Yesterday we thought that the BBC looked like it was going to completely ignore the disorderly behaviour of a Muslim Labour MP as she was asked by C4 whether she woud intervene and ask her aunt, the PM of Bangladesh no less, to release a man who has been ‘vanished’ by her government. This resulted in claims from her that C4 were being racist and finished with a somewhat sinister and nasty comment from her wishing ill upon the pregnant C4 producer present at the interview. Tulip Siddiq apparently headed off to the police to report C4 for something or other…no doubt a ‘hate crime’.
I suggested the BBC might ignore or downplay this. They ignored it. A Labour MP with close family connections to a brutal regime who makes threatening comments to journalists…..and the BBC stays silent.
Then today we had PMQs and Nadine Dorries asked a question relating to this event and was rapidly slapped down by the Speaker who intervened sharply and accused her of being ‘disorderly’ as she hadn’t informed Siddiq that she was going to ask a question about her in the House. Probably one of, if not the most, standout point of PMQs.
And yet John Pienaar completely ignored it in his wash up of PMQs immediately afterwards as did Emma Barnett who made no comment at all about such an extraordinary event. Looking at the website and there is still no story about Siddiq but Nadine Dorries does get a swift mention but no explanation of what was going on….it’s about Dorries not Siddiq….funny the BBC’s priorities….and of course tucked away on the politics page on a sidebar…..
PMQs: Speaker says Nadine Dorries ‘disorderly’ with Tulip Siddiq question
The Speaker tells off Nadine Dorries for not informing Tulip Siddiq ahead of naming her in a question at PMQs.
The Conservative MP made reference to the Labour MP and a TV interview, and her family links to the Bangladeshi prime minister.
And they mention it in this run-down of PMQs…..but note the link they give…it’s to the Daily Mail story about Siddiq and C4…because the BBC hasn’t thought it worth doing one on Siddiq’s behaviour themselves….and again no explanation of those ‘allegations’….
What other subjects came up?
Conservative MP Nadine Dorries brought up allegations about Labour MP Tulip Saddiq, who has apologised for comments about a pregnant Channel 4 journalist.
Naturally not headline news but slipped in under ‘other subjects’ rather than raised as one of the standout moments in this non-descript report about the whole of PMQs…..
Prime Minister’s Questions: The verdict
Almost as if the BBC were trying to hide this story for some reason. What if Siddiq’s aunt had been PM of Myanmar and it was a Rohingyan that had been ‘vanished’ by the Buddhists? Any interest from the BBC do you think?
Front page news.
About par for the course there then…
The murky world of corrupt Asian politics continues apace in UK.
Fascinating incident. If it was a white conservative male mp whose aunt was the leader of a country which had done such a thing and said that he would be without a head now, whip removed , journos on the doorstep – nhs maternity mouthpiece spouting about still births …
Where is the equality ? It is there when suited but sometimes not. Liberals muse about when will the day come that racial prejudice goes away . Not when cases like this happens. Tulip / cacti has done a whip ordered apology .
Msm is all over the us presidents’ twitters but not the threatening attitude of an Asian labour woman MP whose personal characteristics seem to be more important than her conduct.ignored by al beeb
meanwhile, they’re quite happy to have this sex pest (allegedly) on the news https://www.facebook.com/traditionalbritaingroup/videos/1493186510735337/
I think it’s called ‘impartiality’ – with special exemptions courtesy of BBC editorial policy.
Who was this Saville character? – ‘Never heard of him’ – He’s not on iPlayer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Personally I was not impressed by the inordinately self satisfied Thornberry. What was rather interesting and it’s the first time I can remember seeing it was that one MP asked am economic question and the Speaker, correctly, said it was not about government policy and moved on. It is something that ought to happen more often. Ed Miliband it might be recalled used to ask detailed questions which really ought to have been referred to the particular department involved. But the Speaker never intervened with those.
Personally I was not impressed by the inordinately self satisfied Thornberry. What was rather interesting and it’s the first time I can remember seeing it was that one MP asked am economic question and the Speaker, correctly, said it was not about government policy and moved on. It is something that ought to happen more often. Ed Miliband it might be recalled used to ask detailed questions which really ought to have been referred to the particular department involved. But the Speaker never intervened with those.
It’s disgraceful how many politicians are related to each other. Democracy should be the government of the people, by the people for the people. Not a tiny, self-serving cabal who have open contempt for the people.