The BBC is having a spate of programmes that deal with immigration and culture (Andrew Green from Migration Watch even getting decent treatment on the Today programme)…I wonder if that has anything to do with the ongoing review of its coverage of such issues…and will they suddenly be on the back burner again once the review is published?
Anyway, the floor is yours…..a new open thread for any BBC subject you think fit to mention…..
A moment of mid-week levity from our most trusted purveyor of information and education:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22470691?
One is sure there are more; many of which dreamed up in whispers along those Bolly-strewn market-rate corridors of the very institution pointing fingers and shining lights.. elsewhere.
Close to home and some narratives seem less in need of enhancing than others.
‘One is sure there are more’
What our BBC? Use euphemisms to dilute the truth?
Surely not.
But just for a giggle let’s see if we can think of a few…
All STEP ASIDE now
As Bruce Forsyth might say… Good game! Good game!
Now we don’t want any of that beating about the Shepherd’s Bush – let’s go straight for the jugular –
How about Nicky Campbell on Jimmy Savile :
‘We all thought he was a SEXLESS ECCENTRIC’
Yes, I can see why Nicky Campbell would think that – on the other hand, anyone with a brain …
The very first one was suggested by Sarah Palin’s personal womb inspector, Andrew Sullivan. Katty Kay once referred to him as a favorite, and I’m sure lots of other Beeboids follow his every word. Tells you a lot about their moral and journalistic compass.
ITV Daybreak: Ranvir Singh – It’s gangs of Muslim men isn’t it.
The World’s Most Trusted News Organisation: Chuckling Nikki – Awthis talk about suchansuch a rithn.
(I think the Chuckler meant to say ‘religion’ but couldn’t quite bring himself to say the word.)
posted this right at the end of last OT
bbc 5live 8.40 am –
this morning has obfuscating to a new level re paedostani and muslim child rape gangs.
panto campbell pulls in some airhead from the guardian
(harker), to point the finger at “all communities”? at “society”? why are girls out? … late at night? in areas where a lot of ahem “asian” businesses are open? because they could be vulnerable?
…. the shameful pap of … because of those areas … those businesses, they are obviously going to come into contact with …. ahem “asians?… (shakes head).
This excusery idiot, fell short of stating …
if only they went out with a male relative,
were overly controlled in the home – yaaayyy! sharia eh! ….
… but not by much.
oops my “bbc-bias sense” is a tingling
i feel a tad of protectionism coming over the bbc.
so … stand by yer beds folks!
(if only it was) “Your Call” … is up and coming –
but before it does, a police spokesman confirms “race” and “religion” has nothing to do with it, thanks for clearing that up says panto.
the ejector seat protector of the religion of peace Moh Shafiq, will i m sure appear, with talk of “criminals”,
Anne Awill tiptoe around for a bit, with verbal gymnastics etc.
ps .. we ve had a muslim womans spokesman, another muslim blaming us, the girls, the wesern decadance etc
Shafiq blaming erm “criminals”, another muslim a manchester imam … interspersed with the dames helpful obfuscations …
sheesh! forgive me but are muslims? the victims here? … what is this? … where is anyone putting these devious bunchs toes to the fire eh!
nearly 9.30 halfway through this sham, horse and pony show, erm …
where are the real callers? is it “your call”? or not?
off switch ……
Go on, give the Beeb a break. What with Stuart Hall, Chris Denning, Fluff Freeman, Chris Langham, Johnathan King, Wilfred Bramble and Jimmy Savile etc etc, the BBC has the same moral outlook as a Pakistani Kebab shop.
This is a report that would never be shown on the BBC because of all the bad camera work and editing!!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6e5_1368165949
I left this link on the fag end of Monday’s thread but this must be seen.
Brave Lady.
This is a report that would never be shown on the bbc, period !
Without qualification, they wont show reality.
Treacherous scum.
This is a BBC programme. Made by the BBC. Shown on the BBC. It even says “BBC” in the top left corner. You people are idiots.
Fair points.
‘Made by’ may be pushing it, as aspects of the production do seem of a professional standard that takes ‘street’ to a new level. Possibly a submitted vs. commissioned production?
Maybe not…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcthree/2012/02/my-hometown-fanatics-stacey-dooley.shtml
May also have to delve into where shown, as this may be a hard to (or not a summer-making) swallow bit of balance stuck in the ‘on the BBC’ boonies to offset rather more sympathetic fare on BBC1 prime time.
Can’t argue that she is a brave lass, especially having read the reactions to this piece after a quick google (and all those moddings on the blog). Odd that such a piece of investigative reporting was not accorded the same PR hype… pro or con… as, say, that chappie taking an LSE class for a fieldcraft training trip in NK.
Now, this ‘you lot’… who again? Seldom a smart utterance in this ‘ism-sensitive world.
Anyhoo, interesting name chosen. I’m guessing an homage to Stuart Hughes, and claim my £145.50.
Well bugger me!
Hat tip to Christ on a Bike for enlightening me with his X-ray vision. It’s a shame that kind of ability hadn’t evolved yet here in Wales.
I still wish I’d never written to ask Jim’ll fix it to get me onto It’s a Knockout, big mistake that.
Well bugger me!
Hat tip to Christ on a Bike for enlightening me with his X-ray vision. It’s a shame that kind of ability hadn’t evolved yet here in Wales.
I still wish I’d never written to ask Jim’ll fix it to get me onto It’s a Knockout, big mistake that.
What a truly disturbing film – like the young lady, I always try to find the best in others but these people seem determined to alienate us.
The most disturbing part is that the muslim females seem to be the most aggressive – perhaps they feel that the young girls in Oxford and Rochdale deserved what happened to them.
The BBC needs to have Anjem Choudary on the Big Question show saying what he just said about his religion not requiring him to obey British law, going up against that guy from the Quilliam Foundation and a few others who want to be part of civilization. No EDL, no activists, no syndicated columnists of any kind, nobody not Mohammedan in the room at all, except for a grown man called Nicky. The only white people allowed, apart from him, should be converts.
It’s the only way to even approach an honest discussion about this without giving the usual suspects fodder to distract from or stifle the debate. Let them have the debate on a national platform. I think it would be very illuminating.
Truly appalling that these racists are allowed to walk our streets, I felt worried for the lady’s safety, where were the “anti-racist” groups?
I’d hazard a guess that there was a significant presence out of camera-shot who were able to offer some protection or to witness whatever bad stuff was offered toward her.
That’s not to detract from her obvious bravery, she’s got more balls than I have, and no mistake.
Have to admire such guts and determination.
There ought to be a way for every voter in Britain to force their MP to attend a showing of this and answer for it in public.
To quote Frazer, we’re doomed, all doomed I tel’ ye!
David, I think you said on another thread that you did not want the site to become an anti-Muslim rant. Whilst I agree with you, I hope that other posters remember that this is a site about bias on the BBC and are careful what they post so that this site does not get labelled ‘extreme’. However what you are seeing is the utter frustration that is felt by people in the UK that the BBC gives special treatment to Muslims; bias by omission as well as the constant positive slant by the BBC regarding Islam. I guess the report on live link would not have even made the BBC local news for Luton and that is what posters here find so frustrating.
As David has said Deborah, it’s events dear lady, events!
I agree completely Deb.
I would suggest though, especially when we have a current thread specifically for a particular story, that we post comments related to it there, rather than ‘overload’ into every thread. Perhaps that would help make us appear less Islamocentric.
I’m not denying or condemning that frustration, Deborah. I’ve said a number of time in the past that the BBC is partially responsible for it. In fact I once said that to the BBC producer who used to engage with us here under the name ‘John Reith’. Denying that I’ve done anything of the sort and claiming that I don’t want anyone to ever say anything negative about Mohammedans or their religion is dishonest and wrong, and I won’t stand for it.
There are better ways to discuss it without giving ammo to those who really would prefer to stifle any debate. That LiveLeak video is a good example, and I agree it’s something the BBC is too cowardly to do, and probably intellectually incapable of even considering.
And some of us are stupid enough to use our own names and have potential employers looking at this blog, and lurkers with an axe to grind send links to people with the hopes of causing problems in real life. People need to remember that others can be affected by what they post here. Like I’ve also said before, there are plenty of places to vent frustration about this. It’s wrong to claim that a site about BBC bias must be a forum for expressions of anger about Islam if there’s no connection to the BBC. Anyone who doesn’t want to hear criticism for moaning about Islam in general and isn’t interested in contributing to highlighting BBC bias can start their own blog. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of criticism for that speech. If anyone finds this offensive, they can start their own blog and I promise never to criticize them there.
It would never have been permitted under the old regime, back when the site had more relevance and was regularly visited by actual BBC journalists. Make of that what you will.
Errr, just feel I should point out that the Luton prog is actually a BBC program – first shown in Feb last year on BBC3.
They do sometimes dip a toe into the waters of what is happening in Britain outside the metropolitan liberal elite dinner party circuit, but a wilful blindness that overcomes them; “no it can’t be true, it isn’t happening, quick let’s make some programmes about the joys of multiculturalism”
If anything it makes me more contemptuous of the BBC. They are fully aware of what is happeningbuttheir political prejudices just block it out.
THIS IS A BBC MADE PROGRAMME BROADCAST ON THE BBC. IT SAYS “BBC THREE” IN THE TOP LEFT CORNER.
