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What a steaming pile of excrement delivered by Radio5 this morning. an interview at about 10:20 about the 1984 miners strike.
Totally one sided with an ex miner (very thick sounding) and some left wing comedian (is there any other type at the BBC?) and of course a left wing BBC presenter.
We didn’t get a mention of the murders miners carried out to try to stop people working. No mention that the strike was illegal in the first place and no mention that thousands of miners didn’t go on strike at all.
Yet the thick ex miner started ranting on about the Tories and trying to make it sound as if the Tories are in power now.
IT was a total joke.
pounce:
…the Tory Indian councillor questioned why £750K is being spent yearly on commemorating a slave trade which ended 200 years ago….
pounce | 28.02.09 – 5:08 pm |
good post by pounce and good
utube video link. And Wally 11:07
I would just like to add that the black lady councillor in question has not actually done so badly out of her slave ancestry – her Jamacian background seems to have given her quite a lot of advantages in life already compared, say, to someone living in Africa.
And good points by John Reith spins in his grave above, which I did not know. His points are not taught in schools. Black slavery is taught for weeks and sometimes months at a time everty year, even in primary schools in the UK.
Mrs Jethwa (Tory Indian)had claimed the Legacy Commission was a waste of tax payers money, and having been an immigrant herself argued such support wasn’t necessary.
She said: “This authority is spending many millions of pounds specifically on BME projects and groups, this expenditure covers a huge array of spending areas ranging from adult community care, youth provision, housing, racial social awareness and improving educational attainment.
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage/Race-row-Bristol-councillor-coconut-slur/article-732900-detail/article.html
Re ‘improving educational attainment’
Also in Manchester, I know a white person who applied for a grant to set up an after school tuition centre.
He was told ‘the grants are only for the community’
He said what if he only taught members of the community at the proposed centre?
He was told the grants are only for the community to be taught by the community
Had to laugh. BBC News 24 just did a classic climate change piece about three idiots going to the North pole to tell us how bad the ice is melting.
It’s going to be really tough and dangerous. WOW!
Funny as I remember two drunk Top Gear presenters having quite a hoot driving to the north Pole where of course the ice is so thin they wouldn’t make it.
What the BBC omits on Royal Mail: – European Union Directives.
‘Sunday Telegraph’:
“Mandelson’s package and the loss of the Royal Mail”:
‘Royal Mail is suffering because of its willingness to comply with EU postal service directives, says Christopher Booker’.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/4901940/Mandelsons-package-and-the-loss-of-Royal-Mail.html
Whereas the BBC only has this report (minus EU Directives):
“Mandelson turns on mail critics”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7917234.stm
BBC report:
“EU holding economic crisis summit”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7917272.stm
“The big borrowers”
(Stephanie Flanders)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/stephanieflanders/
British membership of the European Union involves the continuing loss of British national sovereignty, of course.
And the aim of the E.U. summit being held today is to try to stop any moves back towards nationalism, and away from E.U. federalism.
So, the British taxpayers will find that Brown will be pressed to increase British financial donations to the E.U. to assist central and eastern European countries. The British taxpayers’ funds which Labour is giving to the British bankers are not enough. We apparently have to subsidise other E.U. members too.
‘Telegraph’ blog
Daniel Hannan:
‘Where have all the reasonable Europhiles gone?’
[Extracts]:
“Euro-enthusiasts get away with a lot. Because they are thought to be political moderates, many observers make the non-sequential assumption that they are likelier than average to be tolerant, humane, civilised and decent. On the whole, they are not…
“Instead, the cause of Brussels has fallen to people who are either frothing loons or Euro-hirelings or both: Richard Corbett, Peter Sutherland, Peter Mandelson, Hugh Dykes, Eddie Izzard. The shrill and hectoring way in which they dismiss their critics has helped convince the electorate of a truth which eludes the BBC, namely that there is nothing moderate about wanting to overturn Britain’s parliamentary settlement. Voters have made up their minds about who the real extremists are; which, of course, is why they won’t be allowed a referendum.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/03/01/where_have_all_the_reasonable_europhiles_gone
The BBC allowed Harriet Hatemenperson to spout utter bollocks about taking back Fred’s pension.
