Woman’s Hour had a long love in with the Female leaders of Scotland’s political parties (I think the Tory one, Ruth Davidson, might have been mentioned somewhere in the piece.)
Woman’s Hour asked how is it that if there is so much success in Scotland for women why is that not the case in Westminster?
You may have thought that that would be the occasion when the BBC might take a look at the prospects for women in a reborn Labour Party, would they prosper under one of the new leadership candidates, two being women and one being a far left, sorry, as corrected by a BBC presenter the other day, ‘left’ politician, Jeremy Corbyn?
But no, instead of looking at Westminster they concentrated on the rise of women in Scotland.
You could be forgiven for thinking Jeremy Corbyn is irrelevant in Scotland…but you’d be wrong…as the Spectator spells out..
Jeremy Corbyn can fill a Glasgow hall quicker than Nicola Sturgeon. It’s time for her to worry
Strange things have been happening in Scottish politics of late, and Jeremy Corbyn’s speech in Glasgow on Friday was one of them. I’m a Labour supporter, and can safely say it was the most electrifying and energetic rally I have ever attended.
Within two hours of tickets going on sale for Corbyn’s Glasgow event, they sold out. A frantic search for a larger venue began and the rally was moved to the Old Fruitmarket in the centre of Glasgow; capacity 1,500. Again, it sold out within a few hours. Corbyn could have filled a hall four times the size.
Scottish politics dramatically changed in last year. If Corbyn wins, it could do so again.
That didn’t merit a mention in the BBC interview which might seem odd as surely it would be of interest/concern to the new Scottish Labour leader.
There was a swift mention of the leadership candidates, and Jane Garvey homed in on Corbyn…but it was his desire to get rid of Trident that was her only concern asking Scottish Labour Leader Kezi Dugdale ”You didn’t discuss Trident with Jeremy Corbyn, I can’t believe that?’
Apart from that brief foray into what life might be like under a Jeremy Corbyn regime Corbyn was allowed to slip off into the shadows once again without the BBC turning the spotlight upon him. Which is just as well really as with his dubious associations with Islamists you might be justified in asking how women like Dugdale would fare in his brave new world.
Nick Cohen asked such questions….
The British left has a lot to answer for. The Labour Party’s long-shot leadership candidate, Jeremy Corbyn, embodies the worst of it.
He has a purity and certainty his rivals, who must deal with the messy business of governing, cannot hope to match.
But then comes the rub. The tribune of the left, the indomitable defender of equality and decency, is also the greatest apologist for clerical fascism in the British parliament.
Corbyn indulges radical Islam, and by extension all that comes with it: the subjugation of women; the judicial murder of homosexuals in compliance with sharia law; the racism, most evident in its anti-Semitic conspiracy theories; the denial of democratic rights, the demand to create a global caliphate must bring; and the denial of religious freedom the sharia-prescribed death penalties for blasphemy and apostasy do bring with miserable regularity.
Islamism is against everything the left pretends to believe in. But in Britain and elsewhere, leftists rather than conservatives are the first to defend it.
I could give you a dozen reasons why right-wing parties are winning elections everywhere here. But one ought to be obvious. Politically correct left-wingers say they believe in equality for women and gays. Everyone must agree with them apart from protected religious leaders, who can be as misogynist and homophobic as they please.
The voters look on with jaundiced eyes. They mutter that political correctness is a sham and the left is filled with the most brazen hypocrites. The worst of it is, they are right.
The BBC just isn’t interested in Corbyn’s Islamist friends.
Why might that be? Is it that they like the [Far] left wing candidate who favours the policies long peddled by the BBC itself...’There would be an end to austerity, higher taxes for the rich and protection for people on welfare’ or is it because he’s leading light in the ‘Stop the War Coalition’, again a cause the BBC has a lot of time for, or is it because the BBC also has a similarly benign and supportive approach to Islamist extremists and terrorists?
Curious how even the Woman’s Hour bunker can overlook Corbyn’s associations when they appear to be so strongly against the interests of the sistahood and indeed progressive politics as a whole.
The BBC does have a lot to say about Corbyn…but very little is critical, certainly none of it mentions his very dodgy friends and honoured citizens he applauds…..most is very positive and upbeat…
What is Jeremy Corbyn’s programme for government?
Where is Labour’s ‘Jeremy Corbyn mania’ coming from?
