A fresh week and election fever is in the air. Can we rely on the BBC to provide the Nation with a balanced coverage of this most important of campaigns? Or might their left wing bias shine through? The floor is yours!
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Inadvertently this it to the BBC’s credit as it lifts the carpet to show the mentality of 2 top comedians, that it is better the proles are kept in the dark as they might see through the hypocrisy of gender quotas on panel shows. Better the plebs think the woman got there on merit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31800782
Jason Manford ‘”I just don’t think they should have said it out loud,” he told the Radio Times. “Why say it? Just do it.’
Dara O Briain “I have nothing against this idea that there be women on panel shows,” he said. “My only objection was to announcing it.”
To its credit at least the BBC did reveal this petty policy.
The notion of a ‘don’t ask, we won’t tell you’ policy may appeal to the BBC, but may cause problems to Mr. Cohen, who may struggle to show what it is he does without announcing such crucial policy innovations.
Still, this may give him an opportunity to not say anything stupid about more than football, or RT’ing his wife RT’ing him.
From the same BBC page: Mr Cohen said “In a leadership role, I can either keep pushing and hope it’s going to evolve, or I can set some really clear examples to provide a beacon for what our expectations are.”
Cohen is the BBC’s Director of TV. Call me old-fashioned if you like, but my understanding of a Director’s position is that what he/she says goes – no ifs, no buts, just do it. Yet here is Cohen, supremo of the TV airwaves and apparently he has no authority over the people who work for him. Instead he has to “push” and wait for things to “evolve”.
It is probably just as well he is not a Director in The Real World that the rest of us live in. The power might go to his head.
‘apparently he has no authority over the people who work for him’
Since Hugs and Mary tried ‘please don’t be stupid’ emails to staff that were honoured in the derisive ignoring, and such as Hugs (again) have been shown repeatedly to have no accountability for misheard or forgotten instructions or conversations, I have long wondered what responsibilities these multi-hundred thousand a year ‘talents’ actually have to warrant their market rates.
Just noticed this has an open comments section.
But… for how long?
It is not going well. Again.
Another Danny Cohen triumph. Can see why he is on the big bucks and set for the ultimate slot. Not.
I liked this one:
63. MrHappy
How different comedy could TV have been:-
Morecambe and Mrs Wise
Mums and Dads Army
Ann and Dec
The one Ronnie
Another ridiculous PC ruling! Pick them because ther funny or intelligent enough for the show.
BBC London news this morning and – as ever on the subject of immigration – it is only one way traffic from the BBC.
Asad Ahmad headlines his news bulletin with a story about 100 men at the UK’s largest detention centre spotted in the exercise yard believed to be protesting about living conditions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-31796577
That will be the deportation centre Channel 4’s Jon Snow was unsuccessfully trying to stir up into a big story last week
http://www.channel4.com/news/harmondsworth-immigration-detention-centre-undercover-video
Frankly, the Channel 4 report had me thinking – so what?
And that seems to have been the general reaction in the country at large – so the stakes have been raised it seems.
Meanwhile BBC London tv news doesn’t seem keen to persue this story of a quick sprint from African Village to Games Village to Asylum Office
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31811565
‘Jimmy Thoronka was Sierra Leone’s top sprinter, but after last summer’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, he went missing’
‘He said he was afraid to go home to a country struggling to cope with the Ebola virus’
The Channel 4 tag line ‘I don’t want to die here’ had me thinking – yeah, me too – what’s the chances of me emigrating to New Zealand?
Just a sobering little thought.
Been doing some research on MMR and Herd Immunity.
The vaccination rate in England is lower than that of the rest of the UK.
Actually it is solely because of the vaccination rate in London
Or rather certain parts of London.
Now which cultures don’t like vaccinations?
The rate of vaccinations in certain parts of London is too low to prevent a measles epidemic. (Lower than in Swansea)
I assume you must be referring to the white liberal middle class homeopathic nutters who know that vaccinations are an evil big pharma conspiracy : )
You may like to see what is happening in that great city of multicultural diversity – Berlin.
Some information here
It is being kept out of the News.
But if you adopt 7th century medical practices, you must expect 7th century consequences. (With the added complication that population density is 21st century, so cross infection is that much greater.)
Interesting article. Germany is also the birth place of homeopathy so expect the new age and green lobby to oppose compulsory vaccinations.
You really can’t make up the Islamophillia and Pakiphillia at Radio 4 !
Zubeida Malik meets Raja Tahir Masood
One to One
Zubeida Malik is a journalist who works mostly as a reporter for the Today programme. For two weeks she’s taken over the One to One microphone to explore the nature of Britain’s changing communities.
Today’s interview is with Raja Tahir Masood, a chronicler of Peterborough’s Pakistani community. Originally from Pakistan, Masood has lived in Peterborough for forty years. In that time he’s worked closely with the Pakistani community and has seen it grow and change. He’s also seen new immigrants arrive in Peterborough, from southern and eastern Europe.
