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  1. George R says:
    March 5, 2013 at 8:57 pm

    Nigel Farage interviewed on Russian TV, without the interruptions than he gets from BBC-NUJ:

    ‘Are my children going to grow up in a country that they can call their own?’ – UKIP leader.

    (13 min video.)

    http://rt.com/op-edge/uk-eu-membership-ukip-farage-801/

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  2. thoughtful says:
    March 5, 2013 at 10:11 pm

    Oh Now Ugo Shavezzzzzz is dead so the beeb needs to broadcast a major obit, after all as a loonie leftie leader he is one of their favourites. You can bet that they won’t even bother to mention any of the other regional leaders. You can expect black arm bands when Castro snuffs it!

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  3. David Hanson says:
    March 5, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    So Chavez has finally croaked. Get ready for much wailing and gnashing of teeth at Broadcasting House.

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    • Sir Arthur Strebe-Grebling says:
      March 5, 2013 at 10:20 pm

      Will they get Shouty Owen Jones to comment? He’s the expert on Chavs.

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    • Colditz says:
      March 5, 2013 at 10:28 pm

      Like him or not he’s a pretty important figure in South American politics. The other leaders apart from Lula (another leftie god forbid) and Evo (even more left wing) don’t attract as much interest. Of course all of them have tried to pull South America away from the era of right wing CIA sponsored military leaders into more stable democracies. There’s some success compared to the past.

      Speaking ill of the dead isn’t generally good karma.

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      • Mark says:
        March 5, 2013 at 10:45 pm

        “Speaking ill of the dead isn’t generally good karma”.

        And the Left in the BBC will not join in macabre rejoicing at the death of “Fatcha” when that day arrives. When it comes to hatred and bile, the Left have few peers.

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        • Colditz says:
          March 5, 2013 at 11:09 pm

          The BBC will do so such thing. MT is a pivotal figure and like Chavez didn’t take prisoners. You upset a lot of people if you are a conviction politician. Plenty of negative stuff on BBC site already about Chavez as well as the positive. MT will be treated the same.

          Any death diminishes us all.

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          • Guest Who says:
            March 6, 2013 at 8:08 am

            “The BBC will do so such thing”
            —-
            Semantically, you are probably correct.
            But if history is guide, they will open their airwaves to one-degree-of-separation commentators who it appears they have no control over other than in sending out the invitations.
            I still treasure a BBC CECUTT bluster where (on a Dateline London ‘debate’ on the Falklands, that had no pro-UK or FI empathisers) they ‘investigated’ and ‘found’ two directors, one of invitations and one of guest utterances, who cannot talk with each other, thus what gets created in the void between them (some may feel said void deliberately structured for exactly that purpose) is in the ether, cannot exist and the BBC of course can not address it all.
            Beware of the Leopard lives on.
            Speaking of who gets invited, on the passing of world leaders, Sky News is soliciting ‘your views’ as we speak.
            Oddly, ‘our views’ appear to consist of two polar extremes selected more for heat than light.
            Que sera, sera.
            Sky is ratings driven primarily, with an eye to ad revenue (their tippy-toeing around calls to restrict payday loan ads… their primary revenue source… has been a hoot: ‘some are saying they are necessary to prevent people falling into the hands of the unscrupulous when they need a 60″ LCD).
            The BBC is not averse to ratings, as those market rates need a bar, but does add ideology to the mix.
            Which is propaganda they can support with censorship… Or shrug off.
            The excuses for any ‘slips’ that have been scripted [cough… Naughtiemarr… cough] doubtless on ‘regret the error’ standby already.
            Such cynicism diminishes much, too.

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          • NotaSheep says:
            March 6, 2013 at 9:41 am

            I know I usually say – “Don’t feed the troll” but that claim is so ridiculous it needs countering.

            The BBC will indeed cover The Right Honourable The Baroness Thatcher’s death when it comes but she will be described as ‘controversial’ and ‘divisive in many communities’. The space and time given to people to criticise her time as Prime Minister as having been ‘selfish’, as having ‘destroyed communities’ and for ushering a ‘time of greed’ will be far larger than space given to opponents of Chavez. This may of course be because opponents of Chavez often ended up in prison or worse.

