A few days ago we had this from the Daily Mail:
Skewed figures and a BBC agenda: As a new wave of Eastern Europeans arrive, JAMES SLACK reveals how the ‘benefits’ of immigration are endlessly overstated
NICK ROBINSON: The public deserves the truth on immigration… from Britain’s politicians – and, yes, my own BBC
Why might the BBC want Nick Robinson to place something like that in the hated Daily Mail?
You can be 100% certain it has nothing to do with the ‘truth about immigration’ and all to do with trying to persuade Daily Mail readers, whom the BBC see as a load of prejudiced little Englanders, to accept immigration as beneficial.
Nick Robinson is the chosen voice because he is supposedly right leaning and therefore possibly one of the tribe, a ‘voice of reason’ to Daily Mail readers, but little evidence of that comes out in his reports…if anything he leans to the left in those.
Although his article is supposedly putting both sides it is weighted heavily in favour of immigrants and the BBC’s new found virtue in reporting on it.
Robinson also gave an interview to the Sunday Times…..wonder if he bothered to chat to the Guardian….preaching to the converted there so probably not.
Here he gives us the ‘message’:
My own organisation, the BBC, has admitted that in the past we made mistakes. We were too slow to recognise and reflect the concern, dislocation and anger felt by many.
We [The BBC] worried too much about airing views that might offend some viewers and listeners and not enough by the offence caused to people who did not hear their own concerns reflected on air. That, I am happy to say, has now changed.
No, nothing’s changed in the BBC’s coverage…look at the recent coverage of the Romanian/Bulgarian immigrants…The BBC’s Phil Mackie provided us with pure propaganda, a very one sided look at immigration….this was my look at his report:
BBC Plays The Race Card On Immigration
So no nothing’s changed has it? Still calling people racist for wanting to limit immigration.
Oana Romocea@OanaRomocea 28m@philmackie @sundersays Read your interview with @alinamatis in @gandul. Still can’t get why UK media use the same approach to reporting.
Phil Mackie @philmackie 27m@OanaRomocea @sundersays @alinamatis @gandul some has been shameful
Recent immigrants to UK ‘make net contribution’
Read the Daily Mail article to see why the BBC’s report is nothing more than a lazy piece of journalism that eagerly accepts a press release as news because it conforms to the BBC’s own views on immigration…there is no attempt to critique the claims or to suggest that those producing them may have their own agenda…..the Daily Mail provides evidence that the report is highly suspect…but there is far more such evidence that should embarrass the BBC…..which I will lay out in the next post.
You can see Robinson on the BBC:
The Truth About Immigration: BBC2, Tuesday, 9.30pm.
In The Truth About Immigration, BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson reveals the full impact of the extraordinary demographic change Britain has undergone. Why were the doors to Britain opened to millions of migrants? And what are the benefits and perils of trying to stem the flow?
He unravels the political calculations that led to one of the biggest social transformations in modern British history. Tory governments were keen to expand the European Union, but little thought was given to implications for immigration. And senior figures from the last Labour administration, including Jack Straw and David Blunkett, reveal why such large numbers of East Europeans were allowed to live and work in Britain.
Nick Robinson untangles the truth about immigration from the political rhetoric.
So far as Robinson hasn’t mentioned Andrew Neather and his explosive revelations about Labour’s immigration policy I’ll reserve complete judgement on Robinson and ‘The Truth’.
An excellent post. Robinson is simply laying down a smokescreen for his paymaster. Shame on the Mail for falling for it!
The BBC will allow discussion about immigration from within the EU but it won’t allow discussion about the greater number of immigrants from outside the EU , many of whom have a very different set of values and culture to our own.
Large numbers of immigrants, regardless of their origin, place great strain on our services and resources. Only those who posses skills that are in short supply in this country will actually bring us benefits and increase our national wealth. The rest either live of the state or do low skilled jobs which drives down the pay rates and makes some ill educated and lazy Brits reluctant to work for these low rates. Additionally, the large number of those willing to take low paid jobs, allows some employers to avoid investing in new equipment to increase productivity.
But immigrants with very different cultures, values and beliefs to our own, also cause many additional social problems and tensions. Look at all the issues we have because of the large Muslim community we now have live alongside. Anyone doubting this should spend a week in Bradford or Rochdale or any other area with a large Muslim population.