Fantastic ! A really gripping story of national interest (Not !) just more BBC stuffing their insanity and political correctness down people throats.
Another Radio 4 program which on the face of it appears a matter of right of centre concern, but when you scratch the surface is just yet another round of leftie banker bashing.
File on 4
The program cover public sector pension schemes and the fact that taxpayers are having to pick up the tab for the inevitable shortfalls which have resulted.
A matter of national interest about the levels of benefits, and the insufficient contributions of those members of the schemes? Well no according to the BBC the most important issue is in fact the fees made by pension fund managers !
“In Canada, everything is big – including powerful pension funds such as the Ontario Teachers fund which owns half of Birmingham airport and other large projects around the world. It’s all a far cry from the British pension scene, where a hundred local government pension funds each run their own affairs separately and pay costly fees to City firms for investment advice.
Many of them still have financial deficits. Taxpayers have been forced to pick up bills to pay off those shortfalls and already hard-pressed local services have been stretched further.
Lesley Curwen investigates how these individual funds are run and asks whether we should have larger funds with cheaper costs – like Canada does. And she asks whether more councils should be using pension money to invest in housing and infrastructure as a way to boost their local economies?”
It’s typical of left wing thinking that they cannot get to the hub of the matter that benefits are unsustainably generous in todays pension market, and that the contributions of members are just too low to return the benefits being handed out. A simple enough equation but one that’s inacceptable to the hive mind.
Is left wing bias creeping into BBC quizzes?
Last night a starter question on University Challenge concerned the BNP being taken to court by a pop group and made to stop using lyrics from one of their songs on their website.
Bonus questions, were three US presidents who had been made to drop song lyrics by the writers who similarly objected to a certain political party hijacking their songs for political campaigning.
Now you have to guess the three presidential candidates involved.
Clinton, Carter Obama? ..no it ISN’T. try Bush Snr, Bush Jnr and Regan.
I am sure it is just coincidence!
Radio Five “gets much worse” Live has clearly forgotten about International Women’s Day, preferring instead to concentrate on Di Maria’s sending off last night, the humiliating exit from the Cricket World Cup and of course the Cheltenham Festival. What fun! Now that Nicky “Gameshow” Campbell is back in charge of the Breakfast Show, there is no further mention of the Rotherham and Oxfordshire child abuse scandals. Instead, the programme continues to bang on about the three silly Moslem schoolgirls who went off to Syria, claiming this was the fault of the authorities. Let’s hope they never come back, as they appear unable to make a serious contribution to the future of this country. Further, there hasd been no mention of the selection of Naz Shah as the prospective Labour candidate for Bradford West. Not surprising in view of the fact that Naz was the victim of a forced marriage and campaigned for the release of her mother, who was convicted of murdering an abusive partner. This is veryu much against the BBC narrative, who will no doubt continue to lionise George Galloway as the “true” voice of the Moslem community. The Moslem vote is important as reagards the election of Mr. Ed and this goal cannot be changed.
No mention is made either of the fact that none of the main parties are campaigning to keep defence spending at 2% of GDP as recommended by NATO. Even Cameron has said that this commitment will end next April. What is the point of wrining our hands over the re-entry of the Moslem brothers back into this country from Syria when our defences are in such a sorry state? Instead we increase our spending for overseas aid, which does not always reach the desired target. What hope for the future?
The only overseas aid we should supply is for the finance of contraceptives. Foreign countries have a major problem with overpopulation, hence food and water shortages leading to strife .
It is far, far more important that this country should finance its defences against attack from within and without
I was doing my daily GfK Media on-line survey about what I watched on TV (= nothing, as most days!) and/or listened to on the radio (only a very little, on Radio 4) on Monday. There are very brief summaries of programs to help you remember and then give feedback. Radio 4’s ‘Start The Week’ (9:00 to 9:45) was described as “… setting the cultural agenda for the coming week”.
There is so much to unpack in this arrogant short phrase: who says that any one program, especially one on a minority channel such as Radio 4, can hope to (or, indeed, even has the right to try to) set any agenda, cultural or otherwise? The BBC should not be setting agendas, it should report what has happened, avoid speculation until it has happened, then provide background information and analysis of facts, not fancy. When it examines a more general theme, such as mathematics yesterday, there should be no agenda to set in what should be a ‘tour de table’. Little slips like this are revealing about the BBC mindset and the presumption of some civilizing mission to shape the way you think, rather than giving you the means to decide for yourself.
I don’t think you got the memo from Common Purpose.
Media Guardian @mediaguardian
BBC risks having to cut more services after it misses long-term targets http://gu.com/p/46ft6/stw
Fear not… pay, pensions and empire expansion worldwide all golden still.
Tens of thousands of people on awesome contracts too big to fail around the globe.
