In these dark days, where we have to worry about “possible Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum“, perhaps we should look at other votes too?
Mo Farah has won the Sports Personality award. Did Russia try to exert influence on the vote in order to subvert democracy?
Well just look at this damning evidence. Suspicious Kremlin linked Twitter bot accounts have posted many tweets about Mo Farah. Perhaps we should have a second referendum Sports Personality Vote? Also, where’s our £350m?
When does Mo Farah race? Live stream information and more from London 2017 ahead of his final race https://t.co/ey60FgvqFl #Russia
— RUSSIA NEWS SERVICE (@EINRussiaNews) August 12, 2017
#Russia Mo Farah Falls but Hardly Misses a Step in 10,000-Meter Victory: The defending Olympic champion will … https://t.co/1AcYxaAiXS
— Russia (@RssRussia) August 14, 2016
Politics Mo Farah 'really excited' for Rio – Mo Farah says he's excited for Rio but feels bad that Russia's cle… https://t.co/mmTLwHke0v
— George R (@GRCONS) July 25, 2016
#WadaLeaks: Rafael Nadal, Mo Farah among sport icons exposed in results list https://t.co/N0X6RjjAQ7 pic.twitter.com/V86a6l7URE
— RT (@RT_com) September 20, 2016
vX – you are a stirer – all because Putin rang Mohammed to congratulate him and President Trump hasn’t rung yet . Our PM is stony silent too and the electoral commission is not investigating the 99.9% vote for st Mohammed .
He must deserve a peerage in the New Years honours as well as who ever won strictly , x files , orvthat thing in the Aussie jungle
Unnamed Downing St sources tell me that Boris Johnson flew into a rage when the result was announced, shouting, “I hate all muslims and I am a racist Brexiteer so we need to ban sport now.”
I have a very painful face, Fedup, due my cheeks being distended too much in recent days. 🙁
VX has graciously agreed to stand in for me. 😉
Doing a first rate job as far as I can see. 🙂
Up snuff
If you want to have a serious half hour can I recommend any al beeb “ light entertainment “ – except perhaps “clue” which is not the same without humph ( not the £65000k one )
As someone who gave up watching television over 12 years ago, my only possible comment is this: LOL.
Asked if he planned to retire, having become Sports Personality of the Year, Sir Mo replied with his usual passion, ‘Well, you know, the fame thing, the fans, the recognition, the achievement, you know, it’s a sort of drug…….’
The BBC awarding prizes for sports is like the government of Birkina Faso handing out prizes for nuclear medicine.
Prizes paid for by the uk taxpayers overseas give away Department of course .
Alex – I’m out of touch – I never realised burkino had got a Government at last – is it you?
Mo Farah winning SPOTY was completely predictable given he’s now retired and this was the last chance the BBC had to anoint the sainted one. Quite amusing that the link dropped between Liverpool and Teddington (he couldn’t be arsed to attend) just as he was to be interviewed on receipt of the award.
On SPOTY itself, does anyone else feel that this once-iconic programme has lost a lot of it’s sheen now that BBC broadcast so little live sport anymore? There’s hardly any video available for them to show, most noticeable in Cricket which was just glossed over.
Athletics in contrast is shown live on BBC, and benefited in this show by gaining first and third place.
How can we be sure that strictly and I’m a celebrity have not been hacked by the Russians.
Ha ha I understand that the police electoral fraud department – a hand picked unit of three guys named mo – have asked for ant and dec s emails in case there is evidence of collusion with unknown Russian elements .
The police commissioner has been asked for a comment but says she is too busy painting her nails blue
Didn’t watch strictly but I understand that the host – Gaby – Rolf – Gary – or some one may have used secret signs to tell Putin the way the voting was going and that dianne Abbot might win it by a margin of 110%.
That end of year thing is setting in
Don’t know about the Russians but we can be certain that the BBC did interfere in this vote, just as it interferes in all its other ‘votes’ , surveys , polls , audience selection etc etc. Nothing and no one can be allowed to get in the way of the BBC narrative that multiculturalism is good, that Muslims are lovely peaceful people and that black is good , white is bad and of course that the EU is brilliant.
Yes. If it wasn’t fixed why was the trophy in his place in his daughter’s hands London and not in the studio?
I don’t believe the results of any BBC programme where the public are able to “vote”. The BBC have been known to fiddle even with Blue Peter votes.
Plus the SPOTY is now so political it has become meaningless, where once it was worth watching. It doesn’t help that it is run by the buffoons Lineker and Balding, it looks so amateurish now. These two have a lot to say but little of import or sense, or based in reality.
