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Not at all Mr Vance.
Have heard nothing of “the news”-or what the BBC seem to regard as “news for t`likes of us”-and feel splendid!
Maybe January should be a detoxification month for more of us-and 1/12 of the license fee unpaid as a consequence.
got to be good for the duodenal ulcers and the psychiatric wards I`d have thought!
I’ve managed to wean myself off Question Time – not seen a single episode since it returned last autumn.
I thoroughly recommend it to all – feels really good not to care anymore what leftist garbage is tipped out weekly by the assemble dump trucks that make their way onto that landfill of a programme.
I’ll only perhaps return as a viewer on the extremely rare occasion that a decent panel worth listening to is invited, and even then it will be reluctantly. It’s a lonely experience without the livebloggers community support group. đ
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Hear hear! Used to be the highlight of the week when the live blog was on.
Couldn’t agree more. I gave up on those Mertonesque ‘let’s have a heated debate’ style programmes some time ago and it has done wonders for my general well being.
After all this sort of bias is really echo box bias and isn’t going to convince many people to change their views.
What concerns me more is the constant drip, drip, drip of left wing agitprop in the entertainment output, especially for children where a definite world view, and only that, is promoted.
interesting to contrast coverage of andrew marr’s stroke with that given to the duchess of cambridge – no support for `pranksters` trying to humiliate a hospital patient, instead just measured, low key, factual, and above all respectful, reportage.
‘measured, low key, factual, and above all respectful, reportage’
As, of course such things should be, except for unique exceptions…. for public interest reasons.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20592860
‘Pregnancy – especially the uncertain, early months – is a very private time for most women, writes psychologist Donna Dawson. This is not an option for the Duchess of Cambridge.’
Not having options being rather a BBC specialty to impose, or not, depending.
One is sure all join his wife and family in wishing him a speedy recovery and return to rude , good health in pursuing again his investigative media-related passions.
Contrast Marr’s treatment with that given to Mrs Thatcher.
BTW who has he been caught stroking now?
A latter-day Hattie Jacques? Carry on Matron? Actually, it’s more likely to be Martin Jacques, another ‘ex-communist’.
Indeed. Is it me or since Savile have the BBC been pushing all their own sob stories? Marr ill, Peston wife’s ring burgled, a couple of others.
Something not directly BBC related, but nonetheless relevant to the PC agenda eagerly promoted by our favourite broadcaster, is this rather excellent article by Toby Young. It’s an always welcome reminder of the prescience of Orwell’s concerns about the left’s urge to control and their determination and ability to stifle freedom of speech and individuality whenever they find themselves in any position of power or influence.
Here’s part of a quote reproduced in the article, which could have been written as a description of the modern BBC :
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. ⌠Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing…”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100197296/the-enemies-of-press-freedom-should-stop-handing-out-prizes-in-the-name-of-george-orwell/
A great article, well worth reading.
As George Orwell said “”Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” And ” If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
That is why you will not see a free live debate about the calibration of carbon dioxide warming in the Earths atmosphere by a bunch of atmospheric physicists invited on to the BBC.
From being a prolific poster here, since moving to Canada 5 years ago I find myself less and less interested in what the BBC have to say about anything, so it’s not often that I pop up here. Mind you it’s a rarity for the BBC to report on anything that happens here.
However, there is something that is unfolding here and I knew it would be too much of a good thing for the BBC to pass up. In essence the First Nations (red indians before I got here) are up in arms about various legislation changes which they say undermine treaties that go back to the days of Queen Victoria.
I had a look on the BBC website, and there it was:
“Canada native hunger strike sparks Quebec blockade”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20879175
“Canada PM meets chiefs amid Teresa Spence hunger strike”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20913720
The two articles push all the buttons regarding downtrodden aboriginals seeking their ârightsâ, and to be fair, the conditions that many First Nations live in are appalling with substandard housing, poor education and the like.
In the last couple of days itâs really taken off here, with hourly coverage. Stephen Harper the PM has now agreed to meet with the leaders, and separately so has the Govenor General. So at first it bemused me that the BBC havenât reported on it since the 4th January.
Silly me. Even the most liberal commentators are outraged by what is coming out.
The tip of the iceberg is a small band known as the Attawapiskat, led by chief Theresa Spence. She is currently on a âhunger strikeâ whilst consuming beef and fish broth. She has demanded meetings with all and sundry, weâre expecting Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama to be summoned any day, and then changes her mind from day to day.
Recently a TV crew who had booked into a hotel on the Attawapiskat reserve were threatened with arrest by tribal police on her orders.
Now why wouldnât the BBC be gagging at this story?
Because in the last 6 years the Attawapiskat have received 104 million dollars in aid from the Federal Government. The people on the reserve live in squalor in pitiful housing.
A year or so back the government transported in a number of portacabin style buildings to ease the situation. They also insisted in having an outsider come in and manage the bandâs finances. He lasted a couple of days before he was run off of the reserve.
Recently a Deloitte audit was leaked which showed that 80% of the 104 million had vanished. As for the rest, well that seems to have gone in âfees and expensesâ to Chief Spence. Oh, and her lover, a fraudster and declared bankrupt, who manages the reserveâs finances on her behalf, pays himself $804 a day.
Itâs the same story nationwide where the band or tribal leaders skim off the money. Cronies, who are patently unqualified or unfit to hold any post are given sinecures at vastly inflated salaries.
In Saskatchewan alone $100 million was paid by the Federal Government for First Nation education. Instead of hiring qualified teachers, the leaders gave the positions to unqualified friends and family.
Just for the record the Native Americans pay no taxes if it relates to the reservation, for example if employed as a teacher on a reservation then no income tax, yet all Native Americans are entitle to and given all of the state benefits that Canadians are given, including old age pensions.
This is now cranking up here. No wonder the BBC is staying shtum.
TPO, good to see that you are alive and kicking. I hope that you have settled in OK and all the best for the future.
Hi Pounce, thanks for the good wishes. We’ve all settled in well and have absolutely no intentions of coming back. You may recall that I’m an old fart (now 65) with a now 8 yr old daughter. She loves it, she skis, skates, swims and plays what they call soccer.
All went to Montana recently for skiing and had a great time.
Are you still in the army? Never forget that photo of you with that bird with “FANY” on her shoulder flash. We have a Brit mate here who’s ex army, great guy even though he was a Rupert.
Maybe it’s because the BBC is currently pre-occupied with gang rape in India; it’s a widespread phenomenon, apparently.
And there is absolutely no rape – gang or otherwise – in Muslim countries, got that?
One does wonder why they may want to be in one gang, one gang, oh yeah, but not another.
It’s what has made them world leaders.
Apparently.
Today especially, guys ‘n gals.
Yeah but no but, and if there is a rape, well it’s their own fault anyway, for not dressing in a black shroud! Those that provoke sexual attentions only have themselves to blame huh?
Maybe if they only left home with a male to accompany them, then all would be well, plus they would have PERMISSION to be out as well you see!
Nurse, my pills are wearing off! Arrrgh!
Look, its not merely exciting men but scantily clad women cause earthquakes – FACT.
After all, they have earthquakes in Iran – FACT.
And akmidinnerjacket has warned Iranian women – FACT
http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/08/15/immodest-women-cause-iranian-earthquake/
PS. Sorry about adding FACT. I need to re-read Wittgenstein.
The BBC have broken cover on the story today after a weeks silence, however it’s still a piece of flannel.