Just… only Dad’s Army repeats to show.
‘More details to follow …’
All part of Beeboids’ overt and stelth political agenda-
“BBC should not have announced ban on all-male panels, says Jason Manford.
“Comedian argues Danny Cohen should have gone ahead and increased female participation on comedy show panels without talking about doing so.”
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/10/bbc-should-not-have-announced-ban-on-all-male-panels-says-jason-manford?
‘stealth’.’ above.
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Just seen pro-EU Roland Rudd on BBC2 Daily Politics get it disastrously wrong yet again.
Previously he Mandleson and Co disastrously wanted UK to join EURO!
Today he said LABOUR position is right since a referendum will not bring any benefits to any negotiations with EU. Oh Yea! Just ask Alex SALMOND that one?
The bBC more of a no go zone than usual this week, Only Connect, Kids in Camps, Strictly, Operation Health, The Great Bake Off it goes on…All programs with a ‘Comic’ Relief theme presented by the likes of Brand ( J ), Brand ( R ), Millican, Fry, Henry, Walliams, Hart and Winkleman, comic? Do me a favour!
The bBC and assorted multi millionaire champagne socialists, all devoid of a sense of the real world, once again asking us to dig deep to make them feel even better about themselves.
They may (or may not) give their time for free, but how much does the telly tax payer already contribute in technical staff, equipment and facilities ?
I won’t be contributing as the money collected does not all stay in the UK, another form of foreign aid, of which we give more than enough already…
…assorted multi millionaire champagne socialists, all devoid of a sense of the real world, once again asking us to dig deep to make them feel even better about themselves.”
Speaking of which, on a slightly unrelated note, just had to flag up this naked hypocrisy from Han Solo himself, who recently found himself in the headlines again for crash landing his rickety old aircraft into a golf course. Wonder how much environmental damage that caused, not to mention his on-going carbon footprint…
http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com/correspondent/harrison-ford/
…Still, one rule for ‘them’ and tons of rules for the rest of us. Do as I say, not as I do, etc.
The continuing drama of the Jihadi Brides unfolds. Series One. Episode 17. 10/3/15.
“The select committee” Episode.
This is surreal. Family members of three Muslim youths who have allegedly gone to support the Islamic cause in Iraq / Syria, are currently giving evidence to Keith Vaz in the select committee rooms of our Houses of Parliament.
I can’t watch. For so many reasons. The establishment is beyond repair. This is a disgrace to the proud honourable law abiding people of our nation.
Vote UKIP. Purge the disease.
‘We’ll always have Paris’ : No, we won’t.
More euphemistic INBBC language on Islamic jihad massacre.
Compare:-
1). ‘Pamela Geller-
“Four arrested in Paris terror attacks probe, including Muslim convert police officer”
[Excerpt]:-
“A Muslim policeman — a convert, no less. There you have it.
“Four more held — tell us again about how this was a lone wolf attack.
“There are no wolf wolves in the global jihad.”
– See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/03/four-arrested-in-paris-terror-attacks-probe-including-muslim-convert-police-officer.html/#sthash.bFS2Wym2.dpuf
2.) INBBC-
“Paris attacks: Four arrests linked to gunman Coulibaly”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31803331
Anyone seen this?
Greece’s left wing government has threatened to unleash a ‘wave’ of Isis militants on the rest of Europe unless europe keeps “lending” them money.
http://ind.pn/1NDB9L8
Haven’t seen it on BBC yet. Maybe it doesn’t fit the BBC narrative of the greek gvt being radical, left wing heroes standing up to the capitalist oppressors of the West.
I did like the comment from Omnibusman (I assume not our very own ManinClappedOutOmnibus):-
“At the start of the crisis, if the Greek government had banned the production of tzatziki and taramasalata could they have avoided a double dip recession?”
However, another comment compares the extreme left wing politician to Nigel Farage!!! With completely opposite policies there is nothing they actually have in common except both being male politicians.
However, the blethering of this Greek extremist rather proves the point that there are two types of socialist: One is evil and the other really evil.
Although I can think of two others, 1. The irredeemably stupid, and 2. The irredeemably gullible. And many are both of these in addition to one of the above.
BREAKING: Jeremy Clarkson ‘suspended’ after ‘fracas’ with producer.
http://order-order.com/2015/03/10/jeremy-clarkson-suspended-by-bbc/ *
‘Fracas’, eh?
Must look that one up in my Jane’s Book of BBC Euphemisms.
I wonder if Adrian Chiles and Jo Brand were by chance within earshot as this ‘producer’ was going about their allotted task?
Pure speculation on my part, of course.
*ps: Some good comments already
The BBC’s loss is Clarkson’s gain.
Let them find a replacement who can pull in hundreds of millions of viewers throughout Europe, especially if he is joined by May and Hammond at a commercial broadcaster.
What is the motive behind this party political broadcast of a bBC article:
Is Labour making a mess of Bradford West?
