One of a number of enigmatic tweets from Guido this afternoon:
What can it all possibly mean?
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Perhaps it’s time all BBC presenters were asked “Have you got a super injunction?” to see who denies it and who won’t comment.
The bBC and how it differentiates between White and Coloured racists.
English Defence League members on mosque attack charges
Three members of the English Defence League have appeared in court charged with racially-motivated vandalism, including spray-painting a mosque. The charges relate to a graffiti attack at the Nasir Mosque in Hartlepool.
And here is how the bBC reported on a similar story but where the attackers were…Asian. (Asian indeed)
Priest hurt in faith-hate attack
A priest has been attacked in the grounds of his church, in what police described as a “faith-hate” crime. Canon Michael Ainsworth, 57, was injured by two Asian youths at the church, in Tower Hamlets, east London. Canon Ainsworth said a third youth watched as he suffered cuts, bruises and black eyes in the assault at the church of St George-in-the-East
And here is what Canon’s Ainsworths wife had to say on the subject;(but not to the bbC)
Mrs Ainsworth faced a fearful congregation yesterday who said rising tensions in the area had led up to the attack on 5 March, the second time the church has been targeted after a Good Friday attack last year in which youths threw bricks through the windows…. “To be honest something like this was going to happen sooner or later – it is the area and the times we are living in. There is a tension in the area with the Muslims.”
So to recap the above when a white person commits a crime he is a racist. (and I totally agree with that statement esp when the idiots are members of the EDL) But when the attacker is a Muslim then he’s a faithist.
“BBC’s report of Tommy Robinson’s trial omits certain key details.”http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/34643
Still seething about the invented shit by the Guardian, followed by BBC (thread below this…) Today they were still lying about it on air.
The bBC, its obsession with the Taliban and half a story;
Taliban resistance ‘under-estimated’ by Britain
Britain failed to accurately gauge Taliban resistance to UK troops in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the head of the armed forces said.General Sir David Richards told the Commons defence committee UK troops “turned up a hornet’s nest” when they moved into south Afghanistan in 2006.
Reading the above you get the usual doom and gloom as peddled by the bBC when they talk about the invincible Taliban and here is a few extra bits from the Guardian which the bBc didn’t include in their so called impartial article:
War is a bummer, chief of defence staff tells MPs
Britain’s military commitment to Iraq was higher than it was anticipated it would still be in 2006, and British troops arrived in May, “the natural start of the fighting season”.The Taliban, at the time, encouraged the belief that foreign troops were out to eradicate the poppy harvest, a valuable source of income for local farmers. Some 200,000 labourers migrated from Pakistan to help with the poppy harvest, and some were happy to stay as “guns for hire”…. Moreover, at the behest of President Hamid Karzai, British troops were deployed to forward “platoon houses” in northern Helmand areas such as Sangin and Musa Qala. The soldiers turned out to be dangerously exposed and too few in number.
In otherwords the British underestimated the presence of 200,000 Pakistani drug workers and then instead of listening to the man on the ground, (ie the soldiers) they did as their political masters told them (Labour) who couldn’t bend over fast enough for the crooked afghan president. By sending too few troops into a hornets nest. Oh I blame the general staff as well for being f-ing yes men.
pounce,
Not a military man myself, but it seems to me a lot of the senior British Commanders are crap. I certainly wouldn’t want to serve under them.
Not that they’re crap: it’s becasue any platoon7company7battalion etc is run by it’s NCOs, always good, always hard always obeyed. They run the system for tehe officers. The officiers aren’t “crap” they just aren’t meant to ‘really’ control the men. Officer sdo have their palce and the whole system works, unfortunately as time moves on most officers are made up to desk jobs etc (they should be retired (paid handsomely to eff off)
The bBC , two in-flight arrests and the case of the missing Muslim.
Robert Hersey arrested for ‘trying to open plane door
A US man has been arrested after trying to open an emergency exit door during a Florida to Boston flight, police say.Robert Hersey, 43, of Arlington, Massachusetts, pulled the handle on the door, triggering an alarm, officials said. Witnesses described him as drunk.
Faster than a speeding bullet, the bBC airs a story of how a whiteman (A stupid whiteman at that) tried to open the outside door. But the thing is, the otherday there was another in-flight arrest of somebody who went stupid mid-flight. This time the man tried to batter down the cockpit door but he was subdued before he could do anything really silly. But for some reason the bBC never mentioned the story. But I will:
Yemeni cried ‘Allah Akbar’ as rammed cockpit door
A Yemeni man arrested on a San Francisco-bound plane repeatedly shouted “Allah Akbar” as he tried to break into the cockpit, a court heard Tuesday, as he made an initial appearance.
Rageh Ahmed Mohammed Al-Murisi appeared sullen as a federal judge told the Californiaresident he was charged with interfering with a flight crew, a felony that can carry up to 20 years in prison.With an Arabic interpreter by his side, the 28-year-old listened as prosecutorElise Becker told Judge James Larson how he strode toward the front of American Airlines Flight 1561 shortly before landing Sunday evening.Murisi, a slight man with a short beard, “repeatedly yelled ‘Allah Akbar’ while attempting to enter the cockpit,” and struggled as several passengers and a flight attendant restrained him, she said.
An affidavit filed by a federal air marshal says the flight attendant first thought Murisi was confused as he approached the cockpit and the attendant twice tried to direct him to the restroom.Murisi then made eye contact with the flight attendant, according to the affidavit, and rammed the cockpit door with his shoulder.Becker focused on the “Allah Akbar” phrase, not mentioned in the one-page affidavit, as evidence of Murisi’s violent intentions. The words are Arabic for “God is great” and are commonly used by Muslims, especially in prayer.Becker said the phrase is often used by terrorists and is evidence that Al-Murisi is a danger to the community and should be kept in custody during court proceedings.She cited examples of extremists using the phrase before committing acts of terror, such as the hijackers who took over United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, and a US Army major who opened fire on a Texas military base in 2009.
You racists you!
He was only asking for the toilet and got confused!
Apologies Pounce – didn’t read this before my blogpost. Belated sort of hat-tip added.
I seem to be in a very tiny minority here, but it seems to me the Courts have the balance of the Human Rights Act just right in issuing this super-injunctions to protect the privacy of family life of the applicants.
Unless the victim of this press attention (I use the term advisedly) happens to be a well known public moralist on family values I can’t see any public interest served in the News of the Screws advising us who is bonking who outside of wedlock. Just seems a rather good way for some rather scabby tarts and low-life journalists to make a lot of money regardless of how much hurt they cause the family of the man or women who have committed infidelity.
Agree completely. Hypocrisy is the issue, not fidelity. And if it helps keep just a little bit of boring mindless trivia out of the media, that can’t be such a bad thing either.
These scabby “stars” enjoy public acclaim and trade on their public image, earning esteem, money, privilege and often even official honours from it. Meanwhile they are cheating and dishonouring their wife and children, while stringing along some other woman and then because they have money, run along to some judge who colludes with this charade and buries the inconvenient reality for them so they can go on earning and basking in the public’s high regard and adulation. They are the ones – lying rotten cheats – who bear the major responsibility for hurting their wife and children. They are married, after all.
