FRIDAY OPEN THREAD…

Welcome to a sodden Friday. I see the BBC continues to do ALL it can to link the floods to man made climate change. If it rains it is AGW, if it doesn’t, it is AGW. An agenda is pursued at all costs and with scant regard to facts. Here is an Open Thread for the weekend!

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  1. Reed says:

    Complaint to the BBC…
    Handled with customary ̶c̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶t̶t̶e̶n̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ disdain and contempt…

    “However, we have taken on board your comments.
    Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.”

    Now that we’ve binned them, kindly fuck off. I think that’s what they meant.

    http://j4mb.wordpress.com/2014/02/15/further-proof-that-the-bbc-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-male-victims-of-domestic-abuse-violence/

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    • Guest Who says:

      The ‘we’ve passed this to an un-named office gofer for the template blow-off quote’ was rather calculated in distain, considering the evident efforts to marshall areas of concern.
      However, if they see OFCOM as any avenue of value I fear they are in line for further disappointment. It will be bounced back to the Trust quicker than one can say ‘the BBC is comfortable in the BBC’s belief that the BBC is right’.

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  2. George R says:

    British people still financing SOMALI mass immigration and jihad.

    As INBBC must know, the British people have been duped for decades into a unstated ‘policy’ of having mass immigration of often benefit-dependent, sharia and jihad-supporting Somalis in Britain; in addition British people’s funds go to finance sharia and jihad-supporting Somali regime.
    “Somali government diverting arms to Islamic jihad group”
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/somali-government-diverting-arms-to-islamic-jihad-group/comment-page-1#comment-1010337

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  3. OldBloke says:

    Why the Somerset Levels are of interest to certain people:
    http://www.waterr2b.net/sectors/recreation-sport-leisure/wetland-restoration/

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  4. OldBloke says:

    It would appear that no matter what the weather, where ever in the World, it is simply *Climate Change*.
    http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/research/137557.aspx

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  5. George R says:

    In case Islam Not BBC (INBBC) doesn’t know:-

    “What Normal Muslims Think….”

    (inc 3 min video).

    http://pamelageller.com/2014/02/normal-muslims-think.html/

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    • George R says:

      Sunday Telegraph’ (£), has article by Andrew Gilligan entitled:-

      “Syria suicide bomber: When will Britain take jihadis seriously? ”

      Of interest to INBBC?

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  6. Richard Pinder says:

    Radio 4 at 8pm, Feedback asks, should have Today invited Lord Lawson to comment on Climate Change. This must be an appeal by the BBC to those who are calling for more censorship, if the answer is yes because Lord Lawson is not a scientist, somehow with the Green Party calling for a purge, I don’t think that will mean that Today will start inviting causational climate scientists such as Piers Corbyn in the future.

    With freedom of information revealing that “the best scientific experts“ advising the BBC where environmental activists without a single causational or attributional climate scientist present at that seminar, and with BBC journalists and the political and environmental activists that they invite on to the BBC having no relevant scientific qualification either.

    The appeal by the BBC for more censorship of science, scientists and scientific debate, even with better informed politicians like Lord Lawson, does remind me of both National Socialist and Soviet Socialist attempts to win a debate by total censorship to the point of mass murder. I remember a Blackadder joke where Blackadder is advised on how to prevent people from finding out about his wrong doing. “You kill everyone in the World”

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    • George R says:

      Yes, the censoring, Beeboid-‘greenie’ climate fanatics will not be happy until they have totally silenced those with different views.

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    • johnnythefish says:

      ‘Radio 4 at 8pm, Feedback asks, should have Today invited Lord Lawson to comment on Climate Change.’

      The answer to that is no, because they should be inviting ‘sceptical’ scientists on for a change. They are crafty, though, as by making non-scientists appear to be the only voices of scepticism they are fulfilling their own agenda.

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  7. George R says:

    ” Flooding: a synergy between ‘green’ ideologues and Brussels ”

    http://eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=84705

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  8. Thoughtful says:

    Admitting they got it wrong without admitting any bias?

    After complaining that the BBC mislead people into believing that members of the EDL were arrested and not as was the case, that it was the United Association of Fascists members I received this back from the BBC after the initial fob off. Note the denial of any bias:

    “We have raised your complaint with the editorial team at iPM. They have noted your comments and have listened back to this item and acknowledge that it wasn’t clear that the arrests made were of people opposing the EDL march.

    I can assure you that this wasn’t intentional and wasn’t indicative of bias.”

    Makes you wonder exactly what it takes for them to admit bias.

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    • johnnythefish says:

      ‘….and acknowledge that it wasn’t clear that the arrests made were of people opposing the EDL march’.

