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This BBC Tweet by RebeccaKeating – BBC Westminster – is surely not going to help UKIP get on the Box much for General Election campaign that for sure:
Another INBBC “militant” bites the dust.
For INBBC to report or censor?:-
‘Daily Mail’-
“British jihadist who married one of the 16-year-old Manchester ‘terror twins’ is ‘killed fighting for ISIS in Iraq’.
“British man Ali Kalantar, 19, reportedly killed in Syria while fighting for ISIS.
“He had left Coventry in March this year while studying for his A-Levels.
“News of his death tweeted by his wife in Syria, Umm Jafar al-Britaniyah.
“Wife believed to be British national Zahra Halane, one of the sisters who fled to Syria from Manchester in June.
“Kalantar was due to study computer science at university when he left.
“His father Rahim previously alleged he had been radicalised by local imam.
“Kalantar once said British passport ‘had less value than toilet tissue paper.'”
By TOM UNDERHILL and STEPH COCKROFT FOR MAILONLINE
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2863521/British-jihadist-married-one-16-year-old-Manchester-terror-twins-Syria-killed-fighting-ISIS-Iraq.html#ixzz3L9EcfefI
So anybody seen this bBC report:
‘Morale poor’ among UK crews at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus
Raids against Islamic State are being conducted from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus “with broken jets and tired and fed-up people”, BBC Newsnight has been told. In a letter, a serviceman said the base was being neglected, morale was poor and ground crews had taken to eating humanitarian rations meant for Iraqis.
Wow, I didn’t know things had got so bad for the armed forces, but hang on I used to be based in Cyprus, and go back regularly to stay with military friends here is what the bBC doesn’t tell you about the above:
1) Troops pay for their food, no food no pay. Night rations are…free. Then there’s the little point about how troops who are deployed don’t pay for food.
2) RAF crews in Cyprus have crew rooms, these are fitted out with TV (with Sky) Microwaves, Kettles, and in a lot venderpack machines.
3) On the base (Taken from the RAF Akrotiri base web site you have:
Food and Drink
In addittion to an Ermes Metro supermarket and Express store, RAF Akrotiri has many amenities including an all-ranks bar, which has free Wi-Fi and serves hot food and snacks, an all-ranks restaurant, Coffee Pot and Lady Lampson’s cafés, both of which also provide free Wi-Fi and Mom’s Place, the American all-ranks bar. There is also an Indian restaurant, sandwich wagon and fast food/kebab outlet for those looking for a late-evening supper.
and
Other Shops and Amenities
Whether you need a short back & sides or a demi-wave, pet products, driving lessons or apology-flowers, there are lots of shops and facilities on the base all within a short walking distance from wherever you are accommodated.
Akrotiri Strip
Just outside the main camp gates is an array of shops, bars and restaurants. There is a hairdressers and beauticians, picture framers, butchers, betting shop and PC repair shop, two bars which serve food: the Swan and the New Inn, two nightspots: Barracuda Karaoke Bar and the Akrotiri Arms and many eateries: Ryan’s Bar and Grill, Sylvana’s, La Pasteria Il Gusto Italiano, Perfect Pizza, the Lighthouse kebab shop, the China Palace, Chris Kebab, George’s Fish & Chips, the Two Sisters Bar and Grill and the Aphrodite Steak House.
Fast food can be ordered and collected from the main gate. Having worked with the RAF on a number of occasions I know only too well how well they are looked after. So actually the above so called bBC news grabber is anything but. As troops now have to pay and dine , there actually is no remit for anybody to go hungry or complain. I myself rather than eat in the mess, pop into Town on a morning and purchase a cheese sandwich and a salad everyday.
Then there was this :
Newsnight also understands only 16 of 102 RAF Tornado jets still meet full combat standards.
Really? the GR4 will be phased out of service as of March 2019. they will be replaced by the F35 which will become operational in 2016. The vast majority of tornadoes can fly, in fact out of the fleet of 102, 59 started to receive a CUSP avionics upgrade as of last year. This is on top of an upgrade the GR4 fleet received in 2008. But lets be honest Aircraft can be brought up to world class standards in days. But why spend money on aircraft that may not fight before getting rid of them. But hang on we aren’t are we. 59 are getting upgraded.
So again another none story from the bBC, which loves to attack the armed forces every chance it gets.
The bBC, the traitors within our midst.
Excellent post Pounce !
Of course Newsnight ‘double sourced’ that story before they ran with it?
Probably not. Too good to miss the opportunity of another go at the MoD / Government.
Surprising report. Things must have changed since Akrotiri always known for great resources and plum Med posting in my day. Was there 1973 with Forward Air Controllers on exercise, (swanning around in Sioux AH-1s).
Brilliant time, but then was not on ‘active operations’ and respect and thanks to all those that are doing such a brilliant job today.
For me Radio 4 is much worse for bias than the TV stations which seem to only cater to the epsilons providing their soma. Tonight sees a programme which sums up the far left position they take
Malcolm X in Oxford
Stephen Tuck the presenter tells us that Oxford was nothing like the rest of the UK. The Alphas were fully enlightened to racial discrimination even in the 1950s and it was only the epsilons who were ‘racist’.
The whole ‘we the intelligentsia know best’ know best, and that ‘best’ is left wing.
Remeber all the Hope and Change stuff = Obama would be a balm, we would have a post-racial America, all sweetness and harmony ?
It stank as PR at the time – simply because the media inclusing the BBC failed to inform that Obama’s entire life had been built on beliefs of class warfare and race hustling. THAT is what a “community organiser” does !
6 years down the line, and we sure have Change in race relations in the US. Obama and his cronies have deliberately set out to change things for the worse, whipping up trouble rather than calming, playing to the racial base, forever attacking Whitey. And usually LYING about what is really happening.
ferguson is just the latest example. This is the best summary I have seen of what really went down, of how truth was the first casualty, of how the media (especially the BBC_ plays along with the lies and the racial stirring.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/06/radio-host-obamas-promise-of-post-racial-america-was-pure-crap-video/
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/05/george-osborne–bbc-attack-branded-seriously-unaccaptable
Sorted on the piece, but being the Grauniad that URL raises a chuckle.
It also takes you to a subhead where the branded attack is from two Labour Ministers. Mrs. Merton was not available at this hour to offer analysis.
One of course is Ben Bradshaw, unconflicted BBC pensioner and chum of James Purnell, currently doing very nicely on a serious wedge ‘strategising’ how the BBC stays uniquely funded and unaccountable.
Issues consistently kept top of agenda at the recent ‘Future of the BBC’ inquiry, with the unconflicted Mr. Bradshaw playing a lead role.
Interesting that the left wants to keep the BBC. That is telling us something. I want it gone and I am certainly not left wing.
There is a hardening of views on both sides at last. This is a culture war for the future of England and the West.
Some will want to continue with the fudge and useless compromise. No point any more .It is time to choose sides.
This has been forced upon us of the conservative right by the continual and never ending assault by the liberal left on our way of life and way of looking at the world.
It is a Europe wide thing and gathering real speed now.
The BBC is on the other side.
A rather crucial, simple comparative reality.
Who simply seeks the option of having no BBC or the option of not having to fund it.
And those who, despite claiming they must be doing something right by doing wrong, would have it left alone no matter what.
Strangely David Lammy’s Wickepedia page doesn’t mention this. However Dave666 remembers this well. Made even worse if it’s true that “celebrity” constestents get a crib sheet.As for Bradshaw “He became a reporter in 1991 with BBC Radio’s The World At One programme” according to Wickepedia.
Whenever the BBC is criticised for its left/liberal bias you can be sure that some leftie or other will jump up and say that the poor little BBC, in its fearless quest to uncover the truth, is once again being intimidated by big nasty bullies.
