Middle of the week and time for a new thread. I noted that Jeremy Bowens was referring to the Islamic savages that burned the Jordanian pilot alive as “fighters” last night, although on the Today programme this morning I heard the word “terrorist” used, which was welcome if overdue. Anyway, here’s a thread for your use!
MID WEEK OPEN THREAD
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UKIP’s Suzanne Evans is unwell and had to pull out of Question Time tonight. UKIP proposed Steven Woolfe as a replacement but the BBC refused because they wanted a woman – they’re manipulating all the time:
UKIP Question Time Absence Explained
In light of the posts earlier about the greatness of this man as a principled Parliamentarian, I was interested also in his statesmanlike tweet.
The responses to the BBC sparing him the bravery of facing a pro-Israeli will also be a treat, should they become ‘newsworthy’.
Top comment:
‘I don’t care if her UKIP replacement is male or female.
The BBC has no right to turn down Steven Woolfe’
And questions asked are solely selected by the audience.
Apparently.
Now, there’s this plot of land in Florida…
Seems he called UKIP ‘cowards’ first, before he knew the reason, and then was man enough to apologise. For all his faults – too many to mention – he has some old fashioned concept of honour that is lost on the sneering metropolitan elite.
Today this morning, I think about 7.20. Reporting how those evil Tories are spending £120,000 a month (I think) on collecting/giving information on the internet whilst Labour only spend £10,000. The whole piece was presented as ‘it isn’t fair’ and morally wrong. Well as far as I am concerned the Conservatives, as long as it is legal, can spend what they want. If Labour haven’t the money to do the same that is already telling you something, if it is that Labour thinks the spending isn’t worthwhile again that is up to them. But the presentation of the piece from the Labour point of view was pure Naughtie. Apparently there was going to be a discussion after 8.30 but I had better things to do.
The BBC ‘reporting’… excuse me while I take a moment to recompose… on fairness in social media representation is brave, given what is devoted on ‘views my own’ tweets by Jasminors, and ‘what do you thinks’ across FaceBook via its various ‘magazines’, ‘trendings’ and now new ‘Pop Up’ waste of space job-creation scheme (The #BBCPopUp team is en route to our next location! Next week we will be reporting from Tacoma, Washington. We want to know what issues matter most to the Tacoma residents and will be asking them to suggest story ideas for our programme) is… brave.
Speaking of Facebook, no matter who spends what, the sponsored posts seem like exercises in disaster from the get-go. The comments are usually hilarious.
On Labour specifically, given features on their online outings on Order-order, when they claimed they had the yoof sewn up via these platforms, the car crashes they inspired maybe explains why they are now steering clear?
So it’s no surprise their crisis management PR agency is using vast public funds to deal with it all.
Years ago, in a more honest age, a ‘poster campaign’ meant you printed ten thousand posters and pasted them up all over the country. Then they noticed that media coverage of a poster was more important than the real thing. So now they put one poster on a truck outside the Commons and hope for good coverage. In this situation, relationships with the media are surely more important than money and one party has a clear advantage.
Money couldn’t buy what the BBC does for Labour. It’s priceless.
When Obama massively outspent the Republicans in the 2008 and 2012 Presidential elections, did the BBC cry foul?
Seems the neutral Beeb has turned down a UKIP replacement for QT as he doesn’t have tits.
Four months before an election? Hmmmm?
http://order-order.com/2015/02/05/ukip-question-time-absence-explained/#disqus_thread
Only the right type of equality and balance remember?
Don’t we have laws against discrimination on the grounds of sex or is this another one-way only law?
You could ask, if only for the purposes of finding out just how unique the BBC thinks it is.
Be funny if a Danny edict resulted in an interview with a NPBA or METBPA spokesperson running into difficulties over BBC tone-based scheduling demands.
Just hope Franstine never has an off day.
Listening to Five Live and it is, as others have posted on here, as if Rotherham was just a minor distraction.
Peter Allen’s show – merely the same misery memoir as VD’s but with a different mouthpiece – is focussing on that old Beeb fav depression.
Maybe it’s because one of the left’s favourite pin up boys Clarke Carlisle tried to top himself recently?
Depression you see?
Nothing to do with the fact that he’d recently been done for drink driving. And that the ivory tower from which he regularly pontificated with a holier than thou, sycophantic air was looking a little sullied and unkempt.
Nah, nowt do with that. Depression. Always depression.
Brillo opened The Daily Politics with ‘Rotherham Council’s Labour cabinet ….’
… and went on to tell how Sarah Champion MP had agreed to be interviewed but then pulled out. Maybe she is ill…. or maybe she became ill at the prospect of being roughed up by Brillo?
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/glasgow-bin-lorry-crash-driver-5107440
Hmmm. Now that the terrifying Jihadi bin lorry driver has been named as, er, Harry Clarke, I wonder if DP111 and his chums will be putting in an appearance to admit their error in repeatedly describing this as an act of Islamic terror. Otherwise people might be tempted to leap to the conclusion that they are paranoid conspiracy theorists.
Maybe Alan will do an OP admitting he was wrong as well – I won’t hold my breath!!
But then again what do you expect from people who source their “evidence” from sites like these:
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/01/03/uk-cover-up-blurred-photos-reveal-that-the-bin-lorry-driver-in-glasgow-who-mowed-down-dozens-of-people-in-the-street-might-be-a-muslim/
https://christiandefenceleague.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/glasgow-bin-lorry-crash-cover-up-update/
https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1081701/
Or… they could do what a £4Bpa supposedly professional publicly-force funded ‘news’ organisation does and stealthily change any speculation on events that still seem shrouded in mystery, or delete any mention in guise of ‘evolving the story’, selectively go nowhere near (you’ll appreciate that one) or simply ignore it on a ‘moving on’ basis.
All tried and tested. And trusted.
But good to see it’s brought the pack to the surface in a safe area all at once.
Careful you don’t stray too close to Rotherham guys.
As to mounting high horses on sourcing …
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/nov/25/bbc-newsnight-fiasco-bij
http://bbcwatch.org/2014/07/14/hamas-uses-bbc-brand-for-fauxtography-propaganda/
I call this the ‘glass houses’ tactic. Two wrongs maybe, but one is possible speculation-based error by amateurs. The other is deliberate propaganda misinformation by supposed paid professionals.
There is a difference.
And what’s that I hear… a Catalina?
What an arsewipe you are, along with your mate Albaman and whoever else upvoted you. You really think you’re intelligent but the ignorance you display , and the damage you help do to society is clear from your posts.
Most independent thinkers – that’s NOT you, seeing how the BBC constantly and consistently avoids the M word when relating incidents where that mindset is clearly behind it, can hardly be blamed for thinking that this was simply another terrorist attack.
Why else hide his name?
If he suffered a heart attack which led to this incident then nobody would have blamed him.
That you think it’s clever because it’s what your overlords do is exactly the main reason the shit in Rotherham and elsewhere happened. That’s what I think you and your ilk share responsibility for ARSEWIPES.
And you think you’re intelligent?
Be sure to criticise me for insulting you pieces of shit.
Thank you for this characteristically erudite and thoughtful response.
You appear to have overlooked the fact that I am not the one who was peddling fiction as if it were truth; who drew upon non-existent evidence to support a paranoid conspiracy theory; who accused authorities and media of a cover-up when they told the truth at every stage.
If you had a shred of empathy you would appreciate that a lorry driver who, through no fault of his own, has been involved in such a terrible incident is likely to be deeply traumatised. Naming somebody in these circumstances adds hugely to their mental burden and to the chances that they will cause themselves harm. Moreover, given the large number of families affected, it is quite possible that he and his family would have received threats. In those circumstances it is quite reasonable for the authorities to withhold personal information. The assurances that this incident was not terror-related began early and were consistent. It was only those with a particular racial or religious axe to grind who decided to disbelieve them.
“That you think it’s clever because it’s what your overlords do is exactly the main reason the shit in Rotherham and elsewhere happened. That’s what I think you and your ilk share responsibility for ARSEWIPES.”
Goodness: charm, tact and flawless logic, all in the same post. You’re quite the debater, Teddy Bear.
You’ll get no apology from me, and the characterisation of you stands.
Here’s two articles from your mates at the BBC today where youngsters have been vilely sexually and morally abused by gangs of sick excuses for human beings that just so happen to all be Muslims.
Notice the BBC only refer to them as MEN, and in one article are content to show the English districts they some from.