The newspapers of course have, at best, mixed motives for what they do but I am not mad keen on the law colluding to protect liars, cheats and exploiters of gullible people either, just because they have the money to do it, while the other woman in the case is not protected but dragged through the media and facing public opprobrium because she hasn’t the money to do anything about it.
Millie,
I couldn’t have put it better myself. Spot on !
I’m not thinking about the ‘stars’ reputation, I’m thinking of the harm and humiliation that will be caused to their sibling and children when it’s splashed all over the press.
In these cases it seems that the scabby tarts sought to make money by spilling the beans to the press and are upset that they haven’t reaped the rewards they were hoping for. They couldn’t give a flying tinker’s cuss about who gets hurt so long as their bank balance is bulging. Way to go to the Judges for thwarting these Max Clifford advised media playing filthy whores. Bet their ‘client’ list is shrinking very fast now!
And you are not thinking of who actually has responsibility to the spouse and children, who is really humiliating them and doesn’t give a damn about hurting them. What a convenient excuse they provide, though, for them to hide behind.
The law should not be dragged into the gutter with such sleazy, lying, cheating, media playing filthy……etc. Above all, shouldn’t be encouraging such lowlife to carry on, like latter-day Dorian Grays, safe in the knowledge that they can go running for protection when it suits and the law will collude with them.
Latest masterpiece from Pat Condell:
http://www.youtube.com/user/patcondell#p/a/u/0/JzD-rnmeiH8
My Site,
I can’t get that link to work. What is the title of the Pat clip on Youtube ?
It’s called ‘Justice for Osama’
My site,
Ta, I got it. Another classic from Pat. Great man.
I love the bit ” let’s blame the Jews, everyone else does ” !
“Daily Politics” today.
In the absence of Brillo, the mice were playing, gorgeous, pouting Anita Anand and Jon Sopel.
The Tory patsy up for target practice was David Willets. I never understand his nickname of “two brains”, he always seems a bit dim to me and reminds me of Oz Clarke the wine expert.
Other guest was Lord Fatty Falconer who was a guest yesterday as well , so no bias there.
Sopel’s questioning of Willets was some of the most aggressive and rudest I have seen even by Beeb standards with constant interruptions.
First question with that sneering supercilious tone which Beeboids have perfected “Good day yesterday ? ”
Willets, proving he has no balls nor backbone soaked up the punishment without any attempt to fight back.
Sopel relented eventually and turned to Fatty and with a nice smile and soft voice asked ” Charlie Falconer, what is your assessment of yesterday ? “. Needless to say Fatty was happy to give it.
Fatty and Sopel then joined together to beat up Willets a bit more and he soaked it up like a sponge.
What the hell is wrong with the Tories ? Have they no guts at all ?
There’s nothing gorgeous about the piercing, smug Anita Anand with her “I’m in the Westminster Village and I love it” self satisfaction and bossy swagger. Willets is one of those affable Conservatives who are so good at being mild and reasonable under Beeboid provocation – I expect that is all part of the PM’s plan to counteract the label of nasty. Willets always reminds me of a vicar. There is something almost holy about his demeanour. He comes across as more dull than anything but apparently is brainy and good at coming up with ideas.
Agreed. Seen your comments so I know you read mine too! After that watching that today I watched yesterday’s, Polly and Anita on the “u turn” from rich families buying places at University. Nadhim Zahawi battling in vain against the twin hydras. Today’s wa sjust unbelievale: Sopel on the attack (not verbatum but a snear as damn-it) “why didn’t you deny it sooner?” what sort of defence is that for a national broadsheet and national broadcaster? “why didn’t you deny the made up story that we then followed with various bulletins and then said you did a U turn, why didn’t you deny it? It wa son the 7am news why didn’t you tel us before?“…FFS
“not verbatum but a snear as damn-it”
A typo that is just as good as what it should have read!
Span,
Yes, that endless ” why didn’t you deny it sooner ?” line from Sopel was like a kid in a playground. Willets should have asked the silly little boy ” exactly how many minutes and seconds would satisfy
you ? ”
Both pathetic in their different ways.
Generally speaking, no they have not!
To be fair-if you`re letting yourself get “beaten up ” by a fat sleaze of an Edinburgh lawyer who is only “on the sofa” because he once shared a flet with St Anthony Blair…who sent his own kids to private school…who wanted MPs expenses hushed up at any price,and who still holds a candle for poor misunderstood Michael Martin…then you need to “grow a pair”…and not “brains” that he is said to have!
cj,
Well said. Willets is an idiot.
And a coward… but then most of the Cabinet seem to be. Michael Gove being an occasional exception and Philip hammond before the election.
Nota,
Yes, Hammond seems to have gone soft. I respect him because he actually has run a real business in the real world , including working in Africa.
But, now, like so many Tories, he is too nice. Labour/BBC is the truly nasty party. Theresa May has a lot to answer for when she coined that phrase. I would have sacked her immediately and still would !
. . and in the paper review on Today this morning, the “U-turn” on paying for preferential treatment on university entrance was highlighted by the reviewer before (I think) quoting a headline from the Guardian. I don’t know what’s worse, the mendacity of the BBC or the passivity of the “Conservatives”.
Umbongo,
Exactly !
Absolutely right about T. May, that phrase was a gift to the BBC and they loved it.
Nota,
Did you write “T. May ” because, like me, you are not quite sure whether it is “Teresa ” or “Theresa ” ? One is a politician and the other is a “model”. I think I would rather have the model as Home Secretary.
I have had that problem before and have posted comparttive photos on my (currently inaccessible) blog to illustrate the significant differences!
BBC website headline ” Lib Dems will be more muscular “.
Any comments from BBBC posters welcome !
And its time for our favourite game of…wait for it…
****SPOT THE MISSING WORD IN A BBC STORY****
The BBC are reporting on the unfolding Greek tragedy, the riots and the bankruptcy and the frittering away of the first bailout that we all knew they would. Hey, they want some more money, but on the website and on the news I see a particular word missing that would be thrown around and printed in big print if another government happened to be in charge.
The words SOCIALIST/LEFT WING/LEFTIST is somehow missing from every report I have read and heard so far, funny that eh?
It seems that the BBC has decided that the socialist regime responsible for the imminent collapse of Greece is not important, leftist rabble rioting against a leftwing regime? No no no no! Impossible isnt it?
Now cast your mind back to when Greece was ruled by a right wing regime and remember the BBC coverage of the union/ rent a rabble riots, it was right wing/conservative every third f*cking word back then, the BBC just had to let us know exactly what kind of regime was in charge and how unpopular they were and how hated they were.
Now a socialist regime is in deep deep trouble the BBC are funnily enough no longer interested in the Greek regimes politics, its merely the Greek government. Austerity and cuts in services, cuts to the bloated pulic parasite sector no longer affordable because of the EU ordered swinging cuts.
The BBC protecting a foreign socialist regime while it would and has attacked a right wing regime? A socialist nightmare of a regime that just might cause the entire state to implode, a PM so unpopular he might just end up lynched outside his offices or off into exile, but still comrades, we dont need to know the regime is a socialist regime do we? What bearing could that possibly have on the story? Of course the UK is being forced to cough up billions of pounds yet again and yet again the money is being thrown down a black hole and yet again more will be demanded by our rulers in Brussels and yet again the stooge regime will eagerly place our grandchildrens children in crippling debt to pay for it.
