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BBC News Channel reflects on last night’s New Year celebrations: As the BBC headline I learn that 80,000 celebrated in Edinburgh…. whilst second billing goes to London where a quarter of a million turned out and – as far as I’m aware – London is still capital of the UK…?
Put at its simplest and least conspiritorial this wee smidgen of bias only goes to highlight how the BBC is packed with left-leaning public school Oxbridge liberal elitists who constantly walk on eggshells and lean over backwards so as not to be seen to offend any minority-based gripe that may reach a thumb to the Twitter machine.
Stop the BBC – it has reached the point where it not only does no good it begins to do harm.
But if you do like a good BBC conspiracy story
Did you notice this bit of dialogue in the Xmas Doctor Who?
Assistant: What is it?
Doctor Who: A split in the skin of reality…. the time is 26th June 2010; the day the universe blew up!
Well Br’er Gordon Brown resigned after election defeat in May 2010
Aroundabout 26th June you find this turning point story
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1289844/Tories-immigrants-English-test.html
‘Home Secretary Theresa May was accused last night of watering down a Tory pledge to bar immigrants unless they can speak good English.
The promise was a central part of David Cameron’s Election campaign. But it has now been disclosed that the families of asylum seekers allowed to settle in the UK will be exempt from the ban.
Labour MPs said the Conservatives had been forced to drop their hardline stance by their Liberal Democrat Coalition partners who support uncontrolled immigration.’
or even …
During the review of 2013 on the BBC News Channel this afternoon they mentioned the storms in some length. Interestingly the ever entertaining subtitles said people experienced ‘a big lizard’ rather than the usual seasonal snow flurries. Big Lizard? That’ll be Godzilla then. Or are the BBC channelling David Icke and trying to infer that the Jooooooooooooooos are at it again?
Just a thought.
Equalities will be the death of BBC English.
That’s some good stuff you’re smoking. Go to any date in recorded history and you’ll fond some news story that’ll back up any preconceived ideas you might have.
Percy – not wrong there. Was this fondly cut & pasted from the off books section of the BBC Editorial Guidelines?
It would explain if perhaps not excuse some BBC education and information surrounding dates from recent UK and ME history that start, stop and skip with odd selectivity.
Typical alright with that Celtic exotica, you expect from the BBC by now.
And yet-new year, new start and a bit of patronising Christian forgiveness in this case!
Maybe the BBC commissars were also brought up on Andy Stewart, Kenneth McKellar and Moira Anderson too…and maybe their stance on Islam etc does homage to their membership of the White Feather Club.
Probably the Tufty Club might have frightened their nannies off from joining..bit..er…”macho” perhaps!
Hi ChrisH,
I’m chuckling at your “Maybe the BBC commissars were also brought up on Andy Stewart, Kenneth McKellar and Moira Anderson too…”
The reason I’m chuckling is that I too, an Englishman, was brought up by Scottish forebears on the aforementioned entertainers and I now seem to enjoy the music.
And now the story gets a bit interesting – I live in the Scottish Borders, a bit of a backwater and not (yet) really renowned for its multi-culti population. And yet … and yet … we were the second area to go digital in the broadcasting changeover a few years back. And being a second rate area we now receive a second rate broadcasting service though we do have to pay a *First Rate* licence to get it! On Freeview TV we receive a service called Freeview Lite which only carries the main broadcasters, BBC, ITV, C4 etc. None of the dozens of other stations broadcast free elsewhere in the country are available here unless we pay for satellite.
The same applies to DAB radio services
What I am getting at is, last night, Hogmanay, we were still unable to receive the DAB radio station BBC Radio Scotland because apparently there is not enough room on the “spectrum/whatever” to broadcast that station.
And yet … and yet … there is ample room to have the BBC Asian Network broadcast in all its glory to us. I wonder who decided that in a local Scottish area a BBC Asian Network service should take all precedence above a BBC Scottish service when there are (so far) very few Asians living here? Would the BBC have any input to that decision?
I have repeatedly asked my MP, Michael Moore [who he? – ed] but he has not come up with a satisfactory answer, though he did stop his boasting of how he had helped secure digital broadcasting in the Borders.
Happy New Year tae yin an’ Aa’ (except the BBC!)
And to you Henry!
A fine area-I lived on Tyneside and needed no excuse to criss-cross the border…especially when the pubs used to open for longer up there.
Michael Moore needs to get the fundamentals right…Alba,Asian is all well and good, but you`ll be just the poor white trash types and blow-ins that attract no EU grants or diversity audits…just keep the bloody country working, and don`t need a case worker assigned( same as being a non-person in LabourLuvvie land).
Scotland-what a place-and yet if the BBC are to be believed(hah)…the best you can throw up for election is Alec Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon..with a bit of Tommy Sheridan.
Tragic!
You would go on a 150 mile round trip just to get a few extra drinks?
I don’t know if ChrisH is old enough but I can remember when only the hotels in the area were open to serve drink on a Sunday, public houses were all closed.
*And* you had to be a “bona-fide” to get a drink in an hotel, i.e. a bona-fide traveller who was breaking his journey at the hotel for the purpose of refreshment.
There seemed to be very many, many travellers out on a Sunday in those days. 🙂
There seemed to be many heavy drinkers in those days though not so many drunks as the police did keep a close eye on things.
It was the late 70s…think you opened up over the border a bit earlier in the week than we did on Tyneside. Certainly remember the booze bus run by Carter Bar! Midweek offers.
Quite correct, before this new fangled all day opening came about it used to be 5 o’clock opening in the evening as against six down home. It turned out handy when I first moved up here and got a job that finished at ten to five every night. 🙂
Not really-just a couple of times after a run to Theakstons brewery with the real ale types and Agric students at Newcastle.
Wouldn`t want to imply I was hurting Gaia , or had to make a habit out of it due to my “affliction”.
Don`t forget folks drink responsibly! And go to no places where Savile went up there over the border.
Can I still urge us all to “clunk click”…or are we awaiting new guidelines given the blonde Beeboids banishment?
Here’s the reply I had to a DAB radio question, and bear in mind I live about as far west as you can get in Wales, without falling into St Georges Channel.
Like you, I had a winderful Asian service, but no Radio Wales or Radio Cymru.
Dear Graham,
After seeing your message on twitter, I wanted to make sure you got a personal response to explain how digital radio operates in the UK. Unfortunately, DAB is not available in your area for local stations. BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Cymru are only available on DAB in areas where there is a local commercial DAB licence in operation. 40% of the population of Wales can receive these services on DAB, whilst 84% of the population can receive the BBC’s UK-wide radio stations.
This coverage is not dictated by the BBC. Digital Multiplexes, which carry local station output on DAB, are licenced by Ofcom and operated by commercial licensees. We work hard to ensure coverage of our services to as wide an area as possible. You’ll be able to find out more details on this web site http://www.ofcom.org.uk/
I appreciate your frustration but I hope this helps to explain the current situation.
Kind regards
Colin
Colin Paterson Executive Producer
BBC Radio Wales
Room 2018 | BBC Cymru Wales Broadcasting House Cardiff CF5 2YQ | T. 0292 032 2764 | E. colin.paterson@bbc.co.uk
—–Original Message—–
From: Alyson Jones-CF
Sent: 22 March 2013 10:40
To: Colin Paterson
Subject: FW: DAb question via
Thanks very much for that reply which I must study further when my mind is a little bit clearer.
At first glance it seems to say, “Asian Network is classed as national so is broadcast all over the U.K. from every DAB transmitter.
BBC Radio Wales (and therefore BBC Radio Scotland and probably other stations) are classed as local and so cannot be given the same broadcasting coverage as the BBC Asian Network.
