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Dipping in and out of the Eurovision shytefest, there seems to be a lot of countries singing in English. They probably didn’t get Junker’s memo stating that English usage is losing importance in Europe and his speeches would now be in French.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/801703/Jean-Claude-Juncker-European-Union-Brexit-news-colleagues-offer-opinions
French language would have died out 70 years ago if it were not for great British sacrifice, Le Twats.
They’ll be speaking Arabic or Urdu in about 20 years the way things are going, Manxie.
Many of the Eurovision song lyrics have been gibberish anyway. Who can forget Lulu’s ‘Boom bang-a-bang-bang’ in 1969 and Spain’s 1968 winner, ‘La La La’?
Monty Python’s spoof Euro entry was:
‘Bing tiddle tiddle BANG
Bung tiddle tiddle bang
Bung tiddle tiddle tiddle tiddle
Bung tiddle tiddle BONG….’ (and more in the same vein)
A sure-fire winner in today’s sub-standard pop world, I think.
(You can listen on You-tube if you type in ‘Monty Python Europolice Song Contest’. The policemen song comes up first, then a Eurovision-style multilingual introduction and the ‘Bing’ song.)
Winner sang in English
pq todo mundo nao fala portugues, malandro.
What Saturday is not complete without a bit of Katty ‘reporting’
No coverage of the huge Justice for Chelsey event from BBC News or Sky News, or indeed ITV … media blackout?
but room for this eh BBC “Flying Scotsman passes through Berwick today”
Don t worry kids, tune in to The Big Questions on Al BBC 1 tomorrow.
after all the free speech erosion, and NO right not to be offended,
Al BBC asks
Do we have a right not to be offended? – I just wonder if the permanently offended will be on show?.
Is death easier if you believe in God? – Allah Acbar to that eh! Al BBC?
scrap the BBC
No choice for the progressive media but to ignore it. The alternative is to have to confront a reality and that the BBC will never do now.
May I congratulate you all in continuing our fight against the Biased BBC Beast.
Are we winning? I don’t know. Should we fight on?
Yes.
Make Britain Great Again TV? …. ooooooh yea!
Does anyone else think this Chelsey campaign is what got him arrested the other day rather than the official charge of filming defendants in court case, something the BBC have done for as long as I remember?
It’s the little things…
I don’t get to listen to daytime Five Live much, and thankfully not Emma Barnett, yet another from the biased Salford stable, but yesterday she was taking a pot shot at the PM, inviting callers (or texters – texters are much more preferable, you can control their contribution…if you make the mistake of putting callers on air there is the danger that they might possibly go off the BBC message) to give her a kicking.
Where was I? Oh yes! The narrative was that Mrs May was a cold fish and that she was out an about, on the ‘One Show’ and LBC, trying to give the impression that in reality she was warm, cuddly and ‘gooey’. Well done Emma!
Then she read a text from a listener who offered the thought, ‘how could May, be nice and gooey, when she is supports foxhunting?’ ‘QUITE!’ was Barnett’s response.
That’s right Emma, tell the public what you think. ‘Another beauty’ down the impartiality hole.
(This BTW hard on the heels of last week when the controversial Harrabin accused the Government of ‘Shilly shallying’ on an environmental issue and ‘Having form for doing so’. Even if he is right, it is not for a BBC employee to say so. A guest might offer that view but only with the government given the right to reply)
Friday’s Jeremy Vine Show on this subject contained the ‘laugh of the week’ .
A farmer called in to say that 14% of their lambs, (around 40), had been lost, most likely to foxes. Only four had been lost to natural deaths. They had a problem in that there was a fox ‘set’, (surely ‘den’), on their land that they weren’t allowed to touch.
Next up was the star caller who said it was all her fault, the problem was ‘bad husbandry’! Further questioning revealed that he thought that she should build stock fences and have gates fitted!
I think the farm was some 130 acres in size. Around here the urban foxes can clear eight-foot fences without problem, I would imagine rural foxes would do just as well, especially if they live on the farm!
Our caller’s finally attack was that the farmer shouldn’t have been breeding baby sheep for eating anyway.
After the call Jeremy Vine helpfully told us that our husbandry expert was a hunt saboteur.
I urge you all to listen to Mark Steyn’s podcast number 15. He is trying to confront the existential crisis that now faces Western Europe and will result in it’s destruction as a viable entity. The coming demographic crisis.
This crisis will never be discussed by our progressive media or our governing class. Douglas Murray tries occasionally to do so but so deep in fantasy is our media that it can no longer even contemplate doing so. Comparisons can be made with the situation in the 1930s but these are only very partly true.
Those who failed to understand the danger of Hitler were mistaken and changed minds when the situation changed. This is not possible with progressive delusions. They take a grip on people and nothing seems to alter it.
Steyn argues that the collapse in the indigenous birthrate of European women is now irreversible . We are simply dying out as Europeans. Germany is well on the way as is Sweden. A couple of generations no longer concerned with the future but their immediate needs and pleasures has all but done for us.
At the same time there is a population explosion in Africa and the Middle east. These regions are dysfunctional and soon will be unable to support their rapidly growing and mostly young populations.So naturally the more enterprising will seek new lands and in ever increasing numbers. Who can blame them?
We are talking many millions. Europe with it’s wealth and security (for now ) is the obvious choice.
Now either our elite knows this and is silent from fear or an inability to cope or it is so far gone into fantasy and insanity that it’s survival mechanisms have failed.
Steyn suggests that all the agonising over elections, Brexit etc are now irrelevant and that the recent French presidential election show a people gripped by a total flight from reason.
15 minutes of Mark Steyn and his guests is worth a week of BBC waffling about exactly nothing much.
See earlier comments and link here.
A very worrying graph that is the basis of Steyn's arguments.