Yet Sky’s Peter Spence suggested it was little more than bluster as there is nothing the Government can do (bring on the Human Rights legislation) and that Hatemenperson was just trying to make him crack.
Hmm. Couldn’t that be seen as a form of mental torture?
He hasn’t been found guilty of anything in a court and if Fred the shred has committed a crime, why is he not in jail?
I like the idea that he has a lot of dirt on Nu Liebour and will dump it all over the bogey eating fat one eyed unwashed scumbag and his dyke like deputy.
Over at Guido a commentator said this, hope they don’t mind I’ve copied it :
Good piece from Jeff Randall today:
“The Prime Minister in particular has been brazen in threatening Sir Fred with court action to retrieve a pension package that was signed off by the City minister, Lord Myners. This is grandstanding of the cheapest kind. Sir Fred’s deal is obscene, but that does not make it illegal. Mr Brown understands this, but is desperate for the searchlight of public opprobrium to be shifted away from the unfolding debacle in Downing Street. Ironic, isn’t it, that having destroyed Britain’s private pension system with a tax raid which, grossed up over 12 years, has snatched about £100 billion from personal savings schemes, the Prime Minister is now keen to preach on pensions and justice…..”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/4886110/Sir-Fred-Goodwin-is-stealing-the-show-from-the-real-culprits.html
The Dutch MP, GEERT WILDERS, is ‘persona non grata’ to the British Labour government, and broaders section of the ‘liberal/left’, and it is noticeable that the BBC has not mentioned him once since the day (12 Feb.) its government banned him.
Nevertheless, Mr. Wilders is the subject of more positive interest elsewhere, such as in the United States and in the Netherlands:
‘National Review’
“The continuing saga of Geert Wilders”
(by Deroy Murdock).
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MGJjZTUyMWI3ZjYzZGQ0ZWMxYTdkMDcyZTBkZWQ4ZDk=&w=MA==
‘Jihadwatch’:
‘Latest poll: Wilders’s party the largest in the Netherlands!’
“Truth-telling and courage rewarded. Hold elections!
“And if you’re just coming in and wonder who Geert Wilders is, and what he has to do with jihad, see here”:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025053.php
Susan Franklin: Yes and the way the BBC goes along with all this is a disgrace.
Remember Robert Peston stating on BBC News that the fat one eyed snot eater had NOTHING to do with the LLoyds HBOS merger? Yes Peston’s own blog had stated that Brown had helped the Merger take place by lifting competition rules.
When George Osborne was being interviewed by John Sopel on BBC 1 just now Sopel suggested that politicians who screw up lose their pension. Great idea, but of course Sopel could only think of one example. Rail privatisation!!! No mention of snot eater of Bliar or Geoff Hoon or Mandelson or Prescott, just the Tories from 20 years ago.
I thought I’d tuned in to BBC Radio 4 ‘World this Weekend’ just now, but it turned out to be an ANC South Africa propaganda election broadcast for virtually half an hour.
Anyone else see the BBC reporting on how our city and town centres are being deserted by companies wanting to open shops and other businesses?
Of course the BBC never once pointed out the real reasons why.
That cars have been priced out of town centres through excessive car park charges and Gestapo like traffic wardens harassing car drivers. Oh and then you have the drunken violent scum that infest the streets, the men of middle eastern appearance that hang out on the street corners and so on.
martin, don’t you think that sky-high rents in town centres and a trend for US-style out of town retail parks (not to mention the boom of internet shopping) is more responsbile than ‘men of middle eastern appearance that hang out on the street corners’?
Alex Reynolds: Funny you didn’t think to pick up on the chav scum that inhabit our city and town centres causing people to stay away.
Why might that be?
Yes I do think that many city and town centres have gangs of middle eastern males hanging around that makes people feel uneasy. The truth hurts doesn’t it?
Yes sky high rents from left wing councils are a problem but retail parks offer a safe place to visit and free parking.
12 years of socialism you love Alex has trashed out towns and cities and made many of them look like middle eastern shit holes..
