Victoria Derbyshire was comprehensively routed and put to the sword today….twice.
The latest GDP figures were announced and apparently the economy is sinking fast…or as the BBC put it in every news report…‘Britain is in the worst recession since records began…50 years ago.’
Hang on! The worst recession since records began…but only since the 1960’s?…that’s very convenient….was there no record of the Great depression then? Was that just a legend, a Dickensian tale designed to frighten and entertain us?
Derbyshire cancelled whatever plans she had to concentrate on this new shocking news….as of course a fall of 0.7% is important news.
Derbyshire appealed for the listeners to call in and tell her their tales of woe, how they are coping with this recession to end all recessions….and what the government should do.
However things didn’t go to plan….only one caller had a tale of woe and she was a ‘civilian’, not a business person. All the other callers said they were doing great business…and of note….two said they had built their businesses without ever having to borrow money from a bank.
Two callers insisted that the media were part of the problem…being entirely too negative and damaging confidence.
Derbyshire jumped in and defended herself saying she ‘only reported the facts’.
This was challenged….as she hadn’t emphasised the huge leap in employment during this ‘recession’….a recruitment agency said that industry was crying out for skilled workers in engineering and IT….there are jobs there, and this was in the North….(but all those people Gordon Brown sent to study media studies and politics at university aren’t qualified for the real world).
This was pretty much a repeat of a show a month or so ago when Derbyshire asked a similar question and most businesses said they were doing well…that time the show lasted the full hour…this time the calls were cut off after 30 minutes…..wonder why?
So the BBC allowed these callers on? You do know the show’s researchers will have fielded the calls before they went live don’t you? In which case, this rather weakens the conspiracy theory that the Beed goes to great lengths to promote a left wing anti-Government agenda.
And did she really ‘appeal for the listeners to call in and tell her their tales of woe,’? I’d like a link to that before I can believe you.
Maybe they were forced to put on air the only people available, or maybe, Heaven forbid, some of the listeners have cottoned on to Victoria’s agenda and concealed their true feelings before ‘going live’.
Where was Jim Dandy when Drearyshire’s union love-in was featured other week?
Perhaps even Jim can’t defend the indefensible.
‘I’d like a link to that before I can believe you. ‘
Another awesome precedent it would be simply super if the ever unique BBC had applied to it.
After a few months mulling I have just had my latest Trust blow-off saying…get this… that they have investigated and are comfy in their belief (why do all from the Auntycide feel their ‘belief’ has any relevance or value to those outside the hive) they have got it (‘it’ being that Nick Robinson is so experienced and professional, even when he phones in.. literally… a piece about a political exchange he subsequently admits he actually hasn’t read, as it’s his ‘expert’ opinion this more than makes up for any lack of objectivity or accuracy) about right again. And no backsies. So it’s going in the monthly ra-ra tractor stats of 110% rectitude.
Oddly no mention yet from them about having a kapo squad surfing the internet trying to tie critical posts on blogs with those who make complaints, with a view to supporting bannings.
Whatever you choose to believe about the BBC Jim, it is worse than that.
But keep up the good work highlighting just how many standards they do engage in.
Thank you Jim for enlightening us as to the normal practices performed by the researchers prior to a show. I don’t quite understand what went wrong this time, but their methods usually produce the desired effect I guess. anyway, thanks for confirming the normal bias.
In which case, this rather weakens the conspiracy theory that the Beed goes to great lengths to promote a left wing anti-Government agenda.
Dim Jandy.
Where’s a Kris Akabussi laughter track when you need one..
She must have been relieved though when the business person came on who advised the Yorkshire IT firm, apparently having trouble recruiting the right people (hard to believe when we have so many unemployed graduates and of course all those ‘skilled migrants from Eastern Europe’), that they should approach recruitment agencies in Paris or Germany!
Always good to have someone to slag of Brits and promote the ‘need’ for yet more immigrants!
‘appeal for the listeners to call in and tell her their tales of woe,’
After telling us how terrible the recession was she invited listeners to say “how this prolonged recession is affecting your business your earnings your ability to get a job”.
It was certainly an invitation to negativity!
She then had on an interviewee who strongly emphasised the negative, even regarding the increase in employment! All encouragement to potential callers to think likewise.
If you want a link listen again on the website.
Look North for Humberside had to admit that for this area the recession is not as bad as the overall figure – where is it as bad? Everywhere seems to be better than the average.
Saying that Britain is in the worst recession “since records began” is….”accurate”. It may create false impression, but that’s all down to inference, innit. Can’t blame the BBC for that, right?
Perhaps she could have asked listeners to phone in and let her know which one of the 2,500,000 immigrants employed since 1997 took the job they wanted.
2,500 000 ? I presume you are narrowing that figure down to Lincolnshire only ?
Worst recession since records began and highest immigration since records began . The BBCs answer will be for more gun control , or climate change legislation .
The Tory toff some time back who declared some people were better off because of near-zero mortgage rates and “had never had it so good” was shouted down and forced to appologise.
No room for the truth in public debate. It’s official. Things are awful. Anyone who says otherwise “is not living in the real world” blah blah blah.
How many empty tables at the Ivy? If the economy shrank by 1%, wouldn’t that leave 99% in place? Life is snakes and ladders, not all snakes.
VD is well anagramed. She is an intellectually transmitted disease.
A bit more Balls-style borrowing – markets reacting – interest rates going up and the credit-soaked have-it-all-today merchants who believed Labour’s permanent economic miracle and borrowed up to their eyeballs will soon look back on ‘never had it so good’ and finally understand.
But then what do us oldies who have seen it all before know?
The BBC does lead the debates so that the answer is in the negative. This would be disgraceful normally but we have to pay to be patronised and sidelined. Sky uses much of the BBC news and is not exactly a cheer leader for the Government either, so there really is no competition on the airwaves. The good thing is that more and more people are noticing with this left wing bias.
shock news – world’s sixth-wealthiest country nearly as wealthy as it was three months ago on the basis of a provisional and soon-to-be-revised figure.
Vote Labour everyone, Vote Labour, you hear.
Ignore the facts, ignore the detail, this is all about one pervasive political narrative, and the BBC knows it. It is a prisoner of its own recruitment policies for the last twenty years. The corporation is stuffed to the gunnels with Labour supporters or those who have made a career choice to echo the same for personal preferment. There isn’t anything in the current system, like fake-Tory Patten, or brown-tongue Cameron who is going to call a halt to it. It is doomed. It will find itself on the wrong side of the barricades, by choice.