Yes, we all know that Darling/Brown’s budget has been exposed as a grotesque fraud and none but the most dewy-eyed old style socialist has anything good to say about it. Still, nice to see the BBC already move into official opposition mode as it characterises the Conservative leader as “Dave the miser”
I’m hoping the Tories will start with cuts all right. like the £140 a year we have to pay to a bunch of drug user sand rent boy addicts at the BBC.
Apparently, according to the World at one today the Tories are riven from end to end with bitter infighting about the 50% tax band. Of course the BBC are not playing the Labour party game of goading the Tories into answering the “have you stopped beating your wife yet” question?
Can no one in the BBC point out that the entire budget, our future, was a £1.2 trillion wager. Brown (for no one else is that cynical, malevolent or short sighted) assumes that he has set a huge ‘no win’ trap
a)reverse the 50% tax and you are vile Tory bas*ards who want the rich to pay no tax (c.f. Labour party policy for the last 12 years)and this gives rise to questions of where is the money coming from?
b)Do not reverse and you are 1. split with ‘right wing’ ideological dispute and 2. Tory bas*ards who cynically act against their own manifesto (c.f. Labour party promising not to raise the higher tax bracket in their manifesto.)
This is an explicit political strategy by Labour – why are the BBC acting as its catamite?
Say hello to Dave the Miser.
where are those quotation marks used for criticisms of Labour?
Of course the BBC have NO concept of cuts. When was the last time the BBC had a ‘cut’ to the TV tax?
Why not take £50 off the TV tax and make the BBC get in the real world right now?
Just noticed this article- BBC character assasination at its very best. No attempt at impartiality, a headline that could have (indeed, might well have) originated in Downing Street, and persistent shilling for Labour, all out of the public purse. I hope Cameron takes note and cripples the BBC when he gets in.
The great wanker Vince Cable is on News 24 now spouting shite and being bigged up by some ugly female beeboid.
The Tories have no specifics, spouts Cable. What and the lib Dems do?
The Tories have already said that public sector pay, ID cards and other IT schemes will go.
But all Cable ever says is “we need to have a debate on this” but NEVER gives any specifics himself.
“Dave the Miser”?
Wicki: “A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend money, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts. The term derives from the Latin miser, meaning “poor” or “wretched,” comparable to the modern word “miserable”.
List of notable misers in fiction
Fagin • Jewish Londoner, antagonist from Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist
Ebenezer Scrooge • English, Charles Dickens character
Shylock • Jewish Venetian, William Shakespeare character
So there you have it – crude racist charicature. Character assasination from the State Public Broadcaster. After one of Daves most effective speeches I have read in a long time, on balancing the books.
So not thrift, not prudence, but a miser- perhaps reluctant to spend on essentials. Skools ‘n”ospitals cut by another name?. The BBC all shameless shite.
A “miser” with whose money, exactly ?
The money comes from the taxpayer, not the Government, a fact which the BBC seems incapable of grasping.
The BBC web-site article on Cameron’s speech reads like a parody of some parasitic Beeboid — except that it is for real.
Thirteen months and counting …
In case all you busy bloggers missed it, Jon ‘Soapy’ Sopel on the Politics Show this afternoon had a pleasant chat about various things with Liebour’s Alan ‘Postie’ Johnson. Postie made a long, lying speech about Tory spending ‘cuts’, during which Sopel kept his mouth firmly shut & after which he (Sopel) moved on, job done.
Soapy then interviewed David Cameron & kept asking him (Paxo-style) about Inheritance tax, trying to keep up the BBC’s agenda of painting the Conservatives as toff-obsessed toffs. Dave answered well, but Soapy plugged away on the subject like a twat, jeering and interrupting – as only a Beeboid interviewing a Tory can jeer and interrupt.
Later in the show, in a blatant attempt to paint the Tories as divided on the 50% top income tax rate, he interview Boris Johnson, badgering again.(2 Tories on a BBC politics programme must always raise suspicions of the Beeb’s intent, being such a rare event). Boris was reasonable and funny and would have none of it. Sopel was made to give up and laugh too. (Good on Boris).
Was Sopel sober?
Apart from the blatant undisguised bias of the ‘miser Dave’ headline (nicely positioned next to a caption about ‘Recession beaters’ I noticed) – it makes absolutely no sense. Doesn’t Pravda know what misers are? Misers are people who hoard money, not people who are forced to pay off a debt clocked up by a spendaholic who does nothing but lie and cheat to save their skin while abandoning their family to penury.
Martin:
Was Sopel sober?
Martin | 26.04.09 – 7:06 pm | #
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He seems pissed to me.
AndrewSouthLondon | 26.04.09 – 6:32 pm
I have sent a complaint to the BBC over that “headline” – it is definately a personal attack and is nothing to do with the piece that was being reported.
Seems like the Micheal Howard “Fagin” attack by Alistair Cambell re-used for political purposes.
I think the BBC has finally lost it’s nerve! As posted elsewhere both Andrew Marr and Humphries have one hour slots at the annual GC (Public Sector) procurement show at Earls Court in June to show solidarity with their fellow cosseted PS employees (and presumably being paid handsomely to offset their future 50% tax bill) and this “Dave the Miser” stuff is ludicrous. Even my Aunt Dolly’s dog knows the country has overspent to produce almost sweet FA improvement in services and that the party’s over.Sky and even dear old ITV are beginning to lift the lid on PS borrowing and overspend. Whistle and dark come to mind with those wonderful folks at our impartial state broadcaster.
Another good speech by Dan Hannan
http://www.torybear.com/2009/04/hannans-speech.html
It’s all too much: “This is an explicit political strategy by Labour – why are the BBC acting as its catamite?” Because the BBC sees its role as ensuring a perpetual left of centre government in this country, at least until we are subsumed into their beloved EU superstate.
The BBC in association with newlabour, taking part in a direct and open political alliance with the sole purpose of destroying their political enemies, we are reduced to a grubby third world banana republic, our nation demeaned and sullied.
Newlabours legacy to us all, a Balkanised, corrupted, bankrupt and failed state with national institutions rotten to the core like a putrifying corpse, the end result of solialism is always the same, poverty and debt, corruption and misery and yet people still support them!
BBC ‘Have your say’ “Are you ready for the ‘age of austerity’?” about Cameron ‘Miser’ comment.
Almost every reply and vote is anti Tory. It is so blatently obvious this is completely BBC managed with all pro Tory comments deleted.
As the BBC weekend marxists change over to the slightly less leftist weekly staff the headline has changer to “thrifty Dave” now that the damage has been done.
Government gives up on MPs second homes allowance
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2009/04/government_gives_up_on_mps_sec.html#commentsanchor
Wear your moderation scars with pride!
All I wrote was that it was a good time to invest in Nokia shares.
I will be keen to see how all ‘on topic’ subsequent posts are.
Oh, too funny.
Just got the ‘explanatory email’ for my latest expulsion…
Postings to BBC blogs will be removed if they advertise products or services for profit or gain.
Posts to the BBC blogs should not contain advertising or promotion of any kind.
I’m guessing most satire will be dodgy in Aunty’s halls these days.
Why not starting by cutting the BBC?