But I guess there are plenty of rent boys and drug dealers now so you and your leftie mates will be OK.
Martin:
I think you’ll find the collapse of retail shops has nothing to do with parking or unsavioury characters on the street. I should know because I was considering leasing a shop myself, as they are collapsing like dominos round here. What put me off was the following:
Unrealistic rent from greedy landlords. Yes, even in a recession with a shop likely to sit empty for 6 months these people will ask £700 a month rent for a shop no bigger than my living room.
Once I’m in I will have to pay about £3K worth of rates to the local council.
I will then be visited by various council officials to ensure I’m complying with a host of impossible to meet targets. Correct amount of ethnics employed, wheelchair access,disabled toilets.
I will be routinely screwed by VAT, I will be shafted royally by the Inland Revenue.
Everything I sell will be cheaper on the internet, and unless you’re opening a pound store nobody’s spending anyway because the MSM has done a good job of telling people not too.
Car parking and swarthy looking street yobs didn’t even come into it.
“A British team has begun a gruelling trek to the North Pole to discover how quickly the Arctic sea-ice is melting”.
So begins an “objective” BBC website report about a bunch of eco-nuts who earnestly believe that the Arctic sea ice is melting because of global warming and are determined to prove it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7917266.stm
Whoever writes this drivel does so without the faintest understanding of what genuine scientific inquiry is. It’s not journalism, and it’s not science – just propaganda on behalf of the greens.
I thought the BBC’s reporting of global warming had hit every imaginable base in terms of idiocy.
I was wrong. Take a look at this gem from a reporter who describes himself as “ethical”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ethicalman/2009/02/ethical_mans_guide_to_making_a_fortune_in_a_lowcar.html
It’s about re-cycling human shit. And the idiot who wrote it clearly believes that this is the way forward towards a new “garage” industrial revolution.
The BBC now clearly accepts every “green” story it sees, no matter how preposterous – and shitty.
May the boys and girls who produce this odure come to wallow in their own excrement!
Photos and a report or two on the NYC “Tea Party” protest I attended yesterday at City Hall Park. There have been a bunch of these around the country in the last couple weeks, and the BBC will not report it. They will report about Michelle Obama’s appearance on the cover of a fashion magazine, though.
Photos
Stimulus critics stage ‘tea party’ (From NY Daily News, the only real media outlet to cover this, as far as I know.)
Report on ‘Instapundit’
I couldn’t see very well, but I don’t think it was more than 200, and there was no TV or any real press attendance. There was no sound system, only a megaphone, which most speakers treated as a karaoke microphone. As a result, nobody could hear most of them, which was probably a good thing, as most of what I could hear was pretty weak. But hey, it’s Manhattan, only slightly less Leftoid than Los Angeles. If they had held it in Westchester or Long Island, different story.
I was surprised at the percentage of Jews, though. Yes, I can tell, and I heard others remark on it.
Instead of telling you about the rising opposition to the “Spendulus Bill”, the BBC wants you think Mr. Brown is great because he’s the first European leader to get an audience with The Obamessiah (That’s how it’s being portrayed everywhere, to be honest). As anyone following BBC business and economics reporting will know, it was Mr. Brown who led the way to recovery, the US plan will be a success so that means Mr. Brown’s schemes are good for the UK, and so on. So they will keep shtum when the US natives get restless. Which we are.
Evan Davis’s words to Prescott yesterday were about the past, not about how things will work out now, so it doesn’t really count.
Ratass Shagged: I agree that landlords and rent is a big issue.
But there has been a drain away from town and city centres by business for years now.
Many people won’t venture into town centres at night time as the scum have taken over the streets.
As for shopping you have to admit that being able to park your car for free rather than fork out £15-20 a day or use some shite park and ride system doesn’t create a good environment.
This Government has been driving cars away from town centres for years. Just google it and there is a list of articles wher traders complain about parking charges.
George R | 01.03.09 – 12:58 pm |
The British Government has boosted Geert Wilders standing with their policy of not allowing anyone to have contrary views to theirs – The BBC, of course, will also try and hide any surge in support of him. Don’t expect any mention of this from Mark Mardell.
