Last day of January and a final Open Thread of the month! It’s been a busy month here on Biased BBC to welcome in 2014 and my sincere thanks to all my fellow writers and above all to you, dear reader, for coming here and sharing your thoughts on the BBC.
WEEKEND OPEN THREAD…
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London’s fine example of “enrichment” spreads throughout the land… According to the Metropolitan Police as reported by the BBC website (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25974360) some 54 London gangs have extended their criminal activities into other British cities. Of course, there is zero information about the people who make up these gangs, so perhaps we’re supposed to think they are the descendants of lovable rogues Ronnie & Reggie. Maybe there are some clues in the Met’s galleries of wanted suspects for South London (http://content.met.police.uk/cs/Satellite?c=MPSContent_C&cid=1400019282329&pagename=MPS_CMS_Internet%2FMPSLayout), North London (http://content.met.police.uk/cs/Satellite?c=MPSContent_C&cid=1400019352504&pagename=MPS_CMS_Internet%2FMPSLayout) or in their Robbery gallery (http://content.met.police.uk/cs/Satellite?c=MPSContent_C&cid=1400017474382&pagename=MPS_CMS_Internet%2FMPSLayout). Still, nothing for BBC types and politicos to worry about from the safety of their closeted and gated communities.
One sub-set of gangs which INBBC won’t recognise:-
“Muslim Gangs Enforce Sharia Law in London”
(2013)
by Soeren Kern.
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3555/sharia-law-london
Norway are waking up to face the crime problem. Will this piece of news be seen on the BBC? Will it be cited as part of the discussion on immigration/deportation and crime?
http://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/norway-deports-record-number-of-muslims-to-reduce-crime/
The comments on that site are utterly immature and quite disgusting.
What makes you say that?
George R,
“One sub-set of gangs which INBBC won’t recognise:-
‘Muslim Gangs Enforce Sharia Law in London’”
There was one ‘gang’ of four people who were arrested in 2013 as reported by the BBC:
http://bbc.in/LmrEDH
There have been no incidents since.
Meanwhile the right wing “Britain First” political party (launched by ex-BNP member Paul Golding) has posted a video of themselves touring the East End in an armoured land rover targeting muslims and telling them “this is our country if you want to live here you abide by our laws”. Paul Golding has since been arrested for an unrelated charge of alleged harassment”
Nothing about this on the BBC.
No but they should have ,and then let the viewer decide, ‘targeting muslims’ or defending freedom against facism
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bed_1391240563
Could get interesting if these ‘gangs’ try to gain any influence here in the North West.
Global Warming clicks in in Alabama:
ATLANTA — A wet winter storm covered much of the Deep South with snow and ice Tuesday, prompting airlines to cancel thousands of flights while snarling traffic, triggering accidents and sending temperatures down into the teens.
Two to three inches of snow fell in Atlanta, a rarity. More than 1,200 flights into and out of Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport, the nation’s busiest, were canceled Tuesday, and more than 250 Wednesday flights through Atlanta were scrubbed in advance.
Hello BBC, Hello?
Very quiet about this bit of Global Warming in the USA over here in the U.K., I wonder why?
For a realistic and intelligent take on our climate, the one that the BBC chooses to ignore, have a listen to Piers Corbyn’s most recent appearance on Alex Jones. (1.42 on)
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BvvL2a6uy44&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DBvvL2a6uy44
What you’re failing to grasp is that Global Warming is axiomatic.
Whatever the weather does or doesn’t do IT IS CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING. Hot, cold, wet, windy, snow, drought – everything is global warming. Everything.
This proves that global warming is happening because anything that happens is caused by global warming.
This was a public service posting on behalf of the BBC thought police. Thank you for your time.
2012 we had a dry winter and farmers were concerned for their crops. It started raining in June and never stopped and we had the wettest harvest for years. Ah said the climate change lobby, we predict that Britain will have drier winters and wetter summers. Last summer wasn’t too bad, little in the way of predictions. Now we have flooding, which the Labour Chris Smith at the Environment Agency tells us would have been little affected by dredging (in spite of what anyone with local knowledge of the Levels or a science background could work out for themselves as nonsense) and I read in the Telegraph that the Climate Change lobby predicts wetter winters. My prediction is the the BBC will be running with this one if they are not already
‘Warm wet winters and dry hot summers. Snow will be a thing of the past’.
Pity no-one told that stubbornest of stubborn British bastards – the weather.
The problem is also to do with journalist’s addiction to hyperbole to justify their copy. An event is not newsworthy unless it if the hottest, coldest, fastest, slowest, biggest, best, worst… extremity is the newsworthy point of traction. As a result, 99% of things are ignored because they are not extreme. Pathetic, really.
BBC News Channel and Norman ‘but-Labour-say’ Smith has decided for us what will be the main contentious subject matter of the yet to be held Anglo-French summit.
So we already know exactly how he and the BBC are going to spin whatever the participants have to say after the meeting.
And of course – you guessed it – Hollande may not be able to arrange an assignation that remains secret; he may not be able to fix the French economy with his extreme version of Miliband’s Plan B; but the Beeb do still much prefer his Plan EU over and above anything our own Westminster government might ever come up with.
Has anyone else noted the lack of advertisments for the new season of Top Gear? It’s by far and away their most popular show and given it starts this Sunday I thought it would’ve been pushed really hard. The only reason I know it’s on at all is because a friend shared a link about it with me.
Contrast this to the endless plugging of Doctor Who or Sherlock by Steven Moffat and their subliminal lefty content.
Anyone would think they’re ashamed that their most popular show is fronted by non pc blokes who single handedly manage to throw the lefty tripe back in their employers faces.
To be fair it could be because people will watch Top Gear anyway and will know when it is next due on. It being so popular it probably doesn’t need advertising. The other two offerings need to be pushed more so are?
Then again …
“Top Gear to spearhead new BBC male-oriented global channels”
http://www.autoblog.com/2014/01/30/top-gear-spearhead-new-bbc-male-oriented-global-channels/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fautoblog+%28Autoblog%29
Of course if the BBC are going to advertise, and by ‘advertise’ I mean swamp the airwaves with spam for their own cruddy programmes, I would rather they turned a deal with Nike, Coke, and BT instead and rebated some of the licence fee.
They didn’t so much ‘advertise’ the Dr Who nonsense as conduct a DDOS attack on the nation’s television sets.
the BBC lies? (surely not :-D)
about Pally Muslim killers?
“BBC News abandons all pretence of fact checking”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/bbc-lies-about-palestinian-jihadist-who-opened-fire-on-israeli-soldiers/
Was anyone else unfortunate enough to hear ‘Shappi Talk’ on R4, Tuesday evening. A well balanced ‘political comedy’ programme, which began with Shappi Khorsandi attacking Lady Thatcher, then she interviewed John O’Farrell to tell us how great Labour are, after this we had a guest ‘comedian’ to give us three minutes of playground insults aimed at Nick Griffin, soon followed by the second instalment of the John O’Farrell interview, and finished off with a bit more left-wing whinging from Shappi herself. Apparently she keeps in touch with some old uni-friends who are opposed to immigration (like 80% of Britain’s population)
This programme was first broadcast in 2010, and was shite then, so why repeat it now?
Thanks for pointing this one out – I heard it and yes the infantile leftist bias was appalling for all the reasons you gave, but over and above everything, it was totally unfunny. Note to smug lefty comics – how about some actual jokes???
Jokes disappeared long ago, since the BBC gave platform to political activists with a sideline in comedy (Jeremy Hardy, SWP, for example) pandering to student-politics dopey West London metropolitan audiences at the Hammersmith Apollo.
Yep, one of Khorsandi’s ‘jokes’ revolved around a story about a routine she did for the violent Communist terrorist organisation, ‘Hope Not Hate’, which she referred to as an ‘anti Fascist’ group.
Humour is no longer necessary, simply the correct opinions.
I take it this is the Shappi that appears on these programs to tell us about her experiences in the 60s, 70’s 80s 90s etc. Of course her recollections never seem to bear any resemblance to mine. Another one of those people that I have no idea why they are on TV / Radio as she seems to be as funny as a puppy dying.