The first bailouts were merely a first instalment, the money will keep being extorted from the taxpayers and borrowed at increasing rates until there is no more money left, we are being bled dry, money down a black hole in ever increasing amounts.
The BBC, always on hand and ready to support socialism everywhere and eager to stamp on the right wing whenever they can. Of course if and when the Greeks elect a right wing regime you can bet that the BBC does its usual trick of airbrushing the disastrous socialist mess from the historical record just as fast as they can, in the blink of an eye it will be back to “conserative/right wing” every sentence.
I think Richard Leeming has sent us a message. Quite funny, actually. Would’ve been better with him in a Che T-shirt, though.
“Proof, if any were needed, that I’m a muesli eating, sandal wearing, guardian reading, bbc employee, f%%k you anyone who objects”
An employee posting public messages like that in language like that brings his employer into disrepute – the same goes for the content and language of his appalling, ranting, cursing blog which reads like that of a madman – and leaves himself open to disciplinary action.
I wonder why he feels he is above the normal requirements and rules as to conduct that apply to employees.
‘…BBC employee, though these views are mine and mine only’
So that’s Ok then. I wonder if those in the real world can try that out?
Helen, luv… thoughts? Big hugs.
I see from tonight’s news, the BBC are supporting Obamarama’s re-election
Jon S,
Surprise, surprise. And they don’t even know who the Republican candidate will be. Oh, sorry, forgot, it doesn’t make any difference.
I saw the report by Mr Mardy, a perfect BBC report highlighting the BBC mentality.
Just who will dare to stand against the BBCs own beloved intellectual giant, everyone on the planet knows Obama but who knows who the Republican candidates are? Nobody knows and nobody gives a flying fluck and for concrete proof Mardy asks a democrat voter, what more proof do you need comrades?
So the BBCs campaign to help and assist Obamas re election begins now and funily enough it begins straight after his assassination of some old geriatric tramp in some hovel, so utterly brave to order an old sick unarmed mad tramp to be dragged out and shot in the head.
Horaaaay! Mr Obama is popular again…..niiiice.
Who are these republicant losers anyway? They dont stand a chance and even if one looked like they would then the BBC and Mardy would be there with the BBC issue smear machine. Nobody knows who these non entities are and the BBC is going to keep it that way. The BBC have decided that Obama will be elected, they are determined to have their candidate back in the whitehouse.
I just watched BBC London News and heard the terrorists who murdered the Israeli athletes at Munich in 1972 described as ” Palestinian Paramilitaries ” , can anyone explain how they could be so called ??
You’d have to ask a Jew-hating, Islamomarxist freak.
You can contact any number of them here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/
andy,
Yes, it has been posted elsewhere here. I don’t think Black September themself would have described themselves that way, but the scum at the BBC……………
Help required, possibly from Craig.
I posted something earlier today this from the BBC’s PMQ’s feed:
‘1244: Fraser Nelson, of the Tory-supporting Spectator magazine, says David Cameron has been a success largely because he picked up where Tony Blair left off with public service reform.’
Are guests from the New Statesman ever described as being from a Labour-supporting magazine? I don’t ever recall one being so described. What about Guardian journalists or Poly Toynbee etc.?’
I have been getting some grief from an ‘anonymous’ commenter who thinks I should be able to prove this statement before making it. Leaving aside it being rather tricky to prove a negative, has anyone (OK Craig) any analysis on how left-wing journalists are described as opposed to right-wing?
Sorry, nothing at hand to help you with Not a Sheep. If you search under ‘Labour supporting New Statesman’ on the BBC website you find only two instances of the New Statesman being called “Labour-supporting” in the entire 13-or-so year history of BBC Online, both from 2006. If you type in ‘Conservative supporting Spectator’ or ‘Tory supporting Spectator’ you find just four examples. There are though quite a lot of instances of the Spectator being labelled ‘the right wing Spectator’ but noticably fewer instances of ‘the left wing New Statesman’ (most of the examples of both are quite old though).
OK thanks. Mind you the BBC search feature is not always reliable, seems raher haphazard sometimes.
Nota,
I posted a comment in reply to “anonymous” on your website, but no statistics ,of course. Craig’s date looks pretty solid !
“date” should read “data” !
I suspect not, in the same way that since the general election they have started attributing ideological motives to the government or rather the Conservatives in government but I don’t ever recall their use of the word ideology to categorise Labour government’s actions.
What struck me about the BBC’s description of the anti EDL demonstraters as ” youths” is that it reveals the BBC and the libleft as quite unable to face reality . It is not just over this but it pervades everything they say and write. From the deficit ,the cuts, education, Israel,the NHS you name it and they misreport and distort it. It is so much part of their world view now they are quite unable to see what they are doing. This pathological descent into unreality is what drives them. To create the perfect world -their very own heaven here and now.
So long as we were relatively prosperous and the world was relatively calm we let them. But now things are changing and all is uncertain so new people and ideas are being heard. The elite is quite unable to see what is hapenning and so it pretends- to us but mostly to itself.
WE have let them play with this country and our lives for a long time. To play at student games based on what? Ever more rights for ever more undeserving minorities. To create a society that repudiates custom and it’s past, it’s culture and yes it’s predudices to usher in the perfect BBC world with the bright colours of Cbeebies and about as real.
It’s over. The pendulum is starting to swing and they really have no idea what to do. Meanwhile using the word “youths” will hopefully stave off reality a little bit longer.
Yes, we never hear the term ‘Social Marxist’ preceding the name of Labour MP’s, or ‘Black-Supremacist’ prior to Diane Abbott’s name being announced, or ‘Hardline Communist’ when introducing BBC ‘comedians’ such as Jeremy Hardy or Mark Thomas.
The use of ‘Far-Right’, ‘Ultra-Nationalist’ etc. when speaking about anyone to the east of Cameron is their way of trying to make it appear that their lunatic left views are in some way normal.
In contrast to INBBC, Glenn Beck on ISRAEL.
(- first 20 mins of video.)
http://thedailybeck.com/2011/05/11/glenn-beck-tv-show-may-11-2011/
I see the contributors to this site at the top of the page have changed their names and we now have two “Davids” and a “D”. That’s going to get confusing!
I noticed the open thread was started by a D and I thought it was just a typo. There must be some reason for the change of names, though.
There are a few ‘My sites’ being converted too.
At least my fellow ‘can’t click or edit’ has retained their avatars, so some confusion avoided.
Us Mods didn’t do it! A Blogger-wide thingy it seems. I’ve put a post up explaining it on the main page.
Actually by “explaining” I really mean saying “I don’t know either”.
‘Question Time’ next week:
“Question Time to come from Wormwood Scrubs”
[Extracts]:
“Ten Wormwood Scrubs inmates and 10 staff will join 100 members of the public in the audience next Thursday.”
“‘The involvement in the debate of prisoners and prison staff will offer Question Time viewers a unique insight into their views on the issue of the right to vote as well as more general questions,’ the [BBC] spokesman said.”
It is thought that the following week, ‘Question Time’ will be at an Islamic Centre where 10 non-Muslims will join 100 Muslims in the audience.
