Labour’s Margaret Hodge laid about the head of the HMRC for having lost track of an email from the supposed HSBC whistleblower in which he claimed to have information on tax evasion that HMRC might be interested in.
He also sent one to other governments and intelligence agencies and our own Foreign Office, in fact to the private office of our very own Foreign Secretary, who was at the time, David Miliband, brother of Ed Miliband who is now leading the campaign against HSBC and tax evasion in his election campaign…awkward.
Question.
Why has the BBC paid absolutely no interest in this vital second email that would lay Labour open to very serious criticism in the same way that the HMRC has been eviscerated?
The BBC is one of the most powerful and richly resourced news organisations in the world and yet it pays no attention to this subject… any investigative journalist worth his salt would be burrowing away at this story with a great deal of vigour and relish. It would be the scoop of the year to find that missing email. A nail in the coffin for Labour.
A nail in Labour’s coffin. An end to their election campaign based upon that very slippery ‘moral highground’ that they seek to occupy.
Maybe the BBC doesn’t want to look as it would be a shame to waste all that champagne that’s on ice at the moment waiting for a Labour victory.
Or maybe they’re just bad journalists…from the Independent:
Why is the BBC just so bad at TV news?
It’s quite a charge: that a mixture of cuts, caution and complacency has destroyed the corporation’s ability and will to report or analyse events with any rigour. But the distinguished critic Michael Church is sticking by it. As part of his personal mission to revive standards, he has been glued to the Beeb’s bulletins and current affairs programmes. And, in his opinion, the BBC could learn a lot from competitors such as Al Jazeera – once it’s got its balls back.
Question.
‘Why has the BBC paid absolutely no interest in this vital second email that would lay Labour open to very serious criticism in the same way that the HMRC has been eviscerated?’
They cant find it that’s why. It wasn’t just the HMRC either, you’ve forgotten to mention the Tory party . Maybe they arent covering that so well in ‘The Sun’ .
‘They cant find it that’s why.’
Er…they couldn’t find the email to HMRC and yet that didn’t stop Hodges having a go telling us that HMRC had “missed an opportunity”.
So why isn’t the BBC looking for that email to Miliband or showing any interest? They know it exists somewhere because they have mentioned it in passing.
And the ‘Torys’????
They weren’t sent an email. Keep up.
And I think you might find the BBC’s bias against the Tory party has been mentioned a few times on this blog so no, somehow I don’t think we’ve forgotten to mention the Tories.
News for INBBC News?:-
“The Atlantic:
‘The Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic.'”
BY ROBERT SPENCER.
[Opening excerpt]:-
“This is an extraordinary piece, as it represents one of the first, if not the first, mainstream media acknowledgment that what I have been saying all these years, and illustrated in detail in thirteen books, hundreds of articles, and tens of thousands of posts here, has been absolutely correct: that jihadis use the texts and teachings to justify their actions and make recruits, and make a case that obviously convinces many young Muslims, that they represent the truest and most authentic expression of Islam.
“Will Graeme Wood be now smeared and derided as an ‘Islamophobe’ and a ‘bigot’ for stating these obvious truths?”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/the-atlantic-the-islamic-state-is-islamic-very-islamic
I saw the text of one of these emails to HMRC – cant remember exact word but along the lines of – Hey – I have some stolen info on bank accounts if you are interested.
If I got that sort of email I’d press delete along with the “Congratulations you have won the Nigerian lottery ” – or the most recent I had “Congratulations you have won $1M on the coca cola prize draw”
True enough but not the point….it’s about bias and a very selective interest in one particular email and not another…..Hodges and the BBC are happy to use it to castigate the HMRC but not the brother of the leader of the Opposition.
Why?