Buckingham Palace band plays Bon Jovi medley as Starmer arrives
The condescension of much of the BBC now embodied by Fiona Bruce going 'of course, most of the tourists outside Buckingham Palace today know anything about the politics of this'. You know, I think they might? Today? Feels like a reasonable guess that they've come specially, like.
Stephen Bush132Yes, there are always crowds there, but I am pretty certain from my experience of previous transitions that the people outside there when the PM changes are there because they want to witness history!
sebzilla15I reckon the ones with the massive Rent Controls banner probably know what's up, at least
WinchesterLunch 🇺🇦8Le sigh. Or if they were just there by coincidence they'd ask what was going on and go "oooh, that's interesting I think I'll hang around" like I did in Salamanca once when the then Prince Felipe emerged from an official looking car. You'd ask, and loiter and take it all in!
Ceri Williams6Thing is, Fiona Bruce has that fairly dreadful tone of condescension if she's fronting Antiques R'show, reading the news or BBCQT. Not sure she has another gear tbh
jollyold.bsky.social6BBC are constantly underestimating how smart people are. Just not as obsessed with everyday UK politics speculation as the BBC is.
Adam5And even the tourists probably flipped the TV on in their hotel room this morning or have glanced at the news on their phone in the last month.
Banjon153The BBC is utterly, utterly convinced that nobody is interested in politics and comes across as desperate to shout "nerd!" at anyone who may consider becoming interested
John Oxley37Presenting the country's flagship news broadcast: "None of these people will have seen the news".
Tom Roberts26You see this also in "is Britain Ungovernable?" Or "are the public unwilling to accept trade offs? When, actually, the public have shown themselves to be incredibly willing to do both.
Twlldun23What I don’t understand is who do they think this kind of stuff appeals to? Who is going to be watching the coverage who isn’t interested? Just in case somebody completely ignorant of British politics is channel-surfing and drops in?
Will Cooling9I would love to go to someone in the BBC, "if you think everyone watching is a moron who doesn't care about the news or current affairs, what does that say about your role in civil society?"
darcyswickham.bsky.social7You do get the feeling like the Beeb and most major institutions see the country as semi idiots. The dumbing down and tweeting talk is maddening.
Thomas I-G7"Our viewers are thick, and it would be contemptible if we didn't treat them as such"
Justin Lewis5Maybe they heard about it on the World Service which often just does this stuff better.
Dr Nick Dickinson4Real "johnny foreigner knows nothing of the ways of our glorious constitution" energy
jay3BBC News actively hates its own viewers, it's quite impressive really
IT'S OFFICIAL: Andy Burnham is now prime minister after being invited to form a government by the King at Buckingham Palace.
Cambridge for Europe4Well, if Burnham wants to get the UK economy humming again, he knows what to do ... #RejoinEU bsky.app/profile/camb...
clatch.bsky.social3"Give it a bash would you Andy old chap. You can't be any worse than all those useless shits from Oxford."
Fraser Wylie2And we wait as the UK media pick up their pens and ask..... How long does Burnham have! The UK press are a joke. We deserve better.
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈2another neoliberal scumbag anointed as prime minister by our absurdly reactionary and bigoted columnist class. 6 months time he'll be as unpopular as starmer and you'll find a new one to replace him. it's a tedious cycle at this point.
Paul Prescott1"Go 'ed, giz a job"
Richard Rouse1This is the fourth PM of the King's reign. Seems very careless to me. His ma only had 15 in seventy years. What the devil is wrong with Charles?
Mark Copelovitch80I’m both jealous that an actual functioning democracy can replace its chief executive so easily and regularly and deeply skeptical that another serving of cake will do the job bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Jonny Morris12"I can't believe they put you in charge without anyone voting for you!"
Ciaran8A moment that has occurred as the result of the longest indulged intrusive thought in British history
Aaron H. Ellis5For all the snark about Burnham’s Manchester clothes, I do think he posseses that Scouse upper working/lower middle class attitude that you ought to dress appropriately for special occasions.
Dan H4Window closed. Gonna have to do constitutional myself off all alone 🤷♂️
Gargarin4I bet he'd prefer a trip to Affleck Palace ...
The Singular Malt 🥃😻🐧3"One gathers you want to be Prime Minister?" "Mad for it, yer Maj." 😶
Rob Hoadley2Time for my favourite part of any transfer of power in the UK - the letter of last resort. The Letter of Last Resort is a handwritten letter from the PM of the UK to the commanding officer of each of Britain's four ballistic missile nuclear submarines, explaining how to end the world.
Stuart Ian Burns2Probably the first time I've been optimistic about the future of the country since 2016. Obviously there will be disappointments and I don't agree with everything he believe, but having tried Etonians, hedge fund managers, ditherers and a lettuce why not a Liverpudian?
Buckingham Palace confirms that Andy Burnham is now the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Kenny Welsh8What a ridiculous country. Abolish the Monarchy.
Cosmoiselle7I reckon he'll stay for the Euros at least...
"Stevieboy"4Thats the starting gun fired for our predominantly right wing venomous media to start the pile on. #lbc #skynews #bbcnews
mitchb7.bsky.social2In my head I'm imagining Kingy is saying to himself that he hopes he's less trouble than the other Andy!
Yeovil Yokel2“Hi, please call me Andy. I’m from Manchester.” “Fascinating, fascinating.”
James Johnston2What a load of rollocks our "democracy? " is
Arthur Snell58It's weird how inconsequential it seems.
John C20God the Palace photographer is not on top form today, are they
k. radke15Meanwhile in the United Kingdom… Großbritannien hat schon wieder einen neuen Premierminister.
Lost in History, OBC 🏴🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦7it took 11 years to get her 4th PM for Queen Elizabeth II (Alec Douglas-Home) Charles III it has taken less than 4 years.
Richard Flowers5Where’s my farcical aquatic ceremony, eh?
Dave Andress2And may God have mercy on our souls.
Nothing says a big day for British democracy like aerial shots of Buckingham Palace and Fiona Bruce running through Royal protocol with the enthusiasm of a woman thinking, “do we need a Prime Minister when we have a King?”
Frances Ryan36I appreciate the BBC has got to give all the staff a turn but should we be hearing from the royal correspondent right now?? As the country gets a new prime minister, might there be another analyst in the news room who might have something to say?
max zec1surely it should be Larry at number 10 not Charles
Military band apparently playing a Bon Jovi medley as Starmer arrives at Buckingham Palace via the “luggage door”, per BBC. I am not making this up.
Nick Harkaway40BBC now rather breathlessly discussing how useful regular weekly meetings are between PM and monarch, how the PM can get the monarch’s advice and wisdom. I’m not touching that with a barge pole.
James Aylett2I hope the luggage door is not used for luggage, but is in fact named after Sir Arthur Luggage, 2nd Baronet of Calcie, who no one liked very much so they made a special entrance just to make him feel left out of things. It is guarded by an off-duty scullion and a cat.
frank: print witch2nope. nope I'm not parsing that sentence, sorry.
Efforts to frame a sketch around the band playing a Bon Jovi medley as Starmer arrived at the Palace are likely to be hampered by the fact that the only Bon Jovi album I owned was the Young Guns 2 soundtrack.
Robert Hutton7Does a film about the Lincoln County Cattle War count as a war movie, @duncanweldon.bsky.social?
Chris McKeon3“Shot through the heart/Andy’s to blame”?
Jonathan Calder2Staring at Your Window With a Suitcase in My Hand would have worked.
Jonny Morris1Blaze of Glory come on it's right there.
Jimmy Smith1Shot down in a blaze of glory Lol
