It’s going to be a crunch week for the Coalition and the BBC is out to ensure maximum damage, as one would anticipate from such a biased leftist broadcaster. So, take the news this morning that the leaders of 35 of the UK’s most successful large companies have come out supporting Chancellor Osborne’s approach to making the necessary cuts. It’s good news for wee Georgie but Robert Pesto (He who speaks in an odd voice) isn’t impressed. As he puts it...
“However, some people would point out that these bosses may be experts at running businesses but that does not make them experts at how best to manage the economy, our correspondent adds.”
Great point, Robert, Oh, and some of them are are “widely viewed” as ..gasp, supporters of the Conservative Party. Where will it end? Who needs Labour when you have the BBC to oppose the Coalition?
What does University educated Osbourne know about the economy? What do the heads of the major companies in Britain know about utilisation of resources and cost trimming in times of economic downturn? Far better to listen to an ex postman who did not get ‘O’ level maths or a left wing reporter like Peston who cannot string a sentence together without drifting off as if he has forgotten what he was talking about or is totally bored with the whole thing.
The BBC prefers academics who have never run a business or totally unqualified by either experience or training journos.
“However, some people would point out…”
“There are those who would say…”
“Many believe that…..”
Never are these “Some, Those, Many” ever named.
I always assune that these are proxies for the BBC correspondents personal views.
I commented on Peston’s rant on the 10pm news in the general thread. Peston forgot that these 35 bosses are the WEALTH creators in the UK and that they know a lot more about the economy than some mincing halfwit from the BBC.
And yes did Andrew Marr challenge Postman Pat on his admission he has no clue about economics? That puts him in the same group as Peston, Flanders and Mason. The new ‘Three Twats’
Correspondent’s, natch!
“However, some people would point out that these bosses may be experts at running businesses but that does not make them experts at how best to manage the economy, our correspondent adds.”
as opposed to Alan Johnston,the new shadow chancellor who(ho Ho) had to buy an idiots guide to economics when he got the job because he’s so thick
how we laffed
Still wondering why Robert ‘son of Labour Lord’ Peston hasn’t been asked to reveal his inside (Cabinet office?) sources on the officially encouraged and for the shareholders utterly disastrous takeover of HBOS by Lloyds. He played a crucial part in promoting the deal – indeed, his broadcast reports triggered the price movements which effectively made it a fait accompli. Frankly, I want my money back, I want the leaker (Mr G Brown?) jailed, and I want Peston in a job where he can never again do such damage (shelf stacking?)
Although it appears to be a week old, I caught this gem this morning from the BBC’s Scottish Political Editor:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11516478
His head-shaking disbelief at a poll finding that Scots blame Labour for the whole sorry mess just leaps out at you from the screen!
The trouble is it doesn’t seem to stop my fellow countrymen from voting for the bastards.
Bring on English independence I’m afraid.
To judge from the SNP leader’s speech yesterday, even though they allow that Labour messed things up, of course the nasty Tories are even worse, and cuts are evil, destroying public services, etc.
That’s because it’s generally accepted up here that money grows on trees.
So is That Pest too thick to realise that we don’t have government of experts? That’s why we have an ex-postman to shadow the Treasury and quite often have historians or some such “expert” actually in charge of it.
Radio 5 last night was banging on about the scale of the cuts , after a phone-in, the “best” contributions (against cuts) were played during the news. The upshot was that the BBC gave more weight to the ramblings of a London taxi triver than the 35 hoplessly unqualified business leaders.
Whilst Peston is undoubtably thick I am not impressed by the ones signing the letter, all heads of large companies, those who would have us into the EU in a flash, in short rent seekers. These are the people who don’t want you to have plastic bags, eat five a day and tell us that windmills are good for us. They are good with the new language of “management speech” and can read a balance sheet but also pimp for the government, they did it with the last lot as well. Brown nosed rent seekers.
There’s nothing wrong with the Common Market as a fair trade zone, but the political nonsense is caused by useless politicians not business leaders.
What makes Peston qualified to pontificate on who is `expert at how best to manage the economy’ ? I don’t recall him sounding ANY warnings about the risks to the economy from the housing boom fueled by the Labour government’s policies BEFORE the housing crisis blew up — he was too busy contributing to the adulation of Gordon Brown as he wrote his biography
No doubt BBC regard the trades unions as the real experts! Incidentally, I wonder when we will hear them refer to trade union leaders as “bosses”.