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Nadine Dorries Says New Laws Would ‘Hold Netflix To Account’ Following Jimmy Carr’s ‘Appalling’ Holocaust Joke
The Culture Secretary has denounced the comic for his "abhorrent" joke made about the Traveller community in his latest Netflix special.

During an interview on Saturday’s BBC Breakfast, the Culture Secretary condemned the comic’s joke made during his one-hour Netflix special, His Dark Material, as “shocking, abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Dorries suggested that in the future, new laws would “hold Netflix to account” for such content.

“We are looking at legislation via the Media Bill which would bring into scope those comments from other video on-demand streaming outlets like Netflix,” she said.
“So it’s interesting that we’re already looking at future legislation to bring into scope those sort of comments.”

The MP said Carr’s comments were “abhorrent and they just shouldn’t be on television”, but it was then put to her that in a tweet in 2017 she had claimed that “left-wing snowflakes are killing comedy”.
She said: “Well, that’s not comedy.

“What Jimmy Carr did last night is not comedy. And you know, I’m no angel on Twitter, nobody is, but I just would like to say that nothing I’ve ever put on Twitter has been harmful or abusive.
“But that last night… Jimmy Carr’s comments, no one can call that, you know, snowflake or wokeishness, that’s just… it was just appalling.”

She said the comments were “shocking and abhorrent and unacceptable, not just because he was making fun on the basis of people who died in the most appalling circumstances, but on the pain and suffering of many thousands of families”.

In a separate interview with Times Radio, she said: “We don’t have the ability now, legally, to hold Netflix to account for streaming that but very shortly we will.”
Asked on Sky News if there was any way this new law would put restrictions on free speech, she said: “No, absolutely not. We’ve been very, very… well because I’m a Conservative, I’ve been very, very careful about that.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/en...-netflix-new-laws_uk_61fe57f3e4b0b69cfe8f6f97


A reminder that the Government is pushing for legal powers to arrest Gypsies, Roma and Travellers and confiscate their homes, and imprison adults for three months if they stop in places that have not been designated for them.
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Was this the same interview where she appeared, again, to be drunk?

Also referring to 'last night' seems odd for a show that's been streaming for a while (I watched it a couple of weeks ago).
 
Congrats to Steve Barclay on his appointment as Boris' chief of staff.

In unrelated news, as Brexit Secretary, Steve Barclay voted against a bill that he himself had spoken in favour of minutes earlier.

I am sure he’ll definitely bring order and consistency to Downing Street.
 
Boris Johnson has announced two new appointments to his backroom staff following a wave of resignations earlier this week.

Cabinet Office minister Steve Barclay will become the PM's chief of staff.

And Guto Harri - a former BBC correspondent and adviser to Mr Johnson when he was mayor of London - will become director of communications.

Mr Johnson said the shake-up would "improve how No 10 operates".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news

Making MPs in to civil servants now are we?
That doesn't seem like how things should work!
 
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Also referring to 'last night' seems odd for a show that's been streaming for a while (I watched it a couple of weeks ago).
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You can’t expect the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to understand what streaming is.
 
Nothing better indicates the dire state of UK government as the appointment of someone as incompetent and ill-suited to the post as of Nadine Dorries to the Cabinet (or indeed, any position).
 
According to the Express, Boris Johnson will win back the hearts of MPs by ditching lefty policies - presumably like levelling up - and focus on tax cuts instead.
 
Robert Peston tweets
@Peston
Not at all clear from @KwasiKwarteng how @SteveBarclay can grip the No10 chaos while retain his ministerial and MP responsibilities. A number of senior Whitehall officials have told me they are deeply concerned. This is typical. “Being chief of staff is one of the most…

difficult jobs at the best of times. Keeping this easily distracted PM on track makes it harder. How can a minister, with all his other responsibilities, possibly do that?”
 
Kwasi Kwarteng, in a bid to defend Boris Johnson, just argued people don’t really consider fraud a crime.
 
I think the reason for choosing a serving Cabinet Minister and MP as Chief of Staff is that only those already chained to him in his Cabinet would be prepared to take it on?
 
Kirstie Allsopp, daughter of an Eton-educated Baron, tells young people struggling to buy a home to just look in cheaper areas and give up the gym and Netflix.
She says she gets 'enraged' when young people can't buy their first home, something she did aged 21.

She says she was earning £11,500 a year and average UK house prices were £51,000, so about 5 times her salary and she got family help.
Today, average house price is close to £260,000, about 9 times average salary.

