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Tonight’s Question Time looks like it’s going to be an appalling Left-wing sausage-fest.
Tony Robinson was unbelievably patronising and moronic. As he’s an actor, I’m happy to watch his shows. I just don’t want to see his uninformed hard-left drivel on political panel shows.
Awful, isn’t he?
I’m not interested in the political views of:
actors
comedians
particularly comedians
TV prog hosts
DJs
singers
film makers
newsreaders
environmentalists
people interviewed in the street
high profile crime victims
people in the Question Time audience
most politicians
A biased panel, tonight and I’d forgotten what a patronising and unbearable woman, Hodge is.
Anybody got a few quid spare to donate to an excellent cause?
Amaelia May is a two year old infant that has been given six months to live by the NHS, who refuse to splash out on specialist cancer treatment because it’s apparently far too expensive for one little girl. Quarter of a million pounds is needed, to send the infant abroad for specialist care that in itself has every chance of succeeding……This appeal had no chance, until the “Waycisst Fashissst” Tommy Robinson became involved and pushed the appeal on in a massive way…..I’ve heard from various media outlets that the family of Amaelia May have allegedly said that they want no part of EDL money, but in speaking to mother of the young tot Amaelia May, Angela Davis, that statement was a manipulation of the truth, and put into the media by the Anti Fascist left, who have apparently being harassing the family in a major way….
A question for every human being reading this comment……Would you blindly adhere to the diktats of the politically correct Lowles and watch your daughter slip away in suffering and pain, or would you give your flesh and blood a chance, by accepting the money from the “Anti Fascists” enemies?
Please give what you can….Even a couple of quid..
https://www.justgiving.com/teams/amelia-mae
the link comes up service unavailable, i’ll try tomorrow
Seems OK now.
indeed it is 🙂
Neuroblastoma is an awful disease, with very poor survival rates.
I am sure that if this was my gorgeous little girl then I would be fighting tooth and nail for any slim chance BUT generally the reason treatment is not available in the UK is because it is judged unlikely to be successful.
Sending this child to the US will cost a huge amount of money, isolate her from all except her mother and ensure that she spends her last few months undergoing painful treatment for a tiny (?<10%) chance of meaningful response.
i have been involved with picking up the pieces with a family like this, it is NOT just about the cost and I would urge you to think very carefully before contributing.
I hope that the experts have it wrong, or that at least this family get some measure of peace.
sadly, shes passed away
Disgusting socialist lies from Margaret Hodge on BBC QT and absolutely no questioning from David Bumblebee.
Hodge was incapable of answering any of the questions and it seemed to me that even Dimbleby was getting exasperated with her irrelevant drivel.
Her predictable socialist prevarications to the question of health tourism disgusted me. She’s an utterly useless, revolting Left-wing champagne socialist of the highest order.
I thought her dodge on Egypt and the damage done to business by the current unrest was the most amusing bit.
She just happened to be born there and had no real insight in to what was happening
No mention of the fact that’s Stemcor’s routes are in Cairo and that they still have significant holdings there
I expect he felt taxed….unlike Margaret Hodge.
Hodge the dodge lives up to her name yet again…
What pissed me off most was when a bloke asked when the last time Hodge and the rest of the champagne socialist apparatchiks who represent the “working people” actually had to make do on an annual £20k wage.
Totally and utterly ignored by Hodge, somehow managing to turn it into, “yes, we must draw people from a wider range of backgrounds” (eh?).
But most annoyingly (and yet entirely expectedly) totally ignored by Dumblebey. No cries of “answer the question”, just “erm yes, let’s move on”.
Liberal lefty piss take bull shit as usual.
NB – Beez – my apologies. I accidentally clicked report comment on yours above instead of reply – too much early evening Artois – cheers
Two reports on Labour Party, ‘Unite’ and Mr Watson.
1.) ‘Independent’:
“Unite?
” Labour in crisis as union chief, Len McCluskey, turns on Ed Miliband.
“Labour’s biggest donor and Unite leader accuses party leader of a ‘smear’ and a ‘stitch up’ as Tom Watson resigns from Shadow Cabinet.”
By Andrew Grice.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/unite-labour-in-crisis-as-union-chief-len-mccluskey-turns-on-ed-miliband-8688356.html
2.) BBC-NUJ’s pro-Miliband version:
“Tom Watson quits as Labour election campaign chief”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23186851
“Revealed: How the unions got Red Ed in a headlock”
By ANDREW PIERCE.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2356502/ANDREW-PIERCE-Revealed-How-unions-got-Red-Ed-headlock.html
Remarkable piece by Toenails – manages to completely fail to mention any of the illegalities perpetrated by Watson / unite in Falkirk !
Not so much a cover up, as a la ,la, nothing to see here piece !
If I hadn’t have been reading Guido – and had just relied on the BBC for Red Ed’s problems I would have had no idea what the Labour/Unison difficulties were about and certainly how Tom Watson was involved has been kept very much in the background. All we know is that he has resigned. The fact that Karie Murphy – Tom Watson’s office manager is Len McClusky’s girlfriend and Unison’s ‘preferred’ candidate for the Falkirk constituency are surely relevant? But toenails prefers to look at the ‘bigger picture’ and can avoid all this detail.
What a feeble left-wing nobody Tony Robinson is on BBC QT. I think Bolderick might do a better job!
SIR Tony, please……
One test: Crack his head open and scoop out his brain, to see how many water biscuits it would cover.
“Crack his head open …” sounds like something from Ken Loach and the unlovely UAF fascists.
I’m not sure if any of you saw this remarkable programme last night, ‘Shot for going to school’. I recommend it.
