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“Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic” has been the subject of much discussion on this blog and I was so angry with the BBC that I complained to my MP. I said I would keep the blog up to date with developments. Here is the latest.
I wrote to my MP about Nasreem Sulemans behaviour in relation to this documentary. I have this morning received a copy of a letter from Tom McNulty Minister of State at the Home Office to my MP.
It states the following
“(My name) has requested that we investigate Miss Suleamans statement, given at court that she did not contact the police after Mr Hamid informed her of his links with the individuals that attempted to detonate improvised explosive devices on 21 July 2005. As you are aware, the decision to enquire into any criminal offence is a matter for the police. We have, therefore passed (my name) correspondence to the Metropolitan Police Service.
deegee | 14.06.08 – 9:47 am
Matt Frei: “To many around the world Gaza has become almost a four letter word.”
G-a-z-a: Yep, that’s four letters alright.
To many here Matt Frei is two four letter words.
Jack Hughes:
Gotta love this comment on the bonekickers site: Imagine you had an elephant in your room.
I have. It’s called the BBC.
It’s a white elephant. And I want to kill it.
Or at least kill me paying for it. Anyone got an elephant gun?
meggoman: They will probably come for you and call you a “RACIST” instead.
“when if you look at the list itself, it’s ‘headed’ by 17 new knights, not one of which is a BBC TV person.”
The Beeb automatically gets awarded Dame.
The BBc will always highlight awards given to their type of people.
Poor actors 10 million quid for three months work on a film once every fife years, such a hard life they deserve a little extra.
Being a better actor is being a better liar. is that something to boast about?
We get the same thing when one of their own diescoverage out of all proportion.
BBC News Front Page (International version) right now:
OTHER TOP STORIES
Gaza ‘hurt by Palestinian feud’
VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS
Life in Gaza: A year under the blockade
FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Gaza voices
Life under Hamas, a year after it took power in the strip
Balanced, unbiased reporting from the region?
You bet!
Continued…
… Continued:
Middle East section:
Hamas adviser calls for peace
OTHER TOP STORIES
New Israeli homes are ‘unlawful’
‘Jewish settler attack’ on film
Continued…
… Continued:
Gaddafi attacks Obama on Israel
FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7452669.stm
(Note photo of smiling terrorist)
Hamas leader on strategic shifts in the Middle East
etc., etc., ad nauseum.
Biodegradable | 14.06.08 – 2:05 pm
Also, Today. Two features marking the Hamas 1 year anniversary.
‘Voices from Gaza.’
All the voices featured were actually very critical of Hamas’ leadership, yet the intros, in particular the first from John Humphrys, implied that Israel’s unreasonable blockade was to blame for the suffering.
About 7.43 am. John Humphrys’s intro:
“It was one year ago today that Hamas seized control of the Gaza strip. Since then Israel has imposed a blockade to put pressure on Hamas and Gaza is all but cut off from the outside world. The economy has been devastated, there are shortages of just about everything. Gaza is a dangerous place and Hamas is distrusted and feared by many people.”
First voice explained that his chick rearing business was ruined and because of the blockade and fuel shortages – they had to kill 150,000 chicks.
Second voice described how his two year old daughter was killed by a bullet – playing outside near a Hamas training ground.
About 8.24. Evan Davies’s intro:
“It is a year since the Islamist faction Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip. Israel immediately imposed sanctions on them to put pressure on the militants who fire rockets across the border. But that’s devastated the economy, something that may have inadvertently made people even more dependent on Hamas.”
Third voice – Fatah supporter whose brother had to flee to the West Bank leaving his family behind.
Fourth voice – had to become a Hamas policeman but had formerly been a labourer in Israel.
The majority of listeners, reliant only on the BBC for information on the subject would have heard only another rant against demon Israel.
drip drip drip…………..
bio and other Boneheaded fans — I can’t believe it, the BBC “fan” site actually moderated and allowed my comment …
check it out
http://bonekickers.com/?p=16#comment-41
Unless they did that neat trick which only allows the poster to see their post, so you think it’s been published globally, but it hasn’t.
ARMY OF PLOD
You have to laugh.
The BBC has made a new series in which episode one features “right-wing Christian fanatics” behead a Muslim. Happens ALL the time, doncha know!
Just ask Danny Pearl. He was that Muslim beheaded by “right-wing” Christians who probably voted Tory. Or was he a Jew beheaded by a British Muslim? Whatever.
And I read that the only people who have problems with the are those who think it “trivializes archaeology.”