Frightening Jim
I think this just underlines – how on the whole, how dishonest, disingenuous and devious our politicians and media have been about this issue.
The left in particular have totally shut down the whole issue (under “waycist” labelling) and have allowed liberal leaning people to think it is perfectly possible for millions of people to come to our country without significant changes to our culture and quality of life.
What happened to all the “green policies” and politicians of the 1970s and 1980s saying that the world (and our country) is overpopulated already and we should be reducing our own population in the West to “sustainable numbers” I am deafened by the loud silence emanating from the left on the issue – And now we have have Caroline the fanciful Pixie saying in effect “actually we should let them all in” as it is our humanitarian duty.
Surely the green answer would be to say “we welcome the reduction in UK population and now we will be looking forward to policies to prevent it rising again” Not encourage a situation to develop where our population outgrows the ability of our land to support it.
I am afraid the wrong questions are now being asked.
Instead of the current question which is – Should we be opening our country to political refugees as a humanitarian act ? To which all the snowflakes will say -“Of course”
Maybe the more honest question should be – Should we continue with immigration policies which on their current levels will eventually lead to
overpopulation in this country and irreversible changes to our way of life, culture and population density and landscape It is also unlikely that our current social welfare and health service will not be sustainable in the long term.
I am afraid stupidity or is it the deviousness of the MSM and politicians is boundless when it comes to not asking these honest, simple questions. It always used to amuse me to see the look of distaste come over the faces of the interviewers when interviewing Farage, almost as if they were talking to Reinhard Heidrich or Adolf himself.
I am afraid we are coming to a point where the consequences of these questions can no longer be avoided. Judging the government by its current policies of “shoot the messenger” I am not hopeful that they will do the honest thing and will continue to promote the current cloud cuckoo policies that are such a threat to our way of life.
Brexit was a start but until our politicians start being more honest about the current situation we are likely to lose all that is good about our society and culture. Will they have the guts to do this I doubt it – But maybe just maybe they will – But I shant be holding my breath.
Great points Oaknash. The way I see it is that too many people are so deeply up to their neck in debt through keeping up with the Joneses (or should that be the Kardashians?), so hooked on social media and all the apps on their smartphones and so turned off by crooked politics to care and to get a grip on what’s really going on. Our way of life is declining as most are not looking in the right direction, they see problems clearly but don’t dig deep into causes. As much as I like the internet to keep in touch with people, and to learn what is really going on through excellent website, I spend much of my time off the net trying to keep up my competence in traditional skills that are declining and to read books.
All is not lost, though. I spoke recently with an old friend who has 2 teenagers, I mentioned the indoctrination in schools and she said that her kids were figuring it all out themselves, as were a lot of kids. That may be why I’ve seen a few reports recently that the latest generation (Generation X? I can’t keep up with all these tabs) are more conservative, and Conservative. A lot of them may not be as dumb as we think.
English – I am similar to you in that I think Computers and mobile phones have not really added that much to peoples lives just created another layer of complexity that prevents people from paying attention to the things that really matter rather than constantly having to “be in contact” with friends.
Having said that if it had not been for social media the Government and the establishment would probably have got away with brushing all these mass sexual abuse scandals under the carpet.
It has also meant that the establishment’s efforts to silence those who are trying to publicise the abuse (such as the recent arrests of Tommy Robinson) have spectacularly failed as the alternative media sites have refused to be cowed and bow to the establishment, unlike the the BBC and the rest of the MSM.
Dave S, You outline the existing UN Grand Plan.
Described in breath-taking detail in Jean Raspail’s novel, The Camp of the Saints, in 1973. Read it, and see the future described.
I think, Dave, that this is also relevant from Mark:
https://www.steynonline.com/7428/it-still-the-demography-stupid
I’m old enough to be of that European generation who were taught that the world was overpopulated, small families were a good thing, and it was better for women to go out to work rather than be stay at home mothers.
Were we being lied to?
Now we’re told we need immigrants and their large families.
You can see why the paranoid believe in conspiracy.
Me, I think Japan has got the right approach. Automate not immigrate. The quality of culture matters more than the size of the economy. Don’t fight foreign wars.
Had to smile to myself this evening watching the Eurovision Song Contest, the BBC over the last day or so have been wetting themselves in excitement of a heavy UK defeat due to Brexit, strangely this didn’t happen and a lot of old Eastern Bloc countries voted for our song, it didn’t come in the top 10 but we did quite well for a change.
The big loser on the night was Germany, coming second to last. I did wonder how the news would spin this after the programme had finished, but I switched off before the end having found Portugal had won, to watch the Kate Bush documentary on Bbc4.
Non-EU member Australia did quite well too!
One plus point for the EU is that eventually 27 of the rubbish songs will be replaced by one! Even better, it will take them ten years to write it.
This is a good laugh, a snowflake takes her hurt to the Beeb after a prospective employer accidentally emails her comments of what they think of her:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-39908145
“O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!
Or maybe not.
bBBC headline this morning – NHS ‘drastically short of nurses’.
That makes you think that thousands of vacancies are unfilled, but no – it’s based on what the Royal College of Nursing thinks the staffing should be. The RCN is the nurses’ union so of course they want a lot more posts. I’m not denying that the NHS is in crisis but this is a completely misleading article that says that ‘figures suggest’ that 40,000 posts are unfilled.
They couldn’t resist slipping in that Brexit will mean that foreign nurses won’t be able to work in Britain. I would like to see them report on why young British people are not training in nursing, they are saying that it is because of the pay cap but that is nonsense. I found out why when I once had to process one school year’s career service forms; about a third of the boys wanted to be computer software games designers and a similar number of girls wanted to be singers/actresses. Not one wanted to be a nurse and only one a doctor, and this was a high achieving school. The kids want ‘fun’ jobs and don’t want to do jobs where the work is hard and you have to get your hands dirty.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39890235
Based on recent events, the NHS seems to be drastically short of competent IT staff.
