The official start of the Election Campaign. We will be joined , no doubt , by political parties and organisations monitoring the bias of the Far Left pro EU BBC output and complaining to OFCOM and the Electoral Commission – favoured resting places for bubble dwellers .
Midweek Thread 6 November 2019
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Hey BBC … any chance, any chance at all, that you might FACT CHECK Corbyn, Swinson, Lucas etc any time soon ? Or is it just Boris you fact check ? It sure seems that way !! Bias, what Bias ?
“My god Robinson is married . Poor woman .
It never crossed my mind that such an odious man would be married “ some say / it has been said .
For the first time in my life i wrote a complaint, to OFCOM.
Watching the Primordial lump of slime called Kay Burley gesturing to an empty chair where she said James Cleverly MP should have been was jaw dropping biased. The man was not even scheduled to be on the programe it has now transpired
Its getting so fucking awful to watch these leftie presenters..And the most amazing thing about it is, they are no longer even trying to hide there bias…I thought the BBC was bad, Sky has rapidly caught up…
The election campaign has just started and these Tories seem to have inherited Theresa May’s complete ineptitude ..God help us..!!!!!
This, from ITBB, goes a bit further on they who would keep the BBC on the straight and narrow….
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2019/11/whatever-happened-to-aaqil-ahmed.html
I just asked all the local candidates if there were to be live hustings.
So far… one reply. TBP.
Maybe the others are relying on ‘what you need to know’ from the BBC?
Back to Bercow
Guido – who was not a fan – points out that protocol has been broken on the installation of the new speaker – in that the traditional first motion is to recommend that the queen bestows a peerage on the outgoing Speaker .
For some reason this didn’t happen … smiley emoji
Well, he always was a believer in updating protocol.
Light relief from Brexit………….
Antiques Road Trip has become a mainstay of afternoon scheduling, but really ? if anyone other than the on camera experts tried to offer the store owners anything over a fiver off the asking price we’d get shown the door. How does this work ? do the Beeb compensate the shop owners after the cameras stop rolling ?
Just watched Raj Bisram offer £60 for two items – one priced at £58 and the other at £65 (£123). It was accepted. Admittedly at auction the items occasionally reach a much higher figure, but generally not the price the store owner asked. Its assumed then that before the camera rolls items are already picked out and a price agreed beforehand, with the ticket price greatly increased for effect.
Complicated – but its the sort of afternoon I’ve had so far.
Brissles:
I have no doubt that on these programmes the item is selected and the price agreed long before the “stars” appear.
As you say, if you or I offered a dealer half what he was asking, we would get short shrift. I imagine the dealers get some sort of appearance fee, so the discounts do not really hurt their pockets, and of course, all proceeds go to Children in Need!
On the library table there is a16 page newspaper where all faces in the photos are WHITE people
… except for a token black drummer.
It’s the second edition of a monthly PR paper.
Guess who publishes it ?
The drummer is in front of a pink boat.
Review into bail laws
Cos we have so many crims, the policy seems to be to make the court process so slow so that half the perps have died or gone back to another country before there is trial.
That meant that when Paul Gambaccini was charged he was left on police bail for more than 1 year.
So the gov changed the rules so that limit would be 28 days.
So police started to not bother with bail. and just release people.. hoping that they will turn up in court after a year.
This is meaning that many perps have been left to freely harass their victims
Usually an exgirlfriend etc.
So the Women’s rights orgs have campaigned for this to be sorted.
Police Federation tweeted
@PFEW_Chair welcomes @ukhomeoffice
review of flawed pre-charge bail reforms:
✅✅’Our stance has always been that a 28 day bail limit was unrealistic’
✅✅’This is much needed and long overdue’
http://bit.ly/2rc8R90
Non- party , Tottenham black pastor wants to be next London Mayor, instead of Sadiq continuing
XR to sue police for wrongful arrest
Yet the man who served 2 years for rape at aged 22
is to get no compensation.
His family had managed to get access to Facebook messages the accuser had deleted to hide them from police.
They said it was so easy and that the police should have found them but didn’t.
The authorities say that although the conviction is quashed cos the case is no longer robust; It is not enough to prove him innocent.
The BBC believes that we are all guilty,
no licence – an investigation threat or visit from an officer.
So when the police say “there is not enough to prove him innocent” is that because the BBC beliefs are influencing our justice system,
moving from innocent until proven guilty to presumed guilty until proved innocent.
