It’s been entertaining listening to the BBC do everything possible to undermine the new Lib/Con Government. Every card is being played to give the impression that things look grim. I liked the BBC comment that the press conference in the Downing Street garden looked liked “a civil partnership.” I guess they would know?
TIME FOR A NEW ELECTION?
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As I posted elsewhere, PRIOR to this agreement the BBC were massively in favour of coalitions, now though the BBC have gone cold.
Now the BBC are going on about the effing jocks again. WE DON’T CARE ABOUT THE SODDING JOCKS!!!!!
So true. I lost count of how many times the Beeboids said that a coalition government would be strong, and saying that there were all sorts of coalition governments in other countries that worked well. Now they keep suggesting to everyone they talk to that it can’t work, and finding voters that are unhappy.
I can’t bear it, the Beeb are being so negative.
BBC are broken-hearted, cut them some slack… 😀
But they are consoling themselves with the distant hope of Labour returning to haunt us all led by a millipede. 😀
They can see the tunnel at the end of the light.
Close down the BBC.
Ban the TV Tax.
Read the drug addled beeboids GLOWING account of coalition government in NewZealand. Note that the BBC don’t mention that activists in the parties might be angry that deals are done NOR does the BBC go on that perhaps parts of NZ might not be happy with who gets power.
Shame the BBC can’t wait for it to fail here.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8665835.stm
On the plus side, with the BBC being so negative about the Lib Dems first taste of power for a squillion years, they might actually succeed in turning some of their natural supporters against them. A Grand Coalition against the BBC?
I wonder how long before the beeboids turn on St Vince?
They’ve been pretty positive to the neutral eye. Nick Robinson couldn’t be happier
DG and his ‘mission to explain’. Another beeboid confuses opinionating with reporting.
He’s a nice guy is David. At least he was always polite when he used to post on this blog a few years ago. Nice to see him again.
Is that why Robinson’s first question was a sarcastic insult (which the BBC has truncated in subsequent repeats)? And why his report on it is skeptical, calling it a “civil partnership”, taking care to point out the word order in Cameron’s term “liberal-conservative” government?
Robinson came across as a total prat today
Yes Sky and ITV called it a marraige but the homosexual dominated BBC have to refer to civil partnerships
David Gregory!! Welcome back. How are you these days?
I heard Jeremy Hunt , Culture Secretary tell a worried BBC journalist, that he thought there’d be changes at the BBC !
Good, starting with mass executions I hope!
Ooh, good news at last. Labour might have to elect a decent human-being to get elected after all.
Well the gloves are off on Newsnight, full attack mode on the Tories mostly but the Limp Dems getting it of Michael Prick and Rat Face.
BBC Newsnight ugly pig rat face was in full class war again. The BBC must be desperate if they keep having to return to that old well for water.
Wark made a fool of herself. This was just very very poor stuff and as good a reason for putting Newsnight out of it’s misery as I can think of. It was laughable and I am no great fan of the Cameron project.
That was the entire basis of the Labour campaign. Aided and abeted by the BBC who gave them plenty of air time to on and on and basically lying about Tory policies every time a Labour mouthpiece was within ten feet of a microphone.
It’s the number one reason why the Tories didn’t get that majority.
As noted on Guido re Newsnight tonight:
“… bigging up Militwat as being some kind of man of the people.
The end of Newsnight tonight was fucking ridiculous too, loads of pictures of twosomes extending through Little and Large, Two Fat Ladies, The Krankies and ending with Rolf Harris and Emu. A big fuck you “V” sign from the bad losers at the Beeb.”
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I forgot to mention earlier how pathetic it is for Robert Peston to be talking about the financial markets’ “lukewaaaarm” response to the new coalition government. We all know that the markets were ready to panic over a Labour victory or Lib/Lab coalition, especially if Peston’s biography subject stayed in office.
Because of the current circumstances, and no publicly revealed in-depth details of Tory plans for serious enough cuts and restructuring, nothing was going to see a real boost with a Conservative win. The fact that sterling and gilts didn’t tank, and the first phone call Cameron took at No. 10 was not from the IMF, is about as much of a sign of confidence as one could expect.
Oh, and I’d bet that the traders weren’t exactly unhappy that Vince Cable – the BBC’s patron saint of 20/20 hindsight – is not Chancellor. Lord knows if Boy George is up to the task, but Cable has been against every good idea before he was for it. (Martin was months ahead of Andrew Neil – the only Beeboid to dare challenge St. Vince – on that one.)
But Peston isn’t going to focus too much on how another Brown Government was going to send gilt and the pound into the toilet. He wants the contract for that next biography.
It will be interesting to see how long Peston remains in his job. Now Nu-Lab is no more all of Pestons mates have left the Treasury so no more easy stories from his sources. Now he is going to have to work for his stories.