But we should not be surprised that one state organisation with a sense of entitlement and superiority should support another with the same traits. Especially when it helps to keep the ‘Tory NHS underfunding’ narrative in he public mind.
When was the Philippines in the EU? I must have missed that.
It joined the same time as Nigeria, India and Australia.
When ‘Political Correctness’ in the UK takes the next step to Blasphemy for the Cult of Peace, expect this to come to a town or city near you –
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/05/pakistan-muslims-threaten-to-kill-christian-lawyer-for-defending-people-against-blasphemy-charges
Just a quickie for budding radio listeners.
At 0845 today, Sunday, you can apparently listen to Radio 4 with an article about the ‘oppressed liberal metropolitan elite’.
And yes, you did read that right !
It was announced with no sense of irony whatever.
I can’t wait. I just can’t wait.
Thanks Sluff. Howard Jacobson presented us plebs with a straightforward, fairly humourless etymological analysis of the three words – metropolitan, liberal, elite. I don’t think he used the word ‘xenophobia’ but essentially I think this is what the message was, in the sense of it meaning fear/dislike of strangers or foreigners (he used Cornwall as his example), which of course is a very naughty thing.
Conclusion – there is an ‘elite liberal metropolis of the heart we can (all) access if we are bold enough’. Drip, drip.
(Out of interest, the word ‘xenophobia’ does not even appear in my 1906 dictionary. But Jacobson is smart enough to know it is a heavily misused word nowadays).
If words don’t exist to describe many of the current ‘situations’ wordwide, metropolitan liberal elite tossers like Jacobsen make them up and then bask in the reflected glory of their inventiveness.
Over the last couple of days, Project Fear on the biased BBC ensured maximum coverage (and btw anyone else wondering why the bBBC have really gone to town on publicity this year?) for the fact that we might score very low in the Eurovision Song Contest ‘because of Brexit’.
In those reports they never once mentioned that last year we came…….24th out of 26 ! Pre Brexit.
In the event we came 15th, apparently our highest for 6 years.
Perhaps our relative success was because of Brexit !!!!
A line you will not be hearing on the biased BBC any time soon. Doesn’t fit the narrative.
I was mortified to read that Nick Robinson and the comrades at Radio 4’s Toady are at each others’ throats like rats in a sack. So mortified I’m still laughing.
But strangely I can’t seem to find it on the beebistan website.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/nick-robinson-bbc-radio-4-today-riles-john-humphrys-sarah-montague-mishal-husain-justin-webb-hzjc7r8jd
ITTB has added a fine collection of new posts in complement to those here:
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/weve-not-caved-in-to-pressure.html
Nick does get a mention:
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/sunday-breakfast-reading.html
Charlie ,
Please leave the Today staff alone as I like the comedy when the 2 girls are on together trying to out lefty each other . Never forget the interview after the 2015 election where one of the said outloud “where did we ( Labour) go wrong “.
If i hadn’t been sipping my celebration fizz I’d have choked on me cornflakes
The positive discrimination and diversity departments at the BBC should insist that unless a performer from the ethnic community is picked to represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest next year, the BBC wont cover the event.Of course positive discrimination would not apply if the contestant came from Londononistan, or would it? Positive discrimination doesn’t seem to apply in the presenters and reporters we see on the Londonistan programme after the 6PM news. The indigenous white Londoners are now quite a small minority. Shouldn’t positive discrimination apply here as well?
Ah Maxicony,
you’ve replied to my first post. Deep joy.
WRT the Masterchef & Bake Off previous winners, you are correct to point out that there appears to be no bias in the results. However there are more subtle forces at work here in the bBC; Firstly, when a show is in its infancy it needs to reach as broad an audience as possible and secure some level of success to gauge if a follow on series is merited, hence the more demographically representative participant list of earlier shows. But when show grows to the level of say Bake Off then in the bBCs eyes it becomes a vehicle to push their propaganda. So in the case of Nadia, the inevitable winner of the 2015 series, there were lots of follow-on promotions for Nadia, and she even got to bake a cake for the queen. What an insult to the scores of deserving Womens Institute ladies across the country.
Maxi, we on this site are all to aware of the bBC propaganda initiatives, we could list them in a prioritised order, but up near the very top of that list is the promotion of muslam, and they do this by over promoting the good aspects (eg Nadias pork free cakes) and hiding the worst aspects MPRGs (work that one out kids).
All for now.
‘Tell it often enough’ in action:
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/self-selecting-audience.html
Et, encore un Fois…
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/its-not-just-his-eyebrow-thats-arching.html
“A rather wonderful day to be there, despite the rain”
Goofy Ben Brown BBC News Channel anchor hands over to his colleagues at the Élysée Palace for the formal inauguration of President Macron.
The BBC live coverage is brought to us by presenters apparently somewhat in awe of their subject matter. The enthusiasm, optimism and downright approval in tone reminds one very much of Barrack Obama’s inauguration – not so much of the cautionary, disappointed almost snearing tone of coverage of President Trump’s ceremonial day , just a few month’s ago.
Personal and corporate bias is on show once again.
AsISeeit – “almost sneering” coverage of Trump? ABSOLUTELY, overtly sneering!
Having given Fat Emily Thornberry an easy ride Pandy Marr is currently, 9.30, at his hectoring Al-Beeb worst interrupting Michael Fallon at every opportunity.
Peter,
Yes, he is an utter disgrace. Indeed, he gave Emily a very easy rise and he did not ask her ONE question about how Labour were going to pay for their La-La-Land policies. Fallon did as well as he could but it’s hard to get any point across with all the interruptions.
It’s now Wee Krankie’s turn. More hot air – from both of them. She’s a dangerous woman but the cracks are beginning to appear.
