Here we go, a brand new OPEN THREAD on which to detail the bias!

Corbyn reckons his star is rising…or rather the steam….but rising from what?

Marr interviews Corbyn in a pretty lightweight effort that revealed more about Marr than Corbyn who just waffled on about justice and equality whenever asked a question that might prove tricky.

Marr told us we faced a big choice….whether to essentially stay in the EU, inside its ‘force-field’, or head out into the world and ally with those such as the US.  It’s almost as if the referendum never happened and it’s still to be run….I always thought we’d made that ‘choice’ already…to leave the EU…which means leaving the EU imposed structures such as the Single Market, the Customs Union and of course the ECJ.   Why on earth the BBC keeps on suggesting we should remain under a foreign state’s legal jurisdiction is beyond me.  Do American citizens living here come under US law or British law?  British law of course.  EU citizens should be under British law not some parallel legal system.

Marr also suggested we needed a wealth tax….so let’s tax everyone twice…and do it retrospectively…..a mad and nasty idea that is all about the politics of envy not to mention stupidity.  Who would ever invest in their home or in savings if they thought the government was going to pick their pocket at any random time in the future if it felt the need?  It’s just plain nasty politics attacking the wealthy who in most cases have probably earnt the money and even if they inherited it those who willed it to them worked hard to get it.

Marr also thought that public workers should get a 5% pay rise because ‘it’s not unfair is it?’.  Nice of the BBC to be campaigning on behalf of the workers.  No bias there.

We also heard that only the EU can protect us from the predations of the big tech companies….only the EU can make them pay taxes and act responsibly….note not a single condemnatory word about Corbyn betraying the Leave vote nor about his remarkable u-turn on Brexit….or ‘evolution’ as the BBC now terms Labour flip-flops.

Red Andy still channelling Marx and the usual BBC socialist mantras.

Corbyn insisted on Marr that the Labour Party was all about the People…they could decide Party policy…Guido suggests that’s not happening as Corbyn blocks a vote on Brexit….too late for Marr…but will the question be asked on the Today show?…seems quite a central question at the heart of Corbyn’s ‘man of the people’ appeal……Marr suggested that 66% of the Party members wanted to stay in Single Market [and hence the EU by default]…..

Labour members will not be given a vote on the party’s Brexit policy at conference after it was decided it shouldn’t be prioritised among the eight most important topics for discussion. Big loss for Labour Remainers who hoped to get the party to vote in favour of single market membership and freedom of movement. Momentum helped the Corbynista Brexiters keep it off the agenda to save him from having the party split down the middle. Talk about papering over the cracks and making yourselves look completely irrelevant…

UPDATE: Labour Remainers who wanted to use a vote to adopt single market membership as policy are livid:

Clegg gets madder and madder as so many Remoaners seem to be….he can’t wait for older people to die off…

Second Brexit referendum needed because Leave voters are dying off, Nick Clegg suggests

Mr Clegg, who was deputy prime minister in the coalition government, said the “high point” of support for Brexit had passed because “the oldest voters voted for Brexit in the largest numbers” while the young voted to remain in the EU.

He believes that MPs will reject whatever Brexit deal the government negotiates, and at that point Britain should have the chance to vote on a reformed EU with the UK in an “outer orbit” of it.

Mr Clegg, who lost his seat in June’s general election, argued that voters were “promised a utopia” in the referendum campaign and would change their minds in droves once they saw the reality.

‘Reality’?  What does Clegg know about reality?  He seems well out of touch with that as the polls show even Remain voters just want to get on with Brexit as to fudge it will only bring disaster which is what Clegg and Co seem intent on engineering.

No doubt Clegg and Dimbleby will be doing the ‘exit’ poll at the cemetry to check the optimum time for a quick referendum. ….Doris, Arthur, Nigel, Albert and Maisie…yep they’ve gone over to the other side…down below probably being Brexit voters….call Jez…his time has come…..

Always eye opening when you start to zone in on a single BBC reporter and your every thought about their ilk is confirmed as they reinforce the stereotype of what a liberal, holier than thou priesthood is seen as.

I made a video about how scary the world is and how none of us know what we're talking about – just to perk up your Monday. pic.twitter.com/0tQ8xMwYfP

— Benjamin Zand (@BenjaminZand) July 3, 2017

Just the usual BBC relativism and attempt to label those who do judge good and bad as facsists.  The ‘Enlightenment’ and universal values are finished, ironically killed off by the very liberals who should be espousing them the most and who indeed base their  lecturing sermons to us upon them and yet in doing so promote the most intolerant, backward and primitive cultures that are intrinsically opposed to those Enlightenment, Western values.