“Canada native chiefs in disarray ahead of PM talks”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20990366
Go onto any Canadian news site and look at the comments to see the overwhelming reaction that people have had enough of throwing money at a fraud that has been allowed to continue for too long. 12 Billion Dollars a year at the last count.
The central focus of the Indian demonstration, Theresa Spence, gave a news conference this morning but refused to take questions. She was heckled by a number of reporters shouting “What did you do with the money Theresa?”
Hell will freeze over before the BBC reports any of this with objectivity.
Oh Lord-just the one then!
Just heard James Landale on the BBC 10 O Clock news talking of the “witch hunt” that saw off Andrew Mitchell.
So detached and Olympian-surely the BBC could not possibly have been right at the front of the pack and snarling for the blood of the pleb protaganist.
It must have been the bloody Murdoch pack then-thank goodness for the detached, dispassionate and ever-impartial BBC.
Believe it`s called “cognitive dissonance” James- denial in any other language!
To everyone, including all our friends at the BBC, who will I’m sure appreciate the reminder…may I say…
“Happy Margaret Thatcher Day”
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/2423/margaret_thatcher_day
They got that from me! đ
Nice work. If we could edit posts, I’d add a hat-tip! đ
Newsnight now going on about how much Pensioners cost the country, not just the pension but the extras such as fuel allowance and TV licence.
Well I’ve got an idea to save ÂŁ556,000,000. Make the BBC allow pensioners to watch the BBC without having to pay for a licence or expecting the government pay anything on behalf of Pensioners. This is at no cost to the BBC their costs are fixed and a trimming of the exorbitant salary paid to their so called star presenters and celebs would more than cover their perceived ‘loss’.
The General wrote:
Newsnight now going on about how much Pensioners cost the country, not just the pension but the extras such as fuel allowance and TV licence.
I’ve a better idea. ship each and every benefit scrounging failed asylum seeker out of the country. All asylum seekers caught doing wrong(Rape,murder,fraud,terrorism) is deported along with their entire family. If everybody else in the world can do it why can’t we.
Stop all non entitled people (failed asylum seekers etc) from using the NHS.
Stop handing money over to third world countries who hate us.
No. make the BBC pay for the pensioners’ licence fee concession from their own budget. They couldn’t defend the pensioners having to pay up themselves and if there was no alternative…
Better still just get rid of the license fee and make the BBC fend for itself.
‘Newsnight now going on about how much Pensioners cost the country’
Guessing the golden parachutes accorded market rate star performers like Mark Byford, Uncurious George, etc, got a look in… or was this another country?
I thought pensioners already got free licences. Has this changed?
Don’t tell me the government pay the BBC for every pensioner licence. That has a certain civil service madess to it.
Only over 75’s i believe.
I gave up QT last October and have never felt better. Now I’m weaning myself off Toady each morning. Sundays are lovely as I record Marr’s show and skip through the press review by the lefty guests and stop watching before the right-on Ethnic “arts” piece that is included to ensure free theatre tickets for Marr (I wish him a speedy recovery) and his production team. Nothing like a freebie at Covent Garden to make them all appreciate the long hours of toil avoiding a balanced broadcast. Up the workers!
Somebody at BBC TV programming is being subversive.
Putting the superb “Metroland” with John Betjeman up against Question Time with it’s parade of self absorbed non entities.
Once upon a time the BBC made decent programmes. A generation or more ago mind you .
No patronising of the viewer and scripted by really talented people like Betjeman.
No sneering at us and no arch comments just quality.
Even the camera work and sound track make today’s efforts look crass and amateurish.
Watch QT? You must be insane.
Yes myself and Mrs1327 ended up watching Metroland last night. I have seen it many times before but she hasn’t seen it . As you said beautiful camerawork , Betjeman treating the viewers as adults but also I noticed little things like there could be silence during the show (that’s a no no today as ever moment must be filled with loud music – we don’t want the viewers thinking).
BBC / Labour’s QT has swallowed Andy Burnham’s / Andrew Dilnot’s allegations that the Tories are reducing NHS spending in real terms. They are not.
Admittedly not by much, but in real terms spending in 11/12 increased by 0.09%. It went down the in previous year – the 2010/11 budget being set by the Labour government. But of course now Dimbleby has spoken, the damage has been done.
And as for Doctors and others complaining about a top down re-organisation, do people really think that an organisation that kills 1200 people in one hospital, and repeats the feat across the country is fit for purpose?
If anything, Cameron’s reforms don’t go far enough – as far as the NHS is concerned, we should start again
‘BBC / Labourâs QT has swallowed..”
That rather suggests they are not party to any error or deception from the outset.
Given the circumstances of production set-up, live conduct by staff, post-editing and reluctance to concede even possibility of error later, this seems unlikely.
Allah ackba the bBC reports:
Indian rape suspects tortured inside prison and forced to confess (Nothing about getting caugh with the blood of their victim on their clothing)
Allah ackba the bBC reports:
Russian submarine safest yet. (Nothing about how the Ship has taken years to construct and how concerns have been made about how the welding hasn’t been joined up properly, you know like the bBC does each and every time with the British Astute class of Submarine)
Allah ackba the bBC reports:
That actually Pakistan is the real victim over the recent shootings with India. But while reporting that both sides contest Kashmir leave out the 1971 Simla Agreement where India the victor of yet another war with its neighbour it has never started since 1947, handed over the areas stolen by Pakistan to Pakistan.
Allah ackba the bBC reports:
That nobody has any idea who executed 3 Kurdish women in Paris. when we all know it was Turkey. Unlike each and every news story pointing the finger at Israel be it Hamas murderers getting slotted in the Gulf, Computer viruses in Iran or even bombing the hell out oif Iran which the left (including the bBC)have been saying is only days away since 2001.
Allah ackba the bBC reports:
That you can’t desecrate the Union flag in its latest anti-British article:
Five things you may not know about the flag
You can’t desecrate it, because there is no such offence in the UK
Would the bBC ever report likewise for the unholy Koran, the holy rag for murderers,hypocrites and terrorists?
Allah ackba the bBC reports:
Each and every time a white woman gobs off on a train,tram or tube. But fails to report how a Blackman has no problem (caught on film) beating up a white woman.
The bBC the not fit for purpose leftwing news orq which wastes your money in which to defend the indefensible.
Still on form I see!
“Russian submarine safest yet. (Nothing about how the Ship has taken years to construct and how concerns have been made about how the welding hasnât been joined up properly, you know like the bBC does each and every time with the British Astute class of Submarine) ”
Firstly, rather pedantically, I admit, but a submarine is a Boat, not a Ship. Second, all the subs I worked on took years to build, is this really any different? Third, has the bBC ever actually criticised wrongly joined up welding? I can remember a story from many years ago where a whole section of the hull was supposedly welded in upside down, but it struck me as somewhat unlikely.
btw, I am not Pro bBC. I f*ckin hate them.
I should add, this being Margaret Thatcher Day (PBUH):
The 80s made Barrow, thanks to Trident and Thatcher. It’s a very stolid working class town, rather like a mini Liverpool or Glasgow: highly dependent on ship building and other heavy industry, and heavy with immigrant labour (usually Irish descended). Trident saved the yard and gave me a job. Like thousands of others.
During the Falklands, The Sheffield, built in Barrow, was sunk. It was before my time, but I worked with guys who built it. A local pub The Welcome Inn changed it’s name to… The Sheffield in honour of the ship and it’s men. Barrow aint Portsmouth, but it does have stron naval ties. The sinking of “our” ship was keenly felt.