The bias of the Bbc was on show in all its glory on Friday night on Any Questions. Labour must have bussed in the whole audience. It was just dreadful – in fact it was embarrassing.
S/b,
I actually turned the TV off when it was announced that the Scottish Garden Gnome was appearing. I imagine I wasn’t the only one.
Soapbox
The Cunnus Caledonicus has the same effect on the human soul as being forced to listen to a crowd of people scraping their fingers down a blackboard for hours on end. She should be used to torture information out of Big Beard terrorists. She has absolutely nothing new to say and has never had anything relevant to say to English voters. Farage is often asked if he is a hypocrite for accepting “EU cash” while opposing the existance of the UK. The BBC never asks the CC the same question. At least the Sinn Fein keep their distance from the seat of power they despise – except, of course, when Corbyn passes out invitations to the various enemies of this country.
I saw a bit on You Tube of Marr interviewing Sturgeon and I thought he gave her a good grilling. She conceded literacy and numeracy in schools has declined under the SNP.
I don’t think the BBC support the SNP at all, they are just a useful bogeyman for the BBC to use in pushing for the UK to stay in the EU.
Fallon spouts we re ready for war with Russia in two years, ramping up ISIS/Russia analogies, underhand over Trident the guys more of an incompetent buffoon, than Liar May … (if that’s even possible).
He deserves critique he s failing now
Peter,
In future please refer to this horror by her appropriate name – Lady Nugee! Champagne Socialists of the world unite!
I don’t think our Government will use this on their blessed antifa, but it is worth watching. These unwashed vermin will not be setting fire to cops.
G.W.F wrote:
I don’t think our Government will use this on their blessed antifa, but it is worth watching. These unwashed vermin will not be setting fire to cops.
That video clip is from Venezuela, where the locals have said enough,is enough regards socialist policies which have ruined the country. Polices I should add, Labour, the Lib dems, the Greens, Antifa and the bBC support.
I was distressed to read on the beebistan website that according to some muslim photographer, ‘Muslim men in Britain have had a “plethora of labels” thrown on them, from terrorist to sexual groomer.’
How terrible.
I don’t supposed it could be because many of them are terrorists and sexual groomers, could it?
And if they stopped being both, the plethora of labels might stop too.
P.S. I’d rather have a plethora of labels thrown at me than a plethora of bombs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-39900673/in-pictures-male-muslim-and-marginalised
Mehdi Hasan may have a few sartorial tips for the young man featured, if seeking to be less ‘marginalised’ when out in public beyond the no go turf.
Then off with the suit and back in the sheets in private to slag off the kaffirs.
Quite, Guest: vest, backward baseball cap and a spliff doesn’t look he’s trying too hard to integrate, except perhaps with the local gangs.
As an antidote to Eurovision…
No more heroes any more (apologies to The Stranglers)
Whatever happened to
Winston Churchill?
Obama threw his statue
Out of the White House
Whatever happened to
Dear old Kipling?
He was a colonialist
And Cecil Rhodes too
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to
Florence Nightingale?
They took the white nurse
Off the curriculum
Whatever happened to
All of the heroes?
All the Shakespearoes?
They watched their England burn
Whatever happened to the heroes?
Whatever happened to the heroes?
No more heroes any more
No more heroes any more
LBC now Grooming Gangs
with KTHopkins and Mohan Singh
“don’t call them Asian Grooming gangs, you don’t say European Hooligans when it’s English fans causing the problem”
(Cannot talk ongoing court cases for legal reasons)
Katy just quoted someone else who said
“ANY filming and recording of courts and court PRECINCTS is illegal under section 41 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 and the Contempt of Court Act.”
That word “any” should NOT be there.
It seems regulations on filming OUTSIDE are not about banning ALL, but more about about protecting identification of jurors and protecting witnesses from intimidation
Normal TV does seem to show normal defendants entering the court building.
So I don’t see that RebelMedia airing similar footage counts as facilitating witness intimidation.
Though I would say co-defendants are also witnesses, I don’t see merely airing footage of a witness is contempt. eg a DNA scientist’s name would be on court records so if a nutter went round to his office that would not be the result of the filmer.
\\However, the Act does not define what it means by the “court precincts”. Different courts hold different views on what constitutes the court precincts. //
from https://quizlet.com/137632494/law-all-acts-and-precedents-flash-cards/
Emm it would be reasonable to apply a dictionary definition
“the area within the walls or perceived boundaries of a particular building or place.”
Therefore the street is NOT precincts.
And the street is commonly defined as a “public place”
Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)
– “Guidelines say police should not prevent filming or photography in public places ..”
When Naomi Campbell gave evidence in a NON-UK court at the Hague there was a special order from the judges that “Photographers will be prevented from taking pictures as she enters and exits the court during her testimony.”
implying that in that type of court filming outside i normally permitted.
On the court steps could be interpreted either way. the doorway might define the precinct. But journalism handbook says
Footage “should be taken away from any court steps, say and at least on the public highway”
– But I wonder if trying to talk to a witness if they haven’t finished giving evidence does not constitute contempt of court.
The BBC would never take such pictures
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/123068.stm
There’s a video on your twitter link, Stew, that shows the SaS filming outside the courthouse in Leeds. It clearly shows defendants entering the courts building. Did I miss the news flash that reported the arrest of the filmers for contempt of court? Or is such action only dependant on where one resides on a Dulux colour chart?
I’ve been warned that it’s not good for my blood pressure. “Don’t do it, Jeff” concerned friends say to me, “you’re on tablets,”. I really wish I had listened to them.
Friday’s Any Questions, which I caught yesterday, was akin to a one legged army conscript being taught how to march; left, left, left, left, left. There was a token Tory on the panel; but sorry he was so inept and apologetic that I’ve completely forgotten the sap’s name. The others were Jonathan Bartley, joint head of the Green Party, Vince Cable and the eloquent and endlessly delightful…Diane Abbott.
