WEEKEND OPEN THREAD….

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Friday arrives and time for a new Open Thread. BBC seems determined to talk UP UKIP divisions whilst staying mute on the chaos in Labour ranks! Over to you!

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    • Charlatans says:
      May 17, 2015 at 9:05 pm

      How crazy does a business have to be not comply with some simple rules and hang on to £3bn + guaranteed income, rather than commit suicide.

      Michael Henderson in the Telegraph yesterday got it spot on!

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11609543/Biased-Auntie-Beeb-has-only-herself-to-blame.html

      All one has to do is comply with a non-biased remit. Its not rocket science!

      Unfortunately for the idiots running the BBC, with donkeys years of ‘lefty’ recruitment, they have come to the point where they can no longer see through the red mist.

      The word is out now that the BBC is yesterday and they need to call the SAMARITANS! They asked for it big time.

      Lefties who always think that those of us fed up with the BBC want the equivalent of FOX news as a replacement.

      The message must get through soon that If we have to have the BBC in the interim period before the 2016 Changes, it we want impartial political reporting and current affairs.

      If it can’t be that, change it’s remit for its output via subscription. They certainly have had the time and warnings now

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      • Teddy Bear says:
        May 17, 2015 at 9:40 pm

        For some reason the Telegraph moderators decided to delete my comment which I’d left on this article, which I find rather hypocritical of them.

        Judging by how often BBC presenters manage to use the C*** word, usually claimed as a mistake, but strange it’s always to characters that they don’t like, so now when I hear the BBC referred to as Auntie, I see it as A *untie.
        If the shoe fits – wear it.

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        • IsItMe? says:
          May 17, 2015 at 10:23 pm

          Have they ever made the same “slip of the tongue” with Tristram Hunt, for example?

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  2. chrisH says:
    May 17, 2015 at 11:26 am

    Farage Phoenix Flies
    Faux-foreigners a floating
    Driftwood BBC.

    Hope to bring UKIP Haikus succinct pithy odes of greatness to attention to all UKIP branches here in Wessex asap.
    My image of us writing from the BBC jungle to the lads back home-and falling for Lord Haw Haws BBC anti-UKIP diatribes-sees me through the Foxholes of fun!

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    • UKIP Haiku says:
      May 17, 2015 at 12:11 pm

      Distribute as you see fit ChrisH-san.

      Misunderstood. Deliberately?

      I love Liberty.
      That’s why I voted UKIP.
      Am I a racist?

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  3. Merched Becca says:
    May 17, 2015 at 11:31 am

    Al Beeb continue to distract viewers and listeners from the utter annihilation of the Labour Party by continuing to propagate the ‘so called turmoil’ in UKIP .
    They tried the same ‘turmoil’ tactic before the General Election.
    You couldn’t make it up .

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  4. noggin says:
    May 17, 2015 at 12:55 pm

    http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-says-glick-shooter-will-go-to-heaven-as-martyr/
    Sooo … Jew murder deserves paradise?
    BBC shocked? – Panto Campbell aghast?
    What Far Right, Racist Fascist spouts such bile?

    Why its the erm …. “angel of peace” of course

    Pope Francis calls Palestinians’ Abbas ‘angel of peace’
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-32769752

    “The Catholic Church has survived a lot of things over the last 2,000 years, and so I would never say it will not survive its current confusion of the aggressor with the victim and cowardice with civility.
    I would never say that it will not be able to overcome its stupid and self-defeating infatuation with “dialogue” — despite the fact that this “dialogue” has had absolutely zero positive effect in easing the Muslim persecution of Christians worldwide.
    I would never say it will not be able to overcome its unconscionable aiding and abetting of the genocidal “Palestinian” jihad against Israel.

    Far be it from me to say that the Church’s willful ignorance and denial about the teachings of the Qur’an and Islam in general are going to result in the deaths of millions of Catholics — deaths that could have been prevented if the Church had had the courage and wisdom to tell its people the truth about the jihad threat and prepare them for what was coming.
    No, the Church will survive all this.
    But there is no doubt that it has entered a dark, stupid era.”
    R Spencer

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    • chrisH says:
      May 17, 2015 at 9:45 pm

      Can`t help thinking that Franics is a hippie Guardian reader who`s been planted into the Catholic Church by some Unesco 666 mole.
      Climate Change?…PLO/Hames?…anti business?…sucking up to much of the EUs solidarity notions(originally Catholic Social Teaching nostrum)?
      Benedict was the last of the line-now it`s full speed to Father Ted type theologies…and Islam awaits

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  5. Doublethinker says:
    May 17, 2015 at 1:42 pm

    On the BBC web site there is quite a long piece about the abject failure of the opinion polls to forecast the result of the GE. The BBC offers up several possible explanations but doesn’t believe that the phenomena of ‘Shy Tories’ is a significant factor. After all, they say, the Tories must have been even shier in 2015 than they were in 1992!! They simply can’t see why this should be!
    Well, the answer is so obvious to anyone outside of the BBC that it is laughable that they can’t see it. It is simply because that for another 23 years the BBC has been telling anyone who may vote Tory that they are immoral and uncaring. They have been doing this across the whole range of their vast output 24/7 for 8395 days. Is it any wonder that rather own up to being immoral and uncaring a significant number of those polled simply keep their intention to vote Tory to themselves!!
    Of course we should not underestimate the number of people who, because of this anti Tory 23 year barrage, were persuaded not to vote Tory. If they had not been got at by the BBC the Tory margin of victory may well have been much higher. So we can expect that the BBC , if left to its own devices, will increase its anti Tory message over the next few years. So step forward Mr Whittingdale and do something to curb this distortion of our democracy. Your time has come.