West Yorkshire Police charge 25 men with child sex offences
Rape and prostitution probe: 20 Tyneside men charged
So how do I know they’re Muslims, we don’t even get the usual ‘Asian’ epithet to guess by? According to you I must just be a conspiracy theorist, aren’t I?
Because if I go to Breitbart – I get a full list of the names that the BBC PREFER TO HIDE.
Now you get it?
That’s precisely why these scum are enabled because of the BBC protective Muslim PC bullshit surrounding dodgy incidents, and the councils and police who are afraid to be labelled Islamophobic to uncover their actions.
No intelligent being hearing of a man who suffered a heart attack while driving and caused deaths as a result would feel anything but pity for the driver. For you to imagine the BBC or anybody who thought they needed to withhold it for his protection shows just how stuck up their own arseholes they are.
But since they did conceal – you or anybody cannot blame somebody for assuming there must be another reason – and given the usual BBC concealment of Muslim involvement, that it had something to do with that.
GET IT?
Whilst I agree with you that Alan and others were wrong in this I think you are missing the point being made that the deliberate withholding of information about the driver feeds this sort of anger and hate; especially when you consider that there had been prior to this a number of incidents in France where Muslims had driven vans and cars at pedestrians for their own warped and vile hate infested reasons.
I would like to think that those making the accusations had the decency to admit they were wrong, this time.
However, by prevaricating, the authorities have fed this sort of hate and distrust. They could have nipped this in the bud by declaring that the man was not a Muslim and there was no terrorist implications. But that would have meant admitting that there had been attacks in France, something they and the media here have been, mystifyingly, loath to report. They are tying themselves up in knots trying to be ‘fair’ to all sides when a straight forward statement of the truth would have shut up most of the hate mongers.
Hiding the truth for reasons on community cohesion only leads to further suffering for all involved. Now where have we seen that before?
especially when you consider that there had been prior to this a number of incidents in France where Muslims had driven vans and cars at pedestrians for their own warped and vile hate infested reasons.
I don’t know about France, but there have been several such incidents in Israel over the last few years – attacks by deranged Arab Muslim terrorists on innocent Israelis, including attacks by bulldozer drivers using their massive machines to injure and crush people to death.
They are tying themselves up in knots trying to be ‘fair’ to all sides when a straight forward statement of the truth would have shut up most of the hate mongers.
I’m not sure that they are trying to be fair to all sides. I think they are trying to be far more fair to anyone perceived to be part of a ‘victim’ group – and, bizarrely, that would include Muslims.
I’m not sure that they are trying to be fair to all sides. I think they are trying to be far more fair to anyone perceived to be part of a ‘victim’ group – and, bizarrely, that would include Muslims
Yes, I think that is more accurate than what I posted. I was trying to be fair to them. I know, I know, I’m old enough to know better but old habits die hard.
“They could have nipped this in the bud by declaring that the man was not a Muslim and there was no terrorist implications.”
Do you mean like the Police Scotland statement issued live from the scene shortly after the incident when it was clearly stated that this was a road traffic accident?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30579214
Right at the end the copper gives an equivocal answer that he ‘doesn’t believe’ there was anything ‘sinister’ it is true. How many times have we heard that before?
How many people heard that then do you think? It needed stating in the days afterwards especially after the conspiracy and hate mongers had got all over it. There’s no escaping it, they let this build and they could have stamped it out. They chose not to. Why is anyone’s guess.
“………especially after the conspiracy and hate mongers had got all over it.”
Is this an admission that some on this site are “hate mongers”?
Absolutely. You being one of the main ones! ;p
I never bought the conspiracy theory, but I still couldn’t see why the driver was not named earlier. It was an accident and at the time no-one thought otherwise. The cover up created the conspiracy theory.
Alabaman, Maybe if the bbc, you know, the people who take money out of our pockets on pain of a jail sentence, could be trusted to report events as they happen in an honest manner then maybe people might not feel the need to look abroad or set up many of their own websites such as this one to find some honest truth rather than a left wing, Muslim child rapist forgiving, windmill loving, apology of a “news” organisation.
Yes D1004, for some reason Today decided to pass on IS propaganda about an American hostage being killed by a Jordanian air-raid. After the item, they confirm that it is completely unsubstantiated. What is the point in reporting non-news? Why one piece of tittle tattle from the Internet rather than another? Clearly the BBC feels the need to use the vast resources extracted from their listeners and viewers to support ISIS.
As far as I have been able to find out, two bin men in the cab were also under a DA-Notice, there was also an Islamic attack on a Christmas market in Dijon France on the same day, so possibly a copy cat incident by the bin men in the cab, there was also evidence that the heart problem was a cover story, and that there was a struggle in the cab, they have had some time now to construct a story for the media.
A DA-Notice could only mean that this was a terrorist incident. In one edition of the Scotsman Newspaper, it was announced that there was a D Notice, but then that print run was destroyed. You would only find the edition in private collections. The courts must have imposed a superinjunction, which forbids the media from reporting on the DA-Notice and also the injunction itself, so the driver would have had to agree to some form of cover up before his name was released.
Interesting. A month or so ago, two Arab terrorists who drove their car into pedestrians in Jerusalem initially fled the scene but then handed themselves in with the story that it had been an accident. After an investigation, the authorities concluded that it wasn’t.
“….so possibly a copy cat incident by the bin men in the cab….”
No doubt you can provide some evidence to support this assertion.
“……… there was also evidence that the heart problem was a cover story, and that there was a struggle in the cab,……”
Can you provide a link to this “evidence”?
“In one edition of the Scotsman Newspaper, it was announced that there was a D Notice, but then that print run was destroyed. ”
Once again, any “evidence” to support this assertion?
“……………………. the driver would have had to agree to some form of cover up before his name was released. ”
And once again, any “evidence” to support this assertion?
My internet source was blocked in early January, and proving that superinjunctions exist is a difficult paradox. The use of the law to Censor Journalism in Britain is a problem. But I remember it saying that the source in Britain came from the Scotsman Newspaper, about a D Notice, and there are clues. (1) Preventing more copy cat incidents would be the reason pushed for the D Notice. (2) MI5 agents would push stories on the Internet that only speculate about the identity of the driver, without mentioning two other occupants. Which is the reason that MI5 would plan to release the name of the driver after a set period. So we have censorship producing a lone bin driver, with no evidence of heart problems, not going to a hospital that specialises in heart problems, not transferred to a hospital that specialises in heart problems. In fact the evidence is that censorship produces a situation where the evidence is destroyed, and the story becomes so complicated by dud stories that eventually only the facts that are true fit the jigsaw.
The BBC are masters at finger pointing. US anchor Brian Williams apology for Iraq helicopter story Don’t recall too many BBC apologies.
Mixing up horror photos from Syria with Gaza, Balen report etc.
If Danny Cohen’s ‘rules’ apply, the next POTUS:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/26/hillaryclinton.barackobama
The BBC search can be ‘tiring’, so this is the best I can locate from them:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/victoriaderbyshire/2008/03/have_you_ever_misspoken.shtml
‘But she hadn’t exaggerated, she hadn’t lied, she’d simply “misspoken”.’
Tongues out of cheeks, sisters.
One comment. Then closed. Go figure.
Didn’t see little Timmy apologizing for his anti-Semitic vox pop either, rsoles the lot of them.
Still haven’t seen an apology for the BBc doing it’s best to keep a lid on the pedoes “of asian decent”story . In all the many justifiable complaints about their sick & twisted biased reporting I’ve never received any apology what so ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piiGqzDGvH8
So who knew the mass rapes were going on?
BBC news web site landing page presently devoid of the word Rotherham
wonder why?
No mention either of the 25 “men” charged in relation to sexual abuse in Halifax yesterday. The Halifax courier has the details here:
http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/crime/25-men-charged-with-sexual-offences-against-two-girls-in-calderdale-1-7089705
Guess what. None of them are called John Smith!
I am sickened that what is obviously a widespread crime is being completely ignored by not just the BBC but all the mainstream media
Not only are they not called John Smith, they are all apparently nameless. The BBC sub-website for West Yorkshire carries the briefest of mentions but no names or significant details. Censorship in the name of Community Cohesion, no doubt. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-31141167 (it won’t take you long to read it).
Some campaigners think it is right that men accused of rape shouldn’t be named. Up until now the BBC led the opposition to that idea, but hey … doesn’t Heaven rejoice when one sinner repents? They’ll be ecstatic to receive twenty three thousand repenters in a morning!