I don’t get into Barrow much anymore, but I learned recently that The Sheffield is now a chinese restaurant. And across the way The Majestic, as was, is now an Italian restaurant. There are plenty others that are now no more, ever since the smoking ban came in particularly.
And we are told by the bbc constantly how bad and divisive the 80s were? rillly?
Good post. saint Margaret Day was the 10th. Good for Barrow! Yes, I found out recently that my local, the first pub Elton John played in public in, is now the Nasama Lounge (Indian restaurant)!!
Never heard a more partisan audience than in tonight’s Question Time with hysterical, prolonged clapping for any statist proposal.
And by the way when it comes to being prominent in the media for the wrong reasons, had no one the courage to say to John Prescott – did you ever feel it was wrong for the deputy Prime Minister to have sex in the office with a lowly career civil servant who could hardly say no?
And boy, did her career take off.
So the SWPs Martin Smith is an alleged rapist, who has attempted to hide his crimes?…
Harry’s Place are having a field day…But the BBC?….Zzzz ……..God only knows their hysteria if this accusation had been levelled at the leader of UKIP or heaven help everybody the BNP…it would have been wall to wall coverage…
http://hurryupharry.org/2013/01/10/swp-journalist-to-party-members-it-is-time-to-go/
http://hurryupharry.org/2013/01/09/the-socialist-workers-party-on-rape/
Even calling the Socialist workers party a “cult”..
http://hurryupharry.org/2013/01/09/the-swp-and-totalitarian-control/
But lest we forget all of their false front organisations that the SWP are screwing money from the public, namely:
The UAF
Love music not racism
Four four two..
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/
Stop the war
Ah! The SWP. An extremist hard left organisation that Gameshow regularly invites on to his programme, no doubt to balance the left wing contributions he get’s from Miliband and his cronies.
Some months ago, Campbell put Charlie Kimber, National SWP secretary and ‘Your Call’ regular, up against a Tory MP, describing the Tory as, ‘from the other end of the political spectrum’.
So there we have it; the mountain on which Campbell surveys the political landscape must be far to the left, if he seen the SWP and Tories as equidistant from his vantage point.
Of course the organisations that are actually at the other end of the political spectrum, never gets invited. Only those on the extreme left, including Owen Jones (2013’s one man Militant Tendency), will do for the BBC.
BTW: Looking at the SWP website, I see a delegation is off to Greece soon. I wonder if they’ll be taking Comrade Mason with them to meet with their brothers in arms and sing songs of revolution over the ouzo.
The bBC its hatred of the US and..adoration of Iran
Iran drug shortage: US Iranians send medicine to avert crisis
If you have the time (and a sick bag) read the above article about how American sanctions are killing the people of Iran. The message is;just allow them to have access to medicine so as to stop American Iranians sending drugs home. Get that, the only recourse to drugs which can keep them alive is for Iranian ex-pats living in the US to surreptitiously send them over.
But hang on Iran not only borders Turkey,Iraq, (The Gulf) Pakistan and Afganstan (As well as a few others) it has billion dollar trade agreements with them. Are you telling me a country which can smuggle nuclear parts, Oil and Missiles . Which has trade agreements with countries such as Cuba,North Korea,and Venezuela , that they can’t get hold of drugs. Not according to the bBC. ( I take it Citizen Chavez has been eating all the anti-cancer drugs the fat git) who can only find fault with the US. Really?
the bBC, the left-wing traitors within our Midst
Remember the bbc line about it being the US’ fault that Iranian airliners were crashing. All because the US were mean and wouldn’t sell them the spares.
Fat lezzer comedian(?) on This Week just said “I think UKIP supporters are vile”. Need to watch the playback but I’m pretty sure she shocked even Portaloo and Johnson with that comment. No wonder she’s on BBC speed dial. A fat smiling lezzer with bigoted views and a facist tendancy. She’ll go far at the BBC.
Very predictable that smears against UKIP would begin as soon as it started to look credible. It will be relentless from now on.
This isn’t confined to the BBC either.
But Shirley?
Promoting UKIP would split the right wing vote and reduce the number of Tory MPs without adding the same number of UKIP ones.
That’s got to be a win for the BBC? Dissing UKIP plays into the Tories hands.
How does reducing the number of Tory MPs without adding to the rivals’ total play into the Tories’ hands?
Well, the Tories get fewer votes because their vote is split. Not much of a problem in a safe seat but in a marginal Labour or the Lib-Dems could slip in.
Simples.
Ooops. Plays into Labours hands not the Tories, obviously.
As George Orwell said “Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act” That is why the BBC/Guardianistas regard UKIP as Vile.
I had to look at the BBC This Week site to see just who this was (don’t watch any more). Ah yes, the self-satisfied and not at all funny but appropriately named Amy LamĂŠ.
She’s doing for Britain what Piers Morgan is doing for America – providing obnoxiously partisan and oh so superior commentary, but with much less visibility. I have the same reaction when I see her as most Americans do with their imported pest. DO F*CK OFF.
BBC has a headline:
Liam Fox: Gay marriage plans ‘divisive and wrong’
The text of the article reveals the actual phrase is:
“divisive, ill thought through and constitutionally wrong,”
Clearly there is a difference between saying that gay marriage is ‘wrong’ and that it is ‘constitutionally wrong’; the BBC go with the angle that makes Fox seem most anti-gay (which in BBC worldview is beyond the pale).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20977765
Liam Fox: Gay marriage plans ‘divisive and wrong’
‘The government’s plan to legislate for same-sex marriages is “divisive, ill thought through and constitutionally wrong,” former Defence Secretary Liam Fox has said.’
The BBC will say that there was no space for accuracy.
They are finding out this is not a fruitful avenue to pursue, though one has to wonder how many times a senior market rate can say ‘lessons have been learned’ when they clearly have not and there is no intention of trying to do so.
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/trust-upholds-complaint-against-bbc-news-over-inaccurate-tweet
‘The director of the BBCâs Editorial Complaints Unit later said that âhe did not accept that those who only read the headline would have been left with a materially misleading impressionâ’
Clicking the link, I was not shocked to find the subject of the inaccurate tweet was the Tories in the person of David Cameron. Par for the course for the BBC. What is shocking is that the BBC ECU bod does not accept that the tweet was misleading. Any input, DOTIs?
‘What is shocking is that the BBC ECU bod does not accept that the tweet was misleading. Any input, DOTIs?’
I thought they’d given up for Lent already, or blown the Flokk budget for this year before it had started on that quaint ‘If you dar kids would stop catching us with our pants down we might have got away with’ expedited sulking basis they try on, even if doesn’t work outside the BBC-controlled bubble.
The level of dogmatic delusion by that Director to the bitter end is interesting, especially given what had gone before.
And how forgiving the Trust seems to have been that one of their top guys, and their own system, is clearly unfit for rational purpose…. over and over.
Lessons have not been learned.
I’ll keep saying this till it sinks in : Until the parasites are fearful for their lives, They will not change their behaviour.
….or fearful for their bank accounts….
The BBC correspondents seem at a loss to explain the recent trouble in Northern Ireland. Well let me offer them my theory.
What we are seeing is the voice of a group who feel, rightly or wrongly, that they have been disenfranchised and that politicians and media have stopped listening to their voice .
