Easton is back on form after having dabbled with a bit of Conservatism.
‘The empty seats scandal at these Olympics refuses to go away. The problem is not simply that each vacant place is a kick in the teeth to the millions of sports fans who have tried desperately to get hold of tickets.
The blocks of empty seating are also a reminder of the privileges available for the rich and powerful at these Games. It looks dreadful because each unused spot emphasises the special treatment afforded to officials and their business partners who then don’t turn up.’
This from a BBC that is vastly out of touch with the general public on just about every major social or economic theme from Europe, immigration, economic policy to Islam and fighting terrorism.
The BBC also seems out of touch with reality at the Olympics:
‘The main stadium, built at vast cost, generated unprecedented fervour for an opening session. Normally, track and field starts in arenas about two thirds full. Only for the evening programmes is the fire really lit. Yesterday’s marvellous turnout stunned the athletics community. The roars for Ennis could be heard across the Olympic Park.’
Empty seats? Not a major ‘scandal’…just an admin cock up rather than a symptom of Capitalist greed and arrogance and lack of care for the ‘small people’.
Perhaps they all had jobs to go to…or didn’t actually want to go to the Olympics….is it compulsory now?
Easton is indulging in socialist propaganda pure and simple…he hasn’t got a clue as to why any of the guests didn’t turn up but abuses them anyway marking them out to be some sort of Class criminals for having money and ‘privilege’.
No chance of course that BBC employees ever give up the opportunity of a free junket…Glastonbury, football World Cups, Wimbledon and the Olympics…they’re there enjoying themselves immensely…..and in such huge numbers.
This is just another cheap shot at big business and capitalism by the BBC who seem on an all out assault against the mechanisms that fund the schools, the hospitals, the welfare payments, the wages of the BBC parasites.
Here’s a couple of other recent examples which both seek to undermine the Establishment and promote ‘People Power’ and rebellion of one sort or another as well as casting a jaundiced eye over capitalism:
King John and the Leveson Inquiry
Jonathan Freedland presents the programme which looks at the past behind the present.
This week he centres on the Leveson Inquiry and the parallels it has with the 1215 King John Inquiry in which both the King and prime minister are forced to set up and inquiry against their wishes.
(Note no mention of Labour other than to praise Miliband)
Helena Kennedy QC presents a new series uncovering the profound and powerful relationship between our financial and legal systems, between capitalism and the law, between freedom and justice.
She tells us that the Law has been used to preserve vested interests (capitalists) and that those with most power are not easily visible and also that government is paralysed by big corporations and banks but we have an alternative way of doing politics…as shown most prominently by Occupy.
What a surprise…the BBC supporting mob rule and the power of violence over democracy and representative government.
Even programmes about restoring old houses are recruited to the Marxist cause:
‘The Elms, an early Georgian house, for generations has been slipping slowly into a state of ruin. For 8 years it has been standing empty as a string of developers have tried to exploit it, but as a grade 2 listed building they weren’t allowed to do cheap and cheerful conversions…so the Elms would never be saved for just hard profit…it needed someone who wasn’t out to make a fast buck.’
Curious mindset from the BBC….happy to import millions of cheap foreign workers so that capitalism can thrive (or so the BBC likes to say) but doesn’t want to let them have anywhere to live if it means those greedy capitalist developers turn an absolute ruin into nice, modern flats at affordable rents.
BBC does talk out of its backside most of the time….a newspaper story recently said we are refusing to grow up and that ‘adulthood’ and maturity arrives in our 30’s now…..that’d be about right for the BBC…a bunch of eternal students still fighting ‘The Man’.
If Helena Kennedy QC was to tell us why she joined Common Purpose it just might be worth tuning in.
Yet again a pop at McDonalds on newsnight as the big Satan. Have you seen the fat salt and sugar content in Duchy Originals , always bogged up by the beeb. What about the great British bake off ?i don’t see auntie commissioning Morgan leftytotalcock to do supersize my buns.
Hypocrisy. Nothing to do with the health properties of micky d’s everything to do with the fact that the golden arches are the icons of a capitalist Satan.
I hate the beeb. Den of commie vipers.
That would be Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Labour peer, – born into a family of Labour activists,
QCs, like all barristers, are self-employed. They don’t get paid – they make a profit, like any other self-employed person. Reasonably successful QCs can earn anywhere between Cherie Blair’s reported £300,000 a year and £2m for top silks. Perhaps she scrapes by at the bottom end, though Lady Kennedy also has an income from broadcasting, all of which by some strange coincidence were commissioned by the BBC.
Cosy.
How many Olympic seats were allocated to Beeboids?
“We aim to make diversity and inclusion a key differentiator of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It’s not simply about recruiting a diverse workforce, it’s about the suppliers, competitors, officials and spectators — in fact, everyone connected with the Games, from the security guards to the bus drivers.”
There has also been a scandal about the empty seats. Here is LOCOG again on their ticketing ethos:
“Ticketing: Diversity and inclusion are an integral part of the London2012 ticketing programme, allowing as many people as possible to experience the Games.”
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/londons-marxist-multicultural-olympics.html
So, did applicants for tickets have to explain their ethnicity or religion? Or was the ticketing computer programmed to allocate more to Mohammed Ahmed than to John Smith?
‘The blocks of empty seating are also a reminder of the privileges available for the rich and powerful at these Games’.
The IOC always remind me of another unelected, bloated, wasteful, out-of-touch body of grey men in grey suits who are not averse to gorging on taxpayers’ money to fund their lavish lifestyles. You know, The Untouchables in Brussels. Funny they never receive similar criticism by the BBC.
Funny that the beeb has received funding from Brussels, not all of which they will admit to despite repeated FoI requests!
‘Easton is indulging in socialist propaganda pure and simple’
He ‘s in good company with the Conservative PM, mayor and Lord Coe, who have all expressed public concern about this.
Dim, there’s a bit of a difference between (rightly) complaining about empty seats and ‘indulging in socialist propaganda pure and simple’.
You can’t see that?
When I was Olympicing on thursday what few empty seats there were, were in the twenty quid block. I don’t think they were empty because champagne-swilling, restaurant-trashing, braying toffs couldn’t be arsed going along.
But that will be the narrative that sticks courtesy the Biased Brainwashing Commune of eternal students.