Monthly Archives: August 2012

Well, the BBC have finally found one member of the Murdoch dynasty that they like and guess why? Yes, Elisabeth Murdoch has come out in support of the BBC licence fee in a speech to TV executives in Edinburgh.

Giving the annual MacTaggart lecture, the daughter of News Corporation founder Rupert also praised the BBC for its creative leadership. Her brother James delivered the lecture in 2009, and notoriously described the BBC’s size and ambition as “chilling”.

James called it right and since then the BBC have been after his head. Elisabeth calls it wrong and they love her.  The only solution to the BBC is to scrap the License Fee and let them fund their bias themselves.

Was listening to the BBC this morning as they breathlessly intoned the latest news about “right wing” mass killer Anders Breivik.  They know what they are doing when they wilfully attach that term to such a lunatic. Can’t wait for them to talk about left wing killers. They have no shame at all. I’ve been waiting to see if the site is stable before posting again but all looks well. Time to sort the BBC out.

The BBC have been caught red handed flying the flag for the Reds.

This is an update of this.

The BBC passed off a Socialist Party member, Matt Whale, as an ‘ordinary’ member of the public, albeit unemployed.

In fact he has appeared on 5Live before and as an activist for the Socialist Party. (Thanks to Beeboidal)

The 5Live show’s producer, editor and researcher would have known of Whale’s provenance and clearly decided that it wasn’t relevant to tell listeners that he was an anti capitalist activist.

Essentially we had a spokesman for Labour/Occupy/Communists given a platform to spout his socialist propaganda and to push the Balls’ agenda.

This is the BBC working to undermine the Coalition policies.

This is the BBC no longer reporting the news but trying to shape it and the nation’s political and economic policy.

This is the BBC corrupting Democracy.

Some information from Wikipedia on the Socialist Party:

The Socialist Party is a Trotskyist political party in England and Wales. The Socialist Party was founded in 1991 as Militant Labour, its members having previously been organised as the Militant tendency within the Labour Party.

“Marxist voice of Labour and Youth”.

The Socialist Party’s first issue of 2010, headlined “Rage Against Unemployment” and written by Youth Fight for Jobs national organiser Sean Figg,[10] who took part in the Jarrow March for Jobs, argues that young people are likely to suffer ‘permanent psychological scars’ from unemployment. Figg calls for the right to a “decent job for all”, with a “living wage” of at least £8 an hour, and an end to university fees. Figg demands that the government “bail out young people” as it had the banks, stating that “capitalist politicians” will claim the cost would be ‘too high’.

All that kind of puts a new light on this story from the BBC about the recent ‘Jarrow March’….note Mark Serwotka of the  PCS union being interviewed….the PCS being heavily ‘infiltrated’ by the Socialist Party, and the ‘innocent’ sounding ‘Youth Fight For Jobs’ closely tied to the Socialist party.

‘A group of young unemployed people have begun a walk from Tyne and Wear to London in a recreation of the Jarrow March which took place 75 years ago.

Campaign group Youth Fight for Jobs said it hoped hundreds would take part.

Students and young trade unionists also joined the march.

Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS, said: “Three-quarters of a century on, the young people recreating this famous march are sending an important message that our communities must never again be abandoned to pay for an economic crisis they did not cause.” ‘

The BBC are never keen to associate anything with Islam, especially if it has negative connotations.

You may well be a Muslim embarking on a Holy war and declaring such in a video…but the BBC will edit out your declaration of Jihad and claim you’re just a criminal madman.

That tends to change when associating Islam with something that will foster a better perception of Muslims.

We recently had reports of a man that doctors believed was too ill to survive and with no hope of recovery and so wanted to switch off his life support.

The BBC told us ‘Patient L’ could not be identified…we could not even know the hospital he was in.

That changed ….and suddenly we knew his religion..he was Muslim.  The BBC pushed hard the idea that Islam demanded the ‘preservation and protection of life’, Islam respected the ‘sanctity of human life’…the ‘protection of life’ was an essential requirement of Islam.

Odd how the BBC is so ready to tell us what Islam means when they believe it represents a good characteristic of the ideology but refuses to allow on air anything that might detract from that image of a religion of peace and tolerance towards all men and other cultures.

