Well, the excruciatingly awful Nicky Campbell “The Big Question” is back. Here are two of the topics chosen today; “Will bankers got to heaven?” and “Is Islam a better guide for life?” Need I say more? BBC in full on anti-Capitalism and anti-Christian mode for a Sunday morning! What would the chances be of the following “big questions” being asked.”Will Trade Unionists go to heaven” and “Is Christianity a better guide for life”?
DO BANKERS GO TO HEAVEN?
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Next BBC-EU ‘The Big Question’?:
Do we need Christian dates in our EU calendar?:
“EU sends out millions of diaries to schools listing Muslim holidays but omitting Christmas and Easter“
“Is Islam a better guide for life?”
Nope it’s a good way to end up dead mind you can find the answer to the bankers question in person I suppose so there’s a bright side !
And people wonder why I think Nikki Campbell is a total wanker!!!
I don’t think they wonder that Martin, they merely agree. 🙂
I may be the ‘people’ to whom Martin refers. Subject choice isn’t always the best barometer for bias. The other day, as I commented, I listened to a debate and phone-in on abortion that Nicky Campbell compered. He was impeccable, as I expected him to be.
>Ducks as the stools and chairs come flying at him<
Missed the first part of the programme and tuned in just in time to see a black letterbox speaking. Promptly switched off as I cannot take seriously a talking piece of cloth.
Nicky has been in contact, he disagrees with my view on his programme.
DV, is there any chance of posting the show on the Biased BBC account on youtube?
Also, would it be appropriate to share with us what you wrote and what he replied?
Let me see if this is technically poss..
I’m a little intrigued.
One can appreciate why he may ‘disagree’ with a critique, as one presumes he was on board with the subject matter selection and debate progress, but on what substantive terms did he offer a defence of the above?
With all that is swirling about, especially ‘sensitivities’ on inflammatory topics and treatments, I’d simply be fascinated how he found ‘do bankers go to heaven’ as something other than rampantly silly, and more than a little tasteless for a Sunday in a (just about) majority Christian country.
What next? Should certain broadcasters have their tongues cut out (per certain beliefs) for being lying, hypocritical sh*t-stirrers pandering to minority social-engineering agendas they happen to empathise with?
i might watch that.
There should be a balance between questions asked from one perspective and questions asked from the other perspective. Do Nicky’s questions/comments on the bankers’ issue show him being even-handed? You decide! (as they say on TV.)
1. I mean we’re presuming there is a heaven. I mean for some people it’s an “if” almost as big as Fred the Shred’s pension, but let’s go with it. When you hear about these big pensions, for example JP Morgan announced their 10,000 UK staff would be getting an average bonus – this is just the bonus, not a salary! – an average bonus of £233,000, how do you feel?
2. Do you think it’s a vendetta Barbara?
3. But what about the rest of us, the Age of Austerity, the hard times that others are facing with their limited wage increases? It’s really really tough for people out there. We hear about the £7 billion pot of bonuses for bankers, and some people are saying ‘Are they without shame?’
4. Eric Daniels of Lloyds, his bonus £3.2 million this year. That a hundred nurses!
5. Eric’s total bag is worth £8 million as well. I mean whose worth more, him or a nurse?
6. But the amounts of money that was being encouraged by, of course, the previous administration – and David Cameron also, in opposition – and Gordon Brown, because the tax that these people pay built hospitals….this is the argument…and provided schools. It was…that’s why they had such a laissez-faire atmosphere around it.
7. So they’re completely out-of-touch with reality.
8. Jonathan Bartlett, in the unlikely event that you were working in the city and were given a bonus…an average bonus of £250,000…once you’ve paid your £125,000 to the Exchequer in tax, which is a lot of money, what would you do with the rest?
9. Would you keep that money or would you give it away? Let’s talk about Christian principles.
10. But it’s the moral ability to be able to take that enormous amount of money, £8 million every year for example, without compunction. That’s what we’re trying to address this morning.
11. But what about the atmosphere within, Andy…I mean Paul Moore, you worked in HBOS as well and you’re a Christian, how did you feel?…and you were getting big bonuses. Was there a big conflict between your heart and your wallet?
12. Out of conscience…You worked in the city Kate, didn’t you? How much conscience did you see at work there?
13. But what about this world they live in, which seems to be so detached from the reality of most other people?
14. Myriam Francois Cerrah, in the Islamic world, its unislamic to make money out of money through interest, so a lot of the people – let’s be stark here – a lot of the people who work in the city are destined for the burning oils, aren’t they?
15. Do you feel there is demonisation of these people?
16. You think more people were on the margins of legality?
17. It is getting back to the question, but is wealth per se a bad thing David Jennings? What about wealthy Christians? What about Cliff?
18. Well, Bill Gates still has a bob or two, even after the philanthropy.
19. There is a disconnect in the city between those lives and real lives.
20. Do you think David, just to come back to the moral and ethical question of this and the whole notion of entering the kingdom of Heaven, do you think with that amount of money, the £8 million we’re talking about over the whole package, it’s very difficult not to lose – in the words of one politician – your moral compass?
21 J K Rowling makes those sort of earnings? Are they immoral earnings?
22 Paul McCartney, is that immoral what he makes?
That line of questions is just pathetic, I find it reprehensible that Dame Nikki took a fee for this.
Is it morally right to earn money, that should be next weeks question…
Hi Guys,
Nicky Campbell tweeted me twice yesterday. I think he felt our criticism on the Islam story was unfair. I told him it was not. I await my invite on the next discussion.
Hi, I’ve had a butchers at your DVATW Twitter account but can only see comments aimed at NC. Although I dont use Twitter so maybe I’m missing something?
Will stay tuned to further developments in your ‘tweeting’.
David, I’m surprised they didn’t think to combine those two “big questions” and come to the conclusion they doubtless would have had they done so: Surely “Islamic bankers” get by St Peter no problem. 😉