I presume this is because some PC committee (comprising of who knows?) decided Asians were scattered all over the country but Welsh and Scots were only in their own little enclaves so were of lesser importance.
I do wish they would allow us to buy second class TV licences to go with the second class service we receive.
Whatever the reason it doesn’t half piss you off that an Asian service is fine, but in Wales, there’s no Radio Wales?
Now of course those channels are available by other means, such as FM, AM, or via the freesat or freeview systems. But my question to them was prompted by a barrage of tv advertising, pushing DAB as the only way to go.
In the final week of August 2013, they installed improved DAB equipment in my nearest transmitter, Preseli, but i’m still in the lee of a hill, so it’s not a wonderful signal even with a dedicated rooftop antenna.
I’ve read that an FM signal is vastly superior to any DAB signal too. Ahh…progress!
p.s. Do you have the same problems regarding Freeview TV broadcasts.
i.e. A lot of stations available to most of the rest of the country are not available from your local digital TV transmitter? As I said, to get all available Freeview stations we must use a satellite receiver and I’ve not gone down that route as yet – nor ever expect to.
I have no problems with TV channels.
Yes, I sensed a certain tartan groveling as well…. I think the BBC is bum-licking the scots bad because it doesn’t want to lose all of that wonga if the Scots pick independence.
Plus splitting the UK up into 12 bite-sized regions is EU policy, so the BBC encourages disaffection to this end.
I will actually bet money on the BBC reporting this, if they haven’t already done so:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/01/united-nations-too-christian-report
Wow, this is a huge study from a renowned international centre for intellectual development, isn’t it? I mean, the University of Kent Religious Studies Department… Harvard and Oxford watch out!
Local pride compels me to come to the defence of this fine hive of idiocy and point out that they have high hopes of ousting the University Of Sussex from their position as “Looniest Seat Of Higher Learning In The South” by 2018 or so.
I’m afraid the University of East Anglia is largely behind the global warming hoax, and therefore takes first prize in academic insanity for the foreseeable future.
Maybe, but that was some little while ago and there hasn’t been much overt nutjobbery out of them since which rather suggests UEA have fallen to complacency, sitting on their laurels and thinking that their position is unassailable. Rather like the Liberal party in the early 1920s. And we know what happened there.
I’d posit that, by opening 2014 with this pre-emptive strike, the UoK is making a serious public commitment to seizing the crown (made of recycled paper) in the very near future, and making East Anglia look like yesterdays news.
The study on the UN being too Christian was funded by the British taxpayer, via the AHRC and ESRC research councils. We also fund UEA’s Climate Research Unit, via our donations to the European Union –
http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/thrs/research/ahrc.html
http://britain-today.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/two-versions-of-reality.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-25525662
Not for the article, but for the way the comments section has blatantly been engineered by a group of leftist contributors to make it seem as if they have the majority opinion.
On the BBC, only left-wing comments are not censored.
The BBC calles it monitoring.
“Monitoring” is censorship of criticism of people deemed inferior by the BBC.
Inferior people do not tolerate free speech.
Britain was once proud of its tolerance of free speech, but that is now deemed racist by the BBC, because of the above implications as regard cultural and racial superiority of people who tolerate free speech.
The difference between monitoring and censorship is that monitoring is a form of censorship that is deemed by the BBC not to be censorship?
They say:
“The most mentioned word in different languages was hope.
Other popular words included love, peace, WorldCup and Olympics.”
Looking at the word cloud the word hope is indeed the biggest in at least 3 languages and Olympiad in Russian (the Russians are bound to be looking forward to the wintergames of course) however the next biggest (and certainly the biggest in ENGLISH) is ‘Commonwealth Games’. Why not mention it BBC?
BBC to ignore Top of the Pops’ 50th anniversary following Jimmy Savile scandal.
The 50th anniversary of the first-ever Top of the Pops show will be quietly ignored tomorrow – due to the Jimmy Savile sex scandal.
But just weeks after the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who saw the programme celebrated with a special feature-length episode and a stream of online content – Top of the Pops enthusiasts have said the landmark Manchester show deserves equal recognition.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/bbc-ignore-top-pops-50th-6457420
The content carried on the BBC about this is of course non existent.
I’m worried that if DLT is found guilty the re-broadcasts of TOTP 1979 will be appearing at five or six week intervals due to the dearth of ‘Safe’ presenters. Why the heck they can’t edit the sex predators out of the shows they introduced I haven’t a clue. Grrrr.
This might be a good time to buy shares in Tony Blackburn!
Bet he`s never had so much work and rerun fees!
Is he over Tessa yet, and his little lad…Simon?
As I say-buy shares in Tony…should be a good year for him!
Serves them right. They allowed it to happen and covered it up, and tried to cover up the cover-up. What other parts of the BBC legacy will we learn they’ve tainted?
A new series of BBC’s Sherlock starts tonight (previous series have displayed the “and with one bound he was free” plot resolution that is applied to most/all BBC thriller/crime/Sci-fi dramas). The Radio Times tells us Holmes resurfaces as London comes under threat of a huge terrorist attack. Who will the terrorists be, then? Your guesses welcome.
Intelligence scuttle says …….
Jooooooz.
Or probably some thinly disguised reference to UKIP. Sherlock will probably defeat them helped by massed ranks of ROP’ers doing the synchronised quenelle whilst munching fish and chips, singing ‘Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner’, ‘On Ilkley Moor baht ‘at’, ‘Land Of My Fathers’ etc and waving ‘Give peace a chance’ banners.
A bunch of UKIP supporting Mensa members, lead by Moriarty.
Who will lose because they are not as intelligent as Sherlock.
The family do watch Colombo, Mrs Marple, Poirot, Midsomer and Murder She Wrote.
Yet the Granddaughter was still pleased to great me at Xmas, despite being the spiting image of a typical murderer/terrorist/villain, a typical hideously white genius.
Studies do show that there are seven times more Black murderers in prison than would be expected as regards the White murderer ratio. But this is not reflected in the above TV programmes.
There have been complaints about this as regards Midsomer Murders, but I do not think this was because the morons wanted the actors to reflect the Black murder rate ratio.
Anyway, it does mean that White actors get the best parts, in an unusual case of an acceptable form of racism that benefits White actors.
I’ve always hated Columbo with an absolute passion. The villains are always, always much more appealing and interesting than the shambling lootenant and his manufactured ‘quirks’, so I’d hope against hope that they would win: hardly the lesson a cop show is supposed to inculcate in the viewer I suspect.
Happily, the villains of Midsomer are generally sneering unsympathetic gits whose demise in 2 hours at the hands of Jersey Jim Bergerac or his successor is thus a pleasure.
Midsomer Murders: 6 Shabby little tick in a mac’: 0
Unlike some snobby lefties I used to know, I have never underestimated the intelligence of an eccentric bug eyed scruff in a dirty Mac.
Oh just one more thing My Brother-in-law used to love Colombo, and he says it wasn’t as bad as the low rent chandler rip off Rockford Files.
The only Black criminals you saw there were wrongly convicted by the racist Man.
I liked his car more though and it was on after chucking out time
Loved Columbo and hated Rockford ? What kind of hideous bizarro world is this ?
Does he like the Strawberry Delights in Quality Street tins as well ? I just bet he does.
Oh before I forget- I had an uncle on my wife’s side ,so not really my uncle, but any way , he liked Cagney and Lacey which despite it being made during the height of the new York crime wave still delivered a weekly sermon on moral relativism in the most ham fisted way -can you beat that
Not really my thing as the main point of the show seemed to be “Which one do you fancy?” and I was too young to participate at the time. I think you were supposed to say “Tyne Daly” to show you weren’t superficial so I dodged a bullet there.
I did like Sidney Klute, though ! Simply for being named “Sidney Klute”, I admit, but still……..
