Good old Auntie – always willing to give dour Mr Broon a second and third chance. On this Sunday morning with the rest of the media speculating as to whether Brown even HAS a future (He does, as a rejected politician) the BBC leads with the ridiculous headline “I feel voters pain.” Brown is afforded a non-critical platform from which he dribbles his alibis. The ONLY pain that Brown feels is that of seeing his political ambitions disappear in smoke. An effective broadcaster could ask so many questions of Brown and challenge so many of his wild assertions but then again, as with Brown so with the BBC – “L’Etat, c’est moi”
FEELING OUR PAIN?
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Oh Dear. Nolan on 5 lite is talking about Brown and he’s not getting many supporters!! Hey I even got my email read out!!!
For “Labour will recover” read: With improved soundbites and spin, we will, once again, dupe the millions of idiots who voted for us in 1997, 2001 and 2005.
If Brown’s repeated sub-moronic examples today are the ‘improved soundbites’, we don’t need to worry too much.
Martin, what did your email say?
Andrew Marr gives Gordon Brown a licking.
BBC Have Your Say has the topic Is it Hard To Remain Faithful?. They are obviously upset at all those who didn’t remain faithful to the Labour dream.
You can almost hear them crying.
As the Times reported:
“The problem with Ian Blair is that he is not a policeman’s policeman. He is more interested in getting all the boxes ticked, in meeting targets than actually fighting crime.”
I fear Boris will be stymied by Blair and his lefty acolytes in the honourable endeavour to reduce crime. All Blair has to do is either get Jacqui Smith to shift the targets or change the way crime is reported. Just like they did last time to fake the figures to show crime “falling”.
The following message has been sent to the Today programme:
Sir,
Ever since the local election results were known, you have made the Today
programme an almost Conservative-free zone. The political imbalance has
been striking and scandalous. You have invited a constant stream of Labour
spokesmen and assorted labourites, and given them very soft interviewes.
Not only that, but very often the interviewer has spoken in supulcral tones,
as though the election has been a national tragedy. Sarah Montague, in
particular, is guilty of this slant. I have to tell you that this is not a
national tragedy, but only one for the Labour Party.
It is scandalous that you have given almost no opportunity for conservative
spokesmen to discuss the election results, and Gordon Brown’s role in
Labour’s decline. It is clear you just cannot stomach the possibility of any
Conservative triumphalism, or have them point out that their gains far
exceeded expectations, and indeed the bar that you set high in order to
ensure that any good result for the Conservatives could be belittled.
Fortunately, that high bar was far exceeded. Furthermore, you have denied
the Ccnservative Party any opportunity to comment on Gordon Brown’s
mishandling of the economy over the past eleven years – a hundred stealth
taxes, destroying pensions, selling gold reserves low, creating a truly
collosal debt through incontintent PFI deals, and so on.
The Today programme is not the only shockingly biased programme; the World
at One and the World This Weekend have also been made almost
Conservative-free zones.
If ever there was a case for judicial enquiry into political bias in BBC
news coverage, then this is it. The BBC has a statutory duty to be fair and
balanaced. You are disregarding the law and should be held to account.
Peter:
Andrew Marr gives Gordon Brown a licking.
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For crying out loud, please stop with that revolting mental image, willya? I’ve just had a cuppa and a slice of toast and my stomach wants to hang on to them…
Martin
I wouldn’t worry too much that the Today programme is the official Labour propoganda radio show. Virtually no one in the country listens to it. I mean seriously, what kind of audience numbers does it get? I’ve never listened to it in my life. And I reckon 95% of the population has never listened to it.
The BBC, despite their constant soft left bias, has been shown that it cannot influence the electorate. People aren’t listening to the BBC anymore. The BBC aren’t connecting with people. It’s probably because the BBC can only connect with Guardian readers and smug public sector managers. They alienated the white working classes by effectively calling them all racist in the appalling “White Season”, and they’ve alienated the centre right by continually ignoring our views. The BBC is not fit for purpose, and the death knell for the BBC started ringing last Thursday night. The party is slowly coming to an end, and public sector broadcasting will radically change in the coming years, and as a consequence, the BBC will fade away, or go private.
MartinW: “incontintent PFI deals”, I think you mean incompetent… Although…
MartinW — as a the chances of a “Judicial Review” into the BBC are rather less than me winning a rollover lottery, may I suggest an alternative “judicial review.”
Arranged by BIASED BBC plus all the other many concerned citizen groups, and financed by a sympathetic REAL conservative big pockets…
A large venue in London is booked for a few says and HEARING is held provisionally entitled..
THE BBC IS A REACTIONARY & INSTITUTIONALLY LEFTIST ORGANIZATION BEYOND REFORM. IT SHOULD NO LONGER BE FINANCED BY A COMPULSORY TAX ON THE BRITISH PEOPLE.
Where a panel headed by, say, David Vance presents evidence and calls witnesses to support the case.
Think of the publicity this would garner.
Seconded. I hereby volunteer to help with organising.
NO — also, we can do the usual BBC trick of pretending to be fair, by calling one supporter of the current BBC for every FIVE anti-BBC witnesses.
And making sure the pro-Beeboids, while high-profile, are the weakest and wettest around so they look really stupid and pathetic.
I’m sure Sky would be interested in showing some of the Hearing, a streaming live broadcast of the Internet.
