I see the BBC is reporting that Gordon Brown, he who has saved the world, has urged the banks to “come clean” over their toxic debts so people could start “trusting them” again. It’s just one more puff piece aimed at presenting Brown as an honest bloke who just wants all those nasty private financial institutions to be like him and plainly share with the public just how inept they have been. Given that Brown has spent the last decades lying through his teeth to the public, this is a bit rich. Once again we see the BBC running an item solely aimed at glorifying Gordon when all the evidence is that this hypocrite would not recognise the truth if he stumbled across it!
COMING CLEAN.
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Can Brown be asked to come clean over all of the toxic hidden debt he has accrued as Chancellor for our children to pay?
Sky are at it too.
link –
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/Credit-Crunch-Gordon-Brown-Demands-Banks-Come-Clean-Over-Their-Losses-And-Toxic-Debts/Article/200901315205310
But I thought Brown and the BBC said he’d already SAVED the banks?
What about brown coming clean about PFI ?
Brown !
Martin | 17.01.09 – 11:14 am
But I thought Brown and the BBC said he’d already SAVED the banks?
Yeah but the opinion polls didn’t move, so now he’s going to have to save them all over again.
The British people are proving to be such a disappointment to their broadcasters and political masters.
Perhaps that’s why they keep importing more and more new people…?
Bill ‘I got game’ Buchanan | 17.01.09 – 12:00 pm
only a Tory could believe that nonsense.
You talk about Tories as if they were a rare breed.
They’ve been leading in the opinion polls for quite a while now.
Get used to it.
Bill’I got game’ Buchanan-
Are you an official liebour spinmeister?
Information on how a Labour stalwart, and trade union leader, (and regular BBC guest) is surviving the ‘credit crunch’:
‘Times’:
1.)”Union chief Derek Spencer’s secret deal over perks and pensions”
[Extract]:
“One of Britain’s most powerful union leaders has a secret house-for-life guarantee and enjoys pay and benefits worth nearly £200,000.
“Derek Simpson, joint general secretary of Unite, has a deal to remain in his £800,000 grace-and-favour house in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, until he dies, according to confidential documents obtained by The Times. His pay package also went up by 17 per cent. Under the terms of the agreement Mr Simpson’s partner can stay in the home at a heavily subsidised rate even after the death of the 64-year-old union leader.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5533387.ece
2.)”Divided we fall”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article5532967.ece
Will the BBC interview him about this when he is next invited to appear to talk about the British economy, and the problems of trade union members losing their jobs?
Brown allowed de-regulation of the financial sector. The resulting boom produced a tax revenue bonanza which he frittered on his looney-lefty policies. It may benefit Brown now to use the banks as the scapegoat in the short run, but not in the long run- The friendship with the financial sector and the labour party has been broken. The BBC will work to keep Labour in power as the cold wind will blow for them if the Conservatives are re-elected. (No, I am not a conservative suppoerter).
David Vance,
I thought “Bill Buchanan” had been banned from this column for dishonestly, stealing another poster’s identity, but he is still posting at 12:00.
Martin 11:14
Never mind saving the banks, I thought Gordon the Moron had saved the World !
It is amazing how the BBC just effortlessly puff any piece of NuLab propaganda without even the slightest piece of analysis.
The BBC really is a national disgrace.
David Vance
“column” should read “website”. Woops !
George R 12:33
Isn’t Derek Simpson’s corrupt deal so typical of NuLabour sleeze ? And his poor, hard-working Trade Union members are having to pay for his life of luxury. What a parasite, and he does nothing to create any wealth for this country.
The BBC really is a national disgrace.
I disagree; surely you mean an INTERNATIONAL disgrace
I see the BBC is reporting that Gordon Brown, he who has saved the world..
It is a turd? It it to blame? Yes it is, all that and more…
It’s SUPERNANNY — Man of Steal Your Money who masquerades as mild mannered Gordon Brown
Frankos 1:14
I stand corrected, the BBC is not a National disgrace, it is an International disgrace and it is very encouraging that more and more people around the World are realising it.
It can only hasten the demise of this dishonest, corrupt , organisation, I hope !
grant, george – the Simpson story was featured on Today this morning
The BBC was eagerly regurgitating Labour press releases most of last week.
On Monday morning the headline was “The BBC has learned that Labour is planning a £20 billion loan guarantee scheme” (“learned” is BBC code for “tipped off by the Labour Party in the hope of getting a positive headline”)
On Tuesday we got, “The government is putting the final touches to a loan guarantee scheme”
On Wednesday the lead story was the actual announcement of the guarantee scheme.
That’s three days positive pro Labour headlines by the BBC (and they were all the lead story) from one policy announcement.
This is a blatant example, but less obvious ones feature on the BBC all the time, and with such regularity that it is impossible to come to any conclusion of the land that it is a deliberate and conscious effort on behalf of the BBC news departments to support Labour.
Oops, weird typo above. I’m sure you can figure it out.
