The Victoria Derbyshire show (45 mins) finally admitted that there maybe some suggestion that both the Bank of England and the Labour Party may have had some involvement in fixing the Libor.
Well no I tell a lie…they raised the matter only to conclude as soon as they could that Labour were in no way involved…Jonty Bloom came on to dismiss all allegations and assure us that Diamond was merely trying to deflect criticism and blame.
No mention at all of Labour’s Shriti (I don’t remember anything)Vadera and her possible involvement which had the potential to be the smoking gun in all this affair.
Then onto PMQs ( a continuation of the VD show 1 hr 59 mins)…and the Labour Luvvie Richard Bacon….who sounded as if he was going to burst into tears at any moment, the bottom lip quivering and the sound of bitterness in his voice as he contemplated Labour being finally brought to book.
He opened the show with a downplaying of Labour involvement…they ‘clearly made some mistakes’, but carried on with an assertion that …well Labour’s not to blame because if the Tories had been in power they would have done the same…they wanted ‘light touch regulation’…’entirely consistent with Conservative ideology’…sooo disengenuous!….so there! Boo Hoo!
We probably all know the famous Brown speech in 2007 when he told us we were in a golden age and that he wanted even more of a light touch regulatory regime and a financial industry based on risk.
The BBC have steadfastly refused to quote Brown on that throughout this saga…but look…what did the sulky Bacon come up with? A quote from Cameron: ‘The lessons from the City are clear. Low tax. Low regulation. Meritocracy. Openness. Innovation. These are the keys to success.’
Funny that…13 years of Labour and all we get from the BBC/Labour Tag team is Thatcher and now Cameron quotes.
The lesson we can take from all this is that it doesn’t matter what Labour actually did because if the Tories had been in power they might possibly have done the same…definitely maybe they would.
Labour could ship out all the immigrants it allowed in and ‘send them back home’ because if the BNP were in power they would have done the same?
For 13 years we had an ‘Ugly Duckling’ Labour government…but under the BBC’s careful care and nurture it has grown and flourished into a shining example of compassionate and thoughtful government, making mistakes but always with the best of intentions.
You can trust Labour is the message….give them another chance.
I am almost certain we had a Labour government for 13 long years…but the memory is fading…I’m sure they would have been great.
To be fair Martha Kearney interviewed Shriti Vadera (10 mins)where we of course heard that Vadera knew nothing and did nothing….but….yes she had expressed some concern about the Libor…but…it was Labour’s job to do so.
The question that immediately springs to mind is that…yes it’s the government’s job to be ‘concerned’ but then to do something about those concerns…the question is what did Labour and Vadera do?
But Kearney let that rather important question go.
Yes indeedy!
On the “Toady Show”, we got Paul Myners weasling around his words, so the likes of Vadera and Balls don`t get us all ruffled…oh look, there`s Lord Hutton…maybe HE could set us all straight and stop us looking back at what Brown and his wrecking crew were saying and doing from 2007.
One excuse trotted out between them( the needlepoint was being done in a “stitch and bitch” kind of way) was that these were seismic times-and surely the Governments spinners and weavers behind the scenes were only showing that they cared in a panicky way….sad, yet so understandable from these caring custodians of the nations money belt.
Hopefully this will do to the reputation of the Labour lot of 97/10 what Leveson has done to the Suns…quite similar in their way…all roads will HAVE to go back to Brown, won`t they?
Well amybe not-I`m sure I`m not alone in the BBCs efforts to sandwich any politicos interview with the white bread niceness of Robinson and Peston…just in case young Osborne isn`t able to parrot the BBCs take on it all…all the time these days too.
Too much analysis leads to paralysis…this New Libor thing may well finish them off at Liebor HQ…rejoice!
The reason the conservatives put pressure on the BBC when they got back into government (POWER) was because the BBC supported Labour and still do.
There is only one way to deal with a public overpaid body that is supposed to be impartial but isn’t is to scrap it altogether and make the world service a sub unit of the foreign office.
That just about sums it up. One can only presume above every BBC news editors desk is the slogan “It’s no bloody good to me if we can’t bash the Tories with it!”
Cameron had the opportunity to deal with the BBC when he became PM.
He did……nothing.
His appeasement will reap what it sowed.
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Alan attributes his uncertainty as to whether we ever had a Labour government or not to the beeb, which George Orwell once worked for, and on which he based his history-rewriting Ministry of Truth.
Talk about prophetic – Emmanuel Goldberg could be a banker, Robin Page a nonperson, reading the Mail is thoughcrime, the two-minute hate is aimed at the Tory front bench, Blair’s babes are the anti-sex league, “religion of peace” is doublethink, and Reality TV can only be Victory Gin.
And the beeb is an example of oligarchical collectivism.
“If there is a smoking gun in the rate-fixing scandal, Labour’s paw prints look to be all over it”
By Nick Wood
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2168829/Libor-scandal-If-smoking-gun-rate-fixing-scandal-Labours-paw-prints-look-it.html#ixzz1zhMc4vJI
‘Labour’s not to blame because if the Tories had been in power they would have done the same’
Not saying I dis/agree with the latter, but as always I am interested in the precedent of such an argument as espoused, not least by the selectivity of when it is deployed… and when not.
That the BBC seems to be scrabbling around on such a crisis management basis to defend their PR clients, when more than happy to lash out on any source-driven allegation that harms their opponents, smacks of multiple standards. And blatant partiality.
And I have to pay £145.50pa for this why?
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