I know this has been posted elsewhere on an Open Thread but thought it is worthy of a prime spot. James Delingpole speaks for many of us when he ask; “Why does the BBC hate Britain?”
“It’s long since time that the BBC was forced to recognise its responsibilities as our compulsory, near-monopoly broadcaster. If the only people who funded it were tofu-eating metropolitan anti-capitalist bien-pensants who all believed in renewable energy with the same blind ideological fervour as Chris Huhne then the BBC would be perfectly within its rights to broadcast this Spartist drivel. But they’re not. The BBC’s job is also to represent – or try to represent – the interests of people who are shocked by rising energy bills, who are desperately worried about Britain’s economic future, who might benefit from a job working in or servicing the shale gas industry, who innocently believe (in their sweet but oh-so-naive way) that the British Broadcasting Corporation’s true purpose is to broadcast for Britain.”
Dame Nikki was in fine form this morning when talking about Greece some lefty twat rang in and started to rant about evil Tories and Trevor Kavanagh from the Sun, quite what that had to do with Greece was beyond me but Dame Nikki seemed to approve.
The leftists are in a right old pickle over Europe, thing is they love the EU and won’t hear a word said against it.
The BBC don’t ever give us a proper “what if we left” argument. Trade would continue as normal, as would banking as would everything else. The only difference is we’d be saving a fortune.
On the same thing anothe lefty was allowed to call into Vicky Pollard who let him rant at the boss of Barclay’s getting 1 million a year.
Disgrace he spouted, to be fair Pollard did try to defend his a bit, but why don’t lefties get would up about beeboids earning 1 million a year or more?
Plus Barclay’s weren’t one of the banks we needed to bale out.
The BBC is an expression of the British middle-class guilt; fifty years of public education in which pupils and students have been taught to despise themselves. It’s an implosion of self-confidence led by the state broadcaster. The BBC production class is a self-selecting circus of ill-informed clowns, desperate to please their ideological ringmasters.
In BBC-Land, the education system has failed not as a result of indolence but the lack of funding. Rioters smash up city centers not because they are greedy, but because the state has let them down. Vicitims are heroes and heroes are ignored. The self-flagellation of the British people is a terrible sight to see.
In news: all ills are put at the feet of “government”, the only collective socialist expression of the British psyche. Personal responsibility has been snuffed out. Between elections the question is “What are THEY going to do about it?” The public are simply onlookers at national life. The good guys (Labour) vs the Bad Guys (Tories). Passively, we witness nightly a world reflected – sorry “created” – by the media. Its high priests are Andrew Marr, Nick Robinson and Mark Mardell. Its churches are radio and TV studios. Its services are the “Today” programme, “Newsnight” and “Question Time” But in truth: it’s all just a hall of mirrors.
Drama: “Spooks” finds it impossible to portray our enemies (a word alien to the BBC) without giving them an excuse for their vile action. An example: an Islamic terrorist plants bombs not because he has been wooed and won by an ideology, but because he has been wrongly arrested, then brutalized in Gitmo. Message: our fault – slap wrists.
Documentary: in “The Battle of Britain, the True Story”, the presenter states that Germany mistakenly bombed London against Hitler’s wishes, Churchill retaliated and initiated the Blitz. Message: our fault – slap wrists.
In comedy: well, enough said. The sneering, self-loathing Jeremy Hardy is the template.
Try this: ask a friend (if you know one, a Beeboid is best) to give ten reasons why he or she is proud of their country. Their reaction will surprise you. Embarrassment.
A kitche sink lobbed straingh through the plate glass windows behind which the Beeboids are now praying to Mecca or Moscow…depending on if it`s yoof TV or Current Affairs being boiled up for turnip jam!
Brillian Louis…some of us are sappers, some subvert with cherry bombs down the loos at the Beeb…you are a veritable Colonel H and to be cherished for this piece!
” . . . give ten reasons why he or she is proud of their country.”
You know, I tried that on myself. Unfortunately, I am no longer proud of my country: I am proud of its past achievements: I am proud of what my country was and what it stood for and what it fought for. But, as I have commented before on this website, it is no longer my country.
