The Labour Party has been packing BBC call-ins with its activists judging by some of the very articulate and well rehearsed rhetoric some callers have demonstrated….listen to Michael Thompson from Sale on 5Live Drive at 18:16 and especially at 18:20 when he gets into his stride telling us….’… the IMF advised George Osborne that the austerity measures aren’t working, you see the more people who are unemployed the less they spend on goods and services which leads to more job cuts, especially as we’re a service based economy, something the Tories don’t understand that simple fact. I mean it’s the consumer who creates the demand for jobs, if less tax for big businesses means, you know, more jobs then we’d be swimming in jobs, the last thing a venture capitalist wants to do is give you a job, and at the end of the day it’s the unemployed who are the forgotten victims and who seem to be blamed and demonised within the wider media when the real causes are a lack of labour demand in a flatlining economy, Britain’s serious lack of labour intensive industries which were sold off in the ’80’s under Thatcher…’
Randomly plucked off the streets by the BBC? Don’t think so.
However that doesn’t seem to be enough for Labour and they are now using groups that claim to be independent but are in fact nothing but Labour Party ‘Fronts’.
Which might or might not be expected but what you wouldn’t expect is for the BBC to present them as honest and independent groups with no political affiliations when they have hard core links to Labour.
The BBC can’t say they didn’t know…if they are going to give this group such a high profile they should have checked it out.
Trouble is they probably did.
From the Daily Mail:
No mention was made of any political affiliations, but a cursory look at the group’s directors reveals deep ties to the Labour Party – so much so that a Conservative MP questioned if the group was merely a Labour ‘front’.
Miss Marriott, its campaign director, is a professional Left-wing campaigner and a Labour Party member with links to the radical wing of the party.
Part of the Labour Uncut blogging team, she is also involved with Pragmatic Radicalism, the self-proclaimed ‘New Forum for Labour Ideas’ and reportedly handles Government relations for the Press regulation lobby group Hacked Off.
Another director, Josie Cluer, describes herself as a ‘public sector reformer with fingers in many pies’, including the Labour Women’s Network which exists to get more Labour women elected to public office.
And according to Labour MP Chuka Umunna, the campaign was launched by Matthew McGregor, the man hailed as Barack Obama’s ‘digital attack dog’ in last year’s US presidential election – who has just been recruited for Labour’s 2015 General Election campaign.
The website is very slick and remarkably anonymous, almost as if they didn’t want you to know anything about the group behind it.
The BBC are apologists for public sector greed and are happy to promote the views of anybody else who is on the pay roll.
The enemy of the BBC is (and always will be) anybody who seeks to shrink the size of the public sector. Justifying the dependency culture is part of the same strategy – hence the way they report each and every welfare reform.
A BBC employee is almost by definition a slimeball and should (unless they shock you with competence) be treated as such.
If it wasn’t for you they would not have a job. That is why they are such passionate opponents of giving you a choice.
It’s scary to think how much power the BBC has over the susceptible public. I’ve told many of my friends about this website and the way in which it exposes blatant BBC bias. However, they still seem to think it’s a blog of excessive hyperbole and disregard the facts that are provided on a daily ‘basis. It just goes to show how the BBC and the left have created a nation that won’t accept the truth in fear of being labelled with an ‘ism’
“For some reason when I show this blog to other people they think it’s full of nutters and racists with an insane world view.”
Why are you showing the Guardian to people?
If TL;DR goes out and buys a copy of The Guardian each morning that is fine by me, just so long as he does not have me arrested if I refuse to buy a copy. The same applies to the BBC.
He would if he could
That is all the Leftist crusade against the free press amounted to in the end. The BBC played down or ignored despicable behaviour by Daily Mirror or Guardian journalists, and made as a drama that they could about despicable behaviour by Sun or Daily Mail journalists, because the thought that people can go into shop and buy newspapers which contain non-left wing views sickens them. In BBC land you can have any view you like just so long as it is middle class public sector “worker” Party approved – personally I think they should get a bigger pension.
“For some reason when I show this blog to other people they think it’s full of nutters and racists with an insane world view.”
It’s not so bad anymore. Dezi, Scotty, Albumen don’t post much now.
Post of the week!
Now is my post even appearing?
“For some reason when I see TL;DR’s comments I get the feeling they come from a bigot who hates those who do not hold the same values as TL;DR”
Just watch “Question Time” every week.
There used to be a convention that opposing politicians stood back at party conference time and allowed their rivals some clear water tp get their messages across.
The odious, cynical control freak Brown blew that out of the water with his ‘cyclops’ visit to the troops during the Tory conference some years back. This and Burnham’s complaint that there was insufficient coverage of the weekends’s anti- Tory rally is more of the same.
While the Conservatives have stuck largely to the convention, Labour amd their BBC friends have shown that they cannot be trusted, political and broadcasting low life that they are.
It is analogous to the way left-wing politicians constantly interrupt their political opponents. The Left believe in freedom of speech for Leftists and “no platform” for anybody else. If you want to understand the Left just look at the countries where they gain unassailable power. Are they havens of free speech or are they totalitarian shit holes?
5 Live Drive went to a reporter in hairdressers in Sale, Greater Manchester. There they spoke to a Michael Thompson. Who he was (a customer?) they didn’t say, but he was unemployed and talked about his experience on the Work Programme. But if you listen to him, he sounds very much like a left- wing activist. It starts at 2:16 here , with his rant at 2:20ish sounding like a prepared script.
Damn, Alan was already on the case!
As I mentioned in the Open Thread yesterday, I suspect the Tory MP (who very few will have heard of) only questioned this when the Mail asked him for a quote. It’s all very well this being highlighted on this blog, but if the Tories are simply going to sit back and watch it happen, what is the point in them?
I think by now that most of us here, when hearing some supposedly non-political spokesperson or other crticising the Tories, immediately wonder what Google will show about that person. That the Tories seem not to have cottoned on to that really makes me despair.
Yep for sure, the Tories are hopeless at the PR war…when Miliband attacks them for being Millionaires what Tory ever comments on the Labour front bench and their bank balances…or that Labour has its own millionaire big business donors…Lord Sainsbury funding them to the tune of £20 million.
Funny he was in a hair salon. I use my own clippers rather than spend money on what I term a luxury.
No 3 buzz cut, monthly.
Looks fine.
£120pa for better uses.
Actually, two sons, too.
£360 much better deployed.
Anyone else note the BBC interview technique of prefacing a question to a Conservative with ” After the successful Labour conference……..”