On the topic of interactivity on blogs, I found this interesting:
http://martinbelam.com/2015/i-tell-you/
Not least how it relates to the world’s most trusted means to charge £145.50 in the UK to piggyback what’s free from the Wild West.
‘a mistake that news companies currently seem to be out-sourcing a lot of the commenting on their articles out to Twitter and Facebook, rather than run it themselves’
The toxicity of a tribal (literally) representative hating on another on BBC World being evident to all bar BBC commercial management.
Then, if we go back to another time, there is the counter of what happens if the modding goes from light to… ‘top down’.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/helen-boaden-director-of-bbc-news-at-the-lse
At least it got to two before the BBc shut it down. And obliterated one
By coincidence, this so-called sponsored message just appeared on my timeline:
The Labour Party
Sponsored ·
As we fight in Parliament to get the Bedroom Tax scrapped, we’re building Britain’s biggest record of public opposition to this terrible, cruel law.
1400+ comments, mostly like this:
This from the party that stole people’s pensions, left the economy cupboard bare and took us into two illegal wars.
QED.
Should be a Labour luvvie wankfest on Question time tonight.
I’m sure it will Betty, BTW are you in any way related to Mary Hinge ?
Rotherham, and what it exemplifies.
At least Edward Stourton, Radio 4, ‘World at One,’ had an interview with clear thinking, Camilla Cavendish (of ‘Sunday Times’) today on this.
Worth listening to- about 25 mins in-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052qtn1
Short, matter-of-fact, item on the News At One about an increase in the number of anti-Semitic attacks in the UK. No acknowledgment that the BBC is the main player in disseminating propaganda against the Jewish State, its elected president and its people.
Still no TV news – to my knowledge – on how an Argentine prosecutor was planning to arrest the Argentine President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and how he was murdered just hours before being due to testify against her in Congress. Even the Guardian – even the Guardian – is reporting how the prosecutor was Jewish, and how the Jews in Argentina live in fear:
Death of prosecutor leaves Argentina’s Jewish community angry and distrustful
This is an enormous story which reflects badly on a favoured saint of the Beeb. Their refusal to carry it is scandalous.. and their faux-concern about anti-Semitism in the UK is rank hypocrisy.
‘an enormous story which reflects badly on a favoured saint of the Beeb.’
Maybe Gavin can convene one of those representative panels of global journos on Dateline Islington to decide that, actually, it’s all the fault of those saber-rattling Falklanders?
Should be a Labour luvvie w@#kfest on QT tonight
Deja vu?
That was the “before the watershed” version.
The BBC website has an article on the increase in antisemitism in the UK. The article begins with the caption: ‘A far-right activist has threatened to protest against “Jewification” in Stamford Hill’. This is, of course, an attempt at the outset to smear those pesky “far-right” types with antisemitism. But anyone with an ounce of mother wit knows who are the real drivers of antisemitism; and it certainly isn’t EDL marchers with Israeli flags in their midst. The article goes on to explain that the antisemitism is often accompanied by references to Gaza and the Palestinians. Is the author of the article, I wonder, trying to suggest that pro-Palestinian leftists and hirsuit Trotskyites are behind the rise in antisemitism? Perhaps not, because at the end of the article it talks about a “far-right” activist in Facebook who is planning a demonstration against “Jewification”. See, it’s the “far right” we should be worried about.
Personally, I find it a relief to learn that the rise of antisemitism has nothing to do with Islam.
Surely you know by now that everything has nothing to do with Islam.
I think I can honestly say that I have never encountered one of these “far right” characters who we are informed are infesting society on every level and are a mortal threat to us all. Perhaps I should get out more.
Hat jemand bei den BBC des 13. Gebirgsdivision gehört?
(Thanks “Translate”)
They were a part of the real “far right”. As far as I can see there is no reality to the mythical legions of despised EDL ‘plebean neanderthals’ and UKIP ‘golf-club shits’ of leftist fantasy. No one in Britain beyond five pathetic spotty nutters in a basement somewhere planning on re-taking Stalingrad for the fourth-reich has any appetite for rampant racism. However everyone has the right to be utterly disgusted by the way that the leftist political establishment and the so-called ‘public services’ have behaved and the utterly vile – utterly vile – behaviour of the “men” of the north. Is there anything more likely to ferment racism and hostility than this litany of racist child abuse ANYTHING? Compound this with the way in which the complainants of the victims were treated by the political establishment and I am genuinely surprised people have not been lynched. The police in South Yorks were willing to televise a raid on the empty home of an aging popstar but not stand up to a few vocal taxi-drivers and kebab shop owners
Useless shits. I hope that the Home Secretary is doing something constructive about this maliase.
That’s funny because when the arabs were firing rockets into Israel last year the footage I saw was of the cult standing outside a perfume shop in Manchester. In fact from memory all the footage I saw was of the cult and rent a mob. I didn’t see anyone who looked like the “far right” & consider it unlikely they would have joined forces with any of these groups. But maybe I just got it wrong again.
‘Daily Mail’ on Rotherham-
‘I was called a liar and a racist for exposing this sex gang abuse horror’, by SUE REID.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2735211/I-called-liar-racist-exposing-horror-SUE-REID.html#ixzz3QsgrLSpv
Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Also-
“Shame of grooming cover-up:
Cynical councillors could be going to jail after report says they systematically hid truth'”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2939129/Two-local-councillors-corrupt-police-officer-accused-having-sex-victims-Rotherham-abuse-scandal.html#ixzz3QshucgKl
Now… this… is ‘news’…
BBC News Press Team @BBCNewsPR
PRESS RELEASE: All-time high for http://bbc.com and news app as unique browsers hit 100m globally: http://bbc.in/1CxNQ6A
“The driving factors for January’s figures were coverage of major global news stories, such as the Paris attacks, along with human interest stories including the resurgence of a piece about why Finnish babies sleep in boxes”
Uh-huh.
http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/never_mind_the_quality/
Not surprisingly, Radio Five “gets much worse” Live, failed this morning to mention the Report on the failure by Rotherham Council to protect 1400 vulnerable teenage girls at the hands of predatory Moslem men, even though it has been made available since yesterday. That was indeed the situation when I switched off the station after 9.15 a.m.. Was it the fear on the part of Five Live of mentioning that these unspeakable crimes were committed by Moslems? Instead, Nicky “Gameshow” Campbell chose to conduct the nine o’ clock debate on how acne can affect your life. You could’nt make it up! I bet the late President Nixon wished that he had had the BBC to advise him when he was trying to contain the fallout from Watergate!!!
BBC’s Jim Naughtie – Today Programme – this morning interviewed (and with more vigour than the BBC has with Greek Ministers lately, for instance) Lowell Goddard, the New Zealand judge who has been chosen to be the new head of the enquiry into child abuse.
At approx 7:52 am, Mr Naughtie lists the scope of the enquiry to be an investigation of child abuse in :
“State and Non-state Institutions; Government Departments; Parliament and Ministers; Police; Prosecuting Authorities: Schools (Private and Public); Local Authorities; Health Services, Prisons; Churches and other religious bodies; Political Parties and the Armed Services.”
That’s an interesting expansion of the scope laid out for this enquiry earlier in the process, which was basically to investigate whether “public bodies and other non-state institutions have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse in England and Wales” – as dutifully laid out in numerous articles on the BBC in the past – including articles as recent as last month.
Now, I wonder if anyone can spot one really significant omission from that expanded list of the organisations to be investigated ?
The Salvation Army of course!
I,too, have just come across this site, and could give many examples of BBC right-wing bias (eg John Humphries on Today letting Tory ministers spout an uninterrupted propaganda speech, while Labour shadows hardly get a word in edgeways; Dimbleby likewise constantly interrupts centre-left panellists far more than centre-right etc). I suspect that the BBC, like all media will appear biased if they don’t conform to ones own prejudices.
BTW, no connection past or present to the BBC. I just despair at the level of political debate in Parliament and the country as a whole – the issues are too important to be reduced to constant mud-slinging. You can only debate and learn by truly listening to your opponent, whatever your views.
Any examples you can share of what you have brought to the BBC’s attention (one presumes, impartially and evenly spread across many topics based on the truth of your listening) via their complaint system and what, if anything, came of them?
“You can only debate and learn by truly listening to your opponent, whatever your views.”
Tell that to UAF and HateNotHope (sic).
