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The BBC 6 o’clock news has just had an ‘expert’ on to tell us that the FTSE 100 biggest ever yearly fall is all the fault of the Americans.
Futher to Pounce’s link at 30.12.08 – 8:43 pm, concerning the UK handing over a couple of Iraqi murderers the BBC has amended their article on this.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7806445.stm
Not bias by the BBC, but I was curious about a bit at the end of the article.
However the men’s lawyer, Mr Shiner described the government’s failure to observe the Strasbourg injunction as “extraordinary and unprecedented”.
He said he had obtained a new High Court order to stop the transfer but said it would only apply if the men were still within the British base.
Mr Shiner said he would be mounting a fresh legal challenge based on the government’s breach of the injunction.
Just who is paying Shiner’s wages. I sincerely hope it isn’t the British taxpayer.
OT
http://www.eng-i.com/NegativePress.htm
“The reason that International Engineers are concerned about all of this is that the UK Electronic Media, especially the BBC, is bombarding the International Community, who have appropriate Engineer-standards, with this poor UK Engineer-image on an hourly basis, and ironically, Engineers and ETechnicians facilitate the transmission of these programs”
This arsehole Shiner is getting out of his pram now.
Mr Shiner said he would be mounting a fresh legal challenge based on the government’s breach of the injunction.
Mr Shiner said the government had acted in a “vindictive” manner.
“I am beginning to wonder why the relevant public servants dealing with this case appear to enjoy the prospect of my clients being hung with all the gruesome theatre that involves,” he said.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7806445.stm
I am beginning to wonder why Shiner is polluting this planet. Shiner clearly has no qualms about what these two did. I personally would thoroughly enjoy the spectacle of two murderers being hung.
The best that the BBC can come with in regard to the offence is this:
The men, who were in the 33 Engineer Regiment – a specialist bomb disposal unit of the Royal Engineers – were ambushed by militia, taken to an Iraqi military compound and shot.
That wasn’t the half of it and the perpetrators are, in fact, war criminals.
i hope the murdering scum that killed 2 of our own get tortured for several days before they are executed and , of course, i hope they die a slow and painful death
The BBC doesn’t stop being biased, it just biases in the other direction little by little thinking that somehow does it, but it does not.
Not content with with toadying to Brown there is a growing tendancy to toady to Cameron too, an assumption perhaps that he is to be theri next master in number 10.
Take this example
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7808634.stm
No mention of Kenneth Clark giving it big support as the ‘only’ quick boost that makes sense, presumably that will all be forgiven when Cameron gives him the top job that almost everyone knows he is about to get.
No questioning of Camerons incredibly airy non specific statements.
No asking for his alternatives other than the collossal 50 billion guarantee he wants the government to make.
No mention of how that is to be funded, if not borrowing, wich he disowns, then how. Don’t say it won’t cost that, I’m an accountant and I can see that the businesses he means cannot pay such loans back in the short run at all, and many will still go bust costing the full value of the guarantees.
A couple of but the government says, but nothing incisive.
If it were a one off I would just be surprised but its not. The BBC has realised the Brown ‘bounce’ has failed and Cameron will likely be PM in a year.
Toadying on both sides is not balance.
The state broadcaster must end.
A privatised independant BBC is the best they can hope for, or abolition. They are the only choices.