Does he like the Strawberry Delights in Quality Street tins as well ?
I love ’em! If you don’t want yours then please send them to me.
You can post them digitally by pushing them through the grill of your PC you know 😉
Without wishing to hijack yet another thread re the iniquities of Nestlé and their killing off of the Gooseberry Cream (Oh Lost! ), I’m worried for your health. The QS Strawberry (sic.) Delight (sic. sic.) is a vile creation so lethally toxic that if you’re necking any quantity of the things you most likely glow in the dark and set off the scanners at airports. I’d advise steering well clear of any UN Weapons Inspectors, too.
He’ll be perfectly safe in Syria, then.
You are of course quite right; I do glow in the dark – saves shedloads on light bulbs especially when I drop me kecks for, as SWMBO say, the light is quite blinding.
As to setting off scanners at airports; well we all have to get our amusement somehow. Those cavity searches can be quite addictive … 🙂
“Unlike some snobby lefties I used to know, I have never underestimated the intelligence of an eccentric bug eyed scruff in a dirty Mac.”
Didn’t they vote for Michael Foot then ?
“great me”? Mensa?
Oh God… Can’t the BBC just take a day off?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25559645
Pure multicultural propaganda!
What a great idea. Turn the UK into one large English learning centre for the rest of Europe.
Why would any native people be concerned?
The native people simply don’t count, Ramona says so in the article
” , a place she regards as “my home, no matter what others say”. “
It’s this immigrant arrogance, which has been encouraged buy by Liebour and the left, that I cannot stand. I’d never parasite my way into another country and say it’s my home no matter what the locals think. Irritates the s**t out of me that does.
Wouldn’t it be nice if at some point in the future the Third World immigrant said ” Hey, you know what, I’m really not wanted in this country, I’m going to leave as it would be really rude to stay where I’m not wanted.”
Of course it’ll never happen, but to any Third World immigrant reading this, question, why are you so disliked in every country you come to ? people are not born racist, remember that and take your blame.
I see the Roma in the picture of Levenshulme is selling the Beeeg Eeshoo. , which they appear to have monopolised. Are the British too lazy or too incompetent to sell it?
When Britain opened its borders to Poland, the government said only 5,000 would come, turned out 500,000 came. They’re now saying the same thing about the Roma gypsies.
More pertinent to here, is the fact the BBC also promoted the idea that only a hand full of poles were coming giving virtually identical polemic sermons to the ones they are now regurgitating with respect to Bulgarians ‘Only a few coming and those all highly educated most prefer to elsewhere in Europe’
The half million figure for those that did come (mostly low skilled) is a minimum estimate . So many came that the Polish government were complaining about the damage done to their economy. Entire towns (like Boston) with completely altered by the numbers. The Senegalese (EU passport holder) who bought my house in Thamesmead complained bitterly and in very immoderate terms about the number of poles that had arrived
At no point have the BBC shown any contrition over their misreporting of the fact’s nor has it in any way moderated the ideological stance they are now taking over Bulgarian immigration.
Their response to last years reports critical of their pro-immigration bias is to redouble their effort ,demonstrating their total contempt of both public opinion and the democratic process.
They believe that they know best and nothing will change that. The only hope of constraining their arrogance (In the absence of any other political movement not in thrall or fear of them) is the political upheaval that will accompany a good result for UKIP.
Then perhaps the political establishment will look more for the approval of the electorate than that of the liberal inquisition
”The Senegalese (EU passport holder) who bought my house in Thamesmead complained bitterly and in very immoderate terms about the number of poles that had arrived.”
You should have reported him to the police for racism and pressed charges. I can’t abide racism !
He was a she , ‘he’ spoke no English at all But regardless, based on my experience of raising concerns over the continual screaming of my Chinese neighbours small child ,I would have been arrested .
Apparently it is a cultural thing to encourage new born children to scream their lungs out ( encourage how I asked) and I was racist not to understand that. And that was about 20 years ago- I kid you not
funny how they don’t mention the role the loony left director of the Big Issue, and how she has misused her position and the charity to encourage immigration from Romania, and to then become entitled to benefits as a result.
Don’t buy the big issue !
I haven’t for years as you need to be blind to not see what is going on
Problem is the masses have their ”Eyes Wide Shut.” you may find this website interesting.
vigilantcitizen.com/category/sinistersites/
Matrecheese???
I only buy it when I’ve run out of Andrex.
The newly opened benefits loophole has faced widespread condemnation. Particularly vociferous was the founder of The Big Issue, John Bird, who now advises the Government on its Big Society project.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2090012/One-Big-Issue-sellers-Romanian-homes-AND-claim-benefits.html
Looks like they’ve started the year as they mean to go on.
‘Today’ this morning was to make up for yesterday’s no problem about influx of Romanians so move on interviews. It was ‘Migration Watch’ turn for an interview with Sir Andrew Green. Sarah Montague’s only and repeated concern was to get Green to say immigration was economically beneficial to the UK, and proven to be so by research.
The interviews with Bulgarians, only, were there to emphasise this although the four characters were deceptive in their various ways.
The cleaner plainly was not self employed and should not be permitted to work in the UK, yet. The lady who ran the employment agency (‘for Bulgarians only’- understandable law breaking implied the interviewer) indicated her work was drying up. While the other two seemed to have immigrated (illegally?) before Bulgaria’s accession to the EU and were there to sound productive in terms of the UK economy. Their employment status went unspecified.
They were even allowed to say the UK’s benefits system was foolishly generous and open to exploitation- without a counter comment by the interviewer!
The word (R..a) of course went unmentioned.
The BBC always, and can only, interview from the left. It is incorrigible in this respect and should no longer be allowed to be funded by the TV Tax.
BBC News Channel also interviewing a chap who tells us that academic research has determined that EU immigrants (as if they are the ones who particularly concern us) contribute £2,500pa to the economy. Whoopee! But unasked -is that enough to meet the cost of the existing residents who are displaced from the job market?
The liberals will only discuss immigration in financial terms. On any other ground they have no coherent arguments. Refuse to engage on this basis.
Discuss only the cultural impacts on a long established people. The overcrowding and the impact on schools etc.
This year will be the year the liberals start to lose ground but they will ramp up their unrealistic rhetoric and attempt to smear and demonise all opposition.
The BBC is going to be at the forefront of this campaign to destroy England once and for all.
Time for all of us to choose. Give the liberal ascendancy no respect or time. Remember England will go down if we lose this culture war.
Exactly. What does it matter if GDP is artificially boosted by a few points if in the process England ceases to be England? Mill owners encouraged Pakistani labour to come over in the 1950s and 60s to work for cheap wages. The mills all closed in the 1970s, but towns like Oldham and Bradford are now filled with Pakistani ghettoes. Even if these communities did not harbour rape gangs and suicide bombers, how has this helped England?
Mass immigration from the subcontinent started in the Attlee 40’s, so beloved of the bien pensants…
Choosing Julian Assange to read Thought For The Day is like picking Bryan Adams and Celine Dion as your Desert Island Discs – http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100252488/choosing-julian-assange-to-read-thought-for-the-day-is-like-picking-bryan-adams-and-celine-dion-as-your-desert-island-discs/
Am surprised at Delingpole being disappointed in his rock stars politics.
If they get any prominence on the BBC-Late review stuff especially…they`re bound to be flatpacking Lefties.
Witness John Bishops pop at Cameron last night(Rollercoaster Live show)…or Springsteens bombastic hollering since 1978…and it`s clear that being rich with a conscience covers the bases for them.
If they were original thinkers or iconoclasts, we`d need the Web to find them.
Thank God that we can-Ted Nugent, Douglas Murray…hardly Little and Large, but they hold big truths…and telly would not let them loose to sink their rotten ship.
But we can find them, thank God.
