What will Laura Kuenssberg do...

[BillyStubbsTears]

...when the only political party she ever talks to is no longer in power?

An article here about the by-elections last week, where the only people she has spoken to and quoted are Tory party sources.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68326119

[SydneyRover]

''There is a simple logic then to what a senior Tory source describes as their "number one job", to get the Conservative voters from 2019 to turn out.

"We have to show them there is something worth it… if they don't feel that, they will follow through on their disengagement and stay at home," the source says.

It's wrong to pretend people's behaviour at by-elections will be exactly the same as in a general election - but they are important hints. And it won't have escaped the parties' notice that the number of people bothering to vote was lower than other recent contests in Mid Bedfordshire, Somerton and Frome, and Selby and Ainsty.

The importance of what you might call the sofa vote - where members of the public choose just to stay at home - is often underplayed''

Couple of things with the ''simple logic''

This assumes that voters still hold the same political position as per 2019.

Red herring, nobody pretends that byelections will pan out the same as general elections.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Please! Please! PLEASE! Give me a job in the media team at Tory party central office when you lose the Election and I'm no f**king useless to the BBC again.

Look how much I love you. No mention of Austerity, Brexit or Trussonomics f**king up the economy.

https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1764258192974897508

Quite beyond belief.

[Bristol Red Rover]

It'd be interesting to see the context of that tiny edit, but still, that is baaaaad. But also it's no surprise from MSM, it is their job.