LOL…the ‘pubs’ that BBC types frequent…so spit and sawdust no?

Forcing everyone in the pub to watch our documentary/the end of Eastenders… pic.twitter.com/Rl3NXaLFse

— Benjamin Zand (@BenjaminZand) September 18, 2017

Really excellent and moving report on 'from our own correspondent' by @BenjaminZand. I nearly cried too, Benjamin. #thankyou

— Sam Smith (@samhenleysmith) September 23, 2017

A new tactic from the BBC to tug at your heart strings?

We are well used to the well modulated, middle class tones of BBC journalists sermonizing to us about immigration and the plight of ‘desperate’ migrants.  Most people recognise this for what it is, the liberal Establishment’s extremist propaganda pressing for open borders and an unending stream of people from around the world to be allowed to force their way into Europe, the BBC talking down to us and ‘educating’ us on our moral duty.  How many times have you heard a BBC journalist question a phone-in caller’s morality or sense of humanity if they voice an opinion that goes against the BBC mantra?

The BBC knows that such a message from the privileged, vastly overpaid and clearly contemptuous of the ignorant great unwashed, BBC journalists will be received with a great deal of cynicism.  So what to do?  How about the same message but  different messenger…how about a ‘working class’ regional voice…such as Benjamin Zand from Liverpool…admittedly the name perhaps evokes exactly the same thoughts about the BBC types as any middle class voice would….never mind using someone of immigrant stock to push the message…not likely to voice anti-migration thoughts is he?

Seems his reports are seen by many as somewhat one-sided…naturally he is a ‘victim’ of their prejudice….

A man from Liverpool. I make documentaries and then people send me offensive messages on the internet.

Zand is in fact of Iranian extraction and is BBC through and through…his interests are their interests….but he has a Scouser’s accent.  No doubt the BBC thought this would give some street cred to their ‘reports’ on immigration and fend off the criticism of a privileged elite imposing their extremist open borders immigration policy upon us.

Zand appeared on FOOC which was just a puff piece advertising his fuller Panorama programme…who said the BBC doesn’t have adverts?  Just for their own programmes….maybe they should run the ITV and SKY schedules past us as well?

Unfortunately the programme seemed to reinforce my ‘prejudices’ as we heard that these migrants are in fact economic migrants who come here expecting to be given jobs, housing and money.  Despite that the message is the  usual….we must do more to help migrants come here in safety.  His real target is those who want to block migration…and he does so by sensationalising the problems of those who hit the migration trail and blaming the problems on those who don’t provide a concvenient and easy route for people to come to Europe.

Watch @BenjaminZand's doc exploring the horrors of the migrant trail, and the impact of the EU blocking it – tonight, at 8.30pm on BBC1 https://t.co/qYnaW4vajH

— Amnesty UK (@AmnestyUK) September 18, 2017

BBC One tomorrow, looking at horrors people face on the migrant trail & the impact of millions of EU money spent on stopping people coming pic.twitter.com/u62uBBpNeC

— Benjamin Zand (@BenjaminZand) September 17, 2017

One example was an Iraqi who said he decided to come to Europe when his heart began to fail and he needed treatment..he couldn’t of course go back to Iraq because, he said, he had no family there.  Now that’s pretty unlikely…and he didn’t have any family in Europe…so rather than go back to a country of his birth, to the language, culture and religion of his birth, he comes to Europe.  It’s a similar paradoxical excuse we get from the BBC when they tell us illegal immigrants can’t be deported back to their home country because the family has roots here now and it would be like going to a strange and unfamilair place if they were sent home….but the migrants in the first place break their ties with their homeland and culture and come to a completely foreign, strange and unknown place when they come to the UK.  So how is it OK for the BBC to encourage them to leave all that is familiar and traditional to them in order to come to an alien Europe?  Why is going back to the homeland a fearful experience whilst uprooting themselves from that homeland and exposing themselves to the extreme dangers of the migration route and human traffickers OK?

It was a bizarre programme…clearly intended to engender sympathy and a new accepting attitude towards migrants and yet it presented evidence that showed how wrong that would be and how migrants are being lured by tales of riches and false promises…so often given credence by the BBC and its like themselves [the BBC actually published a guide for African migrants on how to make the journey here ‘safely’]….Merkel’s open invitation to the world to come to Europe is often quoted by migrants…Merkel ‘invited us’.