I see the bBC is once again promoting the view that the victims from the Islamic paedophile ring in Oxford are………Muslims.
And guess what the stupid bBC reporter finishes with:
“All the Muslim men I have spoken to are concerned about a Backlash”
Yeah right just like the backlash which killed 100s of muslims after 9/11, 7/7, the underpants bomber, the glasgow bomber, the Birmingham soldier beheading ring the poppy burning, numerous Islamic Pedophillic gangs, The numerous failed bombers, oh hang on that didn’t transpire. But the bBC push out that angle in which to excuse Islam from anything which may stain its so called religion of peace image.
The bBC, the traitors within our Midst
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It would be good if there were indeed a backlash, but a backlash amongst the Muslim ‘community’ against the criminals in their midst.
I think you will have a long wait for that one.
Islam forbids a backlash against those acting upon the beliefs and demands of Islam.
They don’t regard them as criminals.
After all, to replicate “The perfect man” is the best thing any Muslim can do, according to the book.
As the old line goes: Muslims warn of backlash after tomorrow’s train bombing.
Currently the UK is in the grip of numerous revelations of exposed paedophiles and what has been revealed is that these odious men have been protected by the law becaUSe of who they are: TV stars from the 70s/80s and Islamic men. The question which must be asked is why were these evil men allowed to get away with so much. I personally blame the leftwing culture of do as I say and not as I do. Well I found this article in the Guardian today which sums up how the left have allowed this rape culture to continue for so long:
Green party in Germany to investigate backing for paedophiles in 80s
Germany’s Green party is to launch an investigation into its active promotion in the 80s of paedophile groups who lobbied for the legalisation of sex with children.…
The inquiry follows a row over the Green party MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit’s apparent endorsement of sex with children in his 1975 book The Great Bazaar, in which he reported on his alleged sexual interactions with children while working at an anti-authoritarian kindergarten in the 70s. In the book, he wrote: “My constant flirtations with the children took on erotic characteristics. It happened to me several times that a few children undid my flies and started to stroke me.”….He added that discussions about children’s sexuality and how to help them discover it were rife at the time in the leftwing revolutionary circles in which he moved.
I’ll put money on the table that the same mindset existed at the bBC and was the same one which prevented the authorities clamping down on so many Islamic pedophile groups.
The bBC
Buggering
British
Children
Oh look what I’ve found:
mohamhead anwar and panto are bosom buddies, i m sure old mo, he ll offer him some intensive cultural/diversity training with which to ahem “correct” archer next time their paths cross.
Apartheid INBBC ‘Asian Network’s role:
-to provide political platform for ex-Labour Party Muslim Ahmed-
“Lord Ahmed denies accusations of anti-Semitism”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22531749
Well, well. It’s worse than was previously thought.™
“Adding in other factors, sea levels could rise by up to 69 centimetres, higher than previous predictions.“
What’s that in inches?
Is it enough to paddle in?
Apologies for the crudity, but enough to make even the late lamented Marilyn Chambers take a pass!
27 inches I believe or just over two feet in old money.
No, imperial measurements are NOT allowed, because the research cited by the BBC was funded by the EU, as is the BBC.
Does that mean that the Labour Party was once led by Michael 30.48cm ?
Who would have thought a team of scientists funded by the E.U. could come up with this result? In BBC world, global warming hasn’t stopped for 17-21 years, the Antarctic sea ice is melting rather than approaching record levels and Arctic sea ice has almost disappeared rather than being about average.
Arctic sea ice is well below the average – at least according to http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ – even below the current date of 2012 which led to record minima in the autumn.
I think you should realise that the world IS hotter than it was in the 20th century so this is bound to have some effect on the sea ice coverage – what is in dispute is the causes.
Fair point, John. The site you link to is authoritative and I accept what you say.
I remain an ardent CAGW sceptic, though.
An increase in cloud cover would increase temperatures in the winter as clouds trap heat. As well as the fact that there is more heat to trap in Sea ice, and there is far more of that in the Arctic. (The Antarctic is land locked, so there is no heat input from the oceans). Also the greenhouse effect is weakest at the poles and non-existent in the polar winter because the Sun does not shine onto the carbon dioxide, so it can’t be the cause.
So if the conventional understanding about the Greenhouse Effect is that it is strongest in the tropics, why do you think that these morons are so obsessed with the polar regions?
The Antarctic landlocked? Isn’t it entirely surrounded by the Southern Ocean?
Now that’s what I call “tectonic change”!
The seawater does not travel under the Antarctic, so cannot deliver the heat, silly.
When it comes to science, you are as bad as David Preiser (USA).
In science, Landlocked has two meanings. (1) “Completely surrounded by Land” or (2) Isolated from the Sea”
Since you’re not prepared to let the matter rest, could you please use your superior IQ to provide some support for this claim?
I have a degree in geology, but it’s news to me.
Its in the Collins Dictionary.
Richard, it doesn’t seem to be completely surrounded by land or isolated from the sea, does it?
Are you getting confused between Antarctica (the continent) and its ice sheet?
The Antarctic ice sheet covers most of the Antarctic continent, but not all of it.
Hope the map helps.
No, the map doesn’t help.
It’ll come as a surprise to many Australians to discover that they’re landlocked, like Switzerland.
Have you told them yet?
Please relay their reaction.
Any water on the Antarctic Land mass is isolated from the Sea. In this case that is what is relevant.
I could have used Sea-locked, but it is not in the dictionary.
So No, I am correct.
There are two different meanings, so we are all correct.
Even the idiots who work at the BBC.
“do as I say and not as I do”
Well to be fair if you have ever wondered why QI regularly slips in gobbets of scripted Leftist bigotry John Lloyd (its producer) in a BBC programme about the sketch show a few days ago helpfully explained.
His primary task, he asserted, is to use television comedy to educate 15 year old boys to have “correct” political opinions.
A correct opinion of course is when his pupils mimic the hatreds and group think of public school socialists such as himself.
Question Time panel this week – Philip Hammond, Chris “Underpants” Bryant, Charles *hic* Kennedy, FT journalist Gillian Tett and television producer Peter Bazalgette.
Bazalgette once suggested on Newsnight cutting the licence fee to pay specifically for core news and information content with a voluntary subscription introduced to pay for drama and entertainment.
I suppose Peter Bazalgette’s interest in this stems from his family’s historical connection with sewers?
The bBC, and how its leftwing bent changes the story line in which to promote its Anti-Semitic stance.
Gas finds in east Mediterranean may change strategic balance
For decades, it seemed that most countries of the Levant, east of the Mediterranean Sea, had little or no share of the Middle East’s abundant energy resources…But in the past few years, there have been offshore discoveries of gas and possibly oil that look set to open up new economic possibilities. In future, they could also redefine strategic relationships……Mr Abu sees enormous geopolitical opportunities in the finds as well as commercial ones.
“We had discussions with the Palestinian Authority regarding supplying gas from the Israeli discoveries to a power plant in Palestine. We are also exploring potential opportunities to supply gas to Jordan.”
Anybody else find it strange that an Israeli would refer to the West Bank as Palestine. A little digging reveals he didn’t say Palestine but rather the West Bank. I quote from the FT
A pipeline to Jordan would require “a very modest investment [in] a few kilometres of on-shore pipeline,” he added. The talks with the Palestinian Authority concerned a private project for a gas-fired plant planned in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Mr Abu said. The Palestinian Authority currently gets its power from the state-owned Israel Electric Corporation, but “both sides would benefit” from independent power projects, he said.
The bBC, the reason why Anti-Semitism is rife in the UK.
Great catch. Unfortunately, the FT version is behind the paywall. Could you please get a screenshot? I’d rather not register with them, or I’d do it myself.
If this FT copyright then apologies all round – pounce’s quote in bold
“Israel eyes gas exports to neighbours
By John Reed in Herzliya
A leading investor in Israel’s natural gas sector said initial talks were under way on exporting some of the country’s abundant offshore
reserves to Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, and a proposed power plant in the West Bank.
Yossi Abu, chief executive of Delek Drilling, said the sector was poised to take partin a “new geopolitical opportunity” and was looking
at possibilities to export gas via pipelines from offshore fields such as the big, unexploited Leviathan reserve to Israel’s regional
neighbours and possibly – via Turkey – to Europe.
“There is a significant commercial basis to supply gas from Leviathan and other discoveries offshore Israel to Turkey, Jordan, the
Palestinian Authority, and even Egypt,” Mr Abu toldthe Financial Times in an interview.
He added: “We have discussions – I cannot give you names – with potential customers in our region.”
Mr Abu’s remarks add weight to those from Israeli, Turkish and other government and private-sector figures recently, suggesting that
talks on regional gas projects that would re-shape the Middle Eastern energy map are advancing quickly.
Israel apologised to Turkey last month for a fatal 2010 storming of a boat off Gaza, and the politicalrapprochement has raised the
prospect of a thaw in trading relations between twoof the Middle East’s biggest economies.
“We believe that there is a real opportunity to supply gas to the Turkish market, and maybe through the Turkish market to the
European market,” Mr Abu said. “Also, there’s a real opportunity to supply gas to Jordan.”
A potential pipeline to Turkey might go undersea via Cypriot waters, he said, and would not need to pass through Syrian or Lebanese
territory. A pipeline to Jordan would require “a very modest investment [in] a few kilometres of on-shore pipeline,” he added.