‘many examples of BBC right-wing bias’ ! well you made up two based on your perception so anything more substantial ? I know name me 10 Tory’s working for the BBC! real ones I mean not the fakes and ex Torys like Parish and Robinson or one single pro Tory tweet then go have a look at the lists of left wing Labour party faithful and anti Tory tweets and public utterances from BBC staffers !
I suspect that the BBC, like all media will appear biased if they don’t conform to ones own prejudices
I think folk here are aware of a separation between programmes made for politics-nuts and general news. You mention Dimbleby. Brillo (Andrew Neill) also adds some balance on the right. IIRC, Brillo said recently that The Daily Politics attracts 150,000 viewers; a relatively low number. With his sharp mind, Brillo does add weight out of proportion, but the great number of BBC politics people are leftist. The balance was badly upset when Newsnight appointed Ian Katz from the Guardian, who proceeded to cuckoo Jeremy Paxman and replaced him with Evan Davis.
The great bulk of the population are not politics enthusiasts. They dip into news and pick up an impression. I would suggest that if you observe the BBC output designed for those people you would find it overwhelmingly leftist.
On a general point; while you will find a few people here believing in right-ist theory, most are just frustrated at how our leaders regularly set aside common-sense in favour of politically correct populism. And they are concerned about the influence of organisations like Common Purpose on those leaders.
And you thought this post was worthy of posting twice?
Perhaps you could post instances of the many examples you have, otherwise it’s just an empty claim.
Otherwise give ONE episode of Question Time where there were more right wing panellists than left, instead of the other way round. We won’t hold our breath.
You can hold your breath after all. Here are FOUR.
11 December 2014, Right wing 3 (Penny Mordaunt, Nigel Farage, Camilla Cavendish), Left wing 2 (Russell Brand, Mary Creagh)
20 November 2014, Right wing 3 (Kenneth Clarke, Douglas Carswell, Dia Chakravarty), Left wing 2 (Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Andy Burnham)
26 June 2014, Right wing 3 (Anna Soubry, Paul Nuttall, Neil Wallis), Left wing 2 (John Prescott, Maajid Nawaz)
27 March 2014, Right wing 3 (Justine Greening, Roger Helmer, Simon Wolfson), Left wing 2 (Diane Abbott, Mick Hucknall)
Kenneth Clarke ‘right wing’. Well, blow me down…
Penny Mordaunt, Kenneth Clarke, Justine Greening – Right Wing? HaHa; thanks for giving us a laugh!
Anna ‘Farage Has A Finger Up His Ass’ Soubry – pro-immigration campaigner, gay marriage supporter – Right Wing?
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It’s the way you tell them!
Well done!
I see you haven’t assigned any leaning to Dimbleby himself, but we’ll pretend that he’s ‘balanced and impartial’ as the BBC want us to believe.
Now even if I accept the way you’ve assigned right wing status to those you did, do you see something rather askew here?
You’ve gone back nearly a year and found only FOUR instances where there was a right wing majority , there have been 30 programmes in that time.
So 4 out of 30? Does that suggest a bias to you?
@ DavidD – Spoken like a BBC muppet.
‘I,too, have just come across this site…..’
And the band played ‘Believe Me If You Like’.
Daniel, please hang around to assist with lots of examples of right-wing bias on the BBC.
To start you off, please report on:
1. Questions you hear asked from a right-wing point of view e.g. when the overstretched NHS is up for discussion (a regular occurrence on the BBC, it being a very popular topic with them for some reason): ‘How can we expect the NHS to cope with 4 million immigrants without building more hospitals?’
2. A right-wing tweet from a BBC employee.
3. Goading Balls and Miliband, relentlessly, with: ‘Aren’t you the party that’s supposed to have ended boom and bust?’
4. Any factual representation of the Arab-Israeli conflict going back to 1947, especially the three attempts by Arab countries to ‘wipe Israel off the face of the map’ and the refusal of the Arabs/’Palestinians’ to accept a two-state solution.
5. A balanced scientific debate on ‘climate change’. To give you a feel for BBC coverage of the topic I suggest you do a website search on ‘Harrabin’.
6. Further to point 6, a ‘climate sceptic’ equivalent to the BBC’s 28gate meeting.
7. Any feature which gives an honest appraisal of the yawning chasm in pay and conditions between the public and private sectors.
8. How many times in interviews the person from ‘the right’ is given the last word.
9. Balance of opposing views. So, for example, ‘inequality’ seems to be a big thing with the BBC at the moment (as you would have learned had you been a regular on here!) – where are the features on the wonders of wealth creation and how it drags everybody’s living standards up over time?
10. Any feature on slavery that acknowledges it wasn’t just whitey (and especially the Brits) who were at it. For example, the contemporaneous trade eastwards by Muslim slave traders – this could also include the barbaric practice of castration (only one in ten survived) – or the much earlier Barbary slave trade where poor old whitey was the victim.
11. An honest appraisal of multiculturalism. We deserve it after them giving so much air time to Labour’s accusations of ‘racist’ against anyone who dared challenge mass immigration between 1997 and 2010.
12. Whenever you hear somebody (and I guarantee you won’t have to wait long) bleating about their benefit/funding/allowances/salary/pension etc being ‘cut’, the BBC asking the question: ‘Well what would you cut instead?’
13. A balanced account of Margaret Thatcher’s time in office – this might include her starting point of ‘Who governs Britain?’ and should certainly feature the truth about her role in ending apartheid and the Cold War.
I’m sure there’s lots more, but that should be enough to keep you going for the time being.
Good luck!
The BBC could also explain why it berates large corporations for tax avoidance whilst paying many of its bigger names as companies so that they can then pay themselves in the form of dividends. This allows them to reduce their tax bills, just like the big corporations.
There are also circular reasons for censoring politicians who say that they are effectively censored by the BBC’s lefties. After the Lawson censorship incident, the BBC says that it would only debate the science of Climate Change with politicians who are also scientists, but then, that is why Graham Stringer (Labour) and Peter Lilly (Tory) are effectively censored by the BBC. The BBC also censors critics such as Christopher Booker, Andrew Montford, Sir Antony Jay, Christopher Monckton, Martin Durkin, as well as Lord Lawson and the 18 Professor’s on the GWPF Academic Advisory Council and Piers Corbyn. In fact, the censored scientists have far more causational climate scientists amongst them than the none whatsoever in the “28” who advised the BBC to censor causational Climate scientists.
‘In fact, the censored scientists have far more causational climate scientists amongst them than the none whatsoever in the “28” who advised the BBC to censor causational Climate scientists.’
Spot on, Richard. Graham Stringer was appalled at the one-sidedness of the parliamentary enquiries which failed to call the likes of Steve McIntyre and Andrew Montford to give evidence on what is effectively scientific fraud. And the BBC and Labour talk about ‘The Establishment’ as though it’s some right-wing all-powerful club of Tory politicians and judges. Ha!
And the BBC continues to perpetuate the myth that there are no sceptical climate scientists in the UK for them to interview.
AND we still like to believe we live in a democracy.
‘Will the last person to leave the country please switch the lights off. Oh, sorry, they’re already out.’
As Angryman points out, a lefty love fest tonight on QT, the furthest right we go is feminist incompetent Nicky Morgan. Post Rochdale, I suppose it would be too much to ask of the bBC to have a Murray, Hitchens, Starkey or any UKIP representation, that might be too uncomfortable.
I guess we can expect plenty of Pakistani and Asian references and “whites were involved” and not forgetting the ole “this has nothing to do with….” mantra, but no mention of of that elephant stinking out the studio
Nicky Morgan MP
Tristram Hunt MP
George Galloway
Cristina Odone
Jonathan Freedland (Guardian’s executive editor and columnist)
Whilst you’re on names, here are some more:
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/05/25-man-grooming-gang-charged-with-sexual-offences-relating-to-just-one-under-aged-girl/
And now Tyneside…
The BBC ‘reports’ that 20 Tyneside (sic) men have been charged in connection with child rape and prostitution. No details on the suspects of course (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-31151445). For a more comprehensive report, see http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumbria-police-charged-20-people-8587632. See if you can guess their names of the accused (but no cutting and pasting from Rotherham or Halifax – that would be cheating!).
Funny – there seems to be a huge problem amongst men with no names.
I honestly can’t see what they could possibly have in common. That reminds me, I have an appointment at Specsavers on Monday ……..
One Paul Gadd doubtless wishing this had been a consistent trend.
But then, it was a different time.