Remarkable because the BBC made it, surfaced shocking medieval attitudes and a jehadist determination to subjugate the free world.
Remarkable, but the BBC did hide it away on BBC3! It was worthy of a Panorama slot.
From the Beeb:
Schoolgirl Malala Yousafi was just 14 when she was shot for campaigning for girls’ education in Pakistan. Nel Hedayat travels to the areas where the Taliban are targeting schools to report Malala’s story and meet other schoolgirls who have been attacked for wanting an education.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b036lx4n/Shot_for_Going_to_School/
I’m afraid I am going to differ slightly with what appears to be your point of view here Mr 88.
All in all I would have been happier if this show had not been put out on BBC3 – or anywhere else on the BBC.
I am sick to the back teeth with BBC wall to wall Islam coverage.
The outcome of this sad story is ‘She and her family now live in the British city of Birmingham’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21968034
Not Canada or USA or France or Germany or Sweden or Finland or Switzerland or any other human-rights-friendly female-education-approving Western country.
Nope, it is to the home of the Licence Funded BBCthat acts as the great world magnet.
‘The British City of Birmingham’! Would they ever let ‘The British City of Glasgow’ get on their website?
Also maybe someone from the Quisling Broadcasting Corporation should ask the family what was the point of coming to Birmingham, as it will just be like Pakistan in about 20 years time.
Well said AsISeeIt. I totally agree.
The BBC enabled her in the first place, is more or less responsible for encouraging the girl to become a public activist, the inevitable outcome of which is that the cavemen in her community tried to kill her. The BBC is responsible for her, which is why the girl came to Britain and not those other countries.
‘The BBC is responsible for her’
I am often interested how such responsibilities work out in practice, especially for licence fee payers whose best interests are so carefully guarded by the Trust.
It’s all part of what Jeremy Paxman described as “spreading influence”. It’s in the BBC Charter now.
Speaking of spreading influence Mr Preiser I came across this while stalking the benighted halls of the internet
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/04/liberal-nonprofit-that-pressed-shulman-to-target-conservatives-houses-his-wifes-group/
Now that “progressive nonprofit organization” has a familiar sounding name And ,before any one pulls me about relevance, a name that has been closely linked to the BBC
Malal Yousafsi was the puppet of her manipulative father, anti Taliban admitedly (a point in his favour) but who I believe also used his daughter as a potential route to Britain. When asked by the BBC if he would find an older teenage girl who could write a blog for them about life in the Swat valley this appalling man put forward his own daughter, then just a little girl of eleven claiming he couldnt find anyone else to do it. He further promoted her as poltical tool, when she was far too young to realise the danger she was in, with I believe, the hope that links with the BBC would allow her, aand ultimately the whole family, to come to Britain, and knowing full well that he was making her into a target for the vicious Taliban terrorists.
This theory is backed up by the fact that after the shooting he turned down the options of taking her to Dubai for treatment, which would have involved a shorter journey and been quicker, because of his determination to come to Britain. Their subsequent determination to remain here bears this out.
Incidentally a freedom fo information request by a poster on another boards reveals that the Pakistani Government still havent been billed for her treament on the NHS despite us being informed they would be paying.
I strongly suspect they are not paying for her education at a private school in Birmingham either, as we were informed they would be. I strongly suspect she is permanently seriously brain damaged as no public interview with her has taken place which is something the BBC would have relished, were she up to it.
The BBC worship Malala Yousafsi, seeing her as a ‘brave’ little role model who can be held up to British girls as yet another example of why we should both admire and feel sorry for Muslim immigrants.
I seem to recall one of the drones making a big point on here about how the Pakistani govt was paying for the treatment.
I would ask them about it, but they’ve been oddly absent of late…
I think we can take it that that probably was never going to happen and it was simply a piece of propaganda to quiet possible public objections at a time of cuts.
There is NO doubt that if they had, or do ever cough up, then the BBC will announce it, along with the cost, which is surely enormous given that her treatment is supposedly ongoing.
I have seen a couple of brief interviews with her since, and her speech seems good, though the content somewhat rehearsed. ‘My mission is to help people’ seems a rather odd and even slightly pompous thing to say, given that she is now a burden on the British people, and of no ‘help’ to anyone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21330862
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21321070
“I want to serve the people! And for this reason we have organised Malala fund.”
As told to say by her father…
i found question time quite boring tonight with the exception of douglas murray who told it as it is about the muslim brotherhood and there fascist idealogy that has become a cancer in the middle east and western europe.
Murray was excellent – I seriously recommend to you all his latest book (e-book only) ‘Islamophilia’ – a corking good read, although sadly not a long read.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Islamophilia-ebook/dp/B00D454GV2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373017100&sr=8-1&keywords=douglas+murray+islamophilia
5live, Nikki Campo, thinks he s early enough to get away with showing his true agenda this morning …
while its cosy chit chat time to his political islamic buddies,
going Sharia all over, commiserating about the little “setback”, for the Muslim Brotherhood, in Egypt, solemnly on Herr Morsi s arrest etc.
Urging his new best friend to clarify, that mentioning Islamism, in no way means that “Islam could have failed”, (perish the thought … eh panto?).
Sycophantic Islamophile “par excellance” eh! …
maybe he could combine this pap with his dimestore “Surprise Surprise” rip off, and find a long lost cousin to get that old pig ignorant fascist Morsi over here to host newsnight.
no link yet … but there will be 😀
oops! nearly forgot … in T-Egypt, after the eye popping, vein busting fury outside the mosques, when Morsi was arrested, and over 100 revenge rapes in 2 days
there are expected riots … I mean protests
after Friday hate hour … I mean prayers
so panto … that must be because Islam is such a success
then eh!