The audience (mob) seemed to comprise mainly of members of Momentum. So conspicuous was the bias that even Jonathan Dimbleby sounded embarrassed. “I’d like to remind our listeners that the audience is self selecting and seats are available to anyone who…” Poor old Dimbles!
Everything Diane said was greeted by cheers and hoots of approbation. Even when she was questioned about funding the police any dissenters were shouted down. Bartley told us that we didn’t need more police just “better police”. These improved policemen will empathise with youths carrying knives and thus, through charm and sensitivity, disarm the little scallywags. He also mentioned several times that his own “kids” went to state schools in an inner London area.
I’m never certain why I’m supposed to be impressed by where these blighters send their sprogs to school, but the audience hooted and foot stomped, as they always do on AQ. Of course honest Jonathan failed to mention that he’d actually been a boarder at the rather more privileged and prestigious Dulwich College; must have slipped his mind. Happens to the best of us…
Diane waffled and blustered and assured us that Jeremy Corbyn was an asset to the nation and will make a fine prime minister. We will all sleep soundly in our beds. All war and conflict will be a thing of the past come the new utopia. The audience loved it. I could almost see them; scruffy, white, privileged, never done a days work in their soap dodging lives.
Thankfully I couldn’t smell them…
That’s typically disingenuous of Dimblelby and the BBC. Yes, in the narrowest sense, BBC audiences are self-selecting but that ignores some key elements in the process.
The first is that the far Left is clearly more fanatical than moderates or even those on the sane Right of the spectrum. It is a characteristic of the breed, for reasons too complex to go into here, although the effect is pretty evident.
The second is that the Left activates via trade unions and various organisation which, though not ostensibly political are, in fact, hotbeds of socialism: ramblers, ecologists, teachers, health workers, local government – it’s a long list.
If he hadn’t been lying, what Dimbleby would have said was that QT (and other BBC audiences)are self-selecting from a range of highly motivated politically driven organisations. Of course, the BBC has known this for decades and makes no effort to correct this inbuilt bias towards the Left.
Jeff,
You are very brave listening to that Any Questions thing. I think it’s now as harmless as the TV question time thing where the lefty dominated panels and audiences can comfort themselves in their self reflecting views and shout down dissenters each week.
I found a whole section of extracts of examples on YouTube which demonstrates over the years how certain issues are forbidden – such as immigration .
I think it will be challenging to stay calm with the upcoming specials for the election with each of the HRH Dimblebys holding court…..although I wonder if al beeb will dull the anti conservative demeanour when they see a big majority coming…
I can recall a by election where there was a special Question Time on the BBC. The Green candidate spoke first to building howls of support, then the Labour candidate was given even more support. They were followed by the UKIP candidate. Within three words he was crushed by aggressive, viscious yowling. The Tory spokesman fared little better. So, no doubt from the BBC’s self selecting audience, that the Greens would win with Labour second. Actually, UKIP won, the Tories were second. The Labour party were trounced and the Greens lost their deposit (as they had so few votes).
I listened to AQ yesterday, it was a very, VERY carefully selected BBC audience.
BBC1 ‘The Big Questions’ at about 10:20am changed to the next question “Do we have the right not to be offended?”.
The host, Nicky Campbell, introduced the question by talking about the Irish police dropping their investigation into the Stephen Fry blasphemy claim. He also quoted what Fry said about “God”.
During this introduction there is a Muslim man in the audience, right behind Campbell, getting very agitated, arms folded and shaking his head. Just the mere mention of blasphemy was boiling his blood.
Many other religions were represented in the audience and I saw no other reactions from anyone else. Considering Islam is the only Religion of Peace(tm) I don’t understand the Muslim man’s negative reactions.
Did I just hear the former child poverty stricken,Emily Thornberry (Lady Nugee), (( daughter of Cedric Henry Reid Thornberry who was an international lawyer and Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations)who obviously didn’t pay his wife -a former Mayor of Guildford-any maintenance money), swear on live TV?
I recorded the offensive comment. Now those of you who post regularly on this site know that swearing is something that I just don’t feel the need to do. If others feel differently then I suppose that is up to them.Swearing denigrates the point that people wish to make in my book.It is rude and demonstartes a lack of diction.
However, I do not expect to have to choke on my Sunday morning cornflakes when the Shadow Home Secretary usese the word ‘Bollocks’.
What kind of an example is that to beset the nation when many children are up and about frolicking about in their pyjamas.
(Just for the record I said ‘frolicking’)
Another question is why didn’t Andrew Marr not apologise for her remark? Or is the word ‘bollocks’ now an acceptable word in terms of modern day parlance for the BBC English department.
How standards have fallen.
I hope that the man who Thornberry mocked for having an English flag waving outside of his house issues a complaint about the Shadow Home Secretary espousing such vulgar and common language on the BBC.
A half decent press would put this on the front page tomorrow.
‘English Patriot condemns the foul mouthed, ill mannered common Shadow Home Secretary.’
Naturally, I have forwarded my on line complain to the ineffectual BBC Complaints department and I await their reply.
No doubt the former BBC employed members of OFCOM will brush this off because it wasn’t a member of UKIP or a Tory who said it.
Thornberry comment – long version.
She mutters it , Marr calls her up, but she just ploughs on for 25 seconds
Telegraph version starts a little earlier
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/14/emily-thornberry-turns-air-blue-accuses-sir-michael-fallon-talking/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Here’s audibly mouthing same word in Parliament on Feb 6th
Chewing like a cow
“Blasphemy” a noun that most people have never ever used in their daily social intercourse. “Blasphemy” a noun that islam is forcing us to use and apply with an intensity which will make it a word that will appear often during common parlance, I predict, within the next four or five years. Then will come the punishment resulting from even an allegation of blasphemy. These not-so subtle changes are occurring so frequently now. Should we get used to the ruling elite’s condoning of such impositions?