The involvement in the debate of non-Muslims will offer ‘Question Time’ viewers a unique insight into their views on the issue of the introduction of Shariah law into Britain, as well as more general Islamic questions, an INBBC spokesman said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13371144
The Muslim one is the joke one, right? Isn’t it? Will they have one from a synagogue as well and if so how many invited would be anti-Zionist Jews? The BBC are beyond parody and hope.
Prisoners will be in the house so the public can get thier “unique insight” over whether or not prisoners should be allowed to vote? Is this a joke?
BBC being the opposition again:
“Downing Street has told the BBC it uses false names on letters to MPs and members of the public.
The admission came after Labour MP Sir Gerald Kaufman said he got a letter from No 10 signed by a ‘Mrs E Adams'”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13364121
By sheer coincidence so did Gordon Brown as Guido proves today:
http://order-order.com/2011/05/12/mrs-e-adams-worked-for-gordon/
Don’t expect the BBC to report such inconvenient facts, several Tweeters are very excited by the Cameron story and ignoring the Brown precedent.
‘Previous prime ministers had always replied to his letters personally, Sir Gerald stressed’
So, really, the only story is a pompous ass is miffed at getting dissed?
One is sure Gordon hand crafted every note to opposition MPs in illuminated script (if his felt tip had gone dry).
Presumably the BBC highlighted the practice previously, or will be issuing a clarification/stealth edit to the featured story… er… soon?
‘Previous prime ministers had always replied to his letters personally, Sir Gerald stressed’
No, he’s right about that and not just being pompous. It’s normal practice of long standing that any MP who writes to a Minister or the Prime Minister on behalf of a constituent gets a reply signed personally by the Minister or PM. That type of correspondence makes up quite a lot of what ministers take home in their red boxes to read and sign.
If you or I wrote a letter to the PM or a Minister on our own behalf, we would get a letter signed by an official, a Mrs Adams or some such.
Has anyone ever taken Kaufman seriously about anything ?
He’s generally quite interesting on the subject of films.
Hollywood etc films that is, not clandestine footage of El Prescotto playing hide the chipolata (rumour has it). Thought I’d better make that clear.
Edit #2: “Rumour has it” in Edit #1 refers to Prezza being endowed like an eight-year old Chinese boy, not to there being some sort of speciality smut flick doing the rounds of His Fatness “on the job”.
The devil is in the details I guess!
1. Sarah Montague had a piece just before 8a.m on the coming announcement to do something about Youth Unemployment.
Her introduction said something like “Cameron and Clegg on behalf of THEIR Government”…
The last shower in power were never seens as Browns or Blairs in such a general context-it was always THE Government! Where`s Chomsky when you really need him?
2. Having heard Evan Davis still holding the Osama sparkler as he asked the US minister about “our boy who we love to bits” still in Guantanamo-he`s Saudi of course,but you know…
Can I repeat again…the US should be regarding BBC employees like Evan as “hostile” and should not be giving them visas-it`s not as if we DON`T have enough of the buggers over there on a freebie …and I`m told that the US themselves have a few competent types that could let us know what the view is from up the fundament of Obama, Clinton etc!
Save on the carbon footprint too!
3. Evan cited the Bin Laden “ishoo” as maybe allowing-well I don`t know-ISRAEL maybe? -an excuse to take out their version of “horrible people”. Israel-who else…certainly not Russia though!
If I was Hamas I`d be far from pleased at being allegedly regarded as “horrible people”. Let no one say that the BBC does not denounce terror where and when it finds it!
Fatty Pangs Pattens first case perhaps?
Evan Davis’s interview after the 8:00 news gave some good insights into the BBC subconscious groupthink. He referred to the “assassination” of Bin Laden before correcting himself and also referred to an inmate of Guantanamo as a Briton before revealing he was actually from Saudi Arabia and had been resident in the UK. Perhaps it’s just me, but I don’t automatically think of foreigners residing here as British.
No, once you’ve set foot on British soil then you’re as British as anyone who can trace their family back as far as is possible and who’s ancestors helped to build this nation.
If you don’t believe me, just ask Bonnie Greer.
There`s a name from the past!
No doubt limbering up her tongue on the sidelines in case Polly Toynbee fails the fitness test for Question Time in amongst the criminal community nextweek.
Greer is just a funny Ruby Wax. Someone from over there who ,with no discernable talent: is somehow able to find a berth on any BBC “culture show” over here!
Typical “associate/honorary” Beeboid of choice for the chattering classes our Bonnie! Let`s not spoil a perfectly good soiree by asking what the hell the woman has actually done!…being black and female is not enough! Rusty Lee does those better-and she makes a nicer cocktail too!
She is also something important at the British Museum, I think. Why, I don’t know. She writes plays, as far as I know, and is from Chicago…
Radio 5 is on a national tour to bring you chilling tales of the CUTS. This morning after some jolly banter about the anniversary of the coalition, with Nikki’s new sidekick making a facetious suggestion of an anniversary gift for Clegg, it’s off to Scotland to hear from some distressed public sector employees.
No mention that any cuts in scotland result from budget decisions of Mr Toad. We get a fire service chap who rolls out the Labour line – yes cuts are necessary, but not now.
This is unchallenged even though it is the Labour economic argument (ie patient too weak for the medicine), it is an irrelevant argument in respect of the level of public services – any cuts have the same effect whenever applied.
Will,
The Daily Politics had a spot yesterday making fun of the coalition’s 1 year anniversary, except it wasn’t very funny, unless you are a teenager.
Of course, as the BBC are unbiased, so they would have done the same if the Lib Dems had gone in with Labour.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8508760/BBCs-Question-Time-to-be-filmed-inside-a-prison.html
Love the ‘prison staff and the BBC’??? what the hell are the BBC vetting them for ? left-wing tendency’s no doubt !
Another pathetic show boating episode for the BBC lefty love in that is QT with an outright attack on government policy by people who have lost their right to vote though committing crimes !so BBC thinks lets give them their own show to bleat on and bus in a balanced !!!lol audience should get the ratings up !!
We’ve already seen Jeremy Paxman in a prison cosying up to criminals. The deference of his manner towards them was a cringeworthy spectacle.
Millie,
He was probably afraid one of them would clock him. For once I would be on the side of the criminal !
Think the BBC know that the game is up!
They were in Broadmoor earlier in the week to size up the padded cells…and now they`re taking a waik over to the Scrubs( well a fleet of Priuses and Rollers anyway) to check out the vegetarian options.
Hospital Radio/Prison Radio…anywhere but Salford!
No doubt the bussed in Beeboids, pinstriped elite and public sector crusties fear us all getting a peep at their expenses again…or not in the case of the Dimblebums!
What`s the voting system going to be to be an “audience member” then?…5,10 or 15 years of sucking up to Labour being your only options I`d say!
cj,
Many years ago I met a posh person who assured me that only plebs call a Rolls Royce a “roller”. Posh people call it a “Royce “.
So that puts you on your place ! 😀
This is true. However, the super-duper posh (cf Me and Mrs Bug) refer to Rolls-Royces as “the help’s car”.
