It strikes me that the BBC are now fully paid up members of the Jeremy Corbyn fan club. His latest suggestion that if he becomes Leader he will apologise for the Iraqi war has the comrades in a paroxysm of pleasure. He is saying so many of the things the BBC approves of that I believe they are now repeating his propaganda on a daily basis with such frequency that it makes the prospect of his getting elected all the more likely. This is odd since they must know he is unelectable as PM but I suppose five years of hard left rhetoric and agenda setting pleases them?
CORBYNMANIA
Bookmark the permalink.
Corbyn’s victory will give the Trotskyists carte blanche to wind up every conceivable minority to assault the Tory establishment and to fight the cutz at every turn.
The BBC will then have enough material for a thousand interviews with the real opposition – street demonstrators and pickets.
The only fly in the ointment is the working class which won’t go left and because of the EU and immigration will travel further to the right.
This could lead to strife especially with Syriza in charge in Scotland.
If you think about it it’s great tactics by Corbyn. At a stroke he removes a whole load of the hatred and contempt for NuLab caused by the Iraq invasion. Or so he thinks. Torys should be asking him now to apologise for letting the EE economic migrants into the UK earlier than anyone who counts in Europe and thereby giving them a foothold in our munificent benefits system which enables them to work here for six months and get benefits and then go back home on holiday on (reduced) benefits for 6 months to broadcast the news of our munificent stupidity and encourage even more to come. Will Corbyn apologise for this, I wonder, or for the fact that mad Gordo bust our economy by paying just about everybody but me benefits?
Strife is just what the Corbynutters want!
Yes, I think we should not underestimate the hard left’s explicit encouragement of strife and turmoil in society in order to achieve power by ‘stepping over the corpses’.
Many of us saw this ruthless opportunism in action in the 60’s and 70’s when relatively tiny sections of the population were deployed effectively in campaigns to create a disrupted society – there was real hope of a socialist revolution on the back of street anarchy at that time.
After brief resurgences of this dream in the intervening decades, we are now seeing the ‘invisible rainbow’ coalition of the hard left being activated big-time. The infiltrated Labour Party leadership vote is the biggest act of domestic disruption to due political process we have seen for decades (leaving out the Lutfur Rahman ethnic saga which appears to be simply a case of massive corruption, although typically, supported by prominent figures of the traditional left). It must have been planned at least as far back as the introduction of the ‘supporter’ rule, and is about as spontaneous as the blitzkrieg on Poland.
The BBC’s role in this is ridiculous, the flotsam on a sea of sewage. Their effete apparatus would be the first to be swept away in any revolution they witlessly encouraged. Their kind of ‘sophisticated’ reasoning would not be tolerated by Mr Corbyn’s backers, and if they knew what was good for them, they would be back-pedalling furiously to try and undo some of the damage they have been allowed to do.
As for the civil service, who are the true masters of the BBC, much more than the hapless Cameron and his ‘government’, they too should be wary of what they plot and plan behind closed doors. They may well believe they are fighting for their own masters, the European direktorat, but there is no real evidence that Brussels has any more idea of what is happening here, beyond their obsession with an already-lost battle for the Euro and political union.
An apology from Blair would be something, but what would an apology from Corbyn mean other than just a soundbite?
It might well mean something to former NuLab supporters. The chances of an apology from Blair are as likely as the success of foraging for organic rose fertiliser from rocking horses!
No. It’s cheap and risible. No loss to him with (it would seem) some perceived gains with the ‘core’.
Any credible news medium would call it for what it is.
Newsnight have become the de facto Jeremy Corbyn Propaganda Hour on BBC2 every night. I’m still reeling from the rank idiocy that saw the ‘flagship’ current affairs news programme lead off with more Corbynmania on the same day a terrorist bomb killed 20 and injured over a hundred more in Bangkok.
Newsnight is a total joke – and a clearly politically compromised project. During the GE it was dedicated to getting Red Ed into power and when that so spectacularly failed in the face of a Tory triumph, the programme embarked on an agenda of wilfully ignoring the government of the day in favour of endlessly covering the travails of its preferred political party.
