OK – I am supposed to be taking a break but I could not stand by whilst Labour implodes without providing this forum for you to discuss BBC coverage of it. Gordon is in full bunker mentality, the Save Gordon project looks doomed even beyond BBC salvation – so where to now? I wonder will the looming reshuffle be timed to dampen down the results of the elections? Will the BBC linger on the outcome of the elections or the consequences of the reshuffle? Still, I hear tractor production is at an all-time high…..
LABOUR MELTDOWN SPECIAL
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News at Ten tonight (Tuesday) just had to have a feature on eeeeevil capitalists enjoying huge bonuses. Booo hisss.
BBC Radio 5 is a real hoot. For some reason they keep taking callers from Cameron’s constituency (left wingers naturally)
2 left wing guests sticking up for McTwat. Female guest can’t understand why the Tories are so popular. As there are no right wing guests no one to explain it to her.
Radio 5 sounds like wake. I’m expecting sombre music and announcers talking as if someone important has died.
Female leftie is almost in tears. Male leftie guest is more realisitc. Labour are fucked.
Paxman talking the same old shit to William Hague. Going on about Polish parties that think poovery is wrong (how dare they) or some Czech bloke who thinks global warming is a load of bollocks (sounds a sensible person to me) and some Danish MEP who thinks Islam is bent on World Domination.
Sounds to me like a good bunch.
Newsnight is a joke tonight, no Tories so far on to comment about the Cabinet collapse, Jaqcui Smith’s exit or whatever. Hutton, Hattersley and Kilfoyle telling us that it’s not so bad after all.
Then Hague gets a grilling on Ashcroft……….. what a surprise
Paxman on Newsnight showed his true colours and clear BBC bias. Firstly the difference between the gentle handling of John Denham against the grilling of William Hague. Also as Martin says the agenda set by the BBC e.g. climate change denial is beyond the pale in their luvvy world. Outrageous.
Hasn’t Brownnose just scored another own-goal by messing up the Queen’s invitation to the D-Day commemoration?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5429819/Prince-of-Wales-to-go-to-D-Day-landings-after-invitation-from-President-Sarkozy.html
Clearly, a ragged and exhausted runner was despatched from ZaNU’s HQ this afternoon, bearing an urgent message for the fellow travellers at the BBC: “make sure you ask about Ashcroft!”.
You see, tt wasn’t just Paxman who raised the, utterly irrelevant spectre. No lesser being than Eddie ‘silly ‘ Mair did precisely the same thing on R4’s PM this evening.
Funny, that, innit?
chuffer @ 10:37 PM
News at Ten tonight (Tuesday) just had to have a feature on eeeeevil capitalists enjoying huge bonuses. Booo hisss.
That’s funny – guess what Robert Peston was saying on his blog today.
Agenda? What agenda?
After the results are in on the local and European elections just wait for the BBC studios to be swamped by Toynbees et al, all complaining about how ungrateful the electorate is.
One thing’s for sure, the vermin at the BBC are running scared.
Newsnight Scotland is worse. Tonight they finally looked at Labour troughers in Scotland. That made me sit up as it’s usually anti SNP rhetoric 24/7. But my hopes faded as they made it impossible to hear what was being said due to loud background music. Oh well. Live in hope.
Vermin indeed. The Tories need to have a clear out of the BBC when they come to power. Paxman being top of the list.
Jon Snow might be a mincing queen leftie but at least he puts the boot in to ALL politicians, unlike 1 million a year Paxo.
Just watched Toenails talking to Matt Frei on BBC News 24. Toenails spouting on about the ‘Tories being squeezed in the polls’
So what poll would that be? The polls show the Tories at around 40% still.
Toenails claimed that Cameron is guilty under the current expenses rules. How so? MP’s can claim the interest on their mortgage for their second home. Cameron hasn’t been claiming for a non existent mortgage, unlike several Labour MP’s for has he flipped his house. Whilst I don’t agree with then claiming this money it’s not fraud which is what Labour MP’s have been up to.
Labour down in the low 20’s. Does Toenails smoke something before he spouts this shit on the TV?
I wonder if the Champagne bottles will be strewn around the BBC later this week?
From Nick Robinson's latest blog: "It is Gordon Brown's last chance to prove to his party that he has a plan to get them out of the hole they're now in." Talk about out of touch! The games is up, Nick. Sorry, you lose.
Rats desert sinking ship. Shamed Smith leads exodus of ministers scrambling for the exit..
The roll of shame Daily Mail
"Brown urged to 'assert authority'" (lead story on the BBC News Website) offers another example of the BBC's slyness with quotation marks.
One of this highly uninformative article's sub-headings (leading a section that lists Labour's rats and their claimed reasons for standing down) reads:
Charity work
This refers to Patricia Hewitt, as we discover four paragraphs later:
"Ex-cabinet minister Patricia Hewitt said she would not seek re-election so she could concentrate on her charity work in India."
