Here’s an interesting question says the interesting Evan Davis to Vincent Tchenguiz who was arrested for fraud but released later as innocent….
‘Let’s suppose you were a white, English born, public school educated, er, toff with a Sir in front of your first name…do you think the Serious Fraud Office would have had any interest in your case?’
Vincent shoots down Davis saying that race or class had no impact on the way the case was conducted.
But nice to know that Davis is promulgating class stereotypes and plays along with the Labour game to whip up class warfare…because you know Cameron and Osborne are Toffs.
Wonder if Davis would be upset if I asked if he just got his job on the Today programme because he is gay…filling the diversity quota? Because the more I hear him the less impressed I become with his work.
5Live’s Nicky Campbell also came up with another fine example of casual stereotyping…‘What you’re saying is that women’s football wasn’t good enough 10 years ago to attract the attention of the likes of Murdoch who always smells where the money is?’
Keep on battering away…they’ll get him in the end.
However that small comment does beg the question…. where were the BBC then in covering such a sport and helping to develop its presence and profile with the viewers? Isn’t that precisely what a publicly funded broadcast organisation is set up to do…the subjects that commercial companies can’t afford to cover?
If I were a Paralympian or a female athlete, I`d smell the patronising tokenistic guff and smarm all about the BBCs coverage of these gonks of sports lucky heather.
The Euros, the golf, Wimbledon or Silverstone….never have to worry about the Paralympics or womens football, any more than they do about dogs walking on their hind legs whilst delivering a sermon.
Wonder if Davis just got his job on the Today programme because he is gay….Chariots Sauna
Positive discrimination & quotas will bring down the BBC … & … wee Evan is increasingly out of control – that ghastly wheezing laugh in the background indicates misplaced confidence …
i bet Evan Davis loves a BBC up his arse
“Vincent shoots down Davis…”
Blimey Alan, you don’t half spout some rubbish. Tchenguiz acknowledged Evan’s question as it was being asked and then gave a calm and considered response.
Yet again this blog fails to understand the difference between asking a question and stating an opinion.
Perfect example: “Nicky Campbell also came up with another fine example of casual stereotyping…”
Or, in other words: “Radio phone-in host proposes something controversial in order to generate a heated debate”
Oh the horror!
More heat than light? Classic leftist diversionary tactic.
Looking forward to the BBC proposing something contrerversial that is not a plank of the liberal/left .
The trouble is that’s always the same questions. Davies would never ask a upper-class white dude if he thought he was being victimised for PC reasons, any more than John Humphreys was going to ask Labour hacks about non-EU immigration.
Oh…. and, by the way, claiming Murdoch always smells where the money is, isn’t actually a question, it’s an opinion.
Even Dez knows he’s talking bollocks on this one.
If only!
It`s a lazy reflex that prevents thinking or self-reflection.
If Dez has visited this site so often, and is yet to join the dots about the price we pay for letting the BBC recycle its warm winds and fug back though the exhaust to kill us as a nation, then he never will.
Operation Fast and Furious Dez?…nah, a courtly quadrille as the sword of Islam is getting its polish.
“Yet again this blog fails to understand the difference between asking a question and stating an opinion” or not asking a question and thereby stating an opinion.
On Thursday – in Today‘s Labour party political broadcast concerning Ed’s mea culpa for Labour’s immigration policy – there was a remarkable gap in the questions posed by Humphrys. This was the matter of non-EU massive and permanent immigration from the sub-continent. John Denham certainly didn’t mention it and Humphrys was too polite to bring up this “controversial” matter to generate a “heated debate” or any debate at all.
The reason for Humphrys’ narrow and limited interpretation of his “journalistic” brief on this one was precisely to prevent a heated debate and, not by coincidence, hand Labour a “get out of jail free” card on the subject of all immigration from 1997 onwards. Evan’s questioning of Tchenguiz was an exact mirror-image with the same purpose or, at least, same result: to serve a Labour Party agenda.
Agreed – all day yesterday from Toady to Nonewsnight leftoids ignoring the elephant and admiring the Emperor’s new clothes. Quite sickening. Their bubbles must truly be impermeable to reality.
Has this site started to moderate comments in advance? If so, since when?
Yet again this blog fails to understand the difference between asking a question and stating an opinion.
How long have you been beating your wife?
Where is the underlying justification for Evan’s question?
Has a toff in a similar position to Tchenguiz not been arrested? Are toffs never arrested or prosecuted for serious fraud? Without underlying justification, what we have is Evan’s class warfare on show. The real story here is that of incompetence at the SFO and their failure admit they were wrong in a timely fashion.
Interestingly, when the editors of the World Service Daily Business programme got hold of Evan’s interview (first item here), they gave Evan’s toff question the chop.
The World Service removed Evan’s question because it manifestly would not resonate with the WS’s target audience. There’s little point in delivering a Labour agenda to non-voters.
Nicky Campbell: rewriting history, it was the FA and the first division that declared UDI from the football league so they could exploit the game. The premiership and the FA have done the deal that has just sold TV rights for £3B.
Evan Davis has only got a job at the BBC because he is gay and helps fills the BBC diversity quota. If he was a hetrosexual the nearest he would get to the BBC would be Shephards bush tube station or Salford train station.
I’d like to know what Ed Millbands views are on Israel seeing he is a jew. Why don’t the BBC ask him that in an interview and ask him what he thinks of the BBC’s stance on Israel.
I think Red Ed is an atheist of Jewish heritage. His father and grandfather were both hardline Communists, so I doubt they spent much time down the synagogue.
I don’t think Israel would celebrate having this particular Jew as PM. This speech to the 2010 Labour Party conference comprises the usual lefty Israel-bashing and Pally massaging we’ve grown to know . . . if not love.
To be fair to Evan, his programme – on Radio 4 and BBC 24 – the “Bottom Line” isn’t bad. This is probably because the panel (of three business people – different every week) can give as good as they get (and do when necessary). Consequently Evan tends to asks germane and intelligent questions which – believe it or not – gets an interesting and informative discussion going which tends not to follow the Narrative.
Yes, you`re quite right.
It seems that the Toady Show is the flagship of all things socialist…because the likes of Peston and Davis are quite congenial when they`re not putting the bunting out for the Labour Party ship of fools that is Today.
If only that limp leftie chip could be excised from their fundaments before they entered the Beeb bubble-because they`re by no means stupid.
Until Uncles Jim and John get them down the woodshed to paint it that fetching rose tint we`ve all come to love and loathe
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