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    • Arthur Penney says:
      May 17, 2015 at 4:25 pm

      Lots of opinion pollsters had significant BBC leads in the last week or so. I think the BBC were bamboozled by the daily yougov with its flawed methodology and the other internet polls that were obviously sampling a different population than the UK as a whole.

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      • Steve Jones says:
        May 17, 2015 at 6:41 pm

        I think the answer to the flawed polls is even simpler and impossible to allow for. People just don’t appreciate the invasion of privacy that being asked who you intend to vote for represents.
        Consequently, and in my opinion quite rightly, they don’t tell the truth. By doing so they are sticking two fingers up to those who are effectively trying to look over your shoulder in the voting booth. Long may they continue to do so.

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  6. D1004 says:
    May 17, 2015 at 8:02 pm

    Bbc countyfile, a.visit it to deepest industrial Swansea ???? More particularly to Vetch Field the place Swansea Town used to play before being torn down. Today it’s a city park and allotments and don’t the beebiods have a wankfest by finding all the “locals” who dress up in very Muslim dress and speak broken English (wot no Welsh? Call for Leanne to sort out) to have a wonderful “local” meal sitting around the garden table eating cous-cous and bloody chick peas. The Welsh might be ‘ethnic’. But not ‘ethnic’ enough for the bloody beeboids…they have to find more deserving ‘others’ and roll like a dog in fox shit in a more foreign dress. Cannot wait for their visit to the Falls Road and watch the locals behead an unbeliever.

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    • Geoff says:
      May 17, 2015 at 11:18 pm

      Saw that, even the bloody presenter Anita Rani had the gaul to claim that her DNA lay in the Yorkshire countryside.

      Just back from spending the weekend in deepest West Somerset and the countryside folk bore no resemblance to those portrayed on the diverse ‘wankfest’ that was Countryfile.

      Caught a bit of last nights bBC1 news as well, again both main, sport and weather presenters made me question if I had pointed the satellite dish on my camper van too far to the East….

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  7. D1004 says:
    May 17, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    Bbc ‘Capital’ a little nook I never knew existed. And for your interest today ?…. “Best places for expats with kids”. Fancy a move in your life ? Got skills that will get a warm welcome wherever ? Then try these places from around the world to live. And where in the diverse world of “multi kulti enrichment ” do the bbc suggest you to find a family friendly life ? 1, New Zealand, 2,Austria, 3, Switzerland, 4, Japan……..now it strikes me that these countries are not exactly multi kulti paradises such as the UK or Iraq. In fact it could be said they are all dominated by white skin and culture or the nearest equivalent. No Saudi, no Afghanistan, not even the IS, come on, a diverse population such as we enjoy needs to be offered more than the obvious. Not sticking to the required line is ‘bbc Capital’ and that name is a bit suspect as well. Report to the Hive for reeducation.
    http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20150508-best-places-for-expats-with-kids

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  8. I Can See Clearly Now says:
    May 17, 2015 at 10:06 pm

    TEN NEWS: Mishal just said that Ramadi has ‘… fallen to Islamic State.’ Same form of words on the headlines and the story. No ‘so-called’. No ‘self-styled’. It felt deliberate. Perhaps the removal of ‘The’ removes any suggestion that IS is the official Islamic state and allows the Beeb to wind their necks in with 2016 coming up. Just sayin’.

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  9. Charlatans says:
    May 17, 2015 at 10:40 pm

    Just spotted this 2013 Clip from BBC QT on Guido website comments so apt about the current Labour demise:

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  10. thoughtful says:
    May 17, 2015 at 11:23 pm

    Len McClusky has waded into the Labour leadership debacle with words which are difficult for me at least to disagree with.

    Labour had to demonstrate it was “the voice of ordinary working people”

    “If they do that in a way that enthuses us, then I don’t believe that the mountain that is ahead of us is un-climbable. ”

    If Labour went back to its core values of speaking for working people, championed the needs and desires of the British worker then it would be next impossible for Cameron to oppose them.

    Instead Labour became bogged down with left wing fantasy land and oppression. Championing every foreigner, and blaming the white working class for even daring to breathe !
    They put up with it for quiet a long time under Blair, but eventually they decided the throw off the yoke and we all know the result.
    If Labour can distance itself from the ‘looney left’ then they might indeed have a chance, but they have such a hold on Labour now that it will take heroic effort from a leader to oust them.
    Can you imagine a time when a Labour leader had the balls to speak the truth and say that foreign workers were bad for Britain and we needed to limit immigration?

    Until that day comes Labour, I think will spend a lot of time in opposition.

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    • Merched Becca says:
      May 17, 2015 at 11:34 pm

      One wonders what the Man on the Clapped out Bus will make of this ? Over to you ‘bus driver’ ……

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      • D1004 says:
        May 18, 2015 at 10:21 am

        But driver is on strike, something to do with having his pay rate undercut by all the “enriching diversity ” willing to do the job.
        ManonaBangalorehorsedrawnbus anyone ?

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  11. Merched Becca says:
    May 17, 2015 at 11:55 pm

    Here is a good starter for the Great Euro Debate ……
    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/17/jcb-boss-says-eu-exit-could-lift-burden-of-bureaucracy-on-uk-businesses
    The ‘Battle of Britain’ (or for Britain ) starts. Will Al Beeb cover this , its their newspaper of choice ?
    Vote UKIP .

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