Hi everyone. I have been away for a short break and even better, a complete break from the BBC. Just back in time to listen to the lead story on BBC Today this morning trot out some asinine excuses for Boko Haram’s actions in Nigeria. It appears that “Poverty” and the acts of the army are to blame for the savagery carried out there. Nothing to do with Islam, oh no…..
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The BBC’s law-breaking never ceases to amaze.
BBC Newsnight, on Monday:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b044mgf3/newsnight-19052014
From about 29:14
Here is a BBC political statement that tells us if UK membership was made our economy 1% larger because of our membership of the eu then our net contributions would be paid for. 1% ??
Oh, and nice trick: the BBC confines itself to the net contribution (the balance is where we are forced by the eu to spend extra money in our own country).
He then uses a report by the LSE(!!) which, surprise surprise, estimates that we have done very well out of “Europe”. This ignores all other reports on the subject including the more recent study from Civitas which concludes that we have gained nothing from our membership.
It gets worse.
He then talks about the fact that “some people” (not Civitas, don’t mention them) believe we will be better off without all the eu rules and regulations and quickly says:
“…but there’s a wrinkle. If we were to really deregulate so that we could pursue those distant markets it’s more likely that we would be kicked out of a lot of markets in Europe”.
As far as I know it is illegal for the BBC to campaign in an election and I also understand they have a legal obligation to be impartial at election time.
By making the ridiculous statement that the UK – the biggest market for nearly all other European countries – would be stopped from making its relatively paltry exports to some other European countries, the BBC has exposed itself to legal action and, I would have thought, to prosecutions of individuals at the BBC.
Of course, if this ridiculous dreamed up situation were to happen, the UK could cripple the European economy by refusing its imports. It is plainly nuts. It is blatant campaigning.
….“…but there’s a wrinkle. If we were to really deregulate so that we could pursue those distant markets it’s more likely that we would be kicked out of a lot of markets in Europe”.
Even though their net trade with us is £54 billion p.a. in their favour.
Yep. Makes sense. Got that.
Impartiality only applies to matters of little importance. The necessity of forcing the English to toe the liberal left line overides all else. The BBC has never,nor will ever be impartial. It serves the power structure that ensures it’s money. it is a dreadful organisation and needs to be disbanded .
Whilst she says her views are her own is it really appropriate for an Editor for the BBC news channel to state #whyimvotingukip-to stand up for white, middle class, middle aged men w sexist / racist views, totally under represented in politics today. In a run up to the European Election I would assume as the feed has been closed then it would appear not.
Complaint just submitted. BBc are doing well today. I have another one lined up for North west tonight after I’ve checked some facts. 3 complaints in 1 day – outstanding.
Not sure if anyone has picked up on this but Ian Katz has appointed ex Channel 4 pop presenter June Sarpong to preset ‘some stuff’ for Newsnight.
It must be noted that Sarpong is an ex ‘squeeze’ of Labour MP David Lamy and has her own production company Lipgloss, projects in development include a sitcom and a programme on climate change…..
You couldn’t make it up, minority, links with Labour and pro climate change tick, tick, tick
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/10844189/June-Sarpong-wins-Newsnight-role.html
Left, right, left, right, left right….
As you were!
Left, left, left, left, left, left, left……
“The 36-year-old former T4 presenter has moved back to Britain from America ahead of the role.”
So she doesn’t even live here.
Maybe her first interview could be with Mr. Axelrod?
He’s really so far been shown to have his finger right on the pulse of the British public too.
Is she moving in next to some Romanian men?
On last night’s ‘Watermen’ (BBC2) a team of 3 United Utilities employees were sent out to clear a blocked-up drain spewing pools of stinking shite into the ‘garden’ of a house somewhere in NW England.
At one point they had to give the garden a good dousing.
Female employee to male colleague: ‘D’ ya want me to hold ya hose fer yer luv? (cackle, fnarr fnarr)’.
Boisterous workplace banter, gloriously politically incorrect, helping the working day along for all concerned.
Got past the BBC editorial. Thus approved.
Massive contrast to the bum-puckering relentlessly inquisitorial and politically-correct coverage of the Scudamore affair on R4 for the past week.
The BBC – they can’t tell their arse from their elbow.
From Guido
http://order-order.com/
“Jasmine Lawrence is the editor of the BBC News Channel, where it is safe to say she has significant influence over the BBC’s coverage of the European elections and politics in general. Lawrence’s Twitter feed largely consists of retweets of Labour MPs and left-wing journalists. Today she has been sharing her thoughts on UKIP, joining those using the anti-UKIP parody #WhyImVotingUKIP hashtag to attack the party:”
[BBC political retweet against UKIP…can’t copy as it is a picture]
“The BBC’s Charter requires its journalists to be impartial, something you would have thought they might be particularly careful about at election time. For such a senior BBC journalist to openly broadcast an attack on a political party the day before an election is inappropriate to put it mildly…
UPDATE: Lawrence has now deleted her Twitter account.”
@MediaGuido: BBC Gags Anti-UKIP News Editor After Media Guido Story » BBC bans her from tweeting and Euro-election reporting. #Winning ++ MORE FOLLOWS ++
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Bet the blinds came down on some transparent management cubicle as that one was ‘discussed’. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall.
Has she broken the law? Not sure if I understand the position. Is the requirement for impartiality a legal one or just an ‘agreement’?
I would like to see people brought to book but I’m not sure how possible that is??
Broken the law?
I doubt it very much.
But we are now in the era of appearances, credibility and credulity.
Reputations in much less relevant industries have been destroyed, led by the BBC, for much less.
The expressions #carefulwhatyouwishfor #hoistbyownpetard and a few others spring to mind.
She’s a political editor for a state-funded propaganda system that is trying to maintain the pretence it is impartial, who has flaunted not just a personal belief but attacked a large sector of the audience she derides for theirs in a very public fashion.
What she’s actually done is expose the lie the BBC is based upon, propped up by a venal political system that is itself being shown to be a house of cards.
I doubt they will forgive her for this, especially at a time they are all on the defensive.
Agree, except the BBC has the microphones, cameras and transmitters.
It is the only potential employer in broadcast journalism causing a chill over any scrutiny by other outlets (except the Mail).
I doubt this story will have any legs as the BBC is the powerhouse of propaganda and will simply ignore it.
