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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7928880.stm
Actually I think Boris’ analysis and prescription is correct in part at least.
34 years is actually extremely optimistic and it assumes no further people incoming (which is highly highly unlikely). Conservative and Labour have presided over this mockery.
Putting your head in the sand a al Woolas et al will not make it go away.
Better to make those long over stayers seek citizenship under the limits Boris says.
They should have to pay a “regisration fee”, an extra 5% income tax and double national insurance over their probationary 5 years. This would pay for any social costs such as NHS care and be put to doubling the budget of the UK border force as well as simultaneously intorducing ID cards.
At least 99% of the the illegals want to work, and are prepared to do jobs most would not do.
Then we might have a chance of getting a grip on any future immigrants.
Of course under these proposals the first to still be rejected and thrown out of the UK permanently would be Binyam Mohammed, no mention of that BBC?
Sorry to be a bore about the early morning comedy slot, farming today, but its actually getting worse ! It looks at every single issue from a completely different viewpoint from that of the farming community, so why call it farming today ?
Breathless beeboid girly does article on individual sheep electronic tags , in which man at auction house says their views on them are unprintable. Not a word about the fell farmers who are threatening to riot because of the sheer impracticality of the measure. Not a suggestion that defra might tell the eu where to stick them, nothing ! Still she’s probably too busy enjoying her £45,000 re-location package to bother.
Can’t find this on the BBC
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/4961082/George-Galloway-convoy-stoned-by-irate-Egyptians.html
I wonder why…
It’s a little thing and may not necessarily be an agenda but Israel beat Sweden in their David Cup Tennis round.
Nothing in BBC Sport Tennis section.
Book of the Week on R4 – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s “The Settler’s Cookbook”.
I don’t know how she finds the time to write all those columns complaining about how she’s never on the BBC.
Look at this BBC interview. They’re setting the stage for tonights panorama – illegal immigration should there be an amnesty?
Interviewer to illegal immigrant “do you like the idea of an amnesty?”
Illegal immigrant: “yes I do!”
no bias there then?
Can’t find this on the BBC
I wonder why…
Anonymous | 09.03.09 – 11:25 am
Actually the MSM is largely ignoring the convoy which led Yvonne Riddley to complain, “There is a very clear agenda by some to keep Gaza out of the news and I am “dismayed by the Zionist influence brought to bear in the Maghreb.
First there is the logisitical nightmare of trying to find wifi on the move, or an internet cafe during late night stopovers”. Poor diddums 🙁
On the other hand the Egyptians appear to be quietly allowing small amounts of their cargo to enter Gaza at a time. This defeats the major purpose of this exercise i.e. publicity for ‘Gorgeous George’.
A rather interesting event from the convoy website also escaped BBC and MSM attention.
First convoy heroes return to UK
The four Viva Palestina convoy members refused entry to Egypt have returned home to Britain. They were welcomed this evening by up to 50 supporters from Viva Palestina at Manchester Airport who gave our brothers a heroes’ welcome.
Why were four lads from Manchester (‘Manchunians’?) refused entry to Egypt?
Another interesting item is the refusal by organizers to allow anything through the Israeli entrance points. I guess when the solidarity principle meets ‘urgent humanitarian crisis’ …
Someone at the BBC has a sense of humour:
‘Arrest in Mandelson custard probe’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7931185.stm
This headline belongs on The Day Today!
Yesterday’s Marr show had no Tory for interview. Last night’s Westminster Hour had no Tory on it’s “panel of MPs”. I switched off!
The current Young Scottish Muslim of the Year Hassan Ghani, who now works for Iran’s Press TV, was particularly upset by the reception given to the Gaza convoy:
Ha ha ha!
dogface
Today’s Start the Week on Radio 4 with Marr also had a left-wing line-up, kicking off with a pollster who had worked for Clinton and Blair. Followed by Lord Bollock-Brown waffling as usual.
