, in a good article recounting his experience of the media and the BBC in particular while trying to put forward serious policy proposals:
I was delighted that halfway through the week Helen Boaden, a senior manager at the BBC, graciously admitted it had been wrong to run footage of me singing, from 14 years ago, as their lead-in to their first report. I am the only politician who has regularly been given eternal youth by the BBC in this way.
I do not recall, every time Neil Kinnock made a statement as EU Commissioner, the BBC running the clip of him slipping on the beach. Gordon Brown’s statements are not introduced by running the recent pictures of him picking his nose on the front bench. I look forward to fairer treatment in future.
Redwood goes on to say:
Labour has persuaded many that if you want lower tax rates you must cut public spending – and of course you would cut teachers and nurses in their parallel universe, rather than management consultants, bureaucracy and publicity.
I have gone hoarse explaining that Ireland cut tax rates on business, and lowered capital taxes, and enjoyed a large surge in revenue from the extra growth it generated. Ireland shows you can have it all – much lower tax rates, and more revenue and public spending per head. After I explain this, I am normally asked again how many teachers I want to sack to pay for the cuts!
…which is so typical of the underlying presumptions and prejudice of the BBC’s leftist public-sector mentality. Do read the rest.
P.S. Still at the Telegraph: See how they spin: see comments 7, 8 & 9 on Damian Thompson’s Telegraph blog of our story about the BBC’s Wikipedia hypocrisy. Nice try Martin! (Martin is actually a reasonable chap, avid blogger and sometime participant in the comments here at Biased BBC. Martin also wrote an interesting series of blog posts about Biased BBC earlier this year).
Thank you to an anonymous reader for the first Telegraph link.
Imagine how outraged this article would have been if the mother was American:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6934540.stm
You have to laugh as the beeboid blames this mass murder on “consumer choice”. Nick cannot call a spade a spade and condemn Indian cultural attitudes, so it must therefore be the fault of Capitalism.
Of course, this practice didn’t exist when India was fond of Five Year Plans. Oh, it did? Hmm, how to blame this on the BushChimpHitler? Tricky.
We seem to be getting the real Tory party back. It’s nice to see they’re making a fight of this, rather than Cameron telling Redwood to shut up and quietly drop his proposals.
Any further discussion of whether the “real” Tory party is back will be deleted.
Can I just repeat our request that this site is not intended for general discussions about politics, however tempting it seems to do so.
(I’m not having a go at MDC here, who is a polite and intelligent chap. His point in another thread about Thatcher and Tory seat selection was fine because it was very pertinent to the topic of the post).
Martin does actually have a point in saying that any organisation can’t be help responsible for what all its employees do in their off time. That said it was a little arrogent of the BBC to criticise others without pointing out that they did it too.
Ralph,
Surely, if you are using BBC computers you are not in off-time. Can it be proved that every single one of those postings was made in their lunch hour? Even then, there are rules about using your employer’s equipment.
Helen,
If you blamed me for the web usage of people I’ve employed over time I’m in trouble.
Yes it’s bad form but people do it.
Ralph
Suggest you get your system administrators to install surfcontrol on your network we have it at work and it blocks anything other than work-related websites .Suggest perhaps the BBC should do so as well …
>Suggest you get your system administrators to install surfcontrol on your network we have it at work and it blocks anything other than work-related websites
Suggest you don’t have a clue as to how journalism works.
Hmmmmmmmmmm, so we have BBC-ites Nick Reynolds, David Gregory and now Martin Belam trying energetiocally to sweep the Wiki edits under the carpet.
That carpet is starting to look a little bulky.