC and Sky News will realise what they are told to realise. Why would they suddenly now start to care about what is *really* significant to their viewers? Their viewers are the patsies, the rabble; to be pushed this way and that, not to be treated as customers whose best interests mean anything.
aug 29, 2025, 8:49 am • 1 0 • view