“Sometimes trying to fix one political problem creates another.
Labour HQ’s interference could damage the party’s chances in seats it desperately needs to win, in an election where one or two seats could determine who takes No 10.
So just why is Labour losing out to Cat Man Galloway in Bradford West: well here are stats from the last time they voted:
Respect Galloway, George 18,341
Labour Hussain, Imran 8,201
Conservative Whiteley, Jackie 2,746
Bradford West’s has the largest concentration of Pakistanis (34.6 per cent) of any constituency, and one of the youngest populations of any seat (25.7 per cent under the age of 15 at the time of the 2001 Census). It has the 13th highest share of non-whites, being 47.4 per cent non-white in 2001 and certainly ‘majority-minority’ now. It also has the second-highest proportion of Muslims of any seat – 38.0 per cent .
This is alluded to by the bBC in its article:
There was anxiety in many quarters that biradari, the influence of some clans in the city, was a fundamental problem that had to be challenged, and it was frustration with the way elders pulled the strings that pushed voters to Respect in the first place.
But it is hidden way down at the bottom of the article. The fact remains, it shows that Muslims vote as they do in their home countries (or in East London) and that was they do is illegal and yet all the political parties are happy to look the otherway in which to tap into this blockvote which may give them that extra MP in which to run the country. Alas at the behest of political Islam which will be allowed to sing the tune it wants to the next British government
The bBC covering up for Islam and Labour as per its impartial mandate
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/womens-day-part-two.html?
‘”I’m sorry, you have lost my trust”
Welcome to our world, love. And the net result will be…?
SNAFU.
And what of other market rate talents this fine day?
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/waving.html?
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/when-i-left-it-felt-like-a-huge-relief-my-life-went-from-black-and-white-to-technicolor-james-purnell-on-impending-fatherhood-and-why-he-had-to-get-out-of-politics-10095479.html
‘Here the BBC’s strategy guru talks about impartiality’
That does seem to happen a lot, doesn’t it? It’s a DNA thing. Apparently.
Doesn’t seem to work its way into tangible delivery much.
‘It’s not clear whether Purnell is worried that the BBC’s cherished impartiality is at risk’
Well, if several phonecalls after obsessing with the strategy team doesn’t resolve it matey, a few hundred thousand a year and zero (0) accountability means you really don’t have to care whatever it looks like. So chill, dude.
‘now seen as the most powerful executive at the BBC under director general Tony Hall’
Does Danny know?
‘I mean Alastair could [sometimes] give you a hint’
Master of subtlety as Mr. Campbell was, and is. A friend now too.. or not? Best run that through a focus group too.
‘“Because if you love the BBC you care about the impartiality just as much as everybody else, but you feel the duty to be impartial even more than everyone else”
So good he says it twice in one sentence.
‘I bet Daniel Craig wishes he’d worked at the Department of Work and Pensions’
Yes, I’ll bet.
Telegraph’ (£)-
“BBC axes live F1 races to save money – then hires more staff.
Programmes were cut because managers could not make the necessary productivity savings.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11461550/BBC-axes-live-F1-races-to-save-money-then-hires-more-staff.html
DQF – “Doesn’t Quite Figure”?
Still, Lord Patone’s promises looking solid.
On the same planet as BBC service commitments.
If they could arrange it so viewers would switch on to watch breeding colonies of BBC staff in vast halls counting their ‘can only go up as well as really up’ pensions, they may yet crack it.
The Cohen article is the final nail in the coffin for bbc ‘impartiality’ in respect of news.
That the state broadcaster is unable to report – without fear or favour – when it itself is making the news (eg Savile) demonstrates a complete absence of impartiality.
Apparently this is the big story at the bBC, which they are gushing over their lowfat non dairy skinny ethical lattes;
FFS bBC, being gay isn’t an issue anymore in the West, unless you live in a multicultural area such as East London/Bradford West, Dewsbury or Birmingham
I find your lack of diversity disturbing
stormtrooper gets a job presenting the BBC’s new radio station, BBC Radio LGBT
BREAKING…
Jeremy Clarkson suspended by the BBC. The politically correct class have got him at last. http://bit.ly/1MoVNv6
Not for the first time I feel a chill.
Supplementary.
“Jeremy Clarkson suspended from BBC ‘following a fracas’ with TV producer”
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/jeremy-clarkson-suspended-from-bbc-following-a-fracas-with-tv-producer-31056349.html?
Will BBC-NUJ ban Nigel FARAGE before, or after the General Election?
This didn’t happen to to IRA and Mr ADAMS.
The BBC supported the IRA.
I’m sure he’ll be better off outside the hive.
‘The BBC’s director of television Danny Cohen ordered an investigation into the show last year and Clarkson is thought to have been given a final warning previously.’
Ah, Danny Cohen again? Quite the force for… well… force.