The talks with the Palestinian Authority concerned a private project for a gas-fired plant planned in the northern West Bank city of
Jenin, Mr Abu said. The Palestinian Authority currently gets its power from the state-owned Israel Electric Corporation, but “both sides
would benefit” from independent power projects, he said.
Mr Abu declined to discuss potential gas projects with Egypt, but said that the existing pipeline for natural gas from that country –
which has been sabotaged frequently since the Arab Spring revolts – might in future pump gas from Israel in the opposite direction.
Mr Abu said that commercial considerations were driving the talks, not geopolitics, but added: “Obviously the government is taking
part to encourage the development of relations withour neighbours.”
He paid tribute to Silvan Shalom, the new energy minister in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, whom he said had “vast experience”
as a former minister of foreign affairs and finance. “We are taking this as a serious opportunity,” hesaid.
Israel began gas production at the $3bn Tamar offshore field last month. Delek and Noble are waiting for a decision by the cabinet on
gas exports, and a decision by Israel’s competitionwatchdog, which is examining a complaint that the two companies between them
control too much of the sector, before moving aheadwith plans to develop Leviathan.
Delek Drilling and Avner Oil Exploration, both owned by Israel’s Delek Group, own 31.25 per cent of Tamar and 45.3 per cent of
Leviathan”
David do a google on:
Yossi Abu Delek Drilling
The results will contain a direct link to the FT website which will allow you to read the article in full.
I did that and ran into the same paywall. Maybe I need to do it via proxy.
Email me, I have saved 2 Jpegs of screen drumps, but can’t find your e-mail addy (strange)
Done. Thanks.
Here’s the link
Israel eyes gas exports to neighbours
If you use Chrome, right click on the link and select ‘open link in incognito window’.
It should work.
Thanks, but still no good. Must be regional.
Reuters headline, UK unemployment falls, BBC headline UK unemployment rises. I wonder why the discrepancy.
BBC:
“UK unemployment has risen to 2.52 million, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said.
ONS figures showed 15,000 more people were unemployed in the three months to the end of March, with the unemployment rate now at 7.8%.”
ONS:
The unemployment rate was 7.8% of the economically active population, up 0.1 percentage
points from October to December 2012 but down 0.4 from a year earlier. There were 2.52 million
unemployed people, up 15,000 from October to December 2012 but down 92,000 from a year
earlier.”
Nick Clegg : unemployment down
Harriet Harman : unemployment up
You pays your TV Licence Fee – the BBC makes your pick for you.
Wrong national leader. Unemployment numbers are spun a bit differently for the US.
The bBC and how it goes all out in which to change the subject of Islamic thugs into Islamic victims.
‘Racism’ probe UKIP councillor questioned by police
A UKIP councillor who admitted sharing offensive material about Muslims on Facebook has been “voluntarily interviewed”, police said.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/14/article-2324335-19C59058000005DC-768_634x436.jpg
In typical bBC fashion the bBC are currently remaking Muslims into only victims. Have a look on the bBC website any sight of the 7 Islamic males found guilty of raping little white girls story? NO? but the one above is there for all to see Click on the link I posted in which to see just how racist the picture he posted is. As always the British police so quick in which to defend Islamic terrorists have had a word in this mans ear. The victims of those Pakistani rapists had to wait 8 years before Plod put down his doughnuts and decided to do something.
I fail to see how that picture is racist in any way.
It is perhaps revealing of the motivations of the ROP but hey, if they parade with placards like that, is the world supposed to ignore it? As far as I can see they are exhortations to acts of extreme violence and murder. It’s a shame the police have no interest in tackling the real criminals.
And in the midst of it all, we have people like Anjem Choudary, who sreems to be immune to any police charges for spreading such vile hatred. He had been shown carrying placards inciting murder against ‘those who insult Islam’.
Looks like our Anjem still doesn’t have a job, no doubt too busy doing Allah’s work at our expense. Said he would lose benefit on his nice flat if he worked. Why do we employ clowns in the Benefits system, handing out money to this parasite who hates us? Tories asleep at the wheel. No journalist interest. You despair.
It’s probably not the picture, but the word “savages” in the caption. Which is wrong, IMHO, because it’s a cultural value judgment, nothing to do with race. The BBC makes cultural value judgments as well, so this had better not become a legal precedent.
The photograph is not the full reason for the police interest.
“A UKIP councillor has announced he will probably have to step down after less than two weeks because he posted a series of offensive messages about Jews and Muslims online.
Eric Kitson, 59, has admitted ‘I don’t see how I can possibly carry on’ after sharing racist cartoons and messages on Facebook.
One included a picture of a nuclear weapon exploding emblazoned with the message: ‘Some cancers need to be treated with radiation, Islam is one of them’.
He also shared an image of a Muslim being roasted over a pile of burning Korans, as well as several anti-Semitic outbursts linking the Rothschild banking dynasty to Adolf Hitler.
In one comment he said in reference to Muslim women: ‘Hang um all first then ask questions later.’
The councillor from Stourport, Worcestershire, has apologised to residents and party colleagues for his ‘stupid’ actions.
But he denied being racist and claimed he had shared the material to expose the ‘unacceptable’ views they contained.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324335/UKIP-councillor-Eric-Kitson-said-Islam-cancer-racist-Facebook-page-step-down.html#ixzz2TNLMi1VW
Albaman, that supports my assessment, no?
Yes. My point being, perhaps badly put, that you initially responded to a post that had been “economical” when giving the reasons for Kitson being interviewed by the police.
You’re right, Albaman. The BBC was being “economical” on that score.
Since the BBC has a duty to “inform, educate and entertain” do you think they could spend some resources informing and educating certain elements of our society, through their dedicated networks, that grooming and raping young girls is actually frowned upon in most of (at the moment) the UK?
Well said.
Why is being offended such a big deal anyway? I see lots of things which are offensive.
if your ignorant deluded ideology, tells you from birth, and drums it into your mind as a child … that you are superior, and telling the truth about said ideology is punishable by death, yep! you re gonna get offended …
all the more reason to keep doing it, over and over again … you will either GET OVER IT 😀
or explode with offence …
but the house of cards (in this case islam) will fall …
“no tolerance for the intolerant”
and let true freedom reign
to which erm … race? are we refering ?
which one would that be? … pray tell
This is a post from the BBC which is more or less similar to posts in other media sources about the UKIP Councillor who has resigned and is under police investigation for posting offensive material against muslims on his Facebook page. His retraction, as printed in the media and BBC, reminds one of the notorious retractions in the Stalinist show trials. My point in airing it here is two fold. First, I am concerned that the BBC which should be committed to defending political freedoms are unconcerned, and second, a Conservative led Government, are not raising a voice of protest against this kind of attack on elected politicians.I have to conclude that the BBC, most of the media, and the Cameron led Government are in it together.
How long will it be before Biased BBC is scrutinised by Cameron’s police?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-22537920
“I have to conclude that the BBC, most of the media, and the Cameron led Government are in it together.” ……………. It would appear that those bastions of the left, UKIP, have also joined the conspiracy.
“Mike Nattrass, UKIP MEP for the West Midlands, has called for Mr Kitson to be thrown out of the party.
“The stuff that was on his Facebook page is outrageous and I’m calling for him to be rejected from UKIP,” he said.”
Alabaman, I accept your point. But I made no reference to right or left politics. Whether or not UKIP MEPs call for his expulsion is immaterial. Removing a democratically elected politician for remarks that are less offensive than those paraded on Islamic banners in our streets, is something our media should be concerned with.
Again I thought you were too busy with important things to post here. With respect to my comment on the ‘BBC Bites the Bullet’ thread, are you going into your place of work tomorrow to point out that child-rapists cut across all religious/cultural/ethnic/class divides within out glorious multi-kulti ‘society’. Therefore around say 3% of my male colleagues must be child-rapists. So for the sake of the children, and multi-kulti harmony, lets identify them now.
After all that is what you and the Quisling Corporation believe, so why not go out and prove it in your workplace.
Regards
Kyoto
flipping hell.if this ukip councillor changed his name to anjem choudary you would not here a word from the left wing ukip hating media.sometimes i feel like i am living in communist russia with this constant ukip witchunt and hounding by these left wing trolls that control the media.freedom of speech,your having a laugh.
Interesting, as always.
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/barony.html?
But in the details there’s a devil to pay reading between the lines.
‘This particular signing looks like another recruitment by phone call, rather than competition.’
Now, what can that mean? Atop all the other bestowed placements from the most powerful DG (enjoying the notion he seems to have a purse to match the Chelsea owner, if funded a bit differently) of recent times.
And then this:
‘..reduce the reliance on dull conversations with BBC correspondents’
Yes, well, that boat may have sailed. But, maybe, it would be an idea to ‘reduce’, or perhaps even stop producing stitch-ups based on ideological skews that only kept the thing alive using public money in a desperate compo splash complemented by a redacted internal ferret sack fight?
Just a thought.
Looks like he’s fallen into the BBC’s ratings=quality abyss.
At least we now know what being “prayed upon” means to a Muslim when there`s a girl from a care home and in need of a voucher for a Big Mac.
Both Newsnight and Today this morning gaily tiptoed through the tulips, and bodyswerved around those big bearded elephants shouting for the death of whitey and the kuffar in general.
Why were these Oxford gents referred to as being Asian if some of them were of North African origin…or is that heritage or domicile, citizen or based?
