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Like everyone else, I’ve known all my life that the BBC was supposed to be impartial. Yet over recent weeks, your news and current affairs programmes have consistently omitted “remaining in the EU” as a Brexit choice, presenting only Theresa May’s deal, or no deal. I cordially
invite you to rectify that oversight going forward, including but not linited to the grandstand debate you seem on the verge of securing. Yours, in anticipation etc.
Gah! "Linited". How dreadful. That will teach me to tweet while dodging traffic. (On foot! On foot! I'm not nutty enough to try and tweet and drive.)
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This is a radio ad the Government has started running as part of its no deal Brexit preparations...

It directs people to a nice website with warm and fuzzy graphics...

And as soon as you go deeper, you're thrown into the opaque preparedness notices.
euexit.campaign.gov.uk
That's like flying a sky banner saying "Roll up. Learn the secrets of the Universe" then handing people a copy of Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time".

Utterly, utterly bonkers. And as much use as a bun at a bear fight.
(If you missed the link to the "helpful" website further up this thread, here it is again...)

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A few thoughts on alternatives to Brexit...
- Bring in proportional representation
- Cancel HS2 and spend the tens of £billions on improving *regional* rail and other transport links
- Turn the HOL into an entirely elected second chamber (its oversight function is useful)
- Recognise the merit of a booming economy in London and the SE. Celebrate it and nurture it. Then milk the cash cow and spread that delicious cream across the whole of the UK.
- Foster an entrepreneurial mentality that rewards a "British Dream" (parallels to the American Dream)
- End the culture of secrecy in Government, except in cases of genuine national security. Transparency and accountability at every level. Shine a bright light into the darkest corners.
- Set up a "regional sifting committee" to vet all large infrastructure projects to ensure that
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Government is trying to foist the blame for any Brexit chaos in the adult social care sector off on local authorities and directors of adult social care facilities. This from the letter sent to them on 21 December last year... (Full letter at link below.)
gov.uk/government/pub…
More from the letter:
" Many of these issues will have either a direct or indirect impact on councils and it is also possible that they will have a financial consequence for providers."
More from the letter (doubling down on the "legal" bit):
"I encourage you to work closely with your adult social care providers, in line with your legal market shaping duties, to assure yourself that any impact on providers can be managed locally."
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Let's analyse paragraph 3.

@Channel4News didn't cover CA/VL/AIQ as technology story. They covered it for what it was. A story affecting politics in this country, not a tech story in another country. ➡️
My recollection is that BBC1 news programmes ran their meagre coverage of the CA story about 20 minutes into the Six O'Clock bulletin maybe a day or two after the first Channel 4 story. Furthermore it was purely a tech story and focussed more on Facebook than CA. ➡️
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