I see the BBc breakfast weather reporting has to be done live from Wimbledon again.
yep! and it was all “Glasto” last week, soon to be a South Africa “jolly” …
lifes one long licence payer bbc party eh!
I don’t know why they can’t sit a cheap presenter in a sound studio, linked to the computer to put up graphics on the transmitted screen. They could then use the same person to broadcast all bulletins across the platform – tv with the computer generated pictures/maps, radio just the descriptive sound and web just the computer screens. 4 people maximum working 8 hours shifts, with cover. Heck they could probably record one “programme” in the morning which can be replayed for about 6 hours anyway. Same person can go across the regions too.
Then start culling the news readers and just have one to read out the national, international, political and sports stories, Leave celebrity ‘news’ to the tabloids
Sometimes wouldn’t you just like to be the voice in the ear of BBC presenters. Instead of all those Oxbridge ex-Guardian liberals wouldn’t it be great if we could work the BBC muppets.
I think we would like to help out the BBC with some useful suggestions.
Bearing in mind Garry Richardson’s recent heroically poor efforts with Andy Murray…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c59tCXiRwBk
Perhaps we can make some suggestions for naff convoluted BBC questioning Alan Patridge would have been proud of…..
eg.
Andy, great match…. Labour Party Union election fixing is in the news…. was Ivan Lendl your Tom Watson – who fixed it for you in Fife?
or
Commiserations Andy…. What went wrong out there? Thinking of the recent coup in Egypt against the Muslim Brotherhood – given your recent Olympic Arab Spring Gold Medal – how was it you were toppeled so soon?
Today programme has James Naughtie on another jaunt to Cairo. A woman BBC hack skims over the Muslim Brotherhood profile without any real mention of its roots in violence, its spawning of any number of jihadist groups including Al Qaeda. No mention of how intransigent Morsi has been – just like Obama in failing to provide any kind of inclusive leadership.
This article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali may be perceptive in explaining how obstinate and non-compromising much of the Islamic mindset is. Her focus is Israel and why it is impossible to trust Arabs on “peace” negotiations – but maybe her message refers well to the Islamist leaders of Egypt and Turkey.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=10309
sorry … couldn t resist …
irate kirsty squawk,(fume! fume!)
we ll have to leave it there
Top woman, Ayaan, a class act – always. And a courageous one. Never afraid to point an elegant accusatory finger at the barbaric medieval throwbacks, & their psychopathic violence. Unfortunately, the price of free speech in her case, is a 24/7 armed guard.
Squawk reduced to a shambling, intellectually bankrupt scruff. Her dull, indoctrinated head full of soiled straw. Her dried-up voice like rats’ feet over broken glass. Yet another of the BBC’s Hollow Women. Thick as a whale omelette. Still, she’s got her place at the beeboid trough. Oink. Oink.
Kirsty Wark : the Tartan Termagant
(both definitions apply)
In medieval Europe, Termagant was the name given to an imaginary god held in Christendom to be worshipped by Muslims, represented in the mystery plays as a violent overbearing personage
A quarrelsome, scolding woman; a shrew.
just take a glimpse (3mins 10)
I think Miss Ali s patience was just about on the limit
There should be more like that brave woman!
“i’m afraid we have to stop you there”
Ah, as always, when a real compelling argument is made against the BBC’s sycophantic attitude towards Islam, they recoil and cut the debate off. Pathetic.
Parliament is about to vote on the idea of an EU in-out referendum.
So what do you reckon Nicky Campbell wants us to talk about?
“Fatcher”
Yep it is going to be 5 minutes of anti-Tory hate straight to air for the BBC true supporters – Spanish Civil War veterans from Merseyside with 150 years fighting for workers rights in the gaslamp fitters union in cosy alliance with the Owen Jones’ Twitter generation who went to all the trouble of getting up this morning – or at least reached from under the covers for their moby.
The contempt dripping out of Campbell and Burden was shocking. Burden is actually too thick to actually hide her leaning whereas Campbell is usually much better. Cue the left wing fantasists who believe that the UK was so much worse after MT. Aye right.
p.s. Of course the decision to have an anti-Tory Your Call is probably due to the fact that Labour are in big trouble and had an awful day yesterday. Shift the focus.
They only gave Burden the gig to try and make Chucklin’ Nikki look intelligent – didn’t work.
Ahead of one of the Diamond League meets two weeks back, the sports reporter kept referring to how (the scrumpylicious) Perri Shakes-Drayton was running the 400 metres flat despite usually being a 400m hurdler.
Cacklin’ Rosie didn’t really catch any of this being rather too busy texting ‘hubby’ and reading her tweets; but nevertheless felt emboldened to show how well she knew her brief and piped up with,
‘Perri Shakes-Drayton will be running in the 400 metre hurdles this evening despite usually being a 400 metres flat runner’.
It’s not difficult. Being on Radio 5 Rusting Iron Lung she only has to know two subjects – sport and politics. Sadly she knows f*ck-all about either, and cares even less.
Good enough for the BBC though.
I mean it’s only ‘light news’ an all.
Alex,
I worked for a big-time champagne socialist in the nineties. New Labour fund raiser, the whole show. Advocated much higher taxes and as big a state as possible, yet used to talk about how he and his colleagues would fly to Geneva in the seventies with bags of cash to deposit, in order to evade tax. Perfect.
An edition of Newsnight that is not going to happen.
“Hello, I am Jeremy Paxman. I am paid over a million pounds a year by the BBC. Tonight we are going to have a look at the greed of middle class public sector workers.”
You missed
I am paid over a million pounds a year by the BBC despite not being an employee.’
