Comments on: The problem with tonight’s BBC News at Ten

By: Will

Will — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:30:46 +0000

This is hillarious, not because of the content which I broadly agree with, but because this has been happening for about 15 years only the Labout Party has been the beneficiary. Now you’re on the receiving end and you don’t seem to like it and start screaming ‘that’s not fair’.

By: Dan Brown

Dan Brown — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:28:03 +0000

I don’t think it matters that Baroness Scotland is black, in fact I don’t think it is mentioned on The Mail website. I can only assume that you just needed a semi-coded way of saying “they are racists”. This may have some merit but you are just using it to diminish the story. Nice try.

It does matter that she seemingly broke the law and that she just so happens to be Attorney General. Someone who you would think would know about laws. Especially a law that, unless I am mistaken, she was involved in drafting. A law that requires people to view and copy documentation. A law that has a fine of £10K.

I do agree with the general thrust of the article, the media narrative being against Brown at the minute. I think it has been this way since last August. Talking of media narratives, here’s another one I think this also feeds in to, “One rule for them and One rule for us”

By: Doubting Richard

Doubting Richard — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:31:52 +0000

WTF? Are you really trying to say that the Attorney General breaking a law she has been making a big deal of strengthening is not a huge story? That it is only in the Mail because she is black? You do understand what an Attorney General is, don’t you?

This would not be acceptable in any front-bench MP or Peer in any party. That she is in government and in that position only makes it worse. She should have resigned as soon as she knew. That she did not just show how a corrupt Labour Party has debased government.

Whatever she thought about Ms Tapui’s status is utterly irrelevant. The standard her own government put in place is that she has to see and take copies of documents. It is clear-cut. Unless she can produce those copies (and she has not yet, so I doubt she can) then she has broken the law.