I see that the BBC has apologised “unreservedly” after a radio DJ joked during a live broadcast that the Queen had died.
Danny Kelly, 39, told BBC WM listeners he had an important announcement to make before saying: “Queen Elizabeth II has now died.” The DJ played the national anthem as he made the joke during his weekday afternoon slot on Monday, which is broadcast from the corporation’s Birmingham base to listeners across the West Midlands.
Watching too much Alan Partridge maybe?
Oh and don’t forget to put those champagne bottles back into storage Beeboids – hope you have enough for that bitch Thatcher as well! Nothing like planning ahead with our licence fee money is there?
the beeb have lost the plot,get rid,hope mr hunt has read this,do something please….
The BBC are scum and vermin.
I have some important news.
After a long illness culminating in senile dementia and delusions of grandeur, the BBC died this morning aged 87.
I will now play the BBC anthem “The Internationale” aka THE RED FLAG.
Now if it had been the Cuban National anthem and the death of Fidel Castro, that would have been hilarious. I guess he must still be alive as the BBC don’t appear to have had a month long tribute to him.
Beeboids really are so bitter and twisted , it is pathological.
When Castro pops his clogs the beeboids will be in mourning. I however will dance in the streets.
Where there will be records playing and people swaying — but not in Hoxton, Islington and White City!
When Fidel dies, my flat will be littered with empty Champagne bottles , but not Cuban cigars !
Grant — haven’t you heard. Castro dies three years ago.
That’s just his zombified corpse we see on TV.
Well I did wonder !
Scum, all of them, just scum.
Why wasnt he fired?
I posted a linked article about this yesterday, on the Open Thread. It was in The Daily Mail.
Just joking…
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/philipjohnston/100040166/are-labours-spendthrift-ministers-just-going-to-get-away-with-it
The BBc has been i full ‘Move along…’ mode today.
It is the Permanent Secretary or other civil servants in a Department who have to answer to the National Audit Office and the Commons Public Accounts Committee – and any review by the NAO is likely to lead to a reference to the PAC. The Permanent Sec is the Accounting Officer for the Department – he carries the can.
If Ministers decide to spend money on items either outside the legislatitive boundaries, or where there are project risks that point strongly against the expenditure, the Perm Sec would ask for his officials’ strong advice to be over-ridden. This gives the Perm Sec cover to the NAO and PAC – and should in these cases drop the responsible Ministers into the firing line.
This happened very very rarely in my time. It was only bozos like Tony Benn who would cross the line. But this time it sounds like several Ministers and lots of items, much more serious.
What is needed is a Freedom of Information request or a Parliamentary Question for each Department along the lines – “For each year since (XXXX) how many times have Accounting Officers requested formal direction on spending matters ?”
I’m sorry. I’m very confused. In what possible universe could this type of thing be construed as a joke. In what sor of universe would this person not be fired immediately. I can’t see the humor here of even a world class villain like Fidel or Kim Jong Il dying.
If this man retains a position at the BBC it says all there is to know.
It reminds me of the senior Foreign Office official who circulated a memo insulting the Pope. How is that even possible? An FCO official’s business is diplomacy. How could someone be employed for years in the FCO and not know that that was the very opposite of diplomacy and completely irresponsible, embarrassing and offensive?
Similarly, how could someone employed in broadcasting to the public for a number of years not have any sense of the public responsibility of their job or any common sense or maturity that would tell them it would be totally irresponsible and unacceptable to pull a trick like that?
These people were not inexperienced 20-year-olds. They were of mature adult age and had plenty of experience in their jobs.
Yep, what WJ says.
Sure, you can argue endlessly about where the boundries of humour are, but I don’t think I’m going out on a limb when I say a joke has to have an actual point?
Here? Not so much: they’re pretending someone liberals hate has died. Ha, ha!
Really? Where’s the humour in that? You can’t accuse this guy of ‘going too far’ – he hasn’t actually gone anywhere, just indulged in a bit of public fanatsising about the death of people of whom the left does not approve. If you don’t think liberal hate figures dying is automatically hilarious, you won’t get anything out of this.
Bias? There literally isn’t anything else there.