Been listening to the news about the E-Border….I can’t say I know a huge amount about it and had completely forgotten that Labour introduced the scheme in 2003….and despite listening all day it wasn’t until just after 18:00 on 5Live drive that I was reminded of this fact….not by the BBC but by a commentator…until then it was ‘The government’s border scheme’….and therefore their shambles.
Also you may have got the impression that everything was indeed a complete disaster, however yet again it was from a commentator, Tony Smith, a previous boss of the border service, that we got a different picture…Margaret Hodge managing to blame ‘the government‘ moments earlier.
Clearly that is just my personal take on the news as I heard it on the radio and it maybe that on the TV and on the web they go into this in far more depth…but if you’d been listening to the radio you would possibly have taken away a completely false picture of events unless you were lucky enough to catch the interview with Smith.
It is a regular failing of BBC news bulletins on the radio that we seldom get a fully rounded picture of events and strangely often what is missing are the parts of the story that don’t support the suspected BBC world view.
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
For a view of what was presented on TV yesterday morning regarding this subject, I would refer you to my post at 4:13 pm yesterday, 9th October, in the Monday Open Thread.
As you might have expected, it appears to have been a ‘three-line-whip’ day on this subject at the BBC
As this graph illustrates, the only thing Labour succeeded in doing with our borders was abandoning them as quickly as they could:
http://www.migrationwatchuk.co.uk/BriefingPaper/document/116
A BBC-NUJ-‘Stonewall’ propaganda piece for unlimited mass immigration of homosexuals to Britain-
“UK asylum seekers ‘told to prove they are gay'”
By Justin Parkinson
Political reporter, BBC News.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24479812
I’m slightly surprised that BBC-NUJ is not yet campaigning to have road-signs in Britain provided in 19 foreign languages, to suit immigrants at driving tests in U.K.
“Driving test candidates must sit exam in English or Welsh”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-24487707