After that comes ‘thought blasphemy’ when somebody feels you are having thoughts which don’t coincide with their beliefs, Christian, Muslim or the many other miscellaneous religions.
You are right, but it won’t be called ‘blasphemy’ which sounds dated and intolerant. It will be called hate speech or some such.
Oh dear – The Sunday Times (pay-walled) runs with a front page exclusive that Harry Styles thinks we’ve got it all wrong about leaving the EU and will vote “for whoever is against Brexit”.
Someone needs to tell him that he looks like a complete pratt.
Who is he? A three piece pin-stripe suit and no shirt – not exactly Jacob Rees-Mogg is he?
Please keep up – he’s just been appointed as the LibDems brexit spokesperson.
This is the calibre of the next generation. Doesn’t it make you weep.
BRISSLES
A good reason for ruling out votes at 16
“General election 2017: Theresa May rules out votes at 16”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39915483
Looks to me like a baby faced Rab C Nesbitt but without the personality!
He’s also appearing in the forthcoming “blocbuster” Dunkirk, along side Tom Hardy, et al.
Hope he’s had a haircut!
http://www.etonline.com/news/205115_harry_styles_christopher_nolan_dunkirk_trailer/
In that picture, he oozes sullen feeble-mindedness.
Aaron, clearly he has the same acting coach as Beckham then ! When I think of the acting talent in this country who have studied their craft and earned their spurs, only to see millionaire tw…ts like those take good acting jobs from the qualified, it makes me spit.
Not heard of this yet on the hagiographic bBBC! Any chance we will?
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/14/jeremy-corbyn-was-arrested-at-ira-solidarity-protest-following-brighton-tory-conference-bombing/
As Thormberry said “you just can’t make this stuff up”
Nadiya Hussain, the 2015 winner of The Great British Bake Off, is to go to Mecca with an all-Muslim television crew to make a BBC1 documentary about the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city in Saudi Arabia.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/great-british-bake-off-s-nadiya-hussain-to-film-mecca-pilgrimage-gwwhws3zx
Prophet Muhammad give me strength.
Drip…drip…drip…and so it goes on!
Worth every penny of the licence fee!
“The trip has taken months to set up because of the need to employ an all-Muslim crew” I thought this would have been a piece of cake (pun intended) being a bBBC production.
So the multi cultural, pro immigration, champion of diversity and equal opportunities employer the BBC, is funding a trip with public money to a city and people so intolerant they only permit entry by people of their own faith. Refund please.
“Diversity includes everyone”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/diversity
I hope the BBC is going to send a all Muslim-gay crew – just to be diverse.
The “Apartheid” of Mecca, the racism against anyone non muslim, the 100,000s tents not used for fellow muslim refugees … not very charitable, the bigotry, and hate indoctrinating those who partake in the hatefest itself.
These questions and more are going to be asked on social media/vids with 100,000s views BBC, thanks to your appeasing fawning, with no objectivity.
Lets start with the all muslim crew, racist?
and the bloody cost of this? compared to that expended on those of say Sikhs, Hindu, Jian , Buddhist faiths and likewise the airtime, column inches, videotime?
Anyway … will we hear garbage like this?
“A snippet of formal prayers at Mecca, Islam’s holiest city. As Muslims circumambulated around the Ka’ba, the following supplications were blasted on a megaphone, chanted to by Islam’s droning devotees:
“O Allah vanquish the unjust Christians and the criminal Jews,
the unjust traitors;
strike them with your wrath;
make their lives hostage to misery;
drape them with endless despair,
unrelenting pain and unremitting ailment;
fill their lives with sorrow and pain and end their lives in humiliation and oppression;
inflict your tortures and punishments upon the unjust Christians and criminal Jews.
This is our supplication, Allah; grant us our request!”
C’mon Noggie,
Are you suggesting that it is not a cult of peace?
BBC for goodness sake, ask Nadiya to get progressive will you and remove that article showing adherence to sharia wrapped around her head.
I seem to remember reading that she chose to wear the hijab against her parents’ wishes. I wonder if she will allow her daughter to make her own choice.
“On her return to Mecca, she’ll be there to witness the Hajj, immersing herself in her own spiritual journey and meeting pilgrims to hear their stories.
The series follows Nadiya from her preparation in England, to her arrival and exploration of the exclusively Muslim city of Mecca, through the exhilarating, gruelling and spiritually uplifting five days of Hajj itself with its rites and mass movement of three million people.
Hajj she will go on to Medina to visit the Prophet’s Mosque and Muhammad’s tomb.
Nadiya Hussain says: “The Hajj is one of the most intense and emotional experiences you can undertake and I’m delighted to be sharing my journey with BBC One viewers.
I’m really looking forward to showing first-hand exactly what it is like to be there”
What? … in Saudi Arabia?
Sheesh!, this absolutely reeks of Islamophile propaganda
… nauseating
The haji. Isn’t that the do where the Mohamidans run around and stampede and tread all over each other?
The BBC ought to be careful sending people there
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hajj-stampede-kills-345-injures-hundreds-more-1.583410
“The stampede came just before sunset during a stoning ritual at the hajj” Wow, these dudes sure as hell know how to have a good time and partay! club 18:30 no, 6:22!
…is to go to Mecca WITH an all-Muslim crew………
Can Maximoany tell us why an all-Muslim crew cannot be recruited in Saudi ? instead of us bearing the expense of sending a ‘crew’ ? Let her go, because it will guarantee to get the ‘backs up’ of more of the population than not when the report is shown. Production companies, the media and the advertising world just don’t ‘get it’ do they, that Islam is such a toxic brand in this country.
