Yet more relentless socialist, green propaganda from the BBC:
Secret Life of the Motorway –
3. The End of the Affair
‘When the first motorways opened they did so to national celebration. But after the first 1,000 miles had been built, their impact on both town and country was becoming apparent and people started to protest.
Middle England rose up and disrupted public inquiries to voice their frustration at motorway building, but it continued and over time the frustration gave way to concerns about saving the planet. In the early 90s that meant young people willing to risk everything to stop the motorways being built. The programme shows how we began to question the promises made by the motorway and along the way found our voice of protest.’
Was that really the case? Wasn’t it in fact just Swampy and his mates tying themselves to trees who ‘risked everything’ to stop roads being built…& ‘everything’ being his roll up fags and social security card.
Of course the BBC are right…no one ever uses the motorways now.
Do you get the feeling that whoever wrote that was also one of the ‘protestors’ before getting a proper job at the BBC to pay the rent?
I wonder when they will be doing such a programme about something more current…such as windfarms and the massive protests across the country from all sectors of society against them?
I remember the protests, hundreds, in some places thousands; once in London a half a million people marched against the motorways, protests in every county. They were polite, tidy, even took their rubbish away! Yes I tell you there were protests…
Oh, hang on, that was the pro fox-hunting lot.
As a protest against motorways, Beeboids drive on them all the time at our expense, as part of their attempt to link up their two main HQs, which have been planned and built 200 miles apart, at Media City, Salford, and Portland Place, London.
I believe the likes of Richard Bacon prefer to take the plane and avoid the traffic jams.
I heard when he is on a plane he likes to go to the toilet and do some lines.
Sorry I mean learn his lines.
Yet another distortion of the facts/re-writing of history – making a minority of benefit-dependent disruptive eco-nutters sound like a massive groundswell of good old-fashioned British peaceful protest.
Funny how they never question the concreting-over of our country with houses to accommodate an out of control growth in population. Or how all these people and their food and goods are expected to get from A to B.
Or how about holding the scientists to account and asking ‘Instead of spending all your time lecturing us on CO2 emissions why the hell don’t you pull your finger out and give us a replacement for the internal combustion engine?’
It“s simple enough . By using carrier pigeon , gondolas, the “beam me up Scottie ” thing used in Star Trek , hot air balloons , and mules we can transport ourselves and goods around in the greenest way possible .
And working folk should graft up t`local mill taking Hovis sandwiches on bicycles ,doffing cap to Hardcastle the employer . Ere , it looks like happy days again for public school educated marxists
“Eee… my dad always vorted Labour, HIS dad traditionally always vorted Labour, even our pet BUDGIE always vorts Labour!…and (so) I’LL always vort Labour”. – Just traditionalist vorting drongos, dense as shite. Never mind any lot ever actually earning your vote!
Not very progressive but I think people who work and pay income tax should have two votes, and everyone on higher rate of income tax should have three votes.
Those who contribute the most should have proportionately more say in how it is spent. Fiscal democracy.
In the second episode they had ‘rent-a-travel-mouth’ Simon Calder spouting unsubstantiated lefty bilge, talking about the decline in hitchhiking….
“By the end of the 70s you could tell that something had happened – there were fewer people around at the junctions. [It] summed up Thatcherism as ‘I’m alright Jack’ and that whole idea which pervaded all the way through the 80s and really did a lot of damage to hitch-hiking because people were driving around in bigger grander faster cars but they were ‘thinking hmph well I’m not stopping for them, why don’t they get on their bike and look for work or whatever’ “ then immediately followed by video of Mrs Thatcher just to reinforce that it’s all about the evil Toreez.
My recollection at the time was that hitch-hiking declined because the media (including BBC news) was constantly scaring everyone into believing that hitch-hiking was inherently dangerous – hitch-hikers were all axe wielding hippy maniacs and all motorists and lorry drivers were all rapists and murderers. It certainly was nothing to do with Thatcher or consumerism.
Pure left-wing cobblers put out by a BBC voice so that the audience is led to believe it must be true when it was just his personal opinion as he offered no facts to back up his claim.
Made me angry at the time but had forgotten all about it.
“In the second episode they had ‘rent-a-travel-mouth’ Simon Calder spouting unsubstantiated lefty bilge, talking about the decline in hitchhiking….”
OH-NO! Someone said something you disagreed with! THE HORROR!
Of course, right after Simon Calder gave his opinion there was someone else saying the decline in hitchhiking was due to people becoming more fearful.
OH-NO! Someone said something you actually agreed with! BETTER JUST GLOSS OVER THAT BIT AND PRETEND LIKE IT NEVER HAPPENED!