Maybe Jezza needs to pull a Jason Mamford and atone by saying whatever happens in the BBC stays in the BBC.
And the top floor could be renamed the Savile Nudge Nudge Wing?
Bring back Clarkson! Show your support!
https://www.change.org/p/bbc-reinstate-jeremy-clarkson
Beeboids won’t ban HSBC-‘BBC Trust’ Rona FAIRHEAD, of course. On the contrary.
The BBC and their Labour colleagues hate Fairhead the outsider. She is being set up.
Forget the BBC! Scameron just like William Vague is looking forward to Britain having a Muslim PM! Funnily enough just like the BBC he also believes that terrorism perpetrated by Muslims has nothing to do with Islam!
Politically suicidal ‘thinking’ of each of Tory, Lib Dem, and Labour parties:-
‘If we appease Islamic interest more like this, we may win a few Muslim marginal seats, especially as these seats have Muslim candidates. It doesn’t matter that we’d have to implement sharia-compliant policies in future.’
Are 95% non-Muslim British people keeping up with what is going on politically here?
How Muslims treat Gays when they are the people in Power:
I wonder if the gay mafia at the bBC still masturbate over their so called Islamic militants. Yup that’s a yes seen as they haven’t mentioned this story but they do inform me that Muslims in American are on edge. Murder of Iraqi migrant in Dallas has Muslims on edge
It puzzles me why the gays and lesbiens support the muslims, as they did in Manchester on Saturday. You see real muslims will not harm gays, but the far right backlash against these pretend muslims is hitting the good muslims, so the gays – and for that matter the Jews and others – protect the good muslims from the far right backlash. Impeccable logic supported by the BBC narrative that all muslims are peaceful.
As I, and many others of both genders wrap up for the evening…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31800782
LAST – 338. Denglish60
10 MINUTES AGO
FIRST – 1. YUG
7 HOURS AGO
Sort of predictable, really.
Responding to that criticism, Mr Cohen said he introduced gender rules because some shows were taking too long to catch up.
“It was like pushing water up a hill,” he told a BBC panel on diversity last year. “We kept saying it, and it wasn’t happening.
“We got to the point where we thought, this is not acceptable anymore, this doesn’t reflect the world we live in.”
Can’t say I met any women in the workplace who told a good joke so one woman in a thousand on a panel show might just about ‘reflect the world we live in’!
Terror ‘apologists’ must share blame – Hammond – http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31809453
I see that the BBC has closed the comments section, just 4 hours after the article was published. Could that perchance be because comments like these received lots of likes?
‘The people who should be blamed most are the liberal fanatics that bent over backwards to accommodate these people. Not such a good idea now, huh?’
And
“Terror ‘apologists’ must share blame”
‘That won’t please those very nice people at the ‘charity’ CAGE, whom the BBC seem to wheel-out and give them an awful lot of airtime to whenever the ‘Jihad Johns’ of this world spark comdemnation from the masses, to enlighten us all as to why it’s everyone else’s fault’
And
‘Comment 98 was removed because it had the temerity to mention those three sweet, innocent little poppets who have traveled to Syria to be brides of terrorists.
They are traitors regardless of age and they should never be let back into this country.’
Costing the Earth on Radio 4 this afternoon was interesting. They were discussing the green belt and how it could be impacted due to the need for new houses. Apparently, according to the presenter and most of those he chose to interview, the green belt isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. This took me aback for a while until I realised the story they were spinning. Obviously we need more houses because we have unprecedented numbers of people entering our country. They didn’t mention the reasons of course, you wouldn’t expect the BBC to be so indelicate, but that is the reason and we all know it. Without immigration our population levels would be nigh on static, so no need to destroy ancient woodland or bulldoze conservation areas. It was fascinating listening to the liberal mind set twisting itself into knots desperately trying not to mention the reasons we need so much more accommodation.
And the startling conclusion they came to after numerous intellectual contortions; Ripping out forests and tarmacking across grassland could actually be good for the environment. Yes honestly, that’s the delusional nonsense they want us to believe. And we all know why. Because it’s far better than telling the truth. We have far too many people living here and it’s only going to get worse.
“The one absolute certain way bringing a nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing as a nation at all , would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.” Theodore Roosevelt
… the green belt isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. This took me aback for a while until I realised the story they were spinning.
Par for the Big Brother state. Farmers used to get it in the neck if they built a dog house that was visible above the horizon; spoiling the landscape… blah… environmentally-sensitive area, blah, blah… Now monster wind turbines are everywhere, ugly and damaging to wildlife, … there’s not a word…. but it’s in a good cause ….innit?
New UKIP candidate not yet officially announced:-
Someone or other called J Clarkson.
Some people say….
It has been said…
There are those who think..
Sources close to…
….and on that bombshell….
..