I see the BBC have their latest weather money-shot :
“record blah blah rainfall something or other since the last time someone measured it anyway”
Quick, call Roy Castle, the McWirters, or was it Eddie Waring…?
Young Andrew Plant is down at Burrowbridge in his red anorak reporting on the ‘Flood Fatigue’.
I think I’ve got some of that. It sounds like a mini Ethiopia out there! But more wet than hungry.
So Andrew how bad is it? By the way, there was hardly a rain drop or ripple to be seen.
“They are ‘kind of’ used to it”
That’ll be because of the whole Somerset Levels thing…..
“So this Essex business man has donated a heap of sand – I’ve forgotten your name – so introduce yourself”
Thank goodness for all those BBC CoJo courses – where would we be without them?
The sand, the voluntary donation effort – Gosh it really is just like Africa all over again.
And then just hold that Pulitzer Prize, Andrew seemed to really get his dander up when the military were mentioned…..
“Boots on the ground, you might say”
“But the military turned up, decided there was nothing they could do that the firebrigade were not already doing… and went away – so they are on standby”
Flood fatigue, indeed. Blimey anyone looking in would think there was a BBC news agenda or two at play here.
Just as a matter of interest does anyone know the answer to this?
If it does not snow in January it invariably rains. In the January precipitation figures that include snow is the snow added to the rain when comparing Januaries? If it is not included does it not mean that the figures for all rain Januarys are useless for making the sort of claims the BBC like to make?
I just assumed the met office keeps a record of total precipitation (i.e. snow, rain, hail, cats&dogs) and that the journalists were too dim to work out that there is a difference in meaning between the words: ‘rain’ and ‘precipitation’. Or maybe they think we’re too stupid to know what precipitation means.
Personally I wouldn’t trust the met office records on anything. They probably feed in results from a computer model into actual data of precipitation in order to prove global warming in some arcane byzantine statistical smoothing slight-of-hand. That’s what they appear to do with everything else.
Unusually good article in the DT:
Why Radio 3 is out of tune with its listeners
Some ogg comments as well. No knee jerk accusations of snobbery so far.
Damn! I’m regressing again.
“ogg” is Neanderthal for “good”.
Neanderthals are an underserved minority and I, for one, demand matters affecting their community be given more coverage.
The BBC may hem and haw, and say that, according to the British Museum, there are no full-blooded Neanderthals left living in Britain, but this is a mere cavil. How, indeed, were they to remain subspecies-“pure” when their men were killed off and their women used as concubines to provide flunkies for the scut work in Modern Homo Sapiens societies?
These poor Neanderthals’ descendants dare not reveal themselves– since they can “pass” for “Sapiens,” most obviously do, lest they be targeted to be victims of “Subspeciesism” by the more intolerant amongst us. It is a sad reflection on our society that none of the political parties has a position on this– especially Labour, as you would think they would be most interested, Neanderthals in the main voting for them. Can we not allow Neanderthals to be open about who they are– “out and proud”?
While I am not “Neo” myself, I nonetheless identify with their struggle. It is about time the broadcasters do too– they have extolled the virtues of communities that, were we to be honest, can be compared to Neanderthals and found wanting, simply because those communities have been more vocal.
Yes, but what about us Beaker folk? Been here for 4,500 years we have.
Danny Alexander!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/scottishnews/3255947/I-might-look-like-Beaker-but-Im-not-a-Muppet.html
Beaker sings Feelings
(it’s all me me me)
Beaker singing Feelings
Some of my best friends are Neanderthals or, as they prefer to be known as Chelsea fans. Whilst I appreciate they are hardly anyone’s cup of tea they should be allowed to live their lives in peace. Preferably abroad.
Sorry for using the C word BTW.
Liverpool FC fans = “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
Chelsea FC fans = “You’ll Never Walk Again.”
If you have type 2 diabetes, long-term depression, lupus, billiary cirrhosis – an autoimmune disease of the liver, Crohn’s disease or are a smoker, then you probably are a decendant.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25944817
Yes, I’ve listened to Radio 3 since the 1960s, and it is definitely deteriorated for the reasons in the article, and also because of the relentless importing of “news” into the morning programmes, which of course are the BBC slant, so we have the headlines (what the Guardian or the Independent think), never an opportunity lost to slag off the Tories, and so on. I so don’t want to hear all this – they seem frightened there might be a corner of the airwaves which escapes the relentless propaganda. It’s all very sad. And finally there’s Kate Derham…..
The usual drivel from Today this morning – but at the end Sarah Montague introduced an item about being a man in the 21st century and started it off by playing some dirge by Billy Bragg, commenting at the end “Billy Bragg, always worth listening to” – words fail me.
Naturally the BBC love the socialist millionaire, man of the people Bragg.
And fifteen minutes given over to Pete Seeger on Last Word.
He attacked Dylans amp at Newport in 1965 or something-how many health and safety regulations does THAT break?
An oaf who nearly got himself electrocuted-as well as giving Bob that frizzy perm of his.
He nicked “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”-and never gave the money he cleverly got for “adapting” the tune to Harry Belafonte…who was, at least , black.
So a racist purloiner of the African heritage too…did Obama know this?
Still-at least Bragg wasn`t asked onto “Last Word” to quack his bellicosity!…still sniffing in the Pink Room at Radio Solent , until Patrik Fitgerald cops it!(No, me neither!)
Patrick Fitzgerald…saw him in the late 70’s
Yet MORE bloody Pete Seeger on “Review” on Radio 4…with Andy Kershaw…I`m guessing he won`t be heading the domestic violence aspects of any coming Womans Hour.
Kershaw puffed up Seeger-as well as Rosen, Laurie and Ian McMillan…all lefty luvvies and all with sinecures at the Beeb.
The right kind of lefty…
Seeger again got “Lionised”…and still avoiding paying his full whack for lifting the South African song he “borrowed”.
He nearly killed Bob Dylan…and went to his grave a la Miliband.
Unrepentant about what his Uncle Joe did in the old USSR.
hence the adulation by the BBC, and cretins like Kershaw.
Imagine he thinks the Isle of Man is Robben Island to his Greatness-and the Beeb only encourage it.
PS-think I saw him too, supporting Costello!
(Today prog) – Sarah & Chris (Leslie) had a good chuckle at silly Beaker for suggesting that the bust was anything to do with Gordon Brown’s government. Leslie was allowed to twist Alexander’s statement into “how could Labour’s spending on schools’n’hospitals have caused the downfall of Lehman Brothers?”. Sarah had no intention of suggesting that Alexander’s argument was not quite like that.
Sarah says at the end of Leslie’s rebuttal “So we don’t have any difference over that particular row?” Whatever did she mean? (@2:40.35)
I preferred the shock that 29 out of 43 constabularies had a below average rate of reported rape cases. I wonder what they think an “average is”?
Are they saying that more blokes should be raping?
Does Jenni Murray concur, or know that the BBC are suggesting this?
Or are they?…and hoping we`re a bit more Savilised than that?
So has anybody watched this sop of a propaganda piece for Syrian refugees who have managed to find sanctuary inside Bulgaria. Apparently they aren’t happy there and just want to leave the country for Germany,UK or Italy . Listen to how these people running for their lives , didn’t expect Europe to be this poor. Watch how a protest by children in Bulgaria , all loft placards in……English. Not Arabic,Not German or even Italian.
This got me thinking, people who moved to Canada, America or even Australia 100s of years ago, what did they do when they got their feet on the ground.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25973419
what did they do when they got their feet on the ground
Killed the natives?
What did they do? If unofficial histories of Australia have any credence they engaged in wild bouts of public sex. If you had spent the last eight months chained to your unscrubbed male fellow prisoner that is a very reasonable action. Most people moving to Australia and America in the early days had no choice in the matter.
bBBC ‘news’ website has a section on the front page labelled ‘Democracy Live’. They think the most important event in the House of Commons was ‘An MP calls for gay sports stars to join the UK delegation to the Sochi Winter Olympics’.
The queers at the bBBC are obsessed with it.
