Laura Kuenssberg presses Robert Jenrick over Farage ally links
Amazing work by Reform in picking Robert Jenrick as the man to tour the broadcast studios to portray Nigel Farage and his party as a model of probity
Sarah Murphy83It is all they’ve got. The canny ones are dodgy as hell. The rest are way too dim to cope with media interviews.
Stuart Hemingway40When Jenrick is the most honest person the Party can put forward for interview then you know they are in deep trouble.
Pete23Well following his work with young asylum seekers he’s a dab hand with the whitewash I guess.
kentisharsenal.bsky.social23Just heard a clip on the news that Kendrick said that the Sunday Times was a Labour supporting newspaper - wow 😯
Alan Stedman22When is someone in the Media going to sit down with Farage and start with, "Now with regard to the Nolan principles..." Psssst They are still up on the .Gov website www.gov.uk/government/p...
Harry Bobs14Come on. We all know those rules were meant for the peasants and not the ruling elite 🥸
Bremain in Spain29Such an upstanding politician too. A perfect substitute for Farage ..
Pete Fraser7I think the fact Reform feel they aren’t in a position to simply ignore the corruption stuff is quite interesting - they’ve now spent a lot of time putting senior figures on telly to deny that this is a big deal, all of which makes it look like a big deal. It seems sort of indefensible too.
Sarah Murphy7Yes. But Jenrick is a grubby little bastard himself… and absolutely cannot be trusted… bsky.app/profile/adam...
Lady Tina Murphy4Satire is being slaughtered between Trump and Reform. They are making themselves the object of ridicule by being their own satirists.
Penny Horwood3After having watched Jenrick on both Sunday shows I think he’s the JD Vance of UK politics. Sold his soul to what he considers the most likely winner, oddly aggressive, profoundly dislikable and disliked including by most of his own side.
James Woodfield2Would you buy a used testimonial from this man?
nlwa.bsky.social2Black Kettle The Calling Pot…..
Laura Kuenssberg will want to ask questions about me being influenced by payments from billionaires. As I'm in hiding, I sent our next most experienced person, Robert Jenrick, who intervened to save a billionaire pornographer £45m in exchange for a £12,000 donation.
Mike Taulty4It wouldn't be beyond Honest Bob Jenrick to stitch Farage up live on TV and walk away with the leadership he clearly deferred for. 🍿
James3She's giving him such an easy time. He's speaking over her and she's letting him.
Thanatos2Ironically, in the UK watching this interview and having a good laugh at how pathetic Jenrick is at defending Farage. He’s such a prat
Dave of the Chouffe2Why hide? It’s not as though you would have been asked any difficult questions on this show.
Ian Burton2Maybe you can hide where no one will ever think of looking for you…Clacton.
wolvespolitburo.bsky.social2Jenrick just batted out the line "Immigration is out of control". It's not out of control. It is at the point where lack of immigration could seriously impact the economy. No pushback on this from Laura.
#BBCLauraK #BBCNews LOL! Reform UK Ltd's Robert Jenrick said the Rupert Murdoch-owned The Sunday Times is a: "Labour-supporting paper!" 😂 He really must think we're all idiots.
welshswede.bsky.social6That was a weirdly desperate interview where #LauraKuensberg couldn’t get a word in edge ways. Jenrick in overdrive defending 🐸 dodgy dealings.
PrefersDogs 💙🍀🌹🇺🇦🐸4Next the Times is run by lefties 🤣
Keith Burnett3Sadly, the evidence repeatedly suggests that a working majority of his constituents are indeed prepared to indulge in occasional acts of idiocy. Nice place, Newark. Did for Bad King John, though. Will the fat jabs save Honest Bob from his own surfeit of lampreys?
Scamplicious1It's all relative- the ST is considered right of centre to ordinary people but that is still far to the left for Herr Jenrick
When did Nigel Farage last run a surgery for his Clacton voters, Robert Jenrick? #BBCLauraK is inadequate.
Jop7LK is a right wing apologist, one of the many reasons I cancelled a thirty year direct debit with them.
robdodds.bsky.social4If only she was an experienced BBC political reporter and knew that the declaration rules relate to the previous 12 months before becoming an MP, she could have asked Jenrick about that too.