      Slimy bastards. Combine film of an EDL march with voice-over reporting violence and arrests and hey presto – viewers conclude it’s the EDL wots to blame.

      They do it all the time and most casual listeners/viewers are duped and brainwashed. The point is, once you know the bias is there it screams at you and this is a prime example.

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  9. George R says:

    Beeboids seem to have taken a group decision that recent storms are caused by global warming, so they are only promoting assertions to that effect. This is evident in this one-sided, unquestioning report:

    “Wavier jet stream ‘may drive weather shift'”

    By Pallab Ghosh*
    Science correspondent, BBC News, Chicago.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26023166

    * Note he travels all the way to Chicago for us, regardless of cost to us, or the size of his carbon footprint, in search of this ‘truth’, but misses out the following, nearer home:-

    “No, global warming did NOT cause the storms, says one of the Met Office’s most senior experts”

    and:-

    “Professor Collins told The Mail on Sunday: ‘There is no evidence that global warming can cause the jet stream to get stuck in the way it has this winter. If this is due to climate change, it is outside our knowledge.’”

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/15/flood-fight-at-the-met-office/#more-103322

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    • johnnythefish says:

      ‘If this is due to climate change, it is outside our knowledge.’

      Ah, but just think, one day the science will be ‘settled’.

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  10. noggin says:

    The Big Questions is live from Leith Academy in Edinburgh. Should Christians rise above their differences?
    Do religions need gods?

    hmmm Should Christians rise above their differences eh
    well those rampant “Christians” in Syria could certainly do with listening to the “Dame” this morning,
    those murderous “Christians” in Somalia should too
    those pesky Sunni/Shia “Christians” why can t they just get along eh! they all bow down to the same moon god after all.
    In Africa, (if you can ever get truth out of the BBC) …
    well its just all the fault of those genocidal, mass murdering “Christians”
    Middle East? … Egypt? those bloody antisocial “Christians”
    don t want to get massacred, wiped out, churches bombed?
    … whats bloody wrong with em … eh?
    Bali, Mumbai, Boston, New York, London … Hotels, Airports, Trains, Planes and Shopping Centres … bloody “Christians” eh! … why can t they just get along?

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      ‘Do religions need gods?’
      No, there’s always Marxism and Global Warming.

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      • pah says:

        Or Buddhism even …

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      • noggin says:

        seemed to pushing a big “gay rights” marriage narrative too – note – a conspicuous absence of those nuisance “Christians” who want to immediately hang them from cranes, throw them off of mountains, or mass murder them, why can t these “Christians” rise above their differences, bloody hell 😀 … not too much to ask? …
        why can t they just Adolf Pol Pot … oops! silly me … I mean Allah for guidance

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      • noggin says:

        seemed to pushing a big “gay rights” marriage narrative too – note – a conspicuous absence of those nuisance “Christians” who want to immediately hang them from cranes, throw them off of mountains, or mass murder them, why can t these “Christians” rise above their differences, bloody hell 😀 … not too much to ask? …
        why can t they just ask Adolf Pol Pot … oops! silly me … I mean Allah for guidance

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    • Buggy says:

      Since AFAIK the last European conflict on explicitly schismatic Christian grounds (not including the likes of the ’45 etc) ended in 1648, wouldn’t a more relevant/interesting question be: “760 years after the Crusades ended, should Muslims stop vapouring on about them ad infinitum by now ?”

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    • johnnythefish says:

      Good point, Noggin.

      The BBC are obviously happy that the minor spats between Sunnis, Shias and Alawites don’t warrant debate.

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  11. AsISeeIt says:

    The BBC often tells us that we don’t like politicians who are ‘divisive’. A parallel BBC theme is that we do like politicians who ‘unify’. I’ll leave it to you to supply you own examples.

    The BBC defend their ludicrously imbalanced and out of kilter with actual public opinion current affairs shows such as Question Time and The Big Question by telling us that they provide lively debate.

    And yet the BBC carries a constant commentary that actual ‘lively debate’ such as PMQs turn us off politics – it is too yah-boo, too male, too ‘party political’ (for Godness sake).

    The BBC imply ‘we’ would prefer a less macho, more coalition form of politics – except the large crop of BBC political commentators constantly seek to drive a wedge between the current Coalition partners.

    Tensions and paradoxes inevitable in a broad range of opinions , you might say. However, I can’t help but think were the Labour Party in government with the support of the LibDems and were the BBC more secure in having a Licence Fee renewal at an inflation busting level, well then the story may be somewhat different.

