If I were writing this story, the headline would be clear: “Tory eurofanatics kill UK train-building industry”. For the BBC, however, the real meat is little more than a footnote in a quote from a union spokesman to the bloody-minded, blinkered decision by the callous Cleggerons to stick to EU tendering processes and award a train-building contract to the Germans, thereby condemning thousands of people in Derby to the dole queue and mercilessly wrecking yet another of our manufacturing industries. The reporter, as usual, bends over backwards to explain everything but the real story…and of course, those nice people at Siemens are our eurobuddies. So that’s OK then.
BBC EU MANIA…
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honestly, another nail, this will be the death of us.
it is dressed up in so much whitehall europop drivelspeak
one would have thought it written by niave cameregg him,(-them
-is there any difference?) self.
no harsh reality, real reporting of disastrous effect, just a droning fluffathon.
on this i m out…….disgusted
Had my wee morning surf, and it seems pretty clear the entire BBC has settled on the Mason-Peston line that it’s all awful and the fault of no one they have supported and support without question.
The degree of misinformation or ediotorial by omission is breathtaking.
next we’ll be getting Prescott on screaming ‘The government of the day!’ with zero irony … or question.
Meanwhile…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14016794
14. CookieCrunch
4TH JULY 2011 – 16:33
Interesting to see how the BBC will decide to do with their own website – with its many thousands of cookies, which you can see by going to:http://www.cookielaw.org/cookie-search.aspx – and searching bbc.co.uk
I’ve seen advertisements on the BBC website (and i have an ad block program!)
If you live outside the UK, or link via a server abroad, then the BBC website has many ads. Part of their international money-making arm.
I would be asking the questions why did the last government not set the evaluation rules like the germans and French. Regardless of the result I suspect the demise of british railway builders, (the last one is Canadian) goes back many years and is really a microcosm of Britains’s woes.
This currebt problem I lay at the feet of the last very incompetant Labour gov, but the decline in British industry started very much in the pat labour and conservatives gov going back decades.
It would be more useful if the BBC was to focus on the domination of German industry in all fields not just railways.
This is what will eventually lead to total German domination of the EU.
The French will get a little sop once in a while for old times sake and the rest of us better get used to a theme park future.
The world of the future. China for mass production. Germany for quality and bespoke work. The rest nowhere.
Erm, isn’t it actually in our best interest for the contract to be going to the best supplier?
Unless you’ve evidence otherwise, it’s fair to assume that Bombardier’s offer wasn’t as good as Siemens’.
It’s this kind of attitude that has meant our troops have ended up with overpriced, poorly made, delayed British equipment.
Propping up poorly performing companies purely on the basis that they provide British jobs helps no one in the long term, and the record has shown this time and again.
It’s subsidising inefficiency, protectionist and distinctly left wing at that.
I gave you a “liked” uptick, but it is worth noting that the Cameroons and the BBC aren’t playing down this story because of the valid free enterprise point you make. Our government, and their out of control propaganda organisation, are simply bowing to the wishes of their evil empire overlords.
Rightwing and Leftwing don’t mean much. However Economic Liberalism or the complete faith in the so called (fictitious) ‘free market’ is not a traditional conservative position. It is a position that comes from classical liberalism. Milton Friedman, Hayek and even Adam Smith may have useful things to say in their narrow field but they must be used cautiously by conservatives, because they are not conservative, in the true, Burkean sense at least(though by his late writings Hayek had moved a long way in that direction.).
Burke, Coleridge Disraeli, Chesterton and Churchill. None of these true British conservatives would have sold out British control of its economy because the simplistic microeconomic-based modelling of sophisters, economists, and calculators told them it was a good idea.
Also let’s not forget many of the arguments of the europhiles are these sorts of broad economic ones. Arguments that takes abstract jobs, abstract investment and income and growth and the amount of consumer goods almost the sole end of politics and economics. If British conservatives spend most of their time thinking in such terms then we are ceding much ground to the Europhiles and can only argue about the real level of growth and flatscreens tvs the EU will bring.
Are the Government’s hands really tied over this one and EU rules forced this, or not? I honestly can’t tell, although the BBC article leans towards blaming the “new Conservative Government”.
I withdraw my question above because Anita Anand was just now talking to the head of CBI Midlands, who said the problem was that the UK needed to have a relook at the way it hands out contracts to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Anand asked him what could be changed and he said that the rules were the problem.
“What rules,” asked Anand. I was waiting for the CBI guy to talk about how the EU procurement rules skewed Bombardier’s chances, but he said instead that the British Government does it wrong and that Siemens won the contract because, for example, the Germans care more about their “social responsibilities”.
That’s all I needed to hear.
And on another front, INBBC actively assists in the dhimmification of the E.U.
Bat Ye’or: Europe is obeying a fundamental law of dhimmitude
Shouldn’t the BBC be carrying out a fearless investigation to see if other EU countries follow EU tendering procedures and, if not, expose the racket ?
Why is the UK still in the EU anyway ?
From the website:
“it plans to cut more than 1,400 jobs at its Derby plant.”
“Bombardier had said that even if it had won the Thameslink work, it would still have had to lay off 1,200 workers in Derby”
But on the 10 O’Clock news Pesto said the difference was 500 jobs, and when you look at the detail “983 temporary contract staff”
Temporary staff, are by their very nature, temporary.