Biased BBC Graeme Thompson aka Hippiepooter offers us this!
Clearly, £ Stirling as “Britain’s currency doesn’t make the BBC happy.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20140522-are-money-and-happiness-linked
The death of the Queen Mother couldn’t induce BBC presenters to wear black ties, but one suspects tomorrow’s euro-election results may well do so!”
That link isn’t accessible from the UK! However, out of interest BBC is now a 5 (FIVE) billion quid operation:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/2013/executive/finances/licence_fee.html
Yep, which is why it’s always kind of pathetic when defenders of the BBC point out that it did a great show about penguins back in 2008 or some such drivel.
With that kind of budget even a hamster should be able to put out the odd good program.
“£ Stirling” – what is the conversion rate for this new currency against £ STERLING?
I feel yor pain
£ Stirling will be the Scottish currency, surely. 🙂
Curiously, that link works from my iPhone. It’s a relatively innocuous article summarising thoughts by Felix Salmon and Bruce Kasanoff, suggesting that salary and happiness aren’t directly linked.
There’s nothing about the BBC hating sterling. That’s all come from the deluded minds of hippiepooter and Vance, both so desperate to find BBC bias that they’re prepared to fabricate it. The poor men – reduced to lying in order to make themselves feel important. I suppose we should pity them, once we’ve stopped laughing at them.
Blah blah, Vance, blah blah, Alan, Blah Blah, prejudiced, blah, deluded, blah… (continued tomorrow, same time, same place)
I suppose we should feel sorry for bigoted, closed minded, attention seeking, trolling Scott Matthewperson who hates the people on this site so much he can’t stay away.
No, let’s just laugh at him
I knew that there’d be one or other of Biased BBC’s usual crowd of aliases along in double quick time. And what a surprise – attacking me as a way of ignoring Vance’s idiocy!
Still, never mind. The more you attack me, the more Vance can carry on lying, and the more he can carry on collecting the appearance fees by turning up on programmes under false pretences. You must be so proud of your part in such shenanigans, “Alec”.
The more I attack you the more Vance can carry on lying?
Why should I care what you “Scott”/Agent Smith etc, think. Your puerile posts have shown you to be nothing but a joke. The only value you have is as a target to be mocked.
Bless.
I do love how you call me “Matthewperson” one minute, then call me puerile the next. It’s as if you’re painting your own placard saying “LOOK AT ME! I’M A RAVING HYPOCRITE!” and waving it in everyone’s face.
I realise that stupidity and hypocrisy are coveted traits in the Biased BBC world, though, so by all means carry on doing what you do. Wouldn’t want you to get thrown out of the David Vance fan club for not being a lying, idiotic hypocrite, now would we?
You are a sad and pathetic individual. Coming on a site you hate simply to abuse people who do not share your opinions. You contribute nothing but insults and deserve no more in return.
You are just as bigoted, prejudiced and closed minded as those you attack.
Still, thanks for allowing me to carry on visiting this site. That’s very nice of you.
“Rolls Eyes”
You contribute nothing
Funny how you’ve avoided the point that David Vance’s statement in the original post, that the BBC somehow hates the pound, was in no way substantiated by his link.
But hey, it’s far easier to attack me than admit that Vance is a liar, isn’t it?
You are just as bigoted, prejudiced and closed minded as those you attack.
Well at least you’re beginning to admit that Biased BBC is full of the bigoted, prejudiced and closed minded. Even if you mischaracterise me as such, I’ll regard it as a small win.
I’m not addressing what David Vance has written. I’m addressing you. When referring to being prejudiced bigoted and closed minded I mean you. When I refer to a sad pathetic joke I mean you.
Thanks for confirming you’re more interested in making personal attacks than discussing anything of substance.
No Scott. The BBC has always presented the case for keeping sterling as that of slow thinking ‘little Englanders.’ It always pushed the case for joining the Euro.
I work in TV and all my colleagues agreed with this Guardian view of the the Euro – as was true of many on the soft left.
Scott, … oh never mind, forget it.