The BBC have Gary Glitter as their top story, ignoring this story, and this one from yesterday:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-31141167
https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KLqItyt9RUJnIA1VN2BQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTByZ2N0cmxpBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDBGdwb3MDMg–?p=the+man+with+no+name&vid=a47f18853478add7eef635cec147d554&l=2%3A36&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DVN.608050606586662819%26pid%3D15.1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Db9hHIrbNDX4&tit=The+man+with+no+name+A+Fistful+of+Dollars+%281964%29+-+new+Trailer+HD&c=1&sigr=11bhgndks&sigt=121p1m2vn&sigi=11rfk2h31&age=1322273946&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&hsimp=yhs-fh_lsonsw&hspart=avg&type=ie.11.w81.nt.04-00.gb.avg._.1214tb&tt=b I thought this was the man with no name!
Halifax Courier names all 25 perps. All as ‘diverse’ as you could expect…
The Newcastle Chronicle reports a similarly diverse group. The Beeb however names none.
What? Are you suggesting that the BBC has deliberately suppressed the details of a massive Islamic paedophile gang, with hundreds of arrests?
How could you think of such a thing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-27944268
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-25915972
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-26086142
“What is consistent so far in this investigation is that there is a common factor that binds these victims together. That is their vulnerability.”
Really? That doesn’t look like the common factor to me.
Funny how ethnicity can quickly disappear from the BBC radar when it suits.
Not just the BBC, to be fair, also their Labour chums.
“”There is absolutely nothing to suggest the alleged offenders are from any one community – they are from a range of backgrounds, range of communities and range of areas of the city, but inevitably events like this do raise people’s concerns”, Mr Forbes said.
“But it is important to point out that the alleged victims and offenders were known to each other.”
Nick Forbes, who he?
http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/your-council-and-democracy/councillors-and-democracy/councillors/leader-of-the-council
“Nick Forbes, leader of Newcastle City Council, is passionate about tackling inequality and prejudice and is determined Newcastle will become a better, fairer place under his leadership.”
Those Tyneside “men” were not weaned on Newcassel Broon, I’d wager.
BBC off on one of its inequality kicks (you’ll see what I did there) on FaceBook, illustrating footballer remuneration with a picture of a lady I have never seen or heard of as follows;
“Cristiano Ronaldo earns *83 TIMES more than top US female soccer player Alex Morgan’s salary of $282,000”
This pittance of course is a smidge more than some, of either sex, who do sterling work in less commercially modelled industries.
I (and clearly some others) did like this top comment:
Tobias Jimenez – Female prostitutes make much more than male prostitutes, though.
Hatty… your next crusade is here!
Maybe a wee nod to readererouterer salaries in the world of telemprompter dollydom could be looked at too?
Nothing – but nothing – exposes the bias of the BBC like this
storycampaign. It was clear from the minute they first started late last year that they were kicking off yet another contrived feminist grievance that was pure fantasy. They try to portray this as ‘news’ of a grass-roots rebellion but does anyone really believe that there was any sizable interest in this until they kicked it off themselves?Where is the balance? Gender equality is usually based on claims that women can perform as well as men. That is clearly not the case here, neither skill-wise nor from a business point of view.
As a minimum, the BBC should not run this story without having the counter-argument clearly stated. But it wont happen. They will use ‘Tennis got equality’ to justify ‘corrective-action’ for equal pay. The nearest equivalent is how MPs grossly overpaid doctors and then use use doctor’s pay to justify an increase fo themselves.
As old Maggie said ‘You can’t buck the market’. Tennis could justify equal pay for lower skill, given the commercial attraction of Anna Kournikova’s ass on a sunny June afternoon. It’s difficult to see the commercial attraction of female soccer on a wet night in November.
I have debunked this nonsense before. See previous pah utterances of shear gold 😉
When women’s football gets the gates that Real Madrid get then women players will get Ronaldo’s fees. Simple economics at work. Perhaps that is why the BBC don’t understand it all.
This crops up time and again on the BBC and as ICSCN correctly points out no attempt at a counter argument is ever sought. It is blatant campaigning and as such must surely be a breach of their charter.
Jeremy Vine Show today (incredibly) nothing about the Rotherham scandal; but a feature on the prosecution of a Hindu Sri Lankan surgeon, working in London, for FGM: the jury found him not guilty after deliberating for all of 30 minutes or so.
The fragrant Lefty Baroness Helena Kennedy was a guest; she kept going on about changing the “cultures” in which FGM is carried out but never actually identified, and Vine certainly never asked, which “cultures” these are.
They also had a piece about the Islamic State; so possibly the decision to drop any mention of Rotherham’s Muslim child sexual torture and rape gangs was to avoid too many listeners becoming “all Islamed out”. Which they may have, if the entire show was taken up by features describing some of the delightful things which the votaries of the Religion of Perpetual Offence are involved in and have brought to our shores.
In the land of multiculturalism all cultures are equal and shall forever remain so.
Isn’t that the second BBC commandment after ‘Thou shalt have no other climate beliefs before man-made global warming’?
Close, but not quite. The exact wording is:
“In the land of multiculturalism all cultures are equal but some are more equal than others“
Nice one.
White skin = bad, brown skin = good.
BBC in 1998 ‘estimated 3,000 female circumcisions a year carried out in the UK a leading charity has stated’.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/212240.stm
BBC in 2013 FGM in Britain ‘66,000 women had undergone a form of ritual cutting, with some 24,000 girls at risk’.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23404970
Numbers of women mutilated rose from 3,000 to 66,000 over 15 years and yet we are supposed to believe that the only doctor the Crown Prosecution Service could find to bring to court in the UK was one who, quite obviously to all concerned so it appears, was not guilty. What idiots they think we are!
London-based Italian journalist Enza Ferreri explains quite clearly what the BBC don’t: Female Genital Mutilation Is an Islamic Practice:
‘The mutilations carried out in London today do not have a “cultural” origin [… ], but an Islamic one, brought as they have been into this city which did not know them before by Muslim immigrants, now settled here in great and increasing numbers.’
http://enzaferreri.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/female-genital-mutilation-is-islamic.html#axzz3QxFH8DSc
BBC and feminism in the same sentence … a sick joke.
… andt no mention of Islam in either of the 2 BBC reports referenced above.
Following the thankful departure of the disastrous Bunter Lardell from the North American slot for the Bonkers Broadcasting Corp. did anybody ever imagine it could be more dire?
Well it is.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2015/02/a-modern-day-lynching-for-bbcs-north-america-editor-jon-sopel/
Just shows how thick BBC journos are these days.
Their heads are so crammed with ideology there is no room left for facts.
No extra cost for licencepayers, so far-
“Crack appears in BBC basement at £1bn New Broadcasting House”
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/05/crack-bbc-basement-1bn-new-broadcasting-house?
Is that a lead-in for any number of jokes about Evan Davis, Vanessa Feltz, junkies etc?
Makes a change from the cack in the rest of the building
Now that the identity of the Glasgow bin lorry driver is known the relief in some quarters is almost palpable. The wait must have seemed like forever for the apologists.
BBC 6 o’clock news opens with what Garry Glitter was doing 30 years ago,
Legendary BBC balance; ROP’s yesterday, whitey today. Simples!
Just read this on Breitbart
Phil O’Sophical • 20 minutes ago
BBC’s main story is Gary Glitter. Ageing, white, male pop star guilty of despicable historic child abuse. They are almost wetting themselves. Somehow different when it’s a politician – is it really worth raking over things that happened so long ago, yawn, lost files, yawn, opponents opportunism, yawn – or current cases involving large numbers of different ethnicity, so we mustn’t antagonise their communities by getting too upset.
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And this
Porcinus • 17 minutes ago
45 Men charged in Halifax and Newcastle with depraved sexual acts and does the BBC report it?
No, it prefers to spend 10 minutes on Tesco.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/05/20-man-grooming-gang-charged-with-child-prostitution-relating-to-12-girls/
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/02/05/25-man-grooming-gang-charged-with-sexual-offences-relating-to-just-one-under-aged-girl/
Heres something we can all do
https://www.change.org/p/alan-billings-theresa-may-mp-begin-prosecutions-against-those-at-rotherham-council-past-and-present-responsible-for-covering-up-widespread-child-sexual-abuse?just_created=true
Imagine the gangs were Jewish.
Imagine the victims were black.
Imagine…..the BBC coverage.
I also noticed that another story was a bout some queer choir master who fiddled with little boys privates at a posh Catholic school back in the 70s.
The news reader used the word ‘Catholic,’ but have never heard them use the word Muslim when it comes to them lot.