And nothing about the Lords queering the Euro Referendum paving Bill , despite the democratic will of the Commons having been wilfully thwarted by Time Lord Servers like Mandelson, Kinnock, Foulkes, Heseltine?
And nothing about -again, democratically elected Tory MPs-being refused a chance to amend a Bill that might send the likes of Hamza back, and stop them putting their flip flops up on Cheries desks? And staying to rape and murder, then charge us for the burka and beard dyes?
Nah, that`ll be populist and opportunist-unstatesmanlike and pandering to the mob…that`ll be us then!
Cheap political point scoring-as opposed to sneering at Putin…last patriot standing at this rate, God help us!
Not only at the House of Lords. The destruction of the natural family continues apace at the EU. They are about to vote another LGBT ‘initiative’ to establish a protected species an ‘environmental’ (roadmap) for hopeless, gender confused, cross-dressing peacocks (disguised as feeble liberal and Marxist politicians) a real perverts charter for the BBC. More protection assured (for this vocal minority) than any endangered species of white Rhinocerous. Why should they be protected from the cost of living, biological impossibility and drug costs (NHS will eventually collapse or taxes will rise).
We may not win but we will go down fighting against the social media maniacs and perverts in society who wish to destroy family life. This LUNACEK report will do that. Totalitarian ‘sus’ laws that will be ‘gold plated’ (as usual) by the BBC now that Labour has surrendered control to the EU with Liberal support. Thanks guys (and girls) if you have signed. We need 50,000 more signatures to make an international protest.
Sign the petition: http://www.citizengo.org/en/2882-european-parliament-will-vote-roadmap-special-lgbt-rights-lunacekno
Shock horror! There are more rapes in London and Manchester (and some other counties) than in Durham, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Dyfed-Powys and Lincolnshire. Danny Shaw (Home affairs correspondent, BBC News) thinks it is because different Police forces treat victims differently. No mention of other factors like the ‘richness’ of different areas or even a sensible comparison such as whether other violent crimes vary across the country.
Why do we have to pay the TV tax for such poor quality reporting?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25964991
I think describing it as “poor quality” is generous.
I’d describe it as dishonest and corrupt.
Agree. Unpalatable truths must be suppressed for the good of the liberal left mass immigration multicultural harmony project.
Yes, and not facing up to the real factors behind these rapes (nothing to do with varying police forces) will inevitably lead to more disgusting crimes. Still, as long as the liberal narrative remains, it is all worth it, eh?
How the bBC twists (And lies) a story into promoting its own political agenda.
Central African Republic clashes ‘kill 35’ in Bangui
Fighting in the Central African Republic capital has left 35 people dead in three days, the country’s Red Cross society says. The “unprecedented level of violence” in Bangui had also left 65 wounded, the head of the Red Cross in CAR said. There have been widespread reports of revenge attacks as mainly Muslim fighters withdraw from the city.
So reading the above do you get the impression that like nearly every bBC article from C.A.R, that the victims here are also…Islamic?. That POV is given further credence by how the bBC report:
Earlier this week, a human rights worker told the BBC how he had witnessed a mob of suspected “anti-balakas” mutilating the body of two Muslim men recently killed with machetes.
So what would you be thinking after reading the above that Christians are killing Muslims. (According to the bBC, the killings only transpired after And I quote:
“There have been widespread reports of revenge attacks as mainly Muslim fighters withdraw from the city.)
So
Today is friday and here is how AFP report the same story
Fighters from the Central African Republic’s Seleka rebel group violently seized a town north of the capital Thursday, sending terrorised civilians fleeing, according to military and diplomatic sources. A paramilitary police source told AFP a convoy of about 50 vehicles loaded with Seleka fighters surrounded Sibut on Wednesday night, committing atrocities against the population of the town about 180 kilometres (110 miles) north of Bangui. The mostly Muslim fighters, reported to have been speaking only in Arabic, took full control of the town on Thursday.
Hang on, according to the bBC, the killings only happened as revenge attacks after Islamic fighter left. thus giving the impression that they weren’t around to protect their kin from non Muslims. Yet, in reality it was the opposite.
Anybody else get the impression the bBC have changed this story around for their own political purposes.
They are different events.
The BBC story refers to events in the capital, Bangui.
The AFP story refers to events in Sibut, “about 180 kilometres (110 miles) north of Bangui.”
Danny thanks for that, but hang on why didn’t the bBC mention this about the deaths in the capital:
ten Seleka fighters were killed in Bangui by French soldiers, attacked by the former rebels at the military camp RDOT where they are confined, according to a diplomatic source.
http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2014/01/30/centrafrique-a-bangui-la-traque-des-musulmans-au-quartier-combattants_976569
The simple fact of the matter is, CAR is 80% Christianity, Islam represents less than 10% of the population, yet Islamic thugs armed with weapons took control of the country and started killing the Kuffer in which to put them in their place, quite naturally they spared their fellow Muslims and quite naturally the people have enough is enough and lashed out at…Muslims. Now when its the other way round in …Iraq,Pakistan,Afganstan, Pakistan, the bBC always promotes the killings as anger against the West (Teddy bears,Cartoons, Polio vaccine,Israel etc..) in other words they justify the killings as..our fault. Yet when Muslims start their killing fest and they in turn get attacked, then its…..our fault (As in Christians)
Lastly, while the bBC is more than happy to bitch about how many Muslims have died in CAR, they don’t seem to apply the same caveat in reporting when the victims are Christians from Islamic thugs who are on the retreat from the capital.
Boston jihad mass murder.
Two reports:-
1.) Pamela Geller-
“Feds to seek death penalty for Boston Marathon jihad mass murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev”
http://pamelageller.com/2014/01/feds-seek-death-penalty-boston-marathon-jihad-mass-murderer-dzhokhar-tsarnaev.html/
2.) BBC-Democrat:-
“US will seek death penalty against Boston bombings suspect”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25972950
Point well taken Danny. BBC could however be faulted for saying the violence in Banqui occurred after Muslim fighters withdrew from the city. They actually went off to attack and terrorize a different city. Withdrawing sounds a little more peaceful an activity.
I am not sure that is the case.
Firstly it appears that the violence in the capital did occur when the fighters withdrew.
Secondly we don’t know that the violence that occurred in Sibut was conducted by the same Muslim fighters. In fact the AFP story appears to rule that out. “It was not clear where the Seleka fighters had come from, but it was unlikely to be from Bangui, where the presence of the convoy would have been detected along the main road by French and African troops stationed in the capital.”
Maybe we shouldn’t knock the BBC so much. It struck me today that when I tune into the Beeb I get to see a side of life I never knew existed.
For example everyone’s getting excited about the Roma influx and as someone who’s had their wallet lifted (very expertly I might add) by a Roma I never realised the other side.
The BBC website got a really heart warming story. Taj=ke Ramona Konstantin:
When she arrived from Romania in 2009 she could not speak English and sold The Big Issue in the North to get by.
Now, she helps others settle in the city, has won awards for her voluntary work and has met the Queen.
The wonderful thing is about Roma is that they are all really nice and hard-working. I never imagined that. The Beeb is great.
On the same subject there’s a great piece on Cameron’s immigration lies called: “A Lie Told With Good Intent” at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-lie-thats-told-with-good-intent.html
The wonderful thing is about Roma is that they are all really nice and hard-working. I never imagined that. The Beeb is great.
Even the bloke who picked your pocket, ah how nice.
bBC headline:
Knox ‘frightened’ by murder ruling
I wonder if she is as scared as Meredith Kercher. was as she was being murdered? Oh hang on the victim was British, no wonder the bBC is taking sides with the murderer.
indeed, the bbc have adopted the guardian line that knox is a victim and that italy won’t go for her extradition – so `move along, nothing to see here ……………`
i see that the bbc is still not allowing comments on Knox’s denials, just like the guardian, whodathunkit?
I don’t suppose there’s much chance the Obamamessiah will extradite her.
Whatever the actual circumstances – I don’t like the position of someone being tried, found innocent on appeal and then being found guilty again. Was there new evidence? If not this seems to be a politically motivated decision. Rather like getting Eire to vote again on the EU constitution until they get it right – once.