I hate it when people trivialize archaeology, don’t you? Got to get your priorities right.
Whatever… I am happy to read that the BBC fearlessly takes on those “right-wing” Christians who rule Britain.
Oh hang on… there’s a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses ringing my door bell… they’re brandishing The Watchtower … and a ginormous sword.
Back in a sec … or not. Plod out.
It’s there. For now.
meggoman | 14.06.08 – 11:53 am,
Good work.
For those that missed Newsnight last night. Go to the Nesnight website and watch the latest programme.
Skip through to 26 minutes and about 30 seconds in. You will see Michael Prick interviewing members of the public about the 42 day detebtion. When he interviews the woman he says ” would you support the Government over the detention of terrorists for 42 days…”
Now I thought that people were innocent until proven guilty, especially when they havent’ been charged.
This just shows what an utter arsehole Prick is.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm
This just shows how “onside” the BBC is with Gordon Brown. Luckily the woman actually answers him back with a comment about people being innocent.
Not that Prick would notice.
Idiotic comment from beeboid on tanker strike to union man. “What do you say the man who goes to fill his car up with diesel today and can’t…”
Does anyone actually know of anywhere where fuel has run out?
This reminds me of the lies put out by Blair back in the last fuel strike when he accused the strikers of using violence, when no reports of violence were ever carried out.
The BBC never let the truth get in the way of a good lie.
I wonder if the moderators have gone home for the weekend as Rachael Gold’s comment hasn’t surfaced yet … 😉
Completely agree with Sue’s comment. Was anyone up to hear the earlier part of R4’s Today when there was comment by Jeremy Bowen on US attitudes to the (failed) EU buy-off of Iran’s nuclear ambitions? Did I hear correctly, did he refer to AIPAC as the “American-Jewish lobby”, rather than as an American Israeli lobbying organisation, confirming it later with a reference to “that particular audience”? Just asking the question, not drawing a conclusion.
Martin:
meggoman: They will probably come for you and call you a “RACIST” instead.
Martin | 14.06.08 – 12:14 pm | #
Martin – Just been discussing the letter with my family. Let them try.
I’m currently collating info to support my complaint just in case I am interviewed by the MPS (oh how one wishes) but I expect no further action or comments from the government, my MP or the police. However, if anyone has any references, information, comments to this particular issue, links to websites and articles etc. to back me up or anyone wants to send supporting comments then send them to me at the following address
meggomen@hotmail.com
Anything that will help support my complaint is welcome
Lets go for it.
meggoman: Have you thought about contacting some of the journalists that reported on the court case?
They may have more background info on her and the story.
Apologies if you’ve heard this before, but here’s an entertaining audio clip. John Bolton, former US ambassador to the UN, owns John Humphreys after a series of particularly odious questions. Humphreys’ patronising sneer has to be heard to be believed…
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25523_Audio-_Bolton_Unloads_on_BBC_Radio_Interviewer
Just seen all the comments about the new BBC series ‘Bonehead’ or whatever.
Wonderful lineup.
White man
Black man
White woman
Black woman
Guess which one plays the ‘terminally louche character’
Good grief, what is the world coming to.
Rationing threat as police prepare to get tough with striking drivers
The move comes as the Government instructed police forces to break up any picket lines that threatened to prevent tankers from leaving or entering fuel depots.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4132714.ece
This would be the same Government, when in opposition, supported the miner’s right to disrupt the whole country.
Can’t wait for the BBC to put out the buckets (as they did during the miner’s strike) for the tanker drivers.
New BBC series: TRANTER
Episode One Scene One
[The intro intercuts between an interior scene with a white thirtysomething man typing on a computer at a desk in his home, and exterior shots of a helicopter flying over fields, suburbs and finally rows of terraced houses.
Interior – the sound of the helicopter approaching can be heard, a crescendo of noise. The man gets up to look out of his window.
Exterior – the helicopter is seen hovering over the middle of a terraced street, a rope unfurls and a figure in a black jumpsuit with a small black rucksack, black helmet and black visor descends.
Interior • the black-clad figure smashes through the window, knocking the man to the ground. With speed and precision the black-clad figure takes some handcuffs from a belt and clips one of the man’s arms to a radiator.]
MAN: What.. what the hell? What ‘s going on? Who are you?
[The black-clad figure removes the helmet to reveal the face of a beautiful twentysomething black woman. That bird from Dr Who, probably.]
TRANTER: The name’s Tranter, Jane Tranter. BBC Vision.