It’s telling that the BBC has devoted so much time to the Argentinian helicopter accident today involving foreign reality TV contestants. They even had live pictures of – nothing really; police and press milling about the site. Speech by President Hollande. When 400,000 Argentine citizens were protesting recently about their president’s role in the scandal surrounding the murder of a Jewish prosecutor due to testify against her, the BBC broadcast….. nothing. Zilch. Massive allegation, dynamic crowd pictures, nothing from the Beeb. Just one brief story later – that a judge had dismissed the case against Fernández de Kirchner.
Kirchner is a real national socialist and an enemy of the United Kingdom and our kith and kin in the Falklands. Of course the BBC will not oppose her.
The Met apologises for their role in failing to stop the three jihadi sluts who have gone off to be mated in Syria. Vaz looks down on the grovelling Sir Bernard with understanding. Sympathy for the parents oozing out. Large compensation payments might be in the air. Either way, when they come back here to whelp under NHS care they will welcomed by an adoring media.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31820783
Why the apology? One is sixteen and two very nearly, in Labour’s eyes they’re old enough to vote, an old analogy, if you’re old enough to vote, you’re old enough to fight…
No apologies necessary, what next? Compensation? I can see it coming. Pathetic.
‘Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear host, suspended by BBC after ‘fracas’
proudly announces Al Beeb. They have finally have got him, hooray let’s have party!
Oh wait a minute, that particular cash cow now disappears off the books, what to do?!!
Maybe bring on the unemployable R Bland to boost the ratings?
He was far too “old school” for the Beeb. Good whilst he brought in big bucks from world wide sales. But he has to go! Just Andrew Neil next and the purge is complete!
Just seen BBC Justine Milliband article on BBC news. Like a North Korean “news” item. No relevance to anything…just propaganda.
“Petition to ‘reinstate Jeremy Clarkson’ following BBC suspension
reaches 20,000 supporters”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/563135/Petition-reinstate-Jeremy-Clarkson-following-BBC-suspension
Now on 100,000+ supporters.
if jeremy has gone then the show is dead ,also the reason for the tv tax,get rid of the BBc you know it makes sense
Never mind, as a replacement the BBC will give us a new show about trams, presented by Bill Oddie.
In the opinion polls, UKIP have pretty consistently bumped along between 14% and 16% since Christmas. (This is a remarkable, unreported story in itself. The ‘experts’ had said ‘peak-UKIP’ passed last May. They were supposed to be back to 3% by now.) But have you noticed how all the media – Tory press and leftie tv – constantly inject little remarks that ‘UKIP seem to be dropping recently’. They never make a big issue – because it wouldn’t stand any scrutiny of the figures. But they insidiously hammer away at it, hoping to undermine potential UKIP voters confidence that their vote will make a difference; keeps them wondering if they should ‘return to the fold’. It’s a dirty war this one; the dirtiest ever.
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/
A quick on-line poll of voting intentions among responders on GfK Media today gave UKIP at 14%, confirming what you say.
No, Beeboid COHEN, BBC is not like a football club, it’s a political ‘left-wing’ club:-
“Jeremy Clarkson suspended: Danny Cohen strikes to shield BBC reputation.
“’It’s like football clubs. No one is bigger than the club,’ said Mr Cohen”
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/jeremy-clarkson-suspended-danny-cohen-strikes-to-shield-bbc-reputation-10099153.html
Beeboids who may well think that they are bigger than “their club”:-
– Tony HALL, Helen BOADEN, Danny COHEN, James HARDING, James PURNELL,
Rona FAIRHEAD and Alan YENTOB, etc.
I take it the football metaphor was Mr Cohen’s attempt to get ‘on side’ with the ordinary blokes what watch top gear -patrician class prat
It’s not like football d*ckhead Danny, we don’t have to pay for a licence to own a football.
“Jeremy Clarkson’s suspension is a victory for BBC television boss Danny Cohen”
Yes, enjoy it while it lasts, Danny. And the footy metaphors…. Desperate stuff.
Now seeing some interesting blowback as libels are being teased out by those who scented blood enough to jump a bandwagon, but forget the law.
Popcorn at the ready.
I also now learn it was an ‘aimed punch’, which having been on a fair few sets is darn near the norm daily.
Hope the BBC has their witnesses as well cued up as Adrian & Jo were.
Was it Newsnight that gave us the story of the coming Labour candidate in Bradford West then?
Utter cringe-making crap, and Galloway ought to complain about it.
May well have been Channel 4 though-in truth, it`s hard to discern the rampant lies and bias of the political liberal liars.
Certainly though it was the BBC that gave us Ms Milibands views on “politics about to get dirty”-and the BBC duly broadcast this effluent as “news”?
It`s as if the BBC have had had NO efforts to dirty up the likes of Palin, Farage or Brooks…their hypocrisy is breathtaking.
With these two bulls of stories comprising “news editorial judgements”-it`s pretty clear what the BBC is up to.