    By the way, if you want to witness some male middle class higher pay grade BBC white liberal lefties in complete agreement over just about every aspect of Life, Art and Society – take in an edition of the BBC News Channel movie review with Mark Kermode and Gavin Esler. What a happy coalition. OK, not much diversity as such but, wow, do they love and promote diversity.

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  12. George R says:

    At last, INBBC now reports severe threat from Islamic jihadists to kill British people.

    “Syria terror threat a big problem for UK – Brokenshire”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26214793

    After years of supporting mass immigration into Britain from Islamic countries, and presenting Islam in euphemistic terms, the British political class (inc three main parties, and INBBC) is now confronted with the consequences of its most irresponsible and dangerous political action.

    But the lesson have not been learnt; still, the British political class campaigns for more mass immigration, e.g. from Islamising Turkey (and for unlimited numbers of asylum seekers who cannot be removed); and these immigrants are certain to include present and future Islamic jihad activists and supporters. In the meantime, opponents of Islamic jihad and sharia, such as American bloggers, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, are still banned from Britain, which is indicative of the Islamising political climate here.

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  13. Pounce says:

    Lord Earls Court wrote:
    They should bring back the death penalty for Muslim suicide bombers.

    Really?

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  14. Dave s says:

    Sometimes political shows do actually tell us something. Marr’s interview with The EU guy Barroso was most enlightening. Unless I misheard . Marr did not push the point too muchbut it is clear the Scots will have to apply for membership of the EU and approval is needed from all member states. That includes those state like Spain that have seperatist movements. Barroso did not sound at all optimistic that this would happen.
    A serious political point here and I wonder how the media is going to treat it. We will have to see.

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    • Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:

      wonder how the media is going to treat it.

      Easy, all except Andrew Neil will ignore it.

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  15. George R says:

    Not talking about floods:
    -Smith, homosexual, Labour boss of public sector quango, Environment Agency, enables our money to be spent on homosexual propaganda. Is this why BBC-NUJ doesn’t criticise him?

    “Why did floods agency spend hundreds on ‘equali-tea’ gay awareness mugs… and £30,000 on gay pride marches? As Britain counts cost of shoddy defences, we reveal bizarre spending by quango bosses.
    “Investigation shows the Environment Agency, headed by Lord Chris Smith – Britain’s first openly gay Cabinet Minister – spent £639 on gay rights mugs.
    “EA also spent £30,000 sponsoring Birmingham’s Gay Pride festival in 2009.
    “Comes as EA faces growing criticism of its handling of the flooding crisis.”
    By SIMON MURPHY and BEN ELLERY

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2560300/Why-did-floods-agency-spend-hundreds-equali-tea-gay-awareness-mugs-30-000-gay-pride-marches-As-Britain-counts-cost-shoddy-defences-reveal-bizarre-spending-quango-bosses.html#ixzz2tUK28jQr

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    • Scott says:

      I see the Mail is relying on Ian Liddell-Grainger for comments, a man who makes even the average Biased BBC commenter look only moderately batshit crazy.

      This is a man who told the Standard, “When I find out where [Lord Smith] is, I will give it to him… If I just have to stick his head down the loo and flush, I will.”

      As he’s a man who clearly wants to regress to the world of the classroom bully, I can only imagine that he’s seen as a hero to several of the unpleasant little souls on here, who hide behind pseudonyms and express similar sentiments.

      (Cue the usual B-BBC defence: “It’s okay for us to behave like snide, ignorant little schoolchildren because, er, TELLY TAX and MUSLIMS.” Only expressed less intelligently.)

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      • Pounce says:

        Scotty:
        “As he’s a man who clearly wants to regress to the world of the classroom bully, I can only imagine that he’s seen as a hero to several of the unpleasant little souls on here”

        And yet nothing from you regards how the Greens are demanding that anybody who doesn’t sign up to their train of thought is sacked. Now is that bullying Scott and if it is how does that mindset from a political party compare to a blog.

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        • Scott says:

          Diddums. Does expecting people to be able to back up their beliefs with evidence disturb you?

          I realise that Vance, Alan, et al peddle their climate change-denying wares without ever pointing out that they’re as unqualified to talk one way or other other on that issue as they are on everything else where they pretend to be a world authority. So of course it’s understandable that their acolytes, the ones who make them look like intellectual leviathans, would react badly to the suggestion.

          Or, you know, you could admit that talking bollocks about how climate change is all a con would be a little bit more helpful if it was backed up in evidence. But on a site where engendering Pavlovian responses from simpletons is more important than telling the truth, I really don’t see that happening anytime soon.