Shame the BBC doesn’t spend so much time, money and emotion on the extremely negative effects of such migration on the lands to where the migrants go.

Frightening where the propaganda starts now as the BBC narrative infiltrates schools and ‘poisons’ children’s minds….

My primary school in Huyton is watching current affairs docs & showing me love on Twitter. I have officially achieved all I ever dreamed of. https://t.co/YzJjuyK4Kj

— Benjamin Zand (@BenjaminZand) September 19, 2017

@BenjaminZand teachers and all staff @malvernprimary were so impressed with your programme last night. Talk of the staffroom! #proud ????

— Malvern Primary (@malvernprimary) September 19, 2017

Just what are Pienaar’s politics?  He has given a very good impression of being a Labour fanboy for many years, you’d hardly ever hear a critical word come out of his mouth about Labour and not much has changed.  Just listened to him explain Labour’s position on Brexit…he admitted it wasn’t really clear but he said…that’s their job as the Opposition.  So Labour’s job is to confuse, baffle and essentially lie to the voters…just as they did throughout the general election and Pienaar thinks that is acceptable?  Corbyn lied to the public and did massive u-turns on his famously long and deeply held convictions about so many things….the BBC barely blinked an eye…indeed they describe his changes of policy as Corbyn ‘evolving’ which is a description intended to portray him as reasonable and open to change when needed when in fact he cynically exploited his position and the BBC refused utterly to nail him for it.  So not a cynical, opportunistic vote buying scam as Corbyn u-turns in an exercise of massive deception but a lovely ‘evolution’ of his politics.   Wonder what they will make of it when he ‘evolves’ back into the swamp creature that he really is.  May, of course, was slaughtered for her u-turns.

And now Corbyn has done another back-flip…promising in the election that Labour was backing Brexit and leaving the Single Market….but that’s all changed now…now we are to be kept in the Single Market in an open-ended agreement that just means we are in the EU but on far worse terms, held hostage by the likes of Druncker.  May of course has betrayed Brexit and the voters and has rather decided to do what her Remain cabinet colleagues want…keep us in the EU until, they hope, things change and Brexit can be dumped.  Just why are we paying the EU for access to their markets when they sell us far more than we sell to them?  Shouldn’t they pay us for access to our market?  We have no legal or moral obligation to pay them anything.

Pienaar went on to suggest this was a good politicial ploy by Labour….sit on the fence, keep everyone guessing and then swoop in when Brexit goes wrong [er…will it?] and then pick up the pieces with Jezza in No10.

Apparently all those fanatical Jezza supporters are merely ‘idealists’ who want fairness and equality…not extremist far-left thugs as the BBC portrays anyone on the Right then?

Pienaar seems a little in awe, if not in love, with Corbyn.

The BBC has run a campaign of hate and demonisation against those people in Britain who voted for Brexit and in particular the politicians who led the campaign such as Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.

The perfect example of this was their reporting on the death of a Polish man in a late night fracas in Harlow which the BBC sensationalised as a racist killing #duetoBrexit…the BBC telling us that Brexit has apparently given licence to all the racists in Britain to freely express their hatred and prejudice towards immigrants.  Britain, the BBC frequently opines, is a ‘nastier and more racist place’ since Brexit.

The death of the Polish man was reported in alarmist tones such as this on the Six O’clock News…

‘the fear is that this was a frenzied racist attack triggered by the Brexit referendum’

BBC Newsnight went all the way and put the blame squarely on Brexit and indeed put out an accusation that Nigel Farage had ‘blood on his hands’ and told us of ‘the ugly mood in our country post-Brexit.’

Trouble is there was not a jot of real evidence this was the case and indeed the truth was that it was the Pole who started the fight and who made racist comments.

The BBC have refused to apologise for what is in effect a blood-libel against all those who voted Leave accusing them of being racists and Fascists.  Tony Blair likes to say openly that Brexit ‘was driven by the Far Right’...a complete lie….but it is not just him who uses that language, it is the respectable, impartial, non-partisan, accurate and truthful BBC that does so also.  Emma Barnett saying ‘some might say Brexit is an extreme right-wing stance’….that was her immediate reaction to Dominic Grieve suggesting Corbyn was a hard-left politician.  Interesting reaction that tells us a lot….Barnett spits out an aggressive defence of hard-left Corbyn and does so by labelling Brexit as a Far-Right plan. Think we know where she is coming from…the same place so many of her BBC colleagues do….one on the Today show who recently labelled Brexit politicians as ‘Ultras’…and we all know what that means…extremist, fanatical, dangerous, violent, Far Right thugs.