This insult to balance and impartiality needs putting out of our misery. Evan Davis and Squawk should be ashamed to consider themselves ‘journalists’: they are nothing less than spokespeople for the Labour Party.
Obiwan
Although not a tory myself as the word has no meaning now, I still remember with joy how the Newsnight presenters expectations of a Labour victory gradually changed from smugness to absolute shock as they saw what was unfolding before their eyes, and to see Miliband being whisked to his count absolutely gutted knowing he had lost was quite frankly the icing on the cake.
These moments don’t come frequently for us on the ‘right’ so remember them for posterity and often so that the mists of time don’t fade the glorious memories of the BBC ‘getting it up’em’!
Clearly Corbyn is going to be normalized by the BBC et al.
The Guardian was the first paper to normalize the IRA with a disgusting article that was apologist for every atrocity they carried out some several years ago, now we see Adams and McGuinness treated as politicians yet we all know they were responsible for brutal killings.
Corbyn will be allowed to justify his relationship with various odious creatures around the world and the BBC will back him up.
It is so easy to do this when you control the narrative. Nelson Mandela who was correctly imprisoned as a terrorist is a prime example of how the process works, try and criticize him and see where you get! a little propaganda, a slight adjustment of history, a little time lapse and people come round to the new ‘centre ground’ which has been so carefully and thoughtfully prepared for them behind the closed doors of our media elites.
Jerry, it’s all a part of how the left liberal fascisti go about ‘revisionist’ history. The BBC, naturally, is a repeat offender – it regularly tampers with historical facts to provide what it calls ‘context’ (aka: revising the facts to suit the narrative). Orwell was right.
Newsnight was at it again the other evening with its p*sspoor coverage of the Battle of Britain. It’s insulting and deliberately misleading, but most of all it’s morally indefensible.
I think it took a while for those at the Beeb to know which Labour candidate they wanted as leader, especially with two women standing. Now we know that far left outweighs a female. I am sure most of these metropolitan Lefties would be horrified if Corbynism came to pass. But listening to news readers now on Radio 4, every report about Jeremy comes with excitement in their voice.
Why do they want Jeremy? I think it is in the same way that they play at being Socialist. They think socialism is a nice thing to be, but it won’t change their lives. Perhaps they think inside that Corbyn will be replaced before the next GE and so they can agree with all the outrageous stuff he says.
However I despaired the other day when a couple of friends agreed with their lefty daughter, that renationalising the railways would be a good thing.
You need to ask your friends’ daughter why the numbers of passengers on the railways has doubled since 1995 and railfreight is achieving increasing ton miles.
Do they really think that would have happened if the railways had remained nationalised?
Of course the railways are nationalised, what is private is the rolling stock and companies that actually run the services.
It can sometime serve to remember why privatisation came about – to reduce the amount of subsidy the government had to put in. Companies quote what they want, or would pay, to provide a stated service level.
Where the companies have made their money is by putting the extra bums on seats, because costs of running trains are relatively fixed so every extra seat that pays something goes to the bottom line.
We do not object to that “Ryanair” principle for making money on airlines .
I also presume their daughter is not old enough to actually remember the wonder that was BR. Perhaps just like many young people seem to be supporting Corbyn – they have never lied through the joy of the nirvana we lived in pre-MT!
Network Rail have just been fined £2m by the regulator for their latest cock up; failing to properly plan the rebuilding of London Bridge Station and provide reasonable rail services.
As Network Rail is already nationalised, the fine, as one influential commentator – Nigel Harris, this week put it, has the effect of wheeling a wheelbarrow full of money from one office in the treasury to another.
Had Network Rail been a private company the Directors would be looking at the effect on their bottom line and the shareholders would be on their back, demanding that such embarrassment never happens again.
Private companies are by no means perfect…but they largely understand about the thing called ‘consequences’, something that doesn’t concentrate the mind of our friends in much of the public sector – including (or especially) the BBC.
Thanks Mallard, I was so stunned at the parents I don’t think my arguments were well put. Theirs were the argument that lots of different companies mean different priced tickets for the same journey. As I write this I realise I should have asked whether the supermarkets should be nationalised for the same reason.
