This morning John Humphrys mentioned that there had been a backlash against Miliband’s ambush on Cameron at PMQs when Miliband tried to exploit the disabled as a political football.
Unfortunately there was no sign of the man himself who cobbled together this tissue of lies…Miliband, as ‘Thoughtful‘ said in the comments, has lit the blue touch paper and disappeared like the proverbial Cheshhire Cat, grinning at the chaos that has ensued.
Judging though by the adverse reaction of the Public to his claims it is probably just as well that he ducks any interrogation on the issue…assuming of course that the BBC would ‘hold his feet to the fire’ on this.
Just how bad would it be for the Labour leader? Well even the Question Time audience has turned on him, or rather his representative…in the lovely shape of Angela Eagle…
The Spectator likes what it saw…for once…
Eagle tried to make everyone feel outraged, but instead the audience turned against her, accusing the MP of distorting Freud’s words for party political gain; it was like watching the crowd turn against Ceausescu in Bucharest, and the first time I’ve ever seen a QT crowd react like this. I think I may have to move to Newbury: If that’s what their Question Time audience is like, imagine how sensible the population as a whole must be.
What was noticeable was the reaction of some of the other speakers…LibDem Menzies Campbell and the BBC’s favourite trendy vicar, Giles Fraser [Parish priest and broadcaster…not a politician nor interested in people’s votes]…neither were willing to give the time of day to the thought that Freud might have had a point.
Campbell waffled sanctimoniously trying to claim the moral highground, sounding above the fray, concerned purely with the problems of the disabled, it’s all about ‘dignity’, whilst in fact saying nothing that could come back to ‘haunt’ him later.
Fraser, New Labour trendy in his open shirt, used the occasion, not to talk sensibly about Freud’s words, but to chose instead to attack ‘the real problem’, the government’s policies for the disabled…as he saw them…naturally the disabled were suffering, targeted by a tyrannical, heartless government.
The BBC in many respects has seen the light on this story and not taken Miliband’s narrative as Gospel…however the culprit, the architect of this steaming pile of tripe, has been allowed to slip off into the night unchallenged leaving it for his minions to take the flak for him.
Don’t fret, the electorate will get their own back come next May (those that don’t vote via the post, that is…).
You mean let Milliballs in because the right wing vote becomes split. Not what I want.
“Not what I want”
Then stop splitting the vote and vote UKIP
Ca moron is not right wing and is pro EU so why would you vote for him?
Because based on his posts ‘Toryboy’ is an agent provocateur
For the Spectator writer it was “… the first time I’ve ever seen a QT crowd react like this.”
Well, maybe, … but I recall BBC poster girl Mary Beard being booed and jeered for a particularly patronising dismissal of legitimate fears over mass immigration, in which she waved a piece of paper at the audience (though it wasn’t quite at the level of ‘peace in our time’ – a la Heston Aerodrome, in another era!) I think that edition of QT was from Boston, or somewhere near there, with Mary Beard coming over from nearby Cambridge to speak ‘de haut en bas’ to the proles of Middle England, who proved feistier than BBC studio audience manipulators had planned for.
It was worth a small part of that £145.50, just for once …
She sat there with a pathetic “I didn’t expect that” smile. Her trouncing came from the QT audience of Boston (or Peterborough). Of course Mary’s job in academia has never been threatened by eastern Europeans under cutting her. Now that would be a “benefit of immigration” I would approve.
Christ, for once the BBC have let some normal people into the audience. Never seen an audience that isn’t far-left on QT.
Apparently the audience questionnaire favours the lefties who want to boo, hiss and bully the one non lefty that the beeb allows on to QT…surely it’s time for normal people to use the questionnaire to their advantage and give the likes of Eagles exactly what they deserve.
Too late now. The Freud story did what was required for the Labour party, to knock the good news about the unemployment figures off the headlines. The BBC was complicit in this action.
It also served to take the spotlight off Milliband at PMQs. As you say, this puff piece from the Beeb has served its purpose.
Lord Tebbit sums this up nicely in his column, hidden away in the ludicrously impenetrable Telegraph website. He said;
‘….In other words, Lord Freud was mulling over how to help such people, just as I did in my time. His error was not to assume that an undercover, eavesdropping Labour Party employee would be listening, not to help the disabled but to help Mr Miliband.
That was what led to the sickening display of hypocrisy and the exploitation of the difficulties of disabled people in an effort to cover up Mr Miliband’s inadequacies in his own job.’
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100289522/ed-milibands-hypocrisy-over-lord-freud-is-an-attempt-to-cover-his-own-inadequacy/
Exactly right…but how much damage has the BBC’s deliberate misrepresentation of this done?
Well, QT “put a burr up Labour’s ass” – so much so that the emergency klaxon was sounded and the radio 4 edition of “Any Questions” had a hard left audience wildly applauding literally anything said by a socialist. There must have been an emergency call out to all activists – pack the AQ audience and support the lies from the center.
It was high on my list of most skewed audiences ever (the top being the East London Mosque edition of course). It was so obviously a packed partisan studio that I almost laughed. In particular there was one person who led the soviet style calpping – s/he started before the leftist finished speaking and thereby indicated the statements to be supported by hie/her/its fellow activists.
If the BBC has a duty of impartiality does it also have a duty to ensure that its productions are not hijacked by partisan audiences.
I’ve said it here before about a QT broadcast from Dorking a number of years ago, an area I know very well.
It is in the Mole Valley constituency and very much true blue.
It is in the heart of the stockbroker belt and surrounded on all sides by other Conservative held constituencies in Surrey and North Sussex.
I did not recognize one person in the audience which was made of shouty lefty loonies, clearly bussed in by the BBC for the occasion.
This particular broadcast (the last time I ever watched QT) was a couple of years after the outrageous QT following 9/11 when the BBC packed the audience with shrieking Islamic scum.
If ever anyone needed exterminating it was the BBC filth responsible for that.
The Dorking QT audience was not entirely Marxist – I was in it too, unfortunately they didn’t think my question was worth asking the panel! I do remember the preferential treatment that tiny number of bme individuals (representing approx 125% of the bme population of Mole Valley) there got in terms of being able to ask questions and in being selected for audience feedback etc. There were vast swathes of teachers and sour faced self important trots there. God knows where they came from
Exactly right! I listened to “Any Questions” for the first time in ages, mainly because James Delingpole was on. Poor James, he tried bravely but he never stood a chance. The whooping and the jeering were as predictable and childishly silly as at a pantomime. The BBC is thoroughly biased and knows damn well it is thoroughly biased. It has no shame.
It’s a wide open goal for the tories and they should be lining up to take the penalty kicks, but they seem to have left the stadium. T0ssers.
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