The BBC has also refused to apologise to Nigel Farage despite making a hugely offensive comment about him that has led to both himself and his family being abused.

What has the BBC done?  It has ploughed on regardless and continued to peddle its campaign of hate against the British and promote the idea that they are all racist and are targeting the ‘other’….rather than apologise and admit their reporting has been racist and highly irresponsible, giving licence to Remain campaigners and so-called anti-racists to attack and vilify Leave voters and politicians, they double up on the claims and continue to peddle the type of anti-British narrative that they did in the reports about the Polish man…..

‘I want to get rid of my Polish accent’

About time Lord Hall Hall was hauled up before a Parliamentary committeee and asked to explain why he is presiding over an organisation that is running a hate campaign that paints white British people as far-right racists who hate immigrants.  Hall Hall was extremely bitter about losing the referendum and no doubt is happy to see his employees run such a campaign, he certainly does nothing to stop them.  Farage should sue him for every penny…he has a water-tight case against the BBC that would expose the anti-Brexit bias that runs throughout the BBC and its reporting.

The BBC were caught out by the Uber story as 40,000 drivers were put out of work at the stroke of a pen and a highly successful and ‘popular’ company was potentially put out of business in London at the whim of the Mayor, Sadiq Khan…TFL would never have done this without Khan signing it off, this being such a huge and consequential attack on a private company of such significance.

Khan is a Labour Mayor and undoubtedly did this to assuage Labour’s Union paymasters who have long campaigned against Uber….it must be seen as just another prong in the Labour attack on capitalism and Big Business.

As with Grenfell where Khan was practically invisible despite the London Mayor being ultimately responsible and the person who should be responding in a major way to help the local council, the BBC have not put Khan in the frame for the Uber attack and were pretty much onside yesterday about the decision noting on 5 Live that there is ‘a growing reality that rapes are on the increase’ …linking it to Uber.

Trouble is mini cabs have long been associated with sexual assaults and even Black Cab drivers have been caught carrying them out…so why does Khan and Co single out Uber?  Political?  You’d never guess from the BBC reports.

Who is really to blame…TFL for not regulating and issuing licences properly?….

A separate FOI revealed that in 2014/2015, a staggering 141 drivers were named as suspects in sex offences.

These included 31 in cases of rape, and 110 for other sexual assaults.

The figures relate to a wide range of vehicles, including legally booked and illegal minicabs, rickshaws, chauffer driven cars, and black cabs.

Angela Clarkson, 62, is secretary of the United Cabbies Group, the second largest taxi organisation in London.

Ms Clarkson, who has been a black cab driver for 30 years and lives in Chislehurst, has worked with organisations including the Suzy Lamplugh Trust in a bid to increase women’s safety when travelling in cabs.

She told the Standard: “These figures are absolutely appalling, the blame lies squarely at TfL’s door.

“For every hour that TfL’s offices were open at one point they were handing out one licence every three minutes and 40 seconds – it’s impossible to do the checks and balances.”

London black cab driver jailed for sex attacks on sleeping women

Cab driver John Worboys jailed for rape and sex attacks

London cab driver John Worboys given indeterminate jail sentence after being found guilty of 19 charges of drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women.

The judge said: “Drivers of licensed black cabs in London have a worldwide reputation not only for the reliability of their driving but for their professional trustworthiness. As somebody with an enduring and powerful interest in sexual matters you saw an opportunity through cab driving.

China had its credit rating dropped by S&P in the last couple of days….the BBC barely mentioned it despite China being the driving force behind the world economy …however Moody’s has downgraded the UK’s rating and that was big news….’#duetobrexit’ of course.

The irony is that Moody’s told the BBC that it had downgraded Britain’s rating because of a ‘looser fiscal framework’ being adopted….ie we are going to spend more and not cut the debt…we are going to abandon austerity.  So the BBC is warning us about this ‘alarming’ economic news and yet it is because the Government is abandoning the hated austerity that the BBC has fought against for the past 7 years.

Always amused, sort of, to hear Labour attack austerity and in the same breath attack the government for not having got debt down….the BBC never notices the paradox….it just campaigns for more money for everything as if there were some magic money tree.