BBC seem to have traded neutrality for inside political stories, in a similar vein to the tabloids. Campbell started a mindset in 1997 of BBC compliance, and whenever the BBC did report against the government it was slapped down (The Kelly affair etc)
The civil service and most of the public services are overmanned and overly bureacratic (just ask Digby Jones)
I wouldn’t worry about the overmanning of the civil service if I were you. With so many people losing their jobs, courtesy of Brown’s blatant destruction of the economy, the benefits offices will soon be going into overdrive.
The ironyometer has just exploded again. What would be amusing is if the banks turned round and said ‘Tu Quoque’ back at him…
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Grant,
“Buchanan” has been banned twice, and keeps returning via new IP. A serial troll and I suspect one that has been here before under other flags of convenience.
Has the man no life?
It’s amusing how the BBC dutifully reports things straight when it agrees with them. Gordon’s latest plea for the banks to ‘come clean’ is just the latest example.
It’s only when someone says something the BBC doesn’t like or agree with that the infamous BBC ‘analysis’ is unleashed.
Robert Peston may have slightly frowned on the idea of a “Septic Bank”, as he puts it on his blog, but he cannot bring himself to actually criticize Mr. Brown any more.
Peston is very good a dancing on the fine line between accurately describing the financial scene and promoting Mr. Brown, but there are times when he can’t bring himself to cross the line, and his loyalty to the cause makes him spin away.
He’s been warning for months now on his blog that taxpayers will ultimately end up footing the bill for all of this. Why that’s considered profound I have no idea. But every now and then, he pretends to play it straight, and says things like “My readers keep asking me why the taxpayers must bail out these bankers who made mistakes. After all, nobody forgives our mistakes, why should we shoulder the burden for them, etc.” This is a fair question, and one which deserves an answer from someone whom Nick Robinson has admitted is privy to the government’s plans, and has made a new career out of pretending to predict what he has already been told.
He brought it up again today, this time saying that Mr. Brown was about to create a toxic bank, which he (Peston) doesn’t like because it forces the taxpayers to shoulder the burden again.
Except, as usual, rather than answering “why”, he goes on to explain “how”. He even ends on a positive note, saying that one of the cunning plans his Mr. Brown will announce next week “sounds a bit like an outbreak of common sense at the Treasury.”
Just another chapter in Peston’s next book about how Mr. Brown’s financial genius and ideas of social justice saved Britain. I expect that, like the last one, it will get a good review in the Guardian.
David USA:
I’ve posted on here before about how Robert Peston desperately tries to put a positive spin on his reports — no matter how bad the news is.
Latest example: When Nissan announced over 2000 redundancies at the Sunderland plant last week Peston gave his account on BBC News, he actually said “the one positive in this story is that many of the staff were only temporarily anyway”. This was his main point after announcing the actual numbers. Curiously it was a line that was echoed later in the day by Peter Mandelson. Digging a little deeper revealed that only 400 were temporary staff, and those I saw interviewed were bitterly disappointed because they had hoped their jobs would be made permanent.
Never mind though, the initial reports emphasised the supposedly positive, and by the time the real facts emerge the press has moved on. Job done, story spun – drinks all round in the BBC bar and at Labour HQ.
Seems to me time for Gordon to come clean, and ask Obama to repatriate all the toxic securitised mortgage debt that originanted in his country under one Bill Clinton, which then went on to poison the world’s financial systems. Not British taxpayers, Americans.
But then that would back track on his “this crisis started elsewhere in 2007” lie (hint: “under Bush”)
“Buchanan” has been banned twice, and keeps returning via new IP. A serial troll and I suspect one that has been here before under other flags of convenience.
David Vance | Homepage | 17.01.09 – 6:14 pm
DV — you mean it’s not normal behaviour to change your IP (is that easy?) just to post on a blog that banned you?
Oh that must be because Biased-BBC is still the only blog in the world!
Is the Gordon Brown who is doling out absolutely enormous sums of taxpayers money to his banker friends the same Gordon Brown who proposed increasing income tax for the poorest payers of the tax and only withdrew the proposal when faced with defeat in parliament? If he finds it acceptable to force taxpayers to pay out to rescue the banks from their self-induced problems, why can’t he authorise the seizing of assets from those bankers who awarded themselves huge, and as has now been proved, unearned bonuses? Of course he won’t do any such thing as clearly he has absolutely no moral sense of any kind.
Dagobert: I posted on this very point months ago when the banking system collapsed.
The Police should have gone in to the City and seized all the computers and records. All the senior bankers should have had their personal property, bank accounts, cars and wives jewellery seized as well. The bankers should have been arrested and thrown in prison whilst the Police went through everything to see if any fraud had been carried out.
And easy way to get the banks lending again would be to say to the rich bankers, would they like to start lending money or would they like to spend a few months in prison acting as a ‘bitch’ for big Eric the lifer in the next cell.
I think I know the answer.
bodo | 17.01.09 – 7:45 pm |
I’m just surprised that no one has exposed Peston for the fraud that he is, even after Nick Robinson admitted that they get briefs from the government before policy announcements.