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Thread: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID

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    If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID

    What would it be

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    Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID

    Quote Originally Posted by WJ99mobile View Post
    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with real teeth to clamp down on nonsense reporting and deliberate lies designed to hurt others - newspapers can be withdrawn from circulation for intentionally lying.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

    Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
    Increase the Prime Minister's severance package to a billion quid
    Very clever >Boris ...................

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    Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID

    Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
    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with real teeth to clamp down on nonsense reporting and deliberate lies designed to hurt others - newspapers can be withdrawn from circulation for intentionally lying.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?

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    Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID

    Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
    you mean outlaw the freedom of the press?
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
    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

    Cancel Brexit?

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    Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID

    Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by WJ99mobile View Post
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by Feedback View Post
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by Feedback View Post
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by NYCBlue View Post
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by Feedback View Post
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
    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

    work as one nation

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    Re: If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID

    Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
    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
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
    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.

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