Heard on the Today programme this morning – said by a BBC man (sorry I cannot remember which one – might have been Evan). ‘Morsi is in custody and is not being allowed so much as a mobile phone’. Does every BBC employee have to prove that they don’t have an iota of common sense? Of course Morsi will not be allowed his mobile phone. I don’t think he would be using it to follow Wayne Rooney on Twitter tweeting about his new golf club.
I know I don’t like Andy Murray (to misquote him, I will support anyone but Murray). But I didn’t realise why and then I realised he is Marcus Brigstocke with a shave.
INBBC and heart-eating cannibal.
INBBC’s WOOD’s ‘understanding,’ but totally misunderstanding interview with heart-eating cannibal, avoids the words ‘Muslim’ and ‘Islam’.
“Face-to-face with Abu Sakkar, Syria’s ‘heart-eating cannibal'”
By Paul Wood,
BBC News, Syria.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23190533
INBBC gives better treatment to heart-eating cannibal Muslim than it does to opponents of such barbarism, e.g. the English Defence League.
Excuse me? Abu Sakkar shows me scars from 14 different bullet wounds on his body.
A friend of mine was shot with one bullet, spent the best part of a year in hospital and lost 80% of the use of his arm. How lucky can one man be to be shot so many times and still be an active fighter? Or is it how credulous can Paul Wood be?
5live, Nikki Campo, thinks he s early enough to get away with showing his true colours this morning …
while its cosy chit chat time to his political islamic buddies,
going Sharia all over, commiserating about the little “setback”, for the Muslim Brotherhood, in Egypt, solemnly on Herr Morsi s arrest etc.
Urging his new best friend to clarify, that mentioning Islamism, in no way indicates that “Islam could have failed”, (perish the thought … eh panto?), showing more of his abject ignorance, bleating about the Koran/Hadith …
sheesh! he doesn t have a clue whats contained in those
texts, or he wouldn t bleat about it, (needs someone like R Spencer, or H Ali to hand him his arse in a wringer)
Sycophantic Islamophile “par excellance” eh! …
plenty of material for a D Murray follow up 😀
maybe he could combine this pap with his dimestore “Surprise Surprise” rip off, and find a long lost cousin to get that old pig ignorant fascist Morsi over here to host Newsnight.
In T-Egypt, after the eye popping, vein busting fury outside the mosques, when Morsi was arrested, and over 100 revenge rapes in 2 days
there are expected riots … I mean protests
after Friday hate hour … I mean prayers
so panto … that must be because Islam is such a success?
then eh!
the promised link … 1hr 43
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b0368qhs/
like clockwork
http://youtu.be/SFX1heljE9k
When will he strap on belt? Just asking.
That will be those ‘ moderates’ again I guess?
the bbc 1 news early this morning
was going all anti morsi protestors bad.
peaceful serene muslim brotherhood
protestors good.
then 5mins later, showing a popped eyed “bro” bouncing like Zebedee saying he wanted to die a martyr for Morsi?
Here is the BBC hard at work – re cycling a press release from an approved single issue pressure group, in this case the NHF; their story is on permenant loop at the BBC who ran this story last week when this site informed me about the opinions statements and affiliations of its CEO, something the BBC felt I didn’t need to know….
“Housing benefit cuts ‘lead to thousands in Merseyside in debt'”
Ministers introduced changes to benefits for tenants with spare rooms, dubbed a “bedroom tax”, in April.
However, the National Housing Federation said it had forced 14,000 tenants in “one of the poorest areas in the country” into rent arrears.
Perhaps the BBC will enlighten us as to the rate of rent arears by month in these areas for the last 15 years. I suspect that a portion of sociali[ist] housing tenants habitually see rent as an optional extra and are in permenant rent arrears.
the BBC, dubbed “useless lazy and biased”
forgot the link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-23183352
“‘Put yourself in my shoes’:
BBC runs puff piece lauding Syrian jihadi cannibal”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/07/put-yourself-in-my-shoes-bbc-runs-puff-piece-lauding-syrian-jihadi-cannibal.html
I would dearly love to know by what process this ‘scoop’ was pitched, approved, organised and then broadcast, given the rabbit-rate breeding market rates at top of the BBC tree must surely include a couple of PR-savvy folk who may have had an inkling that sprinting (apparently via magic red carpet) to get this cove’s ‘take’ on it may have looked iffy enough given the BBC’s current rep for siding with the wrong bunch.
But to basically act as PR propagandist (yes there is factually graphic criticism, but also a raft of unchallenged opportunity to trot out excuses) for this bloke really seems deranged.
‘we rang him and he confirmed to us that he had indeed taken a ritual bite (of a piece of lung, he said)’
Seems the BBC has overseas lunatic cannibal telephone numbers to hand a bit more easily to check the odd pertinent detail than, say, domestic pols they are minded to stitch up.
Unique.
{Excerpt from above, Robert Spencer of ‘JihadWatch’}-
“The BBC would never, for example, run a piece this warm, positive, and anxious to be understanding about Pamela Geller or Geert Wilders or Tommy Robinson or me (and I haven’t carved out anyone’s heart and bitten it for at least several weeks now). The fact that they ran this shows that they support the Syrian jihadis, and want to justify Western intervention on their side.”
“BBC runs puff piece lauding Syrian jihadi cannibal”
Didn’t they manage to link it to Toricutz?
“As food banks proliferate in an austerity riven UK, it can only be a matter of time…”
Excuse me? Abu Sakkar shows me scars from 14 different bullet wounds on his body.
A friend of mine was shot with one bullet, spent the best part of a year in hospital and lost 80% of the use of his arm. How lucky can one man be to be shot so many times and still be an active fighter? Or is it how credulous can Paul Wood be?