True poshies (reminder: that’s US) are chauffered around the place in reconditioned Austin Allegroes. Painted in mega-sinister buttercup yellow. They don’t sell them to plebs. You need an Athenaeum membership card. And to know the secret sign too.
Very true: Rolls was the salesman, Royce the engineer. Surely the really posh drive old Land Rovers…
Having seen Jeremy Paxman raising our consciousness in regard of a “slutwalk” that is coming up by all accounts: I do hope that the BBC will invite their chums from Muslims Against Crusades(which to be fair have been very successful in their intention!) to provide the supporting cast and happy diverse faces en route!. They`ll be on speed dial c/o Wikileaks!
Now which side do you think their “embedded camerapersons” will be placed with?…guess it depends on whether its Jenni or Justin that gets the camcorder first! My money`s on the boys for this one!
I`m hoping that Evan gets to interview the happy flag waving exotic gentlemen that camped out overnight to big up the empowering spectacle that we all passionately believe in… but of course!
Intriguing battle for “BBC 2011 Victimised Community Award” coming up here perhaps?
A bit difficult to look like a slut when you’re bagged up in a burka. Perhaps it’s all in the eye makeup and the walk.
The Obama birth certificate saga rumbles on – I wonder when he’s going to finally be outed? (Not really BBC related, but one up the arse for Mardell)
Thanks for the link, it really is very interesting and I clicked on the link to the examination of the actual long form certificate produced by the whitehouse. this certificate was not actually produced for people to see, it was loaded onto the whitehouse website for download, nothing wrong with that you might say and I would agree BUT when PDF tries to load the form it seems someone at the whitehouse forgot that documents are loaded in layers and when the layers are removed the clear signs of alterations are seen with dates and tick boxes and names wiped out and replaced.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE?
There is a reason why official documents have a fine base pattern on the paper, you see it on all documents and have done for a while, its a defence against forgery. Look on your paper driving licence and see the faint lines with a magnifying glass, it is to prevent someone using tipex to blank out the real data and placing fake date on top and then photocopying the forgery. The problem for the forger is when the altered document is closely examined and the layers stripped down you can see where information has ben erased and new information put in place.
The document as issued by the whitehouse is a fake, no question in my mind now, it has been altered. Mr Obama is NOT legally the president of the USA.
Cassie,
There is a clip on Youtube where an expert demonstrates that the certificate is a fake.
I can only talk about W. Africa, but many people don’t have birth certificates for all sorts of reasons. Maybe, their parents didn’t have the money or they were suspicious ( understandably ) about what use the Government would make of the information etc. …
My wife didn’t have a birth certificate when I met her and we couldn’t get married without one. I mentioned the problem to a Gambian friend of mine, who is a policeman, and a certificate appeared by magic amusingly showing her birthday as Christmas Day ( she was brought up a muslim ).
Even funnier, the date of issue was shown as 2002. The British High Commission didn’t even query it when issuing a UK visa.
In the case of Obama, it is all very suspicious. Especially the long delay before him producing the document.
However, I am sure the BBC will investigate this and get to the truth of the matter.
Yeah I bet even as I write these words the BBC has experts working on the PDF document supplied by the whitehouse with a Panorama investigation to be shown soon.
Meanwhile back at the ranch I can see a flock of pigs flying over the barn in close formation 😀 .
PS I can imagine the staffer that forged the certificate is feeling pretty stupid right now eh? The BBC smearing of Donald Trump recently is interesting. Trump is nobodys fool, he is a smart sharp man and he is not a happy bunny at the way Obama sneered and smeared him at a public gathering. People Like Trump did not get where are by cringing and cowering before bullies, he has a razor sharp ability to sniff out fakes and Obama has made a big big big mistake in spitting in Trumps face.
Apparently this claim has been circulating for two weeks. I don’t suppose the BBC will acknowledge it exists let alone provide an expert in digital graphics to provide a reasonable alternative explanation.
No Polly Toynbee on BBC yesterday ?? has she gone missing ?
we can but hope……
One has to wonder how long it would be before she, or Kevin Maguire, get moved into passing comment at their being denied their weekly sinecure getting beamed into the nation’s homes to pontificate on issues as Aunty’s first degrees of separation.
The likes of Poll, Kevin and that New Statesman “editor”( Ahmed Medhi?) are probably holed up now in intensive “prison slang” training,based on old Porridge scripts! Question Time will find room for them all before too long!
Probably all “naffed off” to somewhere warm and pretty for a few days -maybe Sydney with its penal heritage!
Betty,
Summer hols in her villa in Tuscany, she’ll be back in the Autumn if she hasn’t drowned in Chianti.
On Today this morning some parasite from the Commons Transport Select Committee (was it Louise Ellman?) tells the interviewer that she wants to give anothe £10 million of other people’s money to the Met Office “to improve seasonal weather forecasting”. Then, to balance this item, Phil Evans of the Met Office is brought on to say, basically, “yes please and a bit more, if possible”.
There was the usual lack of awkward questions from the Today fellatrice who, had she been less busy with her mouth, might have mentioned, for instance, Piers Corbyn’s superior record of seasonal forecasts (at a fraction of what the Met costs the taxpayer) or that one of the first lessons of using a computer – no matter how sophisticated or expensive – is that garbage in (eg AGW) translates to garbage out (eg the Met’s absurd and useless forecast for winter 2010/11 with odds distributed equally over outcomes).
So, for the millionth time, our useless “representatives” and a useless state agency have their propaganda transmitted unchallenged by Pravda – and all at the taxpayers’ expense.
‘..to balance this item, Phil Evans of the Met Office is brought on to say, basically, “yes please and a bit more, if possible”. ‘
It’s what the BBC would interpret (along with events), as a ‘split’… if between rampantly skewed and just a bit less skewed than that.
Seems it has been noticed elsewhere….
http://autonomousmind.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/there-now-follows-a-propaganda-broadcast-for-the-met-office/
Why does one have a certain unease as to what Mr. Black’s latest venture into fearless PR-retypi… er.. reporting may constitute, especially now freed from serious challenge on the detail of his blogs by the new format/limit.
The bBC, reporting the news and what it doesn’t want you to know:
Third body found near Bradford lane
A body has been found on fire in West Yorkshire close to a road where the bodies of two men were discovered.West Yorkshire Police said firefighters found the body in a bonfire near Holme Lane, in the Holme Wood area of Bradford, at about 0630 BST.It was so badly burned the gender of the person is not yet known…The latest discovery was made about 500m (545 yards) across fields from where the bodies of the two unidentified young men were found in New Lane near its junction with Raikes Lane by a passing motorist shortly before 2230 BST on Tuesday.The two victims were aged in their mid 20s to 30s and officers are trying to establish their identities.
And here is how the local Taliban and Argus (Telegraph and Argus) is reporting on the same story:
Murder squad detectives were last night trying to establish the motive for an horrific gangland-style double killing in Bradford. Officers are still trying to identify the two men, who had been savagely attacked, and whose bodies were found at the side of an isolated country lane. Police suspect the murder victims, who are believed to be Asian, had been attacked elsewhere and their corpses dumped beside New Lane, outside Tong village south of Bradford. The bodies were spotted by a passing motorist at about 10.20pm on Tuesday. They were lying at the side of the road and no attempt had been made to conceal them.
