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tonyd2024

@tonyd2024.bsky.social

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Born in Liverpool then later moved to South Cumberland, as it then was. After school and College, worked in Engineering and Construction. Interests include, but not limited to: Politics, Economics, Astronomy, Liverpool FC and McLaren Formula One.

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tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 20h

If the major shareholder in a tv channel can write a cheque every year to cover £30mn losses, I can't imagine it being any problem to bung the senior management team at your regulator a few quid to turn a blind eye to all of the breaches of those regulations you find so annoying.
JUST THINKING ALOUD

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 1d

Under @ofcom regulations this would normally mean that Marshall would not be allowed to be the principal shareholder in @gbnewsonline.bsky.social. Gbeebies has form when it comes to promoting issues that are for the benefit of their principal shareholders hedge fund and other business interests.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 2d

It's time now for Culture Secretary @lisanandymp.bsky.social to sit down with @ofcom.bsky.social CEO #MelanieDaws and tell her that unless she get's Ofcom to do what it's there for and to do what the public wants, then somebody else can easily be found who will do it.
No one is irreplaceable.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 2d

I read somewhere that 66% of Gbeebies viewers are 55 and over. Hardly surprising than that a sizeable chunk of their ads are about funerals, mobility aids, retirement communities etc.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 2d

What's with all this "Big Nige" rubbish. From what I've seen of him, admittedly on tv, I doubt he could fight his way out of a soggy paper sack. Guess that's why he has the close personal security wherever he goes.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 2d

#BBCQUESTIONTIME programme yet again giving a platform to their favourite party @reformuk.bsky.social. That's bad enough but to have "Mad Nad" Nadine Dorries representing them is just taking the mick. I don't expect to hear anything near to common sense from Dorries so I'm off to my pit. Night all.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 4d

That whinging old woman will never be PM.
People aren't so stupid that they would vote in a Grifter like Farage who is only interested in lining his own pocket and the pockets of those who prop him up.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 4d

@reformuk.bsky.social leader #NigelFarage spit his dummy out of the pram because, he says, every week at #PMQ's he is attacked but has no right of reply.
If Farage was more committed to his Parliamentary duties and showed up more often he might get the chance to ask more questions.
What a whinger!

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 4d

I just wish that the current #BBC management would learn that The BBC does not belong to political groups and parties exclusively on the right but rather to all of us, left right and centre, who pay for a tv licence every year. The right wing bias on show is now clear as day.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 4d

Turns out The Home Secretary, @shabanamahmood.bsky.social didn't give an interview to GarBageNews, rather she or her Department issued a statement which Gbeebies claimed to be a tv exclusive.
As a Labour supporter I will always feel uneasy about Labour MP's talking to such a vile channel.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 4d

Think you'll find "The Concrete Grower" Mike Graham spouts his rubbish daily on Talk TV. Talk is as bad in it's way as GBeebies but is only online.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 4d

@gbnewsonline.bsky.social tonight trailing an interview with Home Secretary @shabanamahmood.bsky.social. GBeebies claiming this as an exclusive with no other broadcaster getting an interview. IF true, why is a Labour cabinet minister speaking 'exclusively' to a channel that wants to destroy them?

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 5d

GBeebies major shareholder is a multi millionaire who can afford to write cheques to cover GB "News" annual £30m+ losses.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of his cash hasn't found it's way into certain OFCOM accounts before now.
Can anybody else explain Ofcom's Laisse Fair approach to GBeebies.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 5d

Going on Trumps previous developments that I've seen, the new White House Ballroom will have all the class and sophistication of a Parisian Bordello.
And I can't see it being anywhere near as much fun!

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 7d

Getting ready to watch #TheUSGrandPrix. Young fella called Mateo Lopez singing the national anthem. With a name like that and looking like he does, I wouldn't be surprised if he wakes up tomorrow with his head shaved,wearing a pair of boxers and sharing a cage with some gentleman with many tatoo's

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 7d

As an average viewer of GB "News", i.e. one who can't watch more than two minutes a day, I wonder if two out of three ads on GBeebies are still for firms operating in and around South Wales?
I did notice recently that the production company that makes the ads is now advertising itself on GBeebies.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 7d

Next year there will be local Government elections.
Usually political parties are allocated election broadcasts to get their messages to the electorate.
@reformuk.bsky.social have their own propaganda channel so can we expect that they will NOT be allocated any broadcasts on BBC, ITV etc?

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 7d

Well, This is better isn't it.
BBC Sunday programme presented today by 'Aunties' Rottweiler in chief @vicderbyshire.bsky.social and at last, a chance to hear from @greenparty.org.uk leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social.
All we need now is for Liverpool to beat Manchester Utd and all will be champion.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 9d

The BBC have been sanctioned by @ofcom.bsky.social because they breached the broadcasting code by "failing to disclose the narrators links to Hamas in a doc. about Gaza"
So explain to a pleb like me why The BBC can be sanctioned for this and yet GB"News" lies everyday without any punishment at all.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 11d

After watching some #FoxNews programming I'm not really a fan of US news channels. I do watch some of #CNN's output as a change to #BBCNews or #SkyNews.
#Sky is owned by #ComCast who also own #MSNBC.
I thought ComCast would have chosen to show MSNBC here in the UK. Would make a change from CNN.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 13d

BBC #PoliticsLive going heavy on the @reformuk.bsky.social presence today.
Even by Reform UK's standards Cllr Laila Cunningham is on the far right of British Politics.
I can understand why she's a favourite of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social but she's too far to the right to appeal to mainstream viewers.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 14d

Nationalism: certainly on the increase.
Obsession With National Security: definitely one of Labours fixations.
Obsession With Crime & Punishment: been a thing for Labour since David Blunkett in Blair's Government.
Cronyism & Corruption: Not as bad as in former Tory administrations but getting there.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 14d

The people of The UK voted @teamlabouruk.bsky.social and for change. Unfortunately, as is so often the case these days, they wanted that change to be immediate. But 14 years of Austerity, Covid and Brexit can't be put right overnight. Reform's proposed cuts will be £260bn. Where will that come from?

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 15d

A sound idea Laura.....in principal.
But can you really imagine that @ofcom.bsky.social would ever allow a left leaning tv channel make it to the public airwaves. Not with a Tory Chairman (Michael Grade) and a Tory CEO (Melanie Dawes).
The Tories did a good job of putting their people in key jobs.

tonyd2024 @tonyd2024.bsky.social · 18d

Somebody needs to remind @gbnewsonline.bsky.social presenter #BevTurner that she left University with a BA in English Literature.
This doesn't mean that she's an expert on Epidemiology, Virology, Immunology or for that matter Climatology and Environmental Science.
She just thinks she knows it all.