Total comedy on the TOADY programme this morning. Mishal (8.11am Radio 4) is wringing her hands on behalf of poor Easter European truck drivers (poor British truck drivers are not included) who have to live in their cabs or empty trailers. As do British drivers but no questions asked about them.
Previously on the TOADY programme: driverless cars get too much attention, driverless cars are bad. We need driverless other vehicles, tractors, buses and … er …. I guess, trucks. Oh dear. The Producer and Editors of the TOADY programme appear to have taken their eye off the ball today. Completely. Perhaps they were in the BBC Canteen on another rest break?
They are now reporting how an Eastern European driver, Emelian, is cooking a fresh, healthy meal in his cab outside an IKEA shop. He could eat processed IKEA food in the restaurant (not mentioned by the BBC journalist) but for some strange reason – trying out a BBC recipe, perhaps, or wishing to eat ethnic food – he has chosen to cook fresh food. Now we are told it so sad, so so sad that the driver is making a choice. Saving some money, perhaps? Living and eating as they like? No, they are underpaid. Retailers are cheapskates. They are paying poverty wages. Wages should go up. Retailers prices should go up. We should all pay more.
Especially for the BBC Licence Fee? Is that what this is about?
And the EU?
(It is also, apparently, a plug for the Victoria Derbyshire programme.)
Tomorrow or later in the week on the BBC – ‘How trucks are polluting our cities and that they are not being properly maintained to make them less polluting despite the employers not paying the drivers enough’. William Hill (other bookmakers are available) may be offering odds on that happening.
A few days ago the BBC was reporting that Toyota was reconsidering its presence in the UK due to Brexit. In fact the BBC continually warn us that WTO rules with 3-10 per cent tariffs will threaten the future of the largely foreign owned UK car assembly industry . Today, Toyota has announced a £240 m investment at its assembly plant near Derby. More humble pie for tbe BBC view of our economic future outside the EU.
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Total comedy on the TOADY programme this morning. Mishal (8.11am Radio 4) is wringing her hands on behalf of poor Easter European truck drivers (poor British truck drivers are not included) who have to live in their cabs or empty trailers. As do British drivers but no questions asked about them.
Previously on the TOADY programme: driverless cars get too much attention, driverless cars are bad. We need driverless other vehicles, tractors, buses and … er …. I guess, trucks. Oh dear. The Producer and Editors of the TOADY programme appear to have taken their eye off the ball today. Completely. Perhaps they were in the BBC Canteen on another rest break?
They are now reporting how an Eastern European driver, Emelian, is cooking a fresh, healthy meal in his cab outside an IKEA shop. He could eat processed IKEA food in the restaurant (not mentioned by the BBC journalist) but for some strange reason – trying out a BBC recipe, perhaps, or wishing to eat ethnic food – he has chosen to cook fresh food. Now we are told it so sad, so so sad that the driver is making a choice. Saving some money, perhaps? Living and eating as they like? No, they are underpaid. Retailers are cheapskates. They are paying poverty wages. Wages should go up. Retailers prices should go up. We should all pay more.
Especially for the BBC Licence Fee? Is that what this is about?
And the EU?
(It is also, apparently, a plug for the Victoria Derbyshire programme.)
Tomorrow or later in the week on the BBC – ‘How trucks are polluting our cities and that they are not being properly maintained to make them less polluting despite the employers not paying the drivers enough’. William Hill (other bookmakers are available) may be offering odds on that happening.
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TODAY now ‘biggin’ up’ the Russian Czar, Lenin, Stalin and Putin. That evil Czar! His legacy is being ignored.
Life is truly terrible.
Now, apparently, we are in danger of Romanticisation.
EEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkk!
I wonder if Romanticisation will be a greater evil than Populism?
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Snuff,
The Romanticisation of Castro was perfectly acceptable though wasn’t it?
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Good spot, Lucy. Yes. Wonder if that will lead to some more revisioning at the BBC. Used to be an insult, once upon a time. Revisionist!
Tongue wedged firmly in cheek, I feel obliged to ask whether Populism will, one day, go the way of Revisionism?
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Revised figures on the numbers of those flooding into Europe. January 2017 alone – >67,000 –
http://www.newobserveronline.com/61697-invaders-landed-europe-january-2017/
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I saw this covered on the main Sky News Channel this morning. I had to dig for it to find the BBC report.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-39275581
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A few days ago the BBC was reporting that Toyota was reconsidering its presence in the UK due to Brexit. In fact the BBC continually warn us that WTO rules with 3-10 per cent tariffs will threaten the future of the largely foreign owned UK car assembly industry . Today, Toyota has announced a £240 m investment at its assembly plant near Derby. More humble pie for tbe BBC view of our economic future outside the EU.
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England,
The BBC do not do Business or Economics . The BBC is purely for propaganda and Fake News.
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