Good start to day on R4…BBC journo’s all asking what should the ‘new governement’, the ‘next government’ and the ‘new Prime Minister’ do to resolve current issues…all rather suggestive that Cameron and Tories are going to be out. Why not just say ‘What do you want the government to do?’
We also hear that rural life is in meltdown with communities rapidly collapsing with all services such as shops, pubs, post offices and bus services being closed. Might have been relevant to suggest that the country isn’t a museum with pretty little shops and so on being there to make the place look idyllic….perhaps if people used those shops, pubs and post offices they wouldn’t close…..and have to say plenty of such rural services available where I live.
Then they got onto Rural Payments to farmers….slipped in was the comment that farmers desperately ‘need the EU subsidies’.
Hmmm…EU subsidies? Do they mean the money the EU sends us back from the billions we send them but not before the EU bureaucrats rake off huge salaries with lavish expenses that they pay themselves before generously handing some of it back to us…with the demand that we thank the EUists profusely for their largesse?
The BBC’s biggest story of the day seems to be the Guardian smear that Grant Shapps may have altered his Wikipedia entry….shock and horror!
The BBC’s Norman ‘utterly terrifying’ Smith was delighted with this tale saying ‘This story brought a big smile to my face’.….telling us that Shapps thought it was a Labour Party smear which Smith dismissed with a joke denying it could possibly be a Labour smear operation…..they’re too computer illiterate and lack a sense of humour….leaving it up in the air as to who did alter the entry…suggesting Shapps perhaps? Even if true…so what?
The Guardian’s evidence?…
The site’s administrators, selected Wikipedia volunteers who patrol the site, told the Guardian that they “believe that the account Contribsx is a sockpuppet of Grant Shapps’ previous accounts on Wikipedia … and based on the evidence the account is either run by Shapps directly or being run by someone else – an assistant or a PR agency – but under his clear direction.”
Oh hang on….anyone can edit it and the administrators can in fact almost be anyone….who is the admin who claims Shapps is guilty and what’s the evidence?…the Guardian fails to enlighten us….the BBC is admitting that that particular admin. ‘can’t be sure of who edited the account‘…..so a non-story about a non-story based on the word of one man who admits he is speculating. Big news!
R4 ignores the Mail story about Unite controlling half of Labour’s candidates…but then again why would we expect the BBC to cover that when they ignored the story when it arose before and even Labour sites attacked Unite and Miliband? That’ll be the Unite Union that wants to impose Ralph Miliband’s Marxist utopia upon us. Might be important…especially as Unite Leader, Len McCluskey, says Democracy is over-rated and he wants to use ‘direct action’ to force his views upon society. Something that might be of interest to anyone thinking of voting for Unite funded Miliband.
Just heard that America is guilty of creating ISIS…never mind it existed in Afghan under a different name long before the BBC’s Peter Taylor claims it was created and the idea to create an Islamic State was always the dream. The BBC happily ignores the reality that ‘ISIS’ was smashed by the US in Iraq and resurrected by Assad who released them from prisons and attacked their rivals whilst protecting them for his own purposes….not a mention of that key Syrian angle in this write up by Taylor.
The BBC is relentless in trying to blame the West or the US for what is happening in the Middle East…never mind that it was the Arab Spring that set off events in Syria and created the circumstances that allowed ISIS to rise again.
Even Jeremy Bowen admits that the self-immolation of the Tunisian fruit seller was the spark that began the uprisings across the Middle East…Syria would not be self-destructing if that hadn’t happened and ISIS wouldn’t have had the opportunity to rise again…nothing to do with Iraq.
“..so a non-story about a non-story based on the word of one man who admits he is speculating..”
Remember when the BBC cleared the schedules about the rise of far right groups, based on what an anonymous source had told a BBC journo?
CECUTT figured ‘belief’ in BBC editorial integrity trumped all then, too.
Radio Devon this morning was/is nothing more than a party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party. It really is desperate stuff by the BBC. The headline was also the non Grant Shapps story. The thing is, I have yet to hear of any suggested wrong doing of a Labour politician on this radio station. I feel I will be waiting a long time.
Doesn’t Simon Bates present the Breakfast Show in Devon? I always thought he was he was a staunch right winger. Must grate to have to tow the bBC line if so?
I just put this on the Radio Devon facebook page:
Good grief. What has Radio Devon become? Oh I know, how about Radio Lefty? How about Radio Labour Party? Or even better how about Radio Unbalanced? So, BBC Radio Devon, when are we going to hear from Simon (coffee fixation) Bates about a Labour Party official/candidate/politician doing something untoward, allegedly? I guess I will be waiting a very long time on that one don’t you think? Sheesh.
“Downloadable version of our list of councillors from other parties who have escaped national media attention for crimes and actions far worse than anything done by the odd UKIP candidate. We have therefore consolidated the list into a pdf document which features all the links, with a breakdown by crime. Please feel free to download it and/or share it: it is likely to be particularly useful at hustings meetings over the next week or two.”
http://nopenothope.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/291-liblabconsnp-councillors-their.html
Excellent. All the ammo in one place for next time the Lefturds start ‘banging on’ about sausage rolls or some other heinous crime.
Neither BBC nor Guardian will report on Labour’s postal voting prowess. Last weekend Labour may already have had halve its votes in the box, since postal ballots were sent out to voters on 13 and 14 April and Labour seems to collect quite a number of its votes through the post given the constituencies with highest percentage of votes via postal votes:
http://blogs.channel4.com/michael-crick-on-politics/pivotal-preelection-postal-polling-day/4733
http://commonslibraryblog.com/2014/05/01/postal-voting-in-the-uk
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/mary-ann-sieghart/mary-ann-sieghart-how-dodgy-postal-votes-may-decide-our-next-government-7646617.html
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/10/28/Millions-Disappear-In-Campaign-Against-Electoral-Fraud
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/26/bradfords-electorate-falls-by-20000-after-electoral-fraud-clamp-down/
Funny can anyone remember the BBC’s investigation into Labours ‘Obama’ Chukies fiddling his wiki page ?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9987374/Chuka-Umunnas-Wikipedia-entry-edited-from-computer-at-his-work.html
I have no desire to be famous but if I was would I be wrong to correct errors on the Wiki page about lovable old me? Or is the suggestion that there is something more sinister going on with Schapps and ChuckUsYerMoney?
The local services like buses , local shops pubs etc prospered in times past when there was less government interference and taxes .
OK I know there are other extenuating factors at play like the rise of the car ownership , but if the BBC was a right wing organisation and wanted to give a one dimensiol view it would it would give the reason I gave .
But instead it gives the one dimensiol view from a left wing perspective .
So Truth Will Out won’t be because of the BBC .
Never mind the truth eh BBC, as long as its slagging off the Tories in time for the postal voting.
Just had a quick browse through the Talk Page of Schapps’ Wiki entry and it looks as though there has been a significant amount of negative postings by political rivals which have necessitated re-editing.
Seems like this is a case of the Grauniad accusing Schapps of something they may well have instigated in the first place.
NB this has been a (non) story since 2012 so why drag it out now?