Dacre as Chair of Ofcom, if at first you don't succeed..
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This is pretty funny.
Ministers struggle to find people to interview Paul Dacre for Ofcom job
The Government wanted him to get the job and the first time of trying the committee they appointed said he wasn't suitable so they decided to just start the process again and now they can't find anyone willing to interview him for fear of the damage it would do to their reputation
Ministers struggle to find people to interview Paul Dacre for Ofcom job
The Government wanted him to get the job and the first time of trying the committee they appointed said he wasn't suitable so they decided to just start the process again and now they can't find anyone willing to interview him for fear of the damage it would do to their reputation
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hstewie said:
hstewie said: This is pretty funny.
Ministers struggle to find people to interview Paul Dacre for Ofcom job
The Government wanted him to get the job and the first time of trying the committee they appointed said he wasn't suitable so they decided to just start the process again and now they can't find anyone willing to interview him for fear of the damage it would do to their reputation
If it wasn’t so obvious what the government were trying to do, it would be hilarious!Ministers struggle to find people to interview Paul Dacre for Ofcom job
The Government wanted him to get the job and the first time of trying the committee they appointed said he wasn't suitable so they decided to just start the process again and now they can't find anyone willing to interview him for fear of the damage it would do to their reputation
As it is, it is rather a telling indictment on how government actually works.
Boringvolvodriver said:
bhstewie said:
hstewie said: This is pretty funny.
Ministers struggle to find people to interview Paul Dacre for Ofcom job
The Government wanted him to get the job and the first time of trying the committee they appointed said he wasn't suitable so they decided to just start the process again and now they can't find anyone willing to interview him for fear of the damage it would do to their reputation
If it wasn’t so obvious what the government were trying to do, it would be hilarious!Ministers struggle to find people to interview Paul Dacre for Ofcom job
The Government wanted him to get the job and the first time of trying the committee they appointed said he wasn't suitable so they decided to just start the process again and now they can't find anyone willing to interview him for fear of the damage it would do to their reputation
As it is, it is rather a telling indictment on how THIS government actually works.
JuanCarlosFandango said:
Stupid. It took the left decades to monopolise these institutions, you can't just parachute your mates in and turn it round like that.
I've just looked up OFCOM to see who is the current chair. I've found it's Maggie Carver CBE who is also chair of the Racecourse Association. Wikipedia tells me that her father is Dr Ivan Hall, an architectural historian and her mother is Elisabeth Hall who it says came from a "distinguished" Hamburg family.More about her is on this link though it doesn't look that leftie to me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Carver
Randy Winkman said:
I've just looked up OFCOM to see who is the current chair. I've found it's Maggie Carver CBE who is also chair of the Racecourse Association. Wikipedia tells me that her father is Dr Ivan Hall, an architectural historian and her mother is Elisabeth Hall who it says came from a "distinguished" Hamburg family.
More about her is on this link though it doesn't look that leftie to me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Carver
They didn't appoint a bunch of angry coal miners or dock workers. More about her is on this link though it doesn't look that leftie to me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Carver
Countdown said:
JuanCarlosFandango said:
Stupid. It took the left decades to monopolise these institutions, you can't just parachute your mates in and turn it round like that.
How many decades has the "Left" been in power for? That isn't a moan about evil lefties having some 100 year plan by the way. It's as much a failure of the right to make a moral and intellectual case for itself, rather than just seeing conservatism as a brake on an irresistible force. Even Thatcherism was probably 80% economic pragmatism and 10% populist jingoism with the remainder being some genuinely conservative ideas, to the great embarrassment of the party leadership. Numbers plucked from thin air.
The curious way in which the left managed to completely disassociate itself from the catastrophe of the first half of the 20th century and in particular the Third Reich probably explains most of this. Despite the Nazis being an explicitly socialist party and collectivist in every policy it was the racism which really stuck and I think made most on the right a bit more circumspect about advancing their ideas, especially on nation, identity, race and culture. And rightly so.
