mick (daddo) friel

Simon Clarke is on #PoliticsLive again. God I’m sick of the media trying to keep these ex Tory MPs and their special advisers relevant. In 2024 the electorate voted to move on, it’s time @BBCPolitics caught up.

Fred Fleitz is a BBC regular, particularly #PoliticsLive & #Newsnight What viewers are never told is he is co-founder & vice chair of the America First Policy Institute and just how closely they work with the Trump administration. @BBCPolitics

Some week for the British right wing. First the fall out over the Yaxley-Lennon/Daily Mail court case. Then the plastic patriots boycotting Wetherspoons and now readers of the Telegraph are outraged bc Alison Pearson is to be axed. Who knows what the weekend will bring! #bbcpm

Outrageous! Why oh why is Fiona Bruce on Question Time yet again? She has never stood for let alone won an election yet she is on almost as often as host, Zia Yusuf. I’m beginning to wonder whether my annual Reform licence fee is value for money. #bbcqt

The Israeli general election is close. It’s neck & neck between the genocidal psycho party and the psychos for genocide party. #C4News

For those complaining there’s no one from Reform on #bbcqt They were invited, but as we all now know in Reform households Thursday night is bath night.

#PoliticsLive Err, if they are illiterate how are they able to read their questions?

After yesterday’s #CovidInquiry report, as leader of the Conservative Party Kemi Badenoch should have shown some humility and came to the House to apologise on behalf of her party for the terrible damage they were responsible for in Govt. #PMQs #politicslive

Jeremy Hunt must have some good mates in the media. He is so often invited on and treated as a wise elder statesman of politics who played little if any part in the most corrupt & shambolic Govt most of us can remember. #C4News

Why is a BBC programme being used to publicise the ‘alternative budget’ of the IEA, a secretly funded right wing lobbyist group? We have no idea who is paying for Daniel Hannan or whose policies he is advocating. #PoliticsLive @BBCPolitics

Daniel Hannan blocked little old me when I posted the tweet below. But it still holds true. Whilst Private Eye rightly use Hannan’s own words to ridicule him #PoliticsLive continue to treat him as if he’s a wise elder statesman.

There’s a trend with #PoliticsLive since it returned recently. Don’t include Reform in the advertised lineup but when you tune in, there they are! I’ve noticed it 3 times in the last week.

When #Newsnight promises the “best in political analysis” and then, yet again, introduces Tom Harwood of GBnews it’s going to take a lot more then Romesh Ranganathan to convince me the BBC licence fee is still value for money.

Christa Pike. With their long history of violence the one thing you would have thought the US would have perfected by now was executions. #C4News

Kemi Badenoch Iron Dome probably the most impressive Tory initiative since Boris Johnson 40 new hospitals. (And as likely to be built) #C4News

Report after report of the probation service being in ‘crisis’. Perhaps it’s time the media doorstepped Chris Grayling & asked him for comment. #C4News

Hey #politicslive not for the first time you’ve failed to mention Reform is also on your programme. You were receiving criticism for how often you invite them on so now you just quietly sneak them on instead.

In the early days of motoring a man carrying a red flag walked ahead of the vehicle to warn pedestrians. Perhaps this should be reintroduced ahead of any tv appearances by Laila ‘car crash’ Cunningham. #PoliticsLive

Michael Gove oversaw a conveyor belt of corruption during Covid. But here are his pals in the media reinventing him as a respected elder statesman of political commentary. And it stinks. #C4News @Channel4News

Next doors cat has got in & knocked over my kitchen bin again. Well, either that or the Iranian national guard has launched a full scale attack on the UK. It’s so hard to tell sometimes. #C4News