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And time for yet another NEW Open Thread as the last one exceeds the 200 comment mark! Off you go..BBC being annoying you?…Have something to say about it..detail it HERE!

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  1. AsISeeIt says:
    July 17, 2013 at 3:13 pm

    BBC journalist and radio presenter Tweets….

    Shelagh Fogarty ‏@ShelaghFogarty 13m
    I am about to have a fundamentally different haircut. You heard it here first #fear

    I guess this is just what all those suffragettes died for?

    Twitter eh? Now I wonder what Stephen Fry is having for lunch?

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  2. JaneTracy says:
    July 17, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    It seems that BBC sports journalists are sinking to the depths of their news colleagues. Ben Smith has claimed that Chelsea have offered £10 million plus Juan Mata for Wayne Rooney and here is the most recommended comment.

    “106. ironite
    4 HOURS AGO
    I’m going to try and make a point to the BBC here, hopefully then they can start validating its stories BEFORE publishing.

    If anyone thinks this story is true, please downgrade my comment. If you think its a steaming pile of cow dung, please rate positively accordingly”

    So far it has up 146 and Chelsea have subsequently denied offering any player at all.

    So Ben Smith where is your evidence?

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  3. ember2013 says:
    July 17, 2013 at 3:28 pm

    Lynton Crosby – the BBC reporting speculation. Unfounded allegations used to besmirch the Tories.

    It’s neither news nor is it impartial.

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  4. George R says:
    July 17, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    INBBC is politically empathetic towards Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, and Islam, but is that an excuse for not reporting the following, which is aimed against non-Muslim British people?:-

    “Pro-Morsi demonstration at Al-Aqsa Mosque:
    U.S., France, Britain to be destroyed, Rome to be conquered”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/07/pro-morsi-demonstration-at-al-aqsa-mosque-us-france-britain-to-be-destroyed-rome-to-be-conquered.html

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  5. OldBloke says:
    July 17, 2013 at 3:36 pm

    The reason why Heathrow was closed for traffic was in fact a second incident which meant there was no fire cover. The 787 was one of two that day at that time.

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  6. George R says:
    July 17, 2013 at 3:56 pm

    Islamic Republic of PAKISTAN: perpetual violence of Islamic jihadists.

    Stop immigration into Britain from places like Pakistan (population 180 million plus.)

    There are now millions of Sunni and Shia Muslims acting out their Islamic predilections in the U.K.

    “Pakistan grapples with rising tide of extremist violence”
    By Richard Galpin,
    INBBC News.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23319254

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  7. George R says:
    July 17, 2013 at 4:53 pm

    INBBC’s censoring of Islamic jihadist’s use of U.K’s public funds/ legal aid.:-

    ‘JihadWatch’s Robert Spencer has:-

    “Islamic jihadist’s bid to overturn his ban from UK is being funded by UK taxpayers”

    [Excerpt]:-

    “Hmmm. Pamela Geller and I aren’t terrorists. We don’t advocate or condone violence. We fight for the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the equality of rights of all people before the law. Yet after a defamatory smear campaign, we were banned from the UK as well. Can we get legal aid, too?

    “Yes, I know this jihadist is getting legal aid because he was once a British citizen, until he was stripped of his citizenship, and we can’t get it because we were never British citizens. But one way the British government could show that it is not utterly insane, and not completely in thrall to jihadists and Islamic supremacists, would be to dispense with those legal distinctions in this case and extend the same aid to us, now, wouldn’t it?

    “Of course, for that to happen, the British government would have to be not in thrall to jihadists and Islamic supremacists.”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/07/islamic-jihadists-bid-to-overturn-his-ban-from-uk-is-being-funded-by-uk-taxpayers.html

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  8. pah says:
    July 17, 2013 at 4:54 pm

    Reading this report you’d think MilliBean had scored a hit on a floundering PM.

    However watching the PMQ in question on the BBC at lunch time it was obvious that, despite having set up a smear campaign, Millipeed failed to land one hit. Cameron on the other hand kicked the living daylights out of Millishit at every opportunity leaving him almost in tears at one point – seriously I thought he was about to call on his big brother to duff up the PM at one point, so pathetic did he seem.

    The BBC report is pure Labour propaganda from start to finish. It completely reverses what happened in reality.

    But then we’ve seen a lot of this lately haven’t we? The NHS, Unite, Zimmerman ad nauseum. The BBC presents its ‘subjective truth’ and objectivity can just fuck off.

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  9. Aerfen says:
    July 17, 2013 at 6:22 pm

    “I would say Burden was suspiciously well-briefed (she doesn’t really do news and politics) but she was actually just reading it out from a script.”

    My impression is she ‘does politcs’ whenever the Beeb give her the opportunity. Her ambitions seem to be to do more.

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  10. George Moor says:
    July 17, 2013 at 7:01 pm

    Politically, It’s getting so bad now that the BBC seem to have forgotten their viewers. We really don’t want to see that you are wearing red smalls.