Agree back on the dominance. And the timing does coincide with the last ditch establishment push trying to swing the election. So while those who may usually relish highlighting another BBC balance howler might have been tempted, given who she was trying to trash may have seen the topic quietly sidelined.
And it is now a good day to get buried in what passes for ‘news’.
But internally it’s possible there may be more than a few dark looks. She has rather put on uneraseable record just what senior BBC editorial thinks it can get away with.
I can’t get too excited about UKIP.
One proper policy and then a ragbag of complaints they overheard down the pub masquerading as a manifesto.
My local kipper candidate wants to do away with road cushions because (apparently) they cause collisions as oncoming drivers each want to straddle the middle cushion.
One of the burning issues of our time.
UKIP want to relegalise handguns. Just what the nation needs.
‘Ah Mr Duggan, how are you today? We’ve got some nice new models in for you. Here’s an Israeli Desert Eagle – 45 calibre and can punch a hole in an engine block. Or perhaps a Mack-10 spray and pray, 600 rounds a minute. And perhaps a Glock pistol for the lady friend.’
And as for all this ‘new politics’ bollix. When you got to recycle Clegg lines from 2010…
Stick to the Nicky Campbell impressions, Bup.
Trouble is Bup the hand gun ban didn’t keep a gun out of the hand of Duggan or any other violent criminal
It took one from the locked safe of my friend Paul , a more honest, hardworking or gentle man than your ever likely to meet.
His harmless hobby was hostage to the incompetence (and possibly corruption) of the police. And to what effect?
That is the whole problem, since when did criminals heed the legal implications of gun possession?
Err……never.
“Cum Catapultae Proscriptae Erunt Tum Soli Proscripti Catapultas Habebunt.”
In similar fashion the socialist rulers of Liverpool demand that the government legislate to require registration of tanning salons as without registration
But the city council, trying to police sunbed salons, faces a problem. It doesn’t know where they all are.
Those places tanning under 18s or using poor equipment will of course register so the council can find them.
‘When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults’ – concur to that Arthur. Thinking allowed, replace catapults with ‘thoughts’ and we have EU gender policy.
Uncle Bup
I can assure you that I was campaigning on substantive local issues – like the huge increase in the Council’s debt level, excessive spending but poor local services, a local crisis on school places etc. And no other local party was raising these issues.
“Euro Elections The Most Closely Watched Ever.
“As voters go to the polls, the mainstream party leaders look on anxiously to see if UKIP will take a chunk out of their support.”
By Adam Boulton.
http://news.sky.com/story/1266205/euro-elections-the-most-closely-watched-ever
Our estate has bloody road cushions 12 sets between main road and my house, forever forking out for tyres (inside wear) and tracking on both our cars, good move, typical ‘right on’ crap from town hall. He’s also spot on about potention collisions, been there! I’d vote for him!
That’s because you don’t have a 4×4 SUV to soften the road flat. That is the main reason for having one in town, as none of these vehicles get taken ‘of road’ an ideal perambulator for the delicate sex* who like to drive down the centre of the road. (*EU gender neutral of course).
I have an ST Ford & road bumps are a pain, literally. Our Land Rover smooths them out. But the idiots just drive over them at full speed anyway.
“EXCLUSIVE:
“UK GOVERNMENT HANDS ALMOST £500,000 TO ANTI-UKIP CAMPAIGN GROUP”
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/21/EXCLUSIVE-UK-government-funds-anti-UKIP-group
At the coming election I wonder how many people if given the chance would vote to turn the clock back 30 years before the BLiar & coalition governments.
not me id only be 12 and wouldnt be allowed to drink or vote
Make it 35 years May 1979 seems like a good starting point….
“Attackers” – BBC trying an excercise in damage limitation, again? Same as what they do with the Nigerian Muslim terrorists?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-27502652
I wonder if I might have something to do with a certain religious book?
Sorry, that should read ‘it’!
Ah, bbc breakfast has discovered those ‘ attackers’ again . This time in China, up in the North West region.
Now then, I wonder what lies behind and motivates these ‘ attackers’ ?
Hmmm…….
Watched BBC1 for the last 30 minutes – NOT ONE SINGLE MENTION OF AN ELECTION THAT COULD BE HAPPENING TODAY – Could the Biased BBC be ensuring that as few people as possible vote??
PS top story about a 25 year old in California who has been married for 10 years and suddenly decided she was abducted, at least 10 minutes on that….
If you believe that crap then the tooth fairy is for you.
You watch bBC Breakfast Time?
Far better totty on ITV than the feminists and Common Purpose talking heads on bBC.
Good interview with Lee Rigby’s mother, we should all be remembering him today. Its a shame that Greenwich council aren’t so quick as Lewisham were in placing a memorial to a street murder victim….
Don’t forget it was Ed Milibands Labour council that banned the Lee Rigby memorial.
In a brief feature on BBC News in the last hour, Miliband was shown going to vote, Clegg was shown going to vote, and……the other party leaders weren’t shown going to vote. Don’t know if this was a one-off or if it’s being repeated throughout the day…
“Top BBC editor brands Ukip and sexist on Twitter:
“News channel boss accused of bias just hours before the election.
“Jasmine Lawrence, 43, was accused of ‘bias’ and ‘prejudice’ against Ukip.
She took part in the ambush of the party’s #WhyImVotingUkip on Twitter.
“Called then: ‘White, middle class, middle aged men w sexist/racist views.’
“She has been taken off election coverage pending a BBC probe.
By JOHN STEVENS.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2635680/Top-BBC-editor-brands-Ukip-sexist-Twitter-Head-news-channel-accused-bias-just-hours-election.html#ixzz32QStABv5
Ms Lawrence will not get sacked for this basic bias; more likely, she will be politically praised and promoted, such is the Beeboid political ethos. An ethos it enforces on us, even on an election day.
Shame about the DM typos.
The headline had me flummoxed and there are others in the piece.
However, have to love the inevitable, anonymous, po-faced ‘BBC spokesdroid’ drivel.
Personal account, eh!? With her role and employer at the top, poorly ‘covered’ by a BBC legal dept-drafted backside cover that’s looking more lame each day.
And so personal, her professional employer can tell her to pull it and then send her anywhere but the spotlight because of the association.
The probe sounds fu… Interesting.
Pull. The. Other. One.
Well done DB – very well done !