Boy, don`t they make life complicated for themselves with their strained sinews of syntax…Orwell would be impressed?
Can you twist your tongue…the BBCs Thesaurus must be getting a good thumbing…much as their favourite Bling boy from Top of the Pops days must have shown them how to do.
The BBC-a Muslim Mosque-one and the same thing…but at least I choose whether to go to mosque to pay for them…and there`s maybe a good kebab on offer.
The BBC offers me nothing, but excuses for Anjem..what the hell is THEIR reason to screw the white trash that pay its licence fees?
Reasons branded on a young girls skin please…
Sorry folks this is unrelated to this site but in a strange way it’s highly pertinent to the broader debate on the general foul leftyness that so characterizes the BBC….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10059873/Council-vetoes-flag-of-St-George-after-concerns-raised-about-links-to-Crusades.html
That stupid, rug-knitting, rivita-eating, fair-trade coffee-sipping traitor should be sacked and deported to the nearest Muslim country so she can tell to them to remove their flags because it annoys the English.
The objector is a “university lecturer” so say no more .Our universities are in the lead when it comes to political correctness and the stifling of free speech. That they are almost unanimous in attempting to destroy Israel is as good a reason as I can think of for ignoring them.
The problem is they have been corrupting the young since the 1960s.
I bet there are quite a few US schools that could you a run for your money. Sadly.
Is it me, or is everything publicly funded treacherously politically correct?
Why is the BBC endlessly plugging ‘The great Gatsby’ ? Do any of them have financial links or are they besotted with one of the cast?
I have noticed that BBC News is spending a greater part of its 6pm and 10pm news dedicated to any new film – wonderful advertising for the movies concerned. I wonder just how many free tickets, invites to premiers and other junkets are received by Mr Gomperts in particular and the BBC in general.
Perhaps this demonstrates how some of us see things differently. For me, the BBC News covers entertainment news, that sometimes includes big Hollywood releases. I don’t read anymore into it than that.
Yes this annoys me as well. The one advantage of the Beebs “unique” funding is that they should have no need to mention the latest film/book etc. If the films producers wanted to advertise then they should go to ITV or Sky and not get it for free on the Beeb.
As to why the Beeb do it. I don’t think there is a financial interest just that the Beeb are acting like a star struck teenager 30 years ago who is in love with the glitz and glamour of a fictional Hollywood and so just glad to it pays them some attention.
Meanwhile back here in the real world less and less people give a sh*t about the sh*t Hollywood produces. These days it seems to play second fiddle to the mini series industry which is where the real talent goes and where the money is.
Yep not a single film in the last 3 years made in lollywood has got me into a cinema but stuff like ‘Justified ‘ ‘raising hope”board walk empire ‘ ‘sons of anarchy’ or pretty much anything the BBC won’t be showing has the talent and story’s lollywood cannot compete with!
Advertising is receiving goods/money/services in return for promoting the film. Therefore its doesn’t constitue advertising, unless you can show different.
I presume the BBC News shouldn’t also feature news about supermarket profits, or mention any commercial product or service? Google tax arrangements?
ITV & Sky don’t recieve payment for featuring the film in their news reports either.
Not the job of a public service broadcaster sorry but if the BBC want to jump on the high cultural horse about what their competitors make then they shouldn’t fawn over big cash corporation made rubbish !
Yes but having mentioned Google’s tax arrangements on the news they don’t go on to give the Google management a soft interview on a Friday night chat show followed by an appearance on Top Gear as the star in the reasonably priced car.
If a politician wants to make an issue about Google’s tax arrangements then I suppose it is news but the release of a new film isn’t !
Reality:
Top Dem tax-writer calls for IRS officials to resign
The ranking Democrat on the House’s tax-writing committee on Wednesday called for two senior officials at the IRS to step down over the agency’s targeting of conservative groups.
Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) said the acting commissioner of the IRS, Steven Miller, and Lois Lerner, who runs the IRS’s section on tax-exempt organizations, should resign.
“My own judgment is that, based on the report from the inspector general, I think there’s reason to believe that Mr. Miller should be released of his responsibilities as well as Ms. Lerner,” Levin said in an interview on MSNBC. “There was such total mismanagement.”
The BBC’s US President editor:
His political enemies are turning up the heat.
Still no mention from the BBC of Democrats criticizing the President over all this. Now Jonny Diamond is taking the exact same angle as Mardell. The President needs to worry about getting His agenda back on track, it’s only Republicans who are complaining now, second term blues, etc. Pathetic.
http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/
Beeboids and ‘Euphemisms’.
A Beeboid has the chutzpah to have a go at the euphemisms in others, while blithely ignoring the Beeboids’ own euphemisms, such as :
1.’men’
2.’militants’
3.’diversity’
4.’green activist’
5.’community’
6.’multicultural’
7.’occupy’
8.’migration’
9.’rebels’
10.’ethnic’
“The 10 most scandalous euphemisms”
By Jon Kelly
BBC News Magazine.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22470691
Add:
1. ‘vibrant’
2. ‘Moderate Muslims’
3.’enrich’
4. ‘contribute’
5. ‘community leaders’
How about:
1. Invest
Sometimes Parody is just too real !
SYRIA.
For INBBC:- a ‘Sky News’ report,
by Tim Marshall –
(2 min video)
“Civilians come under fire from rebels”
http://news.sky.com/story/1091428/syria-civilians-come-under-fire-from-rebels
syrian rebels comrades,,,what are they like heh…they shout allah hu akbar when they behead and torture innocent civilians…one of them just eat the heart and liver of a dead syrian soldier as shown on sky, news,,what is the link here you might say comrades,,,yes…allah hu akbar is the cry you hear from these nice syrian rebels,,,see this is the thing,,,,allah hu akbar is the war cry of al qeada,,i will repeat this just in case wllliam hague is reading this blog,,,allah hu akbar is the war cry of al qaeda,,,nice syrian rebels heh…………..
The MSM and the BBC will now try to bury the street grooming issue as fast as decently possible. They have to do so as it threatens the whole unreal basis of the multicultural doctrine of the left and even the basis of liberalism itself.
No state organisation can be trusted to deal honestly with this. It is just too much for them .Years of political correctness have made them useless.
I expect the future to be much like this but feel free to disagree.
White flight will reach epidemic proportions. London will cease to be a city with any significant indigenous population. The de facto creation of parallel communities will happen far quicker than even a pessimist could believe.
The liberal elite are faced with the collapse of their world view which will encompass much more than this issue.
We can expect an assault by the liberals on all opposition. Free speech will be under constant attack and the position of any opposing voices will become precarious.
Liberalism in the modern sense is inevitably a tyranny
Perhaps in their 4am moments they know what sadness they have bought to a once contented land. I doubt it.They are probably taking part in a 4am knock on the door of any dissenters.
The self-styled ‘liberal’ ‘progressives’ are in fact the neofascists. Methods, behaviour, mindset, ideology-all point to Fascism. The moment it is them to fall under the tyranny they themselves created will be a well-deserved karma, but unfortunately by then the rest of us will suffer as well.
the question smarmy tricky nicky cambell should of asked his muslim guests is this,how many underage muslim girls did jimmy saville or any white peadophiles abuse on a industrial scale like these muslim peados have done to white children.
Will the al-beeb cover this story: their Progressive Messiah spying not just on the press corpses but on elected representatives as well.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/breaking-holder-justice-department-also-tapped-house-of-representatives-cloak-room/
‘Progressive’ is just another euphemism for Fascism.
Wasn’t Watergate about a similar scenario? If so will it bring down a Democratic President like it did a Republican one?
Watergate was about spying on journos (which The Messiah already did), but NOT spying on elected officials in places and environments that were declared ‘safe’ by the political class. Keep in mind, the microphones and cameras were installed in a VERY exclusive environment where very few have access.
This is Watergate times 150.
“spying on elected officials”
I should have said: with the very purpose of obtaining blackmailing material.
Tapping phones doesn’t involve microphones or cameras or breaking and entering private property. It’s not Watergate. Yet.
The BBC, though, is pleased to provide a fascinating combination of White House talking points and one critical comment.
Q&A: AP phone records seizure
It’s really Q&TP. Notice how much of these are White House answers.
There was a serious leak, and the DoJ is apparently justified in going after the leakers. In fact, Congress – especially those damn Republicans – called for a crackdown on leaks. So you need to understand how hypocritical it is for them to now complain about this. This last sentence is my own inference, of course. But let’s not pretend that’s not what the last section of the BBC piece is meant to make you think, even though it’s hardly what Congress intended.
Furthermore, there really was a terrorist plot, about which info was leaked, and this Administration is just that much more fervent about going after leaks than previous Administrations. That’s a neutral statement, mind, not necessarily a negative.
It was a serious leak, deserving of investigation, and you don’t need to know about the tapping of journalists probably talking with Congressmen or their staff. Atty. Gen. Holder recused himself a long time ago, so of course he had no idea about this.
An ex-AP chief is critical of the whole thing. Move along, nothing to see here.
Now read these talking points released by the Soros-funded Media Matters, which were coordinated with the White House before being released to the media, and decide for yourselves just how much the BBC’s piece matches them.
Initially I thought it was a different story unrelated with the AP, but I see now the info has been updated and I was wrong.
Yes, I saw the “MediaMatters” (how ironic) talking points. Pathetic organization run by a clinically certified psychopath.