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          • Dave s says:

            I have not seen many here deny that climate change is occuring. It always has and always will. I am sure Vance and Alan would agree with this. It is the causes that are in dispute.
            For your reading I recommend Daniel Greenfield’s essay entitled
            “The Green Socialists of Mars”
            Published on his blog last Thursday.
            I do not link so you will have to look it up. sultanknish.blogspot.co.uk
            I doubt it will alter your perception but it is interesting and Greenfield makes some valid points.
            Greenfiield, like many others, does not subscribe to the notion of an ever improving humanity. In essence the triumph of the liberal world view. This is the fundemental divide between the liberal and the conservative. It colours all debate. It is never to be ignored.

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          • Manfred VR says:

            Scotty,
            What I find baffling is why you keep inhabiting a blog which you describe as being populated by simpletons.
            Also, out of interest, what qualifications do you hold in climate science?

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            • Oldbob says:

              Best to ignore him. He knows the scam is crashing and burning and like the rest of the true believers is starting to panic. He and they can only resort to insults and derision as they slowly realise their fantasy is evaporating and they have nowhere to go.

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          • Pounce says:

            Scott wrote:
            “Diddums. Does expecting people to be able to back up their beliefs with evidence disturb you?

            Diddums, why what an eloquent reply from a so called master of the English language. Scott less people have been flooded out this year than did 2007, in fact less rain has fallen than in 2007, and in 2000
            _72971578_floods_compared_464.gif

            Now lets not forget other wet years, lets not forget hot years (Remember 76?) Let not forget the floods/Storms of yesteryear , do we attribute them to..GW CC. If so want to explain the storm which lashed the Spanish armada , the Mongol invasion fleet, why lets not forget when the Thames froze over.
            Hey I’ll admit that mankind isn’t god for the planet, but the facts remain Mother nature should never be taken for granted .

            But lets go back to how I contrasted your view about how polarized the blogers on here , with the Green Nazis party. This was summed up nicely by how you instead of wishing to debate the issue came out with:
            ” you know, you could admit that talking bollocks about how climate change is all a con

            Scot, is that how you debate by using emotive language instead of facts. As for talking bollocks (Not my piece of cake) Err scott where in that post did I deny GW CC. I didn’t, you in your little hissy fit of an attempt in emulating Violet Elizabeth
            simply screamed and sc reamed in the hope that louder means right. How about you address the question posed rather than screaming foul play ion which to promote the latest fad of the left.

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            • GCooper says:

              Excellent rebuttal, Pounce. The ‘liberal’ worldview is based around what they emotionally believe should be reality rather than what actually is. Facts tend to get in the way, so are dispensed with.

              AGW is just one cause among so many.

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            • johnnythefish says:

              Pounce – I think that should be ‘thcweamed and thcweamed’.

              Good post. They don’t like inconvenient facts up ’em.

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            • feargal the cat says:

              Pounce, not a criticism, but your finger slip, ‘mankind isn’t god for the planet’ is equally true. As ever, good to see facts being wielded so competently.

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          • DickMart says:

            You are missing the point, Scott. Many of us indeed know little about climate science. The whole point of the BBC surely is to inform us in a way that can be understood by non-scientists, in a way that is reasonably objective and impartial. The BBC at one time used to be rather good at this.

            No longer. We know from the scandalous liberal-left bias documented daily on this website that the BBC cannot be trusted in providing impartial analysis on news reporting or current affairs. Sadly, we now know this is also true of climate change, especially from the composition of the seminar of so-called experts, which the BBC lied about and attempted to cover up.

            In view of their track record in closing down debate on issue after issue, we cannot rely on the BBC any more for objective coverage. If they really want their climate change coverage to be taken seriously, they should arrange open debate between scientists of different persuasions. If we are being asked to stump up enormous sums of money to ameliorate alleged anthropogenic global warming, we deserved to be treated like adults.

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          • Andy S. says:

            Scott, do calm down, dear! Keep taking your medication or you may have another “episode”. Is the word “Gay” a trigger for a rant from you? WE never hear from you about the proven bias of the BBC, e.g. 28Gate. But any criticism, however legitimate, of the preferential treatment and the undue influence of the gay lobby on society and you immediately bite and appear on this site like a rabid dog.

            You are the real bigot who visits this site, intolerant of the views of others. You are a fascist!!

            I’ll now expect a foaming at the mouth string of insults from you as is usual from someone who has no legitimate argument. Unlike you, however, I’ll accept insults from a buffoon like you as a badge of honour.

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            • johnnythefish says:

              Another hissy fit from Scotty. My, how he goes off the deep end!

              Mystery, though, we don’t hear from him for weeks and then as soon as ‘gay’ gets a mention he pops up like a demented panto genie in drag.

              Is it a gaydar thing?