SG,
More Soros money for the legal challenge no doubt.
Times : Libby Purves finds the gender pay gap not so much of an issue, as why there is such a studiousness vs cuddliness pay gap.
ie hard-working Kuensberg gets paid way less than Claudia Winkleman does.
… doh what’s she want , communism ?
Star quality brings international sales, studiousness doesn’t.
Laura Kuenssberg doesn’t have Eve Pollard for a mother. The ‘media’ is very incestuous.
Eve Pollard is all that Claudia Winkleman has going for her. Her shampoo has more talent.
I seem to recall that Libby Purves had cuddliness in abundance (how she got into her yacht’s cabin, I know not) but she outdid that, many times over with her talkiness.
She would have several guests on her R4 MidWeek programme and then do most of the talking.
I was only surprised that the BBC bosses hadn’t done it sooner when her show was cancelled.
Times : Crisis as Europe is running out of everyday drugs
Pharmacies across Europe are running out of drugs such as painkillers, antibiotics and other basic medicines due to acute bottlenecks in deliveries from Asia.
Denmark has run out of more than a thousand medicines. German and Swedish stocks very low. Ditto UK.
Stew, will the BBC mention that news about medicines and the EU countries involved?
No?
I thought not.
Surely not, I thought it was only the UK that was going to run out of medicines, water, sandwiches, hope, sunshine…
Bias?
I read a bit about the XR success against the police on State Broadcaster’s up to the minute front page. There was not one word of sympathy for those condemned to have their lives disrupted whenever XR felt like it.
State Broadcaster loves its causes.
It’s pathetic.
Our local bbc radio is all excited about it on Facebook.
Why? Hundreds of miles away.
#CCBGB
I often comment on the Beeb in house paper, Guardian, suggesting that the XR protestors demonstrate in their hometown, disrupt their neighbours, familly and friends, the local shops and businesses,as far as I can tell no one has.
The left and right of what is turning out to be a very complex story
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-50311435/trump-envoy-transcript-explained-in-60-seconds
Tom Watson standing down as Labour Deputy Leader and MP.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50325666
Could I guess that something is about to come out about Mr Watson which has led to this ? So much talent on the labour front bench to take his place – a shadow home sec who denies anti semitism – Becky wrong daily – starmer who doesn’t know policy – shadow educashon sec who doesn’t do numbers – a business secretary who is anti Israel – a shadow foreign sec who doesn’t like white vans or George crosses but likes money – and a Marxist shadow chancellor who loves the IRA ….
I have a feeling that we might not hear much about this
A tweet from Australia’s equivalent of Channel4
… To me it’s bizarre to call that government “white supremacist”
.. when of course it does so much for ethnic minorities.
Whilst at the time doing so much action against white bad guys/criminals.
Newsnight must surely send a cab for her again after this?
How can you put that up without putting the context
..that JHB tweeted that of course Cleverly wasn’t on the Burley show, cos at that time he was booked to be on Julia’s show and that’s where he was.
So Kay’s empty chair was a diabolical stunt.
I rather assumed that anyone reading this would be well aware of the context from all shared this morning.
What is remarkable is how successful the media mob have been on social media muddying waters with claim and counter claim, and all manner of industry colleagues RTing what suits.
At the rate they are going she’ll end up with a BAFTA for it.
If the Tories had an ounce of self respect they’d announce they’ll not be appearing on her programme. But I think that very unlikely. Which is why the prospects of me voting for them are becoming very remote, regardless of what bogeymen are threatened may rule in their place.
If people want to vote based on fake outrage and media gotchas perhaps the country will deserve what it gets.
Well said. We should be voting with our hearts and not our heads. No one is going to listen to people whining in 2 years time when we are still being controlled by the EU and they say “but I voted tactically to keep BoJo in power. How could the Tories have lied to me again?”
I have been following BrexitCentral for the past few years because for the most part they have been presenting coverage evenly and providing (largely media) links to both sides of the argument. The editors now appear to favour BJ’s BRINO.
The other day they provided a link to Shanker Singham’s explanation of why Boris’ deal provides the correct ‘pathway’ to getting an FTA with the EU. This is what has convinced the ERG.
https://brexitcentral.com/trump-and-farage-are-wrong-boris-johnsons-brexit-deal-will-not-hinder-a-uk-us-trade-agreement/
I know precisely nothing about Economics/trade. so can anyone enlighten me as to the efficacy of this approach?