I live in London. London is not necessarily typical of what has happened in the UK but, whatever it is, it is not the great British metropolis that I was raised in. That wonderful town had interesting (and tolerated) minority settlements scattered around the various “villages” which (used to) make up London, but London itself was recognisably an English city. Now I walk among an alien people: the Londoners of my youth have disappeared into the woodwork. I travel on a bus daily where English is rarely spoken (or, rather, shouted down a mobile phone). I shop locally and a large number of my fellow-shoppers wear medieval clothing and treat me with the same contempt the Normans must have treated the Saxons. I view the news and am informed that I and mine are responsible for all the evil and poverty in the world. I go to church and an idiot from the established church tells me that Jesus was Ed Miliband in fancy dress.
As I say, I am not proud of my country, but England 2011 is not my country. For that I thank our political class and its mouthpiece the BBC. They hate Britain and have all but destroyed it. The consequences, when they are fully realised, will be terrible but I’ll be long dead (I hope).
Umbongo, I moved back to England in September…I am feeling exactly what you write here. So sad.
I was out of the country for 11 years and used the BBC webpage on a daily basis – you can imagine my horror and dismay at the state of the country when I moved back a couple of years ago. According to the ‘news’ reported on the website, the UK was the land of milk and honey. I seriously considered getting right back on a plane and returning to the US. I can not believe the bias and censorship that is the BBC. The worse part about it is that they get away with it.
My question is: What can we do about it?
Bob,
Well I am going to emigrate and not come back and stuff the UK !
An excellent, heartfelt comment, Umbongo.Your 3rd paragraph describes my daily experience exactly – the feeling of being a stranger in an increasingly strange land. A land that I’m told is multicultural, the implication being that the cultural mix is harmonious – this is an utter fallacy. London is a seething quagmire in which many of the new arrivals are defiantly monocultural, their own, & contemptuous of any other cultures, let alone Britain’s. Selective immigration would have prevented the creation of this tinder-dry bonfire, allowing in only those with something to offer other than self-interest. Settled, law-abiding, working immigrants that I know, regard the endless influx of hopelessly unsuitable arrivals with as much alarm as the indigenous. They can see how it’s going to end – mayhem. And, I can only conclude, mayhem is what New Labour thought was required. Shock-treatment to utterly transform the ‘old’ Britain, loathed by blinded social engineers like Harman/Straw, into their new ‘diverse’, ‘enriched’ Jerusalem, or rather Mecca, or Nutopia. Although Dystopia will be the end result. A shining beacon of madness & volatility, entertained & instructed by the Bedlam Broadcasting Corporation.
What is it with the political/media/education elite? Why are they so eager to give our country away after they have benefited so richly from it? Why should the ‘ordinary people’ suffer to assuage the guilt of self-loathing, rich white traitors? I shall ask Polly Toynbee. She’ll gaze through the Tuscan prism then put me right.
Louis Robinson,
“Try this: ask a friend (if you know one, a Beeboid is best) to give ten reasons why he or she is proud of their country. Their reaction will surprise you. Embarrassment.”
It’s funny how the same people who claim to be proud of their country the most also despise half of the people who live there.
Dez,
It’s funny how the same thing could be said about British socialists.
I think the point is that some of us are proud of British history, but ashamed of what this
country has become.
Anyway, I would be interested in your reasons for being proud of this country. There must be something, surely ?
Louis, cj, Umbongo,Span, Bob,
Great posts , all of you.
But, sadly Britain has gone , never to be recovered. The grim , depressing, humourless Left have won. They should be happy that they have destroyed all that we love, and made lots of money for themselves out of it, as usual !
Umbongo, I know how you feel. Walking down the high street of a small town (East Grinstead, Sussex) at night a few weeks ago even I felt threatened by loutish behaviour. But from 4000 miles away, one gains perspective. Humbly, to cheer you up, here is my list:
1. The British character – fair-minded
2. The British countryside – beautiful
3. The British sense of humour – self-deprecating, down to earth, absurd
4. The Queen – I am proud (even in the USA) to identify myself as an “Elizabethan”
5. The armed services – a small island of sanity, discipline and respect
6. British gardens – nothing like them
7. Cadbury’s chocolate, soft boiled eggs, Marmite, marmalade…
8. British pubs
9. Cricket – the greatest game ever conceived
10. And most of all: British history and tradition.
I know all these are ignored by the current elites. No doubt my list will be viewed by the clever stupid people in charge as a misty-eyed view of a never-remembered Britain by a grammar school educated ex-pat with a chip on his shoulder and a nostalgia complex. So be it. The bad things about Britain (and I visit at least twice a year) are the result of poor leaders with no vision. All my life the country has been managing decline. The BBC is the poster child of this. It is always in financial trouble, always out of touch, always arrogant.