‘Sunday Telegraph’ front page-
has headline: ” Waging War On Terrorism”
– and unusually leads with 4 reports which inter-connect the global threat
from Islamic interests.
In contrast, INBBC politically self-censors and sees no inter-connection.
http://news.sky.com/gallery/1387168/sundays-newspaper-front-pages
Christ, how many anti-white/Christian hate crimes in America does the Guardian ever print? The answer is zero, because it doesn’t fit the pro-Islam, pro-immigrant narrative!
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/06/community-mourns-somali-muslim-death-in-kansas-city-hate
European Court of Human Rights, Islamic jihadists and the ‘political left’-
Of course, Beeboids-Guardianistas support subservience of British and French courts to undemocratic European Court of Human Rights, and to dangerous decisions such as this:-
“France ordered to pay compensation to PIRATES:
Farce as European Court says convicted Somalis were ‘detained 48 hours too long.’
“France to pay compensation to Somali pirates over 2008 arrests.
Army ‘took too long to bring the pirates before a judge’, ECHR rules.
France to pay £1,578 – £3,945 to each Somali pirate for ‘moral damages.’
“Also to pay from £2,367 to £7,100 to cover each pirate’s legal costs.”
By SARA MALM
FOR MAILONLINE.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2860707/European-court-chides-France-Somali-pirate-arrests.html#ixzz3LAHUSF59
‘RT’ not Beeboids, have this interview:-
“‘Should UK be part of ECHR after Somali pirates ruling?’”
http://rt.com/op-edge/212079-europe-court-human-rights-uk/?
dianne abbott is the female version of al sharpton.
Dianne Abbott’s female??
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-30360265
Elsewhere on the internet
“Police believe she killed her son as part of a “magic” ritual. She was originally from Botswana.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/first-picture-five-year-old-boy-found-4762631
BBc still running http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-30360265
The Mirror really over-emphasising how the mother “loved him so much” in a very suspicious manner.
@ leha,what i am fed up with is this,how many times have these aid workers and journalists been warned by the foreign office to keep well clear from war zones where these stone age muslim islamists opererate,this sicky site of the parents and freinds of these people begging for mercy to spare there loved ones is just sick inducing itself,these muslim islamists must be laughing there heads off when they see these appeals from the familys of these hostages begging for mercy to save there loved ones,what happened today with this rescue mission had 2 outcomes,no 1 would of been the hostages suffering a painfull beheading,no 2 is the islamists panicking in this rescue mission today and shooting there hostages before fleeing from the special forces,i know what type of death i would of prefered,but the bottem line is to these aid workers and journalists is no mattter how many appeals your familys make to the islamist head cutters just wont make no difference at all,the wise and sensible thing to do is keep well away from these war zones in the first place that will save your familys alot of heartache and save you the indignity of begging to these islamist muslims whos only aim in life is mass murdering and killing the infidel and kuffar.
I’ve told the other half that in the unlikely event of my being in a country where jihadis operate (ie apart from this one) and getting; kidnapped she should go on the box not to plead for mercy and say what a saint I am, but to tell them to fuck right off out of it.
I was channel hopping Saturday night and came across a BBC puff piece which showed clips of Christmas shows from the past e.g. Dad’s Army, Only Fools and Horses, Alf Garnett, Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise – you get the picture. Obviously intended to show how great the Beeb is at Christmas-time. Not long after they showed trailers for BBC offerings this Christmas. Oh dear! What the puff piece did was remind us what absolute crap they serve up to us nowadays. What both trails convinced me to do was give broadcast TV a miss this Xmas and watch DVD sets of classic shows such as Steptoe & Son, It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum, The original Open All Hours, Rising Damp ( yes I know that last one is ITV but still very funny) etc.
As I now watch none of the BBC’s current output ( except when channel hopping) £2.80 per week is definitely NOT value for money in our house.
Exactly, highlights the dismal crop of the Beebs current “comedy” output and anything that as a family you could all comfortably watch together.
I find channels like the strangely named Drama Channel as most of its output is comedy, quite useful for the old stuff.
Recently they’ve shown the B&W episodes of Steptoe and Son, Just Good Friends and the rather twee Terry and June. Watching Terry and June, it reminded me of the old days of BBC1 when such series were on at 7.30 in the evening, just easy watching stuff that the whole family could enjoy, not challenging but it still could raise a smile. It also reminds one just how much things have changed since the last series aired in 1987, no sex, no diversity, no tokens, just good solid British stereotypes, obviously why the bBC never recommissioned it, as Ben Elton and co had arrived.
Not a bBC production, but, currently working my way through Minder on ITV4, again a great un-pc comedy drama with good story lines and brilliantly of its time, Mrs Thatch maybe but how good were the 80’s?
Talking of Minder, anyone else remember the episode when Terry is in a bank when two robbers (black) attempt a robbery which fails and they take Terry and few others into the bank vault as hostages. Terry manages to get through on the phone to Arthur who exclaims “You let two dopey spades take you hostage” This was accepted as quite acceptable at the time but when the episode was repeated in 1994 as a farewell tribute to the show following the end of series 10, these scenes were edited out.
Was this the start of the PC era
You’re right. This old episode of In Sickness and In Health has been the highlight of my December so far. It’s the Christmas special from 1986.
If anything does for the BBC in the long run it will be the proliferation of new ways of viewing and new media. A tv license was easier to justify in the days of three tv channels (and 2 of them were run by BBC) much harder however to justify in the era of netflixs, DVD box sets and youtube. The BBC is just another outlet in a crowded market so the compulsory license for services that you may rarely or even never use seems anachronistic.
Talking of youtube this is funnier than anything I’ve seen on the BBC in years.
Cheers for the In Sickness link, that’s being added to my Christmas viewing list!
You don`t have to be a fan of Alf Garnett to appreciate the fact that there is more theology and apologetic debate in this half hour that I`ve ever heard in a BBC programme.
Compare and contrast with the execrable “Sunday” this morning with Eddie Stourton…Speight has forgotten more than the entire BBC elite have ever learned in regard of religious debating.
Expect saturation coverage of the Israeli elections. Expect as BBC watch has so accurately pointed out Tim Franks on BBC WS Newshour: ‘you make Israel sound like a normal country’ the BBC to report, not on what happens but solely through the prism of the Israel Palestinian conflict. Expect the BBC to get it wrong.
By the standards of the region Franks is probably correct. The norm is either religious dictatorship or corrupt, despotic nationalists. They don’t have fair elections or mostly no elections at all. Normal Middle East countries unseat an ‘unpopular’ leader with a bullet not by taking the issue back to the people.
deegee
I had not seen much of the BBCWatch website until the recent operations in Gaza. But I was vewry very impressed by the site – cold, factual, detailed, instant responses to what the BBC were lying about.
A laser focus on the dreadful performance of the BBC.
I found the Times of Israel website very good as well.
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It looks as though Obama may be gearing up to take sanctions against Israel – or at least to threaten them – ovr “settlements” and new housing. That is, unless he realises that he will be hammered by US public opinion.
As he can’t run again and Presidents who win ‘lesser’ posts, e.g. Governor or Senator are rare I don’t think Obama cares all that much about public opinion.
Yes, deegee, that is the danger – Obama is plenty spiteful enough to try to damage Netenyahu.
BUT – he may be deterred by public opinion in Israel – any talk of sanctions would increase backing for Netenyahu which is exaxtly what Obama does not want “
Whereas both sides of the political spectrum grumble at the BBC’s coverage of their line of argument, it is only the Labour Party, Libdems and Greens who cry and whinge whenever ‘our’ (read ‘their’) BBC is threatened.
Of course the BBC has supported some present government policies. It is quite clear they don’t like ‘Bedroom Tax’ or any suggested form of immigration controls. – but the BBC are very enthusiastic about Pantomine Marriage, Overseas Dictator Aid and our European Losers Union membership.
