Couldn’t believe that our dear friends at the BBC have given even more time to eulogise their fallen comrade Jimmy Reid. Listen to it here. The BBC have already devoted considerable time to his death here. I wonder what was it about the communist labour agitator Reid that so appeals to the BBC?
THE BALLAD OF JIMMY REID…
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I was wondering about that. The first thing I saw when I turned on the computer was Billy Connolly in tears over this exemplar of the “Scottish working class”. Are trade union leaders the equal of national political leaders in the UK? I bet the BBC won’t be showing anyone shedding a tear over Mrs. Thatcher when her time comes.
Most trade union leaders are either Scots or scousers, why is that?
I almost find it touching. All these upper middle class Jocastas and Ruperts expiating their guilt of privilege by deifying Marxist clowns and demagogues. Enough to make you weep….with laughter.
Yup, it would be hilarious if the BBC wasn’t so toxic.
Reid was a scumbags scumbag, he betrayed generations of his own people and sentenced them and their children to a life without work. A Marxist saboteur who worked to destroy industrial relations at the ship yards and took his orders from Moscow to sabotage UK industrial output, ship yards that could be banging out ships today are rotting and gone, strikes strikes strikes about nothing and restricted working practices and above it all a burning hatred of those he classed as the enemy of Marxist revolution.
I hope the bastard rots in the deepest pits of hell for his betrayal, not the betrayal of his country but the betrayal of his own people on the alter of his failed corrupt and utterly rancid ideology.
Young people will never know real work, they live pointless lives with no future and all because Jimmy Reid and his class war comrades put ideology before humanity.
One day there will be a reckoning for all the traitors and betrayers and crooks who infested the union movement, this day came too late for Reid but I know in my heart he has not escaped some kind of judgement.
I heard the word “Communist” mentioned under a Beeboid’s breath a while ago, but that’s it. Right now I’m learning that Reid “really understood working people”. There isn’t a single critic in evidence. Now I’ve been reminded of a New York Times quote comparing one of his speeches to Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. That’s very offensive to me.
Huw Welshman agrees with the encomium, openly stated, on air. Out loud. Will any BBC employee openly concur on air with anyone praising Mrs. Thatcher?
Brilliant!
Jimmy Reid was, it has to be said, a man of great personal charm and, unlike most on the Left, could write. Still doesn’t excuse his Communism, however – no-one eulogises a supporter of apartheid (rightly) and no-one should eulogise him.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2010/08/11/former-clydeside-shipbuilding-union-chief-jimmy-reid-dies-aged-78-86908-22480000/
A non-BBC obituary:
Group Captain, Dennis Lyster
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/7947022/Group-Captain-Dennis-Lyster.html#disqus_thread
They bigged up Reid on the One Show, I cou;dn’t believe the crap they were coming out with. God help us when good ole A Scargill kicks the proverbial bucket, the beeb will call a national week of mourning. Where do they find these commie sympathising clowns? If Reid had got his way we’d be all kitted out in Chairman Mao suits by now, and getting a whole bowl of rice a day.
God save us from this beeb shit!
I can understand, to a point, why Reid’s passing has received such prominence. Alex Ferguson and Billy Connolly giving orations at the man’s memorial is newsworthy in anyone’s book, but has this Scottish hero received the mention he deserves on the BBC?:-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1304179/Lord-Lovats-legendary-D-Day-piper-played-wave-Allied-troops-landed-beaches-dies.html
As some note I from time to time give our friends north of the border a hard time, but I do laugh at the way the BBC are fawning over this dead commie when we are this year celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, yet the man who masterminded that victory (Hugh Dowding) is forgotten by the BBC.
Dowding was a jock and the parallels between Dowding and Nelson are uncanny. Both of them were devoted to their men, both insisted their fighting force be fully trained and with the finest equipment (unlike the officers of today to toady to politicians and special interests) of the day.
Dowding did more than just fight the Germans, he had to fight Churchill who wanted to piss the RAF away trying to save the spineless French, for which he eventually paid with his job.
The BBC were banging on today about what goes on the spare plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2012 after the ship in the bottle has had its turn.
Wouldn’t it be more fitting if perhaps the BBC gave Dowding the credit he deserves and perhaps suggested that the empty plinth be finally used for a monument to Dowding? Both Nelson and Dowding fought and won critical battles, shame the BBC don’t give Dowding more credit.
Well said, Martin. Reid was a worthless scumbag, while Dowding a great man. I bet the Beeboids have never even heard of him.
Dowding was like Nelson, really? It is a myth that the RAF won the Battle of Britian on its own. What about the Poles? Pilots from the Empire? FAA pilots? The Luftwaffe’s strategic mistakes? And last and by no means last the Royal Navy’s controlling both the Channel and the North Sea. You have watched too many B&W films on rainy Sunday afternoons me thinks…
Errm, were not the overseas volunteers RAF pilots?
Un no actually you’re wrong, I was specifically talking about Dowding’s leadership of the RAF, sure there was luck, as in every battle, the Royal Navy was irrelevant in the Battle of Britain as convoys had to be routed around Scotland or pass through the Channel at night time.
The Navy would have only been relevant in trying to stop an invasion taking place and the reason for trying to eliminate the RAF was so that the Royal Navy could have been destroyed from the air.
Had the RAF been destroyed even if we hadn’t been invaded it is likely we as a nation would have had to withdraw from the war.
Oh and as was pointed out all of the foreign pilots were part of the RAF.
Dowding’s victory WAS more important in many ways than Trafalgar, had Britain been forced out of WW2 there is a very good chance Germany would have prevailed for some time afterwards.
The superb Poles and the Empire pilots joined the RAF – they were not some sort of independent force. And command of the Channel had little to do with the aerial battle.
The Battle of Britain was just as significant as Trafalgar to Britain’s safety. Sure there were stupidities on the German side, but giving better recognition to Dowding would be to applaud the RAF and The Few – no bad thing, surely.
Jimmy Reid was a thoroughly decent man who did his best for the people he grew up amongst and worked with. He had a deep sense of right and wrong and was a strongly moral man: something which seems to be quite beyond most of those in public life nowadays. I didn’t share his politics but I did share with many people who came in contact with him, in one way or the other, a deep respect for him.
Graham Evans. Do you actually know what Jimmy Reid thought of Arthur Scargill and said about him or are you just talking out of your arse through habit?
Daddymunro, please share what the late Mr Reid had to say about Arthur Scargill … On second thoughts, I’ve googled .. The Telegraph and others given more of a round picture of Reid the man (slagging of Benn too!) than appears to be the case on the BBC:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/7939512/Jimmy-Reid.html
Ooh, and what the SWP kindly inform us of is he wrote a regular column in Rupert Murdoch’s Sun:-
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=22157
No “decent man” can be a communist.
Can a BNP voter be a “decent man”?
Well I am not a BNP voter , but, if I had to choose between the CP and BNP, which thank goodness I don’t, I would prefer the latter.
@Daddymunro:
No sir , I didnt know what he thought and said about Arthur Scargill but thanks to you I do now. I had my huge bowl of humble pie for Brekkie this morning, and I’m grateful to you for pointing out my errors. Always ready to learn !