Dave3Kuennsberg did her usual performance of holding Reform to account, by not holding Reform to account
madamechic.bsky.social3Inadequate? She’s a shill for RW politics
solvognen2If the Lauracle were any more of a plant she'd be an aspidistra.
red_2Weird that Ukraine only made advances against Russia after Boris left office? Weird that Laura Kremlinsberg became useless as a political correspondent once Boris left office? 🤔
AJ 🦋3#LauraK is a shill - nothing more.
Nigel Farage did not declare gifts from crypto entrepreneur convicted of fraud
mqb2766.bsky.social2That was the same excuse/lie used for the 5 million quid donation. Hes moved on from that one, .... But its like leave.eu not declaring gunster payments, gill accepting 40k rus money, goodwin and orr being involved with orban's funding pipeline, going on a 50k "fact finding" to israel, ...
brian59.bsky.social1Oh, what a surprise. The obnoxious twat does it again.
Pete Brown1And it turns out Robert Jenrick is a nasty little ratboy ragamuffin who would slit his own mother’s throat for a farthing. Blimey, never saw that coming.
Pete Brown1Nigel Farage is a criminal, a traitor and a Russian asset. Never saw that coming.
Andrew Pope8The establishment has clearly decided that Farage is a bad bet, and needs to be taken off the board ahead of the next GE. I’m not sad to see him go, but this could have happened years ago. Instead he was allowed on QT every ten minutes as the voice of the people. He is the voice of the slush funds.
Formulas Peter to the Ploeg 𓆚2Handen voor de mond, geschokte geluidjes
Robert Jenrick just called The Sunday Times ‘a labour supporting paper’ for running the story. Have I woken up in a parallel universe or something? 🙃
Perhaps not, but you don't know what he's been sniffing...
Ilikecaketoo (UK)6I was just saying, I bet SKS laughed his b+llocks off at that one. I think someone forgot to tell him & his team that was the case… they’ve literally had their knives out since the GE, The Guardian hasn’t been much better either. But there’s one thing, when the media turns on you, your time is up.
JustinClayton3I just laughed out loud when I heard that on the radio. Though the worrying bit is why the BBC appeared to give more prominence to Jenrick's denial than the actual allegations.
Cholmondley Warner 🇪🇺🔶1Trumpism… ignore reality, always just rewrite the narrative!
Alison Flower1It's him in a parallel universe, not you. I sometimes feel that these people are gaslighting us.
⁸1😆! Yeah. Righto. How can anyone take Jenrick seriously!
Robert Jenrick claiming Reform are the Party of the working people, which is the same Party determined to cut the minimum wage and rip up employment rights #bbclaurak
Sarah Murphy13No Equality Act, new employment rights scrapped, NMW cut (currently £12.71/hr if you’re 21+ and £10.85 if you’re 18-20) Farage earned £22,000/hr from hawking gold bullion. Wakey wakey, UK. Farage is a political whore for obscene wealth creation for a tiny few, at the expense of the very many.
Steve F.1I've worked for loads of bosses over the years who've been given a £5million freebie for no ulterior reason whatsoever. Tons of 'em.
A reminder that Robert Jenrick once lost an election to be President of his student union when he was the only candidate standing. He lost to "re-open nominations" or R.O.N for short. And then he lost the second ballot too. #jenrick www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
iucounu4I love how repellent he is
3/ The BBC (and others) really should give more detail of the fraud for which Nigel Farage's close associate & benefactor George Cottrell was convicted & jailed in the US. This was to do with him offering to launder drug money. Here's part of the 2016 indictment. #bbclaurak
Tom Scott284/ BTW, Fedichkin, the Russian "diplomat" to whom Andy Wigmore forwarded documents about Cottrell's arrest, was also the guy who invited Arron Banks to the first of many meetings with the Russian Ambassador. (Alexander Udod was a Russian spy they'd met with earlier).
Judith Knott1Yes, “wire fraud” - not a term well known in Britain - doesn’t really give a sense of the severity.
kenny brown1Unsurprisingly Kuenssberg was unable to think quickly this morning when questioning Jenryck about Cottrill’s past.
Jesus, #bbclaurak, stop letting Robert Jenrick take over your interview. It's weak, frustrating and embarrassing. Do your job.
Tom Freeman3Trevor Phillips wouldn’t take control and make him answer questions either. A corrupt politician defending another with laughable arguments. Brian Walden, Jeremy Paxman, even Andrew Neil would have chewed him up and spat him out. The days of fearless political interviewers is long gone.
kendood.bsky.social1She is doing her job in giving him a free rein.