Once again: ask a Beeboid: “Beeboid”, you must say politely, “What is it the corporation DOESN’T do? Network radio and TV, local radio, magazines, internet – what else? Where does the Empire end? What is your vision?” Answers please on a postcard to…
A good list Louis…add our language,our churches and cathedrals, our libraries as well as the King James Bible etc…and out real comedy( Tommy Cooper, John Cleese of old etc) and that can only cheer up Mr Umbongo!
And what`s more…those of us who live here are more than aware of out culture and heritage getting trashed and traduced by self-loathing public sector pimps, nomarks and media slebs. They are having their fifteen minutes, but don`t seem much happier or relaxed about it.
They will pay for what they`ve done to this country. It`s not their money…just electronic blips we don`t have to accept…and our kids won`t either.
Ross etc will be in the treadmill or the workhouse in due course…not everyone here has bowed the knee to Baal…or Ariel or Mithras…or Europa etc!
Get a Fullers or Youngs tonight…or a Yates White wine…relax and watch it all come unstitched on the media houris watch!
We used to have singers and artists who`d do the job for us…not as well educated as once, but who knows?
Creativity will return once we turn off our tellies, shut down our schools and start again…it`s coming!
LR
If what you write is true then it confirms that the spectator sees more of the game. And yes, perhaps outside London – and Birmingham, Bristol and the big cities of the North – a part of the England I lived in as a child and as a young (and not so young) man still lives. But I’m not sure how long the things that you list will survive once my generation (born during WW2) has gone. I hope I’m wrong and that your cheering comments are not hopelessly optimistic – but thanks for them all the same.
Louis,
Marmite ??????
May I add Irn Bru to your list ?
Yes, many Beeboids are politically disdainful of Britain.
It is an attitude which goes deep and imbues much of BBC-NUJ broadcasting output.
The reasons for such an attitude are rarely articulated and argued; instead there is this anti-British presumption which pervades its predominant opinion.
Much of such opinion seems to derive from an incoherent view of British history which, as often taught/propagandised, results in many British people being guilt-ridden.
In contrast, Muslims are taught to believe in their mission of global Islamic supremacy, without an iota of guilt, a mission which, ironically, many Beeboids seems to have an unarticulated affinity for in the operation of the socialist-Islamic alliance.
Jamie Glazov and Michael Coren discuss the Leftist/Islamic supremacist assault on the West
ROBERT BROWN; Thanks for this link George, very good, if only we had such discussions on our media. Fat chance.
For BBC-‘greenies’, the anti-British shale gas development lobbyists:
” An earthquake under Britain’s energy supply.
“Climate-obsessed greens are desperate to exploit two tiny tremors to scare the UK away from exploiting shale gas. “
(by Rob Lyons)
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/11368/
Can’t name 10 things? Bullshit! It’s easy! In no particular order
1. Our culture
Aped but never bettered throughout the known universe.
2. Our language
Shakespeare, Dryden, Wordsworth, Thackeray, Dickens, Tolkien and a thousand others have said it better.
3. Beer:
Theakstons, Marstons, Fullers, Tetleys (oop North anyway) and Samuel Smiths the one true nectar of the Gods.
4. Sport
The fact that we have invented nearly every sport and are modest enough not to excel too much in order to give Johnny foreigner something to be proud for themselves.
5. Inventiveness.
25% of the World’s inventions come from the UK.
6. Our Empire.
The largest the world has seen and created with only a tiny proportion of the deaths visited on the same people by other empires. The most benign and prosperous empire ever. How many empires crumble leaving the constituent parts better off than they were before ‘the oppressors’ arrived?
7. Parliamentary Democracy.
Battered and bruised by 12 years of Liebore but still the best system in the World.
8. English Common Law.
Honed over 1000 years of putting fairness over power.
9. English Humour
No one can see the silly side in any horrible situation better than the English.
and finally
10. The English themselves. No matter what race or colour there’s no one better at your side in any situation than an Englishman.
I love this country and you’ll have to kill me to get me to leave it … and even then as God is a Yorkshire man, I won’t be going far !
That took ten minutes – including spell checking – and I could give you 50 more reasons.