Yet the BBC hides all this and never investigates what it is like for those Brits who have been left in these increasingly Muslim areas. They want us to become multiculturalists , to welcome seeing our way of life and our society changed beyond recognition. Of course the fact that the immigrants don’t want to integrate isn’t seen as a their problem but ours. Any opposition to their multicultural Utopia is stamped on, those who protest are vilified as racists. They are willing to ignore any news which conflicts with their vision and to lie through their teeth to us.
The BBC is now trying to pretend that it allows discussion of mass immigration but it is very reluctant to address itself to non EU immigration and to the problems that this has caused our country in the past 30 years.
The BBC cannot be trusted on immigration. It has an agenda and it is going to make sure that we all accept it with the minimum of protest.
Yes, the vital significance of the CULTURAL colonisation of Britain, which is largely an Islamic colonial imposition, is either relegated or misrepresented by Beeboids.
Beeboids continue their advocacy of unlimited mass immigration into U.K.
It is a crucial political part of Beeboid ‘multicultural’ ideology which is being imposed on British people, using our licence tax money.
Following on from the last Labour government’s (non-manifesto) decade-long policy of open-door mass immigration, Beeboids continue their role as propagandists for all the world’s actual and potential colonisers of Britain.
When anyone associated with the BBC says they’re going to seek ” The Truth about Immigration” I already know the answer they’ll come up with; it’s been good for us. “Look at the hospital staff, 75% immigrants.” Yes, maybe, but so are the patients, at least they seem to be in my neck of the woods. “They make a really positive contribution to our economy.” So did the tragic Chinese cockle pickers. Lots of cheap labour that will work from dawn til dusk doesn’t help our home grown unemployed. We already have over a million youngsters without work. We have too few houses and too many people, too many children and too few places in schools. In London if you try to drive anywhere, get on a bus, or if you’re feeling very brave, a tube train you would quickly realise we are desperately over populated. I don’t care if people come from the Balkans or Bangladesh, we’re bursting at the seams.
We need more people like we need a hole in the head!
I read the whole thing, and couldn’t find the name “Neather” or an acknowledgement of what he said about what Labour really did. Instead, I read Nick Robinson say the main reason for deliberately flooding the country with too many, too far, too fast, was “economic”. Nor did I see him mention that Jack Straw said it was a mistake.
The public does deserve the truth, but they’re not getting it from Nick Robinson. As usual.
Anyone who thinks the BBC doesn’t truly believe that most people who oppose rapid mass immigration are simply racists should have a look at their reporting on the issue in the US. They all tell the same tale. Not only do they deliberately use the language of activists, but they generally censor the word “illegal” from all discussion of the topic. A couple of years ago they even hired a German immigrant to the US, Franz Strasser, to do a series of reports on “immigration” and not once did he ever mention the word “illegal”, even though that’s what the debate is really about in the US. It was especially dishonest when he did two separate reports from “Sanctuary Cities”, so called because the local authorities deliberately flaunt immigration laws and shelter illegals. The entire series of reports was essentially one big lie for propaganda purposes. Strasser still works for the BBC in the US as a digital media journalist.
All you know is that people oppose “immigration”, when in fact it’s the illegal part that everyone doesn’t like. Every single BBC journalist in the US who has ever touched on that subject has been dishonest in this way.
Mardell actually just says it’s about race, even while never telling us that on of the largest activist organizations is called “La Raza”: The Race. The Mexican and Spanish-speaking communities are the racists. They’re the ones who care only about having more people who look and sound like them. You don’t see them trying to help all the Chinese illegal immigrants essentially held captive and working as indentured servants. You don’t see them trying to help all those young women from Eastern Europe caught in the sex traffic. Nope, it’s all about ethnicity. The BBC is serially dishonest on this issue, wherever they cover it.
The BBC hasn’t told the truth about immigration because of their ideology and contempt for the public. Once again, we see proof that what DB got Hugh Sykes to accidentally admit is what they really think.
Speaking of illegals -Has the BBC covered this as part of its new ,open and honest approach to immigration?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-566068/Thousands-known-illegal-immigrants-STILL-got-National-Insurance-numbers-admit-ministers.html
I’d suggest that for someone who is an inveterate liar, there is no limit to the lies that will be told. In addition, the more they tell lies and ‘get away with it’ the bolder they become and the more inventive in the lies they tell. I’m not sure how this will all end but I am sure that the truth always comes out in the end. I just wish that when that point is reached, the perpetrators would be appropriately punished; but I can’t see that happening.
