Do you think the BBC thinks Labour is still in power? The reason I ask is this item it ran earlier today focusing on Tony Blair’s comments that “muddle headed analysis” (ie Conservative) of the riots could lead to wrong policy decisions. In a wonderful example of balance, the BBC invites Jack Straw and Tony McNultyon the programme to discuss. So two Labour politicians discussing the pearls of wisdom offered by another Labour politician, on the Labour accommodating BBC. Lovely stuff. I particularly enjoyed Straw and McNulty claiming that Labour’s golden years had seen crime cut in two, teenage pregnancies reduced and the alienation tackled that creates so much rioting and looting.
MUDDLE HEADED?
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I had the misfortune of hearing this utterly bizarre piece of broadcasting, and thought at the time that hopefully it’ll appear on here.
Why was there no mention of the fact that 13 years of New Labour policies caused the social problems that has lead to these riots.
The irresponsible, ‘I should have everything but not have to do anything for it’ attitude is symptomatic of socialism. Add to that their appalling education system, mass-immigration and huge widening of the gap between rich and poor, and you have the makings of the problems that they were talking about.
DV
Labour and the BBC are right you know. Thank God our impartial state broadcaster has shown us what 15 months of Conservative rule have done. The government – through its own SS (the Metropolitan Police) and egged on by small retailers and the EDL – has turned the paradise of London’s inner cities into hell-holes where the desperate, starving (yet still law-abiding) citizenry of the local communities had to organise protests against the martyrdom of a local individual with almost no criminal record to speak of.
As the BBC narrative explains: the dignified and peaceful demonstrations (mysteriously involving some damage to property – probably caused by agents provocateurs in the pay of News International – which the hooded protesters were trying to repair despite the occasional gratuitous interference from a thuggish police presence) were subsequently hijacked by mostly white (extreme right-wing) opportunists who turned the mainly good-humoured protests into riots.
Is it a K or a P you`ll be wanting Mr Umbongo when next we slither into power!
Boateng, Amos, Scotland….you can blag some posting worthy of your exotic name if you send this to Fatty P up on the lounge deck!
P I think – after all it comes with expenses 🙂 !
Blatant attempt by the bBC to sanitise the legacy of 13 years of Labour, cleansing the path for their return to power.
bBC: Tony Blair, do you take any responsibility for recent unrest?
Me? No, not my fault,
And Jack Straw, do you think it was in any way your or Tony’s fault?
No not us, definitely not.
Lets bring on Tony McNulty. Do you think it was Tony or Jack’s fault?
Certainly not.
bBC: Well there you have it. Three votes against none, the last Labour Government was not guilty of anything. Not a scientific sample, but nevertheless indicative of what other former Labour ministers might have said if we had invited them onto the programme too.
The reality is that they could have hauled on the majority of the present Cabinet and got the same response. When was the last time we heard Conservatives ripping into Labour or the last Labour government? Despite being in office the Conservatives are manifestly not in power. They are still desperatly frightened of being labelled “nasty”: hence their refusal to deal robustly (or at all) with BBC bias and their (not so) gradual buying into the “we’re all guilty” narrative concerning the riots.
Another sign of BBC ignorance is the way that they believe that something written in The Observer is of any relevance at all.
They must be under the impression that people who aren’t employed by the BBC read it as well!
I find the Observer indispensable. It lines the base of the Budgie cage perfectly and is oh so absorbent. 😀
“Observer is indispensible. It lines the base of the Budgie cage”
David, since lining it’s cage with The Observer, have you ever caught the budgie cheaping “We’ll keep the red flag flying here?” Has it suddenly applied to train as an “avian rights lawyer”?
The Observer has been known to be harmful even in small doses. What doctors call “passive thinking”, copies of The Observer can spread liberal ideas without anyone realising it.
Sorry to say I missed this latest appearence of the Traveling Wilburys (former Labour cabinet Ministers).
You have to understand that any discussion of past Labour glories and posible future directions to be taken by the left are always treated very much as an in-house debate by the BBC.
Go figure?
Dangleberries of the arse of the Labour Party I`d say!
If only THESE Wilberries would decompose into something useful for Mother Earth…instead we have to keep on paying for porn and the like!
One big Compost Corner there at the BBC these days I`d say
Which one is Tweeter and which is the Monkey Man?
Blair’s ‘high moral tone’:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/cartoon/
Love it!
Labours latest tag team!…maybe the Beeb wil partner up Jacqui Smith and Alan Johnson tomorrow to see how they swing round the ring and gurning.
Preferred Mick McManus and Adrian Street myself…a certain honest charm about ther bad boy poses, unlike this series of Slagg Brothers toking and a smokin`
Of the four I named…which used his parents to fiddle, which used her sister, which shopped his sons druggie talking and which dreams of being rhythm guitar with the Wombles?
How mean of the BBC to expect these serial family abusing fiddlers and superannuated roadies and bag carriers to actually KNOW the damage that they caused…in The Toady Green Room they are “forever young”….just like the chilled out entertainers that give them houseroom.
No doubt, Jacqui and Tony will be claiming for that now I`ve mentioned the “houseroom” bit
As usual the BBC has “discussions” predicated on the assumption that we are all members of a single Party. They assume that the UK is a One Party State.
The BBC is an arrangement more appropriate for a One Party State than for a free society. But if we all love their Party so much why does it have so few members?
Even if the Labour Party were loved and admired (and not viewed as corrupt self-serving hypocrites who have bankrupted the country) and even if the membership of the Labour Party was not 0.3% but 60% of the population, they would protest that a free society would still not require everybody (by threat of imprisonment) to have to fund a State broadcaster run by and for members of the Party, right?
It is almost as if people who work for the BBC do not think that people should be given a choice. It is almost as if they do not believe in a free society. But that can’t be true. I mean if people in a free society thought that Party members believed they had a right to tell people what to think, and that their broadcaster (run by and for Party members) supplied 75% of the news output of the country, people would conclude that such an arrangement was incompatible with a free society, right?
I mean if a majority of people thought that EU politicians were venal and ant-British they would be allowed to withdraw from the EU, right?
If a majority thought that immigration of people hostile to the West should be stopped, they would be allowed to say so, right?
Just imagine the sort of society that would result if nearly everybody had to go to schools where nearly all the teachers were Party members, or a society where more than 50% of the economy was run by, and in the interests of, Party members. In a free society people who suggested that this is a bad thing would not be demonised by a State broadcaster run by and for those Party members, right?
I mean if people thought that their free society was being destroyed they would fight back and start saying radical things such as television and radio broadcasting (and education and the economy) should be pluralistic, right? I mean people think their freedom is worth fighting for, right?
The only thing that is missing is someone complaining about this blatant bias, followed up by the BBC investigating itself and finding itself not only innocent, but to have done an amazing job having carefully cosidered the correct way to explore “this complex issue”.
Its not just the BBC -although they are the worse culprits- the media are welcoming shamed and discredited Labourites with open arms. Jacqui Smith is now presenting the morning show on LBC and Alistair Campbell is a regualr contributor.
“State TV goes off air”
If only.