Interesting treatment here by the BBC of two of the candidates in the forthcoming Eastleigh by-election.
On the one hand, we have Tory hopeful Maria Hutchings “provoking a backlash after suggesting her son would need private schooling to be a surgeon.” Meanwhile, comments in a 1998 book by Labour candidate John O’Farrell have surfaced, in which he said he was “disappointed” that Mrs Thatcher had not been murdered by the IRA.
Not quite sure that challenging the merits of state schools quite equates to wishing the savage murder of a British Prime Minister. I also notice the BBC got a quote from Miliband condemning Hutchings but when it comes to HIS candidate wishing to see a British Prime Minister brutally murdered…erm..silence.
Still, how DARE Hutchings attack our wonderful State education system …..
Yes, that local rustic son of toil , John O Farrell…is the Labour…the LABOUR… candidate to represent the tribune of the people.
Yet-no Spitting Image savagery…no scorn poured or this Islington luvvies head as he finds eastleigh on his nannys satnav…God no!
A serious candidate for serious times.
Indeed he is…never made me laugh anyhoo!
As much the new face of Wan Nation Labour as …well, Blair, Mandelson, Toynbee, assorted Benns, Straws, Kinnocks and Milibands…let`s hear no further talk of Labour not being family friendly?
Who else would employ a Benn or a Prescott?…only Labour or its fragrant Bubble bath that we call the BBC.
We should have no interest in any of these people. The three main parties have coalesced into one slimy mass. If the voters of Eastleigh had any sense they should boycott the election.
To be fair Andrew Neil did give a Labour idiot a good kicking over Farrel’s stupid comments this morning – its more than the Thatcher thing. The Labour fool could only suggest he was joking …
As pointed out here, Mr. Neil, by persisting in being the only one out of 20,000 to hold BBC PR clients to real account, may be on one of Carol Thatcher’s unrenewed contracts for some cooked up reason.
‘Still, how DARE Hutchings attack our wonderful State education system …..’
To be further fair, they are all at it.
Just watched the ever reliable Sky news review, with the inevitable peroxide sink luvvie, who was simply angry (down Mason) at this topic, being the top issue of the day.
Oddly, she seem unaware of Ms. Abbott’s commitment to state education, or her other Labour colleague’s much less outrageous views (it was a different time) on murder as an instrument of policy.
They even had a letter from local GPs who had been through the local comp. No mention of which end of the Stafford scale they may be, or whether they were the same bunch now calling for another ban, this time of fizzy drinks.
Such ‘news’ is of course a no-lose to the idiot media we are subjected to these days, but such bent rigging of vox-pops is rendering their influence malign.
Hopefully from now on O’Farrell will warn us in advance as to whether he’s joking or serious. It’s hard to tell because his ‘joking’ is not funny in the slightest and his ‘serious’ is barking.
I’d love to get told why Mr. O’Farrell’s public ‘jokes’ see him get a free pass at the BBC, whilst Ms. Thatcher’s private ones see her hounded off the premises, especially when it was about 300 to 1 in support of her via the BBC’s own ‘we are listening to your views’ system?
Something unique?
Fully agree. Once again Neil has showed himself to be a great interviewer and presenter without fear or favour, determined to get the truth for the viewer and totally impartial .
The BBC should note that on this site when they do what they are supposed to do we do give them credit. Although I must add that even if they maintained this standard of journalism across all their output i would be uneasy about so much power being concentrated in one institution.
I applaud the bBC for pointing out how a parent only wants the best for her child is wrong by sending them to a provate school and I applaud them again for pointing out how Ed Miliband has commented on this fact on Twitter thus making the subject controversial.
I wonder when he is going to do likewise with a bBC favourite and the Shadow Public Health Minister
I wonder when the bBC is going to contrast the above with Mrs Hutchings
I also wonder where Miliband will send his own rug rats. Something tells me it won’t be a council run school in Tower Hamlets well they are Jewish.
Any half decent reporter would have picked up the above, and asked those questions but the bBC doesn’t , gee, i wonder why?
The bBC, the traitors in our Midst
That’s not all he said. He’s also a traitorous little bastard who hoped the UK would lose the Falklands war, purely for politically partisan reasons…
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Mr O’Farrell also said he wished Lady Thatcher had lost the Falklands War in 1982, in which 255 British servicemen died. ‘I settle on the uncomfortable and convoluted position of wanting Great Britain to lose the war for the good of Great Britain. I was against the war, against people’s reaction to the war, even against the outcome of the war.’
A Labour Party spokesman said: ‘John made these comments many years ago and of course does not condone or wish harm on anyone.’
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279886/My-disappointment-Mrs-Thatcher-didnt-die-Brighton-bomb–Labours-Eastleigh-candidate.html
1998 – it’s not that long ago. Labour are no doubt hoping that people will assume these comments were made at the time during the very early 1980s. They weren’t.
A Tory candidate can be removed for linking Socialism to Nazism, but a Labour candidate who wished his own country would lose a justly declared war and wish death on the Prime Minister involved is good to go.
This is how messed up the main political parties are these days. One party dismisses someone for speaking the truth, the other sees no problem in enrolling someone who has expressed genuinely repugnant opinions, and the media will play along as if they’re part of the game.
I wonder, if he is so disapproving of Thatcher and her Falklands venture, how Mr. O’Farrell justifies being a candidate for the party that gave us Blair and the Iraq war?
I guess what really matters is that Blair meant well, hey John. Who’d have thought it – another charmless, smug, snide lefty ‘comedian’ who hides his viciousness behind a thin veneer affability. We really don’t have enough of those.
The BBC already love him.
The BBC already love him.
They do. Although he is not directly employed by the Beeb, he has done so much work for the Beeb that he is a Beeboid in all but name.
In this by-election-election he is providing the same service for Labour as he did in 2001 – fighting an unwinnable seat. On that occasion, the BBC was on hand to make a documentary about his campaign called Losing My Maidenhead. In an article in the Guardian, he states that he was against the Iraq war, but it didn’t stop him working for Blair’s re-election in 2005.
The man loves Labour even more than James Purnell. He will lose in Eastleigh, and then expect him back somewhere on the Beeb.
A friend of mine recently got paid to do a market research task about the BBC – you have obviously made them sit up and take notice, but he did say that the questions appeared a bit slanted in the research !
The Left are people haters. It is part of their politics and philosophy.
I wonder if any journalists, particulary the ones from the BBC will ask him in the street if he is willing to repeat those views on camera. Will they get him into a studo and ask him? Will any have the courage? No doubt he will be surrounded by Labours minders. They should be chasing him down right now. After all it’s one helluva story.
He can’t say he didn’t mean what he said, he thought long and hard, and over and over.
I am not surprised though, no-one should be, it is how Marxists view the world. They hate us all. It ends with the hard Left killing their citizens. We must remember and remind others what Lenin and Stalin did in the Socialist Paradise, which no doubt O’Farrell wishes will come about, clearly by force if he has his way.