26 Responses to THE GREATS…

  1. chrisH says:
    March 30, 2013 at 1:50 pm

    Noted too the pitiful impression of Richard Nixon by Jon Culshaw-who is good at many voices, but not Nixon.
    One long procession of Plastic Ono people isn`t it these days?
    The Gang Show without the Jamboree Bags.
    Where IS Polly Toynbee then…must be a week or so since she held forth on something ticklesome to the Beeb.
    And all this was prime time radio…weekend or not, Easter or not…this was desperate!

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  2. will says:
    March 30, 2013 at 1:59 pm

    Yesterday the “Today” team scoffed at Peter Oborne’s claim that the BBC were over-egging the importance of Milliband Major.

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    • Guest Who says:
      March 30, 2013 at 2:28 pm

      Shocked, I tell you… shocked!
      Next we’ll find that BBC employees are pretty much convinced that the BBC can actually do no wrong.
      Must be nice to control the script, edit suite, broadcast dial…

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  3. Scott M says:
    March 30, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    The author and compiler of the speeches, Daniel Finkelstein, was a director of the Conservative Research Department and adviser to John Major 1995-1997, political adviser to William Hague and secretary to the shadow cabinet 1997-2001, and a Conservative candidate in the 2001 general election.

    If his politics had been Labour led, Vance would have laid into him. Now he just mewls helplessly at some other scrap that he thinks portrays BBC bias, but instead just provides further evidence of his own.

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    • Guest Who says:
      March 30, 2013 at 2:42 pm

      ‘Mewls helplessy’.
      For someone saying they ‘had to laugh’?
      With a ‘would have’ tarot-reading on top.
      And you are weighing in on them projecting?
      Also glad you’re not just a lurking stalker with little esle to do than wait and snipe.
      And the notion of the BBC not covering what they fancy based on a person’s CV having traces of ideological taint from a different time is an interesting one.
      Must be a very slow life day where you are.
      Me, I’m off back out in the sun while it lasts now lunch has digested.
      But thanks for adding another laugh to the notion of Miliband joining the titans of our time in his lost oratory.

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      • Scott M says:
        March 30, 2013 at 2:48 pm

        Well it’s shorter that Guest Who’s usual dull tirades, I guess. Just as equally badly worded and dull, mind, but one out of three ain’t bad.

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        • Guest Who says:
          March 30, 2013 at 4:21 pm

          ‘..it’s shorter that … Just as equally badly worded..’
          Karma also a bit of a bitch, ain’t she?
          Bet you hate it when that happens.
          Lucky you declared this thread excluded from playing the person, as so far that’s all you have managed (me too, true, but to quote the playground rules, ‘Miss, he started it’).
          Anyhoo, tea-break over. I wonder if any All Pink Bulletins will be going out now to gather the McHighHorse clans to tell me that it’s calm, interesting you who gets to lob lazy bon mots around and not beastly, dull, tirading (interesting combo there) mere mortals with less inclination to rummage through the BBC Thesaurus of Damning Two-liners (the extent of attention span for some, apparently)?
          Lucky this site is actually about content and not being ‘sparkly’ to titillate the glee club.

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          • Scott M says:
            March 30, 2013 at 4:36 pm

            Somewhere in there is a point, is there? It’s always so hard to tell.

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            • Guest Who says:
              March 30, 2013 at 6:28 pm

              ‘Somewhere in there is a point, is there?’
              Indeed there is.
              Which you complement so eloquently with the calibre of your responses, thank you.
              Sadly, as with your fellow drive-by crewmates, I cannot assist with your evident levels of comprehension.

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    • Rich Tee says:
      March 30, 2013 at 3:30 pm

      Well he has no sense or perspective, whoever he is.

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    • Span Ows says:
      March 30, 2013 at 5:49 pm

      Scott, I don’t see the point of your post. DV isn’t making a political point or even a BBC Bias point (ironically enough) he is just made to laugh (as he clearly states) at the utter ridiculousness of the article: 3 titans of US history shoveled into a few lines to get YET ANOTHER piece of news about the half-rate has-been that has walked away from his constituents in the middle of a parliamentary term as if their will and votes mean nothing (and to him they clearly don’t).

