Lee Anderson stripped of Tory whip over Sadiq Khan comments (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] leraje 22 points 8 months ago

Lee Anderson? The MP Lee Anderson? The MP Lee Anderson who got caught faking an interview? The MP Lee Anderson who thinks the death penalty has a 100% success rate? The MP Lee Anderson who thinks people so destitute that they have to use food banks just can't budget properly? The MP Lee Anderson who was investigated into claims he is antisemitic? That Lee Anderson?

[-] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 8 points 8 months ago

That's the one. The 30p Lee that presents on GB News.

[-] Tweak@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago

Politicians shouldn't be allowed to present on a channel with "news" in the title.

[-] nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk 2 points 8 months ago

I believe ofcom almost agree too...

“No politician may be used as a newsreader, interviewer or reporter in any news programmes unless, exceptionally, it is editorially justified. In that case, the political allegiance of that person must be made clear to the audience.” (Source: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2023/ofcoms-rules-on-politicians-on-tv-and-radio) But what we see here is these programmes being billed not as news, but as talk shows or current events programmes which allows them to sidestep this. An example of an article which lists a series of complaints being investigated by ofcom as of September 2023: https://www.thenational.scot/news/23799032.full-list-gb-news-shows-investigation-ofcom/ Note:This is from The National, an outlet which is very anti-Tory and I'm sure subject to a few impartiality complaints itself!

[-] Tweak@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago

But what we see here is these programmes being billed not as news, but as talk shows or current events programmes which allows them to sidestep this.

They literally rely on their own blog post to take that position, it's not what they rules they have been given state.

[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 9 points 8 months ago

I think Lee Anderthal should be investigated by the police for his comments.

[-] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 4 points 8 months ago

Anti-Muslim hatred has become normalized in the UK.

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@beehaw.org 4 points 8 months ago

Couldnt have happened to a nicer bloke

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

Notice how he was stripped over the whip because of the comments of Sadiq Khan, and not the comments of Lee Anderson. Odd that.

[-] scholar@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

No, his comments regarding Khan, not Khan's response

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No it was absolutely his response. Our ust while MP wouldn't have done anything about it it hadn't been a backlash, he's pathetic

If he had any spine at all he would have also removed the whip from Truss as this is the second far right convention she's been to, a convention in which one speaker spoke about overthrowing the legitimate government of the United States. So she's now openly declaring an open desire to disrupt democracy in the political process of an ally.

[-] scholar@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

You're right, but this is still Anderson's fault, not Khan's.

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