MAN: The… the Controller?
TRANTER: One and the same. And you’re in a whole heap of trouble, buster.
MAN: Why, what have I done?
[Tranter removes her rucksack and pulls out a sheaf of loosely-bound pages. She throws it at the man.]
TRANTER: Do you know anything about this?
MAN [leafing through the pages]: Yes, it’s “The Good Guys”. It’s a script idea I sent to the BBC a few months ago. Why? What’s this all about?
TRANTER: You honestly don’t know?
MAN: No.
TRANTER: Well let me spell it out for you, Mr Writer Man. Did you really think the BBC would be interested in a series where the heroes are a group of British veterans from the Iraq war dedicated to tracking down Muslim terrorists?
MAN: Well I thought it was quite relevant to current…
TRANTER [slapping the man across the face]: It’s relevant to nothing we do at the BBC, Mr Writer Man! It’s just a big waste of our time, and it’s my job to stamp this kind of thing out.
MAN: But what’s wrong with it?
TRANTER: What’s wrong with it? I’ll tell you what ‘s wrong with it, Mr Writer Man.
MAN: Look, my name’s John. It’s right there on the front of the script.
TRANTER: [slapping him again] I don’t care what your name is. All I care is that you’ve wasted our time with your stupid script. Muslim terrorists as the baddies? Ha! What were you thinking? British soldiers as heroes? Unbelievable! We’re the BBC, you imbecile!
MAN: Look, if you don’t like it fair enough, but is there really any reason for all of this?
TRANTER [slapping him again]: There’s every reason for this! Don’t you see? We can’t take the risk that you’ve sent this script to someone else. What if Channel 4 or ITV, in a fit of madness, decide to produce this offensive rubbish of yours? The British public must be protected from your politically incorrect filth.
MAN: What do you mean?
TRANTER: It’s very simple. The BBC will indeed be making a series called “The Good Guys”, but instead of ex-soldiers, the heroes will all be presenters of TV lifestyle shows. There’ll be a hunky Muslim chef, a black lesbian property expert, a camp gay antiques dealer, and a dashing gardener with impeccable environmentalist credentials and great dress sense who may or may not end up in bed with the antiques guy. The baddies will be right-wing American Christians, Israeli Jews, pharmaceutical companies, that sort of thing. We’ve given it to Russell T. to sort out the details.
MAN: But that’s nothing like my idea!
TRANTER: No, it isn’t. But don’t let that worry you. [She takes out a gun and shoots the man dead] Consider yourself… uncommissioned.
[A ring tone sounds. Tranter takes a phone from her belt]
TRANTER: Tranter.
[Cut to interior of a huge well-appointed office with a large “BBC” sign on the wall. A man of Middle Eastern appearance wearing traditional garb is performing ritual prayers. He has on a telephone headset.]
MARK THOMSON: DG here, Tranter. We’ve got a problem.
[Cut to…] TRANTER: What is it, DG?
[Cut to…] MARK THOMSON: It’s the remake of “Survivors”. Too many white people in the cast. Get over there and knock some heads together.
[Cut to…] TRANTER: I’m on it DG. Just one thing – this could take some time. Can you feed Agitprop for me?
[Cut to…] MARK THOMSON: You and your cat Tranter! Of course I’ll feed him. Oh, and Tranter?
TRANTER: Yes DG?
[Cut to…]
MARK THOMSON: Good luck.
[Cut to…]
TRANTER: Thanks.
[Tranter replaces the phone on her clip belt, puts her rucksack and helmet back on, shoots Writer Man’s computer to pieces and then exits through the smashed window. Cut to exterior shot of her clinging to the rope as the helicopter transports her into the sunset…]
“Just seen all the comments about the new BBC series ‘Bonehead’ or whatever.
Wonderful lineup.
White man
Black man
White woman
Black woman”
This is an insult to Chinese archaeologists.
DB. You really dropped a bollock in not copyrighting this. There is a BBC pilot being commissioned as we speak. They’re in the meeting now.
“The man gets up to look out of his window.
Exterior – the helicopter is seen hovering over the middle of a terraced street, a rope unfurls and a figure in a black jumpsuit with a small black rucksack, black helmet and black visor descends.
Interior • the black-clad figure smashes through the window, knocking the man to the ground. With speed and precision the black-clad figure takes some handcuffs from a belt and clips one of the man’s arms to a radiator.]”
Oh dear,did you have to? Half the BBC staff will have had an orgasm.
