“There are no cuts to the housing benefit budget, only cuts to the projected increase. I should like to place a dunce’s hat on Mr Naughtie’s head and make him repeat that three times a day. It may also astonish him and his BBC colleagues to learn that overall there has been no cut in public spending, though, of course, some individual departments have suffered.”
Stephen Glover in the Daily Mail
I think many people were just coming to realise this and still plugging for the Coalition to ‘turn the oil tanker’ round. However, they seem to be shooting themselves in the foot on a daily basis now so even the false cuts message the BBC push is being drowned in the tsunami of minor (in the great scheme of things) general incompetence stories taking the headlines day after day.
How many times have people said this exact same thing here? I’ve lost count. Maybe with this people will get a clue.
Indeed there are no cuts. And look how that’s working out.
As the cuts meme is labour strategy it makes sense for the BBC to peddle it, that it makes no sense and defies logic and is a pack of lies hasn’t stopped the BBC yet has it? It is the BBCs job to peddle lies, its what they do and they are experts at it. The BBC knows full well the liblabcon are spending and borrowing the UK into oblivion, its part of the plan and its the BBCs job to hide the truth for as long as possible. Keep on highlighting supposed differences and it effectively hides the identical aims of the liblabcon.
Spending continues to rise as does borrowing, in fact the Vichy regime is on a spending bender the likes of Brown and his successor Balls would wholeheartedly support if it were not such a useful weapon to attack the Vichy regime with. But it suits both sides to continue the fallacy and fantasy of the cuts narrative, the Vichy regime pretends to be fiscally conservative while continuing the labour overspending and labour can peddle its narrative of the nasty skinflint Tories.
Both sides get to ride a fabricated and false narrative to appeal to their respective support base, its a cynical PR political game and it blinds people to whats really going on, the breaking of the UK as a sovereign entity. Its pure EU engineering, make individual nations so broken that the final dream of a supreme EU controlling broken and reliant supplicant regions becomes a reality. Get em by the balls and their hearts will follow, and even if they dont so what?
Well said, every word a stake in the heart of our useless lying political class. The bBC is beyond parody, in The Thick of It underestimated the venality of it, Twenty Twelve has its finger on the vacuuity of a trundling circus with Sustainability Audits as its centrepiece, quangos they never got to bonfire night due to Tories absence of fundemental organising skills – how to actually make something happen in the real world (clue: its not making a speech)
The BBC has been going on about “The Cuts” (I feel as if they deserve capitals) since the start of the coalition. Not once, not once, have I heard them mention that we have only slowed the projected increase in spending. Somehow every program they do they manage to link to the cuts. Yesterday it was domestic violence, I wonder what it will be tonight.
The cut we all want to see, the bBC cut, off from its featherbedding and license to tell lies. How does Chris Patten look at himself in the mirror each day? Worthless timeserving parasite.
The BBC have found another strategy in pursuing their agenda, in this case promoting the Labour Party while demonizing the Tories.
Newham council have initiated a ‘scheme’, knowing it is destined for failure, but claiming that because of the ‘draconian cuts’ imposed by the present government, they had no choice.
This only works when you have the the ‘national broadcaster’ on your side to make sure the ‘right message’ is conveyed.
Grant Shapps has issued a complaint to the BBC about the way this affair has been handled, and posted a copy of it on the Conservative Home website.
Shapps complains to BBC over Newham coverage
Bias by Bullshit – it’s in their jeans!
I notice that Shapps refused to take the opportunity to complain on-air but whined after the event. He could have eviscerated Naughtie at the time but, no, he chose to be “civilised” about this and responded to the Newham announcement at face value ie as if there were no agendas (from Newham, Labour or the BBC) here.
Shapps should know (I’m sure he does) – as all those commenting or posting here know – that there’s no point in complaining to the BBC particularly after the event: after all the BBC “gets it about right”. If Shapps grew a pair he could have had Newham and Naughtie on the back foot. He chose not to which is a condemnation of the Cameroons in and of itself.
That’s right. The letter shows that the Tories know exactly what the BBC is about and do nothing about it.
BBC’s NUJ Father of the Chapel at ‘Newsnight’ being unconsciously ironic (about half-way down the rambling piece):-
…”as a public service journalist you have to be above the fray…”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17828278
…”as a public service journalist you have to be above the fray…”
What, like he was when he used the PM’s objections to aspects of the EU deal to make a tribal claim on behalf of the UK public… for whom the BBC speaks… that was totally at odds with accuracy.
Interestingly, bearing in mind the ‘Taxi for Mr. Hughes’ ongoing rumble, Mr. Mason first tried to get a producer to laugh it off for him, but it still remains now past ECU to Trust as I refuse to accept ‘we think he got it about right’ when in fact he got it all wrong, and wrong on the political side he nakedly supports.
No, I’m afraid there really are cuts: in March (latest data available) total govt spending fell 5.2% YoY, with net departmental spending down 7.1% YoY, but interest payments up 5% YoY.
Sorry, but that’s the facts.
Which facts are you looking at? These figures show otherwise:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/7808078/ballss-argument-is-detached-from-reality.thtml