Labour risks ‘annihilation’ if Jeremy Corbyn is leader – Tony Blair
Jeremy Corbyn: It’s going extremely well
You may have thought that a man who seems to turn a blind eye to all of this ‘ the subjugation of women; the judicial murder of homosexuals in compliance with sharia law; the racism, most evident in its anti-Semitic conspiracy theories; the denial of democratic rights, the demand to create a global caliphate must bring; and the denial of religious freedom the sharia-prescribed death penalties for blasphemy and apostasy do bring with miserable regularity.’ would merit close inspection.
Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson were torn apart by the Leftwing media, BBC included, indeed the BBC leapt in to recruit LBC’s James O’Brien after his mendacious kangaroo court hatchet job on Farage, and Andrew Neil, of all people, shamed himself by trying to hammer Robinson with questions laid out by the Islamist Mehdi Hasan who thought the BBC was ‘going easy’ on Robinson.
It does seem that Jeremy Corbyn is untouchable…..and Owen Jones seems just as unconcerned as the BBC about Corbyn despite his proclaimed passion for equality and the rights of oohh just about everyone if there’s a book in it.
Cometh The Hour Cometh The Woman
Women on the Woman’s Hour “existence under censorship” guest list:
(1) Margot Parker MEP
(2) Julia Reid MEP
(3) Jane Collins MEP
(4) Louise Bours MEP
(5) Jill Seymour MEP
(6) Janice Atkinson MEP
(7) Diane James MEP
(8) others are Men, censored due to sexism at the BBC, which also covers all other Political Parties.
Obviously Owen Jones believes in the ‘all publicity is good publicity’ mantra, otherwise he would have given up on his 10th birthday. He is – as we have always known – politically and economically illiterate to the nth degree.
His father, a retired TV celebrity called Pob (http://www.theworldthroughwoodeneyes.co.uk/wpimages/Pob03.jpg), was renowned for spitting in peoples faces and talking gibberish until he realised that doing such things alienates the masses rather than endears them!
Is Owen Jones – at the tender age of 31 – ready for the onset of mental puberty?
Is he really 31? He still looks ten years old to me!
Owen “Pob” Jones.
I like that.
Ignore the annoying laughter. Watch Pob get “owned,” as the kids today say, by Andrew Neil…
”women why is that not the case in Westminster?” Have they forgotten Margaret Thatcher ?
A culture of revisionism has a funny habit of enabling such things.
“two being women and one being a far left, sorry, as corrected by a BBC presenter the other day, ‘left’ politician, Jeremy Corbyn?”
The BBC the other night described people of Corbyn’s beliefs to hold “the same left wing ideals as Corbyn” People equally as far to the right are routinely called “far right” or “right wing extremists”
Notice the subtle subliminal message there? Having had training in hypnosis and the use of “hypnotic” language, (insofar as certain phrases sound like one thing to the conscious mind, but leave another anchor in the sub-conscious mind), this use of “ideals” is clearly meant to leave the susceptible to become nudged into believing that left wing thought IS ideal, rather than a delusional idealism. In this way, the BBC is using subliminal programming upon their audience to nudge them to the left and accept Corbyn’s ideals.
“I could give you a dozen reasons why right-wing parties are winning elections everywhere here. But one ought to be obvious. Politically correct left-wingers say they believe in equality for women and gays. Everyone must agree with them apart from protected religious leaders, who can be as misogynist and homophobic as they please.
The voters look on with jaundiced eyes. They mutter that political correctness is a sham and the left is filled with the most brazen hypocrites. The worst of it is, they are right.”
BINGO!!!! It’s like the “third wave”modern feminists who have obviously never ever opened a dictionary in their lives, and have no comprehension of what the word “equality” means. Who also petition, lobby, campaign and protest to have lad magazines banned, but turn a blind eye to thousands of young white girls regularly being brutally gang-raped all over this land at the hands of Muslims. Like the “gay rights” militants who picket churches, but would never ever dare picket a Mosque. The are vile, bigoted, prejudiced cowards and hypocrites and they are embraced by the left.
I just think the BBC news is overdoing this Labour leadership circus. Yes Corbyn is interestingly dreadful & ridiculous, but every news programme on Radio 4 has led with the Labour party since the election & beyond. I’m just heartily fed up with it all!
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