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    • Louis Robinson says:
      March 31, 2013 at 2:47 am

      If this is the same Danny Finklestein I interviewed often back in the 80s he was an SDP man. Sort of left, sort of right. But then people change, don’t they, Scott?

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      • Wild says:
        March 31, 2013 at 6:44 am

        The fact that so many heads of the Conservative Research Department have been ex-members of the SDP helps to explain the lack of radicalism in the Conservative Party – the papers which have recently come to light revealing the opposition amongst the usual suspects in the Conservative Party to repulsing the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands comes as no surprise. No wonder the Conservatives have not addressed the abuse of power by the Stalinist BBC.

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    • RCE says:
      March 31, 2013 at 7:50 am

      And Ken Clarke is never off Question Time.

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  4. Olly boy says:
    March 30, 2013 at 2:39 pm

    They’ll be telling us he turned water into wine next…

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  5. Betty Swollocks says:
    March 30, 2013 at 3:34 pm

    HA HA HA Beeboids are total cretins.

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  6. +james says:
    March 30, 2013 at 3:36 pm

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  7. Fred Sage says:
    March 30, 2013 at 4:30 pm

    I await with dread the death of Nelson Mandela. The BBC will play sad music and tributes for ever. Winnie will also be given time to say how wonderful he was.

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    • David Hanson says:
      March 30, 2013 at 5:48 pm

      Quite. The BBC will be lighting candles, and Winnie will be lighting Michelin X radials.

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    • chrisH says:
      March 30, 2013 at 6:28 pm

      Hopefully they`ll get Harry Enfield to reprise his “Nelson Mandela” impression by way of tribute….or is it only the likes of Nixon that get the mockery then?
      Let`s ask Scott seeing as he`s lurking somewhere in cyberspace!

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    • JohnOfEnfield says:
      March 30, 2013 at 7:29 pm

      Mandela won’t die.

      He will be assumed into heaven don’t ya know?

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  8. johnnythefish says:
    March 30, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    Presume Miliband Major still involved in his ‘save the oceans charity’ too…..

    http://davidmiliband.net/2013/02/global-ocean-commission/

    – another beano for boozing and schmoozing with the great and the good whilst they put the finishing touches to their climate change plan of mitigating actions a.k.a. how to bypass democratic processes and create your own world government. Bet they fight like bitches over who would be world president, eh? Tony, Bill, Gordon, David, Hilary and that bird who was president of Ireland who never stops burbling nonsense about ‘climate change’ – just for starters. What a cat and dogfight it will turn out to be. Still, little doubt who will end up at the bottom of the heap paying for it all with our taxes (if there are any jobs left), our lifestyles (if there is anywhere left open/planes to fly on/cars to drive etc etc), our families (if you have a licence to breed), our education (you won’t be allowed any – makes you consumerist)……yes folks, it’s Agenda 21 and it’s no wonder David finds it slightly more appealing than his boring old working class constituents in South Shields.

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  9. chrisH says:
    March 31, 2013 at 9:25 am

    This mornings BH also puts Miliband Major among the Greats( 31.313)
    Harold Evans-a media jet-hopping superstar, well loved by the liberal media for being a martyr of Rupert Murcochs way back-tells us that Milbandwagon will prosper there among the glitterati, the plumped-up expat grandees..very Quentin Crisp, my dear.
    Oh what have we lost-the poor folks of South Shields?…a charity appeal to urge him to stay and save Sunderland?
    We ingrates just don`t appreciate his “Kennedy Flair”…we don`t deserve him, or the BBC who won`t fail to tell us what a rock star he`ll be seen as in NYC.
    Why-that`s how Blair is seen…oh, how we`ll miss those traffic-stopping motorcade moments as he rolls down to the chip shop in Hebburn.
    Make either of them president of the EU-will the BBC speak for us to them?…we ourselves can`t be expected to approach these Greats…can we dears?

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