2014: another year of INBBC’s Islamic jihad cover up.
Current examples:-
1.) Woolwich.
INBBC censors this:-
“UK jihad murderer converted to Islam after watching sermons by American Muslim preacher”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/uk-jihad-murderer-converted-to-islam-after-watching-sermons-by-american-muslim-preacher.html
2.) Volvograd.
INBBC censors this:-
“Volgograd train station jihadist: ‘I have come here only to make Allah pleased with me…I am not inventing anything from the Koran, I am reading.'”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/volgograd-train-station-jihadist-i-have-come-here-only-to-make-allah-pleased-with-mei-am-not-inventi.html
For INBBC to report?
“Brussels ‘moderate Muslim’ imam on Volgograd attacks:
‘Belgium’s turn will come soon.'”
http://islamversuseurope.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/brussels-moderate-muslim-imam-on.html
For INBBC:
“Why should we follow those Christian commandments, when Allah urges us to fight those kafirs? Why shouldn’t we leave their children orphans?”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/why-should-we-follow-those-christian-commandments-when-allah-may-he-be-glorified-urges-us-to-fight-t.html
“BBC’s ranks of middle management have ballooned by 14 per cent despite corporation’s boasts that it has cut back on top brass.
“Staff under seniors increased by 14 per cent over three years.
“Wages bill increased to £65.5million during same timeframe.
“61 per cent of employees are paid more than the £73,888 upper salary limit.”
By EMMA THOMAS.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532156/BBCs-ranks-middle-management-ballooned-14-cent-despite-corporations-boasts-cut-brass.html#ixzz2p9y16dR7
Disgusting! The BBC are taking all they can get whilst the going’s good.
Nice to see Keith Vaz taking time off from doing bugger all to greet the Romanians.
And can anyone make sense of this BBC gem?:
“The Labour MP said the 180-seat aircraft from the central Romanian city of Targu Mureș had only 140 passengers on board, most of whom already live and work in the UK. ”
Wait a minute. If they live here why would they be flying from Romania? Perhaps, if they do live here, they’d spent all their disposable income in Bucharest, over the Christmas holiday, rather than investing it into the British economy?
A definite lose-lose situation for Britain, then.
If I were an immigrant and the first person I saw on arrival in the UK was that oleagenous publicy-whore Vaz-eline, I’d be booking a seat on the next flight back home.
I’d rather they went home to celebrate Chrstmas with their families than have their famlies come over here.
BBC-NUJ favourite, Labour MP, VAZ, plays ‘PM’ role at Luton airport in friendly chat with more immigrants, not with British people.
revolting more odious individual one cannot imagine, couldn’t t they just throw him onto that plane … With a one way ticket (-:
Funny only saw Vaz on SKY News the BBC seemed to have missed him on the 6.30pm broadcast perhaps protecting the tv sets from damage in case they miss Sherlock? They also missed the reason Beenie Hat man has arrived for his high level specialist job in GB………..washing cars and sending the money home. We are in for a bumper year of cover-ups…… BBC Bias by omission.
I couldn’t understand why the BBC chose that particular new immigrant to interview. Was he the only one who could speak English? Or was he the most respectable ? Makes me worry who else was on that particular flight.
From the excellent polling site http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/
The sex main polling trends over the past year:
1) The Labour lead narrowed
2) People got more optimistic about the economy
3) The Conservatives have moved ahead on the economy
4) But people have started to care more about other issues
‘YouGov’s December polls they both found immigration the second most mentioned issue’
5) UKIP have continued to gather strength
6) Ed Miliband’s ratings went down, and up, and down again
To read the explanatory notes to each one you will have to visit their page, but I wonder just how the biased BBC is going to reflect the changing views and beliefs of the population into an area which they don’t like very much !
I’m intrigued by the ‘sex main polling trends’ especially as they relate to Miliband going “down, and up, and down again.”
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i thought i have heard it all,but i was wrong,did you watch bbc1 news today about the romanians living in muslim areas in sheffield.how weird to hear muslims immigrants talking about there are to many people from eastern europe coming and settling in there muslim areas and bringing crime,anti social behaviour ,hanging around the streets causing trouble etc,funny that really,when we complain about the behaviour of muslims in are english communitys we get slammed down as racists by the bbc and the left wing media,there seems to be a double standard here when it comes to muslims complaining about these romanian immigrants,but it did not end there,a bbc journalist then interviewed that liberal clown nick clegg,what he said stinks of hypocrisy, i quote,nick said,people coming to this country should respect are laws and are culture and should not cause any upset to the communitys they are settting in,does that apply to the immigrants living in tower hamlets.bradford,birmingham etc who moved to england from south east asia and north africa.what a hypocrite this man are the left are when it comes to immigration,watch bbc news tonight and judge for yourself.
Racists.
Maybe they have a problem that some of the Romanians are Christian? And don’t respect local Muslim culture when they are in Britain.
BBC News Channel and Mark Lowen in Bucharest gives a fine example of BBC comment reporting.
Let’s note straight away that our Mark is not reporting news as we might understand it.
Afterall the whole thrust of Mark’s report is that there is no news here to report.
Mark points out that he sees that he can find no tidal wave of immigrants heading for Britain.
But he pops up to talk to us, the nation, anyway. Waste of the cost of the link up?
Could it be that his very remit is to NOT find Romanian migrants?
Oh the irony, a Labour crony immigrant welcoming immigrants to OUR country.
Id just like to make it clear to all those Romanians and Bugarians arriving at Luton today that Keith Vaz does in no way represent me or the large majority of Britain.
What a coincidence that the bBBC just happened to have arrived at Luton airport at the same time as Keith Vaz! It must be several days since he last was on television.
Vaz flagged up his New Year plans a couple of weeks ago. Unusually it doesn’t involve his leering at a woman with big norks.
Whoops!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25567884
‘Blast kills Palestinian diplomat in Prague’
‘The novinky.cz news site said the blast had probably been caused by “careless handling of a dangerous explosive”.’
Whoops : expressing mild dismay or regret (used when someone has had an accident or made a mistake).
“Whoops! I nearly dropped it”
A suitcase full of unstable explosive: just the sort of thing anyone might have lying about the house, surely ?
The sneaky Mossad planted it years ago, obviously. They knew he was going to move eventually, right, BBC?
They’re refraining from placing blame yet, as even the initial Reuters report says the Palestinians themselves are admitting he had some explosives on him, as one does. Unfortunately, the Mail beat them to it. You can tell by the url and the original headline (the BBC has it at the bottom of the page) that they initially called it a bomb “attack”.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532191/Palestinian-ambassador-Prague-killed-bomb-attack-house.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
It’s been changed now, but the BBC can gloat that they didn’t rush to judgment this time. However, News Sniffer shows that the BBC sanitized the detail about the man having some explosives in a case. The “case” has become a “safe”. Don’t want it to be too obvious or damning….er….I mean…..the story has evolved.
Apparently no one had touched it in over 20 years. Clearly previous staff knew something that this poor man and his wife did not.
But what a odd way to keep your valuables ‘safe’.
Doubt we will find out the real reason it was booby-trapped. Which is actually a good story that the BBC will never pursue.
To much minor pub gossip to cover.
Well, what do you know: the BBC has removed the bit about the diplomat opening the “safe”. The story “evolves” apace.
My mistake: they removed the line but rephrased it and moved it up. Still, I’m sure there are a few long faces in the BBC newsroom, no blame on Israel forthcoming. Better luck next time, BBC.
I expect this so-called Palestinian ambassador smuggled the stuff through Customs in his “diplomatic” bag. As a present for the (bona fide) Israeli embassy, perhaps.
Mossad are good at killing their enemies , use 3rd party operatives ,so no come back .Some Iranian nuclear scientists have also been liquidated in that way.