Hey, leave the President out of this…..
Ha ha. But of course, it’s not a joke, it’s a tragedy.
Can the BBC or anyone tell me any normal country that allows any of us to land there and settle based on OUR rights , not that country’s rights or it’s people ?
It is looking like a major liberal offensive is under way. I thought this might happen. The EU elections are soon.
Refuse to be brainwashed and refuse to engage. The BBC just cannot be trusted.
At all costs refuse to argue the case from an economic viewpoint. Stick to a refusal to allow colonisation and the prime imperative that English culture and English law is paramount.
Liberal cannot handle this approach without descending into abuse.
Watch how even important news items are stripped of any country of origin identity by the BBC. You know. Men “from Bradford” not men of Pakistani origin from Bradford. Its a trick the Beeb know well and have practiced for years in the interest of promoting social cohesion (as though Pravda was believed)
A video feature on shoulder-surfing people at cash machines showed the familiar trademarks of Roma – cheap sportswear, baby buggy, woman with ground-length skirt, but of course no mention of the identity of said criminals, which you would have to be blind not to recognise.
we are constantly told by the bbc and the left wing media that immigration has brought is great riches and has enriched us with cultural diversity,is there anybody in this blog that can tell me how mass immigration has improved your lifes and enriched the communitys you live in with culural diversity and the wonders of multi culturism. i dont think there is but then again i could be pleasantly surprised to hear that there are people out there that are happy with the situation of mass immigration that has been imposed on us since new labour took power in 1997.
my recollection is that, as a young man in the 60s and 70s, I read several articles about immigration and how it was needed because our indigenous population was getting older. I remember thinking at the time, no, this can’t be true and even if we are getting older on average, improvements in technology, increases in longevity etc will take care of it. We don’t need immigration to provide for this need, and those in charge; ie. our brethren who we have elected to lead us and govern us; won’t let that happen.
How wrong I was. The very people I naively regarded as compatriots were in fact my enemy; and have continued to be such to this day. What I’m trying to say is that we were softened up regarding mass immigration for several decades before the major onslaught occurred during those awful 13 years of labour rule. There are other matters that also occur to me now, with hindsight. I read quite a lot of scifi comics in those days and I recall a recurring theme was of a major catastrophe that would eliminate warring nations and bring the world together as a whole, under one government. It usually involved aliens who came to warn us of something or other that brought this One World Government about. Again, I suggest that we have been softened up in all sorts of ways for what they are doing to us. And of course, the bbc is there in the thick of it, promoting all the propaganda for the prospective new order of lords and masters.
“is there anybody in this blog that can tell me how mass immigration has improved your lifes and enriched the communitys”
That’s an easy one:
1. Awfully awfully nice restaurants.
2. Madga, our cleaner, works really hard for next to nothing.
3. Our Indian GP is jolly nice, and his children are so well spoken.
4. Young Nigel loves living in East London. He says it’s so exciting and diverse, and he’ll miss it when he moves back to the Cotswolds.
5. Our standard of living would plummet if I had to pay my 500 staff more than £6.31 an hour.
See?
Great article again, Alan, you hit the nail right on the head with this one!!
New Labour under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were a racist operated political party. The now very rich Tony Blair was after growth and lining his pocket. He knew that a new wave of immigrants to this country was desperately needed in order to achieve this objective. Keeping the population of this country White was very paramount in New Labour’s thoughts when they wanted to lower the barriers for the entry into the United Kingdom of the new wave of immigrants. I personally have no problem with this move, but would like the hypocrisy of New Labour on race issues to be highlighted. They are no better than the British National Party.
One of the Polish citizens who featured in this documentary clearly stated that his children will be British. He is right, and we have to remember that the Poles are White. New Labour were a bunch of hypocrites on the issue of racism, and knew what they were doing when they chose this route. It is no surprise that David Cameron has done very little to change this situation as his party are greatly in agreement with New Labour; the party they are copying. They are no better than any racist political party on this earth.
That’s very interesting post Yinka, perhaps you could elaborate for me
Was the labour government being “a racist operated political party” when, almost immediately on taking office, then rescinded the “Primary Purpose Rule” increasing non-European immigration (i.e. non-white)
by at least 50%?
