Give THIS a listen. It’s a great example of the BBC being told what they do not want to hear by a Conservative MP. Evan Davis sounded desperate to cut Mark Reckless off – do listen and draw your own conclusions! I have to say that Reckless did very well in my opinion and refused to go down the road Davis wanted.
As a further point of interest, I was on the BBC (Radio 5 Live) on Saturday Night discussing the suggestion made in a forthcoming book by some of the new intake of Conservatives that the work ethic has gone missing in Britain. I agree – but Stephen Nolan used this to state that the Conservatives were saying that ALL British workers were lazy and idle. His bias and anti-Conservative hectoring were disgraceful, in my view. When I pointed out that if the work ethic here was so great, why did we have to import more than a MILLION foreign workers to do that jobs that “Brits just won’t do”? Silence on that. This was straight Tory bashing. At one point he said to me that he had been trying to get ANY Conservative to come on and defend these views without success. I pointed out that given his bias this was hardly a big surprise.
It is clear to a blind man on a galloping horse that the BBC, along with Labour and The Guardian, is the opposition to any possible Conservative Government. The BBC clearly IS the enemy within, funded at our expense to ensure that our Nation is relentlessly exposed to Leftism.
I don’t think it was up to Stephen Nolan to answer your comment that we have to import more than a MILLION foreign workers to do that jobs that “Brits just won’t do”: but he should have pushed that point with the drone from the Socialist Shirkers Party that he had there to provide ‘balance’.
Yes, fair point but did he comes across as an independent arbitrator or an active participant?.
The answer is simple stop funding the BBC with your license fee/tax find the courage to stand and say no, don’t forget we will all be dead one day some sooner than others.
They way things are going most people will be dead alot sooner than they should be.
Reckless complained about Davis on his own blog. Although I don’t think it’s at all fair to say that Davis “shouted him down”, he did mumble and sputter over Reckless’ every attempt to say that leaving the EU would save more than enough money to subsidize the entire railroad system. Davis clearly hated that idea, “we don’t want to go down that road, do we?” (or words to that effect), and seems to have been very, very wrong about the figures involved.
I’m not sure how to look it all up, and Reckless doesn’t provide any sources on his blog for these numbers.
So does anyone here know if Reckless has his rail figures right and Davis was terribly wrong to say leaving the EU and using all that cash specifically on the railroads (even if it’s a hypothetical) would lead only to a slight reduction in fares?
Davis obviously wanted to steer him down the BBC route which was to admit the only way of funding improvements to the rail system apart from fare increases was either tax rises or more borrowing.
Reckless refused to be browbeaten and suggested two other very reasonable alternatives for funding – getting out of the EU and saving a bundle or likewise with massive housing benefits (I think it was). In other words, Reckless was keen to open the debate on spending and show the statist BBC there’s more to it than tax or borrowing.
Nolan was at it again this morning. He hosted the (vetted) phone in on the subject of MPs having outside jobs. He was allowing some folk to criticise his Tory MP guest for having a 4 hour a month job playing the piano. When the MP brought up Diane Flabbott and her other work he was immediately jumped on by Nolan who said “we cannot discuss her as she is not here to defend herself.” One law for the lefty sisterhood then!
Diane Abbott has another job eating cream cakes.
She has a First-Class Honours degree in that activity.
I heard she has fellowship at all souls college oxford in this.
Plus that job dancing on the confuzed .com adverts bet she don’t declare that !
That was not reckless, that was corrupt. Davis was acting exactly as a politician would do in his hectoring line of questioning AND he ensured that he got the last word in with a statement that was a lie left unaddressed.
It is time the government stopped appearing on the BBC in its totality, using other media outlets and the internet to ensure the population at large know why they fail to be seen or heard. Ignore their assassins at press conferences and then start reducing the licence fee – perhaps giving notice to reduce it to zero by the time of the next election, allowing the BBC to reorganise its funding. Somehow, the ABC (Australia) manages to provide entertainment, news and radio without a licence fee.
‘It is time the government stopped appearing on the BBC in its totality…’ I can understand your point, but I’d rather they took on the biased interviewers and argued their case more forcefully. Unfortunately Reckless’s performance was a rarity.
Sadly, I can’t agree. Not enough of the populace bother to note the arguments – but they will notice the absence and seek an answer. It is at that point, through other organs, that the arguments can be made for dismantling the over-bloated edifice of a State broadcaster that opposes the State.
“Why the BBC hates good news”
By STEPHEN GLOVER
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2191202/Why-BBC-hates-good-news.html#ixzz24LfQ3lRG
What’s this? -Doubts about ‘spend, spend, spend’?
Uneconomic Beeboids (inc Flanders, Mason, Peston), with Labour, want big public spending increases in UK; but in California, Beeboids take a different line.
“Can California afford a multi-billion dollar bullet train?”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19336815