‘You have an idealistic view of the world. The problem is you sound like a 1980s alternative comedian…. it’s hilarious in many respects but taking on the mantle of Ben Elton doesn’t help anyone in real politics.’
Does that a ring a bell with anyone here? Does that description bring to mind the tone of BBC news and current affairs?
Interestingly that criticism was made of Owen Jones – a voice that will be familiar to Licence Payers since he is so very often given a platform on BBC radio and TV. His day job is as a columist for the Independent – a minority interest newspaper with a low circulation. Jones is neither an elected politician nor properly accountable to public opinion.
It may well surprise you to know that the sensible and insightful attack on Jones’ empty hard Left sloganiering-style of rhetoric was made by a Labour MP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUwV7cz0-WQ&feature=c4-overview&list=UUrGEApxey13gdADp_YdCcAA
The argument about which way Labour turn – hard left or not-so-hard left is up to them. What is relevant to us all is the way that the Ben Elton circa-1980s style seems to have become the BBC house-style
I call it the ner-ner ner-ner-ner style.
And it is not just the very many actual alternative comedians there are now still on the BBC – like some hard to shift 80s hangover. Not so much on popular prime time TV shows where they might have to hold their own in the ratings war mind you – but ensconced away on comfy sinecures in the brackish backwaters of Radio 4
But no. This is a house-style. There are also the regiments of sports commentators and daytime radio hacks who think they are chanelling Ben Elton. The Richard Bacon’s, Nicky Campbells and so very many many more.
Just listen to them. Ben’s bastard children. The anti-Thatcher generation.
Flush them out of the BBC now. They have an idealistic view of the world.
It’s hilarious but taking on the mantle of Ben Elton doesn’t help anyone in real Britain.
‘the sensible and insightful attack on Jones’ empty hard Left sloganiering-style of rhetoric was made by a Labour MP’
The BBC bunker under the front entrance must be packed to the gunnels with all staff and camp followers seeking sanctuary from hard-to-face facts which, if they are forced to grasp to the point of arriving at an opinion, their heads will explode.
Quite making my Friday.
As they seem to manage most weeks of late.
It is almost possible to imagine that the collective sewer back-up that the BBC has managed all on its own may soon sink in as excessive to even the majority EastEnders sofa set who near all MPs depend upon a smidge more than even Aunty’s grace and favours.
Drip drip drip, the BBC have not given up on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. I predict they will soon be backing the ‘Frredom Fighters’ who are bravely resisting the fascist army coup. Just a hint from Bowen, watch as it develops. Army/ police fire at the crowd. No further context. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23202096
That ‘Arab Spring’…
http://order-order.com/2013/07/05/jeremy-bowen-hit-in-head-by-shotgun-pellets-in-egypt/
A commenter :
“Has he blamed Israel yet?”
Great minds, and all that. The next one, posted almost at the same time:
“Will he change his view on how lovely and cuddly the Muslim Brotherhood are now?
Or was it an Israeli shotgun pellet, long range from Tel Aviv?
Given the recent HR carnage across the ME desk, and what that usually translates into payoff-wise, can’t help what if Tony might have had a ‘troublesome priest’ management convo about clearing the decks across the board, and some enterprising middle manager saw a cost-saving opportunity…. sources say.
Of course, our thoughts & payers… etc… go without saying too.
‘..some enterprising middle manager saw a cost-saving opportunity..’
If not the IDF, have they checked any nearby walls for other topical 3-letter acronyms?
Seems all the rage.
At least they missed any vital organs.
I was going to say “friendly fire”, but blaming Israel is funnier.
well if he had been wearing his helmet, which the telly tax payer paid for at great expense, he wouldnt have been injured. this is gross negligence by Bowen and he should be sacked
Ever heard of Roger Helmer? No, me neither. He’s UKIP’s energy spokesman, and you’re as unlikely to hear him on the BBC as you are Roger Harrabin challenging the hockey stick graph.
In this blog by James Delingpole, Helmer’s deconstruction of Ed Davey’s energy policy is included in full – you will not find a more erudite, reasoned and knowledgeable trashing of this (and the previous) government’s economic suicide note.
‘And what must make them even sicker to the back teeth is when they read critiques like this from Ukip energy policy spokesman Roger Helmer. Set aside whatever prejudices you may or may not have about Ukip and Helmer (you know what I think but this is never going to be their party political broadcast blog) and just admire the cool, rational analysis here in this Open Letter To Ed Davey. I’m going to run it in full because it deserves it. Read it and weep for the damage that is being done to our country by this dangerous pillock of a green ideologue who would never have been allowed within half a mile of the reins of power if hadn’t been for Cameron’s self-serving decision to enter coalition with the Lib Dems rather than doing the principled, right and sensible thing of forming a minority government.’
As Delingpole syas, ‘read it and weep’.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100224696/ed-davey-is-holding-the-coalition-to-ransom/
“Keeping the lights on”
global warming back for the weekend! grab the sun cream and the deckchairs, w0000t! 8)
Murder in Manchester.
Two reports:-
1.)’Atlas Shrugs’:-
“UK UNIVERSITY STUDENT KNIFED TO DEATH IN BROAD DAYLIGHT BY LAUGHING MUSLIM”
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/07/uk-university-student-knifed-to-death-in-broad-daylight-by-laughing-muslim.html
2.) INBBC:
“Kieran Crump Raiswell’s killer ‘laughed after stabbing'”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23184366
I note no pictures of Keiran Crump Raiswells killer but plenty of pictures of this murdered man being shown R.I.P.
I also noted North West tos**te running this story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21672404 AGAIN!
‘The Commentator’:-
“EU referendum victory, but oh the shame of Labour and the Lib-dems.
