Honestly, you would need a heart of stone not to laugh at the overt bias this item exudes at 8.10am (prime time listening) on the Today programme exudes! It is the latest attempt by the BBC to thrown as much gloom and doom over any nascent economic recovery as is possible! In an attempt to point out that “the squeezed middle” is not becoming “the eased middle”, the BBC pick two inner city public sector types who they last interviewed in 2012. Guess what? Yup, life is not really that much better. I think one admits to being a Labour Party member. I laughed at the headline “trickle down not working”. My but Ed Balls must be pleased at the efforts of the comrades.
WHAT RECOVERY?
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“I managed to grow three Tomato plants in a grow-bag, as well as a row of lettuce, and I now roll my fags from the tobacco in fag butts that I find on the pavement. Otherwise I’d be really struggling”
Pure parody. The Sparts at the BBC have made it a laughing stock.
I can only suppose that BBC journalists are much happier with the much simpler editorial guidelines when dealing with the tories
“whatever happens it’s never good enough – do what you like from there”
Where to begin?
Two public sector dependents. Wholly representative of the UK population according to the BBC (wishful thinking, probably).
Funny they didn’t mention what subject the teacher taught (although there was sufficient allowance for detail to permit Evan to mention she’d lost her job from an ‘Independent school’ – boo!!! hiss!!! Nasty Michael Gove and his education policies!!!). One thousand applications suggests there are plenty of vacancies but no-one wants to take her on, which is notable.
Growing vegetables! How disgustingly proletarian. Everybody knows that organic vegetables with a carbon-offset surcharge are readily obtainable from Islington Waitrose (courtesy of Ocado).
And she had to rely on her husband’s sister for support! We all know that the concept of the family is a barrier to Marxist enlightenment and that the State should replace the most successful model of societal structure in the history of humankind.
‘The banks are not helpful at all and have cancelled any credit cards I have.’ I wonder if that’s because you’re out of work and admit on national radio that you can’t pay off your debts? Of course, the banks should really keep lending you money so that you can come back onto the programme in a few months’ time to complain how irresponsible they are because they didn’t stop your cards and allowed you to get into even more debt.
Too much competition for employment in inner cities? I wonder why THAT is!
And a critique of ‘trickle down theory’, which of course is a purely fictional creation of the left so that they have something to argue against; not that the balanced Davies even knows this, as evidenced with the pavlovian Today murmur of approval when an interviewee articulates a leftist plank.
In sum: Readily falsifiable leftist garbage.
Private tutor maxes out on her cards, and then runs to that bourgeois false construct of abuse called a family.
three reasons why she should be at re-education camp…or at least shrilling obeisance to “The State” through tinny tannoys at morning roll call.
As she did…imagine that Sweeney took a few of them when he was in North Korea…using innocent students as pack mules for “the Greater Good”.
The Common Purpose if you will.
She wouldn’t be a tutor in maths, that’s for sure.
‘‘The banks are not helpful at all and have cancelled any credit cards I have.’
Hmmm, when they are defaulting on debt or faulty ATMs are doling out free cash (amazing how quickly half mile queues can form) it’s ‘the bank’s money’, but when banks are being profligate with their lending it’s ‘our money’. Warped values, 21st-century-Britain-style.
Ha ha – good fisk – nell tell us what you really think!
We really need a another quarter’s figures to see if this is just a blip as we’ve already only just headed of a double dip. The FT is not convinced that is sustainable:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bb83593a-f5f3-11e2-8388-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2aF0Zbcf6
The German figures look good, but with the Ford Transit factory closing and the spectre of more money going into housing rather than investment, it is not encouraging that manufacturing is still not growing. The reality is that any feelgood factor even if the economy lifts is probably 12 months away: and that will because wages start rising. I suspect Osborne will take the foot of the brake closer to the election to encourage this.
However, one good bit of news which hasn’t been picked up is that the long awaited rebuilding of schools program is being Govt funded which means a lot new construction jobs in the next year rather than PFI nonsense.
As I’m in construction, this could be good news!
I partly agree – until we start exporting more and closing the balance of payments gap rather than relying on the false growth of domestic consumer spending, we’re bolloxed.
However when your starting point at the beginning of the trading year is £50 billion of debt interest, and further billions wasted on the EU and carbon-reduction targets, it’s like running up a descending escalator.
Exports are booming, best for 6 years or more: the weak pound can only help this even more.
You’re right, they are improving but it was still only the best trade gap figure since January.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/surprise-fall-in-uk-trade-gap-caps-feelgood-week-8649567.html
Think I prefer the trickle-down from the Tories legs, rather than yet more golden showers and getting pissed upon from a great height from Labour and their public sector/media EUrine sprayers.
If only the Tories would fight for what they believed in…back in 1979, when they still had backbones and brains.
Its all the Muslims fault.
See your earlier post was right after all
“Liberals/Leftists don’t do reality. “
The bias is pathetic. Don’t they have any self respect as journalists?
But in this case the recovery is the slowest from any recession in a hundred years. Basically, because Osborne listened to the economically illiterate at the BBC.
There’s a good take on that in: George’s Bluff” at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/#!/2013/07/georges-bluff.html
Do you ever comment without a link to your blog? 😉
Lets not forget, in the grim old dark old days when the BBC was talking double and triple dip recession (when neither happened of course), there was often a moment when all eyes were on the re-stated figures a month or so hence in anticipation that they would show a worse figure than initially shown.
Often, the figure was slightly improved. Not much, just slightly.
That being the case, the same might apply now, so 0.6% GDP growth could actually equate to 0.7, 0.8 or maybe even 0.9% in the final analysis. Not much of that potential is heard of from our “highly esteemed” yet highly biased BBC now.
Oh, and to do one’s best to stop Britain’s economic development, by illegal means, if desired :-
“Balcombe oil: Fracking drill site protests continue”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-23475958
“It’s a fracking bonanza and even the UK Treasury gets the point.
“There could be 1,300trn cubic feet of gas in northern England alone. Ten percent of that could meet Britain’s needs for more than four decades.”
by Simon Miller.
But will development be blocked by illegal occupation by ‘greenies’?
Link to above:
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3990/it_s_a_fracking_bonanza_and_even_the_uk_treasury_gets_the_point
Before releasing these eco-loons, Plod should get them to sign an undertaking such that they can be held personally responsible and suable for the lights going out should their protests prevail over the country’s energy needs.
they might as well empoy medhi hassan as the economics editor and anjem choudary as head of religious affairs at the bbc.ditto.
I thought they already did 😉