Poor little Ali Khan, aged 6, and a half. The BBC found the poor young lad sobbing inconsolably in an East London street not far from their office from which they run ‘TellAuntie’, a goto service for Muslims who feel hard done by in life and want to blame it on the Kufar. The BBC is happy to oblige….a butterfly flaps its wings in far off Japan and the effects on a Muslim in East London can be terrible…disenchantment, disadvantage, disengagement, disaffection..terrible, terrible effects…but the BBC is there to gather the evidence, analyse it and then conclude that Muslims are under siege and that they must be allowed to live their lives as Muslims free from the liberal oppression that stops them following their religious teachings on Jews, Women and non-believers.
What of poor little Ali? Oh, that was Brexit that made him cry. A trip to the sweet shop with delighted expectations only to have them dashed by the harsh reality of Brexit’s economic downturn. He went in happy knowing he had the pennies to buy some chews only to come out empty handed and disappointed as the plunging Pound meant his favourite sweets were now out of reach, beyond his meagre means. The Brexiteers have betrayed the young. The bastards.
Still its not only young Ali Khan that is suffering….Barclays is too. Earlier Lloyds announced they were shutting up shop and the BBC began the day saying this was a result of changing consumer practices and an efficiency drive by Lloyds with a warning that maybe Brexit might have an effect in the future…that morphed later in the day into a singular story that Lloyds was closing down its operations because of Brexit.
Barclays was reported as also suffering from Brexit...the BBC again deciding that Brexit was the main subject of debate in its report…it starts with a quick nod towards the real reasons Barclays’ profits fell and then gets on to what the BBC want to talk about….
Commenting on the impact of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, Jes Staley, who became chief executive last year, said he had no plans to alter the bank’s strategy of selling parts of the business and strengthening its retail and investment banking operations.
He said: “We remain confident that it is the right plan for Barclays, and see no reason to adjust it, or the pace of delivery, in light of the vote by the UK last month to exit the EU.”
However, the bank set out a number of risks it now faces, which include possible changes to “passporting” rights that allows the bank to operate across the EU.
It also it faces uncertainty over whether there will be any changes to freedom of employee movement, which would “impact Barclays’ access to the EU talent pool” as well as “decisions on hiring from the EU of critical roles”.
I like this ‘analysis’ by the BBC…..it has trawled the ‘small print’ and made its own intepretation to suit:
Analysis: Dominic O’Connell, BBC Today business presenter
While Jes Staley did not make the blunt Brexit warning made yesterday by his opposite number of Lloyds Banking Group, Antonio Horta Orsorio, the fine print of the Barclays statement makes plain its concerns.
Trouble is back in April the BBC was reporting this…
Barclays profits drop by a quarter
Barclays has reported a 25% drop in profits for the first quarter of the year, dragged down by the performance of divisions it plans to sell off.
Barclays warned last month that its first quarter would be weaker than last year due to turbulent market conditions and a “particularly strong” March 2015.
Similarly the BBC is reporting that Foxton’s have been losing money due to Brexit and the London housing market plunging….
Foxtons estate agency profits tumble amid Brexit vote
High-profile London estate agency Foxtons has announced a 42% fall in profits, blaming uncertainty around the EU referendum for the fall.
After the sensationalised headline its only half way down the report that you start to get the qualifications and get outs…all is not half as bad as the BBC’s headline suggests…and Brexit is by no means the main culprit.
Trouble is…last June, 2015, the BBC were reporting this:
Central London house prices fall ‘by up to 22%’ – report
House prices in the smartest parts of London have fallen by up to 22% since last Autumn, according to the property services group LSL.
In Westminster it claimed there had been a fall of 22% between a peak in November and the end of May.
It blamed the fall on the new stamp duty regime, introduced in December, which penalises expensive properties.
As we have noted before the BBC has a tendency to isolate the UK economy and to associate any downturn with Brexit completely ignoring that fact that the US economy is pretty much mirroring ours…and yet they have no Brexit…here’s the latest from over there….
US GDP growth misses forecasts despite spending surge
The US economy grew at a much slower pace than expected in the second quarter and GDP was revised down in the first three months of the year.