Interesting as I didn’t bother listening to the BBC re Knox and the Channel 4 7pm news seemed to take the hinted line that Knox was guilty.
the last day of january 2014 ends with the biggest treachery since new labour opened the borders to mass immigration to the uk in 1997,the liberal and labour party yesterday blocked in pariament a bill to deport foreign criminals including rapists,paedophiles,murderers and terrorists,in short nick clegg and ed milliband put the humans right of these foreign criminals before the victims of these scum that should not of been let into this country in the first place to commit there crimes,this is a very important issue and it proves that the liberals and the labour party have just contempt for the british people and are concerns about immigration and the crimes that it brings with it,the cat has been let out of the bag here and be in no doubt if the liberals and the labour party get elected in the next election they will open the borders to more mass immigration and hordes of foreign criminals who know now that they wont be deported if they commit there crimes in the uk.shame on you nick clegg and ed millband you disgust me with your contempt and treachery towards the victims of crime who many are women and children by these foreign criminals.
don’t forget quisling Dave also got the Cons to abstain – so not backed by any of the main parties
Spot on stuart-we said the same here.
This one will be back…the political class and their BBC flautists will be returning to their vomit before too long.
Truly despicable-and no reporting about what kind of country begs Europe to keep the new Al-Bradys and Bin-Sutcliffes.
bBC anti Semitism at work:
Two airstrikes in the Middle-East, one by Egyptian helicopters in the Sinai killing 13 terrorists and 3 Israeli air-strikes in Gaza in response to the increase of rocket attacks which injure 8 people and an attack by terrorists inside Yemen killing 15
soldiers which one do you think the bBC would report:
Yup, the Jews win again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/middleeast/2014/01/140130_gaza_israeli_attack.shtml
However, the bBC while headlining with the above on the Arabic website, haven’t bothered reporting the same story in English?
http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/115295/iaf-strikes-hamas-targets-response-rocket-fire?
If you are like me and can’t read Arabic, cut and paste the URL into Chrome and it will automatically translate it into English.
After years of watching the bBBC surely you realise that it is everyone’s human right to come here and refuse to learn English, but how dare you not speak
MuslimArabic?The BBC values lives according to who kills them.
The Israeli air force had a couple of sorties into Syria this week and sorted a couple of problems out.
And hey the Syrian air force just sat back looking the other way, they only go after defensless civilians.
No reports on BBC. Only the JC.
Complaints from both sides again. The anti-Israel crowd will see the failure to report aggressive warmongering and murder by Israel as proof that the BBC is a Zionist shill.
The BBC has the resources to broadcast ‘content’ as they like to call it, to all sorts of minority groups. For example it has ethnic minority channels and programmes about obscure topics that are of interest to only a few. I agree that it should continue to cater for minority interests. But I can’t understand why it NEVER has any programme which gives a right wing view of the world and very few that are even moderately right of centre.
Why can’t there be three news and current affairs channels broadcast by the BBC,a left, a right and a centre channel, all equally funded . The BBC would then be fulfilling its charter obligation to be impartial . Surely, as someone mentioned early this week, it should welcome diversity of view and opinion, as well as diversity of ethnicity and culture.
If I believed that the BBC was living up to its Charter obligation on impartiality, I may even look favourably on a license fee increase. But, as long it continues to give its liberal left world view only, I am all for tearing it down and making a bonfire of it and tuning into Fox News which is certainly no more biased than the BBC is.
More on the BBC from the DT:
That’s it. If the BBC don’t want me, I’m boycotting them
Not a fan of Dan Hodges, mind.
I recall accusations a while ago that this site seemed to have lost its way, or something or other. Probably because we are seeing more and more criticism elsewhere.
Applies to the NHS as well. People are waking up.
Hodges is boycotting the BBC – for now, anyway – because he feels left out. He’s probably right about the callous way BBC producers treat him, and is hardly the first one to complain about it. He’s not boycotting them because of the bias or anything else. The only tenuous connection between his complaint and ours about the BBC is perhaps that the producers’ constant thoughtlessness and lack of respect for many guests is par for the course.
So, David– let’s be hearing you on the subject of the Republican Nat’l Cmte “boycotting” MSNBC over the content of an offensive tweet, prompting the usual sort of a pro-forma “yeah-sure-OK-we’re-sorry (*yawn*)” apology.
Somehow, I don’t see that happening in Britain– a Party or for that matter any individual party sending a news outlet to Coventry for an offensive tweet.
(It’s a corporate-logo Twitter account tweet implying that people on the Right would have kittens seeing an interracial couple and their small daughter flogging a breakfast cereal in an advert showing during the Super Bowl. Shows on MSNBC, though not the network corporately, have form in irresponsible charges of racism, it must be added.)
Of course, MSNBC’s bias is clearly announced in its programming, so any GOP functionary appearing there is bearding the lion in its den at the best of times anyway. Less so any outlet in Britain, though the bias is there to see anyhow. Who would blame someone for saying, “I don’t see the point, if all I’m there for is to be abused– conduct your choir practice yourselves and include me out.”
But how long do you expect people to continue to be spat upon and to take it, replying, “Thank you sir, may I have another?”
I don’t think an actual boycott would be wise at all. However, I’m pretty sure this is just a stunt to get a real apology from the MSNBC boss, rather than blaming an anthropomorphized Twitter account for the error (Although I might be giving Priebus too much credit as I’m not sure he’s that bright). Everyone knows that tweet really does reflect the ethos and mindset at MSNBC (I nearly wrote “BBC” there, heh), so nobody buys the apology given so far. Certainly not after Bashir and Baldwin and Maddow and Harris-Perry. The first two made one step too far too many, Maddow has doubled down on her deceitfulness, and Harris-Perry openly lied in her apology. Many people understood that the photo was chosen by her and her production team for its comedy (to them) value, so she’s lying when she claims she had no idea things would go that way and she intended to say something uplifting. Plus many noticed that her on-air tearful apology was immediately followed by a segment on how the Tea Party was racist. Even the WaPo has noticed how pathetic it was, so I think the Republicans might have a little public traction on this one, if they stick to their guns and don’t say anything stupid.
But it’s not a good idea to appear to avoid critics, especially since nearly the entire mainstream media is against them in the first place. If they make this a pattern, where are Republican and non-Left candidates going to appear? Fox News, Hannity’s radio show, and a few Right-wing radio shoutfests?
Having said that, this incident sure is a clear parallel with the problem of institutional bias at the BBC. The organization is full of emotional Progressives, all dedicated enemies of the Republican Party (with the lone exception of tame RINO Scarborough) and conservatives and anyone who doesn’t share their belief system, and the staffer who posted the offending tweet probably felt completely at ease doing it and had no idea anyone would think it controversial. One has only to look at our Beeboid tweets page to see the similarity.
These things don’t happen in a vacuum. They happen in an echo chamber. But at least the Beeboids are usually savvy enough to leave the most extremist, hate-filled, eliminationist rhetoric to their radio and comedy talent.
“These things don’t happen in a vacuum. They happen in an echo chamber.”
David, you may not have coined either of those, but when juxtaposed like that…wow!!
“‘Not wise’ to bring Syrians to UK says Dr Halla Diyab”
(inc 2 mnin video clip).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25974427
– not bad, Halla, not bad at all.”
Andrew Neil, Portillo and Abbott had an interesting debate with her over this issue. Neil took the devil’s advocate position that Syrian refugees would be much better off in Britain rather than forcing them to live in the hellhole refugee camps their Muslim Arabi brethren consign them to. Diyab understood that, but her point was that it was culturally and emotionally better for refugees to stay somewhere close to their own kind, rather than having to go through more trauma of coping with a completely alien environment.
When the topic of lousy refugee camp conditions came up, of course the Palestinians kept in crap conditions by the Muslim Arabs of Jordan were mentioned. This prompted Diane Abbott to announce that the Palestinian “cause” was stronger and more popular than ever. She insisted it was, but Neil corrected her by saying that in his many visits to the Middle East (he has an office in Dubai, I think), nobody cares about the Palestinians at the moment and they’re all worried about Syria and possibly Iran and whether or not Israel or the US will take action. Abbott didn’t care. Diyab, on the other hand, felt that the refugees would have a better chance of success at integrating and getting on with their lives in Muslim Arab countries.