Those jooos again
Something the BBC would not report
Czech police discovered a large cache of weapons at the Prague residence of the late Palestinian ambassador. The PLO’s got some ‘splaining to do. The Times of Israel writes:
Czech police spokeswoman Andrea Zoulova confirmed that arms had been found in the ambassador’s residence, which is located within the newly constructed Palestinian Embassy complex.
Channel 2 News reported that the stockpile included heavy firearms, that it was held illegally, and that its existence had not been previously known to the Czech authorities
Nice find, Lynette. What was that PJ Harvey was saying about censorship today?
Sorry to “do a Dez” but here it is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25576938
Interestingly: “A former Czech military intelligence chief, Andor Sandor, told the Reuters news agency that available information indicated that the blast could have been an accident or an attack of a private rather than political nature.”
So, nothing to do with Palestinians then, pheeew!
Thanks, Span. No need to apologize at all. We need to get it right in the end. Of course, unlike the BBC, we’re not professionals who always claim to wait until all the facts are in before rushing to report. The BBC sure rushed in to report on this one before facts came out, but never mind.
The safe was in regular use after all, was it? If the BBC hadn’t included the suggestion from the Czech police that this might have been a private attack rather than political, I’d be wondering if this was being set up to blame Israel in the end.
Why would he have all those weapons, BBC? Self-defense against the Mossad ninjas with superpowers?
Exactly, they mention the weapons but then digress completely (i.e. about 95%of the article isn’t about the weapons!). Just that the exploding safe was nothing political…hmmm.
phil mackie and his wife cath mackie who both work at the bbc very nice indeed are typical of these middle class bbc journalists who always put a good spin on immigration dont they,have you noticed that all these bbc journalists who seems to be in favour of mass immigration dont tend to live in these areas do they, i found out that the bbcs husband and wife time phil and cath mackie both live in a nice little leafy village in rural north worcestershire,funny how the advocates of mass immigration like bbc journalists and politicians live in areas that are not affected by immigration,thats what makes me sick.
Good job there’s no anti-immigration leverage committee
I wonder how the BBC will cover estimates of the number of Romgarians coming into Britain this year?
If it’s much higher than Migrationwatch figures then the BBC will go with “We just don’t know the actual figures.” – as if ignorance is bliss for the average British person.
If it’s lower then they will proclaim a victory: nothing to worry about, for them (and as a corollary – nothing for the average Brit to worry about.) So that, in future, we can have open borders when other countries join the EU.
Anthony Zurcher has done it again. Yet another Echo Chambers blog in which he reacts to a threat from the Right.
The New York Times confronts critics of its Benghazi story
Naturally the whole thing is given over to voices defending the NY Times. We even get a lie from the boss saying they haven’t yet decided to endorse Hillary Clinton. Well, he’s lying to himself, really. Nobody doubts whom they’ll endorse in the end. Rosenthal is right, though, that there was no in-house conspiracy to support the President’s Narrative and protect Hillary for her upcoming election campaign. Just like with the BBC, there’s no need for such a thing because they all think the same way already. The bias and collective agenda happens quite naturally.
Zurcher, of course, buys into the NY Times Narrative 100%. What he doesn’t mention is what the NY Times didn’t dare address: Where was the President that night? Why was the security lax? We know it was, nobody ever disputed that. The question is why. Who gave that stand-down order? Why have certain generals and commanders been removed? Zurcher also ignores the question about why Susan Rice lied multiple times about the video, why other Administration mouthpieces lied about the video, and why Hillary lied to the victims’ families about the video.
The NY Times had reporters on the ground during the actual attack, talking to the attackers while it was happening. They know. And they aren’t telling. Zurcher doesn’t care. All he cares about is making sure you know to ignore the noise from the Right-wing echo chamber about it, and he quotes from his Left-wing echo chamber to support his agenda.
Proving that Al Qaeda was not officially involved in planning or implementation is a mere sliver of the scandal. By rewriting history and claiming that it was the only issue in question is dishonest, to say the least. Zurcher swallows it whole, and expects you to as well.
His conclusion? Gosh, some people have their own agenda to push with this story.
If I can get it together, I think I’ll begin my experiment demonstrating what a joke this Echo Chambers thing is next week.
A large explosion in a Minneapolis building, a dozen people hospitalized. As soon as one of the battalion of Beeboids working in the US finds out what’s next door, they’ll be eager to report it, I’m sure……
Let’s not jump to conclusions. It may well be a white supremacist’s club disguised as an Islamic centre.
Was there EDF, I mean, EDL graffiti. You just can’t be too careful.
If this story doesn’t help their agenda, the BBC will simply ignore it. Never mind that there has been a bit of public strife with Islamic fundamentalism in Minneapolis in the recent past. Meanwhile, we get a follow-up report about some oil tanker train derailment, even though no one was hurt and no lives were ever in danger.
I am not a professional journalist and so cannot understand their newsgathering priorities and appreciate the keen insight to report one and not the other.
BBC’s ranks of middle management have ballooned by 14 per cent despite corporation’s boasts that it has cut back on top brass
The corporation has said it cut back on senior management but a Freedom of Information Request shows staff under seniors increased by 14 per cent over three years and the wages bill increased to £65.5million.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532156/BBCs-ranks-middle-management-ballooned-14-cent-despite-corporations-boasts-cut-brass.html#ixzz2pAYNiWOl
Paxman made a snarky aside about exactly that on the last Celebrity University Challenge. There was a question about a term for useless middle management whom nobody would miss if a predator ate one per day for a year. The answer was something like “lion’s fare” (never heard of it), and Paxman quipped, “The BBC’s full of them.”
Meanwhile, Lord Hall seems to be creating one new management position per day.
mark easton is another bbc stalwart that thinks mass immigration enriches us all with the beautys of diversity and multi culturism,i dont think the victims of 7/7 or lee rigbys family would agree with that
BBC-NUJ: campaigners for unending mass immigration into, and colonisation of Britain – with no upper limit on numbers.
Currently, BBC-NUJ is running campaigns for mass immigration into Britain from Romania, Bulgaria, Syria, Turkey, Nigeria, etc.
These dreadful people. Where do they come from? Who are they? Why do they hate themselves and their country so much?
Has any people ever been so afflicted by such people? Is this how nations die?
When we think of all those of our ancestors who laboured and tended to England and died for it I can no longer hold my peace in the company of these liberal traitors.
So after the dire programing over winter fest I’ve just turned on the BBc 1 news to see what’s going on. So the Bulgarians and Romanians are allowed here now.
Any mention of every poll I’ve seen saying we don’t want any more migrants. Any mention of the petitions and campaigns. Nope, not of your life the same old not many are expected message. he same story I heard I was hearing before the last wave of migration. So in the interest of fairness did we hear the slightest thing from any person opposed to the lifting of restrictions? Course not this is the fair and impartial BBc no they just sent someone out to interview (was it Bulgaria or Romania) to ask their opinions. BBc 50& of the story 100% of the time.
Oh North West is just on apparently it’s going to be “Wainy in Cwumbria” again.
A good comment from the WUWT website on how the BBC and the Guardian are censoring news about the Ship of Fools :
“Am I the only one to find the most interesting aspect of this fiasco is the way the British media has managed to downplay and ignore its most damaging effects?
When you consider that the words “Rescue” and “Drama” and “Ship” have always been favorites of editors and headline writers, where have these words appeared in any headline or lead story this last week?
We seem to have entered the strange world of reporting-without-reporting in which “damage limitation” is more important than grabbing attention; “Damage Limitation” referring to their Global Warming religion.