Any chance of some Tory complaining? Thought not!
Meanwhile the 7am news this moaning grieved over some French sports nomarks who wanted to be Mike Smith or Matthew Harding-and were able to be appropriately “Dropped” for the benefits of the selfie muppets and reality show ghouls and cabbages.
WGAFF BBC?….completer non-story, worthy of the Cluny crap in Glasgow.
Don`t those old hippies in the media know that a pointless waste of celluloid to assuage the lamebrains back home invokes the “shit happens” clause that they used to chant?…these self-absorbed sadsacks died for nothing more that Noels House Party antics-and somewtimes they will go wrong.
Best do proper jobs and stop spouting kerosene into the rain forests just to “get good pictures”-rarely ends well.
No-a stunt that only media houris like the BBC could care about…a non-histoire if ever I heard one.
Justine Miliband revealed her husband’s biggest regret about his job was “not seeing the children enough or worrying he doesn’t see the children as much as he’d like”. – http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31822563
I look forward to the BBC interviewing Mrs Cameron and Mrs Farage, letting us see that their husbands are normal, decent, caring and lovable human beings, whilst giving them the opportunity to reach out to the female vote.
Yes, Beeboid LANDALE’s political tone towards Labour Party Milibands is predictably much more favourable than Landale’s political tone towards Farage and UKIP last week.
Then, cunningly, Beeboid Landale noted that Farage seemed to be annoyed by references to racism. Is Landale racist? Or just pro-Labour, despite Rotherham, etc?
Isn’t it clear that Landale wants Labour to win the Election, and to preserve and increase the BBC licence fee?
Predictably, BBC-NUJ has made its pro Labour, Mrs Miliband its top political story on its ‘Politics’ page.
Beeboids are putting in all their political efforts to get Labour Party elected, and to get BBC licence fee ring-fence in return.
Milliband doesn’t see his children enough? Lucky kids, I say.
Doesn’t see his kids enough? Get another job then.
“Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson returns home after BBC suspends him and CANCELS this Sunday’s show.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2988412/Top-Gear-s-Jeremy-Clarkson-suspended-BBC-fracas-producer.html#ixzz3U1FZj8cl
Trending like wildfire on Twitter. The Left’s fave cartoonist Steve Bellend has gone straight in on the act.
Then we’ve the howls of hypocritical rage from Labour tweeters. Remember “Two Jabs” Prescott, anyone ?
An hour after telling me that yes, Ed Miliband is a friend — “I was always friends with Ed and David. Ed and I, we’ve been on holiday together” — James Purnell, the BBC’s director of strategy and digital and a former Labour Cabinet minister, rings me on my mobile.
“Er, when I said I was friends with Ed,” he says, “that’s not completely right. I’m not friends with Ed any more.” What about David Miliband? “David, yes. Definitely.”
Later, he texts: “So, on the Ed thing: what feels wrong about saying that we’re friends is that it implies I’m round his house the whole time… but it also feels weird to say that we’re ‘not friends’ — too playground.
We always got on in politics, but since then I’ve only seen him on business.”
A bit of script from a previously unbroadcast episode of the ‘more smug than satirical’ BBC show W1A?
http://metro.co.uk/2014/03/20/wia-was-more-smug-than-satirical-but-the-scripts-ingenious-4656503/
No. It was from an actual interview with the BBC’s ‘once tipped as a future Labour leader and now seen as the most powerful executive at the BBC under director general Tony Hall’ Mr James Purnell
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/when-i-left-it-felt-like-a-huge-relief-my-life-went-from-black-and-white-to-technicolor-james-purnell-on-impending-fatherhood-and-why-he-had-to-get-out-of-politics-10095479.html?origin=internalSearch
Have to admire that Mark Thompson-esque four-day stubble. I think he really has got a grip on that new post-Blair BBC office culture wanna-be creative look.
“painting a neat picture of a culture where covering your back is number one in any ambitious individual’s skill set”
Given Nick Cohen’s recent article, and… ‘Events’ yesterday, the next series will be interesting to say the least.
Must be a fun place to work.
Main INBBC Radio 4 news item at 10 pm- yes, those three ‘missing schoolgirls’ from East London, again, and how, somehow, WE British are to blame.
The 10 pm item was so politically biased, coded and censored as to be a totally useless ‘report’.
It was not stated that:
1.) the girls are Muslims;
2.) that they have responsibility for their behaviour;
3.) their Muslim parents have responsibility for their children’s behaviour;
4.) the girls’ motives were not simply to go to ‘Syria’ as stated by INBBC;
5.) the girls’ motives were apparently to join the Islamofacists of Islamic State, in Raqqa, (as they have) but there was no mention of that by INBBC;
6.) the word ‘radicalised’ has no real meaning when censored by INBBC, as here, from Islamic jihad context.