The world’s largest economy grew at an annual rate of 1.2% in the three months to June, far below forecasts of 2.6%,
Growth for the first quarter was revised down from 1.1% to 0.8%.
If you want a far more balanced look at the UK post Brexit you couldn’t go far wrong by looking at the Spectator’s editorial:
The post-Brexit economy is more open than ever
It is dawning on all but the most stubborn Remainers that the world still wants to do business with the UK
Since the referendum, these anticipations of doom have continued. It is rather strange to watch. Encouraging economic news — the increase in high-street spending, the buoyant demand for jobs through recruitment agencies — is brushed aside. But the surveys about sentiment, which are more negative, are being seized upon as proof of the Remain side being right all along. The Brexit vote might have passed, but the debate goes on: its advocates looking for signs of optimism, and its opponents muttering about ‘hard Brexit’ and almost willing economic collapse.
Far from retreating into isolation, the UK economy now looks more open than ever. It is gradually dawning on all but the most stubborn in the Remain camp that the world still wants to do business with an independent UK — and that, freed from having to tag along with EU trade deals, this country is now able to negotiate mutually favourable arrangements with fast-growing economies such as India and China. Meanwhile, the EU’s problems continue. Standard and Poor’s, one of the world’s top credit ratings agencies, warned recently that the EU is ‘unsustainable in its current form’.
This is precisely the concern that persuaded 52 per cent of Brits that our long-term future is best served outside the EU.
Brexit is neither an economic drag nor a stimulus: it is simply the removal of a constraint. What Britain now goes on to achieve depends entirely on the vision and ambition of those in power. Politicians and businesses should snap out of their sulk, and see Brexit for what it is: the greatest opportunity ever handed to a government by an electorate.
Confidence in business is all…it leads to investment, new jobs, training and a vigour to succeed…the BBC does everything it can to undermine that confidence in the UK as it paints a picture of doom and gloom, a picture of a UK destined to be an economic basketcase left on the sidelines of history. The BBC’s narrative is one that does enormous damage to the UK just as its pro-Islamic terrorist, anti-Israel, anti-Western, anti-the Union, pro-mass immigration narratives create a future that can only be one of conflict and destruction as nation states are broken up and mini-states arise governed by whoever is the strongest. The BBC’s naive ‘good intentions’ lead to a Europe that descends into the hell of Somalia run by warlords and religious fanatics.
The government’s own predictions suggest that is a case scenario that is highly likely as immigration destroys homogentiy, loyalty, trust, co-operation and the rule of law.
The best course of action for peace and economic stability would be to close down the BBC and sack all those naive simpletons who work there.
Just to add to the mix, the BBC TV news this morning had a long piece on ‘modern slavery’ and an interview criticising the uk record with a barrister who no doubt will profit greatly if more cases are brought before the courts. Ok, so Theresa May introduced some legislation on slavery a year ago. But as ever we dance around the issue and ignore inconvenient facts. How many white British keep slaves? Why is slavery condoned by radical Muslim imams such as the one in Cardiff? Why have so many slave keeping Nigerians and other west africans been let into the uk? Were they asylum seekers ? Were their claims really genuine ? Why don’t we get rid of eastern European people traffickers more effectively?
It all comes down to Islam and mass immigration . The two great issues of our time that politicians will not confront honestly and effectively. Meanwhile the BBCs lies and obfuscation continue .
Did al-Beeb mention the economic slavery of the licence fee, the threats, the intimidation etc. where instead of being whipped slaves are dragged through the courts?
the Sunday Express today has an article claiming that what are referred to as bbc Licence dodgers have cost the bbc £283 million. The article doesn’t go into any detail about how many of these dodgers are like me and don’t have a licence because I don’t watch live TV. The aim of the article appears to be to show how effective is the bbc in catching people without a licence and frightening the rest of us into getting one. I wonder if this was a propaganda piece planted in the Express by the bbc.
John do you know what is legal to watch without a license, e.g. catch-up online / iplayer?
Please tell us so more can stop paying extortionist license fee.
We must stop funding that grotesque organisation.
The BBC’s latest swindle is that you must have a TV licence to watch BBC iPlayer. Even if you’re watching shows that were broadcast last week, if you’re watching on iPlayer, you need a licence. How the BBC can get away with this fraud I simply do not know.
