A few days ago you may have noticed the LibDems being given a lot of airtime to complain about the Tories ‘breaking their contract’ in the Coalition. The BBC news happily repeated this lie ad nauseam throughout the day without reference to the facts.
Those facts being that there is no ‘contract’ regarding House of Lords reform…it is not in the manifesto and it was no part of the agreement with regard to boundary changes…that was part of the AV referendum deal…which the Tories fulfilled.
You may also have noticed that the BBC continually alluded to the Tories wanting boundary changes as it was to their advantage and would mean they would have a majority at the next election.
That is an outright lie…..Labour now has a massive advantage in that it needs far fewer votes to get more MPs than do the Conservatives…in fact the Tories often poll more votes in elections but lose because those votes are not translated into seats in Parliament….so the boundary changes are merely designed to even up the voting system and produce a fair outcome…something you’d think the BBC would be in favour of….it is not to generate a Tory ‘advantage’.
Norman Tebbit has also noticed BBC trickery:
‘As for the monumental incompetence of my Conservative colleagues who have allowed Mr Clegg and the BBC to present boundary change as being proposed by the Tories solely to gain an advantage for themselves, that is simply unspeakable.’
He is of course right about Tory PR incompetence….I could go on…but how long have you got…it’s endless…and all the more remarkable because Cameron was in PR.
My vote was gerrymandered over two years ago by moving a section of a Tory Borough constituency into the neighbouring massively Labour constituency, eliminating our votes. Its a great place to go if you are looking for plantain bananas or want your nails done. The Boundary Commission reforms are about undoing shameless labour fiddling, corrupt tiny constituencies in the North guaranteed to return droves of Labour MPs. If you read the BC proposals they are scrupulously fair. Of course the left-leaning media could not report fairly if their lives depended on it.
As the BBC have “broken their contract” to supply impartial journalism, I have withdrawn from paying any “consideration” for it, to maintain the legal theme.
You wouldn’t think the map looked like this with how it’s presented.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/2432632/UK-General-Election-2010-political-map.html
If you look at just England the results are even more pronounced: 108 seats more and 2.9 million votes more than Labour.
English Parliament now please, real Devolution. Scots have their own parliament, why are there forty Scottish Labour MPs sitting in Westminster passing laws against the English, differently to the laws they have picked for themselves in Scotland?? Cameron is a complete plonker on The Union, but then he’s no Tory.
“The BBC news happily repeated this lie ad nauseam throughout the day without reference to the facts.”
Oh, apart from here:
http://bbc.in/MMG1Se
here:
http://bbc.in/MMGbZY
and here:
http://bbc.in/MMGeou
“…the BBC continually alluded to the Tories wanting boundary changes as it was to their advantage and would mean they would have a majority at the next election.”
“alluded to“; or, in other words, said no such thing.
“That is an outright lie…”
I see, so something the BBC never said is an outright lie? Duh.
“…in fact the Tories often poll more votes in elections but lose because those votes are not translated into seats in Parliament”
Your definition of “often” being twice in 80 years and ignoring what happened in 1951.
Not too bright are you Alan?
Maybe he’s not bright – but he’s right.
Whereas you are … ?