SPOTY, oh dear.
As female and para sports are now given equal status to the men I was completely confused. Seeing sportspersons I had never heard of. It was a bit like “celebrity” mastermind.
Hats off to Gaby Logan though, her improvisation saved the BBC vast amounts of embarrassment
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What purpose did the Noel Gallagher “All you need is love” intervention serve other than to highlight the gap in the schedule resulting from the paucity of video content available?
Understood the need for a musical backdrop whilst saying goodbye to those who have left us this year but was someone called “Rag and Bone man” really a good choice and appropriate?
Has the bBBC reported this criticism of Corbyn?
‘They can’t face both ways forever!’ Tory Brexiteer blasts Labour with BRUTAL point – Express
Apologies my previous post is clearly in the wrong thread should be the open thread.
I tried last night to put up a comment about the way the BBC control the Strictly outcome – before SPOTY – but failed. I didn’t post a weekly update on the way that the BBC manage the outcome of Strictly – but I could have done. Even by last week the judges were still being generous about Alexandra’s dancing – there were weeks like the Mary Poppins week where she was definitely without bounce – but to listen to the judges comments you wouldn’t have known. These last two weeks there have been large articles with soft focused photos of Alexandra in the Telegraph usually commenting on the loss of her mother. Maybe her publicist is better than the others (I haven’t forgotten from the year that Susanne Reid competed that the BBC allocated each contestant a PR person). There were even various articles in various papers saying that the Great British Public were not voting for Alexandra because she was black, as though we could forget that last year’s winner was the same colour. We couldn’t forget, because Ore kept popping up in the Strictly audience.
I think that somewhere in that last week of Strictly the BBC realised that allowing an unpopular contestant to win this year would further reduce audience numbers next year – and someone else had to win. Gemma really wasn’t as good as the others and Debbie wouldn’t have drawn in the young audience and the BBC is obsessed with getting the young viewer – left Joe.
Maybe the BBC at some top level meeting realised they couldn’t have 2 unpopular black people winning the two major BBC Christmas competitions. Unpopular because of who they are not because of the colour of their skin. Only one could win. Although there is talk in Strictly about ‘waiting for the figures to be verified’, we don’t know by whom and how. I guess SPOTY is the same. And that, ladies and gentleman is how Joe came to win Strictly.
I hate to diagree with you Deborah, but I thought Alexandra was clearly the best contestant over the series and on the night. With Debbie being a cigarette paper behind in the series, but dropped off a bit in the final. I said to my wife that Joe would win because Alexandra was in the play-off twice and Debbie once. I still suspect the weekly results the BBC come up with, plus the ones in the final, but Alexandra’s supporters probably assumed she would win because she was well ahead (in my opinion at least) so didn’t bother voting for her. We never vote in these things, and this is the only one I watch.
I believe the BBC always make sure that two of the better ones get involved in an early play-off to ensure that people will keep watching so as to not miss a “shock”. Also the points awarded for Judge’s votes are a joke: if the competitor votes are given as follows; 36, 35, 35 ,35, 32, 28,28,26 – the points awarded will be 8, 7, 7, 7, 6, 5, 5, 4.
Whereas properly the votes should be 8, 7, 7, 7, 4, 3, 3, 1. The last place should always get 1 vote unless the bottom place is tied. It’s a clear fiddle in open sight, hoping that most people would miss such a travesty. Doing it that way gives the worst competitors an adantage they don’t deserve.
” ‘waiting for the figures to be verified’, we don’t know by whom and how.” I think they will be verified by Dianne Abbott with help from Vladimir Putin.
Time was in the late seventies and early eighties that my dad and brothers WOULD bother with this Sports Personality stuff.
Dennis Taylor, back to Harvey Smith I`m thinking, but was past my bedtime and who cared? That said-there were BIG figures like Ali on satellite or Ian Botham. Real heroes, even icons.
And now it`s a bunch of nobodies who advertise quorn, smile a lot or get loads of money for being brain dead. I mean-Lewis Hamilton? Pretty boy speeding in a souped up car?…can see that in Worcester any weeknight if I dared stay out there after dark.
No-should have had its plug pulled after David Coleman died-and even THAT was twenty years past its point.
Graham Gooch?…Graham Taylor?….Damon Hill and Nigel Mansell?…call them what you like, but personalities they ain`t!
That said-do like the idea of the Russians fiddling it-why else was Lineker over there only a week previously? World Cup Draw my thermals!