Well written though.
DB | 14.06.08 – 7:25 pm |
A gem, but has a real-life example int the play that was commissioned by the BBC about Baronness Thatcher when she was Prime Minister during the Falklands War.
The finished article came back which portrayed her in a good light.
They promptly scrapped it.
For the record I knew some of the people who were in her protection squad.
They had nothing but praise for her. Apparently she was nothing like the way the BBC caricatured her.
The thing I love about the Survivors cast is the way the virus obviously only kills Whitey. Even if 20% (which it isn’t of course) of the population is not white that means one in five members of the cast would be not white. Yet in the main 8 only 2 are white.
Naturally I’m concentrating on the main characters. I’m pretty sure the baddies will be all white.
Now obviously the Beeboids that created this are trying to be PC but this is a gift to the likes of the BNP… 🙁
DB
True in a way but.
If The BBC was really so keen on actually destroying the credibility of the well stated arguments for a War in Iraq and by inference that of our own government over this issue. I can think of very many ways the BBC could achieve this.
The BBC does none of these things in any logical coherent sense because propaganda is far more effective by what it does not tell people then what it does. The most convincing of lies come from sources that the individual most trusts.
The seeming fact that the BBC whenever possible presents itself as libertarian or the slightest interest in individual liberty and property rights.
[ For example constant visits from Shami and Co especially when it will make no difference to anything. But when the issue of individual liberty and property rights does come into the political spotlight ie David Davis, Shami gets slagged off or ignored by the BBC for the first time ever.]
Does not for one second prove that the BBC does actually give a toss about either liberty, property rights, humanity, the sanctity of the human spirit, created poverty, genocide, rampant world fascism, or even homosexuals, women, people of colour, or poor people.
German propaganda had a majority of ordinary German citizens truly believing that Adolf was a man of peace. What makes us so sure we are more street wise then 1930’s Germans where?
When surly it is clear that we are far more brainwashed/educated then the German people where then. So as such, far more stupid and gullible now as a people then we have ever been before, since Alfred The Great burnt his sodding cakes.
Who likes the BBC?
Who defends the BBC and says the BBC isn’t biased.
Who is it that the BBC sucks up to?
Follow the bouncing liberal or minority.
Atlas shrugged | 14.06.08 – 9:41 pm
Having read your typically humourless and borderline deranged comment I almost wish I hadn’t bothered. Almost. Thanks to those with kinder words.
A second batch of “Secret Papers” found on Waterloo train.This time handed to the Independent,.
No 10 thinks Lisbon ConTreaty Kaput
Anyone see the gushing piece written about a statue raised for Che Guevara’s “80th birthday”?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7455196.stm
Not one single solitary word to indicate the fact that he was a mass murderer who tortured, imprisoned and killed thousands of innocent people. Not one mention of the time he shot a pregnant woman in the stomach at point blank range. Not one mention of the thousands of youngsters he sent to grueling “work camps” to toil in the relentless Cuban sun for crimes such as loitering, having long hair or listening to rock music. Not one mention of the fact that as Castro’s “minister of industries”, he quickly ran Cuba’s economy into the ground. Not one mention of the fact that he helped imprison millions of Cubans in a poverty-stricken hell-hole from which millions took to rafts in shark infested waters to escape. No mention at all.
Instead we have:
He flourished in Cuba, fought in Africa and died in Bolivia.
and:
Michael Casey, who has studied the phenomenon and has a book coming out on the subject, said the icon had become a brand but not just in a capitalist way.
and:
But events had to be curtailed because of widespread protests by truck drivers and farmers blocking Argentina’s roads.
Che would probably have approved of that kind of radical action far more than his new statue..
The BBC is just one horrible, nasty, disgusting organization. What about the feelings of those whose friends and relatives were brutally murdered by Che and his henchmen?
But that’s not all. Just look at the BBC’s profile page of Che Guevara:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/guevara_che.shtml
Again, nothing but romanticized misrepresentation and no mention whatsoever of his crimes. If this doesn’t prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the BBC is ideologically biased, then I don’t know what does.
Stop the license fee. Dissolve the BBC and release its staff back into the wild. Now.
jASON ‘ Dissolve the BBC and release its staff back into the wild. ‘
That would be cruel, few of them would be able to survive in the wild.
To survive they would need to be in tax payer funded semi captivity where they could still look down on the rest of us and tell us what we should do and think.
