{"id":1824,"date":"2019-12-17T00:19:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T00:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2023-01-22T22:27:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:27:03","slug":"election-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"POLiTiCS: Election, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the run up to the election I was made aware of Jonathan Pie. First time I saw one of his videos I just thought he was an independent media type pundit who&#8217;d decided to present news as if the BBC were really as Left as some (on the Right) claim it is. [1]<\/p>\n<p>But with the second one I began to suspect all was not quite as it appeared. And shortly thereafter I discovered he&#8217;s in fact the creation of a guy called Tom Walker; a fictional news reporter, &#8216;captured&#8217; as if speaking his mind, off-air, in the moments just before or after a broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very clever and effective idea.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MjUWX6S8iYU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first piece of Pie I consumed was <i>A Decade of the Tories<\/i>, above. I can&#8217;t recall exactly what I saw next. But the next one to hit with as much impact as <i>Decade <\/i>was<i> Election Aftermath<\/i>, below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G0nIhL4v6bY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although I find Pie&#8217;s intense and rather hectoring style a bit much, I&#8217;m essentially in near complete agreement with what he actually says. In a similar but more clearly satirical vein, I just saw this:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kfiq5XHhlPQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Again, very funny. But, underneath the humour, bone-chillingly depressing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>[1] Oh, the irony! It&#8217;s true there are elements of leftism, especially in the kind of group-think PC area. But anyone who knows their political onions will know that many of the BBCs prime news and politics figures for some time now &#8211; from Paxo to Andrew Neil and Laura Kuensberg &#8211; are card-carrying Tories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the run up to the election I was made aware of Jonathan Pie. First time I saw one of his videos I just thought he was an independent media type pundit who&#8217;d decided to present news as if the BBC were really as Left as some (on the Right) claim it is. [1] But &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=1824\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;POLiTiCS: Election, 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-tq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8185,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/8185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}