Politicians of all parties and all media groups should take note. Just because the liberal/left establishment , the BBC and the chatterati agree on a way forward it doesn’t mean that the rest of the population do.
They may want to pause to think about multiculturalism and mass immigration in this context. In both these areas policies have been pursued without full consultation of the people and all opposing views have been ignored or ridiculed by the media , and most of all by the BBC. The BBC certainly doesn’t represent the wide range of views held by the British people, which of course, is what it is supposed to do. Rather it exclusively pushes only those views which the BBC staff and the liberal/left establishment hold. So don’t be surprised if, eventually, those who have been ignored start to protest.
Nicky Campbell and Stephen Nolan did a hands-across-the-Irish Sea joint phone-in on BBC Live yesterday about the Union Flag protests.
Interesting only perhaps for the fact that it exposed the mainland contributers as rather ignorant about Irish history and current affairs.
The BBC may take comfort from the fact that the fans of the show say they care not whether they have on their Town Halls the British the Irish or indeed the EU flag.
Herman Van Rompuy would be proud.
The ultimate public virtue is, apparently, something called tolerance.
No wonder supranational organisations are erroding British sovereignty.
Let’s hope no alien culture thinks Britian ripe for the picking.
Tolerance? subservience more like!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20974666
It seems that the scare tactics have started already and it looks like the BBC will be in the vanguard of this campaign. Already we have had Obama insinuating that he would not be happy with us leaving the EU. a veiled threat perhaps.
BBC-NUJ: still pushing pro-E.U propaganda.
Beeboids represent U.S. and German interests on E.U, NOT those of British people.
It is now daily:-
“German MPs warn UK EU exit would be ‘economic disaster'”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20974666
In contrast:
http://witteringsfromwitney.com/not-another-lie/
And:-
“HOW DARE GERMANY AND USA BULLY US”
http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/2915-how-dare-germany-and-usa-bully-us
“Britain must decide its own destiny on EU”
By DAILY MAIL COMMENT.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2260500/Britain-decide-destiny-EU.html#ixzz2HfChnlbQ
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Economic disaster for Greece, Spain, Italy and as the Germans seem to be saying, Germany as well.
Britain would join the two largest economies in western Europe not in the EU, making Britain, Norway and Switzerland, the three most successful economies in Europe.
They do like a good ‘warning’, don’t they?
Except, of course, from history.
And so it continues
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20996376
Perhaps all is not well in the magic kingdom đ http://t.co/tg09d9jC
Global warming is continuing. Today’s big plug, not so subtly hidden, here.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130110-will-we-lose-all-our-coral-reefs/2
There’s some irony to this:
BBC Future (international version)
We’re sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK
Seems the BBC has no future in the UK at least.
Well, apart from the uniquely compelled funding part.
I really don’t know why they bother. A quick visit to http://hidemyass.com/ sorts that out.
I notice that the reason I cant access this British broadcasting company web site from Britain, is that it not funded buy the licence fee (allegedly).
So maybe they should drop the BBC bit from their title.
And call it world wide news or news international ,just a thought.
The BBC breathlessly reports and headlines the pro-European camp scaremongering over a potential referendum on membership of the EU. Following up the earlier warning from the US with this from our friends in Germany:
âGerman MPs warn UK EU exit would be ‘economic disaster’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20974666
Apparently 11% unemployment across the EU and an economic meltdown doesnât constitute any sort of disaster â this will only occur if we dare to leave!
Not even a hint of impartiality, apparently the BBC canât find a single politician in the US, Germany or Britain to disagree about this and put the Eurosceptic perspective â and come to that whenever has a specifically Eurosceptic claim ever been given such headline news and such a fawning consideration by the great and the good at the BBC?
Since when was it Nick Robinsons job to tell us all what to think?: âWhen Britainâs leading ally warns about the consequences of a speech the PM has yet to deliver on the vexed subject of Europe, it pays to listen.â
Pure pro-European, left-wing, biased drivel masquerading as news.
The German warning over us leaving the EU so eagerly reported by the BBC and the rest of them reveals just how fearful they all are of us walking out.
If we do it finishes the EU. They know it and so should we.
As for marginalising us business is business and will just continue.
The BBC is institutionally in favour of big states and intrusive government. How else could it survive in the digital age?
“Cam to hit back at Obama over EU plan by revealing Dutch support”
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4737952/David-Cameron-to-hit-back-at-Obama-over-EU-plan.html#ixzz2HfNCcQ8t
Don’t be fooled by the headline, Cameron’s idea of a referendum is to be a vote on a renegotiated relationship. Not on an in/out vote.
It WILL be a con, stitchup, and once he has locked us in forever with a yes vote we’re stuffed. Cameron’s problem tho’ is that he’s leading his party to oblivion. UKIP are going to decimate his share of the vote at the next GE. He simply wont have time to install his con vote. Will anyone else give us an in/out vote? We shall see.
The other bits of the LibLabCon will, for the same reasons as CMD. And the BBC will be only too happy to indulge in scaremongering and fixing of debates to ensure the correct result.
The destruction of the Tory party is a necessary pre condition to reality returning to this country.
As it stands it is a disgrace to the conservative faction in society. And as for Cameron!!!!
Translation:
INBBC’s Mali “rebels” = Mali Islamic jihad murderers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-20986704
‘Jihadwatch’:-
“#MyJihad: France-based Muslims traveling to Mali to learn how to stay fit despite their busy schedules.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/01/myjihad-france-based-muslims-traveling-to-mali-to-learn-how-to-stay-fit-despite-their-busy-schedules.html
Yesterday on the Wales Today a report on more pet dogs being abandoned was blamed on “benefit cuts” is this the first example of the BBC’s new 2013 embedded mantra?
Not sure if true, but I was told by a fellow dog-walker that the local Stella and Fags who ‘walk’ theirs overnight but can’t seem to find the poop or waste bins for the debris of their social rights being exercised more than their attack hounds of choice, get paid benefits to help them with this quaint aspect of their non-working lifestyles too.
If so, betting many a pensioner hunkering down for the weekend’s cold snap are simply thrilled Trev and Rex are enjoying each other’s company on their lifetime of taxpaying.
The only one responsible for Saviles sex crimes was…er Jimmy Savile himself.
Official-the final word, Q.E.D, end of..no further questions!
Er…didn`t the BBC let him park in their Wood Lane carpark for weeks at a time?…didn`t they give him his dressing rooms, his backstage/ access all areas(which Jim took literally) , didn`t they give him the platforms, pay for his shell suits, and the ladders, the duct tape and the gloves?
Didn`t they-mostly-give him the “thumbs up”(oo er) in reagrd of his being a celebrity who could be trusted as he worked for the BBC-who don`t employ child abusers now do they?
Savile would have been a mere northern nonce doing his stuff along the M62 dives and discos, had it not been for the BBC choosing to use him for over fifty years or so…and giving him every credible excuse to be the vile creep that he turns out to be.
But the BBC deny every damn word of the above-they covered his crimes and it took ITV to tell us what he`d been doing, despite the Beebs best efforts…and now we`re expected to blame Peter Parker and British rail for giving him his free pass to abuse kiddies anywhere between Penzance and Wick?
The BBC just stink of Saviles old running shoes…and will use all exucuses possible to cover up themselves in the shrouds of old victims too old or enfeebled now to care…just as they always do.
The BBC-one long “Savilising” influence on our seedy creepy culture, as witnessed by all the BBC now does by way of “news, analysis and comment”
Of course the BBC is culpable re Saville. They knew what he was up to when making Saville’s Travels. Who then approved him to front Jim’ll Fixit?