They also had a reporter outside Westminster Cathedral. I hope when they send that 25 down the BBC will have their news report from outside the perverts Mosque.
Last June, we were told that former chairman of the BBC, Michael Grade, supported the idea of decriminalisation for non-payment of the licence fee.
Must have been the ‘in thing’ to say at the time as in typical BBC style he stabs society in the back.
Michael Grade: keep criminalising licence fee dodgers until 2017
So were progressing back to the 7th century. Oh well that clears that up then.
Will the ‘freed journalist’ story never end? They’re at it all day today; Jon Snow is the latest to get carried away on C4 News. Every event has to be covered; he’s arrived home, he’s gone to the supermarket, he’s gone to the toilet, blah, blah…
In contrast to some other released prisoners, it seems the Convicted Criminal Peter Greste will return to work…. and the media will not question his right to do so. All ‘convictions’ are equal, but some are more equal than others.
How the hell can he be a “British hero”?
All he got was dropped in it by Al-Jaz, and was convicted by a relatively fair Muslim court.
Hardly any courage involved in living in nice hotels on BBC-like perks to justify the Arab States in whatever they choose to do that day is it?
And did anyone hear Snow or Webb offer to swap places with the hostages in the cause of free speech solidarity?
As if…spineless bastards all-especially Snow and Channel 4s Veiled failures.
Question Time tonight was to have included the impressive
Suzanne Evans of UKIP on the panel. Unfortunately Suzanne is ill, so UKIP offered Stephen Wolfe as a substitute.
BBC have rejected this offer because – surprise – Mr Wolfe is not a woman so they can’t tick one of their damn diversity boxes.
My view on this is actually nothing to do with UKIP per se, but I think it indicative of the metro left’s complete misunderstanding of what real diversity is. They are busy obsessing about colour, gender and ethnicity whereas real diversity is diversity of OPINION and OUTLOOK.
They have a wide variety of colours, shapes, sizes and ethnic backgrounds on the BBC and no doubt this makes them feel smug. Boxes ticked. Yet all these diverse people are, in terms of opinion and outlook, like peas in a pod.
DownBoy,
Your last 2 paragraphs are a brilliant resume of the left in general and the BBC in particular.
Well done.
Who else but the BBC would describe that Iraqi sow who tried to be a suicide bomber-and was granted a suspended sentence by the Jordanians the other dawn-as “attempting to bomb luxury hotels”?
So in effect a Robin Hood, more Lenny Henry or Trip Advisor than a killer of 60 Jordanians…and maybe Russell Brand and Occupy may yet learn to love the new martyr.
Typical BBC-as if killing in a “luxury hotel” is more worthy than killing in one with less stars and flunkies at the door!
Who else but the BBC would describe that Iraqi sow who tried to be a suicide bomber-and was granted a suspended sentence by the Jordanians the other dawn-as “attempting to bomb luxury hotels”?
Literal answer… Guardian Newspapers, Trinity Mirror, Channel 4 Television…etc., etc., would be the usual suspects…. but you’re right… as Carly Simon sang for that Bond film…. Nobody Does It Better than the Beeb.
20 “men” charged with a variety of sexual offences appeared at Mid & South East Northumberland Magistrates’ Court today.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-31151445
the BBC appear unable to locate the names of the “men”.
30 seconds on the internet revealed to me that those charged are:
1) Eisa Mousavi, 39, of Todds Nook, Newcastle has been charged with sexual assault by touching on a female 13 or over; intimidating a witness/juror/person assisting the investigation; rape of a female aged 16 or over; supplying or offering to supply a class B controlled drug; causing or inciting prostitution for gain.
2) Monjur Choudhury, 30, of Philip Place, Newcastle has been charged with permit use of premises for supply of drugs; supply or offer to supply class B controlled drugs; causing or inciting prostitution for gain.
3) Redwan Siddquee, 30, of West Road, Newcastle has been charged with causing or inciting prostitution for gain; supply or offering to supply a class B controlled drug.
4) Mohammed Hassan Ali, 32, of Bentinck Street, Newcastle has been charged with a sexual act on a female and possession of mephadrone with intent to supply.
5) Abdulhamid Minoyee, 31, of Gainsbrough Grove, Newcastle has been charged with rape of a female aged 16 or over; supply or offer to supply cannabis; sexual assault by touching a female 13 or over.
6) Ebrahim Ali, 38, of Wetherby Grove, Gateshead has been charged with supply or offer to supply a class B controlled drug; supply or offer to supply a class A controlled drug; trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation; arrange child prostitution; rape of a female aged 16 or over.
7) Habibur Rahim, 32, of Kenilworth Road, Newcastle has been charged with sexual assault by touching a female 13 or over; administering a substance with intent; sexual assault by touching a female 13 or over; supply or offering to supply a class B controlled drug; supply or offer to supply cannabis; trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation; causing or inciting prostitution for gain.
8) Ibrahim Rousel, 34, of Manor Gardens, Wardley has been charged with rape of a female aged 16 or over and administering a substance with intent.
9) Mohammed Khalique, 22, of Beaconsfield Street, Newcastle has been charged with rape of a female aged 16 or over; supply or offer to supply a class B controlled drug.
10) Mohammed Azram, 33, of Croydon Road, Newcastle has been charged with rape of a female aged 16 or over; supply of mephadrone; supply or offer to supply a class B controlled drug; sexual assault by touching a female aged 13 or over; trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation; causing or inciting prostitution for gain.
11) Nadeem Aslam, 41, of Belle Grove West, Newcastle has been charged with possession of cannabis; possession of mephadrone; supply of mephadrone; permit the use of premises for supply of drugs; causing or inciting prostitution for gain.
12) Prabhat Nelli, 31, Corporation Road, Newcastle has been charged with supply or offer to supply a class B drug and causing or inciting prostitution for gain.
13) Taherul Alam, 29, of Normanton Terrace, Newcastle has been charged with supply or offer to supply a class B controlled drug; permit the use of premises to supply drugs; sexual assault by touching on a female 13 or over; causing or inciting prostitution for gain.
14) Yassar Hussain, 25, of Canning Street, Newcastle has been charged with rape of a female aged 16 or over; permit the use of premises to supply drugs; assault occasioning actual bodily harm; possession of mephadrone; possession of amphetamine; causing or inciting prostitution for gain.
15) Jahangir Zaman, 41, of Hadrian Road, Newcastle has been charged with supply or offer to supply a class B controlled drug and causing or inciting prostitution for gain.
16) Badrul Hussain, 34, of Drybeck Court, has been charged with rape of a female aged under 16; supply of mephadrone; permit the use of a premises to supply drugs and causing or inciting prostitution for gain.
17) Abdul Sabe, 37, of Dean House, Newcastle has been charged with possession of cannabis; trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation; non-penatrative sexual activity with a girl 13 to 15; supply or offer to supply cannabis; sexual assault by touching a female 13 or over and administering a substance with intent.
18) Karzan Mohammed, 23, of Graingerville South, Newcastle has been charged with rape of a female under 16; falsely imprison/detain another; supply or offer to supply cannabis; assault occasioning actual bodily harm; administering a substance with intent; rape of a female aged 16 or over and trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation.
19) Saiful Islam, 32, of Strathmore Crescent, Newcastle has been charged with rape of a female aged under 16 and supply or offer to supply cannabis.
20) Nashir Uddin, 33, of Joan Street, Newcastle has been charged with supply or offer to supply a class A controlled drug; supply of mephadrone; permit the use of premises for supply of drugs; rape of a female under 16; causing or inciting prostitution for gain; failing to surrender to custody/respond to bail.
21) A 34-year-old man, from Newcastle, has received a summons in relation to a sexual assault and administering a substance with intent.
full press release here;—-
– http://www.northumbria.police.uk/releasedetails.asp?id=103354
Nope, still can’t see what they might have in common.
The BBC have kept detail to a minimum.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-31151445
Obama, Beeboids: anti-Christian, pro-Islam.
As we know, BBC-Democrat is politically aligned with Obama; so it is not surprising that it refuses to critically analyse his latest anti-Christian, pro-Islam propaganda here:-
‘Fox News’ is on the case-
“President Obama, Christians and ISIS:
Wake Up, America”
(video clip of Obama).
