LIB Dem Leader incontra il capo della BBC per lamentarsi del livello di copertura delle riforme

Its about time someone took them to task

The bias is blatant and obvious

He’s totally right. In fact, I would be comfortable betting that Reform would still be a fringe party if it weren’t for the relentless coverage. And it’s fair to say the BBC has led the way. The Daily Mail seems to support Reform now but was 100% behind the Tories until very recently.

To be honest, I have no idea what the Lib Dems are about. Everything I have heard about them is positive and sensible. For example, they are pushing hard to clean up the rivers, Davey is a caregiver for his wife and genuinely wants to clean up the NHS (and seems to have the common sense and ability to do it).

That said, Davey was in charge of Post Office during the coalition government and seems to have ignored signs that something fishy was going on. Also, every Tory I know voted Lib Dem in the last election so there must be something awful about them.

The point is, no one in my life is able to explain what the Lib Dems are about and we all pay attention to the news. They’re never reported on.

Good. The Lib Dem’s have over 70 seats compared to the 4 Reform have and the coverage levels are night and day.

I’m more annoyed about the constant Trump coverage. I’d say there is more coverage over US politics than UK politics on British news channels in general. Unless it directly affects the UK, I’m not interested. We’ve go enough problems of our own, thanks.

Reform is currently leading to the polls to the point there is a serious chance they will form a majority government. If that happened, it would be the first election since 1910 where a party other than Labour or the Conservatives won power. Reform UK has the mass appeal needed to form government.

The LibDems do not. They are not in the political position Reform is, and they appeal to a far smaller portion of the electorate than Reform does.

They get less coverage because they matter less. Maybe Ed Davey should consider trying to get more support instead of complaining to the BBC because he’s too irrelevant to get the kind of media coverage major political parties get.

What is this weird idea that media coverage needs to be proportional to number of parliamentary seats?

Using that logic almost all media coverage would be Labour with a small amount of Tories and virtually nothing for all the other parties.

Essentially this has never been an issue before, the Greens have received hugely disproportionate media coverage for years and not a peep from anyone about it or what about Plaid Cymru?

As with many things it’s only a problem because it benefits ‘team bad guy’

Maybe if the Lib Dem’s had something vaguely interesting to say the media would want to cover them a bit more.