So it is not so much that the BBC hates everything the Tories do – so long as Cameron implements left wing policies then BBC think he is cool.
Another simple choice matter that gets skirted around.
I don’t want the BBC to be more ‘right’; I just expect it to be honest and accurate.
As this has not, is not and cannot happen, I simply seek the option of not having it. No compulsion. No unique funding.
Those grumbling that the BBC is not bent enough as you say scream loudest at even the notion of such a choice. And seem to think Sherlock and Strictly are enough to swing the sofa set so they can be left free to preserve the Cohen & Katz show.
Which rather places the BBC’s association.
“…As this has not, is not and cannot happen, I simply seek the option of not having it. No compulsion. No unique funding.”
My position, exactly. The BBC should become a digital subscription service – those that want its left-wing, progressive agenda can then opt to pay for it in the same way that those who prefer Fox News’ right wing agenda happily pay for that.
At the moment, I am forced by law – under threat of prosecution for non-payment – to be taxed for a broadcasting service I neither need nor want. It doesn’t speak to me, it doesn’t reflect my world view, yet still I am compelled by law to pay for it.
I can’t think of one other utility or entertainment service that I am compelled by law to pay for, even if I don’t want it. The BBC is a criminal racket – an obese, unaccountable bully demanding money with menaces from everyone in the UK to the tune of £3.5bn (and rising) a year. It is a blatantly left wing political organisation with an aggressive ‘progressive’ agenda which sees nothing wrong with censoring the views and opinions of those who fail to parrot its common purpose, left wing narrative on everything from immigration to climate change.
If the BBC is even a half as ‘treasured’ and ‘unique’ as it continually seeks to remind us it is, it should have no problem at all attracting a sustainable number of private subscribers. It simply cannot continue in this multi-platform digital media age to justify its antique funding model, which is an insulting anachronism to millions of people up and down the UK, as well as massively unfair commercial advantage over all the competition.
First Danny Cohen, now another BBC market rate bunker dweller demands the BBC holds power to account but does not itself get ever held.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11277804/BBCs-James-Harding-We-wont-cave-in-to-politicians.html
Not going well for the arrogant, nepotistic, guideline trampling nitwit.
we won’t cave into politicians?
Tell that to Andrew Gilligan or the late Dr David Kelly, in who’s death the BBC is totally responsible after cowering before the Labour government when ordered to betray these 2 men !
“We wont’t Cave in to Politicians” – “unless of course they are LABOUR!”
They do a pretty convincing grovel to the Greens and the LibDums, too.
One can rather imagine the deft, delicate hand of a Hattie Harperson sliding discretely across the desk to help James keep on ‘appropriate’ track in his impassioned defences of BBC…. ‘independence’.
Of course, the Beeboids are politicians: they use the publicly financed broadcasting facilities to support the Labour Party, and this campaigning by the likes of Norman Smith and Mark Mardell is increasing, pre-General Election.
Yet more evidence of the left wing PC bias infecting the BBC.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/comedy/11276914/Im-sorry-but-why-the-fuss-over-fictional-Samantha.html
I’m sure all of us have experienced the twisting of the denial department as it struggles to dismiss all allegations of wrong doing in a corporation which cannot bring itself to admit that it is biased to the left.
Yet one single person complains that a program is ‘sexist’ against a fictional woman, and the whole corporation falls into paroxysms of soul searching about whether they might have committed a ‘crime’.
Internal investigations follow and presenter Jack Dee threatens to quit if the format is changed – but none of that bothers the BBC, the complaint of the one over rules the entertainment of the many.
And that of course is the rule they work by. Constantly producing bland pap designed to offend no one, they forgot Aesops ancient maxim – Try to please everyone, end up pleasing no one !
It was James Dellingpole who – for me – most accurately nailed BBC bias
“…a metroplitan Lefty elite walking on eggshells so as to appear Politcally Correct”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/telegram/100243928/is-bbc-bias-as-bad-as-ever-and-rip-lou-reed-what-happens-when-all-the-other-rock-legends-die/
Indeed. It all comes from a fear of being thought to be racist/sexist/Islamaphobic:
“Look at the BBC; it can’t possibly be racist/sexist/Islamaphobic because we have minority groups disproportionately plastered all over our end product”.
I imagine that being thought of as racist/sexist/islamphobic in any way, whether you are or not, would be the end of your career at the BBC (and many other ‘public’ or ‘private’ enterprises nowadays) no matter what level you are employed at, and probably any failure to constantly trumpet the PC agenda means you are racist/etc.
What the BBC consumer sees from their position at the point of sale is the massive over-egging of the cake in that regard.
“The Beeb did what it does best. It panicked”
No doubt. But the consequence to ‘the Beeb’, or culpable market rates, is zero. So another FUBAR with yet more PC erosion inevitable, and no accountability. Job done.
“The I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue team has been ordered to tone things down”
Presumably by the same executive class who swears blind they so value editorial independence they wouldn’t dream of having an off-minutes whisper in a corridor that everyone forgets about?
The comments are great too:
Moody3 •
Now we know where are license money is wasted ” BBC Editorial Standards Committee, which conducted “lengthy and detailed” discussions on the matter”
They clear the decks, immediately, for this fantasy farce, yet can take years to decide genuine reporting howlers stand no chance of beating their rigged system, and hence may as well get shut down to avoid further emba…. waste of licence fee payers’ money? Uh-huh.
There’s also the Leopard in the Basement classic of the BBC script language having such vapour-fit words, BBC CeCUTT can’t entertain a complaint as they can’t be exposed to the BBC’s own output.
Ironically while ‘I’m sorry II haven’t a clue’ is full of innuendo it’s seldom vulgar and direct. Plus, sometimes Samantha has been replaced by Sven.
The real sexism problem the BBC has is with the onscreen female
tottytalent chosen totitilatefront programmes.Samantha can’t be with us tonight, she’s getting felt laid down in her attic.
The state censorship of the media in this country passes most people by; but, when one actually sits down down to reflect on the scale of left-wing censorship, one gets a chill down the spine. Whenever an ethnic gets murdered, the BBC/Sky News/ Guardian/Independent/Metro/Mirror/Huffington and so on always mention the ethnicity of both the victim and perpetrator. However, whenever the perpetrators are black or Muslim, ethnicity is witheld; in fact, the bBC usually put a photo up at the top of the story page of a white person wearing a hoody etc to make us all think it’s a white person who’s done it. And, regarding the horrific grooming epidemic that is becoming more and more apparent in many of our cities, why do the BBC call it grooming? It’s paedophillia. Just another example of the PC Brigade’s state censorship. The brainwashed X Factor deadhead populace simply cannot see what’s going on. The racist attacks on white people are increasing, but one has to dig very deep to find detailed news reports on the internet; usually local papers etc. And as we all know, Muslim peado gangs are popping up at epidemic levels, but yet no protestations from the left and so on. The sh*t is really going to hit the fan over the course of this century. Labour have all but achieved their socialist dream of destroying the English identity; and it’s been largely carried out by the old commie classic of media indoctrination and censorship.
Who is “politician of the year”?……..The SNP think they’ve got this one sown up by having all of their supporters decend on this website….Anyone think that Nigel Farage deserves it more?
http://puknews.co.uk/puk-politician-year-2014/
I wanted to vote for Jeremy Thorpe
‘Salmond announces UK parliament bid’
Why has this been the BBC news website’s main headline since yesterday afternoon?
I mean, WGAF about Wee Eck standing for Parliament? He’s yesterday’s man! It’s not news!
I think the little shit sorry wily politician fancies himself as DPM in a Labour:SNP government.
A government that would shortly thereafter be replaced by the IMF.
A Beeboid becomes UKIP’s new director of communications – this guy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23087269
Anyone know anything about him?