The fact that such a senior BBC news hack with years of Twitter experience would blithely post such prejudice under her own photo and id shows how deep the rot is in the BBC. Instituional bias creates an environment where such prejudice is not recognised but is seen as reasonable received wisdom.
With all the furore (such as it is), this remains the gobsmacker for me.
With all this (apparent) savvy and experience… in the political arena… with twitter the graveyard of the careers of those uncautious… a small bell didn’t ring in the back of her mind at any point? And it stayed up long enough, and was defiantly retained, to be seen, captured and promoted, with no colleague going ‘Er, Jas, perhaps…’?
And this is at a high level of market rate talentdom, albeit the thicker tip of the iceberg who feel immune enough to flaunt it.
What about the vast bloc lurking who think and act exactly the same way professionally as they do personally (cue a BBC spokestemplate on leaving stuff at the door), but have enough savvy to make sure no one outside the hive hears about it, certainly not in writing and clearly not in such an overtly barking career suicide note?
Maybe Hugs can ask for a refund from all those social media courses they ran, as there are clearly a lot still being stupid.
“The EP2014 election is so tight that what could be decisive is how many Ukip supporters mistakenly vote for ‘An Independence from Europe'”
http://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2014/05/22/the-ep2014-election-is-so-tight-that-what-could-be-decisive-is-how-many-ukip-supporters-mistakenly-vote-for-an-independence-from-europe/?
The UK is moving towards 3rd World politics.
“Staff at the council have been visiting households that have large numbers of voters registered to check they are real. This has led to over 5000 names being taken off the electoral register.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/21/Sixteen-Areas-Will-Have-Extra-Police-At-Election
Vote rigging like gender segregation – just part and parcel of our vibrant and enriched culture now.
Eh, Scott? Or are we missing some ‘complexity’ here?
CHINA: Islamic jihad massacre.
Of course, Islam Not BBC (INBBC) excludes reference to Islamic jihad in its headline, so instead of:
‘Islamikazi attack kills 31 in China’s Xinjiang region’
we merely get-
“Urumqi attack kills 31 in China’s Xinjiang region”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-27502652
Alternatively:
“Suicide bombers kill dozens at busy street market in China.”
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/suicide-bombers-kill-dozens-at-busy-street-market-in-china-631232.html?
I listened in vain on BBC R4 for the M word to be mentioned. When nothing about the religious or political ideology of terrorists is said by the BBC that means it’s Islam.
It’s a new form of impromptu quiz in my household: ‘Keep ‘Em Guessing’ the BBC’s latest quiz show, in which viewers and listeners are invited to guess the religion of ‘those men/militants/insurgents/etc’ in any BBC news report (because the BBC aren’t going to tell you).
Hours of fun, but what a damning indictment of the p*sspoor state of our national broadcaster’s reporting.
Today described them as ‘separatist militants’ – more than once.
Never heard the ‘M’ or ‘I’ word.
The constant use of euphemisms to make the identity of “attackers” is poor journalism, and borders on the dishonest.
Journalism is meant to be about answering questions: Who, what, where, when, how and why.
The BBC regularly chooses to obfuscate about the “Who”, using words like “attackers” or “militants” rather than an actual meaningful description. If the BBC describes terrorists in such vague terms as “killers” or “militants”, pound to a penny they are inspired by the teachings of the Koran. (It is, however, acceptable to use a description of “terrorists” if the words “Christian” or “far-right” can also be used.)
“Why” is rarely touched on, unless there is some way to blame the West – e.g. it’s because of poverty, or UK/US foreign policy.
I know that certain people who visit this blog maintain that such observations are nonsense. I challenge such people to attempt to put their prejudices aside for one month and listen carefully to news reports on the BBC about terrorist incidents with an open mind. I think if people are sincerely open to carrying-out such an “experiment”, the results might just surprise them.
“China: Islamic jihadists murder 31, injure 90 with bombs in crowded market”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/china-islamic-jihadists-murder-31-injure-90-with-bombs-in-crowded-market
“China: Devout Muslims Kill 31, Driving Cars Into Shoppers at Open-Air Market”
– See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/05/china-devout-muslims-kill-31-driving-cars-shoppers-open-air-market.html/#sthash.nXcJjAMk.dpuf
Bye bye…
VICTORY: BBC Pulls Anti-UKIP Editor From Election Coverage
Following MediaGuido’s story yesterday revealing the anti-UKIP rant of BBC News Channel deputy editor Jasmine Lawrence, the Beeb has gagged her and relieved her of her duties for this week’s election coverage. A BBC spokesman tells Guido:
“Jasmine Lawrence was tweeting from a personal account. She has been reminded of her responsibility to uphold BBC guidelines. She has deactivated her twitter account and will now be playing no part in the BBC’s election coverage in coming days.”
We’re always watching…
http://order-order.com/2014/05/22/victory-bbc-pulls-anti-ukip-editor-from-election-coverage/
But she’ll be back for the General Election and her views are endemic throughout BBC news.
Yes but this makes it harder for them to deny that
She’s lucky she only showed political bias in a public tweet. If she’d done a Scudamore and emailed a sexist remark to a friend the PM would be calling for her to be sacked.
Let’s say ‘Scudamore’s ‘alleged’ sexist remark.
Surely more likely that Cameron would not criticise BBC for this latest, blatant example of political bias? And aren’t Cameron and Beeboids on same political side in opposing UKIP?
Two worthy posts (amongst the mostly ‘robust’) to ponder:
44. bergen says:
May 22, 2014 at 9:10 am
If we weren’t talking about the BBC, she’d have been already dismissed summarily.
As it is, I suspect that they’ll have to fire her in due course. as her continued presence in post would be manna from heaven for all right-minded critics. Anytime the BBC claimed impartiality, if she was still there then her name would be the perfect reply.
57. Fishy says:
May 22, 2014 at 9:17 am
“Jasmine Lawrence was tweeting from a personal account…’
Only personal accounts are personal when it suits them. All week they have been leading the charge to get Scudamore to resign from his job at the Premier League, not accepting for one minute that e-mails from his personal e-mail account were personal.
This creature was broadcasting her views. As an Editor for a ‘so-called’ impartial broadcaster, can she EVER be trusted with her approach to other political stories.
She should be sacked.
And a ‘post two, post another ‘threebie:
64. Pip says:
May 22, 2014 at 9:19 am
Great work Guido.