The BBC is going to do a radio programme about Common Purpose on the Donal Macintyre show, Radio 5 live – Sunday March 8th at 7pm. Please spread the word.
Jon 7:36 pm
Yes, and the contrast in the Labour government’s banning of Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, with its granting of free entry, and freedom to march for the imposition of Sharia law on British people, is blatantly pro-Islamic:
‘Jihadwatch’
“Islamic hate-preacher gets OK to march in London calling for the implementation of sharia”
[Extract]:
‘”The startling move comes just days after processions celebrating St George were banned for being racist” and “despite a previous demonstration in which some of his supporters chanted: ‘Bomb the UK.'” All in the name of “diversity.”
‘”Hate preacher get OK to run sharia law demo,” by Tom Savage and Ross Kaniuk for the Daily Star’…
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025059.php
-And the BBC said nothing…
This BBC web page on ‘Parenting and fathers’ rights’ needs updating in view of the Labour government’s new socially irresponsible plan to terminate some fathers’ and children’s rights:
“Fathers’ rights”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/parenting/dads/fathersrights.shtml
The ‘Daily Mail rightly draws attention to this Labour government’s toally destructive attitude towards the family, and especially towards the rights of fathers and children:
“Another blow to fatherhood: IVF mothers can name ANYONE as ‘father’ on birth certificate”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1158322/Another-blow-fatherhood-IVF-mothers-ANYONE-father-birth-certificate.html
An alternative to the BBC on the need for fathers’ rights:
‘Families need Fathers (10 point)Charter’-
http://www.fnf.org.uk/about-us/families-need-fathers-charter
george, that johadwatch link is truly shocking. how can the government allow that guy to protest? I’m sure Jaqui Smith and co do have British interests at heart, but surely they must be able to see that allowing guys like that to speak hurts everyone. it angers the sensible majority, it strengthens our enemies, and it taints innocent muslims who don’t believe in that crap. all they need to do is tell him : no. simple enough. I hadn’t heard about this is any other papers which is odd, why arent they covering it?
-And the BBC said nothing…
Perhaps the BBC supporters can tell us why? But then again, maybe they won’t because there is no defence.
Jon – it’s revealing how absent are the usual BBC shills whenever incontrovertible evidence of BBC bias rears its all too common head.
The TOADY show are pushing the global warming lies yet again, birds are going to become extinct according to the RSPB ‘climate change officer’ FFS!
Er, the climate is COOLING not warming and its natural, the notion that bird species ‘may’ become extinct ‘if’ the planet warms is silly in the extreme, all these alarmist predictions without any facts to back them up just ‘ifs & mays’.
It seems that any organisation wanting funds just tags on ‘global warming’ onto their funding requests to get showered with tax cash?
Incoherent rambling to push an unproven theory, the BBC will push it!
One of the main news headlines today revolves around the failure of “Community punishments” according to a report. Aha I thought, at last an item on the Toady programme that will not be a soft on the criminal. What did we get – a complete load of twaddle from some chap who totally bamboozled Ms Montague (who else) and doubtlessly 99% of the listeners. No mention at all of the criminals laughing at the punishments for breaching their CP terms (as reported on the Radio 2 8 a.m. news summary).
Lots of talk on the radio this morning of Gaza being showered with cash to right the wrongs inflicted by Israel. Not a question that I heard is of how this cash was going to be channelled. In the U.K. the amount of each £1 of government expenditure that actually arrives at the end of the pipeline is pretty poor. For the population of “Palestine” (reputedly the recipients of the highest aid per head in the world) one can only wonder where it has all gone in the past and likely to continue to do so in the future, although I believe Mrs Arafat enjoys a good standard of living in Paris.
What an ideal subject for a programme by the BBC – perhaps by Mr Bowen. I’m sure that his Palestinian contacts can feed him all the (mis?)information he would need!
Gerald Brown | 02.03.09 – 8:57 am
Mrs. Arafat lives in Malta after apparently being kicked out of Tunisia. Why doesn’t she live in Ramallah? 😉
There is apparently a major problem. The donors see the Fatah government as the legitimate rulers and want to funnel the cash through them. Hamas disagrees, the money should go to them.