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          • Deborah says:

            but Scott – you haven’t responded to whether you think the EA were right to sponsor mugs and a Gay March parade and why the BBC haven’t mentioned it.

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      • stewart says:

        ,”a man who makes even the average Biased BBC commenter look only moderately batshit crazy.”
        (Others can judge that for themselves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Liddell-Grainger)
        You then go on to say
        “a man who clearly wants to regress to the world of the classroom bully,”
        You see no irony in that?
        But non of that addresses whether it is right for the Environment Agency to spend its buget on social engineering, without any mandate.
        Or whether these are questions that the BBC should ask
        Scott the fact is that despite all the effort expended by the liberal inquisition by indoctrination, legislation and intimidation, millions of people do not share your relativist view ( and yes me among them ) you need to come to terms with that and move on.

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        • Scott says:

          You see no irony in that?

          Ah yes, I’m the bully and everybody else on Biased BBC, all the ones who use vile language against me and others, are poor sensitive misunderstood souls.

          If you want to accuse people of being bullies in a way that’s taken seriously, stop turning a blind eye to the behaviour of regulars on here. Until then, carry on believing that you’re right, if that’s what amuses you.

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          • stewart says:

            “They started it ” Is that what your saying?
            Is that the reason you claim the ‘average Biased BBC commenter is batshit crazy.’ rather than the handfull who have gotten into a slanging match with you.
            Do I think I’m right , of course who doesn’t ? But I like to think I’m open to reasoned argument .
            Even from you Scott if you choose to try, even from you.

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          • johnnythefish says:

            ‘Ah yes, I’m the bully and everybody else on Biased BBC, all the ones who use vile language against me and others, are poor sensitive misunderstood souls.’

            Blimey, irony overload.

            Take a few deep breaths, Scott, then try a calm and rational argument. I note DickMart’s excellent post above is still awaiting your reply.

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      • Allen says:

        “This is a man who told the Standard, “When I find out where [Lord Smith] is, I will give it to him… If I just have to stick his head down the loo and flush, I will.””

        I doubt if it was intended literally. If Lord Smith found himself in the same toilet as Ian Liddell-Grainger, I doubt if his Lordship would have anything to fear.

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        • Scott says:

          Bless. A toilet joke, because Lord Smith is gay! Oh, the hilarity. You really know how to pull out all the originality stops, don’t you?

          Still, shouldn’t complain. Biased BBC *does* have a sense of humour: how else could one explain given Alan moderation rights?

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          • GCooper says:

            Scott, it’s time you grew up and realised that there is more to life than your sexuality.

            Ir’s just so…. boring.

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          • Old Goat says:

            Nothing “gay” about Smithy, he’s a miserable, chubby-jowelled quaire.

            And you, Scotty, are you just the same?

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          • johnnythefish says:

            Scott – surely you’re big enough and hard enough to take a toilet joke by now? Or have gays claimed immunity from the grand old British tradition of taking the piss?

            (No intentional puns in any of that, btw.)

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      • Old Goat says:

        Why is it you lefties are often “gay”, hate the rest of us, and seem to think that a cooling climate is a good idea? Are you completely nuts? Why, truly believe that you are.

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    • Dave s says:

      When a country starts acting the way the EA has it is usually best described as “Mickey Mouse”. Although that does a disservice to Mickey.
      The EA is no better or worse that the average quango. Mired in self regarding unreality. Liberalism at it’s most destructive.

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  16. Pounce says:

    How the bBC bigs up the CC agenda against the government (too little, too late) with half the story:
    UK storms: Flood residents ‘cynical’ over army help
    Some residents in Chertsey, Surrey, have told the BBC a show of force from the army following flooding there is “too little too late”. It follows a visit to the area by Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday.

    So yet another sob story about how people have been flooded out of house and home by never seen before floods.
    Now have a look at where that street is:
    v9l1.jpg
    That is Chertsey Bridge road , it runs across the middle of a natural flood plain and is surrounded on all 4 sides by..the Water (Thames 3 sides, a lake behind) I think there is a very good reason why no mass homes have been built on that stretch of land and yet if you look at street view apart of 2 homes all the rest are recent builds. Maybe the question we should be asking is who game permission for those homes to be built in the first place. Expensive mistake, I don’t think so as it is happening across the land and until now nobody seems to have noticed. As i said before, find the people who gave permission, fine and jail them, find the builders, fine and jail them and the solicitors fine and jail them. I’d rather have that used in which to send the message not to build on flood plains, than as mentioned (this morning) have an extra £10.50 on my insurance in which to cover for those people who wish to enjoy a life by the river bank.

