Always worth a reminder of what the BBC, Guardian et al do behind our backs as Brexit moves up a gear:
George Orwell
The general weakening of the whole British morale that took place during the nineteen-thirties, was the work mostly of the left-wing intelligentsia.
The mentality of the left-wing intelligentsia can be studied in half a dozen weekly and monthly papers. The immediately striking thing about all these papers is their generally negative, querulous attitude, their complete lack at all times of any constructive suggestion. There is little in them except the irresponsible carping of people who live in a world of ideas and never expect to be in a position of power. Another marked characteristic is the emotional shallowness of people who live in a world of ideas and have little contact with physical reality. The really important fact about so many of the English intelligentsia is their severance from the common culture of the country.
In the general patriotism of the country they form a little island of dissident thought. England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. …it is their duty to snigger at every English institution.
All through the critical years many left-wingers were chipping away at English morale, trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist, sometimes violently pro-Russian, but always anti-British…if the fascist nations judged we were ‘decadent’ and that it was safe to plunge into war, the intellectual sabotage from the Left was partly responsible.
It is clear that the special position of intellectuals in society as purely negative creatures came about because society could not use them, they were useless to a productive nation, and they had not got it in them to see that devotion to one’s country implies ‘for better, for worse’.
A modern nation cannot afford to have a separation of intelligence and patriotism, they will have to come together because it is a fact that we are fighting a war, and a very peculiar kind of war that may make this possible.
All left-wing parties in the highly industrialised countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have international aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free, but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment’, demands that the robbery shall continue. A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.
I am just reading the entire works of George Orwell – fantastic foresight, to have predicted the world, the Liberal actions, sayings and thoughts a full 80 years early. Who says Liberals aren’t predictable?
You can see why the Biased BBC avoid any mention of him, one of Britain’s best authors ever.
Lojo, I don’t think the BBC have dramatised any Orwell works in all my fifty-odd years of TV viewing. It does seem odd, seeing they’ve used the books of everyone else from Amis to Waugh. I’ve read ‘1984’, ‘Keep the aspidistra flying’ and ‘Down and out in Paris and London’, and from my memory they could make enjoyable TV.
There is evidence the pacifist left helped bring about the war. In 1933 the Oxford Union debating society debated the motion: ‘That this house will in no circumstances fight for its king and country’. It was carried by 275 votes to 153. It received world publicity, and some say Hitler and Mussolini were encouraged by the belief British youth were weak degenerates.
(The Guardian approved the debate’s result, while the Daily Express wrote: ‘…the woozy-minded communists, the practical jokers and the sexual indeterminates of Oxford have scored a great success…’ So not much has changed in eighty years, then!)
Since the Oxford and BBC types have for years been signalling: ‘This house will in all circumstances cringe before Islam,’ I rather suspect we’re stuffed!
It’s no surprise the Beebyanka hasn’t thought to dramatize “1984”. The Ministry of Truth of “1984” is the Beeb. Orwell worked among Beeboids during the Second World War and was persecuted by the Stalinists who prevailed there. The country envisaged by Orwell in “1984” combines the Soviet Union of the purges, of which Orwell knew a thing or two, from Spain, with the British propaganda machine of Orwell’s personal experience.
Helena,
” Sexual indeterminates “. Even way back then !
Since the Oxford and BBC types have for years been signalling: ‘This house will in all circumstances cringe before Islam,’ I rather suspect we’re stuffed!
I suppose that is some solace, as we will win. Leftists always back the evil and weaker horse.
We read/studied Orwell’s book ‘1984’ at school, and it was suggested that Orwell was imagining the second World War extrapolated indefinitely by those in power who saw the personal benefit in keeping everyone obedient through propaganda and scaremongering.
Sound familiar?
Here’s (another) BBC article by Mark Mardel which has so many biased flaws it’s laughable:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40683091
I visited the Trumpf company in Stuttgart, a concern with a turnover of 3bn euros (£2.7bn) a year that makes sheet metal, laser cutters and machine tools. It employs 4,000 people in Germany and another 8,000 globally: in the USA, China, Japan, South Korea – and Luton, Southampton and Rugby.
Note the list of non-EU countries!
The company’s Heidi Maier tells me orders from the UK are up, because people have got used to the idea of Brexit.
“Despite political insecurities and decisions we don’t like and we don’t back, our business is doing very well,” she says.
Really? So why is the supposed nagging uncertainty not continuing to have a detrimental effect on business? That nagging uncertainty that you, Mr Mardel, go on to scrutinise…
We stand in front of the True Punch 5000. The machine is swift and certain, precise and elegant, all the qualities that make Germans so proud of their engineering prowess.