They get away with it because the government are spineless scum, and let them do it.
£283 million – that would have paid Dimbleby’s salary!
One or both?
Hmmmm. not so sure on that. The BBC are actually hiding the fact that nobody really wants to pay the BBC TV license fee. It was one of the ‘agreed’ outcomes of the BBC Charter Review that they should ‘do more’ under a subscription model of broadcasting (pay-per-view content). The BBC don’t like ‘pay TV’ and so had to agree to include ‘BBC iPlayer’ in its TV license fee. Its an obvious thing to do but its not going to be popular with students and UK visitors who only have a mobile or a laptop. Plus the fact that BBC prosecutions normally involve single mothers on benefits in Wales and England (not ironically in Scotland for legal reasons they get off with a warning).. The BBC know they are unlikely to get £283 million (but it makes them look as if they are doing something). Its peanuts for the BBC..
This was reported yesterday:
‘For the BBC, TV license fee dodging is OK – as long as your your Scottish!
‘English and Welsh viewers are three times more likely to be prosecuted or fined for dodging the TV license fee than those in Scotland.
1. Fee dodgers north of the border get a much easier ride according to figures
2. Just 15 people in the whole of Scotland were taken to court over TV license
3. It’s compared to 173,966 fee evaders in England and 15,383 people in Wales
‘Just 15 people in the whole of Scotland were taken to court after dodging the television license. And 4,868 people were fined for their failure to pay the charge, in a so-called ‘out of court disposal’. There is no evidence to suggest that the Scots are more likely to pay the television license. Instead, Scots are more likely to get off the hook because the way the Scottish justice system is set up means that it is more lenient on people who are guilty of minor crimes.
Many license fee evaders are invited to pay a£75 charge for an ‘out of court disposal’ – a system which was introduced to keep petty offenses out of courts.’
….’Under UK law, anyone who watches television or who watches BBC programmes online at the same time as they are broadcast is obliged to pay the £145.50 a year charge. ….Failure to do so is a criminal offence, and can lead to a £1,000 fine or a jail sentence … Caroline Levesque Bartlett, a campaigner who runs a petition to scrap the television license fee, said: ‘I wish England and Wales would follow the more progressive approach of Scotland. It is ridiculous that, in the 70 years that the TV license has existed, no one has come up with a better and fairer idea.’….’She added that the BBC has been alerted to the difference in the way men and the women are treated by the current system, but has refused to change the set up’
‘Has it changed a thing since?
No, because it is a dinosaur incapable of compassion, introspection or change,’ she said.’
A BBC spokesman said: (quoted by Daily Mail July 30th) ;The majority of first time offenders are not prosecuted [in court]. An independent review of license fee enforcement [?] said the system is broadly fair and proportionate’.* We know otherwise, eh readers?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3715570/English-Welsh-viewers-three-times-likely-prosecuted-fined-dodging-TV-licence-fee-Scotland.html?ITO=1490
As usual, Brendan O’Neill states it perceptively:
“But perhaps the worst thing about the post-truth notion is the way it redefines politics. It makes politics like religion. Remainers, these complainers about post-truth politics, self-consciously elevate their worldview to the level of a transcendental truth. So anyone who criticises them is not simply disagreeing — he’s post-truth, he’s against the truth. This is the cry of the religious, not the political.”
Well worth reading:
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/after-brexit-the-myth-of-post-truth-politics/18554#.V53bZLiLTIV
Thanks
And more worth reading stuff
The New French Terror
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/the_new_french_terror.html
If i was to bet on any EU country undergoing a coup I would bank on France. The conditions look right and as the situation worsens and the politicians look useless it might be inevitable.
But this being France it would not look like a coup.
DaveS,
The French military may just do it. What would De Gaulle make of all this crap ?
NCBBC – Excellent article thanks. To develop the theme a bit, Nature abhors a spiritual vacuum. A culture like modern France, based on empty consumerism and emptier secularism, will invite ‘filling’ by an ideology ‘full of passionate intensity’ while ‘the best lack all conviction’, to quote Yeats (below). Unfortunately the ideas in the article won’t get much traction in our secular age.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Journalist cuts at the BBC makes better quiz prizes
Brexit will lead to many highly qualified BBC journalists being layed off.