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    • Guest Who says:

      OT, but as it’s the weekend and as the usual suspects are doing the exact same thing on a predictably narrow set of topics I figure why not?
      Glorious day out. Makes a change. Spent all of it putting the sandbags away (if still nearby – contingency planning ahead), and chainsawing windfall. At least there is one plus point.
      Had Classic FM for company, and much though the music soothes, the news (I think via SKY) is utterly dire.
      Because the politico-media establishment has either lost the plot or is complicit in the craziest con of the era.
      Was treated to Philip Hammond actually trying to out-wet Ed Miliband… by seeing his idiot claims, and raising them. Hence succeeding in a) being wrong and b) doing so as the lap dog of… Ed Miliband.
      That takes some doing.
      One is sure the BBC was much more rigorous on some of the claims being made by the PPE brigades, while actual scientists and engineers blow apart the hype and spin on various, free, blogs that are actually trustworthy.

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    • Frank Words says:

      A scenario. The population is growing. Extra homes needed. Government (yes them) set targets for new home construction and tell local authorities to get a move on. Find some cheap green field sites. Don’t worry about flood plains – pretty soon a lot of those rivers will run dry. And green field sites are so much easier to turn into nice big developments than knackered brown field sites. Builder slaps them up and knocks them out. Purchasers solicitor asks all the usual pre contract enquiries. Any previous flooding? No. Don’t know. Yes but that was years ago. Purchaser takes a view. Lender takes a view. Global warming. Flooding now? Give it a rest. There are targets to be met and money to be made.
      I think we know the rest….
      Blame runs wide and deep.

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    • pah says:

      The question is not why are they building on flood plains but why aren’t they building appropriately on flood plains. By the very same river in Abingdon there is a row of houses built on stilts. Why not do the same in Cherstey or at least have flood defences built into the properties?

      It is more than possible to build safely on a flood plain and it has been going on for centuries. The difference is that it in the past they built accordingly. Why don’t they now?

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  17. Ember2013 says:

    Am I reading this right?
    Jihadist meets BBC reporter

    BBC journalist interviews jihadist recruiter and has a jolly time discussing the evils of jazz music and the righteousness of Islam?

    This madman (Makaburi not the journalist) is made to look somewhat human on an entire BBC webpage?

    How’s that for a recruiting poster?

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    • Guest Who says:

      It’s the old ‘understanding their motivations’ justification, as with the cannibal jihadi’s recipe tips, no Chianti alllowed.
      Afraid the tonality seldom makes this excuse credible.
      One can only hope that the odd party crash by a Hellfire may upset the canapes or, better yet, make coordinating future invites a rather stressful affair for all involved.
      Actually, by the very flat nature of the ‘report’, I came away with a less than positive impression of the interviewee and his dogma.
      But one has to wonder how many would be seduced by BBC coverage free of the usual ‘analysis’ to the point of offering PR if not propaganda.
      Certainly it’s hard to imagine previous conflicts where the national broadcaster sits down for a tete a tete with the targetting guys at Peenemunde, as they tune up the next V1 to launch in the vague direction of some women and kids living in a locality deemed to have the wrong kind of god.

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    • George R says:

      Yes, and Islam Not BBC, along with Britain’s political class has, for decades, been enabling unlimited numbers of Muslims from Islamic countries, including Somalia, to bring their sharia law and jihad with them to impose on British people, and it’s still happening!

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    • George R says:

      THE ENEMY WITHIN-

      INBBC, this is how serious the Islamic jihad threat is –

      “Hundreds of British jihadis returning from fight in Syria spark terror alert after police and MI-5 thwart Mumbai-style attack on London.”

      Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2560504/Hundreds-British-jihadis-returning-fight-Syria-spark-terror-alert-police-MI5-thwart-Mumbai-style-attack-London.html#ixzz2tVv5Fts6
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  18. Chuckabrick says:

    The BBC News Channel is running a piece about the Jetstream – the argument being that humanity has over-warmed the Arctic and the western Pacific area and this has caused the Jetstream to move in a bigger wave pattern than it would follow otherwise. Firstly the inference is it has never done this before, and they can’t know this because we’ve only known about it and its movements for a short time. I don’t think this was mentioned.

    But as we are not undoing what we have allegedly done to the atmosphere, there cannot surely ever be a future ‘normal’. They say we’ve created the extra heat and it is of course still with us. All future movements whichever way will be engineered by us too. It follows. What if it goes back to normal, how did we do it?

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    • johnnythefish says:

      ‘In 1974, Time Magazine blamed the cold polar vortex on global cooling.’

      Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world.

      ‘Forty years later, Time Magazine blames the cold polar vortex on global warming’.