The contrast of political empathy shown by INBBC for these three Muslim girls seems to be
in sharp contrast to INBBC’s treatment of non-Muslim girls who were victims of Muslim sex gangs in e.g. Rotherham.
Update for INBBC:-
“Missing Schoolgirls May Have Stolen Jewellery”
http://news.sky.com/story/1442282/missing-schoolgirls-may-have-stolen-jewellery
I think the bbc have finally pulled the plug on Clarkson, I mean we can’t have any one who doesn’t support PC, is not left leaning, labour supporting , Islamic worshipping, …
Looking at the bbc news web pages his days are numbered.
World Record Snow Fall in 24 HOURS:
Yes, it is being claimed as a world record that a village in Italy, in MARCH 2015, has just had a World Record of 8ft dumped on it in just 24 hours. Now the thing is, if you Google this event, pretty well every weather forum across the World are talking about it together with most news agencies. But guess who I couldn’t find? Yup the good old BBC. Maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough. Even “Classic FM” were talking about it today. Did anyone hear about it from the BBC? I didn’t.
“Clarkson Jokes On Twitter After Suspension.
“The Top Gear presenter and co-hosts suggest alternatives to the show that will not be screened on Sunday amid a Clarkson ‘fracas’.”
http://news.sky.com/story/1442344/clarkson-jokes-on-twitter-after-suspension
-This will be regarded as unacceptable behaviour by Beeboid politbureau, inc Cohen.
They expect ‘Top Gear’ presenters to be totally censored now, to be silenced and cowed and not making jokes.
http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/03/10/uk-defense-minister-apologists-partly-to-blame-for-terror
Watched the BBC giving this “big air” , the Al BBC words of wisdom
“apology …well its a start”
I heard the laughable family excuse for where they got the money,
a story about as thin as thrice used bog roll …
but never mind that eh?
3 terror teenies no more eh! … no, nowt to do with terror,
… perhaps they were they going on a “safari” ?
Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended from the beeb. He must have done something that even the BBC find inexcusable
So that rules out child abuse then.
Also rules out conversion to Jihadi Jezza and all.
I am no Jeremy Clarkson fan but I thank him profusely for pushing the awful Milliband soft focus movie down the agenda.
It was only a matter of time before they got rid of him ,there is no way he can fit into the BBC groupthink .
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/03/10/muslim-action-forum-seeks-to-brand-depictions-of-the-prophet-mohammed-as-hate-speech/
Next on BBC speed dial, after MCB, Ramadan Fnd, Mpac, Muslim Debate Init, and CAGE …
hmm Muslim Action Forum … “they will seek to amend existing legislation and present a Private Members Bill to Parliament that promotes the idea of ‘Global Civility’ in order to achieve their objectives”
Looks like they already started last week, with Warsi and co
I’m sure many people have heard about the number of ‘sex offenders’ who have gone missing. Our useless Political Correctness Enforcement Squad which we used to call the Police have said that they won’t release their names because of the criminals ‘uman rights’.
Today however in Manchester one of the victims has come forward and named her attacked as Sarwar Ali who raped her when she was just 12. (Back in 2006) He is believed to still be in the UK.
But it was this statement from GMP which got me thinking “there are 23 missing sex offenders in Greater Manchester [] Out of the 23, police believe 11 have fled abroad ” Those 11 do not include Ali.
So half the ‘sex offenders’ in the Greater Manchester area are of foreign origin who have returned to their countries to avoid monitoring.
No wonder the PCES don’t want to name the individuals involved, because it would yet more fuel to the fire of atrocities perpetrated on young white girls sacrificed on the alter of Political Correctness.
As the BBC has gone into lockdown again, one is left only with speculation. I will for now content myself with what some, maybe more in the know than many, are offering:
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/03/i-suspected-the-liberal-fascists-would-eventually-get-clarkson/
“The BBC – the producers beside themselves with glee”
That does seem the impression.
Thing is, outside of the nest of vipers that is Danny, James, Hugs & Mary, such a reaction smacks of a set-up and stinks. Like Game of Thrones only without the empathy and laughs. Just backstabbing, conniving weasels plotting away.
If… if Jezza was moved to deck someone that would be justification for a suspension, but the BBC’s shenanigans to date simply make what could be blowing off stress in an unacceptable way seem too much of a gift to be true.
I hope the BBC suffers major blowback no matter what.
This may be a very Phyrric victory for the BBC weasel classes indeed. It has suprised me just how much this patrician PC media elite seem universally loathed.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/10/clarkson-should-do-the-decent-thing-and-resign
Closed for comments already. Most seem modded out, and the rest…. uncomplimentary to Ms. Orr’s rather over-eager reaction.
The BBC would doubtless approve.
Must be lonely in that bunker, mind
The current BBC apparatchniks would have never stood for Betjeman either,
These people are seriously dull. Clarkson should quit for good. No credibility for anyone now working for the BBC.
In the end all they will be making is shows for themselves.
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