I thought Diyab made some very good points, but didn’t have enough of an idea of how to make it work (i.e. assuage fears that Syrian refugees would only end up in hellholes kept by their neighbors) to stand up against the practiced policy statements of Portillo or Neil, or Abbott’s base emotional stuff.
It could have opened up a very interesting and worthwhile discussion, and it’s too bad This Week isn’t the place for that. Perhaps that middle-aged man called Nicky could work it into one of his group rant fests.
H/T for link from Guido Fawkes:
Labourite Dan Hodges has at last joined my own personal boycott of BBC Radio 5 – well, sort of. I won’t listen to that Radio station any more and Dan says he won’t now try to get on the BBC as commenator.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100257559/thats-it-if-the-bbc-dont-want-me-im-boycotting-them/
An interesting article, well worth the read and also worth reading between the lines – if you see what I mean. Hodges is a New Labour man and very critical of Miliband’s leadership style and tactics. Perhaps that’s why Dan doesn’t get the BBC gig these days half as much as he would like?
‘But there will no QT appearances for me, or any other programmes where they say “can we get back to you?” when you and they both know that they never will. I’ve decided to get a life again. Or to at least try’
This is a zinger….
‘Kate Smurthwaite was born 9 December 1975, is a British Goth, a stand-up comedian and a political activist. And last night she was ace on Question Time’
Not for BBC-Democrat to report?:-
“Pentagon Capitulates to Sharia, Relaxes Uniform Rules to Allow Islamic Beards, Turbans and Hijabs”
http://pamelageller.com/2014/01/pentagon-capitulates-sharia-relaxes-uniform-rules-allow-islamic-beards-turbans-hijabs.html/
I.m with Prof on this one…
https://twitter.com/ProfMcGhee/status/429034964697370626/photo/1
I dreamt last night I was beating her to death with the corpse of Emily Thornberry.
Then I woke up 🙁
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/house-moves.html
(The internal edits are not his).
The ever-resilient Hugs in contemplative mood with an empathetic, to the point of gush, chum about how she decided to stay keeping on coming into the BBC on a vast salary despite screwing up royally.
In full, here:
http://www.radioacademy.org/news/blog/2014/01/radiotalk-fellows-special-with-helen-boaden/
Comments enabled. Currently. Given her history, it may be interesting how long that prevails, though it is a wee bit out of the hive, so you never know.
Interesting to discover that she is one of few to have ‘FA’ after her name.
OMFG, two minutes in and “Hugs” is talking about the enthusiastic, warm, and wonderful welcome she got from all the Radio Beeboids. She felt safe and at home, and humble and privileged. Oh, leaving radio and moving to News was heartbreaking, was it?
I’m stopping now because it’s sick-making. Will return to it later after an hour or so of sailing the Caribbean of 1715 and taking a few Spanish and British ships.
PS: While typing the above, “Hugs” got around to professing her awe and respect for the extensive knowledge of the Radio 3 producers and presenters. Does that include the giddy young lady who presented Barenboim’s concert Ring cycle during the Proms, the presenter who kept telling everyone she’d never heard any of it before?
Bc
Oopsie. Sorry about that. No edit/delete… What to do?
“I’m stopping now because it’s sick-making”
It is quite saccharine, isn’t it?
And here was me thinking of how this woman has inspired so many who have followed her on the principles of ‘Holding Power To Account (but make sure if it’s you the plug is easily pulled)’.
Back listening to the first salvo in the rehabilitation of “Hugs” Boaden. Apparently commercial radio and the BBC must work together to “pack a punch” in the industry. Yes, keep your enemies closer, dear. And keep telling yourself that the commercial sector needs the BBC to continue moving from strength to strength. Uh-huh.
Why is the digital radio player app so slow to develop? Factors beyond anyone’s control, apparently.
After some shop talk about digital radio issues, we got to the real issue: Savile.
Apparently “Hugs” was “shocked”, shocked to find
“This is what we did to people in a su….sort of way.”
What about all the criticism?
“It demanded a certain degree of resilience which, luckily enough, I had.”
Good grief. Not an ounce of shame, not an ounce of remorse, not an ounce of guilt, not an ounce of cognizance of error. Of course, what else should we suspect, as she actually got a @#$%ing raise to move back to Radio.
This woman actually sees herself as some sort of hero for continuing to “keep on coming” while being criticized for what happened. Holy @#$@$%#^$%&$^&*%&*.
I can’t go on listening. Oh, hell, again as typing, “Hugs” Boaden denigrates the complaints the BBC receives. I’m shocked, shocked to find that complaints to the BBC only makes them hold their audience in more contempt than ever. Your license fee hard at work.
“as typing, “Hugs” Boaden denigrates the complaints the BBC receives. I’m shocked, shocked to find that complaints to the BBC only makes them hold their audience in more contempt than ever.”
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Let us not forget that this was a woman once (if not still) at the head of the editorial side of the complaints midden. A woman who bragged about an ’email to nowhere’ in case anyone somehow got near her perch.
She is, truly, untouchable.
It is to be hoped that one day hubris will meet karma.
Prince Charles has called me a *Headless Chicken*. I’m deeply offended by this trolling, do I contact the police?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/10610108/Prince-Charles-climate-change-deniers-are-headless-chickens.html
Nah! He come from a limited gene-pool – like some others I know who marry their cousins.
Funny that!
Charles full quote was declaimed by Dimbleby Minor on “Any Questions” just now….sounded like new Holy Writ to me!
1. Headless chickens?…isn`t that EXACTLY what the Greenie Libs and BBC Labrats look like as they dig the icebreaker out of the Antarctic glaciers/…and put up police tape/scene of crime screens around it so we don`t care to discuss the unpleasantness.
2. And I don`t recall Charles comments about Islam wiping Christians out in the very cradle of Judeo-Christian getting to be read out by Dimblyboy within 24 hours of his saying his crap on “global boiling deniers”.
Didn`t even crawl its way onto the agenda, as far as I can remember!
Think God will judge me more for denying the murder of Christians in Islamic killing fields than in squabbling about whether Dimblebys hot water bottle gets heated by sustainable sources or not.
Majoring on Minors-very BBC…ask Savile PBUH.
The thing I feel about the ‘warmists’ is that they are intellectually inferior – listening to Any Questions last night was ample proof of this.
At least my head is not up my own A****.
“At least my head is not up my own A***.”
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Please let none of the evening shift call for proof of assertion, as they are prone to do.
Yes odd description. We are the ones who stay calm and say there’s nothing to worry about and Charles calls us ‘headless chickens’. May I describe the Prince as a prat?
His Royal Highness’ carbon footprint must be as big as his ears.
In 2012-13, The Prince of Wales undertook a total of 657 official engagements, of which 154 were overseas, and The Duchess of Cornwall undertook 277 engagements, of which 122 were overseas.
Presumably the Prince of Wales said something at each of these 657 engagements yet how many speeches were reported?
On message, on BBC or perhaps One Message, One BBC.
That’s a shed load of nasty carbon dioxide.
Female Beeboid, Ms STEWART, employed to conjure up a political problems for Tories (not for Labour Party), re-WOMEN-
“Do the Conservatives have a problem with women?
By Louise Stewart, of BBC-NUJ political staff.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25989584
Presumably, she is seeing no problem with the Liberal approach to women…or is being touchy-feely OK if its LibDems at it(albeit literally)?
As for the BBCs attitude to the children of said women?
Well she works for them, so I imagine her journalistic curiosity stops at the point where her salary starts.
Does Beeboid politico Ms STEWART have a problem with Tories?
This is really the importation of the “war on women” meme we heard during the last US elections. Then it was pushed by the left wing blogs and MSNBC to influence the election, here the state broadcaster does the dirty work to influence the next election.