I confess I tried to complain on the BBC complaints website and gave up after 5 minutes – they certainly know how to block people and cause them to lose the will to live.
I do realise that had I persevered, I would have had a contemptuous and dismissive response to look forward to
People are starting to notice the BBC isn’t all it keeps telling us it is.
Torrid times round the watercooler for Jas every time Hugs tries to wheel out that DNA claim in future.
I await the BBc reply to my complaint about her then. I will of course post it.
savvy article on Spiked worth a read.
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/nigel-farage-and-the-fury-of-the-elites/15045#.U32y0Cg60uS
Tonight there is a Drama premiering, set in Manchester it tells a story around the IRA bomb. It stars Philip Glenister and Bernard Hill, neither known for their love of Political Correctness, and is written by Peter Bowker.
It’s a production of sufficient import to be featured on the ‘Today’ program, so it just remains to be seen just how sympathetic the production is to the IRA which the left was in love with at the time.
Bernard Hill is an anti-Thatcher raving leftie:
‘Hill’s father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war, developed lung disease and had to have a lung removed. He remembers a childhood with an undercurrent of poverty that’s almost like Charlie Bucket’s in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – living with his grandmother in her two- bedroom flat and sleeping in the same bed as his parents.
By the time he was cast as Yosser, Hill’s political sympathies were firm.’
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-05-22/from-there-to-here-star-bernard-hill-manchester-always-was-a-dirty-dangerous-town
and:
‘Hill puts the blame for the demise of television with political heft squarely on a politician. You can probably guess who.
“Brilliant writers at the time were writing plays in regional theatres, then they went to bigger theatres, the National, the RSC, the West End – and then television. Now there’s
no regional theatre for writers or actors to learn their trade. That was a political decision made by Maggie Thatcher [through funding cuts]. She wanted to destroy the regional theatre concept because it bred a kind of revolution.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/7528525/Bernard-Hill-on-Canoe-Man.html
Bernard Hill – lives not far from me in a neighbouring village, deep in rural East anglia. He featured in a report on our local news a few years ago, in which he was complaining that the loud bangs of the bird scarers in the farmer’s fields nearby were ruining the peaceful tranquility of his rural idyll. And – get this for self-adoring luvviness – he threatened to leave the village altogether if something wasn’t done to stop the interruptions to his quiet seclusion, as if the locals ought to worry that they might soon no longer be graced with his presence amongst them.
You’re only a bloody actor, mate. Those farmers are trying to earn a living in what is essentially their working environment, Mr. johnny-come-lately.
BBC Bias – the website article on the elections today is minimal as possible – has no mention of any parties, any polls, or party prospects, and certainly no mention of UKIP!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27506376
Also BBC Bias today – the news at 9 on R4 today – 1. Californian woman calls abduction after 10 years marriage 2. Russian ambassador talks re Charles comments 3. China bomb 4. Royal Mail profits – did the govt sell too cheap? 5. Don’t take selfies in the booth while voting
I think there are restrictions on coverage on polling day. The BBC has to stop campaigning for a day.
‘The BBC has to stop campaigning for a day’
Well, overtly, at least.
Seems Jas is one who missed the ‘Shsssh, you know how’ memo from Stuart Hughes.
Can’t decide who to vote for?
Well why not let your computer decide for you?
http://uk.votematch.eu/
More fun than I thought it was going to be.
(just to bump it up from the last on the older comments)
Eeek! I came out as Green party. Time for a stiff drink. Now, where is my old service revolver …
Where was the BBC – was Mr Bowen on holiday so that the news item was missed?
A well-planned firebomb attack on a bus full of Jewish schoolgirls Tuesday could easily have ended in tragedy, but no news source even reported that it took place, except for Arutz Sheva.
The girls were sixth-graders from a religious school in central Israel. They were on a bat mitzva tour of the Cave of Machpela in Hevron, a site recognized by the government as an official heritage site, when four terrorists ambushed it with firebombs.
http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_publisher_toolbar_creator.dbm
The mother of one of the girls, who was accompanying the trip, told Arutz Sheva that the ambush had been well planned. She described moments of horror when the firebombs exploded, one after the other, on the bus’s windows, east of the Halhoul bridge, as the bus made its way back from Hevron.
“This was a bat mitzva trip that had been approved by the Ministry of Education, which included a visit to Rachel’s Tomb. The buses were bulletproofed and had an armed guard,” she said.
Chananel, the woman’s son, whose sister had been on the bus, wrote on Facebook on Tuesday: “Three fire bombs exploded on the bus. It was a direct hit. The bus was engulfed in flames and the girls and the mothers in the bus screamed, cried, leaned down toward the floor. There was a smell of burnt plastic.
“This time, it ended without injury. The driver stepped on the gas and the bus was fortified. The traumatic effects are not known at this point… I don’t even want to write how it could have ended.”
Alluding to the latest incendiary comments by leftist writer Amos Oz, he added: “Neo-nazis are not Nazis and Price Tag must be denounced and we are more moral and therefore a higher moral standard is required of us. Fine. But come on, we had better look reality in the eye and understand how twisted it all is. If I had doubts about the justness of the right wing struggle on this issue, then they are all gone. Leftists, media, government, army, Shin Bet and the other people living in a fantasy world – wake up.”
So, according to the Sun, the bBBC is getting rid of John Inverdale from its Wimbledon team because he made a politically-incorrect remark last year, commenting on a woman’s looks.
Surprise, surprise, they’re replacing him with Clare Balding, as it’s compulsory for her to be on every sports show these days. It’s no problem that she insulted a Grand National-winning jockey with crooked teeth. Being a lesbian means that she can make whatever comments she likes on the bBBC.
Blandings is a fine judge of horseflesh so the obvious choice.
‘Being a lesbian means that she can make whatever comments she likes on the bBBC.’
I’ve said it before : she’s completely bullet-proof these days.
In fairness Balding actually knows the jockey and it was more of a personal bit of banter – she is well known in racing circles and is an insider so no offence really. I actually heard Inverdale come out with the Bartolli line and thought who the f*** is that arrogant twunt to come out with that – apart from anything else very ungentlemanly and rude. I have more of an axe to grind with the effective sacking of Colin Murray from Fighting Talk over the ‘turning her – defend the indefensible slot’ and the fact that although part of the BBC ‘talent’ – she also does C4 Racing – so not a Beeb employee – part of freelance ‘talent’ and presumably very tax efficient. In addition her partner seems to gain a far higher BBC profile than one might expect of a radio announcer/newsreader – jobs for the girls?