Then Bronwen Maddox was trying to claim that Pakistan is not in an unholy mess.
Marr on Start the Week finished up with mark ravenhill and his play about the two halves of Germany – underlying theme, unification has damned the whole of Germany to the US capitalist model, East Germany was not so bad, yada yada.
The BBC has been going on about this survey that shows 20% of people think it’s OK to hit a woman.
I wonder if the BBC might like to take a guess as to which community is really into wife beating?
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/09/29/182604.php
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24946317-1243,00.html
DB – Book of the Week by Jasmine Alibhai Brown – What are the odds that they offer Mr. Vance the same opportunity with his forthcoming opus? Imagine listening figures would soar.
Along with the BBC the Daily Mail qualifies to be a member of the fifth column:
Another Lord Haw Haw piece from the Daily Mail today as it continues its campaign to have an inquiry into alleged torture of a Islamic Terror suspect.The Mail describes Binyam Mohamed as a “Guantanamo victim” ?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160514/Britain-DID-know-I-tortured-Pressure-inquiry-grows-explosive-claims-Guantanamo-inmate.html
“A fifth column is a group of people who clandestinely undermine a larger group, such as a nation, to which it is regarded as being loyal”.
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Unexpected reactions to the Satanic Verses fatwa shown in the BBC programme at the weekend.
Pinter, Saddam & Hamas supporter, backs Rushdie, deplores fatwa & comes out & shouts it.
Geoffrey Howe, Foreign Sec & paragon of the Thatcher government, tries to keep quiet & doesn’t communicate with Rushdie, but when flushed out, cuts Rushdie loose & seeks to appease Iran with a “nowt to do with us” line
It’s a little thing and may not necessarily be an agenda but Israel beat Sweden in their David Cup Tennis round.
Nothing in BBC Sport Tennis section.
deegee | 09.03.09 – 11:50 am |
They could have reported that it was played without any spectators as the Swedish government could not otherwise ensure the safety of the Israeli team. I dread 2012.
True to poitical form, the BBC gives Ms. Alibhai-Brown plenty of space on Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’ this morning to denigrate British attitudes towards Ugandan immigrants like her who were granted citizenship in the UK in the 1970s.
If she dislikes political attitudes here so much, why didn’t she stay in Uganda under the Amin regime?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/book_week.shtml
More Islamization of Britain ahead: fits with Labour government and BBC political plans-
‘Londoner’s Diary’:
“ITV plagued by new Al Jazeera bid rumours”
[Extract]:
“ITV does have a future — but is it with Al Jazeera? Rumours persist that the Arabic station based in Dohar, Qatar, might make an audacious bid for the beleaguered British broadcaster. ITV announced losses of £2.7billion last year and looks to cut 600 jobs. Al Jazeera, which was first started in 1996 with an $150million grant from the Emir of Qatar, has established itself as a global news force with regular bulletins from Osama Bin Laden and it has won praise for its coverage of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“The Emir continues to bankroll the Arabic station with annual subsidies. But what lends plausibility to the notion of an Al Jazeera tie-up is that many of the staff at the Arab network are old timers at the BBC and ITN.
“Al Anstey, who is currently its Deputy Director of News, joined ‘Al Jazeera English’ from the UK’s ITN where he was Head of Foreign News — responsible for running foreign coverage and managing news teams. Anstey previously held roles as ITN’s Foreign Editor and Senior Foreign Editor. In 2005 Al Jazeera also hired ITN stalwart John Pullman as head of output for Al Jazeera International. In 2003 the BBC signed an agreement with Al Jazeera for sharing facilities and information.”
http://londonersdiary.standard.co.uk/2009/03/itv-plagued-by-new-al-jazeera-bid-rumours-.html
despatches tonight is a must see !
how gordon brown blew billions of pounds for nothing.