Tory MP Kevin Hollinrake describes Allsopp's intervention as 'good advice'.
Average house prices in Kevin Hollinrake's predominantly rural constituency are around £280,000
A 21 year old is going to have to find £100k plus as a deposit to be able to buy one of those
Hollinrake is a former estate agent
 
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Boris Johnson's wife Carrie has said she is the target of a "brutal briefing campaign" by the PM's enemies.

A book, serialised in the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday this weekend, alleges she has influence on the prime minister's decision-making.

Her spokeswoman said allegations made by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft were "just the latest attempt by bitter ex-officials" to discredit her.
She added: "She is a private individual who plays no role in government."

Lord Ashcroft has suggested Mrs Johnson's behaviour was "preventing him [the prime minister] from leading Britain as effectively as the voters deserve".

There have been allegations of her involvement in matters including the redecoration of the No 11 Downing Street flat she shares with her family - she is said to have pushed for a luxury revamp of their home - and the evacuation of animals from the Nowzad charity in Kabul, Afghanistan.

No 10 has denied either Mr or Mrs Johnson, who works for a conservation group, had any involvement in the evacuation.

Michael Gove's ex-wife, the journalist Sarah Vine, said the focus on Mrs Johnson was "the equivalent of political slut shaming". She told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme: "The trouble is, it's always the easiest thing to do to blame the woman and the truth is far more complicated than that."
She added: "I know that the nickname Carrie Antoinette is witty and a good pun and we all love a good pun, but I just don't think her head deserves to be on the block in this way."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60281615
 
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The business secretary has appealed to his party to give Boris Johnson the "time and space to deliver" on the government's promises as pressure continues to mount on his leadership.

The PM had another difficult week, with a critical report into No 10 lockdown parties and five senior aides quitting.

More Tory MPs also declared publicly they had no confidence in him.

But Kwasi Kwarteng said the PM was carrying out his commitment for a reset in No 10 and focused on policies.

And he told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme the "ongoing focus on 'partygate' is not helping anyone".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60279079
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Boris Johnson's wife Carrie has said she is the target of a "brutal briefing campaign" by the PM's enemies.

A book, serialised in the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday this weekend, alleges she has influence on the prime minister's decision-making.

Her spokeswoman said allegations made by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft were "just the latest attempt by bitter ex-officials" to discredit her.
She added: "She is a private individual who plays no role in government."

Lord Ashcroft has suggested Mrs Johnson's behaviour was "preventing him [the prime minister] from leading Britain as effectively as the voters deserve".

There have been allegations of her involvement in matters including the redecoration of the No 11 Downing Street flat she shares with her family - she is said to have pushed for a luxury revamp of their home - and the evacuation of animals from the Nowzad charity in Kabul, Afghanistan.

No 10 has denied either Mr or Mrs Johnson, who works for a conservation group, had any involvement in the evacuation.

Michael Gove's ex-wife, the journalist Sarah Vine, said the focus on Mrs Johnson was "the equivalent of political slut shaming". She told the BBC's Sunday Morning programme: "The trouble is, it's always the easiest thing to do to blame the woman and the truth is far more complicated than that."
She added: "I know that the nickname Carrie Antoinette is witty and a good pun and we all love a good pun, but I just don't think her head deserves to be on the block in this way."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60281615
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Odd that the wives of Brown, Cameron, Major, among others, were never subject to these sorts of comments or criticisms. Could it be because they were clearly seen to be not be part of their husbands' working environment? Unlike BlowJob's current wife, who is at an awful lot of work events, meaning she plays a (totally unelected and unaccountable) part in BlowJob's work. Stay clear and no-one will think you are interferring in the running of the country...
 
Carrot Flower King said:
Odd that the wives of Brown, Cameron, Major, among others, were never subject to these sorts of comments or criticisms. Could it be because they were clearly seen to be not be part of their husbands' working environment? Unlike BlowJob's current wife, who is at an awful lot of work events, meaning she plays a (totally unelected and unaccountable) part in BlowJob's work. Stay clear and no-one will think you are interferring in the running of the country...
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And it is nowhere near the vitriol regularly thrown at Cherie Booth.
 
Carrot Flower King said:
Odd that the wives of Brown, Cameron, Major, among others, were never subject to these sorts of comments or criticisms. Could it be because they were clearly seen to be not be part of their husbands' working environment? Unlike BlowJob's current wife, who is at an awful lot of work events, meaning she plays a (totally unelected and unaccountable) part in BlowJob's work. Stay clear and no-one will think you are interferring in the running of the country...
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That's hardly fair, a lot of the things that looked like work events were actually parties.
 
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