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‘Daily Mail’
‘BBC to pay staff up to £8000 each as part of relocation package’
[Extract]:
“The BBC is to hand out expensive relocation packages to staff that are being moved to Salford including payments of up to £3,000 for new carpets and curtains.
“The broadcaster will also use licence fee funds to guarantee the prices of hundreds of homes owned by workers who will have to make the move north.
“Many are expected to receive as much as £8,000 each as the corporation moves departments including Radio 5 Live and children’s to its new base.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1120967/BBC-offers-1-600-workers-3-000-curtains-carpets-tempt-to-Manchester.html
George R: They were supposed to be moving ‘up north’ to save money.
Thing is not one of the lefty luvvies that is a broadcaster will want to slum it in Manchester.
So we will end up with the presenters still based in London and the admin staff in Manchester.
What an utter waste of money.
Presumably they are moving to Manchester in the name of some kind of leftist trickle-down theory.
A non-standard example of BBC bias occurred in today’s “Beyond Belief” programme. This normally has three speakers including a Moslem, usually an Imam. But today the subject was about God and Auschwitz. But there was no Moslem on the programme. Presumably because they couldn’t find an Imam who didn’t think that the job the Nazis started shouldn’t now be finished once and for all, judging by the slogans and chants at anti-Israeli rallies.
Today’s Jeremy Vine show on R2 covered Trevor Phillips’s latest press-release on the re-branding of modern-day Sin the better to locate new areas of business for the ongoing secular inquisition to gorge itself upon. Also contributing volubly was fellow race-hustler Linda Bellos (“there is no such thing as Race…there is only the Human Race…but there are still huge problems ” blah blah). A few dissenting text messages were read out (eg “if it’s the best in Europe for non-Whites mustn’t it be the worst for Whites?”) but the presenter voiced nothing to question the consensus that progress in transforming a homeland into a zone for competing peoples to fight over is anything other than a good thing.
I notice in the Telegraph link provided earlier that Trevor fears a prolonged recession could harm the building of the society he claims to seek as competition for work/status/resources intensifies. Doesn’t say a lot for the immanence, health and natural vitality of the utopia he wants legislating into existence if a few months’ hardship is enough to damage its purported inevitability (and desirability).
Chuffer | 19.01.09 – 6:54 pm |
No, no, no, you are thinking of those brown-shirted para-militaries The Boys Brigade … 🙂
Vince Cable on Newsnight again. Does he have his own private suite at the BBC?
fewqwer | 19.01.09 – 9:31 pm | #
The only “trickle down theory” the BBC knows about is the one in which hundreds of millions of the license payers money “trickles down” back to the masses in the form of bad TV, via the nostrils of Jonathan Ross.
Just saw Sarah Palin on Fox. God she’s looking hot.
Then I turned over ot Newsnight and saw Yvette Cooper. yuk!
Atlas: you gave me a good laugh with this:
“…However we wont be eating anyone important that is for sure, as we will not be able to find them.
… So there will be flesh on their bones, but they are far more likely to get us first…”
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There is a touch of comic genius there. Maybe the BBC could employ you to give a much needed fillip to their “comedy” department.
(No, I don’t mean the News, before anyone gets ideas!)
Dagobert | 19.01.09 – 9:39 pm |
I thought the same thing.
Regarding one-eyeism and slurs on the one-eyed among us.
I remember many years ago Sammy Davis Jr. performed at the London Paladium. Between songs he looked down at a member of the audience and said, “Why are you so miserable, you think you have problems? Look at me, I’m a one-eyed black Jew!”
And so he was, may he rest in peace.
There’s something else I would like to refer to Brown as. It too, has one eye.
BBC Flying Pig Watch
Note how pissed off the interviewer-ess is with the replies and how relieved she looks when it’s all over. 😆
Biodegradable | 20.01.09 – 1:33 am |
He told a joke once at the Coconut Grove where he wasn’t allowed to board a bus because he was black. But I’m a jew he protested. Get to the back of the bus then replied the driver.
Biodegradable | 20.01.09 – 2:06 am |
I note that the BBC bimbo wasn’t too keen to hear first hand from the Colonel exactly what steps the IDF were taking to minimise casualties.
TPO | 20.01.09 – 4:53 am | #
Of course not, that sort of detail is only of interest to professional journalists, not the Beeb.
Why did the BBC get its bailout before the banks ? How can they be guaranteed a licence fee for 5 years when even those selling TVs are going bust viz Empiredirect
I note that the BBC bimbo wasn’t too keen to hear first hand from the Colonel exactly what steps the IDF were taking to minimise casualties.
TPO | 20.01.09 – 4:53 am
Yes indeed.
“Thank you Colonel (cough, cough) perhaps some other time…”
She didn’t like his glowing praise of the IDF either…
That’s the last time you’ll ever see or hear from the good Colonel on the BBC.
I do not think that The Sun, by itself, is a credible source for this kind of story. Why wouldn’t it be confirmed by other sources if it were true?
Jason | 19.01.09 – 7:12 pm | #
Just how do you confirm a story about Al-Qeada? They don’t exactly encourage investigative reporting.
I’m appalled by BBC bias and welcome efforts to expose it and try to get it sorted out.
However you are too busy being tied in knots by childish name calling instead of dealing with the bias and our appalling pm.
I just can’t be bothered to take you seriously or wade through any more of this schoolboy fatty one eye nonsense.
You have been successful to some degree in changing minds, but in the wron direction, you have just lost one supporter of your views.
I’ll come back when you get past puberty.