DB in the last post had Labour’s Andy Burnham doing our work for us…criticisng the BBC.
Not sure what he’s worried about….perhaps he doesn’t listen to the BBC too often…they aren’t likely to be eulogising over Mrs Thatcher…as the other Tweet illustrated….and the marked reluctance it showed to investigate Labour and Unite’s latest little difficulty.
Burnham was referring to Nicky Campbell’s show…’Your Call’ in which he decided to discuss whether we should have a ‘Margaret Thatcher’ Day as a bank holiday.
Six minutes in and you can hear Campbell explain….they had decided to do either Wimbledon or Labour and the Unions as a call-in…..but when this latest subject came up they couldn’t resist…it is after all front page stuff and very current….unlike Labour and Unite or Wimbledon.
The reality is Campbell knew it would be an easy hit….Thatcher being so controversial and likely to get some very ‘animated’ callers.
It seemed like he couldn’t resist the opportunity to have yet another swipe at Thatcher knowing most calls would probably be strongly expressed expressions of hate.
Campbell did seem to be relishing and enjoying it all too much….if you ever had the thought that 5live was on the trashy tabloid side of ‘journalism’ this more than proved the point.
A lot of people enjoy that…but it does make you laugh out loud at the hypocrisy of the likes of Campbell and Derbyshire who sneer at the Mail and The Sun….and yesterday Derbyshire was having a go at Farage for his EU salary of whatever it was…around £70,000 I think..when she ‘earns’ allegedly over £200,000…mostly for sitting on her backside…when she bothers to turn up.
More of Derbyshire’s interview with Farage later….an interview in which she seemed intent purely on rubbishing him…using her own, what turned out to be dodgy, statistics.
nicky campbell and vicky are snides,but they are not the worst,i reserve that for stephen nolan which i will explain why later,the way nicky and vicky treat people with centre right views just exposes themselfes for there own left wing bias,your call is more like socalist call judging by the amount of bitter angry leftie callers they line up to attack ukip politicians and any guest with centre right views and opinions.but it gets worst,listen to last nights liberal leftie stephen nolans when he lined up all kinds of lefties and liberals to attack katie hopkins and some ukip politician who tried to explain to biased stephen nolan there educatiion policie,it has to be the worst bias i have heard on radio 5 live ever.
Nolan it toe-curlingly awful, and a creep to boot.
Can you imagine the roles reversed? A Conservative Minister directly linked to thousands of NHS deaths and NOT being pulled up on it by the BBC? In fact not even being questioned by the BBC except to allow criticism of the current government?