Jeremy Corbyn interview with Andrew Neil

MaizieD
I refer to the answers given by my honourable wotsits above...
OK I admit when I met Andrew Neil in the 1980s I thought I'd rather die than work for him (thank goodness I didn't) but now I see him as a bit of a national treasure, never thought I'd come to that!
and why do I think Labour will exceed the taxation plans of their manifesto?
because...that's what they do, I'm afraid. Not just them; Cameron popped a bunch of policies into his programme which had not been in the manifesto.

turns out the BBC lied to Corbyn and others- who were told that Johnson had also agreed to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.

Again, the BBC shows how biased it is in this campaign. I don't think I will be paying my TV licence next year- appalling.

This is what James O'Brien tweeted about Neil in 2018; I don't suppose anything has changed since then... ”If [Andrew Neil], who publishes Nazi apologists, racists, climate change deniers, homophobes, misogynists & disaster capitalists in the Spectator, is considered impartial enough to present BBC political programmes, it’s unsurprising that his pocket fascists frequently appear on them.”

Don't like Andrew Neil, but James O'Brien? He who has never been wrong about anything, ever, in his entire life? I actually agree with him (JO) on lots of areas but he drives me crazy with his absolute arrogance that his view is the only one, even while I'm agreeing with him!!

Yes, jura but this could prove to be an own goal by Boris.

At least O'Brien doesn't pretend to be impartial...

I certainly hope so Callistemon - and it is a total disgrace, again, of the BBC to have lied to the others that Johnson would be interviewed too- when they had not agreed a date with him.

Wow - Labaik- had never seen this quote. thanks.

James O'Brien is a talk show host with LBC which, unlike the BBC, is not obliged by law to be politically neutral.

Other LBC hosts are, or have been, blatant Brexitories Iain Dale, Nick Ferrari, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Andrew Castle, Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Katie Hopkins.

I still haven’t seen a news item that says Johnson isn’t going to be interviewed by Neil, where did you find it?
On the one hand posters say that Johnson is too scared to do it, and others say that Neil is a friend of his.......it can’t be both.
If he was a friend then Johnson would do the interview.

Only reference I can find

skwawkbox.org/2019/11/27/breaking-bbc-lied-to-labour-about-johnson-chickening-out-to-secure-corbyns-neil-interview/

Thanks annep however skwawkbox hasn’t been the most reliable source of info in the past!

James O'Brien managed - almost single-handedly - to create credibility for Carl Beech's fantasy allegations by repeatedly and uncritically inviting Mark Watts of Exaro News onto his LBC programme to talk about them.

Sometimes investigative journalism does get it wrong. But that doesn't mean that it shouldn't happen because, with eg phone hacking they were right, and they had to pursue that.

For all that he irritates me at times James O'Brien is the only one I ever (if infrequently) listen to on LBC, couldn't stomach any of those in your list varian . Surely it will have to impact on Johnson if he doesn't do the Neil interview? I can see why he'd rather not, because even with benign questions he'd bumble and fumble his way through. Neil couldn't just sit there and let him blatantly lie without challenge.

I would imagine not lemongrove