Scott …… back to sticking pins in the Vance/Alan dolls
… now be off with you
Ooh wow, being told off by a pseudonymous little coward. Is this the point at which I’m supposed to stop laughing at how ineffectual “Noggin” is?
It is nonsense to think that money buys you happiness but as hippies used to say ‘life is a shit sandwich. The more bread you have the less shit you taste.’
Money doesn’t necessarily make you happy, the absence of money certainly makes you miserable and easily managed. As far as I can see the real benefit of money is the ‘f**k you’ factor. Someone without debts and some capital is not as easily cowed as someone renting their house (ever wonder why the left are so keen on other people renting?). Capital makes you harder to control.
Naturally the left hate this and do all they can to curtail freedom wherever possible. Its what they do.
Yes, agree. Capital, no debt, land, education all make people relatively free from State or other control. That’s why I suspect they know what they are doing when they push debt and trashed education.
Thank you for the links.
Question.
Anyone know why the BBC should have a plus figure from pension reform of £45 million? I thought the BBC pension had a 2 billion deficit – and you can guess who is going to pay for that.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jan/15/bbc-pension-scheme-deficit-licence-fee
‘you can guess who is going to pay for that’
I would have hoped that is between the employees and those they trusted to invest on their behalf.
Or… another BBC ‘be aware values can go up as well as really up?’ unique, unlike anyone else?
Let’s see what the CiF crowd think.
Pro:
‘I’m sure there will be plenty of BBC bashers sticking the boot in over this but to be fair, the licence fee is there for wages and pensions and if there’s a shortfall, so be it, I say.
I was unaware the primary function of the licence fee was to prop up public sector employment stats and index-linking, and it seems a few others were not either…
Con:
‘Yes I am sure all those people who have had to increase their pension contributions are delighted to know their licence fees ensure BBC employees do not.’
A few more not keen.
Interesting where the ‘likes’ wet.
The BBC does seem to have an oddly mixed view of money, erring mostly on it being good only if they have it and get to get and keep more than anyone else.
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Wow! At last, genuine insight from Scott! I’m proud of you!
Maybe its worth pointing out something to you, maybe you’ve made that breakthrough into rationality that all those who wish the best for you have been hoping for. …
… The BBC use a photo of someone with a € note not a pound stirling note. Pounds stirling is the currency of our country, not the euro. QED.
“I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich. Rich is better!”
―Beatrice Kaufman
I have to admit that at the time I thought the UK should have joined the Euro. I watched in disappointment as we lost GMs global accounting headquarters to Spain because we didn’t join the Euro.
In Hindsight Kohls betrayal of his principles and the rules of monetary alignment by allowing Italy to join when it clearly failed to meet the criteria, and then because he tore up the rule book, Greece as well meant the thing was inevitably going to end up on the rocks, and it still will eventually. It’s a matter of putting off the dreadful day, but making it much worse in the process.
If the Euro had been structured in the way the US structured the dollar across the USA in its early days it would have worked, but the time wasn’t right as economies as diverse as Germany & Greece were going to require such different economic measures that central control would be impossible.
Anyone seriously believing that the Euro has a future and that the UK should be a part of it is seriously naive. Even Alex Salmond has given up his parties policy to adopt the Euro hence his desperation for Sterling !
I’ve never been in favour of the Euro for the simple reason that it won’t work. No attempt to fix currencies between separate economies has ever worked and it never will.
The Euro is a political project (‘Imperial’ might be a better word; a ‘Fourth Reich’ project) – there is no economic rationale for it. Were it not a political project some countries would have dropped out already and the thing would never have got going in the first place. But failure of the project is an embarrassment for politicos, so it is kept going because it can’t be seen to fail.
Yeah i get the message that uk plebs cant see this page.
In other words once more:
Piss off licence payers we’ll do as we bloody well please again, so up yours!
Well the majority never wanted the euro although many in Lib/Lab/Con would’ve happily adopted it.
Didn’t Gordon Brown oppose the Euro simply because Tony was for it?