She’s like a bad wallpaper.
Just after 10pm last night turned on Radio 4 to a discussion on Nigeria. I do not know his name but the speaker was not challenged when he attributed the violence of Boko Haram to poverty and climate change. Can we now assume that atrocities like stoning and lashings in countries like Saudi Arabia can be explained in terms of poverty and climate change?
‘I do not know his name but the speaker was not challenged when he attributed the violence of Boko Haram to poverty and climate change…’
Was it Scott? See top of thread.
I see the BBC hive mind, as ever, is busy at work sending out the message to those receptive to such things.
“THE RIGHT AND LEFT OF THE POLITICAL CLASS HAVE UNITED AGAINST A COMMON ENEMY: US”
By James Delingpole.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/22/The-right-and-left-of-the-political-class-have-united-against-a-common-enemy-us
This one ticks ALL all the boxes…
Another Pro-Labour Newsnight Hire
David Lammy’s ex June Sarpong is Ian Katz’s latest hire at Newsnight, Mandrake reveals. What they didn’t mention is that Sarpong’s Labour connections do not end there. The photo above shows her fronting a Labour election rally in April 2005 alongside Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. The Telegraph at the time reported that the former Channel 4 presenter “seemed awe-struck”, fangirling on stage over Labour leaders present and future. Having Labour links on your CV seems to be a prerequisite for a Newsnight job these day…
http://order-order.com/2014/05/22/another-pro-labour-newsnight-hire/
I think it’s about time we invited ‘Danny Howard’ back to comment….
See my post above, quote from Wiki “She also runs her own production company, Lipgloss Productions. Projects in development include a sitcom and a programme on climate change” ummm.
It also appears that she was awarded an MBE in 2007 (one of the youngest to have ‘achieved’ that award) for what? she had done little than front Channel’s yoof programming. Rumour has it that it was for her ‘soft’ interview of Tony Blair, of whom she makes no secret of her admiration.
…..Yes June you’ve got all the relevant qualifications, I’m pleased to tell you’ve got the job, Love Ian.
IMPORTANT VOTING TIP:
If you’re voting for UKIP and your ballot paper is folded at the bottom, unfold it to make sure that you’re voting for UKIP and not for a party with a similar name!
Just sent a stinking complaint to the ‘independent’ electoral commission about this – I am intrigued to find out how their – ‘we got it just about right’ rebuttal is worded
Just met an OAP neighbour on her way to vote, I have spoken to her on many occasions and her intentions to vote UKIP, she wasn’t aware of ‘An Independence For Europe’
I explained she needed to look to the bottom of the slip, was grateful and hopefully I’ve maybe saved one vote!
I wondered about that myself why it should be at the bottom of the voting slip. But it could be simply that it’s in ‘alphabet order’ i.e Ukip is therefore last on ballot form.
PS The BBC have been good enough to write an article about this, even if it is hidden deep in the bowels of their news website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8083435.stm
…not recently, though. From 2009.
I had thought the problem of strategically folded ballot papers was resolved, following examples in some constituencies where the single ukip ‘line’ at the bottom of the form had been folded uniquely under another fold. If not, then it is another outrage against UKIP. Of course, folding a ballot paper more than once should be a criminal offence, with the Returning Officer and all officials made liable.
Finally consider a vote against: ‘Lord of the floods’ as Chairman of the Environmental Agency (Lord Smith of Finsbury Park) has suggested that Somerset Houses should ‘Float’ on water is his eminent expert views on river flooding; ‘the house just lifts with the water’ he states. Just to confirm his elevated position he is also the expected ‘favourite’ to lead the BBC as the chairmen of the BBC trust! More gay mugs for all (on taxpayers expense or riverboat license). Just goes to show that incompetence (or being chair of CHE – formerly PIE) does not stand in the way of the BBC trustees nomination.
http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/news/weird-world/smith-suggests-floating-homes-1.371780
Old news I know but just read this om the Beeb – still up there
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27492711
Most of the ‘truths’ their have long since been discredited – Non Romanian Romanians, Violent protestors scard off the band who were well aware who they were playing for and most appallingly the selective sections of a more nuanced quote from the UKIP candidate repackaged as a single statement. An aside they also missed of the hilarious photo of the ‘Romanian’ protestor holding the racist placard in front of the local UKIP candidate and team who just happen to be primarily black and asian. A new low as still not updated
Politics show as just described Boko Haram as ‘fighters’
I guess it’s a step up from religious ‘conservatives’.
As did Jon Snow on Channel 4 last night.
When they commit the next atrocity, they may be upgraded to “challengers”…or “passionately committed”.
Until then-let`s all call them fighters shall we?…our clever chattering commentariat would prefer that we do so.
They start prefixing ‘Lovers, not…’ things will start to look pretty bleak, especially for ‘our girls’ embraced by them for reasons of comfort.
Speaking of which, how’s all last week’s #hashtaggyness going for Barry & the missus, plus our ‘movin’ on’ media?
Oo, look.. squirrel! And he may be using words not in the permitted guidelines!
How interesting and odd that the BBC can pay more than twice the music royalties than that of any other Commercial Radio stations (for BBC Radio 1,2, 3 and 4) compared with say, Classic FM. You may think that the BBC has more listeners? Not so (according to this BBC Radio forum quoting PRS). Classic FM (for instance) has double the audience of Radio 3. No wonder the BBC tries to copy the same format to keep it’s monopoly. (Value-for-money means £50 per 3 minute song on a BBC Radio station). No wonder ‘off shore accounting’ is so popular with the BBC.
Thanks to PH under an FOI request (March 2014).
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/royalties#comment-48281
http://www.bbcradioforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=351.0
Having dealt with PRS in a small way. In fact as I’m planning on setting up an internet radio site after being removed from a local radio station, no I didn’t play the “n” word as far as I was aware PRS licenses are on a sliding scale according to expected income. As I expect to make zero it’s under £200. However if that applies to the BBc levels of income i’m unsure.
World at One headlines just now. No mention whatsoever of today’ election. Will they ignore it altogether throughout the programme? Lay your bets now!
