I suppose it was predictable that after the horror of Labour being thrown out of Downing Street has sunk in to the BBC, the fightback would commence. This morning, on Today, between 7 and 7.30am, the meme is “But can it gold together”? BBC line is to question the stability of the Con/Lib pact and to claim that it could all fall apar. Gracious in defeat, eh?
CAN IT HOLD TOGETHER?
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Yes, they were at it on Breakfast TV as well. They couldn’t hide their disappointment. Obviously the wrong result for the BBC with no sign of the euphoric coverage of 1997. It be full-on attack, picking away at the edges trying to cause splits.
We’ll have to look long and hard at the License Tax and bring an end to the left-wing bias. They can’t even be bothered in trying to hide it any more.
“We”? The only person who can bring an end to the bias is Cameron. He’s no Thatcher. He’s going to duck these tough issues.
“We feel your pain”
That is the BBC message on Today this morning. Not only the pain of the Liberal Democrats having to sit alongside those evil Tories, but that of the Labour party, cast into the outer darkness.
The possibility of Conservative supporters like myself feeling a bit of pain at having to accommodate self-hating liberaloids I’m afraid isn’t on the Beeboid radar, nor will it ever be.
It’s amazing how the old tucker is still at work behind the scenes spinning the line that it’s all doomed to failure and shiny New Labour will ride to the rescue.
I cannot believe how much air time is still being given to Brown and the deadbeats. But the New Labour tentacles stretch far and run deep. That’s going to be one of the big problems for the Beeb, so used to pushing the New Labour narrative.
Old habits die hard. ‘Call me Dave’ is now Cameron PM but the line is that it’s all a flash in the pan.
The Beeb is going to have to wake up to the fact that voters probably want to give the new boys a chance?
http://theorangepartyblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/its-people-wot-won-it.html
Sorry, I have to disagree. It’s a fair question to ask at this time.
Actually, from what I’ve heard so far there seems to be a change to a less aggressive tone when interviewing Conservatives, presumably as the BBC can’t decide whether to oppose because it’s Tory or support because Lib Dems are involved. I have no doubt they’ll swing round to Labour sooner rather than later, and continually try to show that the coalition is falling apart even if it isn’t. But in these early stages it’s a reasonable point to consider.
I agree 100% in so far as it goes, but how much focus should they give to the issue and what approach should they take. As per my post below, Having heard the first report by Justin Webb I didn’t have the stomache to listen to any more such disgusting agenda driven ‘reporting’ (opinionating is what it was).
Sickening on BBC Midlands when they trotted out as Scottish Brum MP warning of disastrous consequences for labour heartlands.lead bloody stroy. Yup, bit like Tory lack of funding for 13 years. It was a blatant and sickening piece of propaganda. Referring yet again to the glorious 1980s rescue by Maggie! They are bonkers and need their wings clipping.
Heard twice already on Today this morning:
“The blood of Tory cuts”
Expect more.
Yes it is reasonable to ask if it will hold together, but you need to look at what Cameron has done. The BBC were talking up a coaltion only last week pointing out how the new politics would work.
Have people forgotten the comments made here about HOW the BBC bigest up New Zealand and Europe for how well coalitions work?
of course the BBC detest what Cameron has done, he’s done something no one, even the Limp Dems thought was possible.
The BBC are gutted
The Today programme was very amusing this morning. Trying to stoke up splits over Europe, seeing everything fron the point of view of poor LibDem members forced into a coalition with nasty Tories but not a word about Conservatives forced into a coalition with lefty LibDems. The heartfelt tributes to Gordon Brown contrasting with the worries over David Cameron and his past – he went to Etonn by the way. The way that the markets not moving too much was seen as a lack of enthusiasm for the Conservatives, even when the markets went up a bit. The predicted bad news on unemploymnent was suddenly important although under a Labour government we were continually told how the figures were much better than would have been the case. And then there was James Naughtie’s report… and Neil Kinnock’s bare faced denial that it was his phone ringing before later admitting that it was – a transcript of that end part of the Today programme would be interesting – “It wasn’t me, it was my phone” were I think the words, a reliable commentator,m I think not.