Nigel Farage describes him as a ‘proper Kipper’, although that’s the least you can hope for from someone in that position!
A Beeboid becomes UKIP’s new director of communications – this guy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23087269
Anyone know anything about him?
Nigel Farage describes him as a ‘proper Kipper’, although that’s the least you can hope for from someone in that position (and I hope it wasn’t meant as a dig at Patrick O’Flynn, who he didn’t pay tribute to). See https://www.facebook.com/nigelfarageofficial?fref=nf
Cripes. Balance!
There was an actual UKIP sympathizer in the BBC .
Emphasis on the was. And no one knew.
Meanwhile Jasmine continues to work her magic, if for now not saying anything stupid on twitter (views her own). Emphasis on the ‘for now’.
Speaking of UKIP, and twitter, I see Andrew Neil is not above the odd mischievous RT to add to the fun. And confusion?.
Bet Gobby knows where a few bodies are buried. #grabspopcorn
I noticed the post on BBC comedy its Xmas repeats, its dire output
ah well … just finance another series of the mind numbing “Citizen Khan” eh! …
How much eh? its so called stars, producers, (now erm celebrities).
Then again, with a camcorder, a second hand karaoke
and a bit of ingenuity … 😀
Just waiting for the, charity fiddling, tax dodging, race card/pc abusing, “Pinocchio Pak” Imam version of “money money, money”.
(and … you ll be singing, “don t go spending all the giro” ).
It’s been a while since anyone got paid by Giro. One of my first jobs in DHSS was handwriting Giro cheques.
Not seen this on the BBc
Media Lies About Eric Garner
There is no doubt that Garner was resisting an arrest for illegally selling untaxed cigarettes. Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik put it succinctly: “You cannot resist arrest. If Eric Garner did not resist arrest, the outcome of this case would have been very different,” he told Newsmax. “He wouldn’t be dead today. Regardless of what the arrest was for, the officers don’t have the ability to say, ‘Well, this is a minor arrest, so we’re just going to ignore you.’”
The video of the July 17 incident clearly shows Garner, an African-American, swatting away the arms of a white officer seeking to take him into custody, telling him: “Don’t touch me!”
Garner, 43, had history of more than 30 arrests dating back to 1980, on charges including assault and grand larceny.
At the time of his death, Garner was out on bail after being charged with illegally selling cigarettes, driving without a license, marijuana possession and false impersonation.
The chokehold that Patrolman Daniel Pantaleo put on Garner was reported to have contributed to his death. But Garner, who was 6-foot-3 and weighed 350 pounds, suffered from a number of health problems, including heart disease, severe asthma, diabetes, obesity, and sleep apnea. Pantaleo’s attorney and police union officials argued that Garner’s poor health was the main cause of his death.
Garner did not die at the scene of the confrontation. He suffered cardiac arrest in the ambulance taking him to the hospital and was pronounced dead about an hour later.
Much has been made of the fact that the use of chokeholds by police is prohibited in New York City. But officers reportedly still use them. Between 2009 and mid-2014, the Civilian Complaint Review Board received 1,128 chokehold allegations. (Patrick Lynch, president of the New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, said: “It was clear that the officer’s intention was to do nothing more than take Mr. Garner into custody as instructed, and that he used the takedown technique that he learned in the academy when Mr. Garner refused.”)
The grand jury began hearing the case on Sept. 29 and did not reach a decision until Wednesday, so there is much testimony that was presented that has not been made public.
The 23-member grand jury included nine non-white jurors.
In order to find Officer Pantaleo criminally negligent, the grand jury would have had to determine that he knew there was a “substantial risk” that Garner would have died due to the takedown.
Less than a month after Garner’s death, Ramsey Orta, who shot the much-viewed videotape of the encounter, was indicted on weapons charges. Police alleged that Orta had slipped a .25-caliber handgun into a teenage accomplice’s waistband outside a New York hotel.
I confess to be perplexed by the outrage activism movement and their media symbiots.
At any one time in the world there has been, is and will be genuine violent injustice, often perpetrated by those in authority who have no business being there and deserve the full glare of spotlight in being held to account.
Yet, so far, they have all appeared to hitch very mangy horses to very rickety bandwagons, and then driven the whole lot off a credibility cliff.
Yes, it has been enough to work up sea cucumber brainpowered hustlers, but enough about the President of the United States.
And over here it seems to have further bonded the BBC with the likes of Dianne Abbott. An association the ruthlessly impartial seems not to see can place them in very dubious company. Again.
A day that shall live in infamy?
But… for whom?
I have to say that I’m at a loss as to why this illustrates that Robinson is biased against UKIP.
‘Gobby’ for those who don’t know is Veteran BBC political producer Paul Lambert who earned his nickname for shouting questions at politicians.
He joined UKIP as their communications director this week.
If anything Robinsons description of UKIP & Farage as “a fag & a pint & a grin” is more an affectionate portrait almost wistful if anything, and certainly not hostile or negative.
Of course others might see it in a different light, but anyone working for the BBC would be in an impossible position to say what they really thought if they did sympathise with UKIPs politics.
“…at a loss as to why this illustrates that Robinson is biased against UKIP”
Where was this notion inspired?
I simply see interesting avenues ahead, from claims of balance to some heads getting around the notion of cuckoos still existing at the heart of the hive.
Sorry Guest Who the response was to the OP, and not your remark.
OK. No problem. Off now to my acronym identifier.
A portent for England?
“Denmark: Muslim gangs enforcing Sharia in residential areas”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/denmark-muslim-gangs-enforcing-sharia-in-residential-areas
-For pro-mass immigration, pro-Islamisation, INBBC to report?
LOL.
Just been listening to Shelagh Fogarty phone in on LBC talking about disabled access to shops etc.
A disabled man rang in who’s point was that he considered it was completely wrong to use the word ‘discrimination’ when discussing the failure to provide access. Well Ms Foggie was VERY rattled about this! Beeboids cant have anyone narrowing the Nuspeak definition of ‘discrimination’ can we? Goodness next thing theyll be saying its not ‘discrimination’ when discussing the deficit in numbers of Black people as MPs, in the Lords, judges, at Oxford, the BBC, at Sadlers Wells, getting A*s at A level etc etc
She was so rattled that it was beginning to seem rude to an eldelry disabled man! Suddenly she backed off, dropped the argument. Someone passed a note to her in the studio perhaps.
It appears that the BBC is quietly smug that the Tories and the Fib-Dems are falling out of love as the election nears. There’s only likely to be one winner in this – Labour.
The Tories are behaving with typical stupidity in engaging with them instead of simply stating the truth. This weeks polls show that the Fib-Dems are now in fifth place behind UKIP (3rd) & the Greens (4th).
They are simply an irrelevance and what does it matter what policies they think they might like to see, they’re never going to be in a position to demand them to be implemented until the election following this one at the earliest.
At the moment the SDP could theoretically hold the balance of power as Millipede fails to impress in Scotland, or it could also be UKIP.
Clegg is on a different planet, he has been for a while. He’ll be lucky if he gets re-elected never mind having sufficient MPs to hold the balance of power again, yet he speaks like he will play a pivotal role in the formation of a new government.
The third party is now UKIP, a shame we won’t see the BBC treating UKIP as the third party though.
Anybody else hear the preposterous Jeremy Bowen blagging his way round the Israel Gaza borders at 1.30 this afternoon on Radio 4.
Bowen is a Tuscan grease monkey-slobbering around all things Islamic, pouring scorn on Jewish “settlers”-are there any other kind of Jews in BBC groupspeak?
Basically Bowen spent the whole half hour dipping his wick in virgin Palestinian oils-oh, so lemony,so fragrant-whilst asking them to expound on why Jews need lopping off the “Olive Tree” of Muslim niceness.