Today we have the hurry, hurry get your BRINO before stocks run out approach.
https://brexitcentral.com/the-johnson-deal-is-not-perfect-but-we-cannot-afford-to-delay-the-brexit-process-any-further/
My personal view is that the ‘deal’ is (as NF would say) more can-kicking, and dangerous because it relies too much on ‘trust’. And as we know we can’t trust any of them.
I voted tactically for the first time in 2017 – to no avail. Never again.
We may as well vote with our gut since it looks like we are screwed anyway.
“Fifteen feet from where I’m standing” – She’s sitting down!
‘Clever’ Rees-Mogg:
” I don’t, I don’t think so. I think it the, the tragedy came about because of the cladding leading to the fire racing up the building and then was compounded by the stay-put policy and, …. it seems to me that that is the tragedy of it, that the more one’s read about it over the weekend about the report and about the chances of people surviving if you just ignore what you are told and leave you are so much safer and I think if either of us were in a fire whatever the fire brigade said we would leave a burning building.. it just seems.. the common sense thing to do and it is such a tragedy that didn’t happen, but I don’t think it is anything to do with race or class and indeed I think rather sad to raise these types of points over a great tragedy..”
An off-the-cuff comment to a direct question, live on air. My hearing isn’t as good as the media’s as apparently he said, “Let the stupid bastards burn, me and my Tory mates will make a killing on the re-build job!”, or something like that.
Jeremy Vine, today, was trying to make out that the whole of the Conservative party was evil on the basis of the above.
Fake news doesn’t go far enough, it’s outright libel.
Kay & Adam Boulton word for *Commiecast* who own SlyNews
JHB works for Murdoch
Kay Burley: Why I empty-chaired James Cleverly on live TV | Comment | The Times
Seems KB thought she did have him for a last minute booking for 8:30pm but since he had a firm booking for TalkRadio at 8:40 his team moved her last minute booking to be later.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kay-burley-why-i-empty-chaired-james-cleverly-on-live-tv-87pjlwr9b
Hilarious; she’s simply fishing for support from her own having Burleyed again royally.
typo :work
Kay & Adam Boulton work for *Commiecast* who own SlyNews
Panorama ..seems it was an hour long vox pop
Probably curated and edited to push the BBC’s “stop Brexit” campaign.
Raising claimed impartiality on the BBC is brave, but AN might have a wee point…
…and this might… should have a bearing on MSM ‘analysis’ given the little gnome steered the whole farce that has brought the country to this point.
But probably will not.
BBC Radio Four
“There are very few musicians who have actually created a genre which has changed the direction of music in this country.
Of those pioneers, Tricky is probably the fiercest and the feistiest.”
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Uh huh.
I think I can see why.
Dark alley.
Not nighttime.
Probs ok still to meet.
Like.
I thought the BBC weren’t allowed to use the word “feisty” after Helen Mirren’s petulance.
I’ve awoken in the middle of the night after a horrible dream; Corbyn announcing the success of the Labour party in the twisted way everything is done these days. “We are pleased and proud to announce that we received 100% of the votes cast for the Labour party this election and will continue to fight the corruption and insensitivity of the Tory party who persuaded some misguided voters to vote the wrong way”.
I think I may have to avoid all reports about the forthcoming election until perhaps the 12th December. A bit like switching on ITV for the recent rugby world cup one minute before the matches started to avoid the inane adverts preceding them.
It’s stopping me sleeping, this kind of drivel.
BBBC readers may like to have a look at Stephen Glover’s article on the Boris Bashing Corporation in the Daily Mail:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7658271/STEPHEN-GLOVER-fear-Boris-Bashing-Corporation-sway-election.html
Unfortunately, it seems that a sizeable proportion of the population still make the BBC their go-to source for news:
“According to media watchdog Ofcom, BBC1 is the most used source of news for a sizeable 58 per cent of the population. The BBC’s website is consulted by 25 per cent of people for news, while 23 per cent turn to the Corporation’s news channel.
Meanwhile, the Beeb has a dominant position on radio. Its stations are listened to by 72 per cent of people who get their news from what used to be known as the wireless.”