Expect this to increase markedly right up until the election purdah and expect Lynton Crosby to do nothing about it at all.
Yes, the Conservatives allowed a culture of rampant sexual harassment and abuse for nigh on forty years, knowingly let top Conservative stars fiddle their thirteen year-old daughters on the premises, sent women out to pasture once they hit a certain age and didn’t look so fresh on camera, and….oh, hang on…..
INBBC implicated in UK ban on anti-Islamic jihad, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer:
“The Spencer-Geller ban: Truth is hate crime in Cameron’s Britain”
By Robert Spencer.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/the-spencer-geller-ban-truth-is-hate-crime-in-camerons-britain/
Sometimes stories are just so funny that the fact the BBC aren’t involved doesn’t matter
There’s a Muslim guy in Manchester gets caught for speeding, and instead of doing the normal thing, does a Chris Huhne and tells plod that his mother was driving. The drawback came that as a proper Muslim he had a long black beard – and the photograph proved it.
Imprisoned for 6 months !
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/driver-noveed-mumtaz-hale-trafford-6656109
Maybe his mother also has a beard, though? 🙂
I bet theres many a beard under the burka
And not a few in Westminster, either– in quite a different sense of the word, if you will…
Surprised there are no Muslim circuses.
Roll up, Roll up ladies and gentlemen! Come and be amazed by the incredible headless women, handless thieves, fearful homosexuals and the astonishing explosive jihadis!
Newsnight: flooding – Monbiot’s answer = get rid of sheep farming.
yep! the Moonbat in full effect, what a shame he wasn t sitting next to that farmers union chap.
“act crazy somewhere else … we re all out here”
There is a pinch of truth in this, but it has nothing to do with sheep. Run-off from high ground will be slowed if there are some trees and bushes up there (which will also provide shelter belts for sheep). But the EU will only pay farming grants for ground where the trees and bushes have been cleared, so the sheep farmers have to clear the ground or go bankrupt.
BBC News page: photo of Miliband smiling with clenched fist of “victory”. Headline says: “Labour Party reforms could see unions and MPs lose say”
He’s a dynamic and progressive chap is this Miliband. According to the BBC, anyway.
Censoring London Tube strike threat and the activities of Bob CROW?
Will Beeboids’ BBC-NUJ report the following on Bob CROW, leader of their fraternal brother’s RMT trade union?:-
“High life of Bob, the lobster-red baron: With his members set to bring misery to commuters this week, rail union boss Crow escapes to sip cocktails in Rio sunshine.
“£145,000-a-year union firebrand enjoys £10,000 luxury holiday.
“Enjoyed unlimited champagne, sushi and caviar from Barbados to Brazil.
“He sat by the pool most days in a prime position nearest to the bar.
“Suite boasted private balcony, marble bathroom and walk-in wardrobe.
“Serenaded guests with Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline on karaoke night.
“Later checked in to a £250-a-night five-star hotel on Copacabana beach.
“Now back home at to his tax-payer funded London council house.
“Last month he called for militant action to stop ‘rich getting richer.’”
By LOUISE ECCLES and MATT ROPER.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549825/High-life-Bob-lobster-red-baron-With-members-set-bring-misery-commuters-week-rail-union-boss-Crow-escapes-sip-cocktails-Rio-sunshine.html#ixzz2s1eaDowr
Hideous inside and out!
Napoleon the pig – some animals are more equal than others. Like the Hampstead and Primrose Hill socialists who privately educate their offspring whilst closing off the grammar school lifeline to ordinary, talented kids.
He does have sound views on the EU though.
On another matter – if Margaret Hodge gets her way and tourists gain more access to Buck House, perhaps the ratepayers of Woodford Green will be allowed to tour Crowe Towers for a small entrance fee.
BBC regular Simon Fanshawe reviewing the papers this morning.
1. Obligatory praise for 12 Years a Slave, again. Fawning over Samuel L Jackson. Comment: “Trayvon Martin was killed for being black.” So now we know.
2. Something about the the recovery being fragile.
3. Anti Tory piece about the treatment of wimmin.
Good start to the weekend then.
wot! no “boycott Israel” ow queer!
how he used to adore gay icon Scarlett … hey heeee s slippin.
http://youtu.be/rhZ4ZAgPb_k
just in case any more Beebots want to send faux “guilt” pics of half empty sodastream bottles.
http://youtu.be/u6TL-ZNxYXk
I think Canada’s backbone began to stiffen a couple of weeks ago:
Harper: Support for Israel is morally and strategically right
Most Beeboids will hate this.
There’s been a big, Canada-shaped hole on the Beeboid map of North America since Harper was elected so they probably won’t notice.
Stephen Harper is streets ahead of Obama on economics and on foreign policy. Maybe some day the UK will have a leader like Harper or Abbott in Australia ….
Has anyone got more info on this, meaning the BBC?
EPA official Admits Under Oath GlobalWarming is fraud
January 22, 2014
— In stunning testimony, under Oath, before the U.S. House of Representatives, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, a former executive of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revealed the EPA’s goal is to “modify the DNA of Capitalism.” Put another way, the entire “Global Warming” crusade has been a complete lie from the start — to attack the free market system — and the people telling this lie KNEW it was a lie when they started telling it!
This former EPA executive is now on his way to jail.
Nope: nothing on BBC yet. Found a PDF link on that testimony here: U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Transcripts (bottom of page). http://turnerradionetwork.com/news/211-global-warming-fraud-exposed-under-oath-
Whilst searching also found this (dated 2010). I think we can safely say the UN is ‘in on it’ bigtime (rather like the BBC). http://usactionnews.com/2010/11/un-climate-official-admits-climate-hoax-is-about-redistributing-wealth-globally/
Pull up a comfy chair and digest this lot:
http://www.akdart.com/warming5.html
Looks like the new BBC science guest Ed is sorted…
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BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today)
01/02/2014
Dredging can make #flooding worse, Alison Baptiste @EnvAgency tells #r4today
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It is possible there were/are other views possible, but sadly space did not allow.
Equally, there appeared no opportunity (on twitter at least; one is sure they were torn a strip by the presenter) for a Labour placeperson’s claim about Tory placepeople to be put in proper context.
It’s getting to the point that come the election Labour won’t need an ad agency, they can just stick Today tweets up on posters as a full coordinated multi-media campaign.
It will if you start upstream.
I hope that the EA know this /sarc off
Guest Who,
“It is possible there were/are other views possible, but sadly space did not allow.”
BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today)
31/01/2014
Dredging Somerset Levels ‘only solution’ http://bbc.in/1kj6eEm #r4today
Tx for that exercise in BBC archive trawling.
However, not sure posting from another day (time unclear) allays concerns on the BBC in its ‘news’ failing to appreciate that piecemeal quotes scattered about its broadcast estate seldom adds up to a coherent, accurate whole story, especially when a niche online concession is left up a backwater (see what I did there?) to be dredged up (oops, I did it again) to counter what is being pushed across the board using any and all broadcast avenues.
I must have missed the tweet associated with the one I quote, where the EA spokesperson’s assertion was countered. Rather clearly, given the tweet you cite, another view was known to the BBC.
All I saw, in or around the time, was what I quoted. And space did not appear to allow other views.
Just as one might wonder what other questions may have been posted to ‘balance’ this one:
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@BBCRadio4: Q2 – Have communities in Somerset been neglected by the government? #bbcaq
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So far, the phrasing has offered those who are selective on which ‘government’ is to blame much to moan about. I’ll keep an eye out for “Are the Somerset flood failures down to policies set by Labour when in power, and its still embedded placemen?”
seems this just won t go away.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03t0kyq/Newsnight_29_01_2014/
5mins 50
Now, BBC s Newswatch – had viewers complaining about its cowardice? why not show the cartoon in a news show about it? why no close up on the original TBQs show
anyway? … this is, why Nawaz tweeted it anyway.