Not just the Toady Programme or BBC Breakfast, Nicky ‘Sony Brass Award’ Campbell has his phone-in on that very same subject.
It may be a reasonable questio to ask – but for the BBC it is the *only* question to ask.
Incredibly some mumsy (and no doubt very disappointed) presenter on Radio 4 last night was asking, ‘Can it last’, yesterday evening before Cameron had even gone to the palace.
I suspect more Champagne corks were popped and bottles strewn (two)about the corridors of my house last night than in the whole of the BBC.
Message as usual to Dave – Get rid of the BBC, they tried to get rid of you.
‘Tried’ and will continue to try in the future.
Still, they’ve now ‘moved on’ to The Big Story Of The Day – Labour leadership challenge.
(Psst BBC – no-one cares).
Cameron would rather throw Christians to the Correctnick wolves for refusing to accept homosexuality as normal rather than stand up to the Gramscian BBC. He’s not fit to govern and his Coalition is going to fall .. Unless maybe he appoints Michael Gove as ‘The Minister for BBC bias without portfolio’. Wont happen.
The BBC need to be very careful. Another election within a year may deliver an outright Tory majority.
I guess one problem is that , if Cameron had any ideas of “reforming” the BBC , the Lib. Dems. will block that. Which means this lousy , third-rate broadcaster will continue to get away with its sickening bias.
Still it means this website will continue !
If the Lib Dems had done a deal with Labour, would the scum at the BBC be asking “can it last” ?
Bad news for the BBC. The FT 100 is up 22 points so far today !
This is the same organization that thought nothing of carrying a news website requesting people to report on troop movements in Iraq. So anything is possible. Cameron should dissolve its assets and use the cash to help maimed or injured returning troops.
The one fact that the BBC seem most unable to stomach is that the Lib Dems overwhelmingly sided with the Tories, in spite of their contingent of weirdie beardies ( (c) Guido).
I long for the day when I don’t have to hear the views according to Amnesty International, United Nations, the EU, ad nauseum.
This is the same organization that thought nothing of carrying a news website requesting people to report on troop movements in Iraq.
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And whose reporting on the Iraq War – with Huw Edwards again well to the fore in this – on the news was always along the lines of…’Coalition troops advance 300 miles into Iraq, General Schwarzkopf very pleased with progress, but (unspoken subtext – and here’s the good news for all you lefties out there) a tank-carrier lost its wheel on the Basra road.’.
9pm news every night followed exactly that format, always that ‘but’ there – all in the interests of ‘balance’ of course.
And as for that vile creature Rageh Omar – could not manage to hide is ‘anti’-sentiment – even to the extent that having been briefed that the US troops would be takingn Tehran airport that day he turned up with his cameraman and mocked – yes mocked – the Americans because they hadn’t arrived there.
‘Any troops here? ( pantomime look around) – no… but mind you there’s an old man with a brush.’
While you were playing to your gallery of left-wing chums, mate, we were at war.
During the Iraq War squads of rifled up British Soldiers should have been despatched to drag these traitors by the hair from their studios to some very cold, dank dungeon cells for vigorous interrogation for their treachery at time of war. It would have been great for this to have happened to Humphrys and Naughtie while on air and listening to the teeth of a preening producer getting knocked out with a rifle butt as he played to the gallery. When we’re at war the rules change. These vermin had this coming to them.
I hope the new government will make a start on phasing out the licence fee system. It could be done in stages, gradually phasing it out and allowing the management to find new funding sources.
I’m sure it won’t to too difficult for them to find 3.5 billion pounds worth of revenue based on the quality of their “product”.
I’m sure the exercise will greatly concentrate their collective minds on cutting out any unnecessary expenses.
i’m sure they’d get ample finding from George Soros.