            The ‘dance/piss on Thatchers grave’ mob will be given the space and time to make their claims and scream their abuse whilst the BBC will indulgently let them as so many share the same feelings. John O’Farrel will finally be happy and the BBC corridors will once again be filled with empty champagne bottles.

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    • Mark says:
      March 5, 2013 at 10:39 pm

      How about that for a weird coincidence ? Chavez’ death came exactly 60 years after that of another mega-tyrant – Josef Stalin !

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    • Pounce says:
      March 5, 2013 at 11:12 pm

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  4. Aerfen says:
    March 6, 2013 at 12:20 am

    BTW
    Anyone who hasn’t yet signed the epetition to maintain controls on Romanians and Bulgarians, please do so!

    Its really taking off now and should soon reach 100,000!

    http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/41492

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  5. Aerfen says:
    March 6, 2013 at 12:21 am

    http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/41492

    Keep on signing!

    Maintain controls on Romanians and Bulgarians.

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  6. AsISeeIt says:
    March 6, 2013 at 9:35 am

    5 live Bump Club: Introducing our mums-to-be
    Jo Meek

    Leaving aside the sheer awful naffness of the title – laden as it is with Mum’s Net-lite ‘please Jocasta, do put Noah down now, you will agravate his asthma’.

    I thought Jo Meek produced a couple of hit records in the 1960’s and then shot himself and landlady?

    But I digress. Talking of odd names, check out the ‘Mums’ taking part in this BBC show…

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/5live/posts/5-live-Bump-Club-Introducing-our-mums-to-be

    Mercy Koko-Snuggs
    My name is Mercy Koko-Snuggs. I am a 32 year-old first time mum who lives in Kent with my husband, Tim Snuggs. I was born in Nigeria but spent most of my early years growing up in Vienna until my family finally moved to London

    [Those blooming EU migrants; they have every right to come here, you know]

    Laura Dunning
    My name is Laura Dunning and I turn 28 the day that Bump Club launches. I’m married to Peter, a former Royal Marine injured in Afghanistan in 2008

    [Do I begin to detect a whiff of BBC special selection of the participants?]

    Holly Sian
    I’m Holly Sian, I’m 18 years old, from Keighley

    Lorna Morley Medd
    I’m Lorna. I’m 39, live near Cambridge and I’m a mum-to-be for the second time. I have one son – five and a half years old – a cat and a husband.

    [That puts the men in their place, eh sistas?]

    Kirsteen MacColl-Bowman
    My name is Kirsteen, I’m 35 and I’m one half of ‘Clan MacBow’. The other half is my husband Ralph, 41. I work as a staff nurse in a large teaching hospital and Ralph is a civil servant.

    [Yeh the Celtic fringe! yeh the public sector!]

    Kay Tart
    My name is Kay, I’m 30 years old

    [Tart? Moving swiftly on]

    Charlotte Taylor
    I’m Charlotte, I’m 22 years old

    Lynda Trenchard
    My name is Lynda and I live in Bristol

    [So what do you reckon? Representative of Britain in 2013 where benefits chavs and Muslims are popping them out like there’s no tomorrow?]

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    • Sir Arthur Strebe-Grebling says:
      March 6, 2013 at 9:59 am

      I had the misfortune to hear the beginning of this on Radio 5 Dead last night, following (bizarrely) straight after their football coverage! One of the first questions that Tony Livesey asked the pregnant women was “are you going to get married?” Shocked silence, no answers from anyone, you could almost hear the frantic producer in his earpiece – change the subject Tony, don’t talk about marriage, this is the bBBC.

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  7. deegee says:
    March 6, 2013 at 9:43 am

    UK diplomat Sir Vincent Fean flees W Bank university. You would think that with all the effort the British government and the BBC puts into language lessons they would at least chant in Arabic.

    No doubt the British will take revenge for the insult by throwing more money at Bir Zeit University.

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