INBBC’s Evan Davis defends Islamic jihad mass murderer, Osama bin Laden in a way INBBC wouldn’t defend English Defence League.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9483000/9483620.stm
For INBBC:
“Why the Left cried when Osama died”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/05/glazov-why-the-left-cried-when-osama-died.html#comments
“Should the BBC give prisoners a platform on Question Time?”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1386135/Should-BBC-prisoners-platform-Question-Time.html#ixzz1M9WHJGye
While INBBC displays its political sychophancy towards Mr Ghonim of Google,
“Muslim Brotherhood Makes Bid to Turn Egypt into Islamist State”
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9495/pub_detail.asp
INBBC:
“Egypt uprising figure Wael Ghonim signs book deal”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13351284
INBBC doesn’t take on Google, but Glenn Beck does:
“Glenn Beck takes on Google”
(9 min video of Feb 2011)
‘Newsnight’ tonight: worth a miss? –
1.) Mason on E.U. and banks;
2.) Watts on Arctic;
3.) Wark on McCanns;
4.) Watson on Laws.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/fromthewebteam/2011/05/thursday_12_may_2011.html
Well if Wark is involved, it is on and on and on and on….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/fromthewebteam/2011/05/thursday_12_may_2011.html?postId=108753190#comment_108753190
Maybe it’s a girl thing?
Who’s this Kirsty Walsh chick?
I see the bBC is currently running with an article about how the Seal unit which took out Bin laden is to get additional protection for themselves and their families.
Bin Laden death: Security fears for US Navy Seal team
The US is to tighten security around the elite military unit that killed Osama Bin Laden, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said.Mr Gates revealed that the US Navy SEAL team had expressed concerns over their safety and that of their families.
And here is something the bBC made earlier about where those men are based, where they drink and where they go shopping.
Navy Seals: The group that killed Osama Bin Laden
It seems that the cheer leader for Islamic terrorism couldn’t air the directions for its Islamic masters on where to strike next fast enough.
The bBC and how it’s hatred of anything conservative overrules its green credentials
‘Sick’ cremator pool plan praised
Redditch Borough Council approved the plans in February to heat the 25m pool at Abbey Stadium Leisure Centre using energy from the town’s crematorium.It estimated the crematorium would meet 42% of the centre’s heating demands.Union Unison said the plan was “sick” and “insulting”. The Green Organisation said its award praised green practices…. When the policy was announced in January Unison called on the council to apologise for the “insensitive” plans. Roger McKenzie, the union’s West Midlands regional secretary, said: “Unfortunately, local authorities are increasingly pursuing desperate polices in a reaction to the unprecedented spending cuts imposed from Whitehall.”… The Conservative-controlled council said the scheme would help it to save £14,560 per year.
I wonder if the bBC (And the bloody unions) would have bitched so much if the council had been a Labour one?
The eco-greens are very keen on cardboard coffins and being buried in the woods amongst the bunnies and foxy-woxies so as to be carbon-neutral even in death.
So why are they bothered by this intelligent use of heat energy that would otherwise be (literally) wasted up the chimney ?
Perhaps they’re worried that people swimming in the nice toasty pool will suddenly have a panic attack as to whether the heat’s coming via somebody they lately knew, but since they should be at the bloody funeral in that case being mopey, and not having a lovely time splashing around in the leisure centre, the point’s rather moot.
Unless they inadvertently drown whilst distracted by the nasty thought.
That would be very sad.
Unless it was someone really unpleasant. Like Hitler. Then it would be good.
In summary, then: The BBC wishes that Hitler was still alive, regrets his death, and UNISON for their part believe that heating a swimming pool would upset Hitler which makes it an “insensitive” idea.
From the BBC News
There was “unanimous” agreement that freedom of movement must be preserved, an official statement said”.
Which is rather strange when you consider Denmark is closing it’s borders, how do you get unanimous agreement when a member country does something different?.
Maybe they think that’s an un word: un-animous (like an unbirthday) or summat, therefore not unanimous! 😉 Who knows with the Beeboid mind?
-Expect lots of BBC-NUJ-Labour friendly chats with Campbell:
“Iraq inquiry: Alastair Campbell ‘misrepresented’ purpose of WMD dossier, former military intelligence chief says”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/8510134/Iraq-inquiry-Alastair-Campbell-misrepresented-purpose-of-WMD-dossier-former-military-intelligence-chief-says.html
It must be Suck up to Prisoners season in tellyland. Channel 4 has a programme series called Secret Millionaire, in which a rich person goes under cover to some wretched deprived area and eventually comes clean to the people there and gives money to someone who is working for a good community cause in the area.
So tonight I see in the programme listings that the millionaire is a well known black man (I forget his name and I’d never heard of him) and he is going to a prison or young offenders’ institution to give money to some criminal. Dear God.
Watching SKY just now, I was struck by the terms the MSM view terrorist atrocities in when it suits.
Some old men persuade some brain dead young kids to strap on some Semtex and find a bunch of others to kill and and maim because they can’t deal with the real world.
And this is billed as ‘a well-planned attack, in response to the Bin Laden killing by US Special Forces’.
As it has been going on for years now, in terms of timing it could equally well have been in response to the presenters’ awful repartee or last night’s QT.
And, sadly, there seems little skill involved in getting a bomb-laden dupe near some folks if your only aim is to kill enough so the Western media will bill it as a military op, albeit taking things out on those a bit less able to defend themselves, even as Aunty (another thread/post) seems to be keen to post the names and addresses of the Seal team kids’ schools.
Red letter day: Pres Barack Obama uses ‘jihad’ word to describe Osama bin Laden’s murderous activities.
Will INBBC now reduce its censoring of Islamic jihad and follow suit?
‘Jihadwatch’:
Sunspots? Obama calls bin Laden “jihad” leader
INBBC sees no JIHAD in Islamic Republic of Pakistan ttoday:
“Pakistan paramilitary Shaqbadar base bombings ‘kill 80′”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13385597
And, who did it?
According to INBBC’s sage reporter, Aleem Maqbool: mere ‘militants’.
Come on, these were Islamic jihad murderers and fanatical Muslim supporters of Osama bin Laden. A spade a spade.
A key role of an intelligent reporter is to recognise and describe the nature of the enemy: Islamic jihadists.
‘Daily Telegraph’, unlike INBBC, correctly refers to both the Taliban and to bin Laden in its headline :
“Osama bin Laden dead: Taliban suicide bombers kill 80 in Pakistan revenge attack”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/8511177/Osama-bin-Laden-dead-Taliban-suicide-bombers-kill-80-in-Pakistan-revenge-attack.html
It seems to be a “Gayfest” on Radio 4 at the moment…
Usual rubbish, that nice Matthew Paris and that nice John Amaechi talking about that nice George Michael.
Yuk.
And Evan Davis got terribly excited about something on the running order of Today headed “Gay Disco”.
As well he might.
So long as ‘tinsel tits’ is happy, I am happy.
Priceless this wasn`t it?
Surely this conversation-for it surely wasnt an “interview”- belonged between Matthew Parris and Evan Davis at the water cooler once any serious attempt to provide some “public broadcasting” had been attempted by the “Toadyshow”.
