🎤🌀Apparently, Question Time now doubles as Deflection Time—with bonus points awarded for creatively dodging accountability. The Mandelson resurrection scandal? Don’t blame Labour. Don’t even look at the government. No, no… the presenter found a way to aim the spotlight at REFORM, a party with zero seats and zilch power. That’s right, the political equivalent of a pub quiz team is now being framed as the shadowy hand behind senior cabinet appointments.
🧙♂️ “It Wasn’t Us, It Was the Populist Phantom!”
REFORM didn’t hire Mandelson.
REFORM didn’t stay silent in Parliament.
REFORM didn’t decide to rerun 1997 like it’s retro-chic season on Downing Street.
But sure—let’s paint them as the puppet masters behind this palace drama while ignoring the chorus line of MPs who nodded along and the party leadership who green-lit it.
The BBC didn’t just miss the point. They built a trampoline on the point and bounced over it repeatedly. It’s not journalism—it’s interpretive dance in the service of plausible deniability.
Meanwhile, voters are supposed to pretend we don’t remember who’s actually holding the reins right now? Or that Mandelson didn’t apparate into power on the back of party leadership decisions made behind closed doors, not in Nigel Farage’s garden shed?
This isn’t balance. It’s broadcast gaslighting. 🧯📺
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Tired of the media playing spin-the-bottle with accountability? Furious that power structures keep blaming the powerless? Channel it. Vent it. Tear it apart—in the blog comments, where someone might actually read it without a script in their ear. 💬🔥
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