Listening – or, rather, half-listening – to Today this morning two things became apparent:
1. the same old, same old half-truths and nuanced responses by the politicians continues without a break in the beat, in this case from David Laws (the deservedly unknown LibDem) and Hague
2. the realisation that whatever happens in the weeks and months to come, as far as Today is concerned, the “good” will be a product of the LibDems, the “bad” will be the product of the Conservatives
You know, I’m almost beginning to miss Gordon – particularly as (unsuspected by me, at any rate) he was apparently a secular saint who sacrificed himself for the public good for 13 glorious years and – as the political class all agree – left us with a “fairer, better educated, more prosperous Greater Britain”. Not one, not one commentator – and that includes the dildos now in power – mentioned (on Today) the disastrous consequences of Brown’s economic policies. Mind you, since the new government is going to continue those policies in, at least, the short term (to “sustain the recovery” and, presumably, to keep St Vince’s halo on straight) they wouldn’t dare criticise the 21st century Sage of Kirkcaldy.
Beeboid editorial line:
Where did it all go wrong? Oh woe is us.
It will never last. Nice LibDems will soon see through nasty Tories
Tory cuts. Tory Cuts
Like others I am stuck as to how the concerns of LibDems regarding coalition as parmount, but any concerns held by Conservtives are ignored or treated as bigotry.
After an election, losers generally graciously get off side and media concerntres on explaiing policies if new government. Instead wie have seen Labour make the most ungracious exit and the Beeboids have taken an unremittingly negarive line.
I agree with John Rattray’s last comment – the Beeb can’t even be bothered to hide the open bias any more.
Over the past two days I have just flicked between Sky news and BBC news – the difference in coverage and commentators and approach is wider than ever.
That the odious beeb aren’t even trying to hide their disappointment is quite clear.
The Mosque household also had to tidy up the Champers bottles this morning. It was an especially pleasant victory as my marxist sister in law is staying with us at the moment. I forced her to have a mouthful of champers. She was talking about class war and harking back to the eighties. Like most lefties and the beeb I think she has missed the entire significance of what just happened.
These LibDems are going to be a nightmare when the government wants to get anything done. Look at the rigmarole of toing-and-froing consultations with LibDem committees, MPs, Uncle tomm Cobbley and re working out an arrangement to get into government. One night they went on till two in the morning and the following night, with major events unfolding and great change happening, there they were in a back room going on until midnight poring over details and jobs for the boys.
Do you think if the Martians landed, LibDems would have to report in turn to the executive committee, the MPs and the party members before going out to meet and greet these extraordinary strangers from the most foreign of foreign parts?
Oops: Uncle Tom Cobbley and all.
Of course it won’t hold together – they’ll be at each other’s throats within 12 months. Glad I’m away from it all.
I’ve just given a listen to the report below by Justin Webb on today. Pure propaganda on behalf of left-wing Libdems, putting words into the mouths of the Libdems as a whole instead of letting them speak for themselves, which when we did manage to catch snatches from them wasn’t what he said they were saying. I’ve just had my tea (or as you souther jessies would say “dinner”). I dont have the stomache to listen to anymore of this obscene ‘journalism’. Cameron isn’t going to do a thing about it and his Coalition is going to come apart. And serves him right.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8676000/8676725.stm
Listened to PM this afternoon. Sycophantic coverage of Milliband plus usual anti – Con lines.
Bigging up on the 55%. Apparently it is 55% for a dissolution of Parliament before its term and still 50% plus 1 to defeat the Government. Not quite the same thing as the BBC were trying to portray.
You never know the eyes of those supporting the Liberal Party may well be opened to the level of (im)partiality at the BBC, which would augur well for a broader spread of political opinion on here against the BBC.
Posters please remember political rants on here reduce the value of this website. Who you voted for and why should be irrelevant on here.
The BBC has already indicated its intent with regard to the government and you can safely bet that the choice of leader for Her Majesty’s Opposition will feature hugely more than similar events in other parties so we can be sure that the steady flow of examples of bias for us to highlight and discuss on this site is set to continue.