‘Of course the BBC is culpable re Saville.”
The BBC, uniquely, does not ‘do’ and is not held to account on matters of culpability.
There’s probably a Rule or Editor’s Guideline why not, and if you ask to see it a FoI-exclusion team ready to stop even that being explained.
If any other corporation the BBC did not like or approve of had had a member of high-profile staff it hired, developed, trained, enabled, tolerated and failed to oversee in much lesser (accused) crimes, they would have been screaming across every part of their vast media monopoly estate from dawn to dusk until they had scalps and closures.
What we have got is… a few insincere mea culpas, internal backside-covers, side-steps, pay-offs and none to subtle attempts to drop their fellow public sector national treasures right in it to spare their blushes.
‘Unique’ doesn’t come close.
The bBBC One o’Clock News had a live interview with the current Health Secretary (Jeremy Hunt) asking him how Savile could have had such easy access to abuse women in NHS hospitals twenty or thirty years ago.
But, strangely, they had no similar questioning about how he had the free run of bBBC premises.
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/explaining.html?
‘the BBC and Dame Janet Smith will presumably be honing in on the 33 cases identified so far which involved “television or radio studios”.. spanning 1965 to 2006. One hopes, sadly, offences in a motor-caravan, however close to TVC or BH, are beyond that list.
‘One’, or some.. ‘hopes’ indeed.
Close, but no cigar?
How very Clintonian.
Yes, but he would not have had such NHS access without his BBC status. “NHS or BBC”- I’m reminded of that Larry David moment in ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ where he is weighing up the different advice he was getting and not sure which to choose… “Doctor or Chemist….”
I guess this must be the reason for the currant delays in action against the BBCâs Climate Change policy.
I guess the Parliamentary committee needs the information to make the BBC staff culpable, not the licence fee payer. I would not be surprised if that meant that the secret services are investigating the BBC.
What I don’t get, is how all these people that turned a blind eye to his offending aren’t facing charges of aiding and abetting or perverting the course of justice or some other form or charge over all this?
It all just seems to be being dumped on to Savile himself since he’s dead and can complain or drop the ones that helped or didn’t report him for what ever reason in it
I just have thins feeling that if it had been anyone else or any other section of society people would be being dragged in and charged faster than the BBC could say Obama is god
“It all just seems to be being dumped on to Savile himself since heâs dead and can complain or drop the ones that helped or didnât report him for what ever reason in it”
Certainly rather obvious that that’s the master plan: “Coo! Look at what the late Sir Jim got up to ! We’re very sorry (even though it was absolutely nothing to do with any of us). No need to look any further, is there ? All a one-man job (the man’s name is Saville, that’s S-A-V-I-L-L-E, just in case you’d forgotten: #happytohelp). John Peel ? A secular saint ! (Unless you mean the nastee foxhunter, obvs.).
Now how’s about those bastards who want us to leave the EU, eh, eh ?
When you add in the desire by the BBC to sexualise children from an early age then there starts to be a bit of a stench around them.
The left has always taken a ‘relaxed’ attitude to under-age sex whilst at the same time using the publics hatred of paeodphiles as a distraction from their other vices.
The McAlpine slur was, I reckon, deliberate. It was meant to make the Tories back off – or else. That it back fired a bit doesn’t seem to have done much damage so the message must have got through – and all it cost was a couple of junior staff and a bit of the publics cash.
The Saville affair has lifted a corner of the carpet but it is now being carefully tacked back down again.
On the BBC website there’s a great piece about how Barroso has declared the euro safe.
As a devoted BBC viewer I didn’t know there was a problem in the first place.
Confusing.
Here’s a quote suggesting who we should blame.
“He insisted that the crisis should not be blamed on the EU itself, but on “unsustainable public debts” run up by members and “irresponsible behaviour” in the financial sector.”
There’s a much better take on this tragi-drama in:”Butch and the Sundance” at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/
The bBBC news tells us of a double-murder in a ‘drug turf’ dispute, but somehow omits to report that they were all peaceful men from Somalia.
Fuad Awale and Sharmake Abdulkadir – two nice British lads, enriching us all.
Just been listening to “Feedback” on Radio 4.
There was an item about “Today” reporting on the Met Office alleged change of heart about global warming/cooling/standing still.
“we’ve been inundated with comments” they said – so they read out two of them from people who clearly knew nothing about the climate, and followed up with a brief interview with Julia Slingo who insisted that the earth was still warming, and after a brief spell of flat temperatures, would continue to warm over the next five years.
How do they always get away with this unbalanced, biased nonsense? Nothing from the the alternative perspective.
Slingo has already been proved to have been less than honest, and why they should make these stupid, unresearched prognoses so far in advance, when time after time they get it all so hopelessly wrong as to be a laughing stock. She’s obviously on a damage limitation exercise.
These links rather reveal a better idea of what’s really happening, I think:
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/spot-the-difference/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259942/The-crazy-climate-change-obsession-thats-Met-Office-menace.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100197657/the-met-office-defending-the-indefensible-as-per-usual/
And the mealy-mouthed Met Office attempt to rubbish it all:
http://metofficenews.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/addressing-the-daily-mail-and-james-delingpoles-crazy-climate-change-obsession-article/
The Met Office are as good as useless, are a politicised, public funded agenda machine, and not fit for purpose.
And Slingo should sling her hook.
There is a vast amount of money at stake here. The monetization of the climate promises riches galore to the elites. All taken from the pockets of us of course.
Look at the bore Gore.
In fact the monetization of just about everything is one of the greatest dangers to a stable and free society.
Assigning a monetary value to everything will mean that eventually it will be assigned to our lives.
We will only be worth what the state says we are worth.
Nightmares ahead.
I heard this item too.
In order for the BBC to indulge in such a mea culpa implies that many important people at the met office were severely displeased by the Today report. And they have friends in the environmental crowd.
It means that “global warming” aka “climate change” will remain the orthodoxy for some time to come.
But surely there is some disquiet within the BBC at being gradually discovered to be on the wrong side of history (and the facts).
Facts are social construct and history must be made to serve the present.
Get your sick-bag ready again before reading the bBBC’s gloating ‘news’ report on television viewing figures for 2012.
BBC One controller Danny Cohen said the channel’s success was “unprecedented”.
“I’m proud to say BBC One brought Britain together in 2012, it was at the heart of the UK and the action, but most of all it was the home of the highest quality programmes,” he said.
“The Olympics were undoubtedly a centrepiece moment for us but it was 17 days out of 365 and you can’t get that growth, and growth in peak, without a strong year overall,” he told The Guardian.
But there is no bBBC spokesman explaining why BBC2 has only half the audience share that it held ten years ago after their decade of systematic dumbing-down.
I only read through it briefly but most of their ‘success’ seems to be as a result of their Olympic coverage.(Spin worthy of the labour party I thought) Take that out and it don’t look so good, of top 5 non sport programs 3 seem to be from ITV1 (bit of obfuscation there Ithought) And why exclude +1 services if I’m watching something on +1 it doesn’t follow that I watched it the first time round and it certainly doesn’t mean I was watching the BBC either.
I love +1 services and use them to extend my choice all the time (though not ITV 1 +1 I have to say) if the BBC had them I might even watch them
And why did they head it with a picture of the fourth-most watched program and not the first or even second any ideas?
