Greenery continues to infect every part of the BBC. Last night the Dragon’s Den was back. The centrepiece project – introduced in awed tones by poisonous host Evan Davis – was an eco-conman from Halifax, who off the back of the feed-in tariff (a subsidy from the government under which money from jacked-up energy bills is given to those who can afford to install solar panels – i.e. robbing the poor to stuff the bank accounts of the rich), had registered a massive growth in his business and couldn’t keep pace. All of the dragons but one salivated at the prospect of feasting on this government bonanza and they clambered over each other in their obscene haste to grab a stake in the scam. In a sense, I don’t blame them – why ignore such a cast-iron guaranteed money-making scheme? But it was clear from their comments that all of the so-called dragons are signed-up green-creed fanatics. And who else would the BBC choose to supposedly represent the entrepreneurial spirit?
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When I’ve heard most of them talking on TV they appear to be signed up Nu Liebore luvvies as well, funny that, just like Alan Sugar. I guess to be a hated ‘capitalist pig’ and be on the BBC you need to be of the Champagne type.
Of course. If one holds all the approved thoughts, obscene wealth is easily forgiven.
‘ If one holds all the approved thoughts, obscene wealth is easily forgiven.’
Indeed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/01/pay-top-guardian-media-group-executives
Because… they’re worth it.
And Tuscany Toynbee.
Talking of entrepreneurial spirit: another week, another BBC-NUJ strike.
BBC-NUJ on strike to dictate how our licencepayers’ money should be spent.
Who can support yet another BBC-NUJ strike which, if successful, will put out more politically biased material?
“BBC journalists’ strike affects flagship programmes”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8674310/BBC-journalists-strike-affects-flagship-programmes.html
Agian I hadn’t noticed that the BBC were on strike, just like those public sector wasters who went on strike were ont noticed as well. Shouldn’t that be a hint to the Government? you don’t need them?
Speaking of idle moments, the twitter feeds of some BBC regulars are a joy to behold at this time of crisis.
The fact that the BBC and its groupie base is deluded enough to claim that the likes of Dragon’s Den or The Apprentice are anything like real, ethical, long-term business development used to seem a bad joke.
But now I see on the previous thread what kind of apparatchik that gets boosted way beyond any level of competence to oversee vast, and vastly complex areas of economics, ethics or science… in our names… I am not so sure.
These weasels, with side of the exchanges, and especially overseeing the charade, seem exactly what this country is cursed with.
And as they fiddle, what’s left of the actual UK working public’s savings burn.
For what it’s worth, if I remember rightly, the tall lanky one at the end turned it down whilst all the others were gagging for it. What was striking was how often the Halifax kept blinking – no doubt blinded by the light?
There was something in the papers about Lanky recently concerning a scheme he runs to develop young entrepreneurs. Public money is involved, I believe. An ex-Civil Servant was recruited to manage it and apparently, having taken a look at the books, left after a week. Well, Lanky said all was hunky dory with the finances and the job may have been too much for the new bloke. But anyway…maybe Lanky won’t want to get involved with the Halifax bloke if it has something to do with public money.
To be fair to the Dragons – you say you are green, bla bla bla, some of us on the B-BBC will lose respect for you. You say on the BBC that you think AGW is rubbish – BBC will cut the comment out of the programme, you will be told that your contract will not be renewed, and green-mummies will pour petrol through your letterbox and barbecue your family and have a party in the street. Easy decision.
‘you say you are green, bla bla bla, some of us on the B-BBC will lose respect for you’
If by B-BBC, not sure that is fair. I am green as it gets, and proud of it. I just have an odd notion that science, initiatives, etc, should add up.
If any don’t respect you simply for ‘belonging’ to a grouping without assessing the arguments on merit, that would be poor show.
There are knee-jerks on all sides of the ‘green’ debate, but most here seem to be pretty keen on a better future for our kids based on numbers vs. unicorn dust, which is why I frequent the place.
Hope I have not misread your intention too much.
One of my little sidelines is that I design and build electronic widgets. If you want a prototype of something for your company or you need a working demonstration of your invention for a patent application then I’m your man. A few years ago I used to have a web page advertising my services. On average that used to generate a call a week from “alternative” energy companies. They were to a man a complete pain in the backside being split evenly between lunatics , conmen and well meaning but technically hopeless people. The final group being the worst since they were time sinks and unable to see that the fancy electronic gizmos they wanted designing to put in every customers house would consume more electric than the solar cells could generate.
Please note I never had dealings with the chap from Halifax.
‘If you want a prototype of something for your company or you need a working demonstration of your invention for a patent application then I’m your man.’
The second para gives pause, but I am interested if you are keen on dropping a wild hint on finding you
Just won a huge UK award for… er… ‘green’, but I’d like to think it was because it delivered on ROI, enviROI, consumer research, market application and sales credibility… as well as helping reduce waste.
There are others in the pipeline. And i do love making stuff, and that means prototypes down the line.
I didn’t see the programme. Evidently though the entrepreneur from Halifax has the same business model as Dale Vince of Ecotricity http://www.ecotricity.co.uk/about/ the very rich anti-capitalist. The business model – of Vince, Mr Halifax and, I suspect, the majority of “social”, particularly, “green” entrepreneurs – comprises, as others have noted, the legal diversion of taxpayers’ money to their private bank accounts. As it happens, this business model also works for the father-in’law of the prime minister http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1261389/SamCams-father-exploits-Labours-green-subsidy-wind-farm-nets-3-5m-year.html .
The BBC license fee is legalised theft of our money, so is the “Renewables” feed-in tarrif. Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dee.
Since there is not a word of truth in the catastrophic computer model of planet warming, my children already have a completely safe environmental future, apart from having to carry carrying the cost of unnecessary and destructive green-nonsense on their backs.