      But not only does the cold spell not disprove climate change, it may well be that global warming could be making the occasional bout of extreme cold weather in the U.S. even more likely. Right now much of the U.S. is in the grip of a polar vortex, which is pretty much what it sounds like: a whirlwind of extremely cold, extremely dense air that forms near the poles. Usually the fast winds in the vortex—which can top 100 mph (161 k/h)—keep that cold air locked up in the Arctic. But when the winds weaken, the vortex can begin to wobble like a drunk on his fourth martini, and the Arctic air can escape and spill southward, bringing Arctic weather with it. In this case, nearly the entire polar vortex has tumbled southward, leading to record-breaking cold.

      http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/time-magazine-goes-both-ways-on-the-polar-vortex/

      Change the story to fit the climate predictions – 180 degree turns a speciality.

      Funny how the ‘coming ice age’ scares of the 1970s are forever buried in the BBC’s archives, eh? Or perhaps slyly slipped down the Memory Hole with a flick of Harrabin’s wrist.

      ‘Everyhting faded into mist. The past was erased. the erasure was forgotten. the lie became the truth.’ (1984)

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      • Ember2013 says:

        The basic fact is that scientists don’t know what the jet stream is doing and what can change it.

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  19. Framer says:

    David had a good showing on BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence this morning seeing off the religious zealots on global warming. Interviewer not happy.
    Noah’s Ark interview afterwards proved the UKIP guy wasn’t that far off track if you believe in the bible.

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  20. George R says:

    Of no positive interest to BBC-NUJ?:-

    “Robert Spencer, Paul Weston, and Tim Burton on the erosion of free speech in the UK”

    (inc video clip).

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/robert-spencer-paul-weston-and-tim-burton-on-the-erosion-of-free-speech-in-the-uk

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  21. Guest Who says:

    “Known as the BBC’s “Mr Fixit”, he has the experience to defend it in troubled times, such as the crisis involving the late Lord McAlpine”
    http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/16/alan-yentob-bbc-compete-google-apps?CMP=twt_fd
    Yes, that was resolved so well.
    Channeling one’s inner Mrs. Merton, one wonders what it was about the sycophantic sister publication the Guardian that first attracted Mr. Yentob to such an interview.

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  22. Pounce says:

    Scott Wrote:
    “Ah yes, I’m the bully and everybody else on Biased BBC, all the ones who use vile language against me and others, are poor sensitive misunderstood souls.

    But that’s just it Scott, people of your ilk have no problem bullying others to their train of thought,be it:
    Drugs, Immigration, racism,meat,fur,global warming etc.. the fact remains anybody who opposes any of the above, it soon character assassinated, sent to Coventry and in a large number of chases physically attacked. Yet the left have no problem remaining silent on those aspects of intimidation. Yet they have no problem defending how we should all stand up against : The EDL, UKLP and readers of the daily Mail. That is acceptable, why?
    But here’s a fucking question to ask amongst your band of merry men. You are Gay, yet you can walk into any building in the Uk and nobody will know you are gay. I am a dark skinned English man who has been thrown out of pubs, clubs,Buses, asked for my ID on Planes, and yet unlike you and your lifestyle cannot hide my skin colour. If you want to play the fucking victim walk a mile in my shoes. (Sorry they are not heels) But you know what you sanctimonious arsehole , I get on with my life, I understand that some people don’t like me and I keep away from them. (Thankfully a lot less now than during the 70s) Those who can’t keep away, end up on the floor with a thick lip, wondering how the hell did that packy put me on the floor. (Kind of helps I’m handy with my hands and feet)
    All I hear from wankers like you is “Oh what A victim I am”
    You aren’t, and if you feel that people on here are giving you a hard time, then fuck off elsewhere. You Scott are like death at a party, you suck all the life out of any room you enter.
    Pillock.

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  23. Deborah says:

    I am worried. Watched Countryfile tonight. Now I was in and out of the room a bit but the only person I saw mention Climate Change re the floods was the NFU soon to be ex-President Peter Kendall. I only watched because I thought I was going to be cross with 5 minutes of the programme starting – and now I feel all huffy with nothing to huff.

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    • nofanofpoliticians says:

      I only watch Countryfile for the bit about Adams Farm, which we, in our family, all find quite interesting. Tonight he was cracking off about a parasite which is not treatable and which is hosted by dogs (who disperse it in their waste) and which attacks pregnant cows.

      He (like me) had never heard of it before, and actually went off to an expert on the subject and had it all explained in words of one syllable.

      The rest of the programme is (imho) emminently missable, but I do invariably learn something from that segment.

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  24. thoughtful says:

    An astonishing intake of breath by a BBC newsreader on News 24 after he announced that a recent poll showed 70% of people want immigration reduced to zero !