Monday 09 March, 8:00 PM on Channel 4
“Dispatches also highlights the findings of a report that details the escalation in government public sector spending and sets out what needs to be done to stop the waste. Public spending wastage is reported to have cost every household nearly £50,000 over the past 11 years. ”
the reason C4 are doing this programme is because the bbc is institutionally alergic to the possibility of government wasting money. as far as it is concerned spending lots and lots of govt. money is always a good thing unless it’s for guns.
Another story that does not suit the BBC agenda. The Clinton / EU mask slips.
Never waste a good crisis, Clinton says on climate
Britain’s Illegal Immigrants (725,000 estimated): to be rewarded (at whose expense?), courtesy of propaganda for them by, e.g. London Mayor, and BBC ‘Panorama’ (tonight); much of BBC programme devoted to viewpoint of non-licencepaying illegal immigrants: ‘it’s what we do’.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/
An alternative view to ‘open-door Britain’BBC:
‘Migrationwatch’:
“MIGRANT STOCK HAS DOUBLED SINCE 1991, IMMIGRATION PROBLEM ‘HOME GROWN’ – NOT A RESULT OF GLOBALISATION”
http://www.migrationwatchuk.com/pressreleases/pressreleases.asp?dt=09-March-2009#188
‘Migrationwatch’
“The financial case aagainst an amnestry for illegal immigrants”
[Extract]:
“This paper considers this claim made by Boris Johnson, Mayor of London. It makes the financial case against an amnesty and shows that rather than leading to ‘hugely increased’ tax revenues an amnesty would actually lead to hugely increased costs.”
http://www.migrationwatchuk.com/Briefingpapers/legal/8_31.asp
Notice how the BBC attempts to avoid accusations of bias by putting a question mark on the end of their left wing statements.
eg Panorama’s “Immigration: Time For an Amnesty?”. I wonder, will they balance it with a follow up programme called: “Immigration: Time for Repatriation?”.
Also, incase you didn’t already know how lovely and wonderful Sharia law is, the BBC1 has done this helpful programme for you tonight:
Celebrity Lives – Sharia Style!
British imam and politician Ajmal Masroor explores how celebrity marriages, divorces and disputes would be handled under Sharia law. He reveals the difference the Islamic legal system would have made to Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s financial settlement, and looks at the pros and cons of utilising parts of Sharia in civil disputes between British Muslims.
So the overall theme on BBC1 tonight is one of enthusiasm for more immigration and alien foreign culture. Anyone would think that the BBC has been taken over by people who hate Britian! 😉
R 4’s You And Yours (always a contender for the annual Socialism In Broadcasting Award) today gave lengthy airtime to tomorrow’s ‘demonstration’ planned by those three bastions of common sense; the TUC, Oxfam and Friends of the Earth (sic).
What are they demonstrating about? The recession (sorry, ‘downturn’).
Perhaps more to the point is ‘what do they have in common’?
On the face of it, the TUC campaigns for ‘the workers’, Oxfam for famine relief and FOE for ecology, though tomorrow it’s marching under the ‘climate change’ banner.
And there’s the link – the clue that even Inspector Clouseau couldn’t miss.
‘Global warming’ (sic) is a Left-wing cause. All three participants in this parade of clowns endorse it. Each has made this artificial construct its own.
Why? Ask the time honoured question, ‘Cui bono’, and the answer is ‘the Left’.
This is no coincidence. Combat ‘Climate change’ in the way demanded by the ‘Greens’ and, as if by magic, you will have fulfilled so many goals socialists have lectured us about since they crept out of the shadows – from vegetarianism to collectivism, public transport, ‘sharing resources,’ levelling down…
This is why all three organisations will stroll along arm in arm tomorrow, each perfectly happy endorsing the other’s demands because they are all after the same thing: the comrades, the bleeding heart multi-culti fake charity and the watermelons.
And, of course, there will be the dear old BBC, running along beside the parade with a microphone, breathlessly asking all the questions the Leftists want to be asked.
I suppose it’s too much to hope for a blizzard on the day?
