John Humphrys was interviewing Andrew Simms from the New Economic Foundation on Today…no indication at all as to the political ‘leanings’ of this mob despite the fact that they are a radical, extremist group espousing Marxist economics using the language and symbolism of the Green movement as a ‘Trojan Horse‘.
The NEF is a regular on the BBC:
‘We have just 100 months to act to prevent dangerous climate change, says Andrew Simms. In this week’s Green Room, he outlines plans for a “Green New Deal” that could sort out the pressing problems we have with climate, energy and the financial system.
The answers are going to be economic, political and behavioural. Many countries, not just the UK, are going to need to learn the art of rapid transition. ‘
But rest assured, Simms only wants to help…..
‘The outcomes of our plan, though, are not to be feared.‘
This seems all part of a recent concerted effort by the BBC and friends….regularly giving the oxygen of publicity to these ideas:
The NEF has long advocated a 21 hour week…..and all that paid for by a ‘redistribution of wealth and income’ and more state benefits.
In the Today interview Simms has moderated his demands….as no one would take him seriously before…to just a 4 day week, which he tells us they all work in the Netherlands….except he forgets to mention it is 4 days of 10 hours….in other words the standard 40 hour week.
What sort of lifestyle does Simms expect you to lead on the pay generated by a shorter week?….
‘It’s not only well-paid professionals who can afford to work less. Kathleen Cassidy is a 26-year-old community organiser on a low income who chose to work a 25-hour week. “I didn’t have huge outgoings,” she says. “Rent, food, not much on travel. I’ve never been much of a spendthrift, never really spent on holidays, cars or things like that. It simplifies life, having less money.”’
Sounds more like ‘existence’ than a life.
As said earlier the BBC has had a long relationship with the Marxist NEF….it was one of the groups that attended the infamous CMEP climate seminar in 2006 in which BBC programme makers were persuaded to turn their programmes over to the ‘Cause’ and place climate change references within those programmes in order to try and alter the Public’s perceptions and actions with subliminal messaging.
The NEF, in association with Dr Joe Smith, organiser of that seminar, and the BBC itself also ran the ‘Interdependence Day Project’:
‘Both globalization and global environmental change invite us to extend greatly our notion of who counts in politics. We have arrived at a time that demands change on a similar scale. The carefully marked out boundaries of political community organized around the human members of nation states have begun to break down….in doing so we are forced to revise our notion of who and what needs to be heard in political discourse…..none of us can afford to be too shy in asserting that another world is possible.’
As you can tell the theme of the CMEP seminar is continued here…limiting which ‘voices’ should be heard and campaigning to change the world.
Is that the BBC’s role? Is it a campaign organisation?
Joe Smith seems to think it is and that he has influenced which direction it takes:
‘For over a decade I have designed and facilitated strategic level seminars aimed at improving coverage of complex environment and development issues, working with the BBC and other partners. This work has been shaped by insights from contemporary social science, and is integral to a programme of action research resulting in academic and policy publications. In the tradition of action research my findings are feeding directly back into decision-making within media and related organisations. The seminars have been publicly credited with catalysing fresh thinking in BBC outputs across platforms and with leading directly to specific and major innovations in programming’
Roger Harrabin showing the incestuously close ties he has with all this bangs the drum:
‘The Interdependence Day project has published the book Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth. A book that the Times called an ace new book and one to perk you up, BBC Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin described as “one of the finest essays I have seen on the predicament we are in”……
Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? is edited by Andrew Simms of nef and Joe Smith of The Open University.’
Here we see the BBC in action in 2007 after deciding ‘the weight of evidence no longer justifies equal space being given to the opponents of the consensus’:
‘Geographer, Joe Smith and Earth scientist, Bob Spicer from the Open University join Quentin to discuss their concept of Interdependence – how our lives and lifestyles are linked to climate change and their ideas on developing workable ways to curb consumption and emissions around the world.’
Quite extraordinary the interconnectedness between the BBC and these campaign groups….Dr Joe Smith is a hard core pro AGW advocate…he is not a ‘disinterested’ scientist…and the NEF is a hardcore left wing group advocating social and economic revolution….in the Stalinist mode but dressed up as concern for the environment.