Well seeing as no one else has posted it!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325212/BBC-black-hole-Salford-swallows-cash–15k-Gary-Linekers-taxis-talent-commuting-jet.html
It seems that even the bosses are reluctant to move North and the travel costs are becoming astronomical!
No wonder the BBC supports HS2, it will allow their presenters travel up from London faster than they currently can!
HS2 ? More like the rotten egg stench of H2S ! (one for the scientists)
Beeboids have made the licence-payer fund for their lifestyles so far without problems, so they are continuing in the same way.
Beeboids feel morally justified in racking up these enormous expenses, so that they can hypocritically present programmes on e.g. ‘inequality’.
The BBC is becoming more blatantly left-wing on a daily basis. Don’t expect any balance in the climate change (non)debate, either:
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2013/5/16/new-newsnight-editor-eulogises-1010-campaign.html#comments
Given the subject matter I should not be surprised that the BBC insider source I have been quoting on who was tipped for this role (He was claiming Peter Barron) was a bit wide of the mark.
So instead of an ex-BBC insider, we must be shocked… shocked we tell you, that a print editor of a small broadsheet has been chosen by the most powerful, impartial DG of recent times to edit a very small London broadcast gossip & less than accurate ‘news’ magazine for luvvy news junkies, with a history of tribal ‘skew’, to say the least. At least Paul Mason will be happy to have someone to play with.
Still, Mr. Katz will not find the territory too unfamiliar, as his wife seems well-versed in the territory in her capacity as just the average kind of ‘Mum’ that speaks for the nation, wheeled out by Newsnight to opine on matters political with no tribal agenda at all. No sir.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/my-week-justine-roberts-1824968.html
‘Media interest grows and Newsnight says it wants to film during the Queen’s Speech to see mums’ reaction to it…. I do another interview and go on The Daily Politics show where I’m excited to shake hands with Roy Hattersley who has no idea who I am but I’m thrilled to meet him! I go and see Newsnight and CNN as well.’
Just yer average soccer Mum, then.
At least she can also now get her questions in future answered directly over breakfast:
Guido is impressed, and a few others seem so too.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2013/05/ian-katz-is-the-new-editor-of-newsnight/
‘As one BBC insider lamented tonight: ‘welcome to Labour BBC.’’
Sources say… cue the resident selective Flokk fact moaner to claim only the BBC should be allowed not to name names.
It will be interesting if Lord Hall Hall’s ongoing preferences in market rate talent affiliations will be avoided or spun further as simply ‘the best placemen for the job’.
Telegraph impressed too:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/janetdaley/100217261/the-bbc-hires-another-guardian-journalist/
No, really. Far from spitting bullets, most media not ‘of a mind’ sharing the BBC/Graun Axis of weevils value-set actually seem to find this totally brilliant…. if for reasons that may give some in said axis some pause to worry.
The phrase ‘enough rope’ springs to mind.
Celebrity Mastermind
(Apologies to the Two Ronnies)
And so to our next contender: BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson. In the first round your chosen subject was Children’s Stories, and then in the quarter finals you answered questions on the Labour Party. This time you have chosen to undertake quite a challenge. You will combine those two subjects within single questions, answer questions before they are asked but sometimes answer the question before last. You will also answer some questions that I haven’t actually asked. Good luck.
And your time starts now. In the Roald Dahl novels, what was the name of the chocolate manufacturer?
Am I allowed to say Diane Abbott?
I will have to check that with my producer. Who is the current leader of the Labour Party?
Willy Wonker
Correct. In the Dav Pilkey comic books, George and Harold hypnotize someone to create a superhero – Captain Underpants. Who was it they hypnotized?
Chris Bryant
Correct. Who is Harriet Harman?
A very mean-minded and pompous school principal
Correct. Her full name?
Cruella de Vil
Correct. In the expenses scandal, how many Labour MPs were involved?
101 Dalmatians
Can you name them?
Piglet from Winnie the Pooh, Some Pig from Charlotte’s Web, Miss Piggy of the Muppets, the Three Little Pigs, Babe, Peppa Pig’s dad….
That’ll do. Name one of the Peers involved?
Toad of Toad Hall
Correct. What high office is held by Peter Mandleson?
Lord of the Rings
Correct. Which well known company of puppeteers created Andy Pandy?
Len McCluskey’s union Unite
Correct. In the UK at the last election, what was the safest of all Labour constituencies?
Trumpton…. no…. Camberwick Green…. or was it Chigley?
Sorry I would have to accept your first answer…. I did say the UK, in fact you’re forgetting Scotland – it was Balamory
From where does BBC Question Time select the studio audience?
Narnia
Correct. Who are the four most regular panellists?
The Tellytubbies
Correct. What was the title of the 2010 Labour Manifesto?
Jackanory
Correct. Ed Ball’s plan for economic growth would cost how much?
Magic Beans
Correct. In Doctor Dolittle…
Andy Burnham’s plan for the NHS?
No that’s wrong. Please don’t interrupt until I’ve completed the question unless you are sure of your answer. I’ll have to substitute a different question. MPs Stephen Twigg and Chris Bryant…
The Pushmi-pullyu
Correct. But please do be careful where you interject. How would you describe Caroline Flint, Yvette Cooper and Glenda Jackson?
Swallows and Amazons
Correct. In the Lord of the Rings who lived at Mount Doom located in the heart of the black land of Mordor?
Gordon Brown.
Yes. Too easy that last one. Nick Robinson, you certainly know your twin subjects…. you have scored a first round total of nine, with no passes. Oh wait…. just a moment…. you’ll be pleased to hear the postal votes have just come in. Your score is now an unbeatable grand total of twenty points!
Hhahaha a gem and thanks or the giggles now I will have to watch 30’s of BBC views 24 to sadden up again !
Wonderful insight into the BBC/Labour revolving door, over at Bishop Hill
You might be forgiven for wondering what Chris Patten has been doing the last couple of years in the BBC Chair. Sitting comfortably, by the looks of it.
🙂
Pure speculation, but on matters revolving door, Guido has Hugs possibly side-stepping Graun-wards as a ‘dark horse’ to replace Mr. Katz, given her awesome abilities as a journalist and manager.
The very notion.
Let’s just hop no one ‘trips up’ with all this spinning in and out.
Not to mention the other revoling door between the BBC and the Grauniad…
http://order-order.com/2013/05/16/katz-leaving-a-sinking-ship/
oops! ‘revoling door’ is Grauniad for ‘revolving door’
Hmm think ‘revolting ‘ works better!
Kevin Hass left Today to become George Osborne’s press secretary. Now he’s the communications director for Hacked Off.
There’s at least one other Beeboid who went to work for the Tories a while back. Plus Chris Patten, Andrew Neil, Nick Robinson, and possibly James Landale and Tim Willcox balance them all out. And while Harding may be Left-wing, he’s a Zionist, the ultimate trump card in this game.
I don’t know why I still somehow find lists like that startling, yet I do. I suppose some part of me still doesn’t wish to admit that the truth of the awful socialist rot eating away at the BBC is quite as bad as I suspect…and yet things like this list cause a few remaining scales to fall from my eyes.
The truth is that I’m pretty sure if someone spent some time looking up the personal histories of the present BBC Politburo Labour would be wildly over-represented in this ‘impartial’ Corporation.
How do they get away with it? And how come so few outside the Corporation ever seem to notice?
I see that Ian Katz, currently deputy editor of the, er, Guardian is to be the new editor of Newsnight. Entirely in keeping with beeb’s strict adherence to the principles of balance and impartiality of course. Who could think otherwise?
The fragrant Helen Boaden is also being touted as new deputy ed for the Graun.
I don’t know why the Graun doesn’t move from Kings Place into Broadcasting house. They’d save a few bob and Mr Rusbridger could afford another piano. It’s a win-win.
Ah. Also beaten to it by GW above.
No worries.
Repetition for effect, like a Stuart Hughes BBC pan-platform campaign (though I doubt they will be quite so keen to promo this one as it is so far going down like a lead ballon pretty much across the board… like they care).
Yours got more ‘likes’ anyway:)
And we are supposed to believe that his Guardian honed views will suddenly become irrelevant to his outlook. Drivel .
They really don’t care to hide it any more.
Well actually, and I hate to break it to you, the higher-ups at the BBC couldn’t give a gnats chuff what you think about anything.
You just pay and keep your opinions to yourself.
It seems that the increasingly troubled Newsnight has scored yet another own goal.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22551914
What might it have been about Help for (British) heroes that led the BBC to behave like this….?
They really are getting that house in order, restoring trust, etc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22554082
And blowing yet more wadges of wonga on folk who may not stay too long yet possibly needing even more to go makes a great deal of sense given the over-arching need to provide licence-fee payers value for money on top of information and education they can trust.
“It’s had serious and well publicised problems over the last year but I’m looking forward to working with the hugely talented team to make it once again the world’s most intelligent, sophisticated and exciting news programme.”
The hunt for the errant apostrophe-inserter in the ‘talented team’ no doubt starting asap.
Didn’t see the Beeb do an in-depth investigation into “Muslim Aid” or “Muzzbot Relief” or whatever it was called, that the lovely chaps, who wanted to bomb the EDL were collecting for.
(Allegedly)
Lord Hall must be trying to keep the lid on Newsnight, they must have a lot to hide.
But I am sure its to late now.
Newsnight seems to have its fair share of activist cells preparing agitprop.