Why? is the BBC still grovelling, bleating “the prophet” ad nauseum … only even considered as such by 2% of the population? … which means a probable 98% of BBC viewers
(just like the % s in TBQs phone ins) think he s an extremely retrograde, brainwashing example from a fascistic ideology.
this from earlier in the week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03s6880/5_live_Breakfast_Your_Call_27_01_2014/
After this, re M Nawaz death threats/Religion OK? – phone in debate show, which was turned very quickly into a “lorra lorra Panto failed comics palava” by host Nikki Campbell and buddies, this sad charade … which (as usual) only followed on from :-
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/28/speaking-islam-loudmouths-hijacked
this incisive take on the issue,(and moderate M Nawaz).
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/uk-muslim-politician-incites-rage-death-threats-by-posting-jesus-and-mo-cartoon-on-twitter/
Yet the likes of Paul Mason (ex-BBC now, I know) says that it’s the BBC’s pro-Israel coverage of the Gaza Flotilla is proof of their cowardice.
It’s those complaints from both sides again. The problem is which side most BBC staff think they’re on.
Interesting (but as nigh on impossible to quantify or prove, no more than this) how certain BBC ex-employees’ comments seem accorded ‘wisdom from on high’ status in certain quarters, whilst those of others, perhaps less suitable to maintaining narratives, are often framed less flatteringly.
That the Anger and Protests editor of Newsnight spent most of his time seeking global rumbles under the banner of ‘Economics’, hanging with every disgruntled malcontent from Penny Red to the Wolfos Smithanreous of Athens, may suggest his views on ME reporting may have been coloured a bit too.
‘Today’ this morning (Saturday) was interviewing Baroness Morgan about her not being re-appointed as head of Ofsted. (Do contracts get automatically renewed in the Beeb?).
Evan Davis gave her the softest of soft interviews. ‘Really,’ he kept murmuring when told non-Conservatives were being replaced. ‘Really’. The thought of asking why there were so many New Labour appointees in quangos never crossed his silly little head.
The tie-in between the BBC and Labour was never more amply illustrated as when her interview became the lead story on the Radio 4 news at 9 a.m. and on the BBC website, minutes later.
The interns who work the BBC’s weekend shift are just too partisan to be careful.
Yep.
Gordon Brown’s secret army could defeat the Coalition’s welfare and education reforms
Britain’s charities and quangos are now stuffed to the gunwales with Labour placemen
And when just one of these loses her position, the BBC has her on to whine about it.
Messed up the HTML.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/9633379/Gordon-Browns-secret-army-could-defeat-the-Coalitions-welfare-and-education-reforms.html
Not a few hundred but over 27,000 ‘charties’ http://www.iea.org.uk/publications/research/sock-puppets-how-the-government-lobbies-itself-and-why
All rely on goverment state ‘handouts’. Gordon Brown’s secret army of Labour placeman (revealed on a UK IFS doc but better to read here – from Canada is a ‘real’ choker). Can it get any worse for us?. https://exopoliticsnews.wordpress.com/category/u-s-and-other-international-news/
Hello Sally!!! How do you suppose you got the job in the first place??? I wonder, was it your vast experience in education, or because you spent 10 a***licking in Blair’s office?
OFSTED?
Was she ever a teacher then?…let alone one who we could trust to ensure that our kids stay thick and Labour voting?
And wasn`t Tony McNultys wife/partner/lifestyle coach/ expenses fiddler-one Christine Gilbert-was SHE not the OFSTED big Squat prior to wee Sally of NewLabor?
Bloody Tories!
To give them their due-at least Blairs shills, hos and pimps DO care enough about public services enough to render them useless save for providing nectar `til they die!
Thick Tories not only won`t cauterise these grubs…won`t cut the leeches out…but won`t even make a fuss or defend their right to excise the Labour Cancer.
Don`t care enough…all lofty gents with no principles, point or purpose.
Looks like we`ll have to grow our own chinned up wonders before the Pastel Nazis of Green/Labour persuasions make it an offence for us to do so.
If you can’t do, teach.
If you can’t teach, teach teachers.
If you can’t teach teachers, inspect them.
This is no different than the BBC employing mainly Labour lefties….
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25997102
Complete non-story and BBC subtle anti-Tory indoctrination.
Asymmetrically poised Emily Maitlis (perhaps her new fat cheque from the Licence Payer was tucked in her hand bag weighing her down to one side all week) and it is back in black again for our expensive Newsnight diva.
Talking of musical chairs and golden handshakes with ludicrous transfer fees it was quickly over to the sports team for an update on the soccer transfer window at 11.
Any last minute breaking news before the window slams shut? The sports team don’t know. Why? ‘Because we’re sitting here in a BBC newsroom’ Oh shucks, there’s a gaffe/catchphrase that ought to catch on.
And our Emily… well she don’t know about all this. You might have thought that all our dough would have bought more of an all rounder. I suppose we can’t expect her to play out of position.
Shhhh. Just between us here – I watched her chair the debate on Quantitative Easing earlier in the show – and, just strickly entre nous – I got the impression that our Emily don’t know that much about economics either. Shhhhh. Mum’s the word.
So I guess her long suit must be politics. Who knew!
Anyway Emily shrugs off the problem with the non-transfer window news with ‘You can tell I’m Newsnight’
Just to underline that last thought: Here are tomorrows frontpages, The Independent followed by the Guardian….’
By my very rough reckoning that’s a combined 3% of national newspaper circulation right there up front on the BBC.
BBC : A minority over represented.
Headline news! Those evil Tories are ousting our fine Labour supporters from their god-given right to a well-paid job doing, err, not a lot at all.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25997102
Strange I can’t recall a similar story when Labour stuffed the civil service etc. with hundreds of thousands of their supporters.
How very dare the toreees take away our unelected, cushy quango posts which we use to lecture and harangue the little prople, and pose as independent sources for bbc pet stories. How very dare they!
people – sausage fingers strike again.
As BBC-NUJ knows only too well, and politically approves:-
Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton-“is a Labour Party politician.”
‘Wikipedia’:-
“From 1985, she worked for the Labour Party under John Smith and Tony Blair before joining Blair’s political office in 10 Downing Street following the 1997 general election. She was made a life peer as Baroness Morgan of Huyton, of Huyton in the County of Merseyside in 2001.
She was Minister of State for Women in the Cabinet Office before rejoining 10 Downing Street as Director of Government Relations. ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Morgan,_Baroness_Morgan_of_Huyton
They’re pushing this one. Such is its importance that its currently leading on 5 Live’s news bulletins
Yet strangely they’ve yet to mention she was appointed in 2011 by this very government. Odd that.
And she was just one of many. The Blair junta packed the UK’s quangos and civil service (both local and national) with supporters and activists. It would take a decade to root out these parasites – even assuming a fake-Conservative like Cameron had the courage to do it.
‘They’re pushing this one’
Can’t think why.
Even the Flokkers here are smarter (it’s all relative, mind) on which battles to fight and which to dodge.
On FaceBook, which does allow comments , amongst the spammers and loons there are many from even the non-Tory side clearly unimpressed with the Labour Party and its PR department’s rather poor grasp of hypocrisy.
And in other, lighter news…
http://www.thedrum.com/stuff/2014/02/01/bbc-subtitle-blunder-ushers-year-whores-chinese-new-year-celebrated?
Blunder? Given the BBC’s new professional ethics on display, it may simply be honesty. If a mistake, ‘The BBC may have more work to do…’
Especially as they seem down to their last £4Bpa to be wasting money frittering funds away on silly stuff like accuracy when there are so many other prior calls on such unique largesse.
No attempt by the BBC or the freeloader in question to explain why, if there was such a policy, she wasn’t outed nearly four years ago when they came to power.
And stuffed the Lords with Labour life peers.
I wonder why this isn’t on the BBC.
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/10971547.Somali_community_protests_over_lesbian_adoption/?ref=mr
When a link appears, Dez will tell us, he’s good at that, oh….errr,……hang on, I think that job has now passed on to Albie.
Giving innocent children to vile perverts must be the ultimate act of evil !
As I have mentioned previously, I wrote to the BBC to complain about a disparaging (and unnecessary) reference to Margaret Thatcher. The reply is below.
“Thanks for your contact regarding ‘Sunday’ on 12 January.
