I don’t know culture secretary Jeremy Hunt. But I do know something of his views, courtesy of the Observer, today; and what is increasingly clear is that he talks utter nonsense. This, for example, is his considered pronouncement about the BBC:
“It is one of our crown jewels,” he says. “It produces fantastic TV programmes.” And it has “probably the most respected news service in the world”.
Despite such vomit-inducing sycophancy, he can force himself to offer a few words of criticism about the great corporation that swallows £3.5bn of our cash a year. Although even then, he is mealy-mouthed:
“I think if you were to discover how people vote at the BBC there are probably more ho vote Labour or Liberal Democrat than vote for the Conservatives.. (but)”their commitment to independent journalism comes before any political affiliation”.
and this:
“I think the BBC does recognise that on certain very totemic issues of the last decade it was out of step with where the public are, whether it was on Europe, on immigration or our approach to Northern Ireland.”
So let’s get this straight. We supposedly have a reformist government of the right and all it can muster by way of criticism of the BBC is vague namby-pamby platitudes about left-wing bias in the past and a vague stab at clairvoyance in guessing that some BBC staff might not vote Conservative. Oh, my word, quelle horreur!
The reality is that systematic evidence is available that over the past decade, the BBC newsgathering operation has been fanatically biased on issues such as the British history, the EU, climate change, coverage of Islam and Israel – and much more. Biased-BBC has chronicled much of it, and I know of at least 20 in-depth reports that are publicly available, including one commissioned by the Conservative party itself. There are none so blind as those who don’t want to see. The Tories could do something if they wanted, but the will is clearly lacking…and instead, it looks like we might end up with Blair crony Jonathan Powell as new chair of the BBC Trust. I increasingly agree with James Delingpole that despite all the bluster, this government is indistinguishable from that of Brown and Blair. We have a ruling class that is totally out of touch with reality.
He’s not very good, is he ?
I think the nick name the beeb have for him is just about right,Eric Pickles should have his job.Then the beeb would be shitting themselves.
Since eric and jeremy started in their jobs I have posted links to this web site via their email.
Mr Hunt just said write to the beeb if you have a complant,and eric said write to mr hunt,so they all think the beeb is good and dont need changing.Still send links though keep up the good work everyone keep faith and email them every week if need be..
Still think Lord Tebbit should be the one to sort out the drugged up beeboid scum. No wonder everyone call Hunt a c**t.
‘We have a ruling class that is totally out of touch with reality.’
Indeed. And here was me thinking they were merely our representatives. Ironic though when thieves fall out. The the suck up really worked… not.
Who was it that coined the phrase ‘Control the media; control the mind’?
Bad enough with an elected government, but at least democracy allows a performance review every few years.
But allow policy to be controlled 24/7 over decades with no end by a uniquely-funded broadcast-only medium, with zero check or balance, then you are simply out of your mind.
If the BBC questioned AGW or the EU, two areas where billions have been squandered, then the conservatives would probably do something.
The conservatives need the BBC to stick to their bias. The truth, in these two areas would immensely damage all the political class.
BBCPolitics BBC Politics From Marr Show: Denham: Labour reaching out to LibDems. Danny Alexander: Coalition rock solid. Sir John Major: People must hold nerve.
An interesting summary of the show.
What I noted most was John Major giving ‘um’ Marr an object lesson in objectivity.
Maybe they missed that bit.
Jeremy Hunt is my local MP, he lives, quite literally, just down my road. He is an excellent local MP but on national issues he’s as weak as Cameron.
I wrote to him expressing my amazement that his Party hadn’t even mentioned the fact that Labour purposefully flooded this country with 3rd world immigrants in order to change the cultural and genetic make-up of Britain and destroy thousands of years of Northern European culture.
He promised me that they’d be ‘exposing this and many other acts of treason’ in the election campaign. Obviously they didn’t as they’re weak as piss!
His latest pamphlet claims that over-development of this area is the greatest concern to local residents, yet Cameron wants to flood Britain with Turkish immigrants and do very little to control our current immigration problem.
Eloquent skewering of Hunt by Robin. Hunt really does make a fool of himself with his facing-both-ways contradictions and, as Robin so aptly puts it, mealy mouthed pronouncements on the Beeboid Corporation.
As for the idea of Jonathan Powell at the Beeboid “Trust”, well, why would they even think of him? He is utterly political, arrogant as hell and combative with it. On his form, I wouldn’t expect him to take the slightest bit of notice of what the majority of the people think about anything.
“..his facing-both-ways contradictions” – so he is a LibDem then?
Very good, very quick – had a good snigger at that one, Mr. Tooke!
“They say prepare for anything before going on Today but that took the biscuit… I was laughing as much as u Jim or shld I say Dr Spooner”
Tweets by Jeremy_Hunt
The cap fits for Tony Cameron and Gordon McClegg, but I don’t see the bBC noticing it any time soon…