That these two would even think of George Michael as a role model juts shows how venal and detached from reality BBC jocks are!
At least George does add to the gaiety of the nation in every sense. Evan,Matt and their coterie are just eunuchs on the edge of his harem.
Poor old BBC-not waving,not even drowning…but waving their lace hankies as the lilo springs a leak! At least the Rainbow Warrior WAS a flagship-Today isn`t even a pedalo anymore!
Couldn`t they have cited David Laws as more of their type of role model?..he`s got a week free(OK…we`re still paying him!)-and fiddles and squirms about expenses like they might be in the business of doing for all I know.
George,at least isn`t leeching off the taxpayer like the other “gay role models” I name above…so he IS a role model then to us…David Laws is THEIR role model, but they haven`t the talent
QED
“BBC Question Time heading to prison, what do you think?”
http://newsthump.com/2011/05/12/bbc-question-time-heading-to-prison-what-do-you-think/
Much of the bias at the BBC is “low level” slanting of contemporary issues. An example is the item on Today this morning concerning Michael Gove’s suggestion that independent schools should establish their own academies. The protagonists in this discussion were Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College, and John Claughton of St Edward’s Birmingham. Seldon is the BBC’s favourite representative of “private education”. He was the major theoretician of Blair’s crapola Third Way. Choosing Seldon as the mouthpiece of the non-maintained education sector is analogous to selecting Breaking the Silence as the representative voice of Israel when discussing Israeli policy concerning Gaza. Claughton is a big proponent of funding scholarships for poorer pupils to receive entry into private schools (a la the Assisted Places Scheme of happy memory). Accordingly, in terms of the “debate” set up, the BBC chose its protagonists fairly impartially: however it’s the choice of subject of the debate which is biased.
The issue which is always ignored – or just brushed aside, is the abysmal “education” generally visited on those sentenced to go through the maintained education sector. This was not discussed or mentioned because the terms of the discussion – and the whole debate in the UK on this question (focused through the biased lens of the BBC) – steadfastly ignores the obvious: that the comprehensive system as introduced in the 60s and adhered to (with varying degrees of enthusiasm) by all governments since then has consistently failed to deliver a stream of educated children in the simplest terms of a widespread competence in reading, writing and doing sums. Instead the debate – as exemplified by this morning’s broadcast – concentrates on what the private education sector (ie the one that works and is, effectively, costless to the taxpayer) can do for those sentenced to progress through the exorbitantly expensive state-maintained dross.
Always worth listening to the Beeboids “distancing” of themselves as they purport to be “the champeens of the oppressed and vulnerable”.
By their tone and continually referring to the Private Schools as “them” as opposed to “us”, they are clearly creating cultural dissonance and confusion in themselves that may yet lower their self-esteem! Thank you Raj Persaud!
What I`m saying is that Sarah,Justin and the like all went to Oxbridge via prep schools and private education( more likely than not!…poor old Humph clearly didn`t…but his kids will I`m sure!)
Yet whenever Sarah, Justin etc get to do their education bits, they always refer to the private sector as “they”-as if they themselves neither have no knowledge of it, nor ever benefitted from it!
All tht dissociation from the old boy/girl network can`t be good for them in the long run! Luckily The Any Questions team always know where to find them for their programmes…the local comp might not leave their wheels on the Landeys!
Up school-college thump!
Champeen- a Scrabble validatory word c/o Jimmy Savile!
All too typical of the BBC, Umbongo. The Corporation will never go to the core of any issue that will disturb its rigid narrative. They remain the bloated purveyors of a fantasy Britain that explodes like a party balloon on contact with the harsh air of reality. This avoidance, this refusal to report what is actually happening makes for staggeringly tedious TV/radio. I certainly don’t feel ‘enriched’, nor do I see any ‘transparency’. There is no ‘diversity’, just a continuum of the predictable bias & the same old crowd of Beeboid boosters. After a few minutes of Radio4 I get the dreadful feeling of being locked in an empty tower block flat on the 20th floor, with nothing to look at but a grainy poster of Andrew Marr dressed as Lenin, or the misty rain outside that never stops. While down on the ground, the country is being torn apart, & nobody, especially the Beeboids, will ever join the dots to complete the horrible image.
Talking of education, Baroness Williams, one of the architects of the comprehensive system that routinely betrays our children, is a frequent darling voice on the Corporation. She should be invited back for one last appearance. Evan ‘bareback’ Davis will, for one day only, turn into a social conservative. He will ask ‘our Shirley’ where she got educated? Then he’ll ask her by what right has she scuppered the educational chances of millions of children who never had her advantages? Also, why is she trying to sabotage the Coalition? Haven’t you done enough damage to this country, you wealthy old communist?
Then our new, improved Evan will tell her to fcuk off back to Fantasia. Now that would be worth tuning into.
What a great idea for a programme Jarwill!
I would pay to watch it-and it is MY BBC isn`t it after all?
Let me know when,like Fatty Patty, you get your “confirmation hearing” to assume your place as chief commisssioning editor.
Does your Oyster card include Salford?.
All we need now is for you to include that other Bloomsbury Bat…Baroness Warnock…in your “treatment”, and I`ll get the rickshaw out to Fantasia to discuss it further!
We could refine it further, cj. As in that scene in Goldfinger where those who have incurred the wrath of Auric plummet out of their seats to a grisly fate below, Evan could press a button & dispatch any guest that fails to disguise their cultural Marxist agenda. Evan would be dressed as a 21st century super villain – in haute couture punk leathers & chains. An outfit, he is, apparently, no stranger too.
Dunno about the odd blog (and many are), but from what I am (not) see on my browser at the moment, a bunch of entire threads have gone Bermuda Triangle on us too.
I can’t post to my blog at present and it’s driving me nuts; quite distracting me from working!
Just for your info here is the gen from blogger:
Blogger Status
Friday, May 13, 2011
To get Blogger back to normal, all posts since 7:37am PDT on Weds, 5/11 have been temporarily removed. We expect everything to be back to normal soon. Sorry for the delay.
Posted by at 04:25 PDT
I know… I wonder what Blogger’s definition of ‘temporarily’ is?
I posted yesterday that according to the BBC all countries who have signed the Schengen agreement were in complete agreement that they would keep it ( apart from Denmark).
Today the Telegraph advises that the EU is moving to end the passport free Schengen agreement, the main reason is to stop the flow of immigrants.
EU President Mr Barroso said border controls should be an “absolute last resort”.
He described the Schengen Agreement as “the embodiment of the European project” and said that any changes would be to “reinforce” it. Which is a strange thing to say, if the Schengen agreement is replaced, than than the EU should also be replaced as clearly the ’emboidiment’ (concept) of the EU would no longer exist, or have I misunderstood the definition of the word?
If one of the central planks of the EU dream of a Federal Europe is removed, than you are left with just a single currency, which would come under enormous pressure to be scrapped as Germany would rather go back to using the DM rather than having to support bankrupt EU countries such as the P.I.G.S, this would result in the ‘European Dream’ being consigned to the dustbin of history.
I imagine that the BBC will start a major PR exercise on behalf of the EU to spin this huge story into one that claims that any change to the Schengen agreement is purely cosmetic and has no impact on the EU dream.