Bowen seemed very bothered by the fate of all those lovely olive trees-what else would he hug?…but seemed less arsed about Israelis getting butchered, killed in their beds, getting bombed to buggery by the same Olive Grovers who only want the Jews pressed into their vats, seeing as they`re not smart enough to build those gas chambers they clearly would like to recreate.
And Bowen muses about whether the olive oil and pitta breads would taste so much sweeter if there were no Jews thereabouts,
God Bless Israel-and wouldn`t it be nice to see how far a mature olive tree could be inserted into Bowens talking hole…I nearly said a Christmas fairy, but Islam wouldn`t like that would it?
So the BBC have only got over the political death of Gordon Brown…but can now weep at the risen tomb where Alex Salmond has resurrected himself to fight in Gordon(don`t ask).
The Order of the Brown Nose for all Bravehearts and expense-twisting Caledonian conmen continues….the BBC love their Morningside Rebellions for their tartan Raj don`t they?
Come on Nigel-give us your best Rab C Nesbit a la Russ Abbott…and the BBC will doubtless celebrate your ironic diversity.
Or is that colonic?
Meanwhile http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2864133/Pictured-five-year-old-Scottish-boy-suffered-sickening-violent-death-left-medics-needing-counselling.html
the BBc still running http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-30360265
INBBC: tailoring the ‘news’ to suit the predilections of the news-reader,
e.g. Muslim Mishal HUSAIN, tonight on INBBC 1 TV News?-
The final item of ‘news’ which Muslim, Mishal HUSAIN smilingly read out, was
a ‘diary’ item that Pakistani Muslim, Malala Yousafzai is to receive Nobel award next week.
Let’s not mention the Islamic jihad Taliban barbaric perpetrators shall we, INBBC:
no smiling matter.
“Now Financial Times joins call for rethink on aid:
“Paper blasts PM’s vow to spend billions overseas.
“FT says it’s right to question PM’s ‘rigid’ target in current financial state.
“Newspaper concluded that the aid budget had ‘little relevance’ today.
“Follows revelation UK will spend £1billon more on aid in next two years. ”
By DANIEL MARTIN
FOR THE DAILY MAIL.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2864713/Now-Financial-Times-joins-call-rethink-aid-Paper-blasts-PM-s-vow-spend-billions-overseas.html#ixzz3LGEBvGFi
But, of course, Beeboids-Guardianistas will still campaign so that British taxpayers finance ‘ring-fenced’ Foreign Aid, (and INBBC’s Arabic TV service for Arabs).
FFS!
Food Banks again. Perhaps the BBC should continue the – vile tories are driving us back to the (very prosperous 6.5% growth) late 30’s and call them “Soup Kitchens” filled with shoeless urchins dressed in rags.
Free food for feckless people who have had their ‘benefit sanctioned’. Tell me BBC, why do people get their benefits sancitioned?
This so called food and fuel poverty is elective, people have other priorities beyond the choice between ‘ heating and eating’. if you end up paying someones’ utility bill for them guess what – they won’t pay it themselves.
The next step is ration cards. The green fascists would love them, they can micro manage the amount people eat and excrete. Only the povs will sell them down the pub for 1/4 the face value.
The average cost of 20 cigs is 8.47 – enough to buy veg for a family for a week
http://www.the-tma.org.uk/tma-publications-research/facts-figures/uk-cigarette-prices/
How many of these poor people have mobile phones?
I DO NOT BELIEVE that there is genuine food poverty in Britain – people simply do not priotitise food
You should join one of the main political parties ! You seem absolutely hell bent on attacking the poor white people needing to use these things, just as the Fascist left wants them too.
When did you ever see a Muslim queuing up for these hand outs?
Why do ‘people’ get their benefits sanctioned? Mainly because the crew at the benefits agency have targets to meet and if they haven’t sanctioned enough then they’ll use some pretty underhand methods. Again when did you ever see an ethnic being sanctioned?
People have been sanctioned for such ridiculous things as attending a second job interview and not the BA one. You think that’s reasonable? Or they moved the time of the interview forward without informing the claimant, and then said he failed to turn up!
Your thinking is deeply flawed ! “if you end up paying someones’ utility bill for them guess what – they won’t pay it themselves.” If someone paid may utility bill I wouldn’t pay it again ! why would someone pay their utility bill twice?
The reality is that many of the families claiming food from these banks are actually working – do not smoke and don’t drink ! They can’t make ends meet because of ever increasing stealth taxes which both (I say both but they’re all the same) parties have imposed on life’s essentials.
30% tax on my utilities bill, and set to rise to 40% by 2020 and 50% by 2030? Think that’s reasonable?
Vat on fuel for public transport, and the government subsidies reduced. Rail subsidies reduced.
Zero hours contracts, and a drop in the amount paid by tax credits haven’t helped either.
People have starved to death in this once great country. That might not have penetrated your thick hide but it’s a reality – starving to death in Britain in this century !
I don’t know what else to say to you, other than you are completely utterly and wholly wrong ! Clearly you’re a Conservative supporter and can’t see past the political dogma. You have no insight as to what is going on, and I don’t think you want to have, after all insight might challenge your dogma, and we can’t have that.
So you carry on with the party Fascism, attacking whitey and grinding him into the dust after all we know from the party that white people are lazy workshy drunken oafs who just don’t want to work !
“People have starved to death in this once great country”
Not getting into the rest as this seems more a political exchange than a BBC bias one (that would be the BBC working with activists to apportion blame selectively, whilst steering clear of other parties’ fuel policy poverty ambitions), but assuming this is not a semantic reference to distant history or Bobby Sands, do you have a link to who all these people are?
If confirmed, seems Sir Bob is demanding money to spare the wrong continent.
Apologies, beyond auto-euthenasia and missed mental patient tragedies, I have found this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287332/Nearly-1-200-people-starved-death-NHS-hospitals-nurses-busy-feed-patients.html
Though this does go more to another issue where ladling on further money may not be the primary concern.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/28/man-starved-to-death-after-benefits-cut
As for ‘Sir Bob’ I’ve been saying that for a while.
Sorry but one case of a man with serious mental health problems who was under weight when he died but yet there is no cause of death was found but yet is seized upon by the left as a cause celeb ? not very convincing !
Plus sorry but as the food bank scams are run by the churches as it get them access to the poor for great pr and hectovists like the cash hungry Trussel trust all in labours pocket how is UKIP going to fair when they get power and these middle class grievance mongers go after them about continuing this scam ?
Maybe if he had his £145 Telly tax he might have survived…………………..
‘…Why do ‘people’ get their benefits sanctioned? Mainly because the crew at the benefits agency have targets to meet and if they haven’t sanctioned enough then they’ll use some pretty underhand methods…’
That’s utter rubbish.
There are no targets. DWP staff judge each case on its merits. Where people UNREASONABLY refuse the offer of work they will have their benefit suspended…as they ALWAYS have since the dawn of unemployment benefits in the UK, before the First World War.
And the DWP staff and managers are not underhand.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/25/jobcentre-newsletter-sanctions-targets
So their own internal memos are inaccurate?
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/21/jobcentre-set-targets-benefit-sanctions
Whistle blowers telling lies?
I think you’ve swallowed the Tory cool aid !
Perhaps you might like to think about why despite parliamentary questions from opposition MPs the government has refused to answer simple questions about benefit sanctions.
I can assure you that there are no targets.
Politically motivated PCS activists, though, may well try to dissemble and mislead the gullible and misrepresent the truth.
(I think that I may know more about this than you Mr T)
Ms
government figures show an average of 75 500 claimants sanctioned – per month ! Over a year that’s an amazing 906 000 ! or half the number of claimants.
Whilst I’m prepared to believe that there are slackers and scroungers, and that they need to be sanctions against them, I cannot accept that the numbers being sanctioned are anything other than a government policy to reduce spending and to keep the unemployment figures down.