    It surprised me a little but certainly not to the extent that the news reader showed.

    Just another illustration of how far the London centric news room is from the views of the people of the country.

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    • BBC Heart Labour says:

      Miliband will soon be climbing onto that bandwagon as there are plenty of votes for someone admitting immigration is a problem (taking action a different matter of course) so the BBC will quickly change their minds and catch up with public opinion.

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  25. Number 7 says:

    Beeboids keep up the Climate Change and the EA having no money meme – I bet they miss this.

    “However, she is understood to be particularly frustrated at Liberal Democrat Ed Davey’s energy and climate change department, which oversees hundreds of millions of pounds of grants designed to help poor and middle-income countries curb their carbon emissions.

    It recently gave £15m to cattle ranchers in Colombia, the world’s 30th richest country, to help cut flatulence in cows. It has also funded projects in Turkey and Chile, which are enjoying rapid economic growth.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10642649/Stop-wasting-aid-budget-on-wealthy-countries-ministers-told.html

    Cutting flatulence in cows – effing expensive cork!!

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  26. Number 7 says:

    The warmist beeboids’ favourite warmist economist (Lord Stern of the aberrant decimal point) and the Grantham Institute appear to be having a profitable back scratching scheme. How much taxpayers’ money??

    http://www.information.dk/487918

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  27. AsISeeIt says:

    Tales of the Riverbank
    BBC anorak and wellies man down on the Thames this morning is Graham Satchel. He gives the impression that he has been well trained in the BBC house style as he opens his piece to camera with the observation that even the sky looks “angry”.
    Then he enters the home of a lady who is the local “flood organiser” (or some such). The waters have subsided somewhat and it is time to count the cost. Our BBC man glances around the room and asks a question that would make an insurance assessor wince: “How much damage do you think there has been?” Well be honest, what would you say if it was your home?
    Now we come to meat in the sandwich, the point of the interview. Our BBC queues up n opportunity for the lady to complain that although the army were marvellous – when they turned up – the help she got was “too late”.
    I would suggest that this simple soundbite containing a criticism of the authorities – or rather their leadership – was the reason the BBC selected the lady for interview. And of course we viewers all know where the buck stops : with the PM.
    But the lady has not finished. She goes on to make the claim that she and her neighbours ‘have been sacrificed’. She blames ‘The Jubilee River’. Our BBC man hands back to the studio. Although I may have been ‘entertained’ by the well crafted dig at the authorities. Like the sky over the Thames this morning I may now be ‘angry’. I feel however that I have not been fully ‘informed’ or properly ‘educated’.
    What did the lady mean when she refered to the Jubilee River? I have no idea. Not until I google.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_River

    The Jubilee River is a hydraulic channel in southern England. It was constructed in the late 1990s and early 2000s to take overflow from the River Thames and so alleviate flooding to areas in and around the towns of Maidenhead, Windsor, and Eton in the counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. The Environment Agency commissioned the design and construction of the river which cost £110 million. During the extensive flooding downstream in the early months of 2014 many Ham Island and Wraysbury residents blamed the river for their difficulties.

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  28. Thoughtful says:

    Today invites on some hideous insane leftie complaining about ‘Barbie’ being advertised on the cover of a magazine aimed at young men.
    They did bring on a sane woman to counter the lunacy and let them get on with it, but when the leftie started getting put out and talking over her there was no intervention which there always is when the non leftie does it.
    Of course the final word was given to the leftie.

    The point she made was weak, and easily countered by the sane woman, but the bias is in the fact that she was allowed to appear at all to espouse ideas which are so far from mainstream that they might be considered on the extreme fringe.

    The website she runs http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk/ Is of course massively sexist as it only caters for girls, but it seems that when insane lefties break their own rules no one minds !

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  29. Llareggub says:

    Bias by omission? Any word from the BBC reporters in Venezuela where it seems to be falling apart? Come on – an interview with anti government activists would go down well.

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    • Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:

      Surely, it can’t be long before William Vague starts supplying the Protestors weapons?

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  30. Old Goat says:

    For all those who liked and/or followed James Delingpole in the Daily Telegraph (which has now turned poisonously leftie), he can be found here, where he is causing a well-deserved stir:

    http://www.breitbart.com/Columnists/James-Delingpole

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  31. Englishman says:

    The CBC giving yet more coverage to their favourite country in the world – Scotland. More coverage of Salmond chops on the Propaganda News channel, and more to come on Radio 5 Live too.

    Scotland, Scotland, Scotland, Scotland, Scotland, oh and did someone mention Scotland?

    (Scotland)…

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