Comment by Eric Bolling, of ‘Fox News’-
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/02/05/president-obama-christians-and-isis-wake-up-america/
Rape and prostitution probe: 20 Tyneside men charged
“A huge investigation into sexual crimes against women and girls as young as 13 has resulted in 20 men being charged. More than 100 potential victims have been interviewed as part of Northumbria Police’s Operation Sanctuary.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-31151445
…just ‘men’. For some reason, no other details of the alleged offenders or their alleged offences are listed by the BBC. Presumably none of that was relevant. However…
Northumbria Police have charged 20 people with sexual offences as part of Operation Sanctuary
“Northumbria Police Deputy Chief Constable Steve Ashman says it’s the largest number of charges that they have placed before a court. Twenty more people have been charged with sexual offences as part of police’s Operation Sanctuary probe.”
Those charged…
Eisa Mousavi, Monjur Choudhury, Redwan Siddquee, Mohammed Hassan Ali, Abdulhamid Minoyee, Ebrahim Ali, Habibur Rahim, Ibrahim Rousel, Mohammed Khalique, Mohammed Azram, Nadeem Aslam, Prabhat Nelli, Taherul Alam, Yassar Hussain, Jahangir Zaman, Badrul Hussain, Abdul Sabe, Karzan Mohammed, Saiful Islam, Nashir Uddin.
Full details of the alleged offences are also listed here…
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/northumbria-police-charged-20-people-8587632
As one would expect plenty of mention of pedophilia on the midnight 5live news, main points in fact…. Yes Gary Glitter is guilty and Rolf Harris is being questioned over more allegations….
‘…midnight 5live news, main points in fact…. Yes Gary Glitter is guilty and Rolf Harris is being questioned…’
Come on be fair, pick any typical British town… call a minicab and a 1970s glam rock star is bound to be the driver… pop into a fast food outlet of an evening frequented by youngsters and I swear someone will be there sketching and singing Jake the Peg.
As Geoff above implies, the Beeboids must be ever so relieved that they can wheel out a high-profile, white, working-class figure (if I can call him that) like Gary Glitter in order to deflect attention from the absolute epidemic of child-grooming cases sweeping the country involving working-class (if I can call them that) Muslim men.
What sort of perverted, demented, looking-glass world do these Beeboids inhabit where the fear of appearing racist trumps every single other consideration? Instead of focusing on real problems and their causes (child-grooming by Muslim men, rising antisemitism driven by Islam, religious schools and mosques injecting venom and hatred into society, etc. ) they invent an almost mythological enemy , namely “the far right”. This approach is almost reminiscent of the old Marxist dictatorships where state propaganda constantly warned of “counter-revolutionaries” or “enemies of the people”. But then again, we know what eventually happened to these Marxist dictatorships.
Metaphorically, the BBC sits on a three legged milking stool. The legs are called globalisation, immigration and multiculturalism. If any leg is broken the stool falls over and the whole structure built on top comes crashing down. The BBC, which is ultimately a key part of the Establishment and the propaganda arm of the British government, cannot afford to let that happen. In military terms they are vital assets, to be defended at all costs and regardless of consequences. Lose one and the war is over.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2941507/Failing-pay-TV-licence-remain-criminal-offence-peers-reject-Government-plans-end-draconian-punishment.html
It is interesting how many of these interest-unconflicted peers have more than a passing relationship with the entity they were voting upon.
Might be worth asking them what they left at home when voting, but as with Lord ‘You Can’t Ask Me Questions, I’m Noble’ Pantone, they’d likely claim exemption.
Dark forces indeed. Unique ones.
This was mentioned on the Nick Ferrari show on LBC this morning – still waiting for our State Broadcaster to bring us the good news
Sorry, not related to BBC bias but still relevant to the bigger debate of far-Left extremism.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11394170/French-far-right-leader-Marine-Le-Pen-mobbed-by-Oxford-Union-protesters.html
I see the Front National leader was mobbed by the usual rich-kid angry, brainwashed far-Left fascist rent-a-gob-mob . These intolerant little sh*ts are unruly, opinionated spoiled brats who basically need some strong discipline as they never got it from mummy and daddy, both of whom are probably lefty teachers or social science lecturers. I think they need to be given national service and then ordered to get off their lazy arses to find a job!
Funny how you never see these middle-class/upper class little sh*ts protesting over Isis or Muslim rape gangs!
It is related to BBC bias. One correspondent kindly reposted on this website a Twitter message between the BBC and HopeNotHate/UAF, illustrating the collusion between the two.
The World Tonight [22:10] allows Raymond Bennett of UAF to shoot himself in the head:
“Where people are trying to build fascist organisations that want to remove democracy, that we distinguish between those organisations, we do not suspend our disbelief, we look at those organisations and say if you are trying to build an organisation like that then you are not part of the political body that you should belong to and only those people who hold those views should be excluded.”
Sounds like a pretty fair description of UAF to me.
‘…..if you are trying to build an organisation like that then you are not part of the political body that you should belong to and only those people who hold those views should be excluded.’
Wow, they’re getting pretty shameless about their subversive, anti-democratic agenda now. Must think they’re on a roll (and why shouldn’t they with the might of the BBC behind them?).
UAF = United Army of Fascists.
Guardian readers/ trolls tore the protest to shreds in their comments.
Weaponised NHS mark one was carefully aimed by the BBC and Miliband (and everyone who loves them) but bungling corporal Burnham panicked and fired it off into friendly territory.
This morning on BBC Breakfast Charlie and Naga wheel out weaponised NHS mark two.
My Advice to the Miliband-on-sea platoon : stay in your bunker chaps – leave all the propaganda to the experts.
Their site says ‘The King’s Fund is an independent charity …’. Er..right… pretty unfortunate timing, then, to launch this report in the run-up to a general election when the NHS is Labour’s only card.
But wait … there’s more … this morning’s event that got Naga so excited is only ‘Part 1’. No point firing off all your shells at once; expect to see Part 2 when they see the whites of the Tories eyes:
King’s Fund
I was also struck by that particular piece of blatant lying.
King’s Fund is simply a Common Purpose front organisation.
http://www.ukcolumn.org/article/nhs-common-purpose-towards-million-change-agents
Amazing. Even those of us who watch the goings-on never know the half. The rest are lambs to the slaughter.
Here’s more from the Kings Fund own website:
The full membership of the PwC National Clinical Commissioning Group Development Alliance is:
PricewaterhouseCoopers
The King’s Fund
Common Purpose
Practive
Cumberlege Connections
Wragge and Co.
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/leadership/ccg-framework
‘A young boy who once gave bone marrow to his sister is now in urgent need of a transplant himself, but faces an uphill battle because the number of registered donors from ethnic minorities is low’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31160371
Hey BBC! Just a thought but there appear to be an awful lot of adult men in this boy’s ethnic group currently being taken into custody in British towns, and it gets better…. I think the cops will be taking DNA samples at this very moment.
anyone else find it a massive coincidence that Glitter is found guilty at the exact same time the Rotherham stuff is coming out?
Convenient rather than coincidence, most likely. Although I do have a legal contact who believes there is pressure on to clear the Rotherham, Halifax and Tyneside cases (plus several other which are just under the radar) so as there no “distractions” in the final run-up to the General Election.
By ‘clear’, does your contact mean that they’ll be adjourned until October? That would make sense.
As for Glitter; it would have taken a good bit of conspiracy by prosecution, defence and administration to achieve that end. But didn’t they go home early last Wednesday, taking Thursday and Friday off, to return on Monday? Given the obsession with PR management these days, nothing surprises me.
But; what I’m really suspicious about is the release of the news last night that they had questioned Rolf Harris again. That is some co-incidence. And of course, they dramatized it with plod-speak ..’an 84 year-old man..’ and left the plebs to get excited searching for who it could be.
Apparently Harris had been questioned for two days prior to the announcement, coincidence that the bBC didn’t bother reporting until last night?
Tweet from last night before the bBC announcement.
As I reported yesterday, Radio Five “gets much worse” Live is still failing to mention the recent Report on the “Rochadale Scandal.” There was a report on the recent conviction of the ghastly Gary Glitter, which no doubt served to deflect the listeners’ attention away from the situation in Rochdale. What was interesting about this item was the fact that Nicky “Gameshow” Campbell interviewed a barrister from the prosecution team, which I thought might be contrary to the Bar Rules, because if Glitter wanted to appeal against his sentence, then such an interview might be regarded as prejudicial to his chances of an appeal. However, if it saves the Labour Party in Rochadale, then who cares!
