As we know, Jasmine Lawrence, a channel editor at BBC News, decided to reveal her disdain for UKIP voters and her deep knowledge of UKIP policies by Tweeting this:
“#WhyImVotingUkip – to stand up for white, middle class, middle aged men w sexist/racist views, totally under represented in politics today.”
The irony? A woman who presumably, judging by her tweet, has a pious self regard for her own ‘humanity’ and feel for the ‘other’ tweets something that is racist, classist, sexist and ageist….the beauty of it is that she of course doesn’t even understand that and goes merrily on her way thinking how wonderfully right-on and righteous she is.
One reason she may believe that of course is that she lives in the BBC ‘bubble’ where nearly everyone thinks along those lines.
Newsnight just typifies that attitude…who is the latest ‘hire’ (if only occasional)...June Saprong…non-white, female and left wing…ticking nearly all the right boxes..if only she’d also been Mooslamic, lesbian and a single mother and she might have got a full time job at the Beeb.
Apparently, a little known fact, there are no mirrors in any of the BBC premises….no one knows that they are white…it would be too traumatic for them to realise it.
Lawrence’s views are not a lot different to what Nicky Campbell and others expressed today (08:39) claiming that the profile of UKIP voters was ethnically white, uneducated, old…’Essex man’ apparently…..or another description from later in the day….‘White, working class and disaffected’.
The tone is one of dismissal as if such people shouldn’t really have a voice, being white they must be racist, being working class they must be thick and being disaffected?…well they’re just not adapting to change…they’re dinosaurs….but is that profile true anyway? I doubt it somehow….According to YouGov, 13 per cent of those intending to vote Ukip at the European elections are aged 18 to 24 — two percentage points more than for the Green party.
Campbell was asking if a vote for UKIP was merely a ‘protest vote’….To characterise the UKIP vote simply as a nihilistic ‘protest vote’ is to dismiss the voter’s reasoning and beliefs. It also conveniently dismisses UKIP’s policies saying people aren’t voting for UKIP’s policies on immigration or Europe, they’re merely voting against the encumbent government….but why would they be so disaffected if not for rational policy matters?
Campbell claimed that if it was a protest vote it must be one against the public school Etonian types…‘a bunch of Lord snootys‘ as he quoted from the charming Salmond…..in other words the Tories alone.
One objection to that is of course that Labour, and the LibDems, are just as much of the ‘elite’, many of them are millionaires, and have just as much disdain for the Great Unwashed and their wishes as the Tory grandees do….the other objection to that line is that it is complete tosh.
The reason Labour lost out to UKIP yesterday was, not because they wear nice suits, eat at fancy restaurants and all have PPE’s from Oxbridge, but because they abandoned the working man, importing cheap labour to undercut their wages, handing over their houses to immigrants and failing to train them for the jobs out there….Labour just hasn’t woken up to that fact, still being in denial about their own immigration policies…not helped by the BBC which asks them if it was a mistake to open the borders in 2004….problem with that question? It wasn’t a ‘mistake’ it was a deliberate policy done in full knowledge of the consequences. So the BBC’s approach still masks the truth….Labour’s guilt and why the Public disdains them as much as the Tories…or LibDems.
Campbell’s line that it is purely a protest a vote against the Tory ‘toffs’, that it is a vote against out of touch politicians isolated by their wealth and privilege, again masks that truth.
It also conveniently masks the other player in the game…the ‘Kingmaker’ if you like…the BBC….other Media producers are working to the same agenda but it is the publicly funded BBC with a legally binding charter to be impartial, that has a stranglehold on the politics of this country….or rather over the mainstream parties..and thus over policy, if not over what the electorate thinks depsite its best efforts to manage the message we get.
The BBC are just as guilty as the politicians in dismissing the Public concern about immigration and Europe….how often were we told by a BBC journalist that ‘immigration and Europe just aren’t issues of major concern with the Public’.
That changed today….we’re now being told by the BBC that ‘One thing that came through is that immigration is a major issue.’
Who’d of thought?
How long will that last? Not long.
Already Labour are spinning against the vote…Ed Balls telling us that it was a protest vote and that there will be no change in their policy towards Europe and a referendum….carry on regardless.
I couldn’t tell you what Cameron said because as soon as he started talking and the platitudes tumbled out my eyes glazed over…of course there is a clear message from the vote…lessons must be learnt…..trust in me…..
