Brown threatened to destroy Murdoch when The Sun saw the light…what will Corbyn do to the BBC if he gains power as the comrades in arms fall out?….
Labour complains to BBC over Stephen Doughty resignation
Labour has made an official complaint to the BBC after a shadow minister resigned live on one of its programmes.
MP Stephen Doughty quit the party’s foreign affairs brief live on BBC Two’s The Daily Politics as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was reshuffling his team.
The party has accused the BBC of orchestrating his resignation to ensure maximum “political impact”.
Labour has now complained that the live resignation was an “unacceptable breach of the BBC’s role and statutory obligations”, saying Mr Corbyn had not been told about his resignation in advance.
“By the BBC’s own account, BBC journalists and presenters proposed and secured the resignation of a shadow minister on air in the immediate run-up to Prime Minister’s Questions, apparently to ensure maximum news and political impact,” a party spokesman said.
“That was evidently done before any notice of resignation was sent to the Labour leader.
“Such orchestration of political controversy is an unacceptable breach of the BBC’s role and statutory obligations.”
This all reminds me of my university days. How joyous it was back then watching the various political factions involved in student politics trying to out left wing each other. The hissiest of fits always occurred when someone had their own bullshit thrown back in their faces. Whilst the little reds in the Students’ Union were climbing over each other to lead the fight against apartheid, cruise missiles, ozone depletion etc etc, all of the infrastructure they had actually been given responsibility for (student bar, dining hall etc) was falling apart around their infantile little ears.
Nothing seems to change for the few idiots that eventually run out of courses to keep them at college,
“run out of courses to keep them at college”
…..before getting (made up) jobs in the public sector, and lecturing everybody about how important (how moral) it is to raise taxes to pay for their (gravy train) jobs.
“Such orchestration of political controversy is an unacceptable breach of the BBC’s role and statutory obligations.”
Strange how the non-observance of, and repeated non-adherence to, the Charter “Obligations” in 99.9999% of the known universe are overlooked.
Perhaps the clue is in the “unacceptable”. Breaches are acceptable, even desirable, even compulsory, providing they have been approved, in advance, by Labour Party HQ.
We live in times of unparalleled self-delusion.
The mass-murdering Muzzies, who are the dregs of the planet, consider themselves the exalted of the earth.
The mass-murdering Lefties, who are also the dregs of the planet, but with a briefer historical record of
extreme nastiness than the Muzzies, also consider themselves the exalted of the earth.
I just commented on the Open Thread about this, without having first seen this specific thread.
At one level the BBC should be orchestrating such events, whether it is Cliff Richard related or Doughty resignation related. The BBC in its current capacity shouldn’t be engaging in this kind of activity, and if Sky had done it would have led the calls for punishment.
Having said that, it is fun to see the left up in arms. Calls for boycotting the BBC and all sorts on my Twitter timeline!
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/inference.html
‘The BBC’s Editor of Live Political Programmes, Robbie Gibb says there was nowt wrong with the way the Daily Politics managed the revelation of Labour shadow minister Stephen Doughty’s resignation – though he acknowledges that the story of how it was done should have been kept within the BBC’
Nothing wrong… but still best kept their little secret on how.
Got it.
As is my reaction when the words ‘BBC’ and ‘Trust’ are in any way associated.
http://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/debate-at-guardian-about-bbc-and.html
‘So that people know – and this report doesn’t mention it – the BBC requires all of us involved in making programmes to sign up to the Trust Agenda, as it’s known’
GW
There was a Bolshevik organisation called the Trust in the 1920s.
Its staff pretended to be anti Bolsheviks working for a Romanov restoration.
Genuine Monarchists were persuaded to part with funds and undergo “training”.
The most able of the trainees were sent into the USSR, ostensibly to foment a counter-revolution, where they were immediately murdered.
Marxists cannot be trusted anytime or anywhere.
Ah Michael Rosen, who said of Christopher Hitchens
“I admired him because he seemed to have arrived at this pure leftness, pure Marxism by dint of intellectual effort. I arrived at it because I hadn’t, I thought, worked very hard to do anything else.”
No wonder Rosen went to work for the BBC.