After the galling “Cleggfest” of the last 2 days, and the shameful pneumatic anti UKIP, assault by all the ahem “establishment” for at least the 3 weeks previous
… this is the last throw of the dice …
UKIP? … “vot is theeese? …
did you say “catnip”? …
UKIP, we know not?” etc.
A bit of sage advice from “Veejay” on Guido.
“For anyone being given a folded ballot paper that obscures the ukip candidate:
You are quite within your rights to report that to the police. Even though this country has problems with postal vote fraud, in general electoral law is one of the few areas the police still take seriously (along with thought crimes and so called “racism”) – look how swiftly the BBC pulled that mouthy bitch from her position. They know that getting prosecuted for breaching electoral law is a huge deal.
You can go to the local police station to report it or phone on a non-emergency number. At worst the police will send someone to the polling station to stop them doing it again. At best we might see a crooked Labour or Tory supporter or just some far-left fanatic get his collar felt.
If anyone else experiences it – confront them when they do it and explain that they are supposed to hand it out unfolded and then if you’re not convinced it was an accident go to the police. This is the sort of thing that could easily throw a few elderly voters enough to take some votes off Ukip.”
Our Common Purpose friends have been busy…………
After wading through ankle high water to get into the polling station I handed my polling card to a pretty young woman who crossed me off her list and read out my number to the equally pretty young woman who handed me an unfolded sheet before noting down my number against, well what exactly?
That worries me more than a bit of surreptitious folding. Why do they need keep a record of my number when I have already been crossed off the list? Are they tracking who votes and how?
They do track votes. We usually have a snooty nosed woman with clip board outside the voting station “demanding ” to see our voting cards, I understand this is to see who actually does vote, keep records for future campaigns or to chase up regular voters on the day. Which party these represent could be any. Best to tell them to go away or else.
‘They do track votes.’
Apologies for keeping the OT going, but there is some procedural political experience here I value.
Last time we had a bevvy of crones form all parties awaiting our exit asking how we’d voted. I told the missus to smile and say ‘for the good of the country’ and move on. The secret ballot is a precious part of democratic process.
Which is why a tracking number on a form that is tallied with my name on a list seems less than anonymous if the wrong hands got hold of it.
Especially as (someone pointed out before) there seems zero security check I was who the polling card said I was.
Doesn’t sort out the tracking issue, but for the life of me I can’t see why I don’t need to produce photo ID as I do with things a lot less serious than a ballot.
And as postal voting has clearly been corrupted beyond a joke, unless in the most extenuating circumstances the person voting needs to be the person slapping the X on the ballot in the booth and popping it in the box. That’s what old biddies walk miles to do from Baghdad to Bombay, so why not here?
Interestingly, today there was no one bar the clerk and an offsider, inside or out.
But the guy in front of me asked why there was only a pencil to make the cross.
The clerk said that it went in a sealed box so it didn’t matter, but then made a joke and added it was so they could rub it out and change it.
The room went quiet.
I asked why it was then that HMG required of the public black ink on all official forms, but not a ballot form?
She was unable to answer.
I’m starting to think it is becoming less and less the best of the bad ways to run a country.
A good answer to “asking how we’d voted” is:
I chose a box to put my cross in and marked it with a pencil!
I had to laugh this morning when I went to vote. A very long ballot paper (with UKIP at the bottom) and a very short string on the pencil.
I found that 2 of the 4 polling stations in my ward were handing out folded forms – I pulled them up on it and said there were explicit instructions not to fold. They promised to comply. Yeah, sure they will !
On BBC3 last night was a programme no doubt meant to be a taster for the run up to the FIFA World Cup competition. It was called ‘England’s Worst Football Team.’
They just can’t help themselves can they?
Are you seriously suggesting that the BBC produced this show with the aim of belittling the England team?
I would say it was more a light-hearted look back at some of the rubbish players who have played for England (and let’s be honest, there have been lots. Plenty of outstanding players too of course, but some real duds spring to mind).
The BBC is giving the England team lots and lots of coverage as they go through their final preparations for the World Cup, and most of it is positive. Yet you choose to judge the entire BBC’s attitude towards the England team based on one show on a channel which gets a relatively small audience.
Are you seriously suggesting that the BBC produced this show with the aim of belittling the England team?
Yes I am!
Why would a national broadcaster broadcast a show about how bad some of the team players have been before a major competition if not to belittle them?
When was the last time you saw ‘Scotland’s Worst Football Team’ on the BBC?
I’m guessing that they didn’t include any English women player, as Women’s Football is taken very seriously within the BBC Sports Dept.
If not it was sexist, I’m writing my complaint now……..!
Every time they play.
If the BBC seriously wanted to undermine the England team, why was the show broadcast on BBC3, a channel few people watch? Did they really think that the England players (who, incidentally, are currently in Portugal at a training camp) would watch it and think “Oh, what’s the point, look at all these crap players that have played for England”? Or that any ordinary fan who saw it, having previously thought England were world-beaters, would give up in despair?
It’s possible to laugh at some of England’s past failures without interpreting that as being anti-England. To my mind that’s all it was – a light-hearted review of some of our less spectacular moments.
The BBC pundits include the following ex-England internationals: Alan Shearer, Chris Waddle, Danny Mills, Martin Keown, Danny Murphy, Phil Neville, Rio Ferdinand, plus of course frontline presenter Gary Lineker. Tell me, with all of those pundits in Brazil for the World Cup, that the BBC will be anti-England.
It’s possible to laugh at some of England’s past failures without interpreting that as being anti-England.
True. But you don’t do it if you are the Nations broadcaster and two months before a major competition.
It’s about loyalty, something the BBC does not have with regard to England.
If you weigh up all the coverage of the England team across the BBC I would say there is far more pro-England than anti-England coverage, as it should be.
If the BBC really wanted to belittle or be disloyal to England it could do so much more than it has, given its huge media domination.
That last sentence made me chuckle. Nice try.
‘BBC show dropped feature on heritage awards ‘for being English only’.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10504553/BBC-show-dropped-feature-on-heritage-awards-for-being-English-only.html
‘However, the item was later dropped on the grounds that the awards only related to England and so did not fit in with the programme’s UK-wide remit.’
It just gets funnier, eh? All those Welsh, Scottish, Gaelic and ‘Asian’ stations – very ‘UK-wide’. Still, if you’re going to lie through your teeth, make it a good ‘un.
