Reform’s move to block local journalists from reporting on their work is straight out of Donald Trump's playbook. It's a cornerstone of our democracy that politicians of all stripes are held to account — but for some reason Farage's cronies think they can make themselves exempt.
“Nigel Farage pretends to champion free speech: I’m calling on him to take some responsibility for once in his political career and demand that Nottinghamshire County Council Leader Mick Barton reverses this decision.” Max Wilkinson MP has written to Nigel Farage 🔽
@LibDems Bias media should be ignored! Well done to Reform who refuses to engage with media that do not listen to the people and instead follow an ideological Left narrative!
@LibDems That’s nothing! The Lib Dem’s have gone to extraordinary lengths to cover up their being taken to court for unlawful discrimination against their own members! Get your own house in order…. #IlliberalHypocrites
@LibDems Has Ed checked his biology book, to discover a woman cannot have a penis yet?
@LibDems Weren't you the same chaps who told us to embrace diversity and fight for democracy? Yet anyone who opposes your Marxist/globalist narrative is instantly declared a heretic.
@LibDems Why won’t you appear on TalkTV or GBNews???
@LibDems If journalists were impartial then it would be a fair point but they are not and mostly talk nonsense. People should also be free to ignore the biased MSM.
@LibDems Were you vocal critics of this? I don’t think so. Labour using the Trump playbook was just fine with you. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-…
@LibDems Fik off. You leader helped cover up the Post office scandal for years, while massively profiting
@LibDems This is what happens when your “journalism” is bias & BS.
@LibDems @Keir_Starmer Kier is weak. Let's block Reform & their racist GB news & LBC etc. Don't reply to their comments. Don't give Scum a platform. No replies, no likes =,F off under their pond stone
@LibDems @Vicktor1111 Local journalists ask better questions than the client journalists of the MSM
@LibDems Good, if I want to know what the councils are doing I’ll go to the council’s website. Trust in the MSM has already gone to the gutter.
@LibDems the reform bots wont have a response for this
@LibDems Local journalists are the watchdogs of our democracy 📰. Any party shutting them out shows fear of scrutiny, not strength. If Reform believe in the people, they shouldn’t be hiding from the press.
@LibDems It’s always about Reform isn’t it ….. Would love to know what dictator Starmer has offered the greens and yourselves for your silence
@LibDems Journalists can continue to write and publish whatever malicious drivel they choose about Reform. No one is stopping them. It’s just that Reform won’t waste any more time on them, and with good reason.
@LibDems Perhaps because they just make shit up?🤷
@LibDems Ah yes, Farage’s political company, that bastion of free speech.
@LibDems You halfwits fetishise democracy as if it is an end in itself. It is a means to an end, nothing more. No one is obliged to talk to the media if they so choose. Nottingham Live can still report, they just don't get interviews they can twist.
@LibDems If you get a globe and find Washington DC that’s where Trumps writ runs. Now find the British Isles, that’s where our piss poor governments writ runs. You are just the manure on the fields of the British Isles.
@LibDems @PeterKempFBPE Provided that local reporters tell it as it is what is the problem ? These local reporters raise interest in local issues 👍
@LibDems If I reported on your party, but always with a negative spin and full of inaccuracies, I'm sure you'd not allow me to cover your meetings and conferences.
@LibDems This post makes no sense, Trump is constantly having news conferences, unfortunately the media doesn’t always tell the truth.
@LibDems Reform supporters seem to be supporting this. But they should be asking themselves what Reform is trying to hide by banning journalists who ask them tough questions or expose their failures. What don't Reform want you to know...?
@LibDems @Tantalus14 He can’t . The reporters can attend all Council Meetings. And report. But Council reps cannot talk to the reporter to help them report.
@LibDems @NanaVupNorth Can’t agree with this enough. This is how it begins.
@LibDems Typical libdems, the problem is gimmigration and globalist puppets politicians
@LibDems The Lib Dems in Kendal did that for years, they particularly didn't like residents turning up to observe meetings (sorry nap time). To be fair, they know they have to now. Not a very Fabian attitude is it (you'll know who I mean)
@LibDems @AlisonA70131826 What democracy would that be then? This country is certainly no longer a democracy unless,ofcourse, you happen to be left wing and a labour voter!
@LibDems Yet your own MP, John Milne, blocks his own constituents from asking questions to him that he doesn't like....