Anyone else noticed that the left wing “think tank” aka advocacy group The Resolution Foundation is never off the BBC? I caught one of their propagandists on Today this morning being given a free ride without an opponent. I debated one of them a few weeks ago and the bit that irritates is the way the BBC presents their Press Releases as fact. Naturally, the Resolution Foundation is firmly opposed to the Coalition and in essence is just Labour with another face. Wish the BBC would introduce their items by saying “and now here is the claim from the left wing think tank the Resolution Foundation….” That would be fair. They don’t and THAT is both unfair and indicative of a lurking bias that is not that far from the surface.
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The Resolution Foundation have got themselves all over the Daily Mail as well. Guido Fawkes exposed their lefty credentials two weeks ago.
The BBC are lobbyists on behalf of the public sector. It is unrelenting. They are the broadcasting equivalent of a rigged election.
‘They are the broadcasting equivalent of a rigged election”
Frankly they are simply a £4Bpa democracy-bending system.
‘left wing “think tank” aka advocacy group
If on the BBC given a pulpit to proffer ‘opinion’, any advocacy group/think tank can be taken as also coming from such a quarter if not labelled by the BBC in advance.
The Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) was a U.S. government-owned asset management company run by Lewis William Seidman and charged with liquidating assets, primarily real estate-related assets such as mortgage loans, that had been assets of savings and loan associations (S&Ls) declared insolvent by the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) as a consequence of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. It also took over the insurance functions of the former Federal Home Loan Bank Board.
What does this have to do with the left leaning organisation you’re talking about?
Do you mean the resolution foundation which are a completely different organisation?
Sorry am I missing something where does David say ‘Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC)’ ??
He’s changed the original to correct it now. It might have been nice to have an acknowledgement as people will be confused by my post.
Confused who mentioned resolution trust (a part from you) and where.
It’s now updated so can we have your comments on the resolution foundation and their seeming omnipresence on the BBC?
Hi Thoughtful
Thanks for that and yes, I meant the Resolution Foundation. You may have noticed the post went up early in the morning as I was rushing out. I have sacked the sub editor. The substance remains.
Ahh got it now ! thought my eyes were going !
Ditto
Oops wrote the reply earlier without getting further down!
I spent an age looking for Resolution Trust comming up with nothing, eventually I found the guilty parties after a bit of a search.
Over on the
dark sideeven darker side – 5 Lies – the Resolution Foundation is introduced as “the independent Resolution Foundation”.Whilst away the week before last I managed to catch an interview with some bod on The World at One who was dissing the government’s changes to housing benefit. He was followed by the coalition minister who immediately pointed out that the bod we’d just been listening to, though part of some ‘foundation’ or ‘think tank’ or ‘charity’ or whatever, was also a senior policy advisor to David Miliband. Result: completely flat-footed the interviewer.
Please note, Mr Cameron – it’s the only way you’ll get anywhere near a level playing field with the BBC.
Colin Cowdrey, the founder of Resolution, is a Vulture Capitalist who feasts on buying up insurance companies and dumping as many of their employees as he can, hoping to resell the businesses.
Like the Hedge Fund scum that have driven up the price of commodities through speculation, Mr Cowdery gets his guilt-avoidance through weeping over the disadvantaged – in his case, lower to middle income households.
He doesn’t actually do anything like redistributing his own not inconsiderable wealth. Instead he funds a bunch of left-wing researchers to badger the Government with press releases about the plight of decile 2 to 5. His guilt-avoidance indulgences come incredibly cheap, out of the same box as that repulsive parasite Jeremy Grantham and his obnoxious sock-puppet at the LSE.
Whenever you lift the lid on the “Third Sector” you find the guilty-wealthy with their “moral-offset” schemes, and Governments or EU pee-ing away your taxes to lobby themselves.
Dirty money chasing undemocratic influence through the media, by funding PR “activists” . Whenever a story surfaces on the BBC, just deconstruct which activist organisation planted it there, with the help of the bBC.
‘Anyone else noticed that the left wing “think tank” aka advocacy group The Resolution Foundation is never off the BBC? ‘
Nope, can’t say I have. Never heard of it. I have seen Mr Vance on the BBC quite a few times though.