His article seems to be fairly balanced (I just skimmed through it), although I would take issue with this statement:
“With extra power goes extra responsibility, and it’s my contention that in recent days our national broadcaster has shown a worrying lack of balance.”
Days? Make that decades!
Irvine Welsh’s : very nasty sweary tweet about JRM
#FamousLeftyTolerance
Irvine Welsh is another beauty isn’t he?
Like Sir Sean Connery, he’d do anything for Scotland but live there.
Stew
Thank you for the link rather than posting the whole tweet here !
One might assess that mr Welsh was ‘tired and emotional ‘ when he went online for such a rant . There is also the whiff of anti Englishness there .
Toady watch
I thought the news that the deputy leader of the Labour Party has suddenly resigned from post and parliament might make lead news –
But no – they started with a ‘money tree Nonsense story . Pro labour Bias in my book .im putting the house on ‘Dawn Butler ‘ to be the new deputy – because she is both thick and black which are both essential job requirements .
Then the is the threat from ‘The Far Right ‘.
A retired senior plod who already has a knighthood is obviously looking for a better job by going on about them threat from the Far Right “.
Obviously “far right “ isn’t defined so I’d interpret it to be anything which the state broadcaster doesn’t like . No one does a side by side read out of the reality of the number of attacks and mass murders carried out by Muslims versus the number carried out by “the Far Right “. I think you can guess the answer .
And before anyone jumps in to talk about attacks in Europe I’d posit that that is them and not us .attacks on churches against the number of attacks on mosques could also be included .
There isn’t any mention that this ex plod makes his unevidenced assertion 2 days after the terrorist threat level was reduced as a General Election gets going . Now what’s that about ?
As for the Kay Burley empty chair job from yesterday I suppose today there will be a 10 second semi apology or nothing ….
Small segment from the Moaning Emole:
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Labour deputy leader Tom Watson steps down and will not stand for Parliament. (No fallout? – Ed)
BBC Wales’ Felicity Evans assesses the fallout for the Tories from Alun Cairns’ resignation as Welsh secretary. (Oodles of assessable fallout, apparently)
Polling analyst Prof Sir John Curtice examines whether Brexit really is the big issue on the doorstep. (Guessing just the Leave scum…. Professor… Sir?)
Your Questions Answered: Our new series endeavours to give readers the election information they need. (Uh-huh)
This one fields queries from students. (Uh-huh)
Missed what happened on Wednesday? Here’s a quick recap (Evil Tories! Evil Tories! Evil Tories! Tom Watson… Saint and weight watch hero. Don’t mention the noncefinder general awks issues).
We never seem to have anyone interviewed who might represent this so-called far-right and to put forward their points of view only those critical or claiming to know how the evil far right operates are on air.
If Labour get a female leader
and then Labour win a general election she will be Britain’s FIRST female PM apparently
… Lansman’s Momementum logic
Labour act like THEY OWN ethnic minorities
#ThatsPatronising
Toady watch 2
I never thought I’d ever say “ listen to the Today Programme “ . But if you want to hear a gobsmacking interview catch the one which was at about 0715 today with the Labour MP for Dudley explaining why he is leaving the Labour Party and why comrade Corbyn is unfit to be PM .
He was interviewed by Robinson who was desperate to smear him and undermine what he was saying . It’s about 8 minutes and deserves a repeat .
After this came the traitor Heidi Allen who has stood down as an MP before being slaughtered and now scheming to -with just about anyone -to stop Brexit .
She obviously got an easy time despite having no political legitimacy at all .
Report on Toady this morning (around 6.15 am). Matha interviewed a retired security ‘expert’. He said that lack of integration by ‘certain’ communities is responsible for the increase of “right wing” groups.
The ‘communities’ were not identified by name.
Let me help Martha and the retired ‘security expert’:
Uncontrolled mass immigration
Illegal mass immigration
Terrorist attacks and murders
Barbaric animal slaughter
The grooming of young white, Sikh and Hindu girls by this group
Having six or more children per family
Rapid increase in population size, to the extent that experts predict this will be the largest ‘community’ in the UK sometime in the next thirty years
Polygamous marriages
The demand placed on social housing
The demand placed on schools
The demand placed on the NHS
75% of this group claim benefits; 90% of the women from this group live on benefits
Mass importation of spouses
Living in the UK for 40+ years and not learning English
Changing the values and beliefs of UK society to those of the country they originally come from
Mass voter/postal fraud
‘Honour’ killings
Forced marriages
FGM
First cousin marriages which result in huge rise of birth deformities
Hiding of facial identity by wearing clothing that covers the body
Importing of drugs
Although born in the UK, children of this group speak in the accent of the places that their parents and grandparents came from.