How may other stories have benefited from their selective editing or more importantly how has the British public benefuted from their ‘management of the news agenda’?
I would like to see the Bureau for Investagative Journalism forensically deconstructed and an analysis of its activities, membership backets and intentions published by Newsnight.
I won’t be holding my breath
Can we assume nobody will be getting the same kind of awkward questions about whether or not Katz can leave his personal opinions at the door that Patten faced about Harding?
As Mrs. Merton may ask, ‘So, Tony, what was it that first attracted you to…’
http://order-order.com/2013/05/16/katzs-top-notch-lefty-credentials/
Sorry, just beaten to it!
Back to the purpose of this site – BBC bias:
I remember the relish that the BBC showed when savaging “Help for Heros” (corruption/failure to treat injured troops properly etc). It turns out that this ‘story’ was another product of the “Bureu of Investigative journalism” – the august body that through utterly incompetent, negligent and partisan reporting gave us the McAlpine story. Now the BBC have admitted that the faeces smeared on HfH was an unfortunate mistake. So that’s all right then.
Why did Newsnight target HfH?
“The internal investigation into the report by former Bureau of Investigative Journalism chief reporter Angus Stickler found that there was no evidence to back Newsnight’s claim about Help for Heroes. ”
So what of editorial integrity and watertight oversight. Seems that Newsnight just makes stuff up when it suits them.
THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE TO BACK NEWSNIGHT’S CLAIM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22551914
If the new editor (with, from what I’ve read, an increased budget), keeps hiring the Bureau of Investigative Journalism”, nothing will change.
BBC News 24 12-1pm Thursday May 16th. Two consecutive reports on perfectly normal weather events in foreign countries: A small typhoon in Bnagladesh ( that hasn’t even struck yet ) and some Tornado damage in Texas ( hundreds of tornadoes happen every year in the US but as it happens they’re at historic lows in recent years ). Compare and contrast with the BBC’s complete failure to report the snow this week in the UK – instead they scour the globe looking for bad weather to fit their alarmist ‘climate change’ agenda.
Also note that the BBC chose not to do a live report on the Lancaster Fly past of the Derwent reservior to commemorate the dambusters raid. I guess it might have offended their German masters in the EU.
…and of course would have offended the newsreader droidess who considered that the flypast would be ‘intimidating’.
News just in, treacle, there are no bombs in the bomb bays.
No bombs?
Bloody shame that (joke)
Rising Damp rises again on stage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22537153
And what I wonder is the ‘angle’ on this?
‘Should Rigsby still be a racist in stage version of Rising Damp? ‘
You could have knocked me down with a feather!
The point would seem to be is this show any good?
But no. This is the BBC.
‘Although the joke was always on the feeble Rigsby and not the unflappable Philip, such jibes would never be allowed today.’
Really? When was that law passed?
“So although the barbed remarks from Rigsby are barbed, Philip always had an answer to them. It always came from Rigsby’s envy and general uncertainty about his life, so I didn’t think there was any whiff of racism.
“But nevertheless, in stage productions, in this modern age, now and again you see a line and it makes you wince a little. Maybe I did cut a couple.”
Ah that glorious concept of artistic freedom eh!
But what would I – as a white man – know?
‘Warrington says the lines in question did not bother him when he was in the show because they were “patently ridiculous”. They should not be off limits now, he adds.’
Right, so why are they being cut?
We are not told, I’m afraid. White liberal cringe would seem to be the only explanation.
“People did hold the view that Rigsby holds, but I think we do have to, from time to time, revisit the past to see how we were then.”
But slightly edited. With certain cuts. Not quite authentically as it really was?
As an exasperated Rigsby might say : ‘My God….!’
Don Warrington was brilliant in the role. His urbane sophistication mocked Rigsby’s crass assumptions wonderfully.
Shame the will butcher this for the sake of political correctness.
Leonard Rossiter’s other sitcom masterwork (The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin) also suffered cuts on BBC re-runs though not in the DVD version.
There is an episode where Reggie and his “Perrins” community wish to buy a block of five houses, and Reggie uses an underhand method to force the neighbours to move out. This method plays on racist fears of those neighbours and involves impersonations of ethnic characters, as in a B&W Minstrel C.J. telling us “Ah didn’t get where ah is today …..” !
** Spoiler Alert **
RE: “Should Rigsby still be a racist ”
As I recall, Rigsby was always verbally sniping at the ‘Chief’s son’, until he found out he was really just from Croydon… and then he spoke up for him.
Some ‘racist’.
Well that was always the gag between Richard and Rigsby.
Rigsby’s feels inferior to Phillip and when Phillip tells Rigsby he’s just an ordinary guy and not some exotic African prince Rigsby is so relieved and takes Phillip’s side. Ergo, Rigsby is not a racist, just a man with an inferiority complex.
Brilliant writing from a golden age of comedy.
Arggh! Phillip not Richard.
Another banished sitcom is Love Thy Neighbour, although that was an ITV offering, not the BBC’s.
West Indian Bill Reynolds (Rudolph Walker) was a much smarter and cleverer character than white Eddie Booth (Jack Smethurst) and generally came out on top every episode.
So what is there in the series for Beeboids not to like ?
ANSWER :
The ignorant and racist Eddie was a tribal LABOUR voter, but the aspiring Bill was a TORY voter !
Yeah it’s another backfire.
The whole point of the show was that Bill was the better man. Eddie was a small-minded bigot.
Of course such subtleties are are lost on the current cohort of PC media drones.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/
Two complaints obviously raised by several viewers with the responses on the site. No apology is given for either and the BBC thinks the complaints completely without foundation.
Pretty much in keeping with a corporation which believes it’s never wrong!
Not that the topic seems worthy of complaint really, but this caught my eye:
‘The guest host’s material, including the questions and extra jokes he has written, do not reflect the opinions of the BBC, they are jokes concerning the major news stories of the week which are intended to be enjoyed by as great a proportion of the audience as possible. ‘
Is that how these ‘jokes’ are created?
Because more often than not I have seen the ‘guest host’s’ eyes tracking the autocue scrolling what BBC-commissioned production company writers have penned for them and, on occasion, have witnessed them exclaim that they ‘are only reading what they have been given’.
It would also seem… unlikely.. that the BBC suddenly gets all chilled out on what gets aired and doesn’t take some interest in what opinions may get reflected on their airwaves.
Or is it another unique case of ‘selective watertight oversight’ when it suits?
That caught my eye. Odd that they should try to distance themselves from the scriptwriters, and on a show which is so highly pored over by legal weasels to avoid legal action. My thoughts are that rather than admit some kind of wrongdoing they’d drop the contributors first.
A handful of guest hosts do sit with the writing staff beforehand to come up with stuff. I know I’ve heard a couple of them say so on air. That’s another reason why the only joke ever heard or seen on the BBC at The Obamessiah’s expense is in the opening animated sequence. Who wrote the joke or jokes in question here? No way of knowing. In any event, Scots just aren’t members of the protected class, so complaints bounce off the shield.
I beg to differ. Scots are a protected cosseted group in Beeboidish, it’s just that they stand fairly low in the BBC heirarchy of victimhood. Having said that, Scots are clearly higher up the heirarchy than English, and the very lowest level is of course an “English Toff”.
In any situation where the BBC has to take ideological sides between, say, a middle class lawn mower owning commuting Surrey euro sceptic and a “all English are bastards, It’s oor oil” hard left ex miner from Falkirk then guess which side will be selected.
The Scots card is a weak card in the BBC game of Victimhood Poker but it still trumphs “Woking Commuter”.
Victimhood Poker by beliefs :
Ace – Muslim-born
King – Muslim convert
Queen – Stonewall member
Jack – Pagan / Green
10 – Liberal C of E
9 – Atheist Jew
8 – Gay / Liberal Catholic
7 – Hindu
6 – Sikh
5 – Non-conformist
4 – Traditional Catholic
3 – Traditional C of E
2 – Evangelical Christian (except for ethnics)
You missed out “South London Yoofs”
Those of the stabby-stabby order.
Wacky-backy Reggae Boyz ?
Queen = Stonewall member!
Made me laugh, anyway. That list is a frighteningly accurate summation, as any seasoned BBC viewer/listener can testify.
Damn right, no apology is warranted either!
Thanks we know what and who you think for ! so no need to keep proving it !
Oh now I remember Monk had a very nasty OCD disorder !
Like the dog who barked in the night, sometimes you notice certain folk more by their absence.
Between Mr. Katz, HfH, etc, is it possible some are having an ‘off’ day?
Or, maybe, they are turning the wires to BBC CECUTT red with their outrage? In which case the shares of such exchanges in cause of improved impartial broadcasting are to be looked forward to.
Here is some amazing local news.
http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Radstock-St-George-s-flag-dumped-avoid-offending/story-19003959-detail/story.html#axzz2TM1dgQK6
It must be on the BBC news website for Somerset.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england/somerset/
No, of course not.
I urge the good people of Radstock to proudly fly the St Georges flag at every opportunity.
From flagpoles, from their cars, from their bedroom windows and stick it to the idiot councillors.
“and stick it to the idiot councillors”
And “Councillor Eleanor Jackson (Lab, Radstock), a university lecturer and teacher” in particular.
Socialists in education are the worst PC scum of them all. I know of someone who works at a university, and has this to say about a former colleague :
This colleague boasted “I’m a socialist and proud of it” years ago, and is now dishing out redundancy notices.