The close involvement of the BBC with these groups and persons should be raising a few eyebrows…..to have a slight lean to the left in your journalism is one thing, to not only march to the same drum beat but to be beating the drum quite so vigorously is something else altogether.
I think it is something called bias.
As others,once true believers themselves in some cases,begin to express doubts over the nature,if not existence of man made global warming/climate change/weirding.The BBC seems to have become more hysterical in its defence.
Like a medieval inquisitor who senses some dissent among the flock their sermons become more absolute,more terrifying.
I assume that,AGW being one of the sacred tenets of their constructed faith,they fear that if that tumbles all other received truths might follow.
Just thought I would run that past ypo again in light of ‘We have just 100 months to act to prevent dangerous climate change’
So the end of their world is on the 1st July 2021.
That could be because of the oncoming little ice age.
Unsurprisingly, NEF advocates the Treasury getting free money from the BoE on a regular basis.
Traditionally the BoE injects new money through Treasury stock purchases instead – not just at QE time but whenever it detects economic growth. This is inherently inflationary, but the NEF plan would tempt politicians to pressurise the BoE into going into inflationary overdrive.
The best solution would be “Austrian” – a gold-backed currency with no injections of new money. Prices would come down then, thanks to steady investment instead of the boom-bust cycle. Just as they should have come down steadily ever since the industrial revolution.
We’d all be better off except the banks, which thrive on boom lending. The NEF plan would socialise inflation instead.
The trouble about “no injections of new money” is that the UK economy is not a closed one – every month millions of £££ leave the country to buy imported goods.
In the past this was covered up due to ‘new money’ being pumped into the economy due to the massive increase of personal debt.
This has now stopped.
“I didn’t have huge outgoings,” she says. “Rent, food, not much on travel. Plus essentials like the BBC licence. I’ve never been much of a spendthrift, never really spent on holidays, cars or things like that. It simplifies life, having less money. But at least I am told how to think, and for thinking the correct way may get selected by BBC producers as a speaking for the nation vox popper too.”’
Alan
The BBC no longer mention the political leanings of any of the groups appearing on news. So the Adam Smith institute is just called that.
Since you’ve moaned enough about the BBC calling them right-wing. you can’t complain when they stop identifying them as anything and let the crap they spout speak for themselves.
‘..you can’t complain when they stop identifying them as anything and let the crap they spout speak for themselves’.
Except the BBC are not, as we well know, impartial on this – why else hold a secret meeting with these people and agree to propagandise for them? They are all espousing the Marxist ‘mitigating actions’ against the mythical AGW, which are also the foundations for UN agenda21.
And btw, this is the second time in a month that I know of (there could be more) that this dingbat theory has been given an airing on the BBC. Coincidence or magic? – you decide.
A 21 hour week? Who is this guy, some kind of deranged slave driver?
I feel faint just thinking about. I’ll have to take eight weeks sick leave to see if I feel any better.
It’s not only well-paid professionals who can afford to work less. Kathleen Cassidy is a 26-year-old community organiser on a low income who chose to work a 25-hour week. “I didn’t have huge outgoings,”
Can you hear the sirens? That’s a stooge alert. From her Linkedin profile:
kathleen Cassidy’s Overview
Current
Independent Community Organiser at Self Employed
Lead Facilitator on Local Food Program at InSpire at St Peter’s Ltd
Past
Campaigns Assistant at New Economics Foundation
Mental Health Supported Housing Officer at St Martin of Tours
Also note self employed,so likes telling us how tax should be spent but not so keen on paying it.
Right at home on the BBC
For quiescent Beeboid, Hampstead Harrabin, and co:-
“So much for global warming! Four out of the last five winters have been COLDER than average.
“Over the last five years, only last winter saw the mercury rise above the 3.3C (38F) average – taken from 30 years of statistics from 1981.
“Met Office says figures are ‘part of normal weather patterns.'”
By NICK MCDERMOTT
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2286041/So-global-warming-4-5-winters-COLDER-average-reveals-Met-Office.html