Hignfy - Bbc Director-General To Face Dcms Committee

[naomi24]

The BBC is facing fresh scrutiny over impartiality and anti-Tory bias after Boris Johnson and Liz Truss were subjected to a relentless barrage of highly personal attacks on primetime TV.Have I Got News For You.

//Last night, Tory MP Sir John Hayes said: 'Clever satire requires clever people, but TV comedy has fallen a long way. All the wit of great British satire has been replaced with snide sneers and crass cruelty. What you saw on Friday was a series of spiteful insults.'

Peer and former Labour MP Ian Austin said: 'Suggesting one of the most powerful women in the country is hysterical and in need of a padded cell is blatant sexism. Satire is incredibly important – but I thought tropes about women being mad were a thing of the past. Clearly not.'//

Strangely enough I can't see that the BBC is carrying this story - perhaps they're just slow off the mark with this one - but has this programme, having become all too 'clever' for its own good, passed its sell-by date?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11177259/New-claims-BBC-anti-Tory-bias-comic-makes-c-word-jibe-against-Boris-Johnson.html

[roopower]

The vast majority of the programme is not clever comedy any more. Usually comedians who are too self satisfied for their own good. Anybody can make rude, sexist and snide comments about politicians as we see on this site all too often. Stopped watching HIGNFY a long time ago.

[jno]

and strangely enough the story ("Politicians don't like being satirised!") is being run by one of the BBC's commercial rivals. I wonder why that could be?

[Untitled]

oh cry me a river. They are two of the most powerful people in the country... they sought power and high office. I really could not care less if people say nasty things about them.

[davebro]

Just wondering - is this public deriding of those in high office commonplace in other countries. Maybe some of our overseas contributors could say?

[Bazile]

^^^

But we live in a true democracy

[MissTerious]

We don't watch anymore. It is always biased and Ian Hislop is the worse offender. Way past its sbd.

[davebro]

Maybe politics would attract a higher calibre of people if they felt they weren't going to be lambasted at every turn?

[Gromit]

// Maybe politics would attract a higher calibre of people if they felt they weren't going to be lambasted at every turn? //

Doubt it.
We seem to have a very talentless Government and cabinet at the moment. Even basic skills like common sense are lacking. They seem to not care what people think of them. Truss announcing a policy, and then the next day denying she had done so. What are we supposed to make of that? Of course the media and comedians are going to pick up on that, and beat her with it.

[jno]

maybe they'd get a higher calibre of politician if the public didn't keep voting for dolts.

[davebro]

if it's only dolts who put themselves forward who else can we vote for pray?

[Hymie]

If I was a sycophantic fan of Boris (as Naomi24) - I would not watch such a program, knowing it was unlikely to mention any of the great things my hero had done for the UK.

I would also not post such a thread as this, which is likely to result in more people watching the program.

It is interesting to note that Naomi24 has a similar opinion of Truss as the majority of the UK electorate.

[gness]

It's not only voting for the dolts, Jno but supporting them when they make an absolute mess of the job mainly through their own greed and incompetence.
I can't comment on Friday's episode yet. We'll see it on Monday I hope. I still enjoy HIGNFY.

[jno]

indeed, gness, indeed.

[gulliver1]

Interesting that as a political term.. "Tory" was an insult (derived from a middle Irish word Toraidhe)
meaning "outlaw "... "or robber" that later entered British Politics. This lot have certainly lived up to their past name.

[weecalf]

Did Boris not get a shilling or two for appearing on it ?

[jno]

he appeared seven times, four as host

https://hignfy.fandom.com/wiki/Boris_Johnson

[Canary42]

It amazes me that even after years in power, Tories haven't realised that the sitting Government will always be the butt of satire, because they're government not because of their political persuasion.

And any regular reader of Private Eye (as opposed to those who spout based on hearsay and bigotry) will be aware of frequent exposure of Labour Councils' flaws.

[ynnafymmi]

@11.42.You should come up to Scotland sometime,jno.

[anneasquith]

Jno, you’ve pulled . :-)

[jno]

;-)