Peston still has all his City contacts. Even though the new No. 10 will still feed BBC early soundbites, I bet they won’t be getting advice from Peston how the media is going to cover their next action before announcing it. And he won’t be working so hard to shift blame away from the current Prime Minister, either.
Radio 5 in full attack mode this morning. Attacking the TORIES on immigration (there’s a shock) and the idea of elected Police chiefs.
Message to thick beeboids: YOU LOST THE ELECTION TWATS
To the libleft it is just a setback on the long march to the inevitable triumph of the chattering classes.
Very disappointed, although not surprised, to hear the treatment Andrew Lansley recieved from Humphries this morning on the Toady program.
The continual pretence that Lansley was ‘cutting’ if he refused to keep pumping in money as fast as Labour (i.e. with an internal inflation figure of 6-7% per year), was disgusting and misleading.
I am sick of the BBC setting the narrative before the interview on such programmes and then aggressively interviewing to appear to achieve the desired result. Then they bookend this by more twisting at a point where there is no right of reply. If the BBC is to survive as a news organisation they must learn to put their own prejudices aside.
Humphrys was more than usually economically illiterate this morning. As well as flippantly dealing with serious issues – but that is par for the course.
Tony. We don’t want the BBC to survive, we want to get rid of them forever !
I would fall short of that, I woud just reduce its news output significant;y and give it a more responsive role in documentary and childrens programing. I like some of its output and we need a national broadcaster, but the bias towards the wooly kind of thinking that destroyed education in the 60s and 70s has to go.
The BBC is so ridiculously saturated with lefty bias, It has become a comedy. Flagship programs such as News Night draw attention to the rotten state of affairs. Message to the BBC – “you are on a hole , keep digging”.
Undermine? No, no. Factual & objective at all times, our BBC.
Gather round a snigger with Aunty:
r4today “They were so lovey dovey, if they’d turned up at a B&B, Chris Grayling would have forbidden them from coming in” Listen: http://is.gd/c77kx
I expect them to be buying space on toilet (easy, Martin) walls next to broaden their broadcast empire’s reach.
Now that we have a ‘new’ administration, it is about time that we encouraged the BBC to remove Nick Robinson and Robert Peston, respectively Political and Business Editors, from their jobs. They are both, in my eyes, guilty of overtly biased reporting in favour of NuLab and of having insufficient respect for leading politicians and other public figures. Their reports are characterised by a smug, glib, ‘smart-arse’ delivery that is heavy on irony, and with Robinson, loaded with weak, punch-line witticisms. In the case of Peston, his presentation skills include a manufactured semi-stutter sounding as if he is making it up as he goes along, perhaps he does? Both men lack the gravitas their job requires. A recently as last night, Peston, reporting from outside the Bank of England, referred to Mervyn King as, “The bloke in the building behind me”.
ANTHONY HENTON: Their reports are characterised by a smug, glib, ‘smart-arse’ delivery that is heavy on irony…
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Smart arse is right. They have a whole stable of them who indulge in that affected swaggering BBC delivery and they wheel more of them out for the election – Jeremy Vine, Giles Shoutalot, Somebody Rowlatt (not sure of the spelling of that one) are all examples of it. In addition, we have the noisy hectorers and hecklers: Paxman, Wark and …add to the list any more you can think of. And then we have, almost in a class of his own, the swaggering self-adoring John Humphreys, a man who positively rings with self regard.
Anthony,
If we removed all left-wing Beeboids , there would be none left.
Er…………..
I wasn’t offended by the “civil partnership” jokes, but what sticks in one’s craw is knowing that if it had been Mandelson and Simon Hughes enjoying a light-hearted and chummy press conference in a rose garden the BBC would have gone a mile out of the way not to make these comments. That’s when sensitivity suddenly kicks in.
OT because the open thread is off the page for me:
I just heard a female World Service Beeboid say to her guest in the studio that Vince Cable has been “widely praised – on both sides – for his analysis” of the financial situation.
That’s because he’s been on both sides of nearly every important issue. Vince Cable: the BBC’s patron saint of 20/20 hindsight. It’s funny because Robert Peston was saying on Today that his banker buddies were nervous about the possibility of power over the banks being shifted to St. Vince. Apparently they’re relieved that the Treasury will retain authority because St. Vince was going to break up the banks. Peston said they were worried about their employees. Nice.
If you want to be cheered up, watch Have I Got News For You from last night, 13 May. Ian Hislop is clearly very pleased, as is guest Julia Hartley-Brewer (?).
Hislop said one of the best things about our new government is that we don’t have to see Alastair Campbell on TV ever again. I hope he’s right. If I see Kirsty Wark flirting with Campbell on Newsnight even one more time, I might throw up.