Was, as you put it, “Keeping the population of this country White was very paramount in New Labour’s thoughts” when they conspired to “rub our noses in diversity” or when as Lord Mandelson admitted ,they were scoring the globe for immigrants?
And ,in your opinion, is there something intrinsically wrong with wishing to keep Britain white ,any more than say wishing to keep Nigeria black?
I only ask as your objection to the influx of between a half and one million Poles (depending on whether you believe the British or polish government) seems to be that they are hideously white.
Perhaps you would rather a similar number of black Africans had come in their stead? What ,I wonder, would your utopian Britain look like?
Would there be room in it for any white person at all? Or do you seek their total replacement with people of colour?
I do hope to hear from you again soon
“Was the labour government being “a racist operated political party” when, almost immediately on taking office, then rescinded the “Primary Purpose Rule” increasing non-European immigration (i.e. non-white)”
I must confess I knew very little about this ruling until now. This ruling must have favoured all British citizens of every racial background which makes me wonder why you have brought it up. According to what I have read about it, it favoured every race of people – including White – who were married to British citizens. Labour’s agenda on this move is not clear to me at all. It could be a smokescreen to an underlying matter of theirs which has since seen Nick Griffin (BNP) on the receiving end of bullying in 2009 by a carefully selected panel on Question Time; when New Labour’s racism was coming to light; please, don’t forget Gordon Brown’s “British jobs for British workers” rant when he became PM.
“Was, as you put it, “Keeping the population of this country White was very paramount in New Labour’s thoughts” when they conspired to “rub our noses in diversity”
One effective ruling that New Labour introduced when they made changes to employment law was the introduction of the “burden of proof” for Race Discrimination and unfair dismissal claims. As things currently stand in Britain, Black and Minority Ethnic citizens need some legislation like the RRA 1976 to protect us from a lot of unfairness within the system as a whole. The new employment law ruling has worked very heavily against Black and Minority Ethnic citizens; a good number who have been pushed out of their employments. All to most have tried fighting these claims in different employment tribunals across the country with little to no success. Following massive injustices in employment tribunals, rogue employers’ who – in all sincerity never truly wanted to employ us – end up giving out bad references; making it very hard for us to seek employment elsewhere.
“And ,in your opinion, is there something intrinsically wrong with wishing to keep Britain white ,any more than say wishing to keep Nigeria black?”
Britain – the country of my birth – will never be an all White nation again. Equal opportunities has always been my goal; not inequality. Political parties playing the race card to either win elections, or prolong their stay in power is tantamount to cheating. As for keeping Nigeria Black, I don’t know what their racial laws are, neither do I see how Nigeria fits into this topic. The logic behind this point is quite shallow.
“I only ask as your objection to the influx of between a half and one million Poles (depending on whether you believe the British or polish government) seems to be that they are hideously white.”
If you read my thread properly, I was attacking the hypocrisy of New Labour on the subject of race. I have written to the Conservative Party a few years ago, requesting that they seize upon the opportunity to discredit New Labour’s credibility on not being a racist party after August 2011’s race riots in which New Labour’s racist policies over a period of thirteen years was chiefly responsible. The Tories decided to help them cover it all up instead. I can assure you that the influx of Polish citizens to these shores are of no importance nor interest to me at all. Most of the Poles and other Eastern European citizens I have spoken to over the years, have complained of hostility coming mainly from White British citizens towards them.
“Perhaps you would rather a similar number of black Africans had come in their stead?”
I refer you to the answer I have given above.
“What ,I wonder, would your utopian Britain look like?”
I am a strong advocator for equal opportunities; that will be my idea of a utopian Britain.
“Would there be room in it for any white person at all?”
The United Kingdom is a predominantly White nation and that’s how I found it when I was born; that’s how I hope it remains when I die; and I hope to live long. I have no wish to see it differ. However, I would like to see Black British born citizens play an active and positive part in the country of their birth that they love namely; the United Kingdom. I would love people from other parts of the world to take Black British citizens seriously, and give us our just dues. We are Black and very proud to be British too.
“Or do you seek their total replacement with people of colour?”
My earlier answers and comments should answer this question.
Stewart, thank you for your interesting post. I hope my response has clarified my position on this very touchy subject.
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