Nearly Oxfordian:
My email said that as a Tory voter I wanted McBean to stay in charge of McLiebour as he’s the best weapon the Tories have AND I want a Tory Government elected to finally do away with the TV tax. They actually read that out. Nolan didn’t seem impressed though!!
However, if we can link the next Tory Government with scrapping the TV tax the BBC might go over the edge and really back McBean (which will really do for McLiebour)
Don’t panic everyone – the beloved leader is fine! Everyone is rallying around him:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7383592.stm
What the hell is this?
It’s called being dissociated from reality, David.
“When we get through this, people will look back and say he was the right man in the right place, and they’ll have to make a choice between that and the alternative, which I don’t think is a very attractive one,” said Mr Bradshaw.
LOL. Bradshaw, the man with 2 brain cells, hath spoked.
Martin | 04.05.08 – 11:03 pm |
care to share your email with us, martin?
Hitchens has the real analysis.
“”When we get through this, people will look back and say he was the right man in the right place, and they’ll have to make a choice between that and the alternative, which I don’t think is a very attractive one,” said Mr Bradshaw.”
The alternatives being:-
David “Gollum” Milliband.
Ed “Let them eat shit” Balls.
Johnson?????
Jack Stravinsky.
Oh dear..WoAD
I just went to your Hitchen’s link and read this message…
‘Like many of the people who comment on your blog, I prefer not to give my full name. I am afraid of being discovered and outed as a nasty little right-winger by my colleagues (for I work in education, which is dominated by openly liberal champagne socialists), so I hope you won’t mind my giving only my initials. (Yes, perhaps I am a coward, but I don’t want to lose my job.)’
Signed by…
Posted by: Guy Reid-Brown | 05 May 2008 at 10:19 AM
NotaSheep:
Actually, I did mean ‘incontinent’ – It was shorthand, but better phrased as “..incontinent use of PFI..”
David, thank for the link.
Have you/anybody noticed the chosen comment in the box with the link to “Have your say” at the bottom page of article?
Of all the anti-Brown’s comments (the majority) they have chosen an anti-Conservative’s.
Here it is:
“The Tories might get in by default, on the back of Browns’ mass of failures rather than actual merit.”
Worcester, UK
“The Tories might get in by default, on the back of Browns’ mass of failures rather than actual merit.”
And that would be true Glauca.
WoAD:
“The Tories might get in by default, on the back of Browns’ mass of failures rather than actual merit.”
Oddly, I responded to that with
Oh, you mean the way nu-labor got in by default on the back of Major’s mass of failures rather than actual merit.
They never put it in a highlighted box though!
Reading B-BBC over the last week has been a bit like being stuck in a railway carriage full of Stoke City fans – partisan elation and unfounded expectation spiked – in your case – with unreasonable paranoia.
Just in case you wondered what real broadcasting bias looks like, here’s a clue:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/06/commercialradio.radio
TalkSport is overseen by Moz Dee, the former BBC Radio 5 Live managing editor who succeeded Bill Ridley as programme director earlier this year
Say no more. That explains why the Jew hating “MP” Galloway —
Gee, I wonder who he’s endorsing by his very presence on the radio> Nu-Lab… no. Conservatives… er, no. The disRepect Party, just a wild guess.
As a matter of principle, no one called “Moz” should be allowed to run anything.
Nearly Oxfordian
None of the attributed was actually from me for Johnson or Wales was it.
You seem to indicate you believe Cameron’s conservatives will abolish the licence fee and privatise the BBC, I’m just wondering where you get the evidence for this opinion, I don’t see any such commitment from them.
I wish I did.
I’m with Martin on this, announce the privatisation, the 3.5 billion a year licence fee abolition will be a tax cut.
I say go further, sell shares in the privatised BBC, raise billions more (well they do have substantial fixed assets).
Let the BBC compete in the market.
All the public’s ‘favourite’ shows would continue, Eastenders, The Archers, Dancing Garden Beauty Makeover Talent Show (Repeat).
Those that actually like it (!) could even own a part of ‘auntie’.
Vote winner.
I see Ofcom has acted on James Whale who has been sacked from Talksport for backing Boris in the London election.
So why doesn’t Ofcom act on the BBC that is continually slagging off the Tories?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7385370.stm
“You seem to indicate you believe Cameron’s conservatives will abolish the licence fee and privatise the BBC” – I see nil evidence that I said any such thing.
… or use a Nazi like Galloway?
Ian:
So why doesn’t Ofcom act on the BBC that is continually slagging off the Tories?
I’m sure they would. If it was actually happening.
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Apologies to Ian.
Last message in reply to Martin…
Hillhunt – what’s the weather like on your planet?
What a twit.
Ian:
Sunny. High of 21. Low risk of precipitation. Coastal fog at dawn. High chance of a Premiership/European double.
Nice of you to ask.
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And an atmosphere of concentrated LSD.
Ian?
You are a dumb tosser.
Ian:
And an atmosphere of concentrated LSD
Afraid we went decimal here back in 1971, just like the rest of the UK. So it’s £p for us, too…
You are a dumb tosser
Charming (and perceptive) as always…
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“partisan elation and unfounded expectation spiked – in your case – with unreasonable paranoia”
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from the jerk who calls me ‘Ian’. Figures.
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Snr. Ian Figures:
I had no idea that was your surname.
Ian Figures…has a nice ring to it. Portuguese? Spanish? Or further afield?
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Still a wanker.