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If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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Originally Posted by
WJ99mobile
What would it be
Total restructuring of the media:
Multi-millionaire media moguls banned from owning media outlets that provide news.
Media outlets to show their political allegience. No more than two newspapers allowed to promote any political party.
An independant media organisation with real teeth to clamp down on nonsense reporting and deliberate lies designed to hurt others - newspapers can be withdrawn from circulation for intentionally lying.
Same media organisation to check for impartiality.
Basically, a restructuring that gives everyone fair play in the media, not the most wealthy telling the masses how to think.
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
Increase the Prime Minister's severance package to a billion quid
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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J R Hartley
Increase the Prime Minister's severance package to a billion quid
Very clever :wave:>Boris ................... :hehe:
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
Total restructuring of the media:
Multi-millionaire media moguls banned from owning media outlets that provide news.
Media outlets to show their political allegience. No more than two newspapers allowed to promote any political party.
An independant media organisation with real teeth to clamp down on nonsense reporting and deliberate lies designed to hurt others - newspapers can be withdrawn from circulation for intentionally lying.
Same media organisation to check for impartiality.
Basically, a restructuring that gives everyone fair play in the media, not the most wealthy telling the masses how to think.
you mean outlaw the freedom of the press? :shrug:
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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xsnaggle
you mean outlaw the freedom of the press? :shrug:
No, regulation to ensure the press is freer than it is now.
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
Find a way to ensure Johnson didn't get his job back.
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
No, regulation to ensure the press is freer than it is now.
At the moment there is no regulation. It can hardly get freer than that.
Anyway, my rule would be Kate Beckinsale to give me a daily rub down.
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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Rjk
Cancel Brexit?
'like' button pressed...
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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Originally Posted by
WJ99mobile
What would it be
To enable people to conjugate correctly.
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
Does "after covid" mean excluding covid related rules or literally after covid has passed? Brexit is probably biggest issue of internet debate after covid but likely to be settled, to the extent that it can't be cancelled, before the majority get vaccinated.
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
Stop being so hung up on economic growth.
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
I would abolish the House of Lords.
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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Originally Posted by
Feedback
At the moment there is no regulation. It can hardly get freer than that.
But surely we're in a position where this supposed free-est of free press is mainly run by billionnaires. Journalists at them are hardly free, they have to conform to their masters. We don't get much neutrality, particularly in the printed media; it is driven mainly by very rich men and their agendas.
I suppose my idea of free press is that everyone deserves a voice, and I'd like to see people having a more equal voice, regardless of how rich they are or what school they went to. Supposed freedom of the press certainly doesn't allow for that. You're all for freedom of speech. What is wrong with some regulation to ensure more people and more different viewpoints have access to providing that speech without being drowned out by the wealthy and the establishment?
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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Feedback
At the moment there is no regulation. It can hardly get freer than that.
Anyway, my rule would be Kate Beckinsale to give me a daily rub down.
It's not that great.
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
But surely we're in a position where this supposed free-est of free press is mainly run by billionnaires. Journalists at them are hardly free, they have to conform to their masters. We don't get much neutrality, particularly in the printed media; it is driven mainly by very rich men and their agendas.
I suppose my idea of free press is that everyone deserves a voice, and I'd like to see people having a more equal voice, regardless of how rich they are or what school they went to. Supposed freedom of the press certainly doesn't allow for that. You're all for freedom of speech. What is wrong with some regulation to ensure more people and more different viewpoints have access to providing that speech without being drowned out by the wealthy and the establishment?
Based on what you have written, freedom of speech doesn't mean what you think it means. Freedom of speech is the ability to criticise the government, to be able to hold them to account.
Which billionaires own the Guardian, Private Eye, the BBC, the Independent etc etc?
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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Originally Posted by
NYCBlue
It's not that great.
I'm prepared to take that risk.
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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Originally Posted by
Feedback
Based on what you have written, freedom of speech doesn't mean what you think it means. Freedom of speech is the ability to criticise the government, to be able to hold them to account.
Which billionaires own the Guardian, Private Eye, the BBC, the Independent etc etc?
That's not quite right. Freedom of expression is the right to hold your own opinions and to express them freely without government interference. The government can restrict this right in specific circumstances.
https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/...dom-expression
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
But surely we're in a position where this supposed free-est of free press is mainly run by billionnaires. Journalists at them are hardly free, they have to conform to their masters. We don't get much neutrality, particularly in the printed media; it is driven mainly by very rich men and their agendas.
I suppose my idea of free press is that everyone deserves a voice, and I'd like to see people having a more equal voice, regardless of how rich they are or what school they went to. Supposed freedom of the press certainly doesn't allow for that. You're all for freedom of speech. What is wrong with some regulation to ensure more people and more different viewpoints have access to providing that speech without being drowned out by the wealthy and the establishment?
But if 2 papers already support a particular party and another who wants to is barred from doing so, then that isn't freeing the press its gagging it, suppressing it.
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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life on mars
work as one nation
Presume you mean by that abolish the devolved assemblies set up in 1998, rip up the Good Friday Agreement and recentralise power back in Westminster
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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cyril evans awaydays
Well yes of course. No one is suggesting otherwise.
The point often overlooked is that freedom of speech is not about being able to say what you want about who you want (defamation laws see to that), but being able to criticise the government openly without fear of persecution (save for the points you've referred to)
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
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Originally Posted by
cyril evans awaydays
Presume you mean by that abolish the devolved assemblies set up in 1998, rip up the Good Friday Agreement and recentralise power back in Westminster
Nah, he's an international Socialist.
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Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID
Announce independent Wales and Scotland.