If only we had in each region of the country a tax funded organisation that with central government contivance wanted to use more and more of our money while doing less of use to us and more to spy on us and control us. Then we would have the perfect place for thousands of ex BBC people.
Got to go I nave five bits of fruit to eat to make up my weekly quota and then I must double check my bin lid is shut and that the handle does not stick out on to the pavement by more than 32.5mm
The fools are at it again, this time calling Obama a senator from Iowa when after months of covering the man’s campaign they should at least know he is from Illinois. This gaff was at 6am Sunday, the news slot that doesn’t bother with the weather forecast, and then again an hour later. Should we demand better from our state funded monster?
Ron Todd | 15.06.08 – 6:58 am,
Thanks for the laugh.
Jason | 15.06.08 – 5:29 am,
A little while ago on this blog we discussed the love of the adoring BBC groupies for that monster Che. I’ve no doubt many of them have old Che T-shirts in their wardrobes.
Ron Todd:
jASON ‘ Dissolve the BBC and release its staff back into the wild. ‘
That would be cruel, few of them would be able to survive in the wild.
True, they’d never survive in the wild.
Better do what their beloved Mao did with parasitic intellectuals in the Cultural Revolution – put ’em to work in the fields for a few years.
They could replace some of the returning Polish fruit pickers.
Alternatively – here’s another idea I had some time ago……. (final paragraph)
http://bbcpioneers.blogspot.com/2007/10/end-of-king-crudd.html
Thanks Jack.
You comment made me laugh.
I left a response
http://bonekickers.com/?p=16#comment-44
File under anti-Americanism: Kevin Connolly’s ‘thoughts’ on display here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7453357.stm
…politely put, it’ll curl your toes — not just pedestrian, ignorant and smug in the normal style of the airhead-Brit familiar to many Americans, but a step beyond: tone deaf, hopelessly adrift, tedious, drab and awful. And not saved in any way by the disclaimer that this is an example of ‘personal reflections by BBC correspondents around the world’.
BTW, love that photo of a TV w/ the caption reading ‘Television viewers in the US are exposed to much advertising’ — reminiscent of the helpful images (from the Two Ronnies?) of the Lord Privy Seal.
Oh, I forgot, we Americans are always angry and don’t do irony. Right.
A good fisking of Bonekickers here:
http://cleansingdepartment.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/bbc-defends-muslim-beheading/
Lurkingblackhat:
Thanks Jack.
No probs. You just have to mock these people, though I think they are beyond irony and parody.
They seem to think they are “edgy” in taking on the biggest threat to liberty in the UK .. no not Islamo-fascism. No.. not the creeping Stalinist STATEU.
No. That’s “right-wing” Christians. Probably the same ones in Episode One of Spooks, who bombed the abortion clinic.
No wonder the BBC can’t bring itself to even identify Muslim terrorists.
They think it’s Christians, especially those who support Israel, who are the major “threat” in the UK.
BBC News 24 going big on a story from Iraq! Good news I hear you say? Er no. An Amnesty International report about refugees.
Couple of points.
1. Who is doing the most killing in Iraq? 9Not mention in interview)
2. No counter interview to put the US/UK side of things.
Nice bit of “unbalanced reporting” BBC
I see Bob Marshall Andrews has come out saying he’d back David Davis.
Funny I can’t find the story on the BBC anywhere
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4138807.ece
God the BBC are STILL going on about Caroline Spelman
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7455172.stm
What about Peter Hain BBC?
Knacker, I agree 100% FOOC is often where the biased, ignorant hacks reveal themselves for what they are.
Your example is a particularly good one.
The BBC, how it defends its Iranian masters and half the story.