“Labour and the Liberal Democrats showed their cowardice, and the extent of their contempt for democracy.”
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3920/eu_referendum_victory_but_oh_the_shame_of_labour_and_the_lib_dems
-And we know where the BBC-NUJ stands on the European Union.
Just watching BBC News about slow broadband around the UK etc. The area they used in their piece to illustrate this? The Cotswolds.
Brilliant. Pure BBC…
Oh right. I get it now. The BBC only supports an Arab uprising if it means a hardline Muslim group gets in to power. However, If a people value a democracy free of religious tyranny it becomes a ‘populist’ uprising which ‘divides’ society. Pathetic Islamic groveling by the BBC in its reporting of events in Egypt. The BBC’s erratic and emotive reporting of realities in the Middle East is evidence of its bias, incompetence and total unreliability.
I guess whatever recommendations the Balen report made were either non-existent¹ or ignored².
1. If it were a whitewash, they’d have released it with proud boasts that it proved the broadcaster’s commitment to impartiality.
2. They decided not to released it…
BBC:
Reality:
French minister dresses down US at July 4 fete
France’s top security official publicly dressed down the United States at the American ambassador’s July 4 garden party, denouncing alleged U.S. “espionage” of France and other countries, while the European Parliament voted to open an investigation.
Interior Minister Manuel Valls was a guest of honor at the fete hosted by Ambassador Charles Rivkin on Thursday. In a speech before hundreds of guests, he said that “in the name of our friendship, we owe each other honesty. We must say things clearly, directly, frankly.”
He said that President Francois Hollande’s demand for clear and precise explanations about reports of U.S. spying are justified because “such practices, if proven, do not have their place between allies and partners.”
How’s that hopey-changey stuff workin’ out for ya now, BBC?
Love the way that the bbbc put the tennis on instead of the news or deadenders. My mrs just asked why cant they put it on two,fair question but then they wouldnt have the ratings into the millions of people “glued” to the tennis,when in reallity its unavoidable if,like er indoors ,you want to watch your regular fix of liberal brainwashing from the 90% white bbbc eastend.
tennis is a great game because the bBC says it is.
The Telegraph has an article today related to an inquest concerning a BBC male employee who complained of being sexually harassed by a female employee, and nothing apparently was done about it. He was so frustrated by the experience that he ended up killing himself.
The article tells us:
Mr Joslin, a BBC Coventry and Warwickshire radio reporter, had previously been treated at a mental health unit in March last year.
Giving evidence to the inquest, Mr Joslin’s father, Peter, said his son had become ”more and more concerned” about his alleged treatment by the unnamed woman.
I’m wondering why the secrecy now since the woman was already named as Radio1 DJ Liz Kershaw, as can be seen in this article from last November. Does the Telegraph think we’ve all forgotten it?
We’re also told (highlights mine):
The journalist’s family has claimed his managers could have given him more help after he made allegations that he was sexually harassed.
In March last year, the reporter had two conversations with a case manager and had expected that his claims would then appear in a report prepared for BBC management.
But due to a “misunderstanding” between Mr Joslin and the case manager during their meetings, no specific allegations relating to the colleague were put into the final report sent to a line manager.
In early October last year, the inquest heard, Mr Joslin arranged a further meeting, which he left “thinking there was some sort of cover-up going on”.
Although the investigation commissioned by the BBC found no evidence of any efforts to cover up the allegations, it did conclude that the handling of his complaints was “not good enough”.
Looks like a BBC ‘cover-up about a BBC cover-up – and let’s not beat about the bush, while it is clear that the man was clearly not emotionally strong, which resulted in him taking his life, if the BBC would have reacted to his complaints, instead of basically ignoring him, perhaps he would be alive today.
The Daily Mail reports that the top prosecutor in many of the ‘celebrity’ sex abuse cases has hinted that ‘It could be just the tip of the iceberg’: More celebrities could be quizzed over child abuse.
It’s in their DNA!
Pleased to hear that Jeremy Bowen is not badly hurt.
He chose to run the risk of reporting whilst embeded with the Muslim Brotherhood. I supect reporting from this group’s point of view fits his political outlook.
I really don’t like his point of view on the Middle East and I don’t see why my Licence Fee is spent on insuring this man when he takes such stupid risks.
Do it freelance Jeremy.
a whole day on the BBC without hearing about nelson mandela
He seems to have come back to life from the dead according to news reports – No doubt in the BBC’s mind-eye this makes him the new Messiah.
It won’t last. make the most of it.
My droid insider tells me that the BBC Weepers-in-Chief Orla Howl and Feargal Shriek, who were both on 24/7 standby for the LHR – JNB jump, have now been stood down.
I think somebody here has already made this joke before, but it’s worth repeating: If they really want Mandela to live longer, just send him to Libya and have him treated by the same people who helped Megrahi live years past his alleged expiration date.
David you’re wrong about that – it was the healing hands of Wee Nappy, Alex Samond that performed the miracles there.
Next up the Scottish aka West Albanian economy.
Now where’s my Nikki Cammell Walkin’ Talkin’ Chucklin’ Doll. Ah here it is.
‘hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
“A Point of View” on Radio 4 from 20:50 to 21:00 with Sarah Dunant. She started off by talking about the 40th anniversary of Virago books and the voice that this had given to women. She concluded by dealing with the fall of Julia Gillard, the former Australian PM, and the sexism which is said to have accompanied her time in office.
Dunant cited insults such as “bitch” and “witch” used against Gillard, and remarks about her breasts, thighs and (allegedly gay) male partner. None of it particularly nice but part of the rough and tumble of politics in Australia and other places.