Two weeks from now the weaselly equivocations will be tripping off their tongues….yes immigration is a concern but you know what….and Europe? Well, of course we must get back some of our powers but Europe’s so important to us….and a referendum…I’ve promised you that…and you shall have it….an in/in referendum…trust in me…..
People who voted UKIP aren’t voting against toffs and old Etonians…they’re actively voting for policies they want to see implemented….policies that the BBC has campaigned against for years…and admits itself that it hasn’t covered either subject with due diligence and balance.
The reason all Parties have similar lines on immigration and Europe is because the ‘Kingmaker’ has forced it upon them… particularly upon the Tories who, under Cameron’s slippery control, changed their policies so as not to appear the ‘nasty party’ of legend…..step out of line and you’re a racist or a backward little englander.
The BBC naturally are not keen to admit their part in the Downfall of the political elite….nor of its attempt to demonise UKIP.
One thing we haven’t haven’t heard on the BBC today in relation to this is a single word said about the Media’s blitz against UKIP over the last two weeks….and yet it was massive and of huge import….to ignore it and sweep it under the carpet is highly dishonest of the BBC.
We had a political party working in concert with a newspaper to spread smears about UKIP, a radio interviewer spreading malicious gossip as fact, many newspapers that supported UKIP’s world view suddenly turned and began labelling such views as racist joining forces with those who naturally oppose UKIP already, and of course many, many examples of the BBC’s black arts aimed at subverting the UKIP message.
You might have thought that would be one of the telling narratives of these elections…..the determination of all parties and just about every branch of the Media to unite against the common enemy…the ‘enemy’ that in all likelihood is more in touch with the views of the majority of the Public than any other party or group….the politicians and the Media against the people.
Guess that’s not a narrative that the BBC cares to air….especially as it is the BBC that is driving the bandwagon.
A classic in the BBC 1 10 pm news. Jeremy Vine produces and talks to a graph on how the percentage vote for the parties has changed since 2000. He makes the point that the percentages for Conservatives, Labour and Liberals have been influenced by the rise of UKIP – but they’re not on the graph. That would have shown the rising trend of the purple line, so it couldn’t be shown.
They still don’t get it.
Bullshit.
Here’s the clip:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27536110
UKIP weren’t on the graph because the graph looked at results between the two main parties vying for government 1 year before a general election. What the graph showed?
That history was against Labour winning the next election. That history suggests a 15% lead would be required at this point, and Labour’s is 2%.
I guess you just didn’t get it.
No Hendy, you really don’t get it do you? Why show a graph with only Conservative and Labour voting trends?
the bbc are like 2 bald men fighting over a comb,they are all over the place and paranoid when it comes to ukip,jasmine lawrence the editor of the bbc news channel let the mask slip when she tweeted her disgusting insults against ukip,but still the likes of stephen nolan last night swore blind there is no bias towards ukip at the bbc,he would say that because he is a bbc man protecting his own,i dread the anti ukip hatefest tonight on nolans show at 12.am when he does the paper review with that pompous fake tory gerry hayes and the lunatic nutter shouting down everybody mohammed shafiq,expect 1 hour of hate against ukip and nolan when them lot attack ukip tonight.
How dare that pompous twat Dame N . Campbell insult Essex Man , I will go round & kick him in the goolies ,in his Islington “Dacha” . And for your Info Dame N. Campbell , this Essex man has 3 “A” levels in Geography , History & Economic`s , & I am more Intelligent than you . The Dame is up for deportation on the 19th of September ,& Good Riddance !
I started to watch a late review of Saturday’s newspaper headlines on News 24, but packed it in after it became evident the BBC had loaded up with the usual condescending know-it-alls who regard the latest UKIP surge as an “aberration”. The Guardian’s wind-up guest mouthpiece looked straight down his nose at the election results with his goat-like stare, hardly able to restrain himself from pinching his nose, and told us that had a feeling this result still didn’t mean anything other than a protest. He even added darkly that UKIP’s share of the vote was down in this election, cheerfully ignoring that UKIP’s tally of elected Councillors had risen from about 2 to 157. If that’s a bad night for a political party, bring it on.
Just glad I never listen to Radio 5! Thought it was just 4 that was entirely left-wing!
I don’t know who i’ll vote for at the General Election. The more I see of the “Big three” who will “listen and learn” and then go away and do nothing it’s looking like it needs the boot ramming further up.
I hope some of em listen but, and its a big but, Manifestoes are not legaly bound so they can promise the earth but are not required to produce didly.