Serious question – would a Saudi crew be prepared to work so closely with, and take orders from, a Bangladeshi British woman?
crist – There’s no such thing as “Bangladeshi British”.
cist
Serious question – would a Saudi crew be prepared to work so closely with, and take orders from, a Bangladeshi British woman?
Here is another serious question.
Would a British woman Prime Minister, a Christian vicars daughter, take orders from a Saudi dictator and turn her own country into a sharia compliant police state?
All female crew too? I imagine there are strict gender segregation rules on a Haj in Saudi.
Come to think of it, all female crew couldn’t drive anywhere in Saudi … I’m not expert … but will Nadya be allowed out and about in Saudi without a male family member as chaperone? So hubbie is going too?
Usual crap from Fatty Mardell on Twato(weekend mash up).
Apparently his grip is that the Tory manifesto has yet to receive the same amount of scrutiny as has poor Labours. I imagine that is because Labours has already been leaked and makes Venezuela or Zimbabwe seem the king of places that Labour want us to be reduced to living in.
But Mardell brings in Spencer Livermore and Jack Dromey…no Tories could be found so he says.
Yesterday I saw Tom Baldwin in again.
THIS is the level of “analysis” that the BBC expects for labour-a bunch of weird nobodies who once held a Miliband handbag or fluffed Gordon Browns pillows as they lost a series of elections.
I can only hope that May realises that she has a golden chance now to finish Labour off and their fetid dangleberries in that Liberal Progressive Alliance of theirs.
The BBC Brownshirts ought then to be dealt with, and maybe then we`ll get a PROPER opposition to these shit Tories-the only grown up option this year is NO long-term answer to any question that I want answering.
BBC brownshirts? Brown hatters more like, Chris.
Andrew Marr, the BBC’s own in-house, anti-brexit, Guardian loving sex pest has disclosed his concerns that his artwork might not be taken seriously in his new exhibition due next month.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/andrew-marr-bbc-one-fears-mauling-for-his-post-stroke-art-show-nbnwp7j96
Below is an example of his talent.
meanwhile a more credible artist is hard at work!
(sorry I accidentally pressed report please ignore)
It’s no excuse @thirdoption you should have guessed that Marr has African ancestors ..you’ll be sent the same way as Kelvin MacKenzie
just about to be Profiled on R4 17:40pm
Have you ever noticed that when you spew up there is always a lot of tomato colour in it?
Looks to me as if Andy has been on the tinned tomatoes
I saw this a lot, G.W.F, in the ’70s, when I ran a bar. I mentioned this to a doctor once and he said that the tomato colour was actually stomach lining.
The bBC , its reporting on Julian Assange and half the story:
Julian Assange: Ecuador ‘concerned’ over lack of progress
Ecuador has voiced concern over the “serious lack of progress” by the Swedish government in dealing with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. It said there had been a “serious failure” by Sweden’s prosecutor to complete an inquiry into sexual assault allegations dating back to 2010.Mr Assange has been confined to the Ecuadorean embassy, where he has asylum, for nearly five years.
Confined, really? JA is in a prison of his own making, he can walk out whenever he wants. The irony here, is if he had freely departed for Sweden and even found guilty he would have been freed years ago.
The Ecuadorians have only themselves to blame by allowing him to stay in their embassy. What they would like is for charges to be dropped so that they can boot him out without losing face. Instead it appears he’s in for the long haul. I do wonder what kind of information he must have on senior Ecuadorian politicians and officials to be able to get away with this.
This is just the sort of simple incident that would start a long overdue civil war –
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10352/germany-migrants-property-rights
Similar things happening in Italy, G, elderly hotel owner forced to take in the doctors and rocket scientists currently afloat in the Med.
With subtitles
Please, please, please can someone use force to occupy property owned by:
JK Rowling
Bob Geldof
Lady Nugee
Richard Branson
further suggestions welcome…
Have we really reached the point where someone’s property, the business they have built up, their family home and their children’s birthright can be arbitrarily confiscated by the state to house, against the will of the legitimate owners, people who are citizens of another country, many of whom will be without identity documents and who will may well have passed through other safe nations to get to where they are now?
This can only result in civil conflict on an unprecedented scale.
The state prevents us from arming ourselves and taking the law and our own defence into our own hands, by implicitly or explicitly taking on that role itself.
When the state fails to fulfill its obligations in such matters, it breaks the implicit contract that exists between it and its citizens.We must defend ourselves: our governments have abdicated their responsibilities.
Someone start something – before I get too old to participate!
FFS, Germany too.
HT to the Gatestone Institute, having problems posting the link…
“In an unprecedented move, Hamburg authorities confiscated six residential units in the Hamm district near the city center. A trustee appointed by the city is now renovating the properties and will rent them — against the will of the owner — to tenants chosen by the city. District spokeswoman Sorina Weiland said that all renovation costs will be billed to the owner of the properties.”
…all renovation costs will be billed to the owner of the properties.
First they steal your property, then they send you a bill.
Coming soon to a house you live in… for now.
Be terrible if there were a fire in the building whilst renovating, wouldn’t it.
Yes Roland, it would be tragic (/schadenfreude off).
A sort of scorched earth policy… literally.
Well, considering how many landlords in the UK are Asian, who do the least amount of work to their properties for the quickest rental turnaround (info courtesy of Homes Under the Hammer if Maximoany spits his dummy out), I think it unlikely that our Government would create racial tension by confiscating their properties, but wouldn’t think twice about acquiring the ‘buy to lets’ from the other landlords.
Guessing popping some Peppa Pig wallpaper into the family rooms would be a gassing, then?