The Bias Must End: The BBC have backed this barbaric religion for years.
Thing is can you imagine one of those big fat sweaty BBC lesbians actually wanting to live under Sharia law herself?
I’d love the BBC to send a few of the ‘sisters’ across to Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan to live as a man’s property in these Countries.
I suspect once they’ve had a few backhanders from their ‘stand in’ husbands they won’t be so keen on Sharia.
Celebrity Lives – Sharia Style!
British imam and politician Ajmal Masroor explores how celebrity marriages, divorces and disputes would be handled under Sharia law…
The Bias Must End | 09.03.09 – 3:59 pm
(Link to BBC web page: Celebrity Lives – Sharia Style)
A Liberal Democrat candidate resigned yesterday after being linked to a Muslim group accused of anti-Semitism.
Ajmal Masroor announced that he would no longer be standing for the Lib Dems in West Ham only hours after the party was asked why he had posted an appeal for support on the Muslim Public Affairs Committee website.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1488147/Liberal-Democrat-candidate-resigns.html
And I note that the BBC persists in giving “sharia” a capital letter. It should not have one.
Oh look! The TV licence is going up in April. Gosh that makes me feel sooooooo happy.
NOT!!!!!
Clueless Justin Webb writes:
“…The stem cell decision is indeed a repudiation of a Bush policy but it is more: the strange death of socially conservative America, which began in the mid-terms in 2006, continues apace…”
Erm, socially conservative America ain’t dead just yet, Justin, Obama is trying his best to kill it off though. Will he succeed? I don’t think so?
I believe it needed a radical leftie like Barack to wake Americans up.
Barack’s on his way to becoming the worst US president ever (and that includes Dhimmi Carter!).
weirdvis: Do you know how much a decent bottle of Chablis is these days? Even good Cocaine isn’t cheap. And as for a good fresh rent boy…
The BBC need that money to maintain their Islington Socialist lifestyle to which they have become accustomed to.
As for the unwashed scum that pay the TV tax. They can eat cake.
“Four” M “men admit to terror charges”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7932719.stm
The BBC’s omits the crucial connections which jepodise the BBC’s poilitical agenda of ‘social cohesion’, i.e. dhimmitude.
Does anyone have an update on Andrew Marr’s legal issues with his book?.
Amnesty = 430,000 new Labour voters
according to Beeboid reporter Jonathon Beale on 6pm News, Pres Bush’s opposition to taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research was “political ideology”
BBC report:
“Obama hints at talks with Taleban”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7930865.stm
But what the BBC doesn’t discuss:
‘Wall St. Journal’:
“What Next? Moderate KU Klux Klan?”
(Larry Johnson)
[Extract]:
“You know what a moderate member of the Taliban is?
“Doesn’t make the wife wear the burkha to bed? Let’s his daughter watch Sesame street but does not let her attend school? Terrific! What is your next great idea? Outreach to moderate members of the Ku Klux Klan?
“You know about those KKK moderates don’t cha? The don’t call dark skinned folks niggers. They prefer the term, ‘negro’ but, if given the chance, will still lynch their black ass.
“Barack, I realize you are tired and stressed and have not had a chance to read your briefing books on Afghanistan, but there is no such tribe as a ‘Taliban.’ Taliban, by definition, are folks who fancy themselves as true believers in Islam. There are no ‘Taliban’ who are lukewarm believers.”
http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/03/07/what-next-moderate-ku-klux-klan/
anon and deegee
Something stirred in the back of my mind as I read the Telegraph article about the “British aid convoy” being led by George Galloway: the name Yvonne Ridley – anyone remember her?
The website The Religion of Islam calls her “the formerly hard-drinking Sunday school teacher became a Muslim after reading the Koran on her release.”
http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/445/
Isn’t it strange how these folk keep popping up and how little we were told about them at the time.
