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Just take a look at Hugh Pym’s article on umemployment on the BBC website at the moment. It defies belief! Here’s a paragraph:
‘But many households will feel that if 1997 is as bad as it gets that is not so bad after all.’
I bet the news plays down the snot munchers part in shres going down the pan.
The BBC keep saying that the markets are falling because of recession fears. Bollocks. The City has known about the recession for months. It’s the fact that the snot eaters plan is full of holes.
No one wants to buy shares in banks that are Government run and the BBC ignored his stupid statement that he’s going to cut unemployment by getting people to lag lofts.
Ever see that competition to see how many people you can get in a VW?
Well how about how many beeboid tongues can you get up Gordon’s arse at the same time?
Yet again the BBC uses drama to stab one of its favourite targets – the police this time – in the back.
In Silent Witness our brave pathologists are up against greedy, thick adulterous policemen and women who use the security threats to this country to conduct private vendettas against each other.
Thank heavens for people who are prepared to risk their lives to protect the people of this country. It’s the BBC which is filth, not the police and security services.
and on newsnight, who do the bbc turn to give an “opposition” viewpoint..
vince cable.
again.
archduke: The whole thing is falling apart and the BBC have been caught with their tongues still up snotty’s backside.
archduke: Cable is a wanker. He spouts so much bollocks I don’t think he keeps track of what he says from one day to the next.
A common trait Martin. I see your insults are mutating. Snot muncher today. Snot Masticator tomorrow perhaps? Either way, I bet a little bit of Gordon dies each time you say it.
Haven’t commodities firms been the big losers today? Suggests to me concerns about the depth of the recession are behind the big fall. it’ll rally tomorrow.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/bbc-bans-champers-961389.html
Your money: How the BBC spends it
* Champagne: £57,000 a year
* Bottled water: £360,000 a year
* Taxis: £13.8m a year
* Christmas party: £250,000 a year
* Telephone bills: £21m a year
* Private school fees: £300,000 a year
* Air travel: £16m a year
* Hotels: £4m a year
If they employ 20k people, that’s a glass of champagne each per year. one too many i agree.
If they employ 20k people, that’s a glass of champagne each per year. one too many i agree
You do write some utter drivel at times. As you well know this is not an annual glass of champers for the lads, but a typical example of wasting public money.
Just think of the 400 people on the minimum wage who paid for that champagne.
As an afterthought why are the Climate Change obsessed BBC buying £360,000 pounds worth of bottled water whiach has an exceptionally high carbon footprint compared to that out of a tap.
The term hypocrites comes to mind.
“..why are the Climate Change obsessed BBC buying £360,000 pounds worth of bottled water whiach has an exceptionally high carbon footprint..”
Thats because it doesn’t apply to elites – just look at Toynbees attack on rich people, this from someone who isn’t short of a few million herself, look at Al Gore whos mansion consumes more energy in a week than the normal houshold consumes in a year.
Anonymous | 15.10.08 – 11:49 pm | was me.
or Evian
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm
Here the BBC gives higher billing to the Libdem point of view (~15%) than the Conseravtive point of view (~45%).
Also, they give Chris Huhne 6 paragraphs compared to Dominic Grieve’s mere 2.
Balance? Even handed?!
Whitewineliberal
one glass of champagne is one glass too many. our taxes our money is not for champagne but for honest unbiased news and programmes that do not insult our intelligence.
BTW I noticed the Maitlis out of her depth yet again and the Irish being castigated for having the temerity to exercise their democratic right in opposing the Lisbon treaty.
whitewineliberal: Brown is a tosspot. He is a snot eater. Check out Youtube for the evidence.
I have no respect for him. He’s a vile man that I understand doesn’t wash much either.
But aside from his personal habits (oh he chews his nails as well) what really pisses me off is that he’s brought our Country to its knees. Never mind selling off our gold reserves at rock bottom prices, he’s almost bankrupted us.
We can see that this deal with the city is already falling apart. Who picks up the tab? We do the tax payer.
Yet the BBC bigs up this utter loser of a human being. As someone else posted yesterday the snot muncher was the hero of the free world “Superman” I heard on the BBC.