One can hope.
NCBCC,
‘many highly qualified’.
Qualified in what!!!
Qualified is such a meaningless term. If the BBC only employ qualified people without principle. Let’s employ principled people without qualifications.
Now that would both save money, and provide us with a better informed broadcaster with a sense of impartiality and balance.
I should have wrote this as ” highly qualified” BBC journalists.
Apologies.
Jihad comes to the Church.
The Open Doors charity estimates that 7,000 Christians were killed in the year to October 2015 for faith-related reasons. They estimate that 2,400 churches were attacked or damaged. They state that “Islamic extremism is by far the most common driver of persecution.” His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, released a statement this week in which he talked about the “exponential rise in attacks against Christians and Christian property in recent months.” He described “a growing trend towards the direct targeting of priests and their families.” Regular Islamic attacks on churches and Christians are not new in Egypt or indeed in many other countries.
http://www.christianconcern.com/our-concerns/international-persecution/jihad-comes-to-church?utm_source=Christian+Concern&utm_campaign=8cafea4c5a-WN-2016-07-29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9e164371ca-8cafea4c5a-127361469
Its already happening in London and Birmingham, but the media and the police hide it. Just as they hid the rapes of thousands of girls in Rotherham. Of course this is just in Rotherham. The figure is more likely in the region of 30,000 for the country.
This will never be broadcast on the BBC.
OK. Not really this link, BUT: https://www.rt.com/news/354042-turkish-police-incirlik-nato-coup/ No reports either here or other MSM today……. Only online organisations…… Or Pakistan defence….. http://defence.pk/threads/reports-turkish-troops-have-sealed-off-incirlik-us-nato-nuclear-air-base.442010/
Lets hope all this escalates and Turkey leaves NATO.
Then we can sit and watch as Russia makes plans.
But first, Cyprus needs to be liberated from the Islamic yoke.
I find that it’s left-wing scum like this filth’s fb page that are the root problem of the treachery you get in the west… they think they are clever but in reality they are mindless and craven sheep. Just take a look at the ‘about’ section on his page and you’ll get an example of twisted reasoning of the typical lefty brat.
https://www.facebook.com/JJDO6/info/?entry_point=page_nav_about_item&tab=page_info
The deranged rantings of a self righteous left wing asshole
I can think if a few who might like it
Can you guess who? 😉
Art thee accusing me of being anoth’r fop? How couldst thee speaketh so of me, at which hour I beest a sir of gentle heart and honest bethought?
16 years of child abuse in Rotherham over 1400 victims only 5 convictions. Neglect.
Mackers – Rape, grooming, paedophilia, forced prostitution ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE, and where’s the explosion of indignation? Where are the feminists and leftists marching in the streets?
Nobel scientist Tim Hunt makes slightly off-colour (un-P.C.) joke about girls in science and he’s hounded out of his job by lynchmob at beeb/Grauniad (same thing).
Dutch comedian makes fun of Islam. Can you imagine a single one of our fearless, ‘radical’ so-called alternative stand-ups doing the same, and can you imagine Al-beeb showing it? Me neither.
I wonder if he’s still alive.
peter,
They wouldn’t want to do it because they all support the evil of Islam. Even if somebody wanted to they would not have the guts. Leftie comedians are just a bunch of spineless pricks.
Far safer to make jokes about a dead woman who was Prime Minister 30 years ago.
Brave lad…Holland is a few years back from us in terms of securing its people-and a few years forward in putting a Wilders on trial, or murdering a Van Gogh or a Fortuyn.
Didn`t see the audience clapping, laughing or cheering either-can only imagine that lives would be at risk if they were spotted on screen, as opposed to prurient churchy types and bearded blokes who seemed to be biding their time..
And no- this is a funny format and could work well-as opposed to Dutch crap over BB for example…but could you imagine ANYBODY in BBC Lovelyland who would do it?…course not.
The bottom line is people want an easy life don’t want to argue let the Muslims change are laws, animal rights (halal), death to homosexuals. Now killing us still no fight. Pc world has made some of us as Putin says half men. I say make the muslims follow are successful laws and democracy or leave.