And David Dimbleby told us on Question Time that 2.5-3 Million people watch his pimple of a show.
And chance of any real corroboration of this -apart from asking his brother, or getting the arts and humanities interns that run the BBC to “verify” his preposterous claim.
Do the Unions…the Police do those figures for them?
I for one hope I`m not being included in those numbers-I go to iPlayer once in a while if Farage, Mel or Hitchens are on…and only listen to their bits!…that odes NOT make me a “viewer” for Dimblebys performance-related tax efficient off shore “bung” he`s been larding off us for years.
Slight mix up I think – that 2.5 to 3 million figure was actually Dimbleby’s salary, paid through a ‘tax efficient’ personal service company, of course.
France confirms Mali intervention
President Francois Hollande says French troops are taking part in operations against Islamists in northern Mali.
French troops “have brought support to the Malian army to fight against the terrorists”, Mr Hollande said.
It will be worth getting a screen-capture and seeing how long it takes before ‘Islamists’ becomes ‘militants’ or ‘rebels’ or ‘freedom-fighters’.
19:01 changed to:
French troops “have brought support this afternoon to Malian units to fight against terrorist elements”, he said.
yep! islam is the cause, jihadis the
perpetrators … đ
yet you d almost never know.
just check the who s who section ;-D
an incredible drone, which meanders on
about ousted presidents, rebels, militants etc.
until … near the bottom we finally
find ta-ra!
islamists … then jihad.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/anonymous-trolls-are-as-pathetic-as-the-anonymous-sources-that-contaminate-the-gutless-journalism-of-the-new-york-times-bbc-and-cnn-8446788.html
Oh dear, I do hope Nick Robbo’s (and, face it, almost all the rest of the BBC Editorial staff) ears are not burning.
Re Savile. worth reading:
http://www.channel4.com/news/how-jimmy-savile-revealed-all-in-the-psychiatrists-chair
‘In 1991 Jimmy Savile gave a chilling interview that left BBC psychiatrist Anthony Clare with concerns about the then beloved broadcaster.’
And these concerns went where afterwards?
Gaza: Palestinian farmer ‘killed by Israeli gunfire’ Incredible shots these Israelis!
The Hamas-run health ministry said the 22-year-old man was hit by Israeli army fire near Jabaliya refugee camp.
Using Google Maps as a quick reference it becomes obvious that Jabaliya refugee camp is about 5 km from the nearest Israeli border fence. Either he wasn’t killed near Jabaliya or he wasn’t killed by the Israelis. At best this is a sloppy failure to undertake the most basic checks before posting.
Secret Zionist weapons.
A couple of miles can be considered “near”, if it suits the agenda. Of course, the BBC must scrupulously maintain their impartiality by citing both Hamas and the IDF. I assume the Beeboids blame Israel for forcing the Palestinians to place themselves in no-go areas where they know they’re going to be shot at. Poor dears.
The AP article gives a few more salient details that the BBC prefers to ignore, for what it considers ‘fair and impartial’ reporting:
The Israeli military shot and killed one Palestinian near the border fence with Gaza on Friday, an official in the territory said. The military said that he was part of a group that rushed the fence to try to damage it.
A military spokesman said soldiers warned the Palestinians to back off before firing first into the air and then toward the men’s legs. Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said one man was killed by the fire.
Hmmm… nothing about farming.
BBC Watch tells of a recent occasion where genuine farmers from Gaza were given permits to enter Israel in order to attend an agricultural exhibition held in the Eshkol Regional Council: one of the areas most badly hit by terroristsâ rockets and mortars.
The visitors checked out new technologies, equipment and placed orders for new strains of plants. Ramadan Abu Naja from the Gaza Strip told an interviewer:
âWe came here to learn about Israeli agriculture, to see if they have new types of produce. We will take some of the types of produce that we like back with us into Gaza. We are here to see the differences between our agriculture and the agriculture in Israel.â
The farmers also spoke about their export industry:
âGaza exports produce to Europe every day,â Ahmed Shafi, head of the Gaza City Agricultural Association told Ynet. âWe export peppers, strawberries, flowers, cherry tomatoes and spices.â
âThe Stripâs farmers say they have no problem doing business with their Israeli colleagues. âWe want to keep coordinating exports with Israel and even export to Israel,â one of the farmers who visited the expo told Ynet.â
âIsrael used to be Gazaâs best and biggest market. The Palestinian farmers said that even if Egypt opens the Rafah crossing to exports from Gaza, they would still prefer to export their goods through Israel, because they trust Israelâs facilities more.â
Does this give a different picture to what is going on in that area, and who is doing what to achieve peace – on both sides? Of course it does!
So why doesn’t the BBC report this?
In more detail:
A course in map reading III
I listened to much of the awful “Belief” series by Joan Bakewell.
The one that I really wanted to hear was Melvyn Braggs one-at least he had done a show(and a book) about the King James Bible and its effect on British culture and language.
Could only be better than the race hustlers, pals of Pullman or Dawkins etc who would comprise the rest of the series.
Funnily enough-Braggs was the only one unavailable to be listened to…despite the site telling me that it would be coming soon.
It never did…did Melvyn say something supportive of Christianity?…or were the copyright payments a bit iffy in the tax department?
Be nice to know…it`s our BBC after all , is it not?
I found this. Not sure if it’s what you were after…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0186jlv
Thank you Reed, this is the one!
Much appreciated!
The Review Show….what a load of bollocks
apparently Mo Yan wrong type of chinese author
The BBC has a pop at Luis Suarez – http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20991140
From the comments section beneath the article, it seems that this has been a recurring theme in the past week.
Jeff
The bBC and its Allah ackba and lets not tell the truth show:
So has anybody seen the bBC report on how the young Islamic lad who battered 21 year old Salim Ul-Hassan to death with a baseball bat receive 4 years nick today
Teenager jailed for baseball bat killing outside mosque
No?, gee i wonder why?
So it wasn`t premeditated…. yet he went home to fetch his baseball bat before intervening in the fracas by hitting the guy as hard as he could from above and from behind probably as the two guys were having a tug of war over whose prayer mat it was…. Then after hitting the guy so hard he was motionless on the floor quite possibly already dead, he hit him again possibly in an attempt to loosen the victims grip on the prayer mat….
Jerome Lynch QC, defending, said: âHe was dealing with, in his own mind, people much older than him, some of whom had a reputation for violence.â
He said the attack was an âalmost spontaneous actâ and that the teenager had shown genuine contrition.
WTF???? Almost spontaneous means premeditated…. Also the fact he went home to fetch a weapon leads one to the same conclusion…
Four years in a young offenders institution…. That means 16 months then parole…. Also he wont exactly be sewing mail bags will he??? Xbox360 or PS3?? with 5 star services provided by G4S with 3 halal meals a day and the special privilidges that come with being a Muslim prisoner…..
It is noticeable though that although he was caught on CCTV and also seen by many members of his `community` and yet it still took them two days to find and arrest him??? For murdering someone in braod daylight on a British street with a baseball bat!!!
I am sick of Political correctness influencing our judicial system and denegrating the core values of our society and morality…
The bBC and its Allah ackba and lets not tell the truth show:
While the bbC reports that peaceful Islamic terrorists have taken control of the northern half of Mali and that actually we should let them live in peace. here is what the plastic Muslims at the bBC don’t inform you about the situation:
1) Mali is a big country that is virtually 3/4 desert. Guess where 90% of the population don’t live. Guess which part of the country the terrorists have taken control of?