Now it’s all the fault of that silly Texan again.
The BBC is full of liberal idiots who just can’t stop themselves from being biased.
archduke | 15.10.08 – 10:43 pm |
I’ve been noticing this more and more in the BBC output, i’m starting to believe that there is a desire a within the BBC to portray the Lib Dems as the “true” opposition.
Only today one of their commentators spoke of the “respectful hush” which decended on the House of Commons when Vince stood to speak.
glj writes: “i’m starting to believe that there is a desire a within the BBC to portray the Lib Dems as the “true” opposition.”
In 1997, whether spoken or unspoken, the BBC decided to promote the Lib-Dems to that role. Given their position at the time (some way to the Left of ZaNuLabour) this gave the Corporation the opportunity to pretend not to be openly supporting the government, whilst still espousing and promoting Left wing policies.
Above all, it neutered the Conservatives. Game over.
I see our socialist friends in the BBC are not too keen to spread the wealth of the corporation around the regions. Today’s Telegraph reports that some programmes such as QT, Casualty, Weakest Link and Crimewatch, are being moved to either Scotland or Wales.
This is not going down well with the luvvies at all. David Dimbleby is reported to have expressed “dismay” – obviously he’s none too chuffed at the prospect of slumming it with the provincials!
Expect the BBC budget for 1st class travel and 5 star hotel to go through the roof now.
The third debate is over and I’m sorry to say McCain has blown it. I’d be very surprised if Obama lost the election now. I don’t understand McCain. He should have presented himself as the Sheriff who will clean up Washington by going after criminals like Franks and Dodd but he gave them a pass.
Normally I’d say “let’s give the DemocRATS four years in the White House” but I’m too worried about who Obama really is. DemocRATic Congress, DemocRATic Senate and a DemocRATic President. This will not be good!
I actually thought McCain did well tonight. Not as well as I’d hoped, but what he did was lay the groundwork for issues to go after during the next couple of weeks. He had some great lines and Obama at times looked like a pupil being scolded by a stern schoolmaster.
Of course McCain didn’t do nearly enough to expose Obama. For instance, in discussing the Joe-the-Plumber “spread the wealth” issue, not once did he mention the word “socialism.” The McCain camp NEEDS to introduce this word into the fray and it needs to do it now. Socialism is still a dirty word in America. They need to pound home basic American values of individualism and property rights.
What continues to piss me off are right wing hacks on Fox News doing everything they can to gush praise on Obama and belittle McCain. They did it on cue tonight – the smug twat Kristol, who has an extremely punchable face, couldn’t find one good thing to say about McCain, and Charles SauerKrauthammer, whose commentary on the war and Israel I usually respect, couldn’t wait to proclaim that “it was a draw and thus Obama won.”
Two things come to mind when you see conservative commentators doing everything they can to help Obama win. Firstly, they’re trying to score journalism points by appearing to be “impartial” and not “in the tank” for the Republican candidate. Secondly, I would not be surprised if they really were in the tank for Obama since four years of a radical socialist in office will give them an irresistible opportunity to sharpen their word skills.
Best line of the night, apart from “If you wanted to run against Bush you should have run four years ago” was McCain’s “accidental” slip….”Senator Government.”
Priceless!
Finally, here’s one of the most interesting articles on this election that I have read so far this year – pour yourselves a nice glass of whiskey and read it from start to finish.
http://www.zombietime.com/lefts_big_blunder/
Hold on there folks, dont rule out codger McCain so quickly!
Just because the world MSM claim a forthcoming surefire democratic victory does not mean its so!
We know for a fact that the vast majority of the MSM and the dead tree press bought into the global warming lies hook line and sinker despite massive evidence to the contrary! The media has just regurgitated the eco mentalist lies and propaganda word for word, just because the media who have been infiltrated by the international left say something is a fact does not mean it is a fact!
Please folks, lets look at the role of the world media in peddling a set message regardless of the facts, look at all the many facts that somehow get forgotten, the MSM/dead tree press is rotten and riddled with the disease of dishonesty and lazyness!
We know the world media lie and cheat on a daily basis and yet even those who should know better STILL trust the media when they proclaim an Obama victory!