Try, for instance, to find anywhere in the reportage the phrases “global warming” or “climate scientists” or any other related relevant information. From the way any mention of how the man-made global warming religion has been dealt yet another devastating blow, you might imagine the complete failure of the whole expedition was of no more importance than a sub-head “Man Burns Toast” or “Cat’s Paw prints Found on Desk.”
The BBC managed to avoid nearly all mention of this event, relegating it to a few tiny paragraphs near the foot of their web pages, and just skimmed over it in a matter of seconds on their TV reports. Consequently, viewers and readers are still largely ignorant of the facts, and it never made the list of the top ten items “Shared” or even the top twenty items “Viewed.” You have to hand it to the BBC: they know how to bury inconvenient truths like no other.
The Guardian tried ignoring the story, then publishing it with no mention of why the ship full of AGW worshipers, that they had sponsored, were there in the first place. Then they tried their usual trick of “spinning” the story so that global cooling was really a manifestation of global warming. That didn’t fly with their readers, so they responded with heavy censoring of the CiF comments, then disabling the readers’ comments completely, then allowing some comments again before finally following the BBC and relegating the whole thing to a minor incident of little or no importance at the bottom of their web page, and a tiny report on the inside page of their printed edition. The only mention today on the Guardian’s website is a link to a video of those trapped on the ship having a great New Year’s party.
‘Consequently, viewers and readers are still largely ignorant of the facts’
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Certainly applying their unique interpretation of reporting to providing information & education.
Must be great to control the edit.
I’ve been following media coverage of this story for the last two days. It was on the main website of CNN, Foxnews, Reuters, ITN. The BBC pushed it very low down. They then relegated it to the “Features” section. Now you can only see it if you go directly to their “Science/Environment” page.
The BBC knows exactly who is on that ship and their article does not say that they have journalists on it.
At least The Guardian has it low down on their main webpage.
But again, nothing about Guardian journalists on board.
Oh my, this is embarrassing.
All the media may prioritise it once either the rescue has started or various Veggie Eco-Warriors start eating each other in desperation.
Repeated from another thread – but still worth making the point:-
Unsurprisingly bigging themselves up somewhat. Far from ‘welcoming’ them, the penguins seem at best indifferent to the sight of a couple of twats invading their space with the banner of the tiresomely self-righteous. This, even though one of them refers to himself as ‘Loz’, so help us.
Penguins are clearly more tolerant of public idiocy than I am.
The Penguin’s are clearly Daily Mail readers.
As a penguin I’m outraged at the invasion of my ancient homeland. Already some settlers have established scientific outposts. Free Antarctica now!
Someone has done a super Photoshop on a picture of the Ship of Fools – changing the Russian name on the bow to “Inconvenient Truth” with the N’s reveresed, Russian-style.
James Delingpole has a good story on the fiasco in the Mail today – including mention of how the Guardian and BBC are trying to smother the story:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532013/A-dose-COLD-reality-The-ironic-saga-eco-campaigners-trying-highlight-global-warming-melting-ice-caps-trapped-freezing-Antarctic.html#ixzz2p75I17TX
The guy on the left of the photo also reports for the BBC
Coming to a BBC studio near you awfully soon to tell of his “rumble with death” in true guardianista fashion…
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha……
“I miss banana peanut butter milk shakes” Bwahahahaha!
I hope you use organic carbon free stuff!
And oh, the stress he is feeling!
Let’s hear it for the boy:
“Let it snow!
Let it snow!
Let it snow!”
All together now!
I’m just reading the comments on You Tube.
“Wuss” and “Princess” are two of the kinder ones.
I think this global warming thing might really be beginning to crumble?
Hardlyof the same stamp as Captain Scott and his men. This is what we have become. The boy is not fit to be called an Englishman.
Prat.
Perhaps they should just stick to exploring Hampstead Heath instead.
OOOOOH, you are awful.
You tube account now closed.
Was it something we said or instructions from Minitruth?
Some norty boys called him names in the comments and when he cried about it to his mummy she told him, “Just bring your video home, dear, they don’t appreciate how brave you have been. “
Alternative YouTube video
bugger – try this –
Aww, the party has wound down at last, has it? The lounge bar cleaned out? Poor baby. What’s he been doing that’s made him so exhausted after a mere six hours sleep? Is this one of the propagandists that works for both the Guardian and the BBC, or just the Guardian? And how is the actual BBC “journalist” coping? Maybe it’s just really hard work coming up with new excuses for why they sailed blindly in and ignored the radar and overwhelming weather reports and evidence that this was a really, really, bad idea.
And I bet you’ll never find out how much the BBC spent on this little religious group outing, because journalism.
Laurence Topham, documentary filmmaker
@ Since joining the Guardian in 2008, Laurence has worked extensively in Uganda on the Guardian’s development project in Katine, as well as covering three US elections, and making films about the phone-hacking scandal, the ten year 9/11 anniversary and Death Row. Prior to this he worked as a freelance director & cameraman – making documentaries for charities in the UK, Sierra Leone and Kenya, while also editing for the BBC.
Notice how the BBC has quietly amended the purpose of the expedition to “retracing Mawson’s footsteps” and sent the real purpose – to show how AGW is melting all the Antarctic ice – down the memory hole.
So many things on which you simply cannot trust the BBC.
Certainly a meme being pursued across a few media.
The Indy had it as a ‘cruise’ that had experienced difficulty placing the on board ‘tourists’ at some risk.
Not really sure that was quite how it was being billed in, shall we say, happier times.
Yes, David, yet another example of how the BBC redacts the facts – true Soviet style – to suit the agreed agenda/narrative. Feed the proles only the ‘news’ you intend them to read, otherwise leave them without any of the actual facts. This has never been more obvious than in the way the BBC politburo ‘manages’ climate reporting. Facts, like truth, are just too damn inconvenient.
The spirit of Shackleton lives on.
They’re trying to spin this unmitigated disaster into a story about “Adventure” and going on a “Journey” – the usual BS heroics.
They’ve made several podcasts for their “BBC Discovery” website.
Embarrassing isn’t the right word for it, really.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25567884
I don’t know what the heck to make of this one. Maybe Sherlock should take a look later tonight after he’s foiled the “terrorists”?
“So that’s where I left my bomb!”:-)
The full
evangelistmedia team for the Ship of Fools:Shore-based Media coordination: Alan Stone, Univ. of New South Wales
Leg One – science presenter: Veronika Meduna, Radio New Zealand
Leg Two – Media Coverage: Alok Jha, Guardian, and presenter of BBC One’s “Science Club”
Leg Two – Media Coverage: Laurence Topham, Guardian
Leg Two – Media Coverage: Andrew Luck-Baker, senior producer for the BBC Radio Science Unit, making and presenting “science” broadcasts for the World Service and Radio 4
This just in: Bad Luck-Baker reports that “confusion surrounds the fate of the rescue vessel”.
And that’s just for the reporting on climate change and Antarctic ice. After that, they’ll come up with some entertainment for the paying passengers.
Your license fee hard at work.
Ah… but… you have not reckoned with the power of Comical Albie, who has been known to take what is and turn it into what must be, even in the face of rather compelling evidence to the contrary:
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“Glad to note that you have now (belatedly) identified that there is only one person associated with the BBC on board. By my count that means 73 of those on board are not associated with the BBC.”
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Counting on the additional, associated, desperate logic to that last was actually a bit of a plus.
Looks like Veronika was the one who lucked out.
Pity Greenpeace didn’t send a boat out there too.
Indeed they have a crew well used to the cold, harsh environment
RE: that explosion in Minneapolis sending a bunch of people to the hospital, in a building right next door to a Mohammedan center (one of those groups which condemns violence, bien sur):
Minneapolis men who fought and died with Somali militia used in recruitment video
Yeah, that Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. #JustSayin’ RT does not equal endorsement, etc.