And that's it. Nothing about why we all really think she's leaving, no details of her dodgy expense claims, and no quotation marks around 'Charity work'!!
The BBC seems to want us (a) to believe Patricia Hewitt & (b) to admire Patricia Hewitt.
Let's not do either.
Even when BBC political correspondent Ian Watson (on Radio 4's 7 o'clock news) is describing bad news for Labour and seemingly giving it straight, he just can't stop himself from tweaking the truth & spinning on their behalf.
I was only going to comment on the absence of the word 'Labour' in his "the announcement that some high profile MPs were standing down", but I thought I'd just check to see which papers were the sources for the two newspaper headlines he quoted:
'Labour in disarray'
and
'Day of resignation'.
The second one comes from the 'Guardian'. But it isn't the whole of the headline. This actually reads:
'Labour's day of resignation'
Small beer maybe, but revealing nonetheless.
today radio 4, 8.10 interview with Lord Falconer:
and that was a party political broadcast by the Labour Party.
ZERO hard interrogation of the terrier kind that you hear when a Tory is being interviewed.
harriet harperson on Toady now.
yet another Labour Party political broadcast. easy questioning from James Naughtie.
like two labour people have a conversation with each other.
Nick Clegg was on in the slot before the 8am news.
no conservative asked to give their opinion. quelle surprise!
It's already been commented upon here but it was fascinating to watch "Barbarian" Paxo turning on the charm and smarm for Kilfoyle, Hattersley and Denham. He was a veritable pussy cat. Then the claws came out for Hague.
The veiled threat to the BBC by MacBeth during his Marr interview, over their expenses must have hit the mark. Peter McKay writes about a well known BBC presenter who hired a taxi on us just to ensure her garden hose was switched off. The BBC expenses slush fund has to be the next big story and I can't wait for it. Even MacBeth is after them now.
Whilst the not so Independent and the Grauniad jump ship the entrenched fellow travellers at the BBC just can't shake off the fact that the sovietised nightmare the rest of us have been enduring for the past 12 years is imploding around their pampered socialist ears.
Toady this morning is like listening to a funeral wake for the Labour party.
friggin delicious…
Nereid
It is a BBC given maxim:
Interview the Left, interrogate the Right
GCooper said…
No lesser being than Eddie 'silly ' Mair did precisely the same thing on R4's PM this evening.
11:25 PM, June 02, 2009
I can perhaps forgive him that, for asking Douglas Alexander directly, "Why is Gordon Brown so inept?". Nearly made me crash the car laughing.
I nearly choked on my Shredded Wheat this morning listening to the Radio 4 news headlines which said that the "Labour supporting Guardian" had said time to go for Gordon. Someone must be in line for a severe dressing down at the BBC. I do not need to rehearse here the intimate connection(s) between the Garudian and the BBC so will only add what used to appear at the end of the workings in school mathematical text books – QED
nereid: I was just going to post on that. The BBC fells just so down beat. It's like all beeboids have that their favourite rent boy die or their local drug dealer arrested.
Clearly no Champagne will be 'popped' this week.
The scum at the BBC are so stupid, they don't realise that their rabid bias towards Labour can actually work against Brown and the third-rate garbage surrounding him.
Keep it up Beeboids, you are doing a great job !
Proof positive that vance needs the site more than the site needs him lol. Vance is back in the shed. Stick around buddy, it won't be long before things get on top of you again.
Theres still plenty of room in the priory, or its equavilent in your Irish bog.
I think the beeboids are beginning to line up behind Alan Johnson as "saviour of Labour". It's there – just beneath the surface – in everything they say about Brown's sorry predicament.
Now the Guardian have come out clearly in favour of ditching Brown for AJ, you can be sure the BBC will adjust its message accordingly.
Expect a relentless barrage of pro-Johnson propaganda.
fk off anonymous you loser
Roland Deschain quotes an idot (me) thus: "GCooper said…
No lesser being than Eddie 'silly ' Mair did precisely the same thing on R4's PM this evening.
11:25 PM, June 02, 2009 "
I've just re-read what I wrote and apologise. I meant 'no less a being…'
Must proofread before commenting, must proofread before commenting, must proofread before commenting…
GCooper
If it makes you feel better, I didn't notice that either when I read and copied it!
It's staggering to witness the sea change in just a couple of months. In March (how long ago that now seems), we were told by Auntie BBC that we were witnessing historic events – nothing less than the end of failed capitalism. Now, in the space of a few weeks, their socialist standard bearers are in meltdown, with even the Guardian abandoning Liebour. Yet still, in this their darkest hour, the BBC cannot – will not – bring itself to administer the coup the grace on Liebour.
Breathtaking bias.
Here's hoping for another May 1979 moment…
Labour will go after a new leader unless it wants to lose at the next election.