And an on-going reluctance to cover the West Lothian Question? Can’t be giving in to Little Englanders, can we!
Anti-English to their core, like the Lefties that they are.
So including the rest of the UK in things counts as being anti-England in your mind? Right.
I’ve seen very little coverage anywhere in the media of the West Lothian question. I agree it should be brought up and discussed, but the BBC is far from the only guilty party here.
They are the British Broadcasting Corporation. That first word is important. Not just the English Broadcasting Corporation.
Look at the list of BBC radio stations. There is two for Scotland, two for NI, two for Wales (one in English, one in Welsh), and nearly 40 for the various parts of England. Clearly massively anti-English.
No-one’s answered my point about all the ex-England internationals the BBC has as pundits for the World Cup. How is that anti-England?
‘Look at the list of BBC radio stations. There is two for Scotland, two for NI, two for Wales (one in English, one in Welsh), and nearly 40 for the various parts of England. Clearly massively anti-English.
Are you saying these regional programmes are English-only? BBC North West is more like Punjab News sometimes – it’s general pro-Islam slant is stultifying.
Back to what they said originally: ‘‘BBC show dropped feature on heritage awards ‘for being English only’.
Can you imagine them saying that had it been Scottish? No, nor can I.
“UKIP CANDIDATE: I WAS STABBED IN THE FACE BY ‘LABOUR SUPPORTERS'”
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/21/ukip-candidate-stabbed-by-labour-supporters
“‘Significant’ Rise In Number Of EU Immigrants.
“The number of people coming to the UK from the EU has increased by more than 40,000 in the last year, figures show.”
http://news.sky.com/story/1266867/significant-rise-in-number-of-eu-immigrants
Islamisation of British society (continued)-
“Britain: Pupils to be taught about the rise of Islam and modern Middle East instead of British history”
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/118176/tudors-out-middle-east-sixth-form-history-curriculum-set-change
Positive reference to this book will ensure student failure:-
“Arab Spring or Winter of Discontent?”
By Robert Spencer.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/arab-spring-or-winter-of-discontent
“Police to fight polling station BULLIES after intimidation and fraud threat at elections”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/477435/Police-fight-polling-station-bullies-at-European-elections-today
“European elections:
“it’s either democracy, or the EU.
“As voting begins in the European elections, all true democrats know this is not an exercise in democracy. They also know that, in their choice of party, they are choosing either the EU or democracy.”
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4968/european_elections_it_s_either_democracy_or_the_eu
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2635680/Top-BBC-editor-brands-Ukip-racist-sexist-Twitter-News-channel-boss-accused-bias-hours-election.html
Salford? …. “all quiet on the Farage front”? today
last throw of the dice? ………….. silence?
Why do so many of you waste your time replying to that bigoted racist, Scott?
Fair point.
I admit to being as if not more guilty than most, but rarely see much value in even noticing his efforts any more.
He used to at least make actual points on bias that could on occasion be valid, but often were wrong, and needed addressing.
Now he’s simply lost the plot and only rails at people.
Every morning I let the dog out and he runs to the end of the garden and barks at the sky a few times for no reason and seems to think he’s made his mark.
We figure he’s just letting the neighbourhood know he’s around. Pointless, irritating, but what to do?
Seems the same deal.
Hard to think who or what is served as it certainly isn’t his stability or the BBC’s reputation.
I like to think that the poor little mite is not entirely lost to the Dark Side. He can be turned …
It was all those years held prisoner by the Orcs that did it.
“Dave and Ed just don’t get it:
by branding Ukip racist they’re damning millions of decent Britons”
By STEPHEN GLOVER.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2635744/Dave-Ed-just-dont-branding-Ukip-racist-theyre-damning-millions-decent-Britons.html
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2635744/Dave-Ed-just-dont-branding-Ukip-racist-theyre-damning-millions-decent-Britons.html#ixzz32SSNV800
Bit rich from the DM, they’ve been doing that over the last couple of weeks. Worried about losing readers?
“POLICING PRIVATE SPEECH: THE NEW INQUISITION”
By BRENDAN O’NEILL
“The ridiculing of Richard Scudamore shows how Orwellian our society is.”
http://www.spiked-online.com/freespeechnow/fsn_article/policing-private-speech-the-new-inquisition#.U34Vp3JdW9Y
Is Scameron actually involved with these -anti-fascists’? Surely this must be explained if he’s consorting with Marxists.
“David Cameron backed violent fascist UAF organization that featured London jihad murderer as a speaker”
By Robert Spencer
(2013).
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/06/david-cameron-backed-violent-fascist-uaf-organization-that-featured-london-jihad-murderer-as-a-speak
…and we have another…
Another BBC Producer Publicly Attacks UKIP “Lunatics”
After Guido slotted BBC News Channel’s Jasmine Lawrence for her anti-UKIP online ranting, forcing the BBC to divert the deputy editor from political duties, others have been frantically deleting tweets. BBC producer/reporter Sally Challoner chose today to delete her anti-English Democrat postings, but Radio 4′s Rosemary Baker has not been so quick:
I am SO sick of hearing Nigel Farage & associated UKIP lunatics on @BBCr4today. Absolutely done to death & feels like skewing ed pol—
Rosemary Baker (@Rombren) May 21, 2014
You can run, BBC Bolsheviks, but you cannot hide.
http://order-order.com/2014/05/22/more-bbc-producers-attacking-ukip-lunatics/
Staff frantically deleting written evidence of their own words left, left and left of centre does suggest the BBC still has a wee bittie of a problem with objectivity and integrity.
Or maybe they just never expected the spotlight they are so used to casting to actually turn back on them?
Guessing the bill for stress-related counselling at W1A and Salford is going to make a further dent in whatever was left from the last non-progamming calls on licence fee-supported budget.
Poor old Lord Tone. Just when it was going so wel… actually, despite the BBC saying he was the storm -calming great helmsman, has he really presided over any less ‘exciting’ times chez Aunty than all the rest of late?
“does suggest the BBC still has a wee bittie of a problem with objectivity and integrity.”
It might also suggest that some of the ‘company men’ are beginning to imagine the possibility of a UKIP/tory coalition government and implications of said for their mortgages.