2) As of 2100hrs the bBC waxes lyrical about just how good the Islamic fighters are and that the french may have bitten off than they can chew by sending troops in. Yet Reuters is reporting that the town of Konna which the terrorists took this morning has been retaken by the Mali government.
The bBC, the propaganda mouth piece of Islamic terrorism paid for by your taxes.
The bBC and its Allah ackba and lets not tell the truth show:
Last night I exposed how the latest bBC sob story for Iran is nothing more than a propaganda piece for the mad mullahs
Iran drug shortage: US Iranians send medicine to avert crisis
And here is what the bBC conveniently left out of its sob story.
Indian drug majors to supply life-saving medicines to Iran
Major drug makers from India such as Ranbaxy, Cipla, Glenmark and Ind-Swift Laboratories will supply life-saving drugs to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“Iran, faced with a shortage of life-saving medicines due to international economic sanctions, recently asked India for supplies. Following this, a 28-member delegation visited Tehran in mid-December to assess the requirement and negotiate other details for transactions. Payment for such transactions will be made in Indian currency and through UCO Bank,” sources told Business Standard.
Representatives of various companies, including Glenmark, Ind-Swift and Hetero Drugs, were part of the delegation, headed by the Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council Of India (Pharmexcil) that visited Tehran as well as some other parts of Iran between December 17 and 19.
The actual deal was first reported on the 3rd of Jan 2013, the above story was reported on the 7th of Jan 2013. The bBC article was published on the 11th of Jan 2013. Shoddy journalism or biased reporting?
‘Shoddy journalism or biased reporting?’
I’d go more for c).
The bBC and its Allah ackba and lets not tell the truth show:
The bBC, loves to promote this view that everybody in Gaza is affected by the siege imposed on it by Israel, yes those nasty hooknosed jews who while they murdered poor Palestinian babies a few weeks ago (100 over a fortnight, 160 killed in Pakistan yesterday alone) continued to send in truck loads of supplies into a country that is at war with them (Never mind the electricity) I quote from one such article:
Unusual jobs highlight restricted choices of Gaza youth
Muhammad is just 18, but he has already been working full-time in the tunnels, digging and carrying heavy loads, for four years. He hates the job, but he has little choice. His father suffers from a bad back, so Muhammad is the main breadwinner in the family of eight. And with unemployment in Gaza running at 28%, smuggling is one of the few occupations that provide a viable income.
Oh those poor Gazens, let send them more Aid, I mean they really do need it. And here is a video from the bBC about a new restaurant in…Gaza. (I’ve been in worse in the Uk,Germany,Italy,US,Holland,Hong Kong,Cyprus,Jordan,Spain,Poland and Portugal.)
Gaza restaurant staffed by deaf people beats prejudices
It appears that so keen are the bBC in which to portray the Jews are evil fuckers, that they forgot to realise just what message they are actually sending out.
I have just started watching a recording of Question Time so I apologise if this has been covered before, and also I apologise if I am becoming paranoid. Prescott sitting at Dimblbies left hand the place usuaily reserved for the senior socialist on the panel said on his first speech clearly to Dimbelby not the audience ‘all the anomalies that are now happening and YOU can point out in YOUR questions’
Dimbelby then goes to Nadine Dories and after chiding her for answering Prescott’s points and not the question asked starts asking her his own questions about the one percent benefits rise while Prescott smirks.
On it goes. Last night I learned from Stephen Fry on QI that an anagram of Virginia Bottomley – a politician of the Thatcher era, he tells us, is ‘I’m an evil Tory bigot’
Stephen, did you know that ‘biased to its rotten core’ is not an anagram of British Broadcasting Corporation but should be?
Lord Patten….Lord Hall….Lord help us!
No worse than Graham Norton opening his show yesterday with a pathetically weak pun about there being a silent n in Tory cuts
As a joke it’s the sort of thing a couple of lefty 18 year olds might find funny after too many pints in the union bar, and I thought the Norton show was about amusing interviews with celebs with a bit of innuendo thrown in, not mono-directional political comment.
Still, my own fault for not hitting the off button fast enough I suppose.
It’s not even original as Hardy, or Prickstocke or one of the vast army of leftie ‘comics’ who suckle at Auntie’s bloated teat for their sole sustenance let that one go a while back.
And TBH, Mr Norton, there’s an easy exit from the horrid cuts for you. Unless the ferries have stopped sailing, though you could always swim for it.
True, but of course for a beeboid is it almost the perfect joke, implying that:
1. Savage cuts are being imposed on society.
2. The Tories are responsible for these cuts (note – Tories, not government)
3. These cuts are driven by dogma and spite, not neccessity.
I have just stumbled upon a repeat at 12.30pm of that unfathomably awful Radio 4 show, the âNews Quizâ with the well balanced, politically correct panel of âcomediansâ.
The roll call of shame was Jeremy Hardy, Fred Macaulay, Susan Calman and Francesca Martinez. The last came out with a âhilariousâ joke which included the word c**t at 09.10. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ppq05. Listen to the rest of the show for a bit of masochistic pleasure.
Of course, she can get away with that obscenity, which might interesting for young children listeners at lunchtime, because she has cerebral palsy, (box, ticked).
But what disgusted me was the lazy Tory bigot / envy jokes were trotted out again and again. As this is a satirical radio show, does that mean whoever is in power; the panellists are told by BBC editors to keep on ranting on about those nasty Tories without any Millipede, etc, gags at all.
By the way, is there any radio show out there which has any semblance of balance, with mickey taking of all political parties?
To true. I used to enjoy TNQ back in the day before Hardy was an ever present.
The Now Show is I think better, not necessarily in political terms but it is at least sometimes funny and I can forgive a lot for that. TNQ is just a bunch of lefties having a whinge.
Labour harridan Linda Bellos has a better anagram – but Mr Fry didn’t want to quote it !
I’ll play! Is it “Useless Indeterminately Ethnic Publically Featherbedded Fuckwit ?”
Edit: Oh no, that’s not it, as I’ve used “U” thrice, and there isn’t one in her mane. Tut tut, silly me.
Not a “U ” in her NAME, obviously. Though as I recall (happily haven’t clocked the old bag for a good while) she did indeed sport a fine “mane”, back in the day.
Linda Bellos = Lesbian doll.
Oh dear. I didn’t win the prize, then ? #timeforaconsolationpotnoodle.
I got ‘Carpet muncher!’
Oh, I’m sorry, I managed to get only two letters from her name. What a stupid punt.
I stopped watching QI for this precise reason – all their irresistible, snide little partisan asides that are just slipped in with the assumption that we’re all on board with their political prejudices.
I used to really enjoy QI. It was one of the better programmes on TV and was mostly deviod of the smug lefty venom that pervades most comedy panel shows, but it has become as lazy and predictable as HIGNFY in its choice of guest and its content. How many times can you see Bill Bailey smoke his invisible pipe while blathering random inanities as if he were a comedy King Midas? I think they’ve run out of steam, and are now having to fall back on their usual schtick of sarcastic sneering at their political enemies. Bore.
It’s a shame it has ditched much of its charm – it was once a very enjoyable half hour.
An assessment of ex-Labour PM, BLAIR, not to be found on BBC-NUJ:-
“He’s taken millions from dictators and cosied up to warlords. As it’s reported ‘Teflon Tony’ is plotting an alliance with a super-rich financier, a devastating critique of the… Man who turned amorality into an art form.”
