It seems that the BBC are so intent on getting rid of a Brexit supporting minister that they are prepared to spread Iranian propaganda to do so.
We now hear that Boris is ‘under mounting pressure’…why?…because Corbyn has demanded he be sacked. That’s not pressure is it? That’s just the usual Labour politicking by a man who knows he has the BBC in his pocket and whom he can rely upon to broadcast his views as the most important views in the country…never mind he is closely linked to the Iranian regime….so you have to ask what he is doing to help Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe….not a lot from what I can see….just playing politics and using Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a pawn in his game.
Then we have this from the BBC…
Michael Gove has come under fire for saying he didn’t know what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing in Iran when she was arrested in 2016.
Mr Gove told Andrew Marr he would “take her husband’s assurance” that the British-Iranian citizen was on holiday.
So Gove is under attack because he says he didn’t know what the woman was doing in Iran but he understands she was on holiday….a perfectly normal statement but the BBC et al have jumped on him.
Funny then that I have just listened to Peter Allen ask Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s sister-in-law what was she doing in Iran and was she on holiday? Surely there is no doubt at all, why ask the question? Should Peter Allen now resign? Will he be vilified by the Left-wing vultures out to ‘defend’ Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for his “cavalier approach to international diplomacy”?
Ahhh…just seen this from Guest Who….maybe James O’Brien will tear into Allen as he seems to have done to Marr… awkward times ahead in the BBC canteen…
Isn’t the question itself irresponsible? Her family, the FO & her employer concur that she was on holiday. Only the Iranian regime disagreed until Johnson & Gove opened their mouths. Marr must have known this. https://t.co/xnBgMBCqiY
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) November 12, 2017
That was in response to this…the Sun also stirring things…And the response from a Scots Nat [no doubt trying to deflect from Salmond’s love-in with Press TV]
Why did Marr ask this? Is he part of the save Bojo plot or just another natural BBC Tory hack at heart?
— Cailean Donnchadh (@CokieDee62) November 12, 2017
Like rats in a sack.
The BBC keeps saying that Boris said he thought she was teaching in Iran at the time…he did not…he made no mention of a time or a location for her activities he merely said…
“When I look at what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing, she was simply teaching people journalism as I understand it,” he said.
He added: “Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, nor her family, has been informed about what crime she has actually committed. And that I find extraordinary, incredible.”
She was arrested for activities she had supposedly engaged in whilst in the UK working for the BBC….and I note the sister-in-law said she had no idea why she was arrested and yet the family know perfectly well why…as they made clear previously….
British-Iranian aid worker sentenced to jail for ‘cooperation with BBC’ – family
The family of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been sentenced to five years in jail in Iran on undisclosed charges, said she has been accused by a Revolutionary Court of acting against national security by cooperating with the BBC.
The family said that at the appeal hearing two new accusations have been raised against her: being the head of recruitment for the BBC Persian service, and knowingly being married to a British spy.
Speaking in response to Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s jail sentence, Francesca Unsworth, director of the BBC World Service Group, said on Monday:
“Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has never worked for BBC Persian. She worked briefly [err… 18months] for BBC Media Action, our international development charity, in a junior administrative capacity.”
Funny how the BBC always, always avoids mentioning that.
“That’s just the usual Labour politicking by a man who knows he has the BBC in his pocket”
Not for the first time, I find myself dumbfounded as to why the Tories are not going on the attack and pointing this out every time the subject is raised. Donald Trump would have aggressively questioned the very legitimacy of such lines of questioning, and it got him elected against the squawking of the left and the MSM. It’s time the Tories tried this tactic instead of playing on the left’s terms.
Always worth shuttling between here and ITTB, as it appears Mr. Burley has entered the friendly fire fray.
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/nazanin.html
I wonder if Bob & Jim will kiss and make up, or be made to, ‘for the greater good’.
Even rats in sacks can be trained if bigger rats know the buttons to push,
Brilliant summary Alan. And is all that we now need to know.
No wonder the BBC are having kittens.
This reminds me of Farzad Barzoft in 1990, who was thrown to Saddams wolves by the Observer. Poor bloke was executed.
Colluding with the left is not a good idea. Not far off having an Israeli stamp on your passport around some of those barbaric Muslim states.
North Korea and Iran are just about the worst two countries it is possible to be detained by-absolutely no levers of human rights to pull with these revolutionary, west-hating nations of psychopathy. The BBC , of course say that she`s British. But Iran -being the nutjob nation that it is-thinks of her as Iranian. They don`t recognise “dual nationality”-and she and her family must have known this before she travelled.
Iran has taken hostages from the west since 1979, no point in saying we don`t know that.
Would happily trade them Orla, Frank, Lyse and all those other useless sand dancers at the Beeb . for the return of Ms Ratcliffe.
Still though , the BBC will think that the Iranian deal will have made Teheran sad and cross.
No end of excuses for terror and Islam, no excuses for a Tory Brexiteer whose name recognition infuriates them.
After being handed the head of Patel, the BBC and Labour smell blood and for different reasons are after Gove and Johnson. The BBC to stop Brexit and Labour to force May to resign and trigger an election. All it needs is for May to ignore the bluster. I hope she ponders now how has getting Patel to resign helped her?
Gradually it is dawning that there will be no ‘deal’ with the EU. Time to bank our 60B Euros in a fighting fund and speak to the US and Commonwealth about deals.