BBC: We don’t want to report this sort of thing because it might “give permission for prejudice”.
Did anyone catch that drama from last night on INBBC 1?
Two Doors Down claimed to be ‘comedy’ drama which started out with a joke about people being ‘squashed’ during 9/11, the old staple of young son bringing new boyfriend to meet family (who of course later proposes ‘marriage’) on to the female rape of a male (imagine it the other way around, would that be accepted as comedy?) and ending with an attack on a home coming soldier with a fake axe….
You couldn’t make it up…
On 1 January The Australian published a long front-page attack on Global Warmism and the carbon tax scam, written by a top business adviser to the OZ Prime Minister.
2 January the paper has a caustic article on the Ship of Fools :
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/editorials/stuck-on-a-ship-of-cold-fools/story-e6frg71x-1226793309195
I think I see the flaw in that argument. This has very little to do with being reasonable and has everything to do with emotions and ideology. This will change nothing. Not a single person on that ship will be even remotely tempted to reconsider the extremism of Warmists.
And even more caustic criticism of the Global Warming propagandists (including the BBC and Guardian) on the Ship of Fools in today’s Telegraph of Australia :
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/in-the-icy-grip-of-fear-that-global-warming-is-claptrap/story-fni0cwl5-1226793282194
I imagine their fear may now be increasing. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority which is in charge of the rescue operation has now announced that the delayed helicopter evacuation intended for today has been stopped – and is unlikely to be possible today. Bad weather and unsafe ice conditions. They were of course assuming that landings could be made next to the Ship of Fools – maybe because the ice is real thick there, and solidly packed.. The original idea was to send the twin-engine 10-ton helicopter from the Chinese vessel to ferry the passengers across to the heli-deck on the Chinese vessel which is offshore, – and then ferry them across to Aurora Australis by boat . But this boat cannot get through the ice water between the Chinese vessel and the AA. And the helicopter from the Chinese vessel cannot land on the Aurora Australis. It also cannot safely land on the sea ice next to Aurora Australis = too thin ?.
The Safety Authority’s latest press release says that other unspecified plans are being considered.
The weather window was pretty good today, so I imagine the passengers will be very upset the rescue could not proceed.
Click to access 02012014AkademikShokalskiyUpdate10_Media_Release.pdf
The very powerful US icebreaker Polar Star is over a week away from the area – not counting time to cut through the ice on arrival, There is now up to 20km if ice between the Ship of Fools and open water. It mat be possible to wait for this – but the Safety Authority seems to be concentrating on a staged evacuation to Aurora Australis. This suggests to me that while the tone is calm, they see urgency in getting the Fools away.
It is steadily becoming clearer from blogs etc of those on board that the Ship of Fools could have been trapped because some of the Fools went ashore on a long trek, possibly against the advice of the Russian captain, and did not get back in time before the heavy sea ice closed in. It is open knowledge that sea ice has increased generally around the Antarctic – and that the previously-sheltered bay they are in is no longer sheltered . They SAW lots of ice as they entered the bay.
But still the BBC and the Guardian cover up this unholy mess. Normally 80 people stranded in the Antarctic would be big news for them – especially if their own people were involved. Their reports have been brief, late and evasive. Imagine the coverage if it could have been be shown that this is all due to global warming – they would have been all over it, reports from their own people, lots of bacjground from Harrabin et al. Instead – virtual radio silence for a lot of the time.
Those morons didn’t even bother to get proper weather forecasting capability on the ship. They lacked the kind that tells them wind patterns which might, you know, indicate where the ice was moving in.
Anthony Watts and a TV meteorologist in San Diego were called in for help. Because, as Watts points out, these people are climatologists and don’t really have the skill set to read weather patterns. Why weren’t they calling actual experts for updates all along? I guess, it’s a good thing the ship crew called the US Coast Guard and not the Met Office, or they’d probably be in even more trouble.
We’re getting closer to criminal negligence territory here. No wonder the BBC is trying to pretend it’s little more than one of those historical re-enactment excursions.
I note that (c. 8.30AM) the beeboid narrative has changed from Tourist Ship to Research Ship.
It’ only taken them a week to do the same sort of research that took most of us 5 minutes!
“Julian Assange to speak on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme”
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/01/01/julian-assange-speak-bbc-radio-4s-today-programme?
Mogadishu: news tip for Islam Not BBC (INBBC):
-the ‘car bombs’ were NOT the perpetrators of this latest massacre;
the perpetrators were the Islamic jihadists of al-Shabab.
“Somalia: Islamic jihadists celebrate New Year by murdering 11 people with bombs at Mogadishu hotel”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/somalia-islamic-jihadists-celebrate-new-year-by-murdering-11-people-with-bombs-at-mogadishu-hotel.html
Resolution for Beeboids, 2014:
“We will try to begin to accurately present Islamic jihadists as the perpetrators of such murders in future, and not to obscure the issue by claiming that ‘bombs’ or ‘militants’ are the murderous perpetrators.”
Aghhhhh ! The Today program edited by P J Harvey. Only halfway through this offering and already it has turned into a parody. A line up of fully paid-up members of the Loony Left regurgitating every piece of far left clap trap, in total isolation from both the truth and reality.
I wanted to know who the hell is P.J.Harvey? Well, I’ve looked up the name and found it is a ‘she’, and she is a singer. Questions need to be asked of the producer of the Today programme (and of management above), why she has been allowed to propagate her left wing views without balance. I suppose the answer is that they chime with those held by BBC staff, and it presented a perfect opportunity to broadcast their views under the guise of the ‘guest editor’ programme. Questions also need to be asked why a fugitive from justice (Assange) has been allowed to broadcast, unchallenged, in ‘Thought for the Day’. I hope there will be some MPs who will follow this up.
I’ve long been a fan of PJ Harvey’s music so I was intrigued to hear she was guest editor. I turned it on to hear Joan Baez singing a well known anti-war song, in its entirety. Blimey. I actually thought I must have got the wrong channel.
Now, after a brief interlude for news and sport, we are hearing from a Cypriot who alledges he was tortured by the Brits fifty years ago, and now two lefties are continuing the theme. Some minutes in one of them is getting a little flustered having been made to admit the torture he claims is still going on is in fact shouting from six inches away (“invasion of intimate space”, apparently) for a few seconds.
What is interesting is that in just fifteen minutes I’ve heard repeated caveats from the presenters that “PJ Harvey wanted” this, and “PJ Harvey wanted” that, which gives the distinct impression she’s gone too far even for them.
Oh God, this is absolutely priceless. You have to download this boys and girls. It is an utter gem. A beautiful car crash.
Just heard a poem by that “British resident” chap still residing in Gitmo, read by Ralph Fiennes. No wonder they locked him up.
As I understand it, the market rate floor having interfered (which the BBC tells us they never do) with Tim Berners-Lee’s editorial selection, PJ wanted, and it seems got, carte blanche.
It will be interesting to see how their usual scrabbling attempts to rig things en route to FUBAR work out here.
Assange’s Thought For The Day is typically self-serving, and I’m waiting with bated breath for the imminent reading of a Woody Guthrie lyric, once more by Fiennes.
We shouldn’t actually get too upset by this. It has done more damage to her political beliefs in three hours than would normally be done in a year.
Errr… Ticky-ticky-tock!
Has it ever crossed your mind that the BBC may be a little biased?
Ever toyed with the notion that the BBC stears clear of reporting news that may be a little uncomfortable for the Left?
Last night BBC TV News – first evening of the New Year starts as they mean to go on
No mention of the Palestinian diplomat blowing himself to Kingdom Come whilst clumsily reshuffling his PLO Ferrero Roche
No mention of the Global Warming beano stuck in the Antarctic ice
In sports news – no mention of the Muslim footballer throwing the Nazi salute
I believe the time has changed, so maybe the time has come to rename it ‘Not The 9 O’clock News’? Given the latter was also comedy fiction, literally and figuratively accurate, too.