I’m aware of Serwotkas far left credentials and his politically motivated followers, and there are a lot of them in the civil service, but even they can’t influence the government statistics.
There are around 250,000 employment opportunities in Job Centres, at any one time, that people should be making themselves available for.
I’m not surprised at that number of sanction, given the number of people from abroad that employers have needed to turn to.
As Arthur Laffer said on Newsnight the other day, we now have a welfare system that takes money from those working to give to those that don’t want to / have to.
Sky News shot themselves in the foot when reporting the Food Banks story. They showed some African immigrant and his three kids who moaned his benefits hadn’t been paid in time, couldn’t get work and was in substandard housing and unable to pay the rent. Because of this he had to use food banks. The result for me perfectly illustrated everything that’s wrong with the Benefits and Immigration system in this country. Someone who came to this country expecting free handouts and housing and without any means of sustaining themselves. And the MSM try to make us feel sorry for these people!
Thoughtful, the only people who starved to death in recent years were the geriatric patients left to rot by our caring NHS professionals in hospitals like Stafford. The biggest problem for so called “poor” people is the inability to prioritise their spending. I live on a fixed annual income that’s well below the national average, but I prioritise , making sure my bills are paid, keeping a roof over our head and we have enough food to eat. We neither smoke nor drink, don’t make regular visits to the tattoo parlour, don’t use X-boxes, don’t have the largest flat screen TV or the latest smart phone. I take it you don’t have much experience of the so called poor. I suggest you visit a social housing estate and look inside the homes of these people. None of them are deprived of all the modern conveniences. Some can even afford a number of computers for their kids and themselves. Maybe there are some people who live as you say, but I would suggest they are in the minority.
While ever poverty is measured relatively, there will ALWAYS be poor people. The way it’s measured by the Left is someone is classed as poor if they receive less than another person. Relative poverty is not REAL poverty. It’s the Left re-defining the word, it’s what they do to progress their agenda. Anyway, if people are starving why do we have an obesity epidemic among the poor?
“Vat on fuel for public transport”
You need to learn how the VAT system works. Start by googling “taxable supplies” and “zero rating”.
“penetrated your thick hide”
A very BBC approach to disagreement.
An intemperate racist rant
“People have starved to death”…. Perhaps, perhaps someone with dementia is neglected in the community or in a hospital, but this is not because they are poor nor that the benefits that they are given are inadequate, nor that ‘income distribution’ is unfair, nor that there is no social justice. .
No one who is physically able and mentally competent has any excuse whatsoever for being hungry in modern Britain.
The entire “Food Bank” meme is a political one and the BBC is more than happy to promulgate it
There is no VAT on public transport fares including flights , although the Treasury levies a `Departure Tax `on flights , the rate depending on your destination airport .
Nicky Campbell this morning; ‘Why is Britain going hungry?’
Following on from last week, the BBC hyperbolising yet again!
Obesity epidemic or food banks and starvation. Which is it to be? Presumably both simultaneously.
When did you last see a take away in a deprived area short of custom? When did you see a bustling grocer’s next door?
He’s not an incisive interviewer, he’s a very Naughtie boy
LibDem Danny Alexander is on BBC Radio 4 Today and Jimmy Naughtie turns the interview into something more akin to a sofa-based chat show and soft plug for Danny’s wares.
LibDem EU policy is all over the shop. They think we need a referendum to clear the air – but only when there is major treaty change – but then they will vote Yes anyway – and in any case this would only happen at some time many years in the future. So that’s clear then.
An intelligent balanced witness to this fudging around would have to conclude Danny Alexander is in the EU for keeps but doesn’t want to admit it in simple language. Leftist voters in favour of the EU will understand and presumably approve the undemocratic obfuscation. For the majority of voters who want out he wants to pull a veil over his policy.
And did Naughtie leap in to shred this limp damp tissue?
Bet your bottom Euro he didn’t!
http://conservativewoman.co.uk/david-keighley-bbc-can-protest-likes-pro-eu-bias-undeniable/
Rather betting the 141, 147… 210 will soon be mobilized to deny just that, with Danny & James digging further holes in the Mirror or Guardian in complement. With supportive messages from Labour and other EU committed parties.
Of a few choice phrases that many here will savour on the BBC’s killer ‘balance’ logic, based on its own FoI- exempted secret selection of public feedback….
“…they produced two letters by listeners one attacking John Humphrys for pro-EU bias, the second for his anti-EU bias.
There was no additional commentary, but incredibly, Corporation chiefs believed both that it was an-ace-of-hearts trump card, and that it showed that Humphrys could not be biased towards both side of the argument simultaneously, so therefore he must not be biased at all.
Such ‘logic’ is utter tosh and shows infant-school thinking.”
That, and/or great faith in ‘tell it often enough’ backed, currently by zero accountability and effective immunity.
We got the usual “Am I bothered?” BBC response to the criticism of florid language from Dame Norman Smith, but on the R4 8am News, remarkably this story was reported without mentioning the MPs party allegiance, usually a privilege reserved for errant Labour members
Conservative MP caught playing puzzle game on his iPad during Parliamentary committee
Nigel Mills admits he ‘wasn’t focusing’ while playing Candy Crush Saga
On the foodbank issue the report by the Church of England should be viewed as most things the Church says – as a piece of left wing propaganda.
I can remember the trouble they got into over Faith in the City, but back then we had a leader who had a spine and was able to stand up for herself, and against a Church which was much more relevant than it is now.
The CofE has been thoroughly infiltrated by liberal lefties who largely don’t believe in God or Christ, and I have personal experience of a local vicar who claims the Bible can be used to support what ever he wants it to.
Worse still this report has had a huge input from the discredited left wing activist Jack Monroe – She who criticised Cameron for ‘using his disabled son’ and was promptly fired by Sainsburys.
None of this has been mentioned by the BBC who probably can’t even see it as an issue.
Robin Aitken writing in the Daily Mail pleads ‘Don’t let the left ruin our crusade’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2864820/Don-t-let-Left-ruin-crusade-writes-food-bank-pioneer-ROBIN-AITKEN.html
The Tories burying their heads in the sand over this issue is sickening, but not quite as bad as the excuses that they have come up with to allow business as normal.
It’s down to people smoking – it’s down to people drinking The usual insults they like to heap on a white working class which they detest nearly as much as Labour do.
If you don’t believe me then go do some volunteering at a food bank, or talk to the people using them to find out why they’re there, or alternatively accept that there is a need for them what ever the Tories say.
Please don’t out of sheer bigotry deny there is a problem, or try to pin it on those poor people reduced to effectively charity hand outs.
No! I will continue to criticize them and their political war as long as they continue it from labours back pocket !
As I am on benefits and have to survive on less then £70 a week all on my own then I also feel I have no reason to feel shamed into backing or backing off questioning them !
The family on this morning’s Today programme who said they’d eaten nothing for a week seemed rather unlikely to me. I try to keep an open mind on this kind of thing, but it’s difficult where the BBC is concerned as you know there’s an agenda.
I’d like to have known what income and outgoings they had that they could be in such a state but no-one seemed concerned to find out – it was just accepted at face value. This type of uncuriosity is what gets alarm bells ringing with me. You might argue that it’s an invasion of privacy, but if you’re going to make such claims on national radio you have to expect people will want to verify it.
“I’d like to have known what income and outgoings they had that they could be in such a state but no-one seemed concerned to find out – it was just accepted at face value.”
Agree entirely. We’re being morally blackmailed into agreement. Sorry, but I’m not prepared to accept it without seeing family accounts.
The BBC operates a strict ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy when it comes to personal ‘cuts’ testimony.
As any lawyer will tell you – it’s risky to ask a question you don’t already know the answer to – you may very well discredit a friendly witness.