Not very socialist of her, is it, to announce job cuts – but she’d made sure she kept HER job.
You working class can kiss my ***
I’ve got the foreman’s job at last (tune: Red Flag)
‘Caring but not sharing ! a socialist mantra !
From the horses mouth:
“Nasima Begum, a spokeswoman for the Muslim Council of Britain, said it encouraged the flying of the St George’s flag.
She said: “St George needs to take his rightful place as a national symbol of inclusivity rather than a symbol of hatred. St George actually lived before the birth of Islam and should not be associated with any hatred of Muslims.”
Why do these idiot councillors feel they need to take offense on someone elses behalf?
“Why do these idiot councillors feel they need to take offense on someone elses behalf?”
It’s not just that though; it’s an excuse to force their dislike of national pride onto others.
See my last comment about socialists in education. They are so arrogant in their self-righteousness in thinking they have a near-divine right to act as spokespeople for others’ grievances, whether those grievances are real or not.
Indeed.
In this case the ‘grievance’ certainly seems to have been invented for the benefit of the councilor’s publicity exercise.
Shyte stirring of the worst sort.
It is politicians like this that ferment social unrest for their own ends.
SYRIA.
As INBBC keeps up its selective reporting, largely favouring the Sunni jihadists (if not in name), INBBC goes lightly on this:-
“Syrian jihadists screaming ‘Allah akbar murder eleven ‘apostate’ Syrian soldiers in accord with Sharia court ruling”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/05/the-sharia-court-for-the-eastern-region-in-deir-al-zor-has-sentenced-to-death-these-apostate-soldier.html
Quick, to the BBC studios, Batman!
http://order-order.com/2013/05/16/watch-kay-burley-skewers-hodge-the-dodge/
Ahhhhh, that’s better….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22551401
‘whistleblowers had told her’
Wrong kind of sources saying, and it tends to morph into ‘disgruntled employees’.
No wonder she seems happier in a ‘safe’ studio.
I partially listened to Multi-Kulti Thought for Today this morning. I was interested in that it was given by Canon Angela Tilbey of Christ Cathedral Oxford. Which is around 600 yards from the town end of Cowely Road. The one so recently in in the news.
I thought that I might hear something about how – after its past institutional indifference – the C of E would do its utmost to counter Muslim child-rapists on the Cowely Road. However, it turned out to be something on divorce. Something that seemed less pressing.
I wondered how much Tilbey had been nobbled, or had imbibed the unspoken assumptions, but on checking her Wikipedia page it turned out she had been a producer at Multi-Kulti Thought For the Day for around 22 years. So a safe pair of hands all along.
Didn`t even risk a word about the notion of gay marriage….surely something that the BBC would like her to have “championed”.
Anybody else notice that the words “Jesus” or “Christian” were not mentioned…not as far as I could see.
Maybe they should just play “Girls and Boys” by Blur next time-Albarns lyrics were only what old Angela was attempting to say, albeit in flowery prose.
Lord Sacks about the only one of the three momotheistic faiths who seems to actually HAVE any kind of thoughts on any given day.
BBC-NUJ: ‘I see no Labour Party splits’. (Only Tory ones.)
‘Conservative Home’:-
“Europe, public spending, union power grabs…Labour have plenty of splits of their own”
By Mark Wallace.
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/leftwatch/2013/05/labour-have-plenty-of-splits-of-their-own.html
Unfortunately for BBC-NUJ, it felt obliged to report this:-
“Biggest Labour donor wants party to offer EU referendum”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22542083
Once again Katty Kay tweets her personal opinion on an issue:
‘Man’.
INBBC’s ‘MAN’ and Slavery in London.
“Man jailed for abuse of ‘enslaved’ woman in London”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22552912
‘Jihadwatch’ has many recent reports on Islam and Slavery, many relating to Britain:-
http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/br0nc0s/managed-mt/mt-srch.cgi?search=islam+and+slavery&IncludeBlogs=1&limit=20
Not even an ‘asian’ man.
For INBBC, which ‘reported’ on the case of Oxford ‘men’ briefly, and then quickly dropped the story.
“The Oxford sex ring and the preachers who teach young Muslim men that white girls are cheap”
By DR TAJ HARGEY
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2325185/The-Oxford-sex-ring-preachers-teach-young-Muslim-men-white-girls-cheap.html#ixzz2TTHfHnD3
Supplementary, ‘Jihadwatch’:-
“UK Muslim leader says that imams promote sex slavery rings”
[Opening extract]:-
“He says it is because they preach contempt for women and the concept of women as chattel, which (pace Hargey) is certainly found in Islam, with its polygamy (Qur’an 4:3), wife-beating (Qur’an 4:34), devaluing of a woman’s testimony (Qur’an 2:282), etc. This is compounded, he says, by the further contempt of and hatred for Infidels, which is also certainly Islamic (cf. Qur’an 48:29, 98:6, etc.). He doesn’t mention the permissibility in Islamic law of taking Infidel women as sex slaves, which is also a key motivating factor for these sex slavery gangs.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/05/uk-muslim-leader-says-that-imams-promote-sex-slavery-rings.html
Supplementary, ‘Atlas Shrugs’ (Pamela Geller)-
“UK IMAMS PROMOTE MUSLIM SEX SLAVERY RINGS BRUTALIZING, RAPING VERY YOUNG NON-MUSLIM GIRLS”
[Opening extract]:-
“This is consistent with Islamic teachings — the taking of infidel women as sex slaves is in accordance with Islamic law. And considering the sheer volume of rings — hundreds of Muslim men — of course the mosque and their religious clerics were involved. Jihad is promoted in the mosque as well. In all cases, the perpetrators were Muslim men and the victims were under age non-Muslim girls.
“Beyond the horror and brutality of the sex crimes lies the sanction of British law enforcement. The sanction of the taking of young British children, gang-raping them, selling, beating them over and over, and the police did nothing — in accordance with with sharia. This is a defining historical moment. The Brits have chosen the savage. Those who dare speak up against the most disgusting, radical and extreme ideology on the face of the earth, men like Tommy Robinson, are demonized, marginalized and ruined. But these savages are given respect. It is astounding.
“And here again the use of the the word ‘white.’ White has nothing to do with it. Islam is not a race.”
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/05/uk-imams-promote-muslim-sex-slavery-rings-brutalizing-raping-very-young-non-muslim-girls.html
“The Brits have chosen the savage.”
No, only the filthy, rotten, treacherous, race-obsessed Leftist establishment and the police and social workers whom they have intimidated and brainwashed. The rest of us are appalled by this savagery.
Where’s Dez to claim this is racist? Veggie Buddy? Anyone?
daily mail, telegraph, numerous netnews sites, cogent to its “oxford men” palava …
bbc? … hello! … anyone home?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10061217/Imams-promote-grooming-rings-Muslim-leader-claims.html
Today the old bbc lets it’s guard down again……..At lunchtime today the remembrance flights were happening at lunchtime (1300 hrs). This was to commemorate the people involved in the operations to deliver the ‘bouncing bomb’. The very brave, young aircrews many of whom died on this operation. The genius thinking and invention of Barnes Wallace. The planning, preparation, experimentation, dangerous training and the final delivery of the weapon to deliver a serious blow to Nazi Germany during the 2nd world war. Whilst, to be fair sky news had a live broadcast of the event – a Lancaster bomber, two spitfires and two GR4 Tornados what did we get from the bloody bbc news? A complete zero. What did we get? An extended news item on the bombings in Syria and the humanitarian problem caused by the bombings and the possible use of chemical weapons etc etc etc. Of course, while we had to undergo this report we had to have the female doing the ‘signing’ for the deaf and hard of hearing covering 35% of the screen. It made a very stark contrast to the daily news as broadcast by sky news and the never ending news agenda items chosen by the bbc for its own purposes. Sometimes, I wonder who out there actually watches this bilge
Why can’t they prioritise properly and deliver the important news first. Do they hate England so much that they find it necessary to deliver this stuff about Syria before an unique event celebrating a success in British history?
I was as mad as a very angry person.
Surely someone somewhere can close down this awful biased, Marxist anti establishment, anti English organisation.
I was fuming but now I have vented my anger
Radio BBC 5 live Double Take, 10am (51mins 25″ in)
the BBC does its best to totally rubbish
a RAF Dambusters Commemoration, and
then absurdly tries a “guilt trip” narrative
“neglible military value – just propaganda”
thankfully, they are succinctly corrected
on air , but even then can t help themselves as the
interviewee states he ll look forward to seeing a
very inspiring Lancaster fly past …
“hmmm, inspiring but … intimidating”
drones our beebot to end the segment
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01sdq2n/
hope you don t fume too much! 😀
I had heard the value was more morale-based, but the value of that is not to be under-estimated… other than, evidently, by entities who know propaganda they like, and don’t.
However, this morning on SKY an historian was waxing eloquent on what it took to restore these dams in the time they were, and pointed out the equivalent cost and resources diverted while various other drains on the Nazi war economy were calling.
Maybe the BBC would care to check out these aspects before any further default trashing of iconic instances of national pride?
One has to wonder if the new BBC bunker is designed to withstand any Grand Slam accidently let loose in passing.
Personally, I can’t imagine just how brave those pilots must have been to have undertaken such a risky mission. It’s incredible to even think about it. Shame on the BBC. Too wretched for words.