So then, Sherlock… Hmmm. Moffat and Gatiss together. What could possibly go wrong?
Gay references? Uh-huh. Lack of plot? Uh-huh. Smart arse renaming of a canonical tale? Uh-huh. Wholesale theft of Conan Doyle’s ideas, including this time even a non-Holmes tale, in The Lost Special? Oh yeah.
This is Holmes for people who know nothing of the character, and who don’t really care. This is the first episode of this series I’ve managed to tolerate through to the end. My instincts have been proved to be correct. It is theft. It isn’t clever. It isn’t, as The Times have claimed this morning “better than the original stories,” it is plagiarism, pure and simple.
But the journey (partly gay) is more important than any plot, finale explanation or logic.
You should understand BBC drama by now.
I think it’s excellent, even with the predictable gay propaganda.
re. the awful discussion on the Today programme about the ‘uman rites of terrorist scum, Sky is reporting that none of the 100 most hardened jihadists in prison in the UK for terrorism offences has been willing to cooperate in any rehabilitation.. Many are now being released with their warped intentions unchallenged and unchanged.
They ought to be deported – or disappeared. Far too dangerous to be on the loose. Just look at the mugshots of these evil ignorant bastards.
http://news.sky.com/story/1189231/jailed-islamist-terrorists-reject-rehabilitation
why would they? rehabilitation would mean rejecting islam, and they’re not going to do that.
“Please give up terrorism.”
“No.”
I suppose when they kill some poor buggers the governments can legitimately claim to have asked them nicely not to. All arses covered.
‘All arses covered’
Since you mention the BBC, and terrorism, it is interesting how the failing health of controversial elder global statespersons can get handled by them, often to a significant degree of variability in setting records straight:
http://bbcwatch.org/2014/01/02/as-sharons-health-deteriorates-bbc-updates-profile-claiming-he-sparked-second-intifada/
Imagine if he had been some kind of terrorist once.
Philippines.
INBBC decides to censor out Islamic jihad massacre:-
“Philippines: Islamic jihadists murder seven with bomb at New Year’s party”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/philippines-islamic-jihadists-murder-seven-with-bomb-at-new-years-party.html
There was a grenade attack in Kenya yesterday according to Five Live, but in covering it they mentioned a similar attack on British tourists last month, “but the grenade didn’t go off.”
I didn’t hear a dickie bird about that on the Beeb, or anywhere else for that matter, which is slightly surprising after the Al Shabab Nairobi attack.
I don’t know if it has already been posted but on the BBC news web page this morning most read number 3 is bizarrely ‘Saddam Hussein Executed in Iraq’ When you follow the link you get an old news page from Dec 30 2006. I took a screenshot but I don’t know how to post them on here.
I saw that too a few days ago. At least I believe you!
The ‘most read’ page is likely being ‘adjusted’ as only the BBC knows how to, after a few occasions last year when what the people were interested in rather diverged from what the BBC wanted them to be.
One is sure this is just a glitch in the Farc… Matrix and what really happened will soon be in place.
TWATO interviewing some global warming loon.
She was trying to say that the ship was encased in ice several miles from the coast and the position of the ship, was caused not by new ice, which we all know is the case and is backed up by Antarctic survey.
So she blatently lied and claimed that the ship is stranded because of ‘old ice’ which had broken off a glacier and then refrozen, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Of course all this went unchallenged and she was allowed to carry on lying to her hearts content.
The water underneath the ice has become desalinated because of the freezing which proves it is in fact new ice and not the old ice which is preposterous!
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Why was this morning’s BBC weather segment showing a background photo of a flooded front garden when the forecast was for gales? Do all gales lead to flooding now?
So now on the 5 O’clock radio 4 news we hear a report from a BBC correspondent who has been on the Russian icebreaker – the first time they have openly admitted to having staffers there. He let the cat out of the bag saying her had been working and was continuing to do so.
Also admitted that the gigantic ship he was transferred to was making heavy weather of the ‘very thick pack ice’ although it was unlikely to get stuck.
No mentions about it being mid summer in the Antarctic, nor that the ice build up was unusual or that it was in anyway anything to do with climate change!
BBC Radio Norfolk at nine in the morning ;
Is It Time To Stop Being Scared Of Immigrants .
What a loaded question .
Oh for an Alan Partridge in real life over there!
Does their signal reach Boston Lincs…or does the BBCs cover go no further than Mary Beards shoerack?
Local radio has got to go as long as the BBC insist on putting out Bacon, Nolan and Campbell types on its network…let alone Jeremy Vine FFS!
Maybe we just don’t want to be colonised. Nobody ever does. Even the BBC liberal idiots should know that.
And now, in other news:
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/researchers.html
‘In the wacky world of public service broadcasting, the BBC Trust currently hands £3m of licence fee money every year in fees to Ofcom.’
Whacky indeed, as that seems to cover the cost of referring anything BBC-related to OFCOM straight back to the Trust, with a ‘NotUs.gov’ sticker. Essentailly ensuring a death spiral to nowhere.
Still, nice to see the telephone numbers still being invested on high in the astoundingly uncurious echelons to keep this racket going.
Not entirely unrelated, we also have:
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/licence.html
The BBC does indeed like a bit of ‘redefining’ when it can, yes.
Effectiveness of funding by any means does rather presuppose what is being funded is fit for purpose.
Otherwise it just a propaganda tax, which has poor historical connotations.
I’m sure I heard the phrase “fatty food” on breakfast this morning..AGAIN!!!!!!!!
I think you’ll find that was ‘Fatty Pang’, if only you had ‘invested’ in DAB!
BBc 18:00 news. Ice locked ship’s “Passengers” says Fiona twice. Reporter says “passengers + scientists”. Ho hum wonder how much it’s cost to rescue this bunch?
MALAYSIA.
INBBC routines censors the repressive Islamising regime in Malaysia.
Whereas ‘Jihadwatch’ has these recent items:-
http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/br0nc0s/managed-mt/mt-srch.cgi?search=malaysia&IncludeBlogs=1&limit=20
INBBC only has this:-
“More than 300 Bibles are confiscated in Malaysia”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25578348
Down here in the South West, we are expecting a bit of bother concerning the arrival of a low pressure area, spring tides and high winds. As a result coastal flooding can be expected, this being in part because of high river levels following periods of intense rainfall. The local radio station (BBC Radio Devon) have really pulled out the stops on this one and every person and his dog has been interviewed for them to tell us what to do and not what to do concerning this weather *event*. The trouble is with local radio, they are, well, not very good at remembering what they say. Tonight, they were interviewing a chap from the environment agency and with leading questions we got the answer the interviewer was looking for in that in his opinion, these *events* were happening much more often. I was expecting the return of *Climate Change* but to my surprise, no (much to my disappointment). But then in the very next interview with a chap from the Lifeboat Institution down these parts, the interviewer asked the question, *it must be very difficult to train for such rare occurrences?* Oh dear, which way is up? The interviewer was doing so well to follow the narrative, but then blew it!
RNLI = too white = (no lottery funding + bBC ignorance)
Storms ! off Cornwall , in winter whatever next ?
The bad weather I predicted (last week) to hit the U.K. on the 6th is still on schedule to do so. The storm is now running up the East coast of the USA (Philli/New York) and is expected to dump quite a bit of snow up the Easter Seaboard. Flights are now being delayed or cancelled to and from and across the Atlantic. With the Jetstream still being blocked by high pressure areas, it will be aimed straight at us. Watch out for Monday if travelling in and around the U.K.
Sonny and Cher world tour hots up:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25577642
I blame racism and inequality in Lebanon.