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The BBC coordinated the live on-air resignation of shadow cabinet member Stephen Doughty in advance. This was revealed by Andrew Alexander, an output editor for the Daily and Sunday Politics series, in a post on the BBC Academy website. The post has now been conveniently deleted. However, a cached version is available here – for now. It reads: Just before 9am we learned from Laura Kuenssberg, who comes on the programme every Wednesday ahead of PMQs, that she was speaking to one junior shadow minister who was considering resigning. I wonder, mused our presenter Andrew Neil, if they would consider doing it live on the show? A public resignation right before PMQs would do the most damage to Jeremy Corbyn, as was acknowledged a high profile supporting twitter account.

John McDonnell and his red book? A crap political stunt it was but you explain to me how it is that we have to ask the Chinese to design and build us a power station. How far has this country fallen? Why can't we build our own?

Nothing at all? Not a thing?

Quite by chance this appeared on my Facebook....The British press "systematically undermined" Jeremy Corbyn with an onslaught of negative media coverage in his first week as Labour leader, new research has claimed. The Media Reform Coalition analysed nearly 500 pieces across eight national newspapers, including The Sun, The Times, Guardian and Daily Mail, and found 60% of their articles were 'negative', meaning they were openly hostile or expressed animosity or ridicule. Out of the 494 articles across the papers during Corbyn's first seven days at leader, 60% (296 articles) were negative, with only 13% positive stories (65 articles) and 27% taking a "neutral" stance (133 articles), the report says. t was released by the Media Reform Coalition, a group of academics, media campaigners and civil society groups which claims not to be linked to any political party. In the days after he was selected, Corbyn was criticised for his controversial shadow cabinet appointments, policies that were at odds with the views of many of the party's leading figures, his decision not to sing the national anthem and his poor relationship with the media after pulling out of an interview on the Andrew Marr show. The Sun, its sister paper The Sun on Sunday, and The Daily Mail published the highest ratio of 'negative' stories about the new leader, according to the report, with 91% of each newspaper's coverage considered critical. The Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph follow with 83% of its coverage deemed negative, while 71% of stories published about Corbyn in The Times and Sunday Times were 'negative'. By contrast, just 11% of articles in the Guardian newspaper were 'negative'. News articles, in which the media ostensibly do not editorialise, were actually the most critical of Corbyn, the report says. Out of 292 news pieces, 181 were judged negative, while 92 were 'neutral' and just 19 'positive', the report found. "One might expect news items, as opposed to comment and editorial pieces, to take a more balanced approach but in fact the opposite is true. A mere 6% of stories classed as news (19 out of 292) were positive, versus 61% negative stories and 32% taking a neutral stance." "This ‘default’ position is particularly significant given how these stories make up the bulk of the coverage during Corbyn’s first week".

What would a left of centre party stand for? Unions are outdated because a lot of what we consider work will be automated away (taxi drivers lorry drivers, bus drivers, shop workers, doctors pharmacists etc a lot of what hasn't been automated away will become part of the "gig" economy, something like zero hours contracts,a day here, a repair job there once the repair job is done then nothing until the next gig comes in. The question once this has happened which will be in 10 to 20 years is this....what kind of society will we have. How are people going to feed themselves? Returning to Corbyn, I agree with him on so many things....railway nationalisation, power and water companies in public ownership. Trident replacement, who would we fire our 24 nuclear bombs at? Russia with its 2000 nuclear bombs, does having these deter the Russians or does having such a weapon make us more of a target of Russian attack?

Head of BBC News is James Harding, Murdoch’s former editor and George Osborne's best friend, could this explain the BBC’s position with regard to the Govt and to it's current treatment of the opposition.

I actually think that there has been a campaign to discredit him at every turn. I am not sure of the motivation for this and I can only assume it is because his ideas are considered dangerous by those who own and control our media. I watch Prime Minister's questions with disgust as Cameron toys with Corbyn. I would be tempted if I was Corbyn to use his questions and ask Cameron the time or ask him how his garden is doing. Cameron does not answer any questions put to him and takes the ****.

If wikipedia is correct someone at West Ham saw enough potential to spend £7million on him. He has started fairly well I would say. "On 1 September 2015, Antonio signed for West Ham United for around £7 million on a four-year contract with an option for a further two years. He made his debut on 19 September, replacing Victor Moses in the 60th minute of West Ham's 2–1 Premier League win at Manchester City.[45] In a Man of the match performance on 28 December 2015 in a 2–1 win, Antonio scored his first goal for West Ham. With the team losing 1–0 to Southampton, Antonio equalised when a clearance hit him and looped over Southampton goalkeeper, Maarten Stekelenburg."

He played well today and was a contender for man of the match.....good honest pro who put in a decent effort today.....

Merry Xmas fellow sufferers.....

Eh up Mrs BTF .......it's been a long time. Signaling strong sales for firearms retailers, a total of 185,345 instant FBI background checks were completed the day after Thanksgiving. With about two processed per second, that’s an all-time record. However, officials had expected even more requests. Black Friday is always a big day for sales – even for guns. During last year’s Black Friday the FBI processed over 175,000 background checks, but this year broke a record set on December 21, 2012, when 177,170 checks were completed in anticipation of Christmas and in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre days earlier. This year’s Black Friday had more than sales in the news. In Colorado Springs, a mass shooting took place at a Planned Parenthood office, and typically high profile crimes like that do precede spikes in background checks and gun sales.

Matthew Le God is right....I attended 2 away games and the drunken fighting amongst themselves, the drunken squabble about whether or not to cheer the team or barrack them...the aggressive refusal of Saints fans to sit down instead of standing in front, of an elderly person disgusted me. As a result, I won't go to away games. I would have enjoyed last night's fun about the Mars bar and laughed.I am not represented by any of the contrasting behaviours.

Watched it and thought we played well against a not very good Reading side....

Great news........superb. Koeman out

He played well today and I will slap anyone who says otherwise.......I am in shock after last Thursday. I am emotional right now.

Give the OP a break....last night was awful....what a step down on what we are used to!!!! I don't think we have replaced any of the 3 outgoing players adequately, it is early days but nothing I have seen suggests that we have improved on any of those vacated positions. We lack depth in the squad....the saving grace is that we still have some time in the transfer window to bring someone in. Let's hope we don't sell anyone else.

In a way I am glad we are out of Europe, but we were very, very poor. We have replaced recently departed quality players with players who are not as good. Is Caulker really a top class defender? Not on tonight's display. Some good displays but overall it was awful

I shall be voting Corbyn as my voting slip has arrived.....I can't stand Conservatives or Labour or UKIP or Lib Dems....if I could vote Scots Nationalist, I would!

Goal!!!!

I haven't got mine yet.

Is that all you took from Corbyn....I am impressed with his ideas of re-nationalising power companies (bringing them in from foreign ownership)and railways...the guy is not beholden to big business!!!

I don't think we will ever go back to the 1970s, for that to happen we would have to manufacture a lot more of what we use, rekindle the coal industry, the steel industry. The country is a victim of globalisation and neo liberal economics....hence the £1.5 trillion national debt. If we could get back to a time of full employment, free education for all I would put up with powerful unions.

At a time when Thatcher was calling Nelson Mandela a terrorist and a young David Cameron was living it up on all expenses paid tours around apartheid South Africa, Jeremy Corbyn was being roughed up and arrested for blockading the South African embassy in London. From Occupy London......Corbyn is one of the good guys.

Well he mentioned £50 billion in unpaid taxes and if closed loopholes could mean more money coming in there might be scope for some investment.....so far neo liberal economics has left the western world very very heavily in debt.....are you saying there is no other way or that the current way is the correct way.