The exact opposite of these qualities – slowness and uncertainty – is what worries German industry about Brexit.
Notice the association of “slowness” and “uncertainty” with Brexit, against the “certain, precise and elegant” German machine!
“As soon as we know the new rules, we can go ahead. We are actually preparing for tariffs, which is the implication [of what the British government is saying], which would worsen our business. The goods we produce in Great Britain would become more expensive due to the tariffs, and we don’t know how our customers would react to that.”
Actually, the goods they produce in Great Britain would only become more expensive to the EU’s domestic market. Outside of the EU there would be no change in costs and a good chance that they would become cheaper! This, in itself, is Mark Mardel’s biased choice; to ignore the benefits and focus on the negatives.
When it comes to international markets, the Trumpf company already deals with nasty tariffs because it has branches in the USA, China and Japan. (South Korea has a trade agreement with the EU already.)
So why the concern? There is absolutely no concern to be seen for thousands of miles around!
Once again, the tiresome negative rhetoric spewing from the mardy mouth of the BBC stands unchallenged. We can only hope that Room 101 (Not the BBC programme; the 1984 room 101) is still a distant threat to democracy.
Edward,
Among the long list of areas the BBC do not understand are business and economics. They are idiots.
Grant,
I suspect that they do understand business etc but are just manipulating the news so as to put Brexit in the worst possible light in order to brainwash people into preferring a soft or even no Brexit . The GE result has handed the Remainers the initiative by undermining the ‘ will of the people argument’ . The Remainers , i.e. Most of the political class, are growing in confidence that they will be able to use the GE result to demolish the legitimacy of the referendum, force a vote in the HoP and defeat Brexit. The BBC is preparing the ground and has been since the day after the referendum.
If Trump can cause much angst in the ranks of the BBC from 4000 miles, how much better if we had a Trump in England.
Actually we do. Its Farage – Nigel Farage.
Please Mr Farage – rejoin the Tories and take over its leadership. The country needs you.
Churchill did something similar.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/833101/nigel-farage-brexit-theresa-may-tory-betrayal-open-borders-transitional-agreement-liam-fox
Now that is a damn good idea. For him to join forces with the Moggenator would be awesome!
UKs House of Lords have admitted they are out of touch, applies to HoP – what has changed?
“I was devastated but not shocked; I was hardly even surprised. I do not think that any of them are in the Chamber now but there were Members of this House who, two or three weeks before the referendum, told me they had not met a single person advocating Brexit. That applied to others in the London-based elite outside this Parliament and it indicates, perhaps at the extreme end, the difficulties of us in Westminster relating to what was going on in the Country. ”
Outcome of the European Union Referendum – Motion to Take Note 05Jul2016
{theyworkforyou.com // Lord Whitty Chair // EU Internal Market Sub-Committee }
Dystopian,
Yes, but they are both anti-establishment. The Establishment would never allow it and we, the people, have no say in this country. Democracy is dead here.
“…you (Owen Jones) know one of the reasons so many more go to food banks? Is that Job Centres are allowed to tell them to go there. And under your Government (Labour) they weren’t allowed to do this.” @8:02
Jacob Rees Mogg does fist bump with Ali G … “Ali G Interview – Jacob Rees Mogg (16/2/1999)”
“…you say what you think, and if you say what you think it makes politics much more interesting, than if you read a script that someone else has given you.” – Jacob Rees-Mogg
{Syria and Isis have no easy answers’ | Owen Jones meets Jacob Rees-Mogg @1:06}
How different would that Ali G interview have been if it were Theresa May!
Here they are
“…no, you prove if . Show us what we (UK) actually owe you (EU). Come up with some figures. That’s very difficult for them (EU) as our strict legal obligations, as you very well know, are nil.” – Jacob Rees-Mogg
So how did this all come about. Does it date back to pre-WW2/?
Is it thought that the very creation of the BBC was to control our thoughts and condition us?
A clever concept in the guise of entertainment and then we are forced to fund it through taxation.
Is it aided by the fact that we are conditioned to believe that our children must endeavour to get into university, the very place where they are indoctrinated into the liberalist mindset?
Thoughts please?
What a prophet, and what writing.
That line about us having all the gobshites because society can`t use them is profound.
The line about our enemies taking comfort from the flaccid uselessness and deviancy of the elite and their self-loathing is exactly what I`d think if I was getting my son ready to fight here in the UK.
The trail of weirdos, needy lardarses and inarticulate perverts on each and every channel would definitely have me thinking that this country has given up, and it ripe for the taking.
Which, I`d imagine, is what the BBC actually want.