I understand you had concerns with regards to references to Margaret Thatcher and I note your comments about showing socialist prejudice.
Your concerns were put to Amanda Hancox, Series Producer, BBC Religion & Ethics, who responded as follows:
“The item in Sunday on the Devil was prompted by a pilot scheme in the Church of England with new wording for the baptism service. References to the devil were taken out of this new liturgy because it was thought that the concept of the devil was too defuse to be meaningful in the service. So one of the Sunday team went on the streets of Manchester to ask people the following question – If someone uses the term “the Devil” what do you think of? A decision was made to keep in the reference to Margaret Thatcher because it was a genuine response by a young person on the street and it illustrated the worry that the Church of England has that the term “the Devil” is too defuse and used to refer to a variety of people and concepts. This was a purely editorial decision, it was relevant and there was no intention to make a political point.”
Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.
Kind Regards
Nicola Maguire
BBC Complaints”
Firstly of course that is no justification at all as I’m sure that were many other “genuine responses” which referred to other people (e.g. Tony Blair for his “warmongering”) which were not selected and no reason was given why it was that only Margaret Thatcher from that range was used. And of course there was no political point; never mind the selection, it was also the very first and therefore most prominent item on the list. So the no-doubt “liberal” editor either does the work randomly or actually considers every bit of the running order and decided what great fun it would be that way to have a dig at the Tories
Then apparently the response was from a “young” person. Really? As in the “someone who was never affected by her directly but who has received a lifetime of unchallenged vitriol from the State Broadcaster” sort of young person?
Finally, it seems that BBC producers, with no doubt a good degree in Media Studies, cannot distinguish from the verb “defuse” (to make less dangerous etc.) from the adjective “diffuse” (widespread or scattered). Even used it twice, less we thought it was a typo, to stress her ignorance.
One despairs
I wonder if a “genuine response” by a member of the public had said “Mohammed” or “Islam”, they would have broadcast it? I would bet a tidy sum they would not.
Perhaps if the respondent had said Stalin or Mao?
But then the BBC’s favourite hate figure is Mrs Thatcher and let no opportunity go by……..
“We left it in as a sign that the agenda has been working.”
Somebody needs to defuse the rampant bias at the BBC.
‘If someone uses the term “the Devil” what do you think of?
Odd that having been asked about a what, a who was offered by some, and run with.
‘…it was a genuine response by a young person on the street’
Guessing proving that would fall behind #foiexempted doors?
‘This was a purely editorial decision’
No doubt. Rather the point of the complaint?
‘it was relevant’ If you say so Nicola. That would fall more under your ‘belief’, though.
‘…and there was no intention to make a political point’ Again, if you say so. But given the point that ended up being made, in such a way, utter BS.
Must be nice to work for an internal, in secret, unaccountable, pointless but ring-fenced waste of space like CECUTT.
Stupid complaint, and a waste of public funds. Can I have a refund please?
You posted exactly the same comment in another thread but you were trolling under a different name.
“You posted exactly the same comment in another thread but you were trolling under a different name”
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But bet there were a lot of giggles between the the three of them over the choice of this latest one.
Speaking of choice, raising the concept of a refund over wastes of public funds is… brave… given all the BBC has managed of late.
That’s factual, recorded waste, as opposed to semantic, personal belief-based assessments so beloved of CECUTT drones who do seem drawn like moths to a flame by such threads where their own words reach the sunlight. Note not a single attempt at rational argument, but simply defaulting to raspberry blowing on the always quaint basis of their personal credibility.
Be interesting if Mike gets one of those ‘we notice you didn’t keep this our little secret’ notes that tend to show the BBC’s interest in legitimate critics is hardly ever benign.
Well it at least tells us that young people are being taught about Thatcher in school (despite, probably, them not being born when she left office). And it also tells us the bias amongst teachers.
So in such a report we elicit two biases for the price of one!
The BBC has sidelined all complaints in partcular for ‘Comedy or Drama’ because ‘Trotsksy’ are (even within the BBC) are a particular problem since Mi5 were asked (in 1986*) to leave all ‘internal security’ to the BBC as ‘self regulated’ (read Labour regulated). Geoge Sewell (former BBC radio 4 presenter and journalist for 20 years, now writes for the Specatator). PDF book: ‘The BBC and bias beyond news’ *page (Sec1:9). Also talks on ‘immigration bias’ read; http://www.newcultureforum.org.uk/home/
Mike,
“I’m sure that were many other “genuine responses” which referred to other people”
Sadly the contents of nothing more than your imagination does not add up to a credible argument.
FAIL.
As a relative newcomer to this site when I saw Dez’s response above I was annoyed by the inanity of the reply and started to compose a reasoned counterpoint. Then I realised that he is a troll and as such would probably get off on having wound me off. So I will ignore you and let you get back to your work. I gather from the time that you are a minor functionary on the graveyard shift at the BBC. Security guards perhaps? Oh, and you don’t win arguments by SHOUTING
Yes trolls are best ignored.
Very polite of you, Mike, and far better than he deserves.
Excellent post above – another one to add to the scores of examples of BBC anti-Thatcher bias.
A “Young person” chosen completely at random no doubt. I have always had doubts about the randomness of the people asked their views in this way. I wonder how many contributors comments are wiped. Assuming they were a young person then they in all likelihood would have no recollection of living under a Thatcher Government, so on balance of probability would it not be fair to consider that comment was not that random. Or were they asking choosing people at random outside a socialist (don’t)worker meeting.?
Just as an interesting exercise (at random) to see how the quangos are filled with Labour placemen, I had a look at the Environment Agency that is doing such a marvellous job (not) of managing the Somerset Levels this year.
The Chairman is Lord Chris Smith, formerly MP (Labour, of course) and Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, now Baron Smith of Finsbury. He was appointed to the EA in 2008 and re-appointed in 2011 (why? no comment from the BBC at the time) and is up for re-appointment in July 2014. That will be an interesting exercise!
Of course, it goes a good deal deeper than that. The EA, like many other national and local bodies, has been thoroughly infiltrated by both Labour and ‘Green’ activists. While the champagne socialists of the Blair era waft around setting the ‘overall direction’ the stormtroopers of the Left do the day to day business of harassing farmers and other landowners, in pursuit of a nakedly political agenda, disguised as ‘environmentalism’.
And the chances of the BBC ever doing some real investigative journalism by digging into these rotten boroughs? None whatsoever!
and the Chairman before Cwissie Smith was a Labour Baroness
More YouTube censorship by the BBC and TV Licensing. If they don’t like what people say, however honest, they’ll go running to Google and ask for it to be pulled. More evidence of the “transparent” culture at the BBC!
TV Licensing Blubs to YouTube
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549768/The-4-year-old-Al-Qaeda-fighter-Syria-shooting-AK-47.html… what odds he ends coming to the uk as a refugee ?
And Beeboids didn’t complain about this either:-
“Presumably, Baroness Morgan didn’t complain when 77 per cent of politically-active public appointees were Labour affiliated”
http://www.conservativehome.com/leftwatch/2014/02/presumably-baroness-morgan-didnt-complain-when-77-per-cent-of-public-appointments-were-labour-affiliated.html
Spectator’ has checked this out; but Beeboids do not show investigative interest into Labour government quangos-
“Sally Morgan is wrong: quangos are not stuffed with Tories”
By Fraser Nelson.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/02/sally-morgan-is-wrong-quangos-are-not-stuffed-with-tories/
Sally Morgan is wrong: quangos are not stuffed with Tories
Beeboids show their pro-Labour Party bias by refusing to investigate or criticise Labour Party dominated quangos.
This is surely an open goal for the Tories? List all the Labour appointees and ask why the BBC hasn’t given that top billing in the news.
But does anyone believe for one moment that they would have the brains, or the balls?
True. They haven’t.
We are looking at a cabinet full of ministers in urgent need of a spine transplant.
Useless. Who is the chairman of the Conservative Party these days? Is it Shapps? Why is he not all over this like a rash?
I suppose, to be far more fair than they deserve, it’s not impossible to imagine that gummint bods have been hammering away at the BBC all day, only to be met by a wall of indifference.