    In PMQ’s live today a pre-scripted Milliband was out argued and drubbed by Cameron. Not that this prevented the BBC from shamefacedly showing only Milliband’s best moments for their newsbite. Well done for this Inaccurate and misleading spin

    And why is it that BBC news has recently become anti everything?

    Jobless numbers are down – no, folks they are flat-lining and the number out of work is highest in 17 years.

    Parents and Unions don’t like the new initiative to grade schoolkids – really?

    The NHS is not performing due to Coalition cuts – what?
    etc etc

    Barnacle BBC – who do they chose to interview on the Ciggy packet marking issue? Sarah W.
    By the way Ed’s ex advisor now works for Philip Morris.

    All good fun but it makes for such depressing and confusing news when really we should be feeling a little happier about the state of Britain.

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  11. George Moor says:
    July 17, 2013 at 7:11 pm

    Politically, It’s getting so bad now that the BBC seem to have forgotten their viewers who really don’t want to see you are wearing red smalls.

    In PMQ’s live today a pre-scripted Milliband was out argued and drubbed by Cameron. Not that this prevented the BBC from shamefacedly showing only Milliband’s best moments for their newsbite. Well done for this Inaccurate and misleading spin

    And why is it that BBC news is gradually becoming anti everything?

    Jobless numbers are down – no, folks they are flat-lining and the number out of work is the highest in 17 years.

    Parents and Unions don’t like the new initiative to grade schoolkids – really? Nor does the BBC, obviously.

    Barnacle BBC – so who do they chose to interview on the Ciggy packet marking issue? Sarah W. Shove in a question on whether or not Cameron was lobbied why don’t you … Oh you did. By the way Ed’s ex -advisor now works for Philip Morris?
    All good fun but it makes for such depressing and confusing news when really we should be feeling a little happier about the state of Britain.

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  12. chrisH says:
    July 17, 2013 at 7:14 pm

    A plan to lose the BBC.
    1. Close it down
    2. Ask it to re-apply for its old jobs using the offices of hospital radio…this would allow them to do all manner of programmes about Tory cuts. lack of McCluskies etc…and at the “frontline too”…24/7 if they like.
    3. Give the senior diversity visionary pod people who “manage the transition” the keys to the drugs cabinets there in the hospital.
    4. Then offer them all a big rave up at Glasto, pink wellies and sunblock provided.
    When they`re gone-or off their faces-lock them out, bring back the volunteers who run hospital radio-and tell them that a Grunwick/Eddie Shah moment needs reporting here.
    5. Let them regurgitate this breaking story for ever and a day…just like the goldfish that sees its castle afresh with every swim round the bowl.
    No BBC…

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  13. chrisH says:
    July 17, 2013 at 7:20 pm

    You know what?
    What with all those deaths, Labour cover ups(of mortuary kind, sadly)…fixing elections for their MPs in Scotland, union bribes…and let`s not forget Egypt, Syria or Qatada not getting an NHS pedicurist flown out with him to Jordan?…I just knew that the BBC would apply itself(laser-like) to
    a) ciggies not getting plain packaging
    b) booze not being increased in price.

    Personally, if I were Philip Morris: I`d put a verse of the Koran on each packet( death to the infidel, but fragrant offering to Mo(PBUM)…it`ll be in there somewhere!).
    THEN let`s see the BBC call for plain packaging!

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    • pah says:
      July 18, 2013 at 2:01 pm

      The could do it surreptiously like the KKK stuff on Marlboro packets (yes, I know!). They could hide Koranic quotes in Arabic in the squiggles of the packet design.

      Instead of ciggie cards they could offer free timers or courses on how to handle explosives safely.

      The possibilities are endless. Have you considered a career in PR?

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  14. AsISeeIt says:
    July 17, 2013 at 7:42 pm

    The BBC loved their Olympics. The BBC love athletics.

    You know what…? It’s all a sham….

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/22361185

    ‘Those Olympics [1992] could not have gone much better for the hosts. A revitalised Barcelona sparkled, the years of isolation under General Franco were forgotten and the country’s athletes enjoyed unprecedented success, winning 13 gold medals to finish sixth in the medal table. ‘

    ‘Did this doctor give drugs to hundreds of athletes?’

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/22363900

    ‘Lynsey Sharp says drugs are a “huge problem” in athletics after being upgraded to European 800m gold following a doping scandal.’

    ‘Scotland’s athlete of the year is now 2012 European champion after Russian Yelena Arzhakova received a two-year doping ban.’

    “It’s a huge problem,” Sharp, 22, told BBC Scotland.
    “There’s a lot of people being caught, but it’s nothing compared to the amount of people getting away with it.”

    BBC : Cor… weren’t the London Olympics just the greatest moment of our broadcasting careers!

    Olympics = sham

    BBC = sham

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