Last night Jeremy Vine had a well balanced show on Channel 5 “Britain on the Brink” which Guido missed. Just as well for his blood pressure given the above highlight. It appears the caring left have moved on from never kissing Tories to watching them die in front of them.
Miranda Hughes describes herself as a “European, anti-Tory nurse. Mum. Cat appreciator. Amdram queen. Repeat dieter and food lover”. The nurse seems not only to be an expert on the appropriate clinical treatment of Tories, on Question Time she revealed her expertise on post-Brexit global perceptions of Britain. The complete package…
Brillo’s divorce from GB News has prompted the inevitable mockery from the Twitterati, although Jeremy Vine’s spiteful intervention seemingly came out of nowhere. In a now-deleted tweet, the BBC’s Vine posted:
Brazier eventually suggested the cause of this apparently unprovoked attack:
BACKGROUND: On Monday I pointed out that Jeremy Vine is paid twice more than our PM - wages we are legally forced to pay via the BBC license fee.
— Colin Brazier (@colinbrazierGBN) September 23, 2021
I think publicly-funded broadcasters need to be careful how they express personal opinions.
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It turns out Vine doesn’t like people pointing out he gets £324,000 a year from the public purse…
This isn’t the first time Brazier and Vine have collided: when Prince Philip died back in April, Vine took the opportunity to lament the lack of diversity on display at his funeral – to which Brazier tweeted “whatever the question, racism’s the answer.”
Brazier had the final word when he signed off last night’s show, introducing viewers to the latest member of his household…
Jeremy Vine has brought back his dodgy American accent for a musical analysis of the state of play of the Tory Leadership race in the style of Bob Dylan. At least Jacob Rees-Mogg approves…
The licence fee payer shelled out a mere £2,500 to listen to Ed Miliband evaluate toilet flushes when he sat in for Jeremy Vine on Radio 2, the Register of Members’ Interests reveals. That means Miliband bagged £500 for two hours work a day, which, to be fair, is an enormous discount on Vine’s reputed £10,000-a-week for the radio show. Vine is therefore worth four Milibands*…
Iain Duncan Smith, who took over the show the following week, is yet to declare any payment. Was he free?
*Didn’t Ed Miliband used to say he wanted to ban MPs from taking second jobs?
Ultimate Beeb navel-gazing as Jeremy Vine asks BBC radio chief James Purnell:
Vine: “I’m there as having a salary of between £700,000 and £750,000. How do you justify that?”
Purnell: “You’re fantastic…”
£750,000, or three Laura Kuenssbergs…
Last night Matt Hancock was unable to name Stoke Tory candidate Jack Brereton when asked by Andrew Neil. His excuse was that he had been up in Copeland…
This afternoon Hancock did the double, getting new Copeland Tory MP Trudy Harrison’s name wrong on Radio 2, repeatedly calling her Judy Harrison. When challenged and corrected by Jeremy Vine, Hancock shamelessly tried to bluff it. For goodness sake man, go to bed.