Totally absent, of course, was the obvious parallel of a now deceased former PM closer to home, who was the victim of sexism too. Does anyone remember the chants of “ditch, ditch, ditch the bitch!” by lefty union protesters in the 1980s? Or, more recently, the revival of “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!” ? Who now recalls Germaine Greer’s cruel TV remarks about a dental problem that this woman had with her front two teeth? And don’t let’s forget the sexism against Anne Widdicombe or Janet Daley based on size and appearance, and by feminist women too.
This is yet more BBC doublethink, where certain people such as Gillard are deemed to be ‘good’ and victims of injustice, while the silence is deafening on similar cases from the ‘despised tribes’ such as conservatives.
And the liberal medias monstering of Sarah Palin when SHE tried to get above herself a few years back.
But -like Margaret Thatcher-she actually doesn`t need flatpack opinions from Toynbee, Dunant or Greer…so must be written out of feminist history.
Two versions of same Old Bailey court case:-
1.)
‘Daily Mail’-
“Wife of Muslim convert jailed for terrorism admits she failed to provide information which could have led to his arrest.
“Ayan Hadi, 31, withheld information about terrorist husband Richard Dart.
“He was jailed for six years in April for planning acts of terror.
“Hadi gave birth to their baby girl weeks before he was imprisoned.
“She now faces jail as well – and will be sentenced on August 16.”
By STEVE ROBSON.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2356692/Richard-Darts-wife-Ayan-Hadi-admits-failed-provide-information-led-arrest.html?ico=news^headlines
2.)
INBBC-
“Richard Dart’s wife Ayan Hadi pleads guilty”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23193763
Richard Dart was a former BBC employee. maybe he was radicalised at Al Beeb
This could go either way: Bowen verbally and in writing blaming the army”When the crowd surged forward, “I saw barrels of guns lowered and shooting into the crowd… very shortly after that there was a man dead on the ground.”
The lowered guns are clearly still firing OVER the people, several shots from point blank range and ONE fatal injury? No Jeremy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-23202818
while, as so often happens, this may not be the case (see bottom video of two guys to left of screen near shot man lying in street).
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/07/05/video-of-shooting-at-republican-guard-headquarters/
I’m sure somebody has already posted this but…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23159023
“Premier League: How Muslims are changing English football culture”
“…England’s top division now features 40 Muslim players and they are having a significant effect on the culture of the game.”
Do the BBC ever mention the hundreds of Latin and occidental footballers who cross them selves, put hands together and openly thank God?
Yes, reminds me of the goal celebration where two players would stand beside eachother but looking in opposite directions, each would bend over, raise a leg backwards, and polish the other one’s boot.
I might be wrong, but I think this was particularly a Seventh Day Adventist celebration.
Ok, Al-Jazeera offices raided and some got arrested.
Pay attention though, the patron of Al-Jazeera and former (with the emphasis on ‘former’) Emir of Qatar is a supporter of the Taliban and spent nearly 1/3 of the country foreign exchange reserves to financially back The Brotherhood in Egypt.
Of course the Al-Beebzeera is heartbroken since some employment plans have been completely wrecked. Surely there is always the GroanYard.
For over a week there hadn’t been a single news story involving UKIP headlining on the BBC politics page. Then suddenly one appears. This isn’t of course because there wasn’t anything to say about UKIP and its policies for example in that time they have given their response to the spending review, and made announcements about policy on energy, and health. If current opinion polls are to be believed, it is estimated that at least 7,000,000 of the electorate would vote for UKIP – more than the Liberal party, so you would think extensive coverage of their policies would be expected of the state broadcaster. Their leader though, Nigel Farage, and his party, hold views of which the BBC strongly disapproves. Most explicitly on the EU, immigration control, and controlling public spending. For that reason the BBC is seeking to limit coverage of the party and as often as possible to present them in the most unpleasant light.
And that story? ‘Farage: ‘we have to make big cuts’ to public spending’. Not clear? I’ll say it again, FARAGE, BIG CUTS, PUBLIC SPENDING!! Got the message from the only political coverage of the week on the BBC politics page on UKIP? You can listen to the ‘interview’ here where Farage is constantly interrupted (I counted 10 times in a 3 minute segment!!) by Derbyshire who sounds very impartial! What else would we expect from the BBC?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23196080
“Revealed: BBC boss who landed £866k payoff and walked straight into another public-sector job”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2357165/Revealed-BBC-boss-landed-866k-payoff-walked-straight-public-sector-job.html
Comedy gold from Anna Raccoon, as she rips in to Tom ‘Pizza Wheel’ Watson’s Damascene moment at Glasto: ‘The hierarchy of the Labour Party he knew & loved, the inner sanctum he revelled in, was as grey & wrinkled, as potbellied & knock kneed, as a Rolling Stone.’
Watson’s trip to Somerset also included debating with Owen Jones, in….Billy Bragg’s ‘Leftfield’ fringe event. Probably beyond parody.
http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/hey-you-get-off-of-my-shroud/
Hey , BBC, you have a patronising Left-wing bias!
No no no dear boy, you’ve got that wrong. You see we have looked into this most carefully (so you see we must be fair) and we have concluded that we are definitely not biased.
But you are – just listen to yourselves.
No, we are very clear about this, perhaps we ought to reflect just a little more some of the ‘extreme’ views – like the ones you hold (as much as we might find them distasteful) – but otherwise overall we have as usual got it all just about right. In fact if there is any bias it is all the fault of the politicians in Westminster – they’re the ones who don’t want to talk about certain issues.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23159035
But BBC how come you consistently take a Left-liberal standpoint on everything?