Just seen this:
Poor going hungry because they can’t cook, says Tory peer
I think there might be a lot of truth in it. Look at the contents of supermarket trollies pushed by many families with kids: sugary cereals, sweets, biscuits, expensive menu meals, frozen pizzas.
It will be used as further evidence of Tory nastiness, of course (and I don’t even support them).
Are we really being told that people are now worse off and can less afford food than they could in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s?
I’m sure there is some truth in this. You can easily load up on fresh vegetables for very little money they will just require a bit of preparation – ie peeling the spuds and putting them in boiling water, which of course might interrupt the daytime telly schedule.
Undoubtedly safely tucked behind many a ‘purposes of’ BBC exclusion zone, I am also intrigued as to how such poor souls and the BBC are brought together.
If a concerned reporter is ushered through the snow to them huddled around the grate by concerned (not enough to help directly, understandably) family or neighbours, one can only empathise.
By a posse of well funded NGO PR people, getting less sympathetic.
Contacting the BBC via twitter on iPhones in response to a ‘are you starving…?’ APB… erring on the meh.
I wonder if any had also consumed their last penny struggling to assemble outside Claridges to shame those taking tiffin inside without thought for those who cannot afford a teabag and boiled water?
Facebook:
BBC News
The qualified cook who can’t afford food. The aspiring electrician left penniless by benefits sanctions. The budding writer who sofa-surfs and steals fruit and vegetables.
This is how food poverty is affecting some of the UK’s young people.
Do you have a story of your own to share?
Of the young victims whose photos grace the page, ‘gaunt’ is not how two of the three could be described.
And this has not passed the commenters by.
They may have better run this one on HYS; at least then they could have pulled the thread before any out at work, and not sofa-surfing*, chipped in once back.
*To repeat my comment earlier, their choice of hapless innocent doing their best in face of adversity seems… interesting.
It’s not an invasion of privacy RD. If someone is prepared to speak out, we are entitled to scrutinise and satisfy ourselves that what they are saying is true….or have someone like the BBC do it for us.
Therein lies the problem.
. . . and the Guardian this morning goes to war shoulder to shoulder with the BBC on the “food bank crisis” (© Miliband Enterprises Inc). Unfortunately for the Guardian (and the BBC) a humble blogger and his commenters tear the vox pop etc examples to pieces on the Tim Worstall blog.
He raises, albeit in passing, a big issue that still perplexes me.
The BBC, Graun, etc clearly have agendas to push, and what better to push them than real examples?
And with billions around the world, most in some form of competition or conflict, there will be excesses, even from those who should know better.
So why, as with US events where miscreants seem determined to see just how hair the trigger of local law enforcement is (not likely to be helped by ‘if I had a bunch of domestic terrorists, they’d look like this’ tinkers broadcasting cross-country assassination plans), are the examples alighted upon so p*ss-poor?
Those selected were ripe for fisking and filleting; duly served.
Is that really the best they can locate? And does no one think ‘this may actually backfire big-time’?
Or are they actually devious false-flagging?
If so, the way they are doing it seems more a route to anarchic nihilism. And I doubt even their gated communities will resist the results.
Food banks or obesity crisis, which is it?
Food banks are a great idea, this IS the big society in action, people volunteering of their time and spare food to help people (for whatever reason) who cant feed themselves. So why exactly is it a disgrace?
More people shop at Lidl, more branches of Lidl open.
More people discover free food, more food banks open.
Isn’t the market wonderful?
The bBC always seem to use down at heel whites in any story featuring food banks, but I suspect that a lot of the food donated actually goes to the ‘recently arrived’.
Sky News last night featured an African and his extended family who were ‘very grateful’ for food banks and ‘couldn’t have survived without’ he was shown now settled in a nice house, possibly kindly donated by the tax payer…
Before we start having a go at our own and their ability to run their household budgets, maybe we should look at those who are being given handouts of all sorts without ever any contribution to this country from them, their parents or grandparents…
As with most of our problems, immigration is a cause and until we tackle that by the throat nothing can or will change, only get worse, its just we can’t see the wood for the trees.
Contrary to the faux outrage from the DM & DT, Farage wasn’t wrong yesterday when he blamed congestion on immigration.
“The bBC always seem to use down at heel whites in any story featuring food banks, but I suspect that a lot of the food donated actually goes to the ‘recently arrived’.
BBC West Midlands went all the way out to Cannock to find a majority ethnic British food bank!
Funny that> Surely there are some more conveniently located.
Nail on head.
We have to assume that UK food banks cater for diversity – unlike the waycists in the US.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/somali-muslims-minnesota-pushing-pork-free-food-bank
INBBC headline today-
“EU’s Mogherini to press Turkey over IS militants.”
-BUT, who is ‘to press E.U over IS militants?’
AND who is ‘to press INBBC over reporting Islamic State as mere “militants?”‘
PM Cameron is due to visit Turkey tomorrow where he will deviously re-affirm his actual policies for mass immigration and Islamisation of Britain, by continuing campaign to get 80 million Muslim Turks into E.U as soon as possible.
Will there be any critical commentary of these policies by BBC-NUJ, which is institutionally:-
pro-mass immigration,
pro-E.U,
and pro-entry of Turkey into E.U?
Camoron? how about that odious clueless asswipe Osborne, and the rest of the No10 imbeciles eh!
Can t wait to punish the most vulnerable, the poorest in our society ..yet again … typical Selfservatives
All of Thatchers malevolence, and spite with none of her competence, look at the number of turnarounds he and his cronies, have pulled in his time in office.
unbelievably ignorant, no grasp of subtlety or strategy, dangerously inept on the economy, not a clue …
couldn t be trusted to manage or run chip van, never mind a country,
The Sharp-Intake-of-Breath Award
Martine Croxall is my nomination for winner this year
Previous holder of this highly prestigious accolade was Victoria Derbyshire – do you remember her BBC 5 Live interview with a footballer when she turned him to the subject of dubious dressing room banter – so he could tell her a banana was once left a black player’s seat. Emergency oxygen for Ms Derbyshire! Talk about sharp intake – there can’t have been any air left in the studio.
Enjoy Martine here when she reads some freebie newspaper front page telling us Nigel Farage was late for a gig – ‘due to migration’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30373259
The BBC in-house Resus Crash Team must have been on red alert there.
Given the BBC complaints criteria are specifically designed to assist in making stuff go away or at least lay the foundation of a belief set or semantic dead end, it’s not going to happen, but they really should add an ‘Excessive Fit of the Vapours’ option for when the BBC’s delicate blossoms are so overcome they can barely (but somehow just) manage to refer to the topic in question.
As with the cutaway edit to the ‘look of surprise’, ‘”yeah, right’ or ”do what?’ expression (a bit like the ubiquitous use of “quotes” not so so much to quote anyone but suggest doubt, too often when there is zero) added later once the subject is safely clear, highly effective to frame the narrative but nigh on possible to nail, especially in transcript.
Umm, the bBC seem to have a problem with blondes?
‘Countryfile presenter told she is TOO BLONDE to front BBC show’
Wouldn’t have thought much of this, but when watching Strictly last night I did wonder when probably the best dancer Pixie Lott was inexplicably voted off by judges. Maybe she was too ‘hideously’ blonde in comparison to the alternative?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2865212/Countryfile-presenter-told-BLONDE-BBC-show.html
A bit like that website that lists what global warming causes, I always await the next ‘ism with eager anticipation.
Have to say, it has always impressed how the more comely of presenters have kept perfectly toned faces straight when readererouting outrage on every other breach of inclusivity across the corporate landscape.
#backendofbusism could soon be with us, though sufferers may give pause before shouldering the mantle.
Still, there will be no shortage of willing charities, NGOs and consequent heads of PR to grace the breakfast sofas once funding can be ensured.