If they really knew Islam they would know that far from insisting Patient L be kept alive  with no hope of recovery,  Islam would say that the decision was God’s alone and that he should die a natural death if that was God’s will….after all you are denying him the promised ‘Paradise’.

God’s ‘sovereignty’ doesn’t just extend to the political and legal sphere but to all life.

If today you have been following, as best you can, the reports and analysis tumbling headlong out of the media about the furore over GCSE results you are possibly  none the wiser.

Do we know if marking is more rigorous, or ‘brutal’ as Evan Davis put it, do we know if exams themselves have been made more difficult, do we know if the pass mark boundaries have been moved?

I’m in the dark.  Thanks BBC.

However I have winkled out a few interesting and seemingly relevant bits of information from a days listening. (and hopefully correct info)

1.  The English GCSE is no longer one exam..it is now split in two…English Literature and English Language.  I would suggest that that in itself may be the reason English grades have altered….the BBC fail to mention this surely relevant information.

2.  That in 2011 the government put into law that exam marking standards would not be made more exacting but would remain the same standard as from 2011…that is, they wouldn’t reduce the number of people passing at the same grades as those in 2011 but would stop further grade inflation which might otherwise result from easier marking.

3.  …and oh yes….‘these new GCSEs in maths, English and ICT, had been brought in by the previous Labour government.’

So who is to blame if anyone?

Labour says…”Michael Gove and his education ministers must explain what has happened.”

If only someone would….BBC inform and educate?

‘Policy Exchange’ were constantly referred to as a right leaning think tank, or even as a think tank ‘close to David Cameron’ this week by the BBC.

The IPPR today, at least on the radio, have had no such label attached to them…that of being Labour’s pet think tank…wonder why when you look at their new thoughts on petrol pricing:

From Guido:

‘Labour wonk-shop IPPR have declared war on the Sun‘s Page 3 girls as they publish a report claiming that the government’s bleeding of motorists via high fuel taxes is just a “myth“. Earlier this week the Sun girls jumped on board the Taxpayers’ Alliance campaign to freeze fuel duty by showing their support at petrol stations up and down the country. Now IPPR has hit back, laughably arguing that the Chancellor “should make every effort to avoid further delays in fuel duty increases“.

Will’s argument is unconvincing and not likely to be taken up by the Labour Party. “Vote Labour for higher petrol taxes” is a CCHQ dream slogan…’

The BBC don’t want you thinking Labour want to price you out of your cars…even if the BBC green Marxists do.

In fact I can’t find the story on the BBC website…it was mentioned on the radio…but not on the web…except for this:

Elsewhere on the web

A curious omission you might think.

Stephanie Flander’s must have got hold of Gordon Brown’s crystal ball now that he has no use for it for predicting our economic future…’no more boom and bust’.

Here she is in 2011 telling us to relax, it’s all good, the future is rosy, unless you’re Greek:

‘Everyone says that heightened talk of a Greek default is proof that last year’s bail-out has “failed”. But you could make a strong case for the opposite.

In reality, all that the Greek support programme last year was ever going to do was buy time. And that is exactly what it has done. It just hasn’t bought quite as much as governments hoped.

Governments were right a year ago to kick the Greek problem down the road and buy the system some time.

One year on, they are roughly back where they were, facing the same choice.

What’s changed, from a Greek standpoint, is that its government is now much less popular than it was, and it now has even more debt to repay.

Europe is enjoying a decent recovery.

From their perspective, buying time has worked for the eurozone. It just hasn’t been working out so well for Greece.’

 Wonder how that Greek thing turned out?

Funny how she thinks ‘kicking the can down the road, doing nothing, buying time’ is a solution for Europe but isn’t prepared to wait out Osborne’s policies and give them time to run their course.

The BBC were blasted by Tory Ian Duncan Smith for their insistence that falling unemployment figures  were bad for the economy in some mysterious way….now the Empire is striking back.

The release of the latest borrowing figures ironically (considering they have been calling for more borrowing) led to the BBC having the opportunity to launch a counter attack on the Tories. They also constantly slip in Flander’s question demanding to know why employment is going up in a recession whenever possible.

One of the factors in unemployment falling was that of some people becoming self employed and setting up their own businesses.

Steven Nolan steps up to the plate and set out to do battle with that assertion…that self employment is a proper job, or possible to do.