Wrong again dear boy. You see we may – in the past – have been a tad Left-leaning. But that’s all sorted out now.
Why should we believe that you have changed? You have always said you were balanced even though you now conceded that in the vague ‘past’ you weren’t.
Look, we just are balanced. We said we might give some of your extreme opinions an airing – talk about them a little and find them wanting – what more do you want?
muslim footballers – and the hatefest of ramadong ..
bbc goes into frantic headless chicken mode …
what to do – how will they cope – who am I etc
this non story, inconsequential garbage, was given the big news spot at 9am on al bbc breakfast … unbeliieeevable!
Ramadan??? … and? … so?
looks like the bbc could write a new edition of
D Murrays Islamophilia on their own.
“A sign that Muslim practices are becoming a more familiar part of popular British culture.”
only due to the spineless w-nkers in No10 and at the BBC …. brit brainwashing corp in full effect …
abject moral cowards all.
This guy tells it how it is:
There is no question that the BBC support the Muslim Brotherhood. Below, I compare their report on today’s deadly riots in Egypt to that given by al-Arabiya. Please note, the BBC gives the general number of those killed, but with specifics only when the victims were Mursi supporters. In parallel, the only specified killer is the army. Please read, and then look at the additional details given by al-Arabiya.
BBC
Egypt clashes after army fire kills Morsi supporters
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23201770
…
At least 12 died in Alexandria, and eight in two separate clashes in Cairo, the Health Ministry said.
The army removed Mr Morsi from power on Wednesday after millions of people protested over his leadership.
Mr Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected leader, is in detention.
…
Most of those killed during fighting in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, died from gunshot wounds, said Amr Nasr, head of emergency services in the city.
…
Tensions escalated when a crowd advanced on the nearby headquarters of the Republican Guard, where Mr Morsi is believed to be held.
Troops then opened fire on crowds. Four people were killed and dozens wounded, including the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen whose head was grazed by shotgun pellets.
In the evening, tens of thousands of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood filled the square near the mosque, as well as nearby streets.
The Brotherhood’s supreme leader, Mohammed Badie, told the crowd: “We shall stay in the squares until we bring President Morsi back to power.”
He said their protests would remain peaceful and called on the army not to “direct your arms against us”.
Shortly afterwards, Brotherhood supporters surged across the 6th October Bridge over the Nile river, towards Tahrir Square where anti-Morsi protesters were gathered.
The rival groups hurled fireworks and stones at each other. A car was set on fire and stones and fireworks were thrown. Four people were killed in the clashes.
…
Islamist attacks on the Sinai peninsula left five police and one soldier dead, security officials said.
The Health Ministry said one protester was killed in the central city of Assiut, and one in Suez. Another three people died in the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya.
In Qina in the south, troops opened fire on pro-Morsi activists trying to storm a security building. At least two people were injured
Al-Arabiya
Egypt Islamists vow further protests after day of deadly clashes
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/07/06/Egypt-Islamists-vow-further-protests-after-day-of-deadly-clashes-.html
At least 12 people were killed in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria as Mursi’s supporters and opponents fought a pitched street battle, the official MENA news agency said.
In the restive north of the Sinai peninsula, armed Mursi supporters stormed the provincial headquarters in the town of El-Arish after a gunfight and raised the black banner of Al-Qaeda-inspired Islamist militants, an AFP correspondent said.
In Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square, at least two people were killed when Mursi supporters traded fire with his opponents, state television reported.
But the army intervened by separating the protesters using armored vehicles.
…
Four protesters were killed outside the Republican Guard headquarters after breaking away from a pro-Mursi demonstration, the official MENA news agency reported.
The bodies of two people were covered with sheets, said an AFP correspondent, adding that another protester was shot in the head.
Soldiers had warned a protester waving a picture of the ousted president not to approach their barbed wire cordon.
They opened fire when he ignored them, and shots were then heard from both sides, an AFP reporter said
I would like to add, before somebody else does, that also al-Arabiya select the items to suit their agenda. But a Saudi outlet is not expected to be impartial. The BBC are not only expected, by obliged by law.
Well, hats off to the Guardian for having the guts to report this story concerning the religion of ‘peace’:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/06/nigerian-students-burned-alive-extremist-attack
Is the BBC flying solo in its censoring of the truth? Can’t seem to find this story anywhere.
Stop Press:
Religious fanatic gunmen kill dozens in school attack.
Cue hand-wringing piety, soul-searching and Old-World sneering about Red-neck, gun-totin’ ‘merkins.
Except this wasn’t in the US:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23209181
it just made a very brief mention on BBC news 24, however, in both the guardian article and on al beeb, the word “christian” is not to be seen or heard
another example of christians being savagely murdered by muslims and the leftist scumbags fail to mention it. i thought they just had a report where they said they had got rid of their liberal bias. what a load of absolute bollox
no mention of this on al beeb
http://www.barnsley-chronicle.co.uk/news/article/6709/soldier-brutally-attacked-in-street
what type of person would attack an off duty soldier? maybe thats why its not been reported. leftist scumbags
The very fact they fail to mention the ethnicity tells us all we need to know about what religion these subhuman filth follow.
check out the comments 😀 example
“just like the grooming again eh? Just lie and cover up what’s happening and it will all go away?
The media are ****.”
nothing else needs to be said
posted a comment on Guardian Cif about ‘has anyone seen the report from Barnsley chronicle’ with link.. no swearing, no other comment ….. moderated and now barred…. freedom of speech… I think not any-more…
Needless to say this is not mentioned on the BBC web-site on the main page nor the various Yorkshire sub-pages.
But then it doesn’t seem to have hit any news group outside of Goblin Town. Maybe they are all down the pub considering the good weather …