This is probably for the best. With continuing rocket attacks a lot more destruction could be coming.
In the meantime, nothing moves.
The missing ‘M’ word in Australia
Just heard an interview with the writer/co-producer/actor George Basha of the Combination Violence flares over race movie on the World Service. My understanding is that the Lebanese criminal gangs are Muslims. Lebanese Christians did not take part. Not to mention this salient fact is a libel against – ‘Lebanese’.
For an alternative description of Lebanese crime in Australia see:
Lebanese crime gangs threaten law and order in Australia
BBC TV news: lead story -for 10 minutes – on 1 pm news today:
‘ALCOHOLISM IN SCOTLAND’!
BBC TV news: lead story tomorrow?: –
‘Gordon Brown talks in USA of special relationship’!
The BBC is selectively ‘liberty’ -loving, i.e., via the selective ‘Liberty’ (S.Chakrabarti version); they are both concerned with Ethiopian Binyam Mohamed, but not with Geert Wilders,the Dutch MP.
‘Mail’
MELANIE PHILLIPS: “Yes, Big Brother Britain is a menace. The irony is, it’s the civil liberties lobby who are to blame”
{Extract]:
…” such liberty campaigners have been notably silent over, for example, the banning from Britain of the Dutch MP and anti-Islamism campaigner Geert Wilders. They have been silent over the erosion of the rights of men accused of rape to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. They were silent when a Christian was forced off an adoption panel because she opposed gay adoption.
“Such selectivity undermines their claim to be the true defenders of liberty.
“Some of the concerns they are now raising are valid. This country’s bedrock principles of freedom and democracy are, indeed, being eroded. But the campaigners should look in the mirror if they want to know who is to blame. ”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1158337/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-Yes-Big-Brother-Britain-menace-The-irony-civil-liberties-lobby-blame.html
Ratass Shagged:
and Martin:
I think you are both correct. For example, where I live there used to be a free car park right in the town centre. Now you have to pay. The effects on the local shops is obvious.
Ratass Shagged says:
I should know because I was considering leasing a shop myself, as they are collapsing like dominos round here. What put me off was the following:
Unrealistic rent from greedy landlords. Yes, even in a recession with a shop likely to sit empty for 6 months these people will ask £700 a month rent for a shop no bigger than my living room.
etc etc..
Ratass gives more examples (I am not sure about race relations and disabled access applying to smaller businesses though) Also add to your list: 5 year lease agreements where the landlord can sue you if your business fails and you leave early before the 5 years is completed.
Anyone reading this who has no experience might doubt what Ratass says about greedy landlords, but, unbelievably it is true that landlords will wait for months or longer rather than lowering rents, without realising how much they are losing. One landlord was asking £200 per week 3 YEARS ago and would not come down, and his shop is still up for rent. He has other shops, so he uses them to subsidise the one he is too stubborn to reduce the asking rent. I know of three others near me that have been ‘for let’ for over two years. I can only assume the landlords are rich and stupid. With one of them, a deal fell through because the landlord insisted that the tenant pay for the landord’s solicitor’s bill, without saying what it would be. With another, the landlord inserted a clause in the agreement making the tenant responsible for the roof repairs. When this was pointed out the tenant withdrew and the millionaire landlord issued a solicitor’s letter demanding compensation for breach of the agreement before anything was even signed. The tenant called his bluff and the case was dropped.
I even know one person whose landlord is going to increase his rent in June! The tenent in question says he plans to move, and will take some satisfaction from driving past his empty shop for months afterwards.
I wonder how many people are naturally greedy and tight, and how many become that way once they become wealthy.
BBC report doesn’t mention Pakistan here:
“Bangladesh manhunt for mutineers”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7918131.stm
This ‘Telegraph’ report does more than mention Pakistan (and Al Qaeda) here:
“Pakistan in the frame over Bangladesh uprising”
[Extract]:
“Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency has previously been accused of involvement in the attacks on Mumbai last November in which 173 were killed.