The BBC web profile reads thus: “Yvonne Ridley had been reporting for the Sunday Express and Daily Express from Peshawar and Islamabad in Pakistan.
A spokesperson for the Daily Express said the 43-year-old was the paper’s chief reporter and a highly experienced journalist who had covered several conflicts in many countries around the world.
Sunday Express Editor, Martin Townsend, said: “She is an experienced and courageous journalist.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1570394.stm
So what are we to make of the Telegraph article that reads:
“It’s an absolute disgrace,” said the organiser of the aid shipment, Yvonne Ridley. “The power was cut. During cover of darkness members of our convoy were attacked with stones. Vandals also wrote dirty words and anti-Hamas slogans,” she said. “Several people in the convoy were injured in the attack.”
She must be loving this!
PS There is now a report on the incident on the BBC website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7932764.stm
Make of it what you will.
BBC ‘Panorama’s multiculturalist biased way of dealing with the issue of Mass Illegal Immigration into Britian is to give the illegal immigrants an equal say to that of indigenous British people!
BBC Panorama’s apparently favoured solution to dealing with the 720,000 estimated illegals is to make those Mass Illegal Immigrants into Mass Legal Immigrants.
‘Migrationwatch’
“Balanced Migration” (50 plus page pdf document)
[Extract]:
“Our concern is not the principle of immigration, but its scale. In recent years we have
seen an entirely new phenomenon: very large scale immigration, the impact of which
has become a matter of increasing public concern. Official figures show that, over the
last ten years, nearly 2.5 million immigrants have arrived and almost three quarters of
a million British people have left, thus adding 1.6 million directly to our population.
This rate of arrival is 25 times higher than during any previous influx of immigration
in nearly a thousand years of our nation’s history.
This situation is not mainly due to the recent influx of East Europeans from new EU
member states. Leaving aside the movement of British citizens, two thirds of
immigrants in 2006 were from outside the EU1. Nor is this influx due to globalisation.
It is largely the result of government policies dating back more than a decade.” (Page 4.)
Click to access balancedmigration.pdf
c4 dispatches on labour’s wasted billions
on now.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7933151.stm
It will be interesting to see how the BBC continue to report this. I can’t see how they could do in any depth without confirming the link between homosexuality and paedophilia.
Robert Peston continues to whitewash the history of Lloyds/HBOS.
Will Lloyds’ chiefs resign?
As usual, Peston is trying to place as much distance as possible between the true ugliness of HBOS’s losses and the subject of his books, Gordon Brown. I’m sure I don’t need to remind everybody that back when Peston caused a run on HBOS stock…er…I mean scooped everyone with the announcement that Lloyds was going to take over HBOS, he said that the deal was being negotiated at very high levels, and that the PM himself was the one who convinced Eric Daniels to go ahead with it.
I’ve commented before about Peston’s recent efforts to hide any involvement by Mr. Brown. He’s doing it again today.
Today’s post is about whether or not Blank and Daniels should keep their jobs. Well, Peston pretends it’s not his opinion by using the lazy “some might say” trick. He repeats the story that they should have known how bad HBOS was, the decision was theirs entirely. No mention whatsoever of Mr. Brown’s invovlement, which Peston was trumpeting at the time.
Except, it was Mr. Brown who arranged for a suspension of any anti-competition rules which would otherwise prevent Lloyds from acquiring such a huge market share. But no blame may be shared by Mr. Brown now, according to his biographer.
Today, he’s even trying to say that Blank and Daniels should leave Mr. Brown out any decisions about their future, purely on principle. This is the same Robert Peston who for months was frowning about the dangers of the Govt. being part owner of banks. This kind of thing was bound to happen, and now that it has, he’s trying to find a way for Mr. Brown to weasel out of his own bed.
What Peston doesn’t realize is that there’s such a thing as an archive on the BBC website. I could find proof of his phoniness from other sources, but it’s much more fun to bust him using BBC reports.