Troops pour into south Iraqi city
Iraqi troops and police backed by US forces have been sent to the southern city of Amara in a fresh operation against Shia gunmen, officials say. Iraqi army tanks have been patrolling major streets in the city and the security forces set up checkpoints. Correspondents say the new operation is the latest drive by Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki to impose his authority. Hundreds were reported killed in March in battles which began in Basra and spread to Baghdad and elsewhere. A main militia leader, Moqtada Sadr, has ordered his Mehdi Army followers to observe a ceasefire, but the authorities say attacks by Shia militiamen have continued.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7455119.stm
So according to the BBC this latest drive is aimed at combating the lawlessness which the BBC and its masters in Tehran is all down to the Crusader presence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7444525.stm
Why the BBC even promotes the lie that ‘Moqtada Sadr’, has ordered his Mehdi Army followers to observe a ceasefire. Utter utter tosh. The current campaign by Iraqi troops is aimed at his Iranian backed idiots who ran from Basra after the clamp down there. The BBC the tool of Sadr himself the tool of Iran is on the back foot rather than tell his idiots to stand down he is in the process of trying to form a new unit in which to spread death and destruction to anybody who stands in his way for power. (Not that you would get that impression from the BBCs coverage of how he can be only a victim)
So the wannabe muslims at the BBC here is how a real Islamic newspaper reports the news;
As reported by Al Jazzera
“Iraqi army sources told Al-Hayat, a London-based Arabic newspaper, that the government was planning a large operation in Amara to hunt down fighters belonging to the Mahdi Army, a militia led by Muqtada Al-Sadr . Iraqi media reports say security in Amara has improved over the past few months but that many fighters are said to be hiding out in the city of around 350,000 people. The reports say a large number of armed groups sought refuge in Amara after fleeing the main southern port city of Basra where Nuri al-Maliki, the prime minister, launched a military assault in March. The Basra crackdown mainly targeted Mahdi Army fighters. “
http://english.aljazeera.net/News/Templates/Postings/DetailedPage.aspx?FRAMELESS=false&NRNODEGUID=%7bAF79013F-1316-4D87-8310-5F439969ED0D%7d&NRORIGINALURL=%2fNR%2fexeres%2fAF79013F-1316-4D87-8310-5F439969ED0D%2ehtm&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest
The BBC, how it defends its Iranian masters and half the story.
I wonder if my comment will survive the moderation process. I’m thinking…probably not:
The BBC would never produce a prime-time drama with an inverted world-view. And if you think they would, then you’re just making the mistake of thinking about all of the other times. Also, you’re probably a racist or you overfill your bin or something. You monster!
And just because there are no documented cases of Christians beheading people in the last several hundred years doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen all of the time. And similarly, just because there’s an abundance of documented cases of Muslims beheading people in the modern era doesn’t actually mean it’s happening. In fact, I know it’s not happening. And even if it were happening – which it isn’t – it’s just a small, unrepresentative minority of extremists, and they’re telling lies (probably because they’re Jews in disguise) when they say their holy book, the Qur’an mandates it. The Qur’an is actually full of stuff telling Muslims to become old biddies, to bake cakes, make jam, hold raffles and stuff like that. You know, what Christians do. But they (the Christians) do it so you’ll let your guard down for a moment so they can behead you. Nothing gets them fired up like a good beheading.
Anyway, I’ll enjoy watching this new drama. And I’ll do so of my own volition too, not because I have to pay for it if I want to watch any broadcast television in my home, and so watch it to see just what my extorted money is paying for.
The BBC, the Irish vote on the EU and half the story
‘No bulldozing’ Irish on EU vote
David Miliband has said there is no question of “bulldozing” Ireland into voting again on the EU Treaty – but Britain will continue to ratify it. The foreign secretary said it was right to “respect” the Irish decision – but also right to “take our own decision”. He said it was for the Irish PM to decide on his next move and whether to “apply the last rites” to the treaty. Without the support of all 27 EU states it cannot become law. The Tories say Britain should vote on the treaty. Mr Miliband told BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show: “There is no question of bulldozing, or bamboozling or ignoring the Irish vote. “We have got to wait for the Irish government to decide what they’re going to do next.” “The rules are absolutely clear, if all 27 countries do not pass the Lisbon Treaty it cannot pass into law.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7455388.stm
So according to the BBC nobody is going to bulldoze the Irish over how they voted. Well here is how the Guardian reports on the very same story;
EU tries to isolate Irish after treaty rejection
Germany and France moved to isolate Ireland in the European Union yesterday, scrambling for ways to resuscitate the Lisbon Treaty a day after the Irish dealt the architects of the EU’s new regime a crushing blow. Refusing to take Ireland’s ‘no’ for an answer, politicians in Berlin and Paris prepared for a crucial EU summit in Brussels this week by trying to ringfence the Irish while demanding that the treaty be ratified by the rest of the EU.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/15/ireland.eu
Which funny enough is exactly what the BBC reports Milliband as saying. But somehow the Guardian makes it very clear just what the message is.It appears the BBC never signed up to John Majors clear English campaign. So instead they report how it is up to Ireland on how the EU grows (In power)
The BBC, the Irish vote on the EU and half the story
You only have to look at the bile and hatred spouted by the BBC to know this story is true.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1026442/Dont-listen-liberals–Right-wingers-really-nicer-people-latest-research-shows.html