Don`t worry , nationalisation , won`t happen , State substitation of private industries , & public ownership is illegal under EU rules . That`s why Lloyds had to bring back TSB, & RBS are bringing back Williams & Glyns . Sir Richard Branson will also speak, & the Conservatives will make any takeover very costly in the franchise small print . I travel on Virgin EC , & it is better now than before , & the old EC was well run , but Virgin , knows how to run Transport , be it planes & trains.
The story to which DV links has changed completely now and is titled “Labour leadership: Andy Burnham raises Tory infiltration fears”. Thus leaving my earlier comment that there was an awful lot Labour should apologise for look completely off topic. Could it be they realised they were concentrating too much on Corbyn?
‘The story to which DV links has changed completely now and is titled..
The BBC’s revisionsim is getting out of hand.
They do it even with in progress HYS’s, changing stuff people are commenting on so it no longer exists.
It is just one of too many bent ‘uniques’ they practice.
Just followed the B Bc’s lead and voted for JC ,along with his worst enemies for deputy leader and the COMPLETELY unelectable David L ammy (with Flabbott as no.2) for London Mayor.
Hahahahahahaha.
No fooking chance .
Even if they did get an inkling of power , it would kick things off nicely.
About time the Leftards found out what the majority really think .
The Anglo-Saxons always need a crisis to really get going(ref. Kipling).
If we’re going down , let’s do it fighting .
We voted democratically against Brand and Corbyn types of student politics a few months back.
The Bob Crow Tributaries-the Old Leftovers-can squauk and threaten all they like…all they have is the public sector monkeys to drill, and there`ll be an end to their nonsense in due course.
As we saw on May 9th-the Russell Brand wannabes can spit ans sneer all they like at the gates of Downing Street-the people have spoken-the likes of Corbyn are well-known to us all, and they`ll not be getting any levers of power in my lifetime.
Impotent gloomy fascists…I met them all in the 70s/80s…and we`ll be fighting back if they dare to subvert the country after the election result.
Corbyn is unelectable-the Paedos party-so no wander they want to give kiddies the vote.
I don’t suppose anyone at the BBC asked Corbyn what would be gained by apologising and indeed to whom?
Would it restore British influence in the Middle East? The evidence from Obama’s famous apology in Cairo would be that it would not. Our putative Arab allies in the Iraq war: Kuwait and the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria (which arguably no longer exists) and even Morocco will see it as a betrayal and a further push towards nuclear proliferation. Our declared enemies, Iran, Daesh and assorted Islamic groups linked to them will see it as a sign of Western weakness and a spur for aggression.
What about the Iraqi people? Once again which Iraqi people? The Kurds whom it could be argued have managed to strengthen a democratic, relatively successful state? Or the Sunni who were removed from the power they held under Hussein and subject to Shia revenge? Or the Shiites who gained power by democratic means and then proceeded to squander it?
Perhaps the apology should be to Saddam Hussein, posthumously, of course. Hussein was a swell guy! In retrospect what do mass graves, terrorist support, invasion of Kuwait, attack against Iran, chemical weapons and mass murder, assassination attempt against President Qasim, coup d’etat against Abdul Rahman Arif, execution of hundreds of his own Ba’ath Party or imprisonment and torture to maintain his dictatorship … etc, matter?
No one at the BBC has ever asked Corbyn what would have happened if the Gulf Wars hadn’t happened. Does Corbyn really believe that Iraq was a peaceful paradise before the wars?
Isn`t this what the Left are all about?
Remember when they had principles…ideas…could nick Beveridges ideas and claim them as their own?
At least the likes of Healey, Callaghan HAD seen war…HAD done a job for a living!
And THIS is what we`re reduced to…the warm nappy brandished and waved around as policy…not even the guts to risk waving a shroud this week!
Sentiment is emotion without consequences…a warm nappy without even a sign of policy to show they`d been busy on a potty!
Which is why the BBC approve-content free flatus c/o Corby.
He will be the new Gorby…will lead his Party into oblivion…suits me!