A Biased BBC reader notes;
“Once again the BBC shows it’s anti British sentiments, trying to blame local people for crimes committed by foreigners.
What does a ‘Lincolnshire man’ suggest to you? Someone born and bred in Lincolnshire? Probably. At the very least an ethnic British person who has spent some years in Lincolnshire! And of course a quick glance at the article, and the photographs of white males would seem to confirm the impression – just what the BBC hopes, undoubtedly. There is no mention of these peoples true origins – Lithuania.
Does anyone think that if ethnic British criminal gangs were similarly operating in Krakow, that the Polish media would cover up for them and describe them as ‘Warsaw men’.
We and the Scandinavian countries must be the only countries in Europe with a rulign elite and media that hates it’s own people. How has this situation been allowed to come about?”
But DV, if the BBC reported the facts people might get the idea that unrestricted immigration is bad for the country. Not that I’m trying to say that the BBC has an agenda or anything, no, how can it when it is ‘genetically impartial’. Although Helen Boaden’s phrase does have whiffs of ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ about it. …
It is only English churches and, as we are repeatedly told ,the English do not exist. We have no heritage and are worthless compared with our latest enriching arrivals.Why do the liberals hate us so much? it is in their DNA
We are also told thge British do not exist as an ethnic group – we are nothing more than a passport! Yet the ethnic British are genetic outliers in Europe, a more distinct gene pool than the vast majority of ‘ethnic groups’ in the world.
Genetically there isa stronger case for the British being considered an ethnic group than the medieval ‘four nations’ since the indigenous people of Britain are pretty well mixed.
Do youlook at the article before you even comment? One has to wonder sometimes.
‘Does anyone think that if ethnic British criminal gangs were similarly operating in Krakow, that the Polish media would cover up for them and describe them as ‘Warsaw men’’
I always think this point is asinine. The BBC coverage should be decide upon what the media does in Poland/Saudia Arabia etc?
I’m going to log this one under ‘Bloody Poles’, right next to ‘Bloody Muslims’.
Is it possible the story has been ‘evolved’?
Even so, the version I see does seem rather quaint in its use of the new, doubtless Miliband-approved, national lexicon.
Meanwhile…
‘if the BBC reported the facts’
You hum it, they’ll probably claim Telly Savalas is still around to sing it.
For them’s wiv more culture…
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm
‘If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
“Oi… Lord Hall Hall, Nick Pollard on the line again, and guess what…’
Why should the BBC describe a Lithuanian as a ‘Lincolnshire man’, TJ?
Predictive texting?
Hej TJ, The “bloody poles” you describe were actually Lithuanian.
By the way, I am a real Lincolnshire man, born and bred.
Go back to Lithuania!
Oh sorry, I got confused. Must have been a BBC report I read.
I live in Sweden so I’m halfway there already but I have never described myself or been described as a “Göteborg man”.
No. It should simply tell the truth. These are no more ‘Lincolnshire men’ than you are an honest one.
It is shameful indeed that the BBC is less honest than even Eastern European media.
It says “men from Lincoln”, which they are. I couldn’t see “Lincolnshire men.”
Jim, I think you’ve just given a great example of a distinction without a difference.
I’ve just done a Google, in the online press it seems only to have been reported in The Mail and the Telegraph, both of whom managed to describe this Lithuanian gang as, well, Lithuanian.
Why do you think the BBC didn’t?
Lithuanian born and Lithuanian bred, passing through Lincolnshire.
Spot on. We pay for our National state broadcaster, to tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This is plying us with disguise and propaganda us for its own political ends.