And a Strictly-aware, irony-free tottette from the BBC opposite to feel their pain.
Mr D calls the 2 of the Countryfile presenters (Ellie and Helen) ‘blonde bimbos’ as their understanding of country matters seems pretty low. They always want to try and ‘help’ in various activities – many of which have nothing to do with the countryside at all – and they are hopeless at them all. I am amazed at the comments on the Daily Mail website with Ellie being very highly praised – I do wonder if it is the PR people at the BBC posting?
I can believe that the producers at Strictly don’t want 3 women in the final (Pixie, Frankie and Caroline) – so one of them had to go. But anyone who could honestly say that Mark or Simon are better than these girls needs new glasses. We are never told the relationship between the audience vote and the results – and I no longer trust the BBC on anything. I have also read suggestions that the BBC needed some people in the competition who are doing the Strictly tour. And Pixie isn’t doing the Strictly tour.
I wouldn’t trust the BBC to tell me when to cross the road safely!
Beeboids: ethnically prejudiced against blond people.
Her choice is clear, either die her hair another colour, any will do, or black up and present as a black blonde person. An ethnic accent would also help increase her salary. Of course she could avoid all the colouring etc and just wear a burka.
Start the Week was an absolute shocker this morning.
The assembled liberatis gathered around Anjem Choudhurys carpet slippers this morning were clear that any sexism, violence towards women, other races, sheer cruelty and barbarism…as exemplified in 1001 nights and other Muslim tracts(dare we say-even in the Glorious Keiran?)…was-well not racist sexist or nasty at all!
No folks-it was burlesque(Marinas says)…and so OTT to pass as irony.
In a Mein Kampf kinda way eh Ms McElvoy?
Maybe UKIP could cite this opt-out…and if they don`t the likes of Golden Dawn will be doing so.
What IS it with the BBC and Arabs…must they ALL crave a flogging a la TE Lawrence and the Camel Corps Quislings?
if so-scoot to Marrakesh then BBC…and let`s get this country aright without the likes of Warner, McElvoy and other FGM apologists there at the BBC.
Cue sand dance…walking like Egyptians with a sea cucumber placed up the fundaments.
And then there’s INBBC’s ‘Arabic Television.’
We British INBBC licencepayers have to finance the London HQ-based ‘Arabic Television’ which provides Arabs globally with programmes and politics they want- at our expense!
“BBC Arabic Television”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Arabic_Television
Don`t know about you…but the BBC and the useless C Of E`s angst over wasted food and the Food Bank plethora is deeply touched.
Not touching of course-Savile saw to that!
My point-well, let`s hope that all those BBC parties and Church shindigs at this time of year don`t DARE to drop a party bag, or waste a drop of flat coke.
I hope that the BBC give all their waste to the homeless-we taxpayers have gorged on their effluent and flatulence for years now…so why shouldn`t the Food Bank Community benefit from all those hog roasts, mulled wine do`s that might otherwise throw out perfectly good food?
Hope the Taxpayers Alliance and the Mail will hold the BBC/Cherches pinkies to the flames seeing that they purport to care about wasted food…the BBC and the Cherches would surely not be seen to be hypocrites with glycerine teardrops yet AGAIN would they?
PS Good to have Vine back, after his recent attack of the vapours re speeding in Hyde Park on his bike…poor lamb probably gets motion sickness now!
And a Blue Badge to pass around the office too, no doubt
Justin Welby would be better employed raising the dreadful killlings and persecution of Christians in the ME particularly in Iraq. And keep on raising it till even the wretched liberal media notices.
Only that is not so headine grabbing that this food bank story is.
The C of E should take care. It is becoming irrelevant in the crisis that is coming to the West.
The cherch only gets a nod from the BBC when it sucks up to the liberal progressive agenda…global boiling, food banks and status for Palestine-that kind of t`ing.
When it`s making any sappy efforts to speak on how Christians are treated abroad, the marginalising of the Gospel and its declining supporters…it`s “elitist” and exclusive, seeking special favours…
And don`t get me started on the Reverend Blue Jeans over there at the Vatican-he`s the bloke that Father Dougal sent off to a gay ashram in Father Ted way back.
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2014/12/8/judge-rule-of-law-challenged-by-greens.html
‘There is a BBC report of the hearing here, but strangely the news of its rejection doesn’t seem to have made the cut.’
Clearly, this aspect was deemed ‘not news’ (c) A Newsroom Tealady.
‘You can see why the BBC would want to give it a miss”
As one trumpeting editorial integrity, trust and transparency in securing compelled funding based on objective information and education, not really, no.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/uk-labour-party-ukip-has-evil-money-grabbing-jews-in-their-party
Aaaahhhhhh…………..the language of the left……….imagine if Farage had said ‘Scrounging Somalis’ or ‘Parasitic Palastinians’
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/jail-rochdale-man-who-groomed-8250708
Yet another one of those ‘men’, but note the pathetic sentence handed down by a judge who clearly wanted to be politically correct (wonder why it is that Muslims get so short sentences?).
As in keeping though it’s not reported on the BBC, because there’s a white victim, and whites don’t matter.
What do you think the BBC reaction would be if someone in UKIP described Millipede as an “evil money grabbing jew”? I can’t imagine they would completely ignore it, and yet that’s exactly what they’ve done when the Labour Party tweeted about Shneur Odze a member of UKIP.
People often ask ‘how did the Nazis manage to come to power’ , partly it’s because people were too frightened to speak out against them, and that’s exactly what’s happening now.
All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing – and that’s exactly what’s happening.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/uk-labour-party-ukip-has-evil-money-grabbing-jews-in-their-party
I’d hope the BBC reaction would be at least as prominent as if, for instance, a Tory politician were to say poor people can’t cook.
It would, wouldn’t it?
Whilst consulting the old Advent Calenda on Sunday it occurred to me that it has been more than 50 days since the BBC said they would try to address my complaint within 20 days.
Following up through the BBC on line complaints roundabout is very confusing. Any suggestions from anyone?
So I found myself making a new complaint about the lack of reply to my original complaint – which received this reply:
“YOUR COMPLAINT:
Complaint Summary: Reporting union demo appeared staged for camera
Full Complaint: Initial response to my complaint was a cut and paste automated brush off. Further response was supposed to have been received within 20 days. 50+ days have now passed and the impression given is that the BBC hopes the original complaint has been forgotten. Please reply to my complaint.”
Just between ourselves, I’m not convinced a human being has actually read my original complaint.
Yes but the BBC doesn’t have a complaints department, it has a denial department which deals with any dissent.
You are obviously wrong, and any complaint is without foundation. The BBC is as perfect as it is possible to be, and will not countenance otherwise.
There that’s the answerphone message they could use to deal with anyone who has the temerity to call them, and they can then save us all a lot of money by firing the denial department staff !
Your conviction could likely be borne out in fact, were it not for those darn kids and their ‘purposes of..’ exemptions.
We’ll just have to for now rely on BBC integrity to be reassured they are not just messing around because… they can.
The ‘hope they forget’ is an oldie but a goldie, but modern tech like google calendar (or the advent variety) reminders can make this a less reliable fallback than once it was.
I wonder if the ball is in their court, and they neglect to reply at all, whether that still counts as strike against you as it still goes to the 110% complaint free stats Lord Pantone and Rona get waved under their noses?
This is a standard BBc tactic. I used to find myself complaining about a lack of response on a regular basis. This doesn’t seem to be so prevalent now. Although I would tend to in experience agree with your comment that they hope the complainer has just forgotten about it. Your complaint will have been seen by a human as they have to decide which of the three or four standard templates they will use to reply. Any way good luck with the complaint. If nobody complains no doubt they will announce to the world they are doing such a good job no one ever complains.