Laura Kuenssberg to step down as BBC’s political editor

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  1. In April 2022…

    Don’t celebrate too early, plenty of Christmas lockdown being the public’s fault spinning to be done yet!

  2. What a terrible loss to journalism. Who’s the Today programme going to use to read out CCHQ press releases now?

  3. She should have been sacked many times and not afforded the dignity of resignation, yet I am glad she’s going… finally

  4. You or I would have been sacked after this:

    > In January 2017 the BBC Trust ruled that a report in November 2015 by Kuenssberg broke the broadcaster’s impartiality and accuracy guidelines.

    > A viewer had complained about her item, which featured an interview with Jeremy Corbyn on the BBC News at Six which was edited to give the incorrect impression that Corbyn disagreed with the use of firearms by police in incidents such as that month’s terrorist attacks in Paris.

    > His purported answer to a question as broadcast in the report was in fact his reply to a more general (unbroadcast) question, not specifically about that terrorist attack.

    > **The BBC Trust said that the inaccuracy was “compounded” when Kuenssberg went on to state that Corbyn’s message “couldn’t be more different” from that of the prime minister Theresa May, who was about to publish anti-terrorism proposals.**

    > The trust said that accuracy was particularly important when dealing “with a critical question at a time of extreme national concern”.

    ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Kuenssberg

  5. Perhaps footage of Kuenssberg’s rap battle with Gove is about to surface?

    On a serious note, her leaving is a good thing. Absolutely bought and paid for by the Tory party.

  6. I can’t help but be fascinated that for all the horrible shit that’s happened – It’s a Christmas party (or parties) that’s the straw that’s broken the camel’s back for “the electorate”.

    Look, they were dickheads for having parties last Xmas…

    But they were dickheads for all sorts of far more important stuff for the last decade.

    Austerity – yeah fine.
    Windrush – yeah fuckem…
    Brexit – it’ll be great!!!
    Weekly corruption / theft of the public purse – yeah well… They’re all like that though… /s

    A Christmas party though… What a bunch of arseholes.

    Don’t get me wrong I’m glad the Tories (and associates) are FINALLY being called out for the weaselly scummy lot that they are… I’m just amazed that the only thing that rallied the people of the UK to realise it was some shit Christmas party they had in 2020…

  7. There are a lot of rats leaving Johnson’s ship at the moment. First his Minister for Pissing Off the Neighbours. Now his chief spokesjournalist.

  8. It’s a funny world, the media industry; colleagues are fawning all over her on Twitter but she’s probably done more than anyone in recent years to damage the BBC’s reputation for fair and impartial journalism to the point where she’s been nicknamed “Minister of Propaganda.”

  9. Well, I was wondering what job Boris had lined up for when he’s finally booted out, now I know.

  10. She should have been fired and prosecuted years ago, for bias and breaking election law, Tory grandee’s had a quiet word and it all went away and she’s so far up Boris’s arse she can see out of his mouth.

  11. Good, she isn’t without talent but i was never happy with the BBC presenting her as some kind of celebrity that has more prominence than the stories she presents.

  12. Medical retirement, she’s got RSI from pitching all those softballs during interviews.

  13. I do like how one sided reddit can be.
    My dad (strong tory voter) messaged earlier when he read that she’d left saying “at least the government might be able to get some fair coverage now”. The right think she’s part of the left wing woke media coverage.

    Personally I’ve always found her OK and enjoyed her input into brexitcast

  14. She’s an absolute melt, and she is certainly a part in my families total lack of faith in the beeb nowadays.

    Disingenuous cockwombling nobber.

  15. She’s been known for being partisan and soft on the Tories so it isn;t a major loss… But I suspect her successor is going to be even worse and even less professional.

  16. Laura has been the most pompous, disliked BBC presenter for a several years. Her presentation style was all about her, not the news.

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