By IAN BIRRELL
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2261112/Man-turned-amorality-art-form.html
Why is the BBC reporting french news all of a sudden?
It’s good yes, but seems like a new development.
Yes, belatedly, leftist Hollande has vaguely realised the threat to France from the Islamic jihadists in Mali, Somalia and in France itself.
‘The Guardian’ too has woken up a little, and, ahead of BBC-NUJ is using correct designation of ‘jihad’ threat:-
“France’s move into Mali follows push south by jihadist fighters.
“Paris and UK warn their citizens to leave country following rebels’ capture of village that had been held by Malian army.”
By Nick Hopkins.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/11/france-move-mali-jihadist-fighters
Are the Malians firing rockets into an area where one million French citizens live?
Not even a hint that it might be none of their business or neocolonialist for the French to fight 3300 km from Paris.
Lord Heseltine attacks David Cameron’s EU strategy – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20996376
Obviously, the europhile views of a europhile minister from the 1980s are worthy of being the BBC news website’s lead story…
Jeff
Yes, BBC-NUJ will always have a political soft spot for anti-Thatcher Heseltine.
BBC-NUJ pushes Obama line on keeping Britain in E.U. too.
“A meddlesome Obama should keep his nose out of our affairs”
By SIMON HEFFER.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2261010/A-meddlesome-Obama-nose-affairs.html
I noted too across the BBC (Radio 2, 5Live) that it was all the same crap…except that some future pension plan of the Tories was leaked to the BBC and becomes the lead item.
Heseltine will always get a berth at the BBC…he brought Thatcher down you know…according to “The Version” of history the BBC continues to squeeze from between Socialist -Liberal lefty cheeks of its bottom.
And yet-go to anywhere in Poland or all other parts of the old Eastern Bloc…and its Reagan, Thatcher and John Paul 2 that get all the places and statues named after them.
Have yet to see a Hobsbawn or a Heseltine .
I also heard Cameron and Osborne used as monickers…but in contrast to Ed Miliband(he gets the first name you see).
Oh…and in Northern Ireland, the protests get described as due to “the Union flag being flown”…typical BBC…it`s because it is NOT being flown by a lefty conspiracy (for typical nose-rubbing gratuitous, gesture politics and reasons I`d imagine)..that`s the problem.
But we never get the context do we?…just stroppy whitey colonialists and foot draggers lie South Africa and Israel…as ever.
Maybe Heseltine could plant a few more trees in Belfast, so the IRA cringers could use for shelter and for cover…or give us his arboreum for a Garden City…worked in Gatedhead, Toxteth etc in the 80s for him,did it not?
Finally-Heseltine is worried about “business being affected” by any E.U referendum….the BBC hack in Belfast was similarly worried by the “threat to business investment” as he showed his classic pictures of a Belfast “riot”.
Funny isn`t it when the BBC allow for the hot sweet tea and sympathy for businesses?…aren`t they all big oil. pharma, defence scum, tax avoiders, polluters, rip off merchants and food wasting cartels every other occassion as far as the BBC are concerned.
Except for BBC Enterprises, Lonely Planet and Thorn Tree etc….
Another day in Savilon with the BBC…Avalon to follow if the BBC can mould us all to be stupid enough to believe them!
‘….Savilon….Avalon….’ Ah, tis joy to hear the Beebards sing of such fabled lands. I recall Lyonesse, the British Atlantis, long gone somewhere off the coast of Cornwall. (Why oh, why didn’t they heed the Met Office extreme weather warnings?) Salford naturally being the deadringer for our now and future Camelot. I hear it is a very fine well appointed Motte and Bailey (Methinks the Morecambe and Wise of the dark ages) Hence BBC already well ensconced North Westward Ho and Labour Party tilting toward the very same locale for our alternate step-daughter of all Parliaments. Chatelaine of course, a Common Purpose Beeboid Guinevere – all-damsel list you see. Folderol.
You wear your learning lightly sir!
Sadly, my only knowledge of “Avalon” comes from a Bryan Ferry crooning!
Re Radio 2 putting their “religious ” Sunday show back to pre-dawn, my thoughts would be to use it as an excuse to show Islam that THEY`RE not the early birds ,necessarily.
I suggest that we all set our alarms, get up early and listen…then dock 20% of our license fees payable to the BBC because we all now go to bed earlier, so don`t watch Question Time and Newsnight anymore…that early morning prayer slot is pivotal to our lives after all.
‘Finally-Heseltine is worried about âbusiness being affectedâ by any E.U referendum…
Funny, I would have thought favourable tax and employment laws (for example) might be the deciding factors. The EU’s latest draft legislation which would make businesses ‘refund’ any days employees are sick whilst they are on leave might make me think very carefully.
In a few days’ time there will be elections in Israel. Netanyahu will probably win easily – not the fairly narrow win that Obama scored.
The BBC will no doubt present this as Israel swinging right – or swinging towards greater hostility to the Palestinians. This would be to twist the truth – the people of Israel, especially on the left, will simply be expressing their despair at ever having meaningful dialogue about peace, a forlorn realisation that the perfidious Palestinians have nil interest in peace except through the elimination of Israel.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/01/11/the-israeli-election-will-deliver-a-message-from-across-the-political-spectrum/#more-815894
“Israelis are racist genocidal filth and will vote for the biggest genocidal racist they can. #rollseyesandsighsfortheworld. #wereabelovednationaltreasure. #keepupthetellytax.”
Anybody else think that the ‘Any Questions’ audience was more partisan than usual this week?
Didn’t listen to it but Mrs jtf reported that a section of the audience booed Malcolm Rifkind for daring to suggest that there are some shirkers taking advantage of the benefits system. Some called out and were lightly reprimanded by the chairman for that, but booing? nah, just another Leftie tactic deemed acceptable by the BBC (see also Question Time and ‘hissing’).
Re EU, generally pro-EU stance by Malcolm Rifkind met in silence, similar stance by Harman with applause. “Non scientific audience poll” shows vast majority who would vote to stay in, national polls show majority to leave. Representative audiences or hand-picked do you suppose?
For INBBC and apartheid Asian Network:
“Wife-beating:
‘My husband said it’s okay,
he told me the Koran says it’s okay.'”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/01/wife-beating-my-husband-said-its-okay-he-told-me-the-koran-says-its-okay.html
Nihal – Asian Flight?
Nihal asks whether eastern European immigration has changed YOUR AREA for better or worse, (is that a pakistani area? – a muslim area? … ( ive never heard
of hindu, or sikhs using such connotations) … đ
next programme should be has blanket Pak immigration changed your area? , worse?, a lot worse, and this shouldn t be termed erm “wacist!” … at all?
“We’re quite surprised that Muslim women are often not educated, even in Islam, and think Islam condones violence” …. ha ha ha! no stop it you re “killing” (wink wink) me đ
what! … they can read can t they? đ its their book! …
same old story, usual deceit … and bbc lapping it up
Reminds me of the BBC’s “You Can’t Take It With You”, about families dealing with inheritance issues, where one of the episodes featured a thoroughly modern Mohammedan family. Both thoroughly modern Mohammedan parents were stunned that Shariah Law favored men and didn’t give women the same property inheritance rights as men. They both declared more than once that, to them, Islam meant justice and fairness, and that they were shocked at this is discovery.
Whose paying for the tents? Just asking because the BBC won’t.
Palestinian protest on land assigned for E1 settlement