john silcock objected to some of the language being used, writing... impact of the pandemic was keenly felt in wednesday's announcement by rishi sunak of the government's spending plans for the coming year. the chancellor's statement was so much anticipated by bbc news, that when, carol kirkwood was telling viewers of the news channel that morning about what weather to expect, this happened... and some of the showers across western scotland and northern ireland could be heavy and we will see a few of those giving... just pulling away from the weather, because... oh, you know what? we havejust missed him. he has... the chancellor, that is, we were talking about him just a second ago, just left number 11 and has disappeared into that car. one viewer got straight onto the phone to newswatch and left us this message. i was watching the weather forecast, which i was interested in, and it was, i would say brutally interrupted from the studio, to show a piece of non—news. we were told, "unfortunately, we have just missed the chancellor rishi sunak getting int

john silcock objected to some of the language being used, writing...

john silcock objected to some of the language being used writing...w what? we have just missed him. the chancellor, that is, we were talking about him just a second ago, just left number 11 and has disappeared into that car. one viewer got straight onto the phone to newswatch and left us this message. i was watching the weather forecast, which this message. i was watching the weatherforecast, which i was interested in, and it was, i would say brutally interrupted from the studio to show a piece of non— news. we were told unfortunately we have just missed the chancellor rishi sunak getting into his car. since when has somebody getting into a car been news and so newsworthy as to interrupted other essential services? well, the chancellor's car did deliver him to the house of commons and just after he spoke there, political correspondent jonathan blake reported from westminster about the sums of money we had been told had been spent so far as we had been told had been spent so farasa we had been told had been spent so far as a result of covid—19. we had