Spot on Joseph!
You may have heard the dust devil of sneer and smear that passed muster as an Evan Davis interview this morning.
1. Andrew Green-the one man alternative to the BBCs groupthink on immigration these last few years-was described as being “against a liberal immigration policy”. That word “liberal”…do tell, Evan what you and your kind mean by this?
2. Damien Green was introduced as being in no way related to Andrew…the exchange between Evan and Damien about this set the tone of what both thought of Migration Watch, albeit by slithery insinuation of course.
3. Davis asked the Minister ” wouldn`t it be sad if Schengen was to be torn up?”…sad?…this is the level of Beeb probing these days?
Time to abandon the flagship that once was the Today programme. Only rainbow flags,white flags are flown,now that Blair took the pirate flag that he raised at Bush House in 1997!
Yes, I noticed that “liberal” tag: the insinuation being that Migration Watch is illiberal.
INBBC’s utopian ‘ARAB SPRING’: censors out of existence:- Muslim Brotherhood, Taliban and Al Qaeda.
INBBC still in league with Amnesty International on Islam.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13377200
Counter evidence excluded, e.g.:
“What Me Moderate? Muslim Brotherhood Makes Bid for Power”
(by Barry Rubin).
INBBC’s utopian ‘ARAB SPRING’: censors out of existence:- Muslim Brotherhood, Taliban and Al Qaeda.
INBBC still in league with Amnesty International on Islam.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13377200
Counter evidence excluded, e.g.:
“What Me Moderate? Muslim Brotherhood Makes Bid for Power”
(by Barry Rubin).
The multi-cultural diversity that makes modern Britain so vibrant.
Oh Mr Pooter!
“I hope some day you`ll join us
And the world will live as one”
It`s about positivity.
I quote here from the BBCs Bible-books of St John of Lennon and Girl Power…disappointed at this regreattable event,but lessons will be learned of course as ever!
The ludicrous Watchdog for the Toffs-You and Yours-is on as I write.
Because they`re doing pieces on RyanAir and on Tescos…I already know what their slant will be on both companies!
Doesn`t Micheal O`Leary get his scripts from the BBC then?
Don`t Tescos send the morning goods around anymore?
For both are clearly “bad companies”,… and I`m about to hear why!
Having heard yeterdays grease up of Howard Schulz on the same chow yesterday,at least Starbucks are got the franchise for the canteen coffee once again!
Tell us Howard-why are you so great?
Do read to us from your new book…
I for one will be going RyanAir to Tescos in Tel Aviv! Will plant a cedar in return if that`s fair!
BBC staff are more Ocado than Tesco
Sicky Campbell this morning on 5 Live regaling us with a personal anecdote about him comfronting a burgler. He was full of righteous indignation that this miscreant should have the audacity to attempt to steal his bicycle from his garden and our Nicky was all for going off in hot pursuit – luckily for all concerned he was naked at the time. Gosh he was cross with this crim.
A BBCer not completely on message there re Prisoners’ Question Time.
Mind you, he was anxious we know the perp was ‘about 20 and white’.
Let’s interpret: ‘about 20’ – Nicky wouldn’t want us to imagine that he’s a bully and this was some young schoolboy.
‘white’ – well, your guess is as good as mine?
I suppose racism is in the ear of the beholder.
I had a bicycle stolen from outside the house on Christmas night in 1997 or 1998. Not many people know that! And in all these years until now it never occurred to me to think about the skin colour of the thief. Gosh, if only I’d thought… 😀
Victim support group here Millie!
I too am a survivor…my Claim for Blame class action could do with your passion and vulnerablility…indefatigability a boon as well!
Where were Lambeth Social Services I ask myself? Toricutz maan!
No doubt, the perpetrator will be on Question Time on Thursday-so reopening my emotional scar,and preventing closure…so let`s hope the BBC will be paying out!
Expect a lot of crims to be trying to get in for Thursdays show…so watch that bike eh?
I too am a survivor
😀 😀 Lol. Why wasn’t that reported on the BBC as well? We need to know!
cj, you’re more entertaining than the Beeboid Corporation which has nearly £4bn with which to entertain us (we know they don’t inform so I left that one out).
The bBC, its piss poor defence experts and its penchant for making articles up.
HMS Liverpool commanding officer on Libya gun battle
The commanding officer of a Hampshire-based warship which came under fire off the coast of Libya has told the BBC how they managed to evade being hit. HMS Liverpool was providing air defence cover for Nato vessels 40 miles (64km) from Misrata when it was attacked with rockets from the shore.
According to the bBC, HMS Liverpool was attacked while providing air cover for NATO vessels. Which at a push I’d say fits in with the lefts vision that we are bombing the shit out of Libya and the Libyan people. (You only have to read the comments on the Guardians CIF to know what I mean) and so the Libyans are somewhat justified in firing on the ship.And here is the story as related by the MOD via the Portsmouth News:
The Ministry of Defence has announced that the Libyan regime fired a ‘salvo of rockets’ at the Portsmouth-based destroyer which is on patrol off the coast of Misrata.
The rockets missed Liverpool. The ship suffered no damage and none of Liverpool’s sailors were injured in the incident.
The Royal Navy warship returned fire with her 4.5 inch gun and destroyed Gadaffi’s shore-based artillery. In a statement, Chief of the Defence Staff Strategic Communication Officer Major General John Lorimer said: ‘At sea, the destroyer HMS Liverpool, whilst engaged on surveillance operations off the Libyan coast, was tasked with other NATO warships to intercept small high speed inflatable craft spotted approaching the port of Misratah; similar boats have previously been used by the regime to attempt to mine the harbour. The regime artillery on the coast fired an inaccurate salvo of rockets at Liverpool, whereupon she immediately returned fire with her 4.5” gun, which silenced the shore battery. As a result of the prompt action by HMS Liverpool and the other NATO warships, Colonel Qadhafi’s boats abandoned their operation.
So, what really happened is as the mines which blocked the port of Misrata have been cleared, Gadiffi tried to sow some more using wee boats , but when the RN intercepted them, the Libyans fired rockets at them and in turn using its main gun HMS Liverpool took the shore batteries out. Anybody else find it strange how the bBC didn’t mention any of that?
Yesterday afternoon as the BBC Radio 4 reported that Demjanjuk had been found guilty the newsreader read the word ‘Jews’ in such a way that the tone implied ‘filth’. My blood went cold. But Chanel 4 resolved that problem by reporting that he was involved in the murder of 28,000 people – airbrushing Jews from history. But by 10pm BBC1 news had done the same. Now I suppose it possible that there were both gypsies and homosexuals at the camp where he worked and that he was involved in their murders too. But having found the earlier news scary it seems more than coincidence that channel 4 and BBC chose identical words.
By the way – Friday 13th and I found it hard to settle to my work this morning – I couldn’t understand what had happened to this site – glad it has been explained higher up the comments.
Not sure what cj will make of this further evidence of misfortune (!) but some of us, including me, were born on that peculiar day and date. 😀 Consequently I rather look forward to it whenever there is one coming up and almost imagine there will be something special and maybe a little bit of extra luck on the day. Thus I made sure to buy a lotto ticket today! Oh, well…there’s one born every minute, as they say.