I listened to an outrageous item on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning around 7.20am concerning the forthcoming Crewe by-election. As you know, the portents suggest Labour may well lose this rock-solid seat held until her recent death by Gwyneth Dunwoody and it seems to me that the BBC is absolutely determined to bail out poor Gordon. The Great Leader is due on in about 15 minutes time to discuss his long term “vision” for Britain – myopic I would suggest and I can’t stomach listening to it but this earlier item has set it all up very nicely for Mr Brown. It took the form of interviewing people in Crewe and oddly enough – the majority of those the BBC found indicated they would, albeit reluctantly, be voting Labour! The BBC even managed to find Liz Dawn – Vera Duckworth of Coronation Street – urging voters in Crewe to vote Labour. Apparently voters are keen to get the “long-term” vision from Labour which nicely dovetails into what Brown will drone on about shortly. It’s my view that this item was constructed entirely to set up the later Brown interview in a way which accommodates the PM and it gave no sense of the mass dissatisfaction that every other opinion poll has found in Crewe. It’s a remarkable insight into how the BBC operates, biased in favour of it’s BBC pimp and shilling for a Labour victory even though WE know that a defeat is MUCH more likely. I can’t wait until the result of this election becomes known although the BBC also got in the pre-emptive strike that by-elections are by no means indicative of the result of a general election. I suggest that the BBC – like Labour – is in full-on denial mode – and it is a pleasure to watch.
END OF THE LINE?
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The man from pedants’ corner here: Canute never tried to stop the tide. He went to the beach to prove to his fawning courtiers that he couldn’t. The popular use of ‘Canute-like’ as meaning someone trying to stop the unstoppable is therefore wrong.
I did enjoy my sub-editing course.
Good on you Chuffer. About time poor old Canute had a better press.
True,Brown is a complete Canute.
It’s not pedantic to correct an ignorant error.
“Will Brown’s plans do the trick?”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7401070.stm
‘Trick’, is the operative word (above).
Brown’s Labour Government continues to trick the British people on its MASS IMMIGRATION ‘policy’, despite the new ‘points’ system’ as ‘Migrationwatch’ points out:-
“The Government’s claim that their new Points Based system will result in lower levels of immigration is pure spin. The scheme has no limits and, in fact, will probably result in even higher levels of immigration.”
http://migrationwatchuk.com/pressreleases/pressreleases.asp?dt=06-May-2008
Sarah Jane:
A Daily Mail reader at the BBC??! Have they NO security at that place! LOL.
Sarah Jane | 16.05.08 – 8:25 am |
I’m not so sure about the save NuLab stuff either (obviously), putting party politics aside, Notting Hill Dave and Islington Boris are media liberals and really very like a lot of the BBC. Most importantly they are v charismatic, not at all dull, and try to answer the question, so are good to film and make easier bedfellows than you might imagine. If you subscribe to the “BBC is biased to the Establishment” argument then this makes perfect sense.
Unfortunately, I can’t find much to argue with here, except I would have thought that some Beeboids still remember Boris’s arrogant tenure at The Spectator, and wouldn’t be so keen on him now. Especially since he was up against beloved Red Ken. Although maybe his shift toward being anti-this-war in Iraq and anti-Bush (due to a serious onset of Blair Derangement Syndrome) has put him in the good graces of the BBC.
Still, you’re probably right about NuTory Dave. It sure seemed like the party movers and shakers decided about two years ago that Cameron was young and faux-hip enough that he would be the way to go, and for the reasons you have described. I can’t think of any other explanation for his meteoric rise to party leadership, and the immediate and continuous devotion from so many pundits.
Still, not to worry. As your colleagues say, there’s still plenty of time for Gordon to set things straight before the next election. And in any case, if Cameron ends up taking on too many NuLabour causes, they’ll be happy to have him instead, and mission accomplished.