“As the scale of carnage and the cruelty of the mutineers has emerged • including harrowing reports of the wives and children of some of the officers being mutilated • serious doubts have surfaced over whether such brutality would have been carried out simply over a pay dispute. The death toll is expected to rise further as investigators search for 70 officers who are still missing.
“Investigators are expected to probe the extent of militant penetration of the Bangladesh Rifles by al-Qaeda linked groups like Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, and also whether the uprising was linked to the prime minister’s plans to establish a war-crimes tribunal to put on trial those who collaborated with the Pakistan Army in Bangladesh’s war of independence.
“A leading Bangladeshi newspaper quoted one member of the inquiry committee saying the mutiny could not have happened without the support of “powerful quarters.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/4902794/Pakistan-in-the-frame-over-Bangladesh-uprising.html
Jeremy Paxman presented an historically biased, potted anti- British version of the role of the British Empire in the BBC tv series ‘The Victorians’ last evening.
When referring to the Indian Mutiny of 1857, he presented a largely pro-Muslim view of the complex events, following the same bias as that which the BBC afforded to William Dalrymple in the recent TV series on India.
This is the historical and political line Paxman was following:
“Fitzgerald: a tribute to William Dalrymple”:
[Extract]
And who was this speaker, anyway? I waited to the end, enduring the nonsense of it all just to find out. It turned out to be William Dalrymple. Ah, of course. William Dalrymple, described here long ago, quite accurately, as an up-market Barbara Cartland, whose tales of trans-racial passion at the Mughal Court, or at this or that princely court in the time of the Mughals, has it all: star-crossed lovers, and of course the Splendor That Was India, or rather the India of the Muslim rulers who lived off their Hindu subjects, the subjects who were killed by the Muslims in numbers without any historical parallel. (The historian K. S. Lal and others estimate that 60-70 million Hindus were killed by the Muslim conquerors and masters)…
“He’s as vulgar and stupid as they come, behind the plummy voice and the pretense of being a historian.” (Hugh Fitzgerald).
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/014572.php
‘Londoner’s Diary’
“Alarm as Today budget now less than Ross salary ”
http://londonersdiary.standard.co.uk/2009/03/alarm-as-today-budget-now-less-than-ross-salary-.html
I’ve just been listening to Simon Mayo on 5 live… In the space of five minutes I learnt the following….
a) Brow is known for his towering intellect; rather than his oratory skills • but this deficiency does not matter because….
b) Brown has a prestigious record as Chancellor of the Exchequer and that this salient fact is acknowledged by his hosts.
c) The Obama team are looking forward to Brown’s visit, because the elder statesman will help school the young President in International Affairs.
d) Obama has already followed Brown’s lead in economic affairs.
One other thing I learnt • BBC commentators are full of horseshit 🙂
Jonathan: What’s worrying is that the BBC believe the shite they spout.
I see the fat one eyed one was on Talksport Radio this morning.
Like Talksport? The beeboids must be well pissed off.
Oh! And I nearly forgot. Do you want to know how the BBC’s chief political corresondent has reacted to Harriet Harperson’s clarion call for the GVN to overturn the rule of law?
Well here’s the link to his blog http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/
Unfortunately however, the howler from Harriet wasn’t deemed worthy of comment. In fact, the latest and hottest political story in Mr Robinson’s world-view – is his weekend chat with Mr. Clive Anderson.
The BBC – not bringing you the news of the depression (err! Sorry Economic downturn) – it’s what we do.
Talking of Nick Robinson – who here thinks that he will have the balls to ask Brown to repeat his ‘IT’S ALL AMERICA’s FAULT’ narrative, at his joint press-conference with President Obama?
According to the BBC…”Stock markets have fallen worldwide…”
True – but take a look at the figures below [correct as of 16:39 GMT]; now answer this simple question, which market has fallen almost twice the world-wide average?
Answer: The FTSE
Now given that the FTSE is the UK stock market and given that the BBC is the UK National Broadcaster, one might be forgiven for believing that the BBC should highlight this salient fact. Perhaps their £3.5 Billion journalistic machine might also like to ask why our stock market is falling faster than any other in the Western World…? But then again • we all know they won’t.