The fact is that the world leftist aganda NEEDS an Obama victory to further its common purpose agenda and the media is now simply another tool to further this perverted aim, when codger wins(and he will win) the media will act surprised when in fact the mass media have been lying and cheating us all for many months!
When you hear so much Obama propaganda then just remember the global warming propaganda, compare the two and you will see two stinking peas in a rotten pod!
THE MEDIA LIE AND CHEAT ABOUT FAKE GLOBAL WARMING, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT AN OBAMA VICTORY?
justin webb was a lot more positive about mccain’s performance than most. see his blog too. colin
powell’s potential endorsement could be a big story.
Jason,
Fox News is the only MSM channel carrying articles on Obama’s background.
So while you might hate Kristol, Fox, unlike Al Beeb, as the grace to have views from both sides of the fence.
Imagine Al Beeb if they had righties on the news deliverying their opinion!
Fox News does the job the MSM is meant to do, ie. ask questions of all candidates!
Mailman
Mailman
‘Today’s ‘Telegraph’:
“BBC face revolt over plans to move programmes including ‘Question Time'”
[Extract]:
“The plans were announced by the BBC’s director of television, Jana Bennett, and will see a huge increase in the number of programmes made in the devolved nations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
“David Dimbleby, the presenter of Question Time, is understood to have expressed ‘dismay’ to BBC executives over their decision to move production of Question Time to Scotland.
“The Daily Telegraph has learned that he may quit the programme in protest at the BBC’s decision, which will see the flagship current affairs show made at the BBC’s new Glasgow headquarters, Pacific Quay.
“The move is scheduled for 2010, the year in which Alex Salmond, the Scottish Nationalist Party leader, is expected to hold a referendum on independence. The three main political parties have joined Mr Dimbleby in expressing astonishment at the decision.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3204909/BBC-faces-revolt-over-plans-to-move-programmes-including-Question-Time.html
Not only do we subsidise the self-perpetuating BBC elite to propagandise us with its political ‘multiculturalist’ agenda, we now have the BBC engineering its own economic project of regional dispersal for its own purposes.
Fantasty ‘Question Time’ tonight:
David Dimbleby: ‘And now we have a question, I think it’s from a Mr. David Dimbley, the supercillious old man , that’s right, me, sitting on the platform.
‘My question is: what the xxxxxxx hell does the BBC think it’s playing at?
‘Thank you. And it’s goodnight from me, and it’s good night from him.
‘Next week, “Question Time” comes from who knows where, and who knows who will be presenting it.’
whitewineliberal:-
“A common trait Martin. I see your insults are mutating. Snot muncher today. Snot Masticator tomorrow perhaps? Either way, I bet a little bit of Gordon dies each time you say it.”
whitewineliberal, everything you have written up here so far just makes me frown. But today you made me smile.
I stopped reading Martin’s ubiquitous posts after I discovered he was a member of the telly tax paying herd. Too cowardly to make a personal stand against the thing he hates, but a hero at posting anonymous vitriol on a web forum.
Martin should get himself a copy of “Roger Mellie’s Profanisarus Rex” The fully updated and expanded edition which is twice as big and sweary. There he will find a broad range of obscure terms for a variety of bodily fluids and sexual acts, that might help spice his posts up a bit.
Such as:
TO DO A SHIPMAN: From Harold Shipman. To inject a lady much older than oneself.
SHITTERATI: Collective term for the heroic figures of the age who tun up on such programmes as ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here.’
WALKMAN SHIT: Pairs of dead AA batteries found on bus seats and in other public places.
Or a particularly apt one:
PUB TERRIER: A breed of small, yappy, unpredictable, aggressive though not necessarily dangerous man whose presence makes one feel oddly uneasy. Found in most public houses in Britain.
Caught an article on sky news this morning covering last nights presidential debate…funny thing was I didnt recognise it at first BECAUSE it simply reported the news! 🙂
There was no opinion as to who won…simply an item reporting the debate as it happened.
Funniest thing was the way the article ended, with McCain opening a can o whup ass on “The One” ™ when he was smacking him about over “why didnt you run in 2004” 🙂
Turned over to Al Beeb…nothing, nada, zip, zilch, zero, apart from a 5 second opinion peice on who won the debate (Obama of course).