Spot on. Not on Dambuster raid, but a hero of mine.
21yo William Reid V.C.
Read the citation.
Uneffing believable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Reid_(VC)
Not 617 Squadron either, but if I had seen this in a movie, I wouldn’t have believed it.
‘Do they hate England so much…?’
Yes, I’m afraid so.
As I posted earlier today:
“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box. All through the critical years many left-wingers were chipping away at English morale, trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist, sometimes violently pro-Russian, but always anti-British.”
George Orwell, 1941.
I’m a great fan of Orwell and re-read his letters, essays and novels regularly.
It baffles me how the ‘left’ claim him as one of their own when in fact Orwell (Blair) was actually their biggest critic.
Orwell embodied the good part of the left (caring for those less fortunate etc.) while attacking the hypocrisy, corruption and general humbuggery that is so endemic in any leftist organisation.
Minitrue = BBC
Newspeak = Political Correctness
Regulation of the Press/Internet = Memory Hole
The adolescent, studentish contrarianism of the BBC means that it usually sides with any enemy of Britain. But surely even the BBC can’t feel too much sympathy for the Nazis in WWII.
Judging by Farage’s reception in Edinburgh the Scots hate the English even more. A complete own goal by the Scots but they are too consumed by anti English fervour to see it that way.
Sad really.
I think you mean some extremist Scots, they do not speak for the majority of moderate Scots.
Agreed I can see many Scots being very angered by these childish socialist make belive warriors ! but no one will give them a voice so we never hear their thoughts
The most important news in the whole world today, according to the BBC a underwear model and footballer who is past his best on both counts is to retire.
The significance of the Dam Busters raid was not entirely strategic. It was more a blow to Hitler’s delusion of the Fatherland’s invincibility.
It was a magnificent operation carried out at huge cost (in terms of both men and machines) and remains one of the outstanding actions of WWII.
Anyone who seeks to denigrate or disparage this courageous action and the brave young men who gave their all for it is frankly beneath contempt.
enjoy
Fantasic. Thank you.
Thanks for the link! Great footage.
I can’t find the words to describe my loathing for this organisation either.
Obnoxious doesn’t even come close.
An English Person; “what did we get from the bloody bbc news? A complete zero.”
The BBC One o’ Clock News featured a live headline shot from the Derwent dam. Later on there was a long report talking to all the key players. It was also all over the News Channel and 5 Live. Far from ignoring this event the BBC threw a lot of staff and equipment at it to give it the dues it clearly merited.
Which raises the question how did you miss it? You may have been “fuming” but you could have saved yourself a lot of trouble by actually watching the programme and not looking an idiot.
And the same goes for;
Guest Who
Phil Ford
Larry Dart
As I see it
Notasheep (oh the irony!)
bendybus
Andrew
Joshaw
And all the others who chipped in.
Why doesn’t anyone take B-BBC seriously? Here’s your answer.
Well a lot of people seem to come here not to take it seriously.
The comments are about priorities and balance, not just the “live” issue.
Your list of offenders makes you sound like a petulant schoolteacher. Perhaps you are.
So let me get this right they had one news report on the main channels and the rest on views 24 and some radio station? wow well up there in the ‘well we did a bit so we covered ‘it all stakes !
Mind I note you seem to have missed the salient point about the rewriting of historical events using a biased hindsight that is unfair and wrong to those involved !
@ Spud “The BBC One o’ Clock News featured a live headline shot from the Derwent dam. ”
Sorry mate, I was watching the event live and can confirm there was absolutely nothing on BBC news 24 throughout the entire Sky Live coverage of the event. Sky kept having a problem with the signal from their camera so I kept flipping over to the BBC in the hope they’d be making a better job of the coverage but there was nothing – just the usual left wing BBC agitprop ‘news’. Zero live coverage of an important story.
That was my recollection as well (I was using a split screen – Sky/BBC) but someone phoned during the broadcast so I wasn’t quite so confident about what I’d seen.
And so the vegetative state of drive-by continues.
Only this one has a list and is prepared to use it… ‘Don’t tell ‘im, Pike!’
Creepy much?
The only chip-related aspect seems to those weighing down DOTI shoulders.
‘Why doesn’t anyone take B-BBC seriously?
Care to substantiate that? If you can’t, then your effort will have been judged and found wanting.
And you, Spud, in your manner, and ridiculously ill-informed all-inclusive lashing out, end up looking yet another very unfortunate example of BBC support.
They must be thrilled.
Not for INBBC:-
“UK: Local council vetoes St. George flag for fear it might offend Muslims”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/05/uk-local-council-vetoes-st-george-flag-for-fear-it-might-offend-muslims.html
Yep. Been there already upthread.
‘Publicity seeking councillor stirs the shyte’ would be an appropriate strapline.
The Islamisation of England extends to Somerset, of course.
To be fair though George, there are not many Muslims in Radstock and the ones that are there don’t seem to be of the proselyting kind.
I think the ‘Islamisation’ is being actioned by proxy via liberal ‘progressives’ such as this councillor.
Yes, the many dhimmis of the West (and even the West Country of England) facilitate the Islamic colonisation here.
So on Today this morning, there was an interview with the new Orwell Prize winner, Andrew Norfolk, to discuss the story for which he won: the Rochdale grooming gang, and how he’s discovered that there’s a pattern of mostly Pakistani-derived gangs of men doing this around the country. 20 other cities, apparently.
First things first: we were assured that the “vast majority” of sexual abuse cases were perpetrated by white men. On their own, though, which is a key point. Savile’s name was dropped more than once, just in case anyone started to get the wrong idea.
However, said Norfolk, the sexual abuse crimes of the past – Savile, white men – are not the same thing. This is a “different model”. After Evan Davis got more assurance that the vast majority of sexual abuse crimes were done by white men, Norfolk said, “There are cultural issues at play here.” Racism? That’s what we’re told by defenders of the indefensible when people here say the same thing. So now the Orwell Prize has apparently rewarded racism.
Perhaps that’s why both Davis and Norfolk kept stuttering and stumbling over their words.
After Norfolk said it was clearly “Asian” men doing this particular crime model in a number of cities around the country, Davis still had to asked, “I suppose people might say, have we got statistics” demonstrating that it really is a problem in the British Pakistani community. Don’t worry, Norfolk reassured us that the majority of crimes were done by white men. But then immediately went on to say this latest series was all “men of British Pakistani origin”.
“But that’s of this particular pattern,” protested Davis. Savile’s name was dropped a third time, then Davis wanted to know if this pattern was repeated around the country, “with Asian or non-Asian men for that matter”. Norfolk didn’t win the Orwell Prize for investigating the sexual abuse crimes of white men, on their own, did he?
What Davis left unexamined, though, is that, after we learn that there are apparently hundreds of cases looming, does this now balance out the crimes by white men, acting alone? Is it still accurate to state, as they did more than once during the segment, that the “vast majority” of these crimes are done by white men? Davis wanted to know about statistics to support one theory, but not this one. Why?
The main thing here is that Norfolk won his prize for investigating this specific “crime model”, this specific “pattern”. Davis, however, spent the entire time trying to get assurance that the vast majority of child sexual abuses were done by white men, which has nothing to do with Norfolk’s reporting or his prize. We learned nothing about how the investigation unfolded, nothing about how he got the story other than that it was initiated some years ago by a local complaint, which was apparently briefly looked at and then ignored.
There was a reason the Today producers wanted to have Norfolk in the studio, but it had very little to do with his journalism.
The BBC are wilfully blind on this issue, pure and simple. Had it been perpetrated by white gangs exclusively on Muslim girls, we would never have heard the end of it.
Magnificent description of an Evan Davis interview.
Would he even be aware of how achingly pc he is?
You should listen to Jeremy Vine‘s Wednesday show. [Starts 08:45, Brown at 12:00}
John Brown of the NSPCC runs around in circles, avoiding the ‘elephant’, whereas Dr. Taj Hargey of the Muslim Education Centre of Oxford puts the howdah firmly on the beast’s back.
For once Mr. Vine is quite aggressively ‘anti-Muslim’. If Mehdi Hasan had been in the ‘hot seat’ Jeremy would have been in full Islam promotion mode. I gather Dr. Hargey and MECO are the ‘black sheep’ of ‘British’ Islam though so they are probably lone voices in the wilderness.
I guess it is down to the pecking order: Muslim trumps White Male, ‘on message’ Hasan trumps ‘rogue’ Hargey.
If I were an Asian bloke, I`d be getting just a little pissed off that I`m being accused of grooming white girls from care homes for systemic sexual abuse.
Seems to me that these creeps are less Asian, and rather more “Muslim”…but you`ll be waiting a while before Islam and paedophile occur in the same sentence…let alone paragraph or even chapter.
Evan Davis was only the latest to dance around the bearded elephant that rants and raves, but nobody at the BBC seems to have come across.
Islam…Muslim…sex gangs…childrens homes…white girls…booze, drugs, kebabs and taxis…there, no so difficult to join them up is it?…a linear development!
But to the BBC…cue sandbags and black flags…shit scared of Islam!
To be fair to Mr Norfolk, he, like Mark Anthony, has to keep saying that “Brutus is an honorable man”, as he gives a few details which show that Brutus is not, in fact, an honorable man. Evan D wet and PC as ever. Still, it could have been worse …