What it didn't do in tandem was to make the left any more circumspect about a large, powerful state or their own version of social engineering. So long as it was explicitly not Nazi it was fine.
I don't think such an imbalance is healthy. As in party politics ideas need to be tested against vigorous opposition and pitted against real alternatives not merely fiddled with at the margins.
The curious way in which the left managed to completely disassociate itself from the catastrophe of the first half of the 20th century and in particular the Third Reich probably explains most of this. Despite the Nazis being an explicitly socialist party and collectivist in every policy it was the racism which really stuck and I think made most on the right a bit more circumspect about advancing their ideas, especially on nation, identity, race and culture. And rightly so.
What it didn't do in tandem was to make the left any more circumspect about a large, powerful state or their own version of social engineering. So long as it was explicitly not Nazi it was fine.
I don't think such an imbalance is healthy. As in party politics ideas need to be tested against vigorous opposition and pitted against real alternatives not merely fiddled with at the margins.
The idea that lefties have made a 'deep state'-type power base has never been evidenced.
The elite look like a very interconnected cadre to me. The next Prime Minister is probably (again) an Etonian, then Oxford PPE, then PR or Daddy's hedge fund type of guy. These people have very narrow life experiences and views. They often lack empathy, so how could they be lefties?
I would be less certain on the BBC - where it has a wider range of people, and as they have not gone into finance, law and other lucrative professions, they may be rather public-spirited, dreamy, storyteller type of people. I can see that giving rise to a left-wing appreciation of equality and fairness.
But media owned by billionaires.? Are they really left-wing? The Barclay Brothers who own the Telegraph? Rupert Murdoch -Australian / British / American owner of the Sun / Sunday Times?
The elite look like a very interconnected cadre to me. The next Prime Minister is probably (again) an Etonian, then Oxford PPE, then PR or Daddy's hedge fund type of guy. These people have very narrow life experiences and views. They often lack empathy, so how could they be lefties?
I would be less certain on the BBC - where it has a wider range of people, and as they have not gone into finance, law and other lucrative professions, they may be rather public-spirited, dreamy, storyteller type of people. I can see that giving rise to a left-wing appreciation of equality and fairness.
But media owned by billionaires.? Are they really left-wing? The Barclay Brothers who own the Telegraph? Rupert Murdoch -
JuanCarlosFandango said:
That isn't a moan about evil lefties having some 100 year plan by the way. It's as much a failure of the right to make a moral and intellectual case for itself, rather than just seeing conservatism as a brake on an irresistible force. Even Thatcherism was probably 80% economic pragmatism and 10% populist jingoism with the remainder being some genuinely conservative ideas, to the great embarrassment of the party leadership. Numbers plucked from thin air.
The curious way in which the left managed to completely disassociate itself from the catastrophe of the first half of the 20th century and in particular the Third Reich probably explains most of this. Despite the Nazis being an explicitly socialist party and collectivist in every policy it was the racism which really stuck and I think made most on the right a bit more circumspect about advancing their ideas, especially on nation, identity, race and culture. And rightly so.
What it didn't do in tandem was to make the left any more circumspect about a large, powerful state or their own version of social engineering. So long as it was explicitly not Nazi it was fine.
I don't think such an imbalance is healthy. As in party politics ideas need to be tested against vigorous opposition and pitted against real alternatives not merely fiddled with at the margins.
If you consider Nazis to be "left wing" who would classify as being on the "Far right" of the Political spectrum? The curious way in which the left managed to completely disassociate itself from the catastrophe of the first half of the 20th century and in particular the Third Reich probably explains most of this. Despite the Nazis being an explicitly socialist party and collectivist in every policy it was the racism which really stuck and I think made most on the right a bit more circumspect about advancing their ideas, especially on nation, identity, race and culture. And rightly so.
What it didn't do in tandem was to make the left any more circumspect about a large, powerful state or their own version of social engineering. So long as it was explicitly not Nazi it was fine.
I don't think such an imbalance is healthy. As in party politics ideas need to be tested against vigorous opposition and pitted against real alternatives not merely fiddled with at the margins.
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