FTSE 100 3642.17down -187.92 -4.91%
Dax 3719.40down -124.34 -3.23%
Cac 40 2605.17down -97.31 -3.60%
Dow Jones 6885.55down -177.38 -2.51%
Nasdaq 1347.34down -30.50 -2.21%
BBC Global 30 4253.21down -112.73 -2.58%
Government U Turn on Schools Places Lottery
Who would PM have on but parent from council house who thought lottery best of bad job, and a Fiona Millar – would this be former advisor to Cherie Blair and whose “kids wouldn’t go private if you paid her”
Clearly an unbiased view ;-(
During the months before the US election, many of us were complaining that The Obamessiah was little more than a hardcore re-distributionist. When he told Joe the Plumber that he wanted to “spread that wealth around”, certain defenders of the indefensible were claiming that it was just an off-the-cuff remark, didn’t mean anything. Even the BBC was promising that a President Obamessiah would be a moderate, bi-partisan leader, who would fix what’s wrong in Washington. One defender of the indefensible here assured us all on more than one occasion that The Obamessiah would be a moderate, and a fine POTUS.
Now at least the Financial Times sees President Obamessiah for what he really was and is:
The budget reveals the liberal Obama
Take this budget at face value, and when Mr Obama talks about “a new era of responsibility” he does not mean: “We are all in this together.” He means: “The rich are responsible for this mess and it is payback time.” Leftist Democrats are thrilled, and rightly so. The budget has three themes: healthcare reform, public investment and unflinching redistribution. This is indeed a new social contract: we get, they pay. Liberals never had it so good.
Called it. Will the BBC report it this way, I wonder? They should see the Obamessiah Budget as a story of interest, since it’s, you know, so closely intertwined with the UK’s chances of recovering from the Global Downturn and everything.
saw paxmans victorian programme last week. Was the usual anti men affair from the beeb. supposedly it was the nasty men who cheated on poor women. Their mistresses were just magical farie women who had no family to cheat on.
Always blame men, makes life so simple.
Classic Prick Robinson on 10Pm News. Talking about Obama and the fat one eyed one.
“Last time they met he [fatty one eye] was world leader and Obama was just a candidate…”
Unbelievable if I heard that correctly from slaphead.
At least Obama got elected.
The feckless BBC Obama Diarists are still ignoring any possible wrinkles in anything President Obamessiah is doing.
Meanwhile, Kim Ghattas has an entry that seems like an expression of disappointment in what Sec. State Hillary is doing about Gaza.
Hillary Clinton today sent a clear signal that the US position on Hamas remained as tough as it was under Bush and for years before that.
At the Gaza aid donor conference in Egypt, she said: “We have worked with the Palestinian Authority to install safeguards that will ensure that our funding… does not end up in the wrong hands” – ie Hamas.
The US and the other donors, including Arab states, are keen that the $4.5bn pledged props up the Palestinian Authority and does not end up helping Hamas rebuild its infrastructure or its popular support base in Gaza.
The move has drawn some interesting reactions. Hamas, which was not invited to the conference, said that despite Obama’s promise for change: “Clinton is using the same language of the former Bush and Rice (administration), and… her recent statements about the conditions for reconstruction are… not logical.”
Asked whether he saw a major shift from the Bush administration’s Middle Eastern policy, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Ahmad Abulgheith said: “No, I don’t think so.”
I’d like to hear an explanation for how this piece does not imply that Bush’s position on Hamas was wrong, and that we were all supposedly hoping for an improvement in the Obamessianic Age.
martin,
maybe he said ‘a world leader’. which the PM is.
hearing going is it dear? maybe you should get a hearing aid on the NHS? or go to America and pay through the teeth for it cos their health care is a load of overpriced shit. quick to knock Britain, people like you. yet you blindly ignore reality.
Gus Haynes | 03.03.09 – 12:30 am |
So the NHS is free is it?
Young Master Haynes (like most working for the BBC) would do well to study the outcome and survival rates for serious illnesses between the USA and UK.
Clue: try not to get a serious disease in Gt. Britain.