Imposition of the demands of their religion on UK secular society
Raping and murder in the name of their religion
Slavery and trafficking
Changing the face of beautiful places like Paris with street shanty towns, violence, riots, murder and mass ‘prayer’ meetings (look at Speakers Corner in London).
Like Martha and her expert, I won’t mention the name of this ‘community’. I’m sure it will be difficult but you will eventually identify the name of this community for yourself.
Have you guessed the name of the ‘community’ yet, Martha?
(Feel free to add anything I may have missed.)
Well said Cassandra . And very comprehensive. The ‘ anti Far Right industry ‘ must be very lucrative with conferences and sponsored projects all over the place .
The security expert was aN x plod called Rolly who is trying to get an edge in a crowded field .
Since he is now a private citizen – and presumably not privy to the secret stuff he had whilst a plod – one wonders where he gets his justification.
Also – he kept saying that people were joining the Far Right. Is there a political party ? Does he just mean being a Tory ? He wasn’t asked to explain that – because it’s not a question that citizen could answer .
What he really means is ordinary British people who haven’t arrived from the third world in the last few decades getting fed up with ‘ vibrancy ‘.
The bbc does like its opinion ‘formers’.
With luck they will soon join the club.
BBC news reports a care home in Wales being raided by the plod for ‘ slavery ‘ . I have a personal interest in care homes because the people in them need good care and attention and In too many cases don’t get what they deserve .
Any way – a quick check on the care home reveals the CQC did a report on it in May 2019 and found it ‘ ok’ . The person responsible for the care home does not have a Welsh or English name ….
Toady again
Bombshell morning for the Labour Party / state broadcaster – following the resignation of the deputy leader and the troubling interview of a labour mp about Corbyn earlier
So the Labour Party puts up Rebecca long bailey for the big 0810 interview and guess what – ? She wasn’t in the studio or ‘ radio car ‘ but on a mobile phone .
Which – guess what ? There were technical issues and the interview didn’t go ahead .
One has to be quite attuned to the methods labour/BBC use to avoid broadcasting stuff which doesn’t fit into their view of the world .
Fed, an investigation into ‘Free Movement’ and Care Homes and trafficking might yield interesting results.
The BBC with a £3.4bn (but declining) income and a vast roster of journalists might do a thorough, Panorama-style, investigation.
Or not.
I wonder why?
Here’s one important characteristic that was missed about a certain “community”:
Complete and unquestioning support from the BBC and MSM
Cassandra,
This ‘rise of the right’ is, as we all come to expect, is a ‘Red Herring’. If the security services / BBC were right, there would be a balance of Home Office Proscribed Organisations which were, “Far Right”, surely? But no.
Take a look at the Governments list:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations–2
Got to be 99% muslim I’m afraid. “Far Right” BBC? Dream on…………..
G, thanks for posting this. Out of the 75 groups (excl. NI), I count 3 which are not related to Islamic causes and only one of those originating in the UK (National Action).
I’d like to see a graph showing actual risk vs. amount of media coverage — it would make for interesting viewing.
“Have you guessed the name of the ‘community’ yet, Martha?”
Bideford?
Cassandra: Very useful checklist, thank you.
Poor Martha
She interviewed Rebecca Wrong Daily at 0825 and spent most of the time talking about the labour money tree . Then got round at the end to Tom Watson . Bailey was on the Labour NEC when she supported the vote to abolish the post of deputy leader . So no friend of Mr Watson …..
She got the easiest interview you could want and the Labour HQ must be putting in ‘thank you ‘ phone calls to the Toady editorial office .
Maybe Trade Descriptions can get on this being headed ‘Media Masters’?
“ James Harding
Co-Founder and Editor, Tortoise Media
James Harding is co-founder and editor of Tortoise Media. Starting at the Financial Times on the European desk, he later opened their bureau in Shanghai before covering the media beat. In 2007, he moved on to the Times where, at 38, he became its youngest ever editor. He was ousted by owner Rupert Murdoch five years later, and moved on to the BBC as director of news and current affairs. In this in-depth interview, James argues that the demand for breaking news has led to “headline addiction”, explains how their ‘ThinkIn’ conferences are creating a more open form of journalism which puts the emphasis on context and depth, and describes the moment he decided to leave the BBC to launch Tortoise on Kickstarter – despite being tipped to become Director-General.”