Mailman
George R | 16.10.08 – 8:44 am:
Not only do we subsidise the self-perpetuating BBC elite to propagandise us with its political ‘multiculturalist’ agenda, we now have the BBC engineering its own economic project of regional dispersal for its own purposes.
Lovely turn of phrase. And on the button.
Moving QT to Scotland actually makes a lot of sense, after all most of the cabinet comes from there, and most MPs have constituencies outside Westminster.
Infact, Ed Balls and his wife live in the next town to me (allegedly).
On BBC up all night. Rhod Sharp interviewed someone from theMiami Herald over the ACORN story.
Yet an utter BBC whitewash. It’s OK as ACORN are only signig people up with silly names like Mickey Mouse and that you can’t actually vote with a name like that.
Not once did the BBC mention that ACORN are involved in voter fraud across America or that Obama is linked to ACORN.
Why would ACORN bother to register voters if they were not going to vote?
Not only that but you can’t monitor voter fraud. We’ve had it in this Country but as most of it has involved Labour the BBC doesn’t see that as a problem of course.
What made me laugh was Rhod Sharp didn’t even know who ACORN was, just likethe female beeboid in America last week didn’t know who Tony Rezko was.
I guess you can’t hear much with you head up Obama’s backside?
rightofcentre: And plenty of people for left wing audiences!!
To Martin who describes everyone he doesn’t like as fat.
Though Gordon Brown is not physically attractive, has a glass eye, and looks stinky, I don’t think he is very fat. Your one-size-fits-all pejorative term suggests body dismorphia (regarding other people) on your part. I take it you are very slim and toned.
However, a puzzling enigma does concern Gord’s ears.
From the front view they don’t stick out,
http://www.daylife.com/photo/03EIgspeG2bfl/Gordon_Brown
yet when viewed from the side the ear is at a right angle to the head as if it does. (stick out)
http://www.daylife.com/photo/03it3SEaPRcx2/Gordon_Brown
What M C Escher impossible geometry is this?
Martin | 16.10.08 – 10:31 am |
I think you`d be surprised at the utter contempt we have for left wing arty farty types “up North”
Though for some reason they continue to vote Labour.
I think that will change at the next General Election, to a large extent.
If Gordon ever calls one that is!
Contrast & Compare:
Third death in West Bank clashes
(note photo of grieving women – never seen when reporting on dead Jews)
Palestinian medical workers say Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian man in a confrontation near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
The army said he was in a group of three people in Kufr Malik village, one of whom was carrying a firebomb.
Another Palestinian man died overnight after being critically wounded in a clash near a Jewish settlement.
The shooting happened during a protest about another killing on Tuesday of a teenager – also an alleged firebomber.
In the latest incident, Aziz Beerat, 20, was killed when Israeli soldiers in a jeep opened fire in Kufr Malik village, north-east of Ramallah, Palestinian emergency services said.
[…]
A BBC correspondent who visited Jalazun quotes local residents as saying the teenager was killed while walking alone on a road that passes the settlement on the way to the camp.
They said youths do sometimes throw rocks at passing cars belonging to Israeli settlers, but Abdul Qadir Zeit had never participated. They also denied that any firebombs had been thrown in recent days.
Correspondents say tension between Israeli settlers and local Palestinians have peaked in recent days, with each side complaining of violent attacks by the other.
Israel has settled about 450,000 of its citizens in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since it occupied the areas in 1967.
Settlements, which are heavily guarded by the Israeli army, are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
Two Palestinians killed in West Bank firebomb incidents
IDF troops shot dead an armed Palestinian early Thursday as he was preparing to throw a Molotov cocktail at soldiers in the West Bank village of Kufr Malik.
The IDF said he was one of three men an army patrol spotted carrying firebombs under cover of darkness and he was shot when he ignored warning fire. The other two escaped.
[…]
During the night, another Palestinian fire-bomber died in a Ramallah hospital after being shot Wednesday during what the IDF said was a mob attack on an army position in nearby Jelazoun refugee camp. Hospital staff named him as Mohammed Ramahi, 21.