Anybody who cares to know the truth can read this article from December will see that the government bent the rules to allow this to happen. If this was such a bad idea, but Mandelson said it was in the public interest anyway, why should the guys who gave the government a lifeboat when they needed get the knife? This wasn’t Gordon Brown’s original idea, but he jumped in and twisted arms once Lloyds realized just how bad it would be and what it would do to their company, and got cold feet. He knew just how bad it was, too, and Peston made it worse than it would have been otherwise with his little “scoop”.
Peston is desperate to suggest that there are valid reasons for Blank and Daniels to step down. He asks them to fall on their swords and put “principle before personal advantage”, when it’s really about protecting Mr. Brown. He’s doing this to completely sever any connection Mr. Brown has to the situation. The BBC business editor is a tool for No. 10.
First case on Panorama`s programme on should we give illegal immigrants an amnesty focuses on a teacher. I should have laid a bet it would be that or a NHS worker. Not a criminal or benefit scrounger who shouldn`t be here.Typical of the BBC being with the open borders lot- dont show a typical illegal immigrant, show the unusual case of someone we all have sympathy for because there`s a cock up in the system.
“WE” use them for cheap labour, said the programme. Who`s this “we” Paleface ? Most of us dont and wont, but I suppose the Beeboids will in their favourite restaurants.
The figure of £11,000 per illegal to deport them is used. No questions why it costs that much – just take it as some law of nature.
Basically it was blackmail; make us legal or you will lose more in tax revenue.
Gateway Pundit reports on the BBC’s coverage of Obama’s decision to reverse the stem-cell research ban, in particular their sneering contrast of Bush’s Christianity with the ‘integrity’ of Obama’s faith. The non-stop gush-fest continues from the broadcaster with no journalistic integrity whatsoever…
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/03/bbc-praises-obamas-christianity-in-his.html
I’m with Ann Coulter on this, Jason:
“…Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It’s an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites.”
That was specifically about conservative “hypocrites” but you get my drift, I guess.
Here’s the source: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter101603.asp
750,000 new ‘British citizens’ might give Liebour a few more seats at the next election.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/4961897/Gordon-Brown-is-a-cunt.html
Martin
I love the html link for the Telegraph story. Someone playing tricks at the Telegraph website ?
…../…./Gordon-Brown is a ……html !
The BBC is making a huge fuss over Obama’s decision to fund embryo stem-cell research. TOP ITEM on the 10pm Radio 4 news. Heavily biased against Bush, of course.
Is this really the top story at the moment ? Everyone knew this was on Obama’s agenda. (of course they did not know that he refused to block infanticide after late-term abortions)
Economy crashing, terrorist murders in Antrim etc. But the BBC carries on with its Obama obsession.
JohnA: Yes off Guido Fawkes site. Cracking isn’t it!!!!
A plain lie on the ten o clock news tonight – the utterly bogus statistic that domestic violence is the bigegst cause of mortality of women aged 15-44. Text of complaint below: “Are you insane? Domestic violence is the biggest cause of mortality of women aged 15-44? How can this possibly be true? How can you possibly put together a graphic explaining this, have a reporter stating it, have news footage edited and passed and broadcast,a nd NO ONE questions this obviously false statistic? This is not acceptable. I want an apology and a corrected statistic on the ten o clock news, or you can kiss my your licence fee from me goodbye, and I would be *delighted* to explain in court why I’m not paying for lies and propaganda. Hell’s teeth – a ten year old child could tell you that stat is garbage. The biggest caus eof mortality – bigger than heart disease, cancer, car accidents? You IDIOTS!!!!! And dont’ give me any crap about it being a Home Office statistic – no one could believe this,no matter the source, no one. Utter stupidity.”
Anyone interested can chase up my articles or Ally Fogg’s on the subject on comment is free – a fake state, used and abused by variou feminist groups, Amnesty, and foisted on the Home Office by the poppy project – pure lies. And now beamed out to the world by the liars of the BBC.