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  1. Chris says:
    December 8, 2013 at 11:06 pm

    “hijab heroine” + “highway of hope” + “Labour select Falkirk candidate”
    two pro muslim article and one very soft Labour articles.
    One is a comic strip, because the BBC is so fucking arrogant it thinks people who oppose Islam have the mental age of a fucking five year old, and they want to target (indoctrinate) five year olds.

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  2. Chris says:
    December 8, 2013 at 11:37 pm

    This may be a bit late, but I have been ruminating over this article for some time, and have been reviewing the report, and forgetting the convoluted manner in which the report is set out, what really gets me, and what I really can’t figure out, is this paragraph –
    “Immigrants from outside the EEA contributed 2% more in taxes than they received in the same period, the report showed.”
    which is followed by a graph which shows that non EEA immigration ratio of expenditure never goes above 1.0 (1.0 being the point at which more revenue is paid by the migrants then expenditure on).
    I have also searched the report high and low, and cannot find the 2% figure. The closest I could find was ‘table five:summary results’ which had 1.019 as the ratio of revenue to expenditure. But if this is being used, then the BBC rounded up to 2% from 0.19? I can also not figure out where this ratio came from, as I can not compute this from the information from table 4.b or 4.a. Any mathematician who can enlighten me? surely the report (and the BBC) have not outright lied?

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  3. Aerfen says:
    December 8, 2013 at 11:53 pm

    I swear radio Four have got EVEN WORSE recently!

    Apart from the relentless banging on about Mandela this afternoon there were three blatant propaganda programs in a row!

    16:30 A Notebook on Aime Cesaire
    A portrait of Martinique’s most famous son, poet and politician Aime Cesaire.

    Hmm an angry communist anti white black man from Martinique a French colony. Surprised though we were told that he complained about French immigrants to Martinique describing it as ‘genocide by settlement’ . So a racist then? No its OK ‘cos he’s black.

    17:00 Cry Freehold
    We face a housing crisis, but is land the real issue? Chris Bowlby investigates.

    A disgustingly biased piece interviewing various people around the presenters home in Oxford, all advocating building on Green belt land and even compulsory purchase.
    Of course no mention of the role of immigration in housing shortage. Immigration has turned formerly ‘green’ lefty Globalists into Friends of Property Developers!

    17:40 Profile Tom Daley

    The nauseating love affair with Tom Daley continues, if pushed back a little to clear the stage for Saint Mandela.

    Thank heavens for the shipping forecast and news, too bad that Sunday evening is always the time for the alien transatlantic tones of Neil Nunes delivery!

    Then its back to News – from South Africa, and according to the BBC ‘the world weeps’!

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    • Chris says:
      December 9, 2013 at 12:22 am

      ?? accidentally clicked comment?? mods please ignore.
      Was gonna state – “genocide by settlement” isn’t this what has happened in the UK? how many cockneys in london? or Brummies in Birmingham?

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  4. Dave666 says:
    December 9, 2013 at 8:17 am

    So I’ve avoided BBc news and in fact BBc full stop all weekend.

    I made the mistake of turning on breakfast just now. Mandella blah blah blah. Serious faces. Over to South Africa where a serious faced reporter introduces some bloke who was in prison with the saint. That was it RT is now on and straight away things that I’ve never heard mentioned on the UK media.
    I wouldn’t mind so much but in a balanced view where I stand, well sit, no one actually gives a toss about Mandella that’s in my world anyway. none of my friends or family are talking about him, but hey that’s probably just me.

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    • OldBloke says:
      December 9, 2013 at 8:42 am

      Sorry to point this out Dave666, but you are giving the impression that you attended the same school as MP Keith Vaz, there is only one *L* in Mandela.

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  5. Maturecheese says:
    December 9, 2013 at 10:19 am

    “Wholesale prices dropped substantially in 2009. That was never reflected in a pass-on to the consumers and there’s been a distortion ever since.”

    No mention though by Caroline Flint or the BBC about who was in power at the time and did nothing.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25219453

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