Must be a bit of a life-changing moment for some mid-level staff when the warm words of those who hired them suddenly don’t seem quite as reassuring down the line when more muttered in corridors off the record more often than not… ‘Ilse, Liebchen, don’t worry… we’ve got your back. All you need to do is say you were only following orders. Nice lampshade, BTW’
http://order-order.com/2014/05/22/more-bbc-producers-attacking-ukip-lunatics/
At least she doesn’t capitalise on her beeboid status ,but it does expose the Bourgeois Broadcasting collective’s institutionalised bias.
Yes. The anti-UKIP political bias is endemic among Beeboids: but none of them, such as the latest- Ms Rosemary BAKER, of Radio 4, will be sacked for it, or lose pay.
“Another BBC Producer Publicly Attacks UKIP ‘Lunatics’”
http://order-order.com/2014/05/22/more-bbc-producers-attacking-ukip-lunatics/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+guidofawkes+%28Guy+Fawkes%27+blog+of+parliamentary+plots%2C+rumours+and+conspiracy%29
Note that none of these anti-UKIP Beeboids show any support for the UKIP candidate and victim of violent attack by ‘Labour Party supporters’-
“UKIP CANDIDATE: I WAS STABBED IN THE FACE BY ‘LABOUR SUPPORTERS'”
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/21/ukip-candidate-stabbed-by-labour-supporters
Mitch Benn, he of the ‘I’m proud of the BBC’ song, revealing why he fits right in at our nation’s broadcaster…
Self-diagnosis from wee Mitch.
Providing comedy-free music solutions to Now Show dead time now since 2007.
Mea culpa…at lest he recognises the church of his own poisoned mind…that`s what too much BBC contact brings you.
A regular on The Steve Wright Show Radio 2, in the guise of Elvis (ask Elvis).
Oh no!
Hope you`re kidding me.
I like Ask Elvis…and will have to revise my opinion of Mr Benn!
As some may remember, dear little Mitchie used to post on here for a while. What fun we had poking his ego with pointy sticks, the vapid little twat! And what a twat he still remains, hungrily suckling from Auntie’s bloated teats and betimes method acting the role of “psycho nutjob in a polling station”. Should he really be on the loose without a keeper ?
Co-writer of Lead Balloon; co-co-co-co-writer of Have I Got News For You; ex-writer of Spitting Image; future writer of other stuff…
Oddly revealing.
I exchanged smiles with all in our polling station (though the clerk may have been a tad discomfitted by our exchange over ballot stationery).
I had no clue who they may vote for or they where my cross went.
We all seemed simply content to be taking our own personal mission to support democratic process. I await the result, hopefully a fairly counted one, in due course.
An occasionally BBC-employed Mitch Benn figure glowering at me in that room would have seemed…odd. And unsettling.
What if he’d copped a glance and didn’t like what he saw? Would he lunge at the hapless voter?
It’s possible that the only mind poisoned was/is his own. And beyond reason.
By whom, who can say?
But his words as quoted seem more dishonourable than many I have heard around this exercise, frankly.
From the spectator: “The inconveniently-timed net migration figures are out this morning, and they’re not good for the Prime Minister’s pledge to get immigration into the ‘tens of thousands’ by the general election. The Office for National Statistics estimates that net long-term migration to the UK was 212,000 in 2013. This is a rise—one the ONS says is ‘not a statistically significant increase’—from 177,000 the previous year. But what is ‘significant’ is the increase in the number of EU migrants – 201,000 EU citizens came to the UK in 2013, up from 158,000 the previous year.” I note that the BBC is going with the ONS line that there has been no statistical increase and not mentioning figures at all – but an increase of £35000 is huge especially bearing in mind the govt pledge to reduce it. I am sure If anyone suggested cutting taxes by the same (20%) they wouldn’t stop banging on about it .
“The Office for National Statistics estimates that net long-term migration to the UK was 212,000 in 2013. This is a rise—one the ONS says is ‘not a statistically significant increase’—from 177,000 the previous year.”
This is like saying that the river level ‘only’ went up 2.1 metres today as opposed to 1.7 metres yesterday and that the change is ‘statistically insignificant’, on average 1.9 metres per day.
That completely fudges the issue that today’s rise is added to yesterday’s etc. For a country that is ‘drowning’ it is the total that matters, not how fast the situation is changing.
We get a similar scam with inflation figures as last year’s price rise magically disappears in the calculation of the reported rate whereas we continue to pay the higher price plus whatever the ‘new improved’ rate gives us.
“Not a statistically significant increase”. Whereas if, say, the average global temperature went up 0.1C in a decade it would be headline news on the BBC for weeks on end. Lies, damned lies and statistics, as the saying goes.
Beeboids keep quiet about the consequences of a British society they have helped create, via mass immigration campaigning.
More and more of Britain resembles a ‘third world’ Islamic country:-
“EXCLUSIVE: Numerous Breaches of Election Rules At Polling Stations Across Tower Hamlets”
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/22/EXCLUSIVE-Numerous-Breaches-of-Election-Rules-At-Polling-Stations-Across-Tower-Hamlets
“Local elections 2014:
“Police to patrol polling stations in voter fraud crackdown”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/local-elections-2014-police-patrol-3579700#ixzz32SsVRTQn
Don’t be so naive the police are at the polling stations as a pretence of a ‘crackdown’, they will probably be party to the coming massive fraud in the interests of community cohesion!
‘Rise in EU immigration to the UK’ – 15th item on BBC UK news website.
Only 47,000 more Romanians, so look away.
“A summary history of immigration to Britain”
http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/6.1
Now 17th item at 6.30pm.
Funny how at exactly 10pm when polls have closed it becomes top news item on 10 o clck news – that will be the BBC trying to make sure as few people as poss heard it whilst any damage could b done whilst ballot boxes still open.
Funny how at exactly 10pm when polls have closed it becomes top news item on 10 o clock news – that will be the BBC trying to make sure as few people as poss heard it whilst any damage could be done whilst ballot boxes still open.
To be fair I think it is the Law. On polling day the media slacks off so not to prejudice the vote. Even though they have been doing that for over a month.
Having said that. Today I voted UKIP. And it is the first time that I have ever felt great after voting. Previous times I always worried if I had made the right vote. But this time when I voted, I felt free. Free from the 3 Party system that rules our minds. I felt liberated with a clear conscience.
How may Lib/Lab/Con voters have felt that!