For God’s sake calm down lad.
Blimey, Dez – calm down. You’ll do yourself a mischief.
He also added that he didn’t believe it to be any more dangerous, thereby negating what he had just said and hence didn’t offer an opposing view after all. Besides, he didn’t attempt to balance it by trying to lay any blame at the door of Callaghan or Wilson. It was, like so often on the BBC, a cheap shot at Thatcher and the Tories.
I thought that all those “hitch hikers” now had the cars,
“Do you get the feeling that whoever wrote that was also one of the ‘protestors’ before getting a proper job at the BBC to pay the rent?”
Yep!
Everyone should always do the background checks on Al-Beeb presenters and their prefered guests, etc. Usually dead easy with the likes of Wiki’ and always a laugh.
I was curious about cultural shite waffling Matthew Syed, Dan Walker’s guest on Al-Beeb’s Olympic Sportsday the other night, so had a quick butchers on Wiki’ about him and….. yep, sure enough…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Syed
(Funniest thing was that the bloke easily looks more like 51 now than “41”. lol)
“I was curious about cultural shite waffling Matthew Syed…yep, sure enough…”
Oh.. My.. God.. His mother is Welsh.
Yes, you’re right; yet more disgusting multicultural crap from the BBC.
I think that he was a candidate for a labour seat is the salient point rather than his racial make up. Isn’t it a bit strange how members of the Labour party just happen to appear under every stone in Aunties’ ‘Blue Peter’ garden…
His father would have been highly unlikely to be ( non-Muslim) Welsh and his mother Muslim as that would break a very rigorously enforced Islamic law.
Apart from poncey sounding Colin Jackson, whats wrong with “Welsh” people, dez? You laughably sad sidestepping leftie troll.
No wonder you love Al-Beeb so much!
Try heeding It’s all too much’s post.
Syed writes the obvious, clearly all that is required to scoop a first at Balliol. A comment left on his Beeb piece on pressure in sport is more piercing:
Keith Miller, the Australian test cricketer, who had also been a fighter pilot during World War II, had the following to say about “pressure”. “There’s no such thing as pressure in sport. Pressure is having a Messerschmidt on your arse, trying to kill you. That’s pressure.”
Brilliant quote by the Great Keith Miller !!!
I wonder if they’ll repeat the similarly egregious 3-part documentary on electricity generation.
The first and maybe the second episodes were agreeable enough, for a BBC 4 documentary, that is: not very mentally taxing; however the third was just propaganda for home electricity generation, i.e., wind power and other micro-generation bilge.
Baring any historical revisionism, a BBC docu. can be mildly enjoyable, provided it deals with topics that the Beeboids are too young to have lived through. Anything more recent, though, and the amount of left-wing commentary expands exponentially, providing a wealth of research material and less need for thought.
Our vast and awesomely green alternative to those nasty CO2-belching power stations actually recorded zero output one day last week.
Makes you wonder what we will be doing on days like that in 2030 when apparently, thanks to every house having a 300 ft wind turbine in its back garden, our ‘carbon emissions’ will have been cut by 80%.
It’s the poor CO2-starved plants I feel really sorry for, though.
Yes this seems to be the pattern for BBC4 “documentaries” which usually come in three parts. The first couple aren’t bad although they tend to be dumbed down and often in the style of Adam Curtis (lots of old film shown which is of no relevance to the subject at hand while a talking head babbles over the top of it). But no matter what the subject is the third of the series is always full on environmental b*llocks with no questioning allowed.
This is the worst kind of propaganda IMO, a high;ly debatable ‘fact’ which is unobtrusively inserted into an otherwise valuable programme and which can be taking into an unsuspecting viewer’s mind uncritically. BBC4 documentaries, in particular, have become masterful examples of this art.
IIRC the Bath and Newbury by-pass schemes were opposed by many wealthy middle class people. One of them being Bel Moonie the wife of Comrade Dimblebum. This was mainly because the government was planning on putting a dual carriage way across their lawns.
Of course the two by-passes in question were A-roads and not motorways – not sure if Swampy did any motorway protests but I’m sure he would do if required.
Either way both roads are a god-send and you’ll not find many (except those whose conservatories now overlook the central reservation) objecting to them.
Newbury now is a pleasant place to visit rather than one long traffic -jam as it was before Swampy got upset.
I don’t think there’s a motorway been built since Swampy was born! (unlike the rest of Europe)
(Which we’ve had to help fund, along with their EU bloody railways and everything else!)
In the 1970’s the M3 extension from Basingstoke to Southampton was strongly opposed by the middle-class folk of Winchester, including the headmaster of the famous public school who had to be ejected from the public inquiry for causing a disturbance.