The law has been around since 2013 and was supposed to be used against landlords leaving residential property empty for long periods of time or using it for non-residential puposes. However, when Mad Merkel lost her marbles, the authorities in Hamburg found they needed accommodation for 6000 “refugees”. Panic broke out and Merkel told her Chief of Staff, personal spokesman and sycophant Peter Altmaier to “think the unthinkable”. The Hamburg law was a godsend as the lawyers found it could be applied to unused office/factory space. This was ideal for the mass construction of shower facilities and compact housing units.
So much for the Basic Law enshrining the right to own personal property and protecting the citizen from expropriation.
Keep this Dilbert cartoon away from LibMobsters or they’ll have another tantrum
Soon, the SJW types will be “demanding” that newspapers stop syndicating Dilbert, and threatening to cancel their subscriptions.
“Denier” is the climate equivalent of “racist”, a catch-all term for people who do not toe the PC party line, and who should be forced to keep quiet henceforth.
7pm will Countryfile have the normal Toy Green farming propaganda ?
\\Ellie’s on a farm run by the community and fuelled by other peoples’ waste!
Dredgings from the bottom of a property developer’s pond help fertilise the fields;// etc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08r89xt
Canada’s banks imploding …who would have set that on process ?
appointing Mark “Remoaner” Carney to head BoE not looking so good
now the Canadian financial chickens have come home to roost.
Zerohedge – “Canada Hasn’t Seen A Bank Run Such As This In Decades”
– Finance Minister Says Home Capital Bailout Is Possible
#ThingsBBCForgetToReport
Yeh and picking my nose causes Climate Change
#ThingsBBCForgetToReport
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2017/05/14/syrian-conflict-links-to-climate-change-demolished/
“General election 2017: Tory housing plan”
“Mrs May could not “sidestep her share of the blame for the Tory housing crisis”, he added.”
Could the “housing crisis” be as a result of …………”The elephant in the room”?
Have we been “swamped” or invaded ?
“France election: Macron says EU must reform or face ‘Frexit”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39766334
Now that he is in office will he be able to do it – Will Merkel and the EU let him ?
Haha, a Frenchman saying “EU must reform” always means “EU must be run by the French”. And no Merkel won’t let them.
Either way it’s good we don’t care anymore!
Taffman
The CDU and Merkel the Mad are on a roll at the moment and have won another state election – this time in North Rhine Westfalia. The SPD Greens coalition were probably got rid of because the did nothing to prevent NRW from becoming a salafist paradise. Every big city in NRW seems to have sent 20 or 30 jihadists to fight in Syria. There was also New Year in Cologne and various incidents in Düsseldorf. Why Ma Merkel should benefit so much, the CDU candidate is a slime-oozer in the mould of our Vaz MP, is beyond me. The CDU got 30%, the SPD a few percent less and the AfD 7.6%, when double figures could have been expected. But still this is another entry into a state parliament by the AfD. At least our beloved ex-president of the EU and chancellor in spe, Martin Schulz, has been humiliated again and the much heralded “Schulz effect” has turned out to be nothing more than a wet fart. As the great man says “Together we win, together we lose”. Together with him, the SPD seems to be on a losing streak.
10pm news, bimbo with northern accent, asking the flipping obvious. Asking why an employer could not pay higher wages. Response: makes us uncompetitive. I thought news on BBC1 was for grown ups.
Trouble is, Deborah, that actually running a business is an adult thing – you know, being in the real world, where money comes from customers and not through a compulsory tax that results in overpaid economic illiterates fronting the news.
The bimbo with a northern accent wouldn’t be big Steph McGovern would it ? Accordingly she has been earmarked as a major player of the Beeb team covering the G/Election, while Nick Robinson has been sidelined – bet he loves that !
Also because employer has no need to pay more when UK have mass immigration. Also basic stuff that no just the bimbos but the so-called BBC experts never point out either.
Not sure I agree with Nick.
Meanwhile, the whacky business of show… excuse me… ‘news’ business continues to throw up comedic gems:
The bBC and its somewhat polarised reporting :
The bBC reports:
But doesn’t report this:
Are the Irish a different race or just a different nationality?
Race and nationality are interchangeable now to a semi literate media class.Just try to explain the difference to one !
I notice the police use the old wrong place wrong time theme. Not good enough by miles. Yet further evidence of a failure to do the basic job they are paid to do. The safety of all of us is their prime duty and they seem to no longer understand this.
London is deteriorating at a faster rate now and it is going to need sorting out. Already we in the shires are wary of going and it will not take much to stop us from going at all especially if we have children.
Already I notice the older English talk of London only in the past as a place they once loved to visit but now no longer understand or have any liking for.Soon the children will pick up on this and gradually London will slip from our lives. And to those progressive who scoff at this I say just wait and see.
BBC Breaking news, President Macron has been inaugurated.
“the youngest president since Napoleon.”
Well that ended well for the French, didn’t it?
I always thought he was “First Consul” not president and the only comparison between them is that they both married women considerably older than themselves.
Macron worked for the Rothschilds, whereas Napoleon hated both them and the central banks which they sought to create.
And when all is sad and dumb, there is, always, Katty Kay, who knows?
Sleep well British tv licence payers; you pay for her.
The BBC usually loves to play with political labels, describing the socialist French Front National as ‘far right ‘. Funnily enough though there are no labels in this story for the ‘centre right’ German CDU beating the ‘centre left’ SDP.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39914333
Wouldn’t want to remind people that Germany is led by a centre right government.
The lack of labels means that both CDU and SDP are centrist/globalist/pro EU and therefore “ok” in BBC world view. So no need to smear.
You only have to spend a few seconds listening to the BBC Germany correspondent (horse-face, can’t remember her name) to know she worships Merkel.
The BBC, in the form of the Today programme, continues with their election campaigning, this time at Bath University – cheers and rounds of applause by Greens, Liberals and assorted lefties comprising the scrupulously fair selected audience.