Nolan brought on a 20 year old called Matt (36 mins in) who has been unemployed for a year and says it is impossible for him to get a job in his area….he could of course just get on his bike as Chinese, Polish and African workers have done and moved to get work…half way around the world in many cases….I know that where I live foreign workers are working a 4 day rota of 12 hours shifts on a farm and then 4 days in a factory…so not just one job but two…and yet the Brits can’t get a job!

Listening to him you get the impression there might be more to ‘Matt’ than meets the eye…he seems to have the patter off, well, pat…and glibly cranks out Labour Party or even Occupy rhetoric….he is almost cast for the part of Labour activist calling a phone in…’authentic working class accent, articulate, unemployed for a long time, ‘can’t afford’ to go to university, angry at bankers and the Tories’.  Perfect….all ‘designed’ to generate as much sympathy as possible?

I’m sure he’s entirely authentic.  I was wrong………

UPDATE:  Thanks to Beeboidal in the comments for digging out this video of young Matt…apparently a member of the Socialist Party….‘A victim of capitalism’s failure Socialist Party member. Hull KR Green Bay and LFC fan’

Funny how the BBC kept that quiet!

He says it is impossible to get a job, there are businesses collapsing left right and centre….he can’t risk coming out of university with 50-60 grand debt and no job…it’s like a mortgage…can’t risk that without a job.

He goes on…the real issue, the core is the bankers and speculators who made this crisis and aren’t being made to pay for it….their money should be taken to be invested in youth jobs instead of hoarding it for the rich….we have a lost generation and a government of rich people who don’t know what it’s like to be poor.

Nolan agrees….no one should have to have that much debt and no job…and that banks ‘hoarding’ money is wrong.

Nolan’s attitude is a big problem…it is an attitude prevalent throughout the BBC…and one resulting from journalistic laziness and one might suspect preconceived notions.

The idea that Student debt is a problem is an astonishingly common assertion both by students and BBC presenters.

It is also completely wrong.

The BBC website explains it quite clearly should anyone (including BBC staff) be bothered to read it……under the new system you in fact will pay less than under the old one…not only that but if you earn under £21,000, or are not earning at all, you pay nothing back….not only that but the amount paid back is not dependent on how much you borrow…..you pay back an amount dependent on your earnings alone…..so even with £60,000 debt you will pay no more than someone with a £30,000 debt….and after 30 years all debt is written off.

It’s a bargain and simple…anyone who doesn’t understand the system perhaps should not be considering going to university…or preaching nonsense on the radio.

Victoria Derbyshire practically joined up with the student protestors last year in their protest against tuition fees….but made only a very weak and short explanation of the fee system to the students.

The old lefty of ‘Wake Up To Money’ (Andrew Verity I believe) last Thursday argued against the tuition fees and insisted they were an albatross around young people’s necks….Martin Lewis, financial expert, came onto Shelagh Fogarty’s show and did battle with him as he repeated his mantra of doom on that programme…unfortunately just timed out on the useless BBC iPlayer.

So student fees aren’t really a problem…accept for the country that has to pay  off all the ones that aren’t repaid eventually.

As for Nolan agreeing that banks ‘hoard’ money…do they? What was the problem with banks? It was reckless lending and not having sufficient capital in reserve to back that lending up. Now they are required by the regulators to hold sufficient reserves and control their lending.

Today on ‘Wake Up To Money’  (27 minutes) we had a KPMG representative on to talk about the banks…their profits being down 17% on last year.

He stated that the reasons for lower profits are…too tight a regulatory environment…at the wrong time…he said the regulations to curb the credit boom should have been put in place in 2005/06 (note sharp intake of BBC breath…2005 was Team GB time! Embarrassing!) and now is the wrong time to tighten credit and limit lending. (note Flander’s 2005 assessment of the Brown policies  Testing the Miracle)

The banks are required now to hold large amounts of capital, which comes from the funds that normally would be used for lending to businesses and for mortgages. 

You can’t have it both ways…you can have Gordon Brown’s high risk based financial system or you can have a careful, safe and steady, risk free lending environment which limits growth at a sustainable level.

Which one? The BBC have plumped for Labour’s choice….that of Brown’s protégé, Ed Balls, who is going for the spend, spend, spend option.

Guess they never learn….Evan Davis insists that ‘Austerity is killing the patient’….clever boy that.