The IDF said Ramahi was shot with a blazing firebomb in his hand as he prepared to lob it at troops.
Violence had erupted in the camp after the funeral of a teenage resident shot dead Tuesday as he too was preparing to carry out a firebomb attack, near a Jewish settlement, the army said.
Citing a recent wave of Molotov cocktail attacks in the area between Jerusalem and Ramallah, the army has been stepping up efforts to stop them, including laying nighttime ambushes near potential targets.
The BBC: Reporting on terrorism by quoting the terrorists – it’s what we do!
That missing part of the BBC article (marked – […]):
The Israeli military said troops saw the silhouettes of three Palestinians preparing to throw petrol bombs and that the men ignored an order to surrender.
The BBC: Reporting on terrorism by quoting the terrorists – it’s what we do!
“Suggests to me concerns about the depth of the recession are behind the big fall. it’ll rally tomorrow.
whitewineliberal | 15.10.08 – 11:12 pm”
16.10.08 12:57 pm: Oh dear!
BBC to relocate to better reflect Britain.
I recommend Glasgow, Liverpool and Cardiff.
That way all important sections of Britain can be represented
Mugabe Brown is a stupid fat jock. Martin is correct
yeah I know. that’s a long position!
billybob | 16.10.08 – 12:48 pm
Are you saying that the BBC report does not leave out details such as the demonstration referred to was violent, or that other petrol bombs (and pipe bombs) were found close to the dead terrorist, or that the terrorist was shot while he actually held a lit molotov aloft ready to throw?
Are you seriously suggesting that the whole tone of the BBC report is not aimed at promoting the BBC view that the Palestinians are innocent victims of Israeli violence?
Don’t forget the obligatory bottom line(s) that draw false equivalence between Palestinian terrorism and Israel’s actions in self-defence, and justify Palestinian “resistance”:
Correspondents say tension between Israeli settlers and local Palestinians have peaked in recent days, with each side complaining of violent attacks by the other.
Israel has settled about 450,000 of its citizens in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since it occupied the areas in 1967.
Settlements, which are heavily guarded by the Israeli army, are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
whitewhineliberal.
Good to see somone on the site knows the price of a glass of champagne.
Can anyone confirm whether there was an unexplained blip in BBC Champagne expenditure late April/early May 1997, or did the Labour luvvies buy their own?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7673046.stm
Sex-on-beach trial Britons guilty
That’s what liberal behaviour gets you in muslim countries. As usual Al Beeb are not critical of the backward attitude of their muslim friends. Don’t get me wrong… I don’t condone having sex in public but shouldn’t Al Beeb give muslims some “how to behave in the civilised world” guidance as well???
On second thought… fat chance of that happening.
like the man
who plays cheese in
the wire, I am a method man.
Unbelievable. -“personal attacks have been a hallmark of the McCain campaign. Osama just brushed it off”
BBC
Just unbelievable bias.
Why does BBC Londonistan endlessly report on art exhibitions, especially tate modern.
They really enjoy the ‘dog turd in a box’ modern art.
I dont recall them ever visiting the science museum.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/default.stm
Err, why do we have 2 MPs elected as Labour Party candidates on QT tonight?! It’s one thing to put on (say) the Independent Kidderminster Health MP who was elected on that ticket, but quite another to honour those who just chose to ditch the whip after being elected in Parliament.
If a couple more Labour MPs went Independent, they might be able to get even more coverage on the Beeb!
Sue: 10.38 am:
To Martin who describes everyone he doesn’t like as fat.
Though Gordon Brown is not physically attractive, has a glass eye, and looks stinky, I don’t think he is very fat. Your one-size-fits-all pejorative term suggests body dismorphia (regarding other people) on your part. I take it you are very slim and toned.
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Snap! I’ve often thought of asking Martin what his Body Mass Index is!
peston has his ear to the ground as before.
apparently the great helmsman, our supreme leader, has another cunning plan.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2008/10/spend_spend_spend.html
the new plan is to….wait for it….borrow and spend (ulp!)
i anticipate that this will be soon dressed up by the bbc as new style brownist global saviour recession beating borrowing and spending rather than the old style evil blairist style borrowing and spending.