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  1. AsISeeIt says:
    April 24, 2018 at 7:06 am

    One suspects that the lanky lightweight would-be matinée idol Dan Walker has not yet been completely inculcated with the lefty mindset. Of course his perch on the feminin-dominated BBC Breakfast sofa is precarious – his co-presenter, the fully-paid-up BBC sistazs union chapel member Louise Minchin, will occasionally be moved to slap him down whenever he shows a little too much…. let’s call it ‘maleness’.

    Perhaps there’s some hope for the young man. Some spark of independent thought remains.

    And our Dan hints at the level to which BBC presenters are battered into subservience to a uniformity of politically correct right-on outlook by a noisy vociferous lefty minority of viewers.

    This morning he muses “You know these British citizens who are not particularly happy about the birth of the Royal baby, well they should see this American media coverage, with the National Anthem and all”.

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    • thirstypak says:
      April 24, 2018 at 8:27 am

      5 minute warning……Dan ‘never on a Sunday’ has just proclaimed Lammy is coming on at 8:30……brace yourselves!!!

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  2. AsISeeIt says:
    April 24, 2018 at 7:08 am

    I know I’m being a little obtuse – but what exactly do the BBC mean by the term ‘Female Statue’ ?

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    • Scroblene says:
      April 24, 2018 at 7:18 am

      It comes from Captain Mainwaring answering the phone in the bank and muttering: –

      “Elizabeth, statue”?…

      I think my coat is called for PDQ…

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    • Ian Rushlow says:
      April 24, 2018 at 7:56 am

      Allow me to explain. All previous statues in this country have been of men only. Excluding Queen Victoria. And Boudica. Plus Elizabeth 1. And Florence Nightingale. Not forgetting the inn keeper, Mary Seacole. And various others. And the reason for this is the prevailing, er, white male patriarchy. So because this is the very first statue of a woman then it is necessary to specify that it is a female statue, otherwise members (no pun intended) of the public would get confused. Is that clear? (c) a BBC Junior Editor 2018

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      • Fedup2 says:
        April 24, 2018 at 8:51 am

        Toady watch

        More popcorn -Martha interviewing some bloke from Cambridge analytic . She was ready to give him the traditional al beeb beating but he just wasn’t having it .

        It had echos of the great Cathy Newman prof Peterson encounter . They did the “ running out of time “ thing so that they could put on some meaningless crap .

        The data issue is of no interest . If you put anything on the web – including this – it goes in a file somewhere and is used for something

        . If someone could explain the benefit of being on the mushbook I’d be grateful .

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        • Fedup2 says:
          April 24, 2018 at 8:57 am

          Toady watch 2

          Toady is reporting on traffic chaos in Toronto – serious questions are being asked about the enforcement of traffic law in the city as apparently someone drove on the pavement for a mile before stopping . It’s feared he did not have insurance .
          Al beeb is marginalising such mass murder to an ordinary event which will be completely forgotten by the baby is named.

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        • MarkyMark says:
          April 24, 2018 at 9:12 am

          Burglars know when you have left the house?

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        • MartinW says:
          April 24, 2018 at 9:14 am

          And when that admirable spokesman for Cambridge Analytica said that [contrary to the media’s narrative] they did not work with the Trump Campaign, Martha Carney immediately shut down the interview. It would have much too dangerous for the BBC to risk further disclosure of the truth.

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  3. scribblingscribe says:
    April 24, 2018 at 8:46 am

    Only the BBC. The Toronto van attack on its main news site is centred around a picture of a muslim woman with a hand to her eye, as if crying.

    What on earth can the BBC be suggesting?

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  4. GCooper says:
    April 24, 2018 at 8:55 am

    With an awful predictability, on with Toady this morning while the tea brewed. Within seconds ‘Windrush’ followed by that imbecile Humphreys alleging that NHS ‘shortages’ are due to ‘an ageing population’ and no mention of a few million immigrants adding to the burden.

    I’m getting quite quick at locating the off switch.

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  6. Up2snuff says:
    April 24, 2018 at 9:34 am

    Don’t know where to start with the errors, deviousness, propaganda and sheer deceits from the TOADY Programme this morning and I did not listen to it all – only half.

    The GOP (Grand Old Party – the Republicans) is a new Party apparently, just like En Marché. Roland Farrow is brought on. He’s written a book. Oooh, more advertising on the BBC! Actually, that is not the point: “Please will you slur President Trump for us? We promise not to ask you which Party you support and vote for.”. Two weeks is a long time in politics and apparently Iran is no longer active in Syria. At all. It has never, ever, had a leader who stated they wished to destroy Israel. All this just fourteen days after they were active there with Russia. Funny that. And then, suddenly, at the end of the item – hey ho – Iran is back in Syria and those nasty (a BBC inference) Israelis are concerned about (self-defence) attacking Iran. Old people live longer because they are constantly sick and ill and draining all the resources from the NHS so we are all going to have to pay more tax for them. Yeah, right.

    BBC, may I suggest that you listen to your own news coverage. Both immediate and then the recent past. Then take a listen to stuff from Radio 4 in, say, the past three to four years.

    And please pay attention to it.

    Then, please eliminate the errors, deviousness, propaganda and sheer deceits from your future News & Current Affairs coverage. I, together with many thousands of other listeners, will thank you.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      April 24, 2018 at 12:12 pm

      Up – I’m rationed on al beeb so didn’t hear that but but the standard al beeb tactic with regard to President Trump is to get a democrat on – friend of Hillary and let him / her go off on one without challenge.
      Media doing its best to undermine him but seems the American public is getting more used and approving of him. Lord god give him a second term when he really can get going on the liberal swamp.,

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      • Up2snuff says:
        April 24, 2018 at 9:24 pm

        Apologies to Mr Farrow, my keyboard was suffering from BBC diction: apparently he is known as Ronan not Roland.

        Yes, Fed, at the time of listening I had a suspicion that Mr Farrow was a Democrat and his Wiki page (usual cautions), just viewed, suggests he may be so as he has worked for Hillary Clinton.

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    • Up2snuff says:
      April 24, 2018 at 9:27 pm

      I say, Sir! Are you suggesting that the F&CO is like our Home Office? Not fit for purpose?

      Well, there’s a thing …

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  8. fakenewswatcher says:
    April 24, 2018 at 10:34 am

    Thanks for this piccie. ‘Peerage Alliance’. One target drifts into view.
    Prepare the artillery.

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  9. scribblingscribe says:
    April 24, 2018 at 3:22 pm

    Interesting thought in The Times:

    “Lord Cooper of Windrush said the Tories would find it almost impossible to win in an area with a non-white population above 30 per cent, adding that by the time of the next general election there would be more than 120 seats where that was the case.”

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