You would think that all good Guardianistas would have better memories. On “Today” this morning, Justin Webb got stuck into Nick Clegg with the repeated attack line that he had changed his mind on what was needed to fix the economy. As a Biased BBC reader reports…
Britain needs ‘savage’ cuts, says Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg.
Patrick Wintour and Allegra Stratton The Guardian, Saturday 19 September 2009
The BBC rarely let facts contradict their ‘narrative’.
It’s massive cuts. You’re going to be taxed till it squeeks to pay for the bloated public sector.
That means the massive cuts are in your spending on your family.
Ah! 6PM News and its’s “massive cuts” all the way again.
We should have a list of all the words used by the BBC to describe the cuts. So far I’ve heard
Massive
Savage
Cruel
Huge
Sweeping
Any others?
Cruel? Really? What’re they going to do next, splice a frame of Thatcher’s face, mushroom clouds, starving Africans, and marching Nazis into odd single frames of their broadcasts? Jesus.
Eeeeeevil!
‘Drastic’ (used by two beeboids within five minutes of each other yesterday)
Swinging?
Yes swingeing is another used on a regular basis. Regarding ‘cruel’ and ‘evil’ beeboids have used those when parroting Liebour politicians comments or twats from the Unions. But the beeboids do that as they’d have a hard job using those words themselves. I call it the Nikki Campbell school of journalism.
On the Today programme this morning was the oft repeated lie that all our troubles were caused because of the bank bail out. Now as a RBS HBOS shareholder I am not so thrilled about large bank bonus’ being paid out I think a little bit of the trouble was caused by someone between 1997 and 2010 spending rather more than he had and borrowing to pay for it. Anyone seen a rocking horse?
Yes Deborah the deficit is down to reckless public spending that we couldn’t afford and that lies with ONE man, the one eyed idiot from Fife.
The deficit has nothing to do with the banking bail out, the BBC know that but lie to try to fool us that the incompetence of Liebour is not highlighted. Even Blair in his book said public spending was too high.
et St Vince Cable – still maintained that on the news today. “The Banks got us into this mess” – The Lib Dems who seem to be wholly in government on their own, are going to come down hard on bankers bonuses. Can they really stop Barclays Bank giving bonuses to their staff? Is that not down to the shareholders. In cases where the tax payer (without any say in the matter) bailed out Royal Bank of Scotland for example then the goverment can act.
if we relied on the BBC we would never find out how things come about. The BBC say “the banks” as if every single bank was “saved” by the tax payer and every single bank “got us into this mess”. Nothing in the real world ever works like this. The BBC reporting on a compicated matter like the cast of Friends. (ie 30 year olds acting ike children).
That man sounds more batty by the day. Does he think he is a government of one? Getting a wee bit of power seems to have gone to his head.
Shhh the labour government had no responsibility in this area; after all what could they do after 18 years of Tory rule?
I play a very jolly little game in my tractor, listening to the Steve Wright Glottal Stop Show. (Funny, when he was on Radio 1, he never did it.)
I run a mini-sweepstake with myself (it’s lonely in there, you know) as to how long it’ll be before the Coalition Cuts are mentioned. Both yesterday and today it was around 35 minutes. Yesterday it provoked an outbreak of tut tutting and stern voices from the assorted Glottal Stoppers.
This is total utter madness.
The reason public spending has to be reduced is because of ENORMOUS public spending and borrowing by the prior Labout government. It is nothing to do with the Coalition AT ALL. Any ‘cuts’ are Labour cuts.
And not once during this latest volley of attacks on the Tories has the BBC ever mentioned any of the untolds billions of pounds thrown at PFIs or other public expenditures (such as the £2 billion+ he cost you to eat Metronet), which he shifted off the books so they didn’t count against the budget. Even when they do occasionally mention PFIs, the BBC comes in for the defense. Not even BBC business editor and Gordon Brown biographer Robert Peston has admitted that keeping the budget figures artificially low enabled even more public spending of money you didn’t have.
The BBC quietly slipped in that the reason we had to borrow so much in August was ‘we’ had to pay back nearly 4 billion in interest payments on the national debt.
So we’re having to borrow money to pay back even more, even the BBC’s Hugh Pym admitted this might strengthen George Osborne’s position.
No, it would strengthen anyone with a conscience, how can we go on borrowing money to use it to pay back our debt????? That is the sign of madness.
We pay back 44 billion in interest payments every year, if Liebour got their way that would rise to 70 billion (double the defence budget) it’s total madness that Liebour should be taken seriously.