How can Rachel Burden and Nicky Campbell, who are both parents, allow their consciences to accept the silence of the BBC over the reporting of the Rochdale affair? Do these so-called journalists forget all notions of humanity and common decency when they walk into the studio in the morning in order to serve the “greater good” of the Labour Party? Incidentally, the nine o’ clock debate this morning was on the influence of money in sport, which has been debated more often than I have had hot dinners in the past!!
“Tory minister:
BBC bias allegations should be discussed alongside licence fee.”
http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/scottish-politics/tory-minister-bbc-bias-allegations-should-be-discussed-alongside-licence-.117861899?
Long, subservient interview in ‘Radio Times’ with appointer and promoter of Mishal Husain, -the one and only Tony HALL, in his own words-
“’It’s really important we get it right, and when I came here in the first few months I did two things; first I put Mishal Husain as a second female presenter on the Today programme.'”
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-02-06/bbc-director-general-tony-hall-on-top-gear-the-price-of-football-and-televised-election-debates?
‘He can’t wait to talk about Wolf Hall, BBC2’s acclaimed dramatisation of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell novels.’
Well, there’s acclaim, and acclaim…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/11392623/Wolf-Hall-the-show-everyones-talking-about-for-the-wrong-reasons.html
‘The first episode attracted 3.9 million viewers, but a million of those decided not to tune in the following week.’
Maybe what’s needed is a bit of GoT magic, BBC-styly? Lenny Henry as the Pope. Shami C guesting as the King’s Human rights adviser, on a ‘Free the Boleyn Bodice’ t&a ticket? And dragons. Got… to have dragons (Yes, I have read the comments, and guess what… the licence is funded by you plebs and sofisticates like I in the same way that we support ITV but by buying stuff.. if only through choice).
The ‘interview’ itself is a gush goldmine.
‘so this monitors how much movement I do’
The BBC and movements. An image that many will recognise but maybe have trouble shaking.
‘deftly pointing to his most powerful weapon but leaving it sheathed’
Until getting to a campervan in the carpark? Got to avoid sticky situations on the corporate top floor that may have a record kept in writing.
‘“Let’s not bat backwards and forwards between programmes you’ve watched and programmes I can point to. I think the fundamental point we agree on is I want to see more women on screen, in front of the microphone and backstage.”
Jasmine, you’re back on track! But only if the script calls for it and the director handles it with taste.
‘when I came here in the first few months I did two things; first I put Mishal Husain (above) as a second female presenter on the Today programme’
I was not aware the DG jumped several layers of Editorial independent integrity in such a way, but there you go.
‘“Yep, yep, doubling up, how else do you make a difference..
Maybe… two DGs, two Trust Chairs, two PMs, two Eds (oh, got that)… and, for giggles, an Ark? One is sure the BBC has a unicorn budget that can be found out of programming if diversity is to be served.
‘so what does he feel about representations of violence towards women in “his” dramas, particularly The Fall? “It was remarkable, critically very well received. I couldn’t stop watching it.”
So… no thought except the ratings… no… the critics liked it. OK.
‘What about the rape storyline in EastEnders – let us not forget, a pre-watershed drama? “EastEnders has been rejuvenated over the past year, and if that was all we did, I can understand the point, but at the same time we’re doing dramas like Esio Trot, Wolf Hall.
See… stuff elsewhere. Anne Boleyn gets a reprieve too.
‘There’s a range of drama and it’s right that our dramas look at very tough issues in a way that is sensitive. If [violence against women] was the entirety of what we did, I would be concerned, but it’s not.”
See, it’s not. He says so. So it must be true.
‘As we all have a stake in the BBC, and we pay £145.50 every year for it, it’s ours and we want what we want.’
Yes… ‘we’ do. Though some desires may be doomed to fall on compelled lack of choice a while yet.
I actually quite like Wolf Hall. Plodding, if enlivened by the scriptwriters’ trendy Tourettes on occasion.
Bet it will soon be elevated to national vitality along with ‘Enders, Strictly & Sherlock. making… four programmes at just £4Bpa, like it or not.
‘Then we set up a scheme for local radio presenters. I wanted half of their breakfast programmes to be presented by women. We’re at 49 per cent.’
http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/1332655/rajar-q4-2014-bbc-takes-lions-share-year-on-year-listening-hit/
Double or quits?
G. Allah-way manages to quickly conflate, growing amount of documented attacks on Jewish peoples schools and businesses,
by Islamic factions, with … the Islamic “unicorn” of Islamofauxbia?
Then attempts to conflate charli hebdo with his own free speech?
Then tries to separate Jewish people, from their homeland in a most insidious manner, such is the base level of discourse on the BBC, Dimbleby .. of course says nothing.
………. SCRAP THE BBC, SCRAP IT NOW
“A licence for waste”
[Excerpt, from ‘Daily Mail Comment’ today; – scroll down]-
“The Corporation has 8,000 journalists (more than all of Fleet Street combined) and epic levels of waste – at almost £14,000 per employee, its £1billion HQ in London costs three times as much to run as comparable private sector buildings!
“The truth is the BBC is raging against the dying of the light, as technology such as iPlayer – used 2.6billion times in 2014 – makes its tax on TV ownership obsolete.
“If this state behemoth spent as much energy trying to rein in its metropolitan, Left-wing bias as it does protecting its vast, bloated bureaucracy it would create better TV – and Britain would have a much healthier democracy.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2942100/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-politics-justice-system.html#ixzz3Qy4pPZRP
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/breaking-rotherham-sex-abuse-scandal-policeman-killed-1-7093216#
Let’s see how the bBBC reports this one, or not.
A serving police officer at the centre of an undercover probe into the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal has died after being hit by a car, The Star can exclusively reveal.
PC Hassan Ali had been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission after it was alleged he twice asked a Rotherham sexual exploitation victim out on a date.
After a lengthy investigation over a number of months, The Star discovered four complaints were made against PC Ali to South Yorkshire Police by two members of the public.
The Star agreed to hold off on exposing his alleged involvement in the scandal after police advised us they were mounting an operation to monitor the officer.
But today it has emerged PC Ali has died in a road crash.
The PC, aged 44, was left fighting for life after being struck by a car on Staniforth Road, Darnall, Sheffield.
He was crossing the street at around 10.15pm last Wednesday when he was involved in the collision.
He died in hospital this morning, with relatives at his bedside.
For BBC-NUJ to report on Rotherham and Labour Party?:-
“Fury as Rotherham council boss refuses to say sorry to child abuse victims: Deputy leader shouts ‘absolutely not’ when asked if he wants to apologise.
“Growing outrage over failures to protect 2,000 girls by Rotherham Council.
“Former deputy leader of council refused to apologise to the abuse victims.
“Ex-head of children’s services yelled abuse when questioned by a reporter.
“Pakistani gangs abused girls over 16 years but the council failed to act.
“Whole cabinet resigned over scandal but many walked into jobs elsewhere.”
By JAMES TOZER and JAYA NARAIN and MARIO LEDWITH
FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2941961/Fury-council-boss-refuses-say-sorry-child-abuse-victims-Deputy-leader-shouts-absolutely-not-asked-wants-apologise.html#ixzz3QyAKWzSJ
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Also in Rotherham today: the political left block FARAGE appearance-
“Farage event pulled after protests”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-2942632/Farage-event-pulled-protests.html
Sarah Champion MP was delighted that Union backed protesters stopped Nigel from speaking. It seems she, like her Labour Party comrades in Rotherham who turned a blind eye to child rape and abuse, is an opponent of free speech.
Wasn’t it Rotherham council that took some Eastern European kids off their UKIP foster parents because they were, er, UKIP supporters who might not have bought into into the multiculti dream?
It’s all fitting neatly into place.
Beeboids are politically biased towards the Green Party,
as second choice to their Labour Party.
Here’s a reminder of what the Green Party believes-
“The real Monster Raving Loony Party: Turning toilets gender neutral, using farm animals for traffic calming and moving the Queen to a council house are all policies dreamt up by the Greens.
“Here we expose the truth about the Green Party’s bizarre policies
Greens would make the Army ‘non-aggressive’ and cut number of soldiers.
“Toilets would be turned gender neutral, farm animals used to calm traffic.
“Party want to abolish the monarchy and put the Queen in a council house.
“The Greens would also bring in a ‘Beyonce Tax’ if they got into power. ”
By LEO MCKINSTRY
FOR THE DAILY MAIL.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2941905/The-real-Monster-Raving-Loony-Party-Turning-toilets-gender-neutral-using-farm-animals-traffic-calming-moving-Queen-council-house-policies-dreamt-Greens.html#ixzz3QyDT7GIe