Given everything he has been near has been utter pants.
Maybe BBC fact check can confirm that?
Not BBC but ,,,
The Jewish Chronicle carries a piece on its front page this weekend addressed to all Britons . It’s about anti semitism and the Labour Leadership . It’s worth a read – I’m writing about it here because the MSM won’t be making people aware of it . I found it on Twitter and any techy here might link it .
Oh I’m sure Jeremy Vine will be covering it this lunchtime – “Should Jeremy Corbyn take no further part in this election?” – “Is the Labour party intrinsically anti-semitic?”. Two Labour supporters will be there to support the narrative and to explain why they hate their own party and don’t think anyone should ever vote for it.
Well he would, if the programme was ‘balanced’.
Jim – why don’t we all write in to him and suggest it? That should make his day.
Is everyone getting ready for the vote.
The one where you vote for a party you do not want to try and stop a party that you dislike more.
What a great way of voting in a government.
If only we had a system where your vote actually counted for something.
That’s why I’m voting with my heart. This tactical voting nonsense and clamouring to desert the Brexit Party is getting on my tits.
Ian Austin, Gordon Brown”s former press secretary and Labour MP, says Jeremy Corbyn is unfit to be Labour leader or PM
After an emotional interview on BBC breakfast from Ian Austin Charlie State does his best to defend Corbyn but the damage is done.
As can be seen from this image I captured after the interview.
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Just look at their faces….
What are the differences in philosophy between the political Right and the Left?
Beth Still offers some interesting observations in the clip below. Naturally enough her examples and applications are American, but I think they offer useful insights into the situation and trends over here.
Beth begins at about 2:01.
Bristol NHS Trust to withhold treatment from racists and sexists.
Why introduce this when there are already provisions for removing abusive patients?
Answer. The thin end of the wedge. Soon, a complaint from Tell Mama, Hope Not Hate or David Cameron’s comrades in the UAF may be sufficient to ensure you die.
I recall an elderly relative of mine who had been in the services during the war and went on about it to the yang ethic nurses. A week on the Liverpool Death Pathway sorted her out.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-50286473
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50319044
Oh, the irony!
The BBC web-site excels again this a.m. with another hilarious juxtaposition. Look on the right hand side of page. Features Box, (under Top Stories box) items four and five. Am sorry, but I have no way of posting a pdf screen grab for you.
Be quick, it may get changed when the BBC realise the significance.
Or maybe not? No self-awareness?
I can’t see Burley’s Times article right now
but tweeters say she doesn’t come out well
At 8:30am in her Empty-Chair-Stunt she gave the impression that he was in her building but had bottled out of the interview “he’s only 15 ft away”
I pick up bits from tweets
\\When you give your own side of the story and yet still come out looking incredibly petty and vindictive….
Kay Burley admits she hadn’t booked James.
“we saw James Cleverly, the party chairman appear on one of our rival channels from the exact same building we were in.
One of my team cantered two floors down to ask if he would also appear on our programme.”
The SlyNews breakfast pantomime show with Pantomime Dame Kay Burley
G’day readers.
Bear with me.
Mrs S was driving to her hotel in Melbourne, Australia, the other day when one of her tooth veneers fell off.
Luckily a few minutes later she passed a ‘medical and dentistry centre’ on a trading estate.
She went in. Could she get an emergency dentist appointment to fix the veneer back on, with what amounts in simple terms to be special glue ?
No need for an emergency mate, there is a walk -in service.
Within 40 minutes she had been seen, evaluated, and treated.
Now this is admittedly private paid-for treatment but much dental care in the UK is paid for. And the basic consultation fee of around £30 is not so much worse than the £20 ‘free NHS’ cost.
Oh, and did I mention ? There was a calm climate in the centre. Little or no queue. The receptionist (a muslim actually) was charming. And in the same private clinic there were GPs, physio, an X ray department, and a minor injuries unit to take the strain off A and E. With a good, free car park outside. It’s not free at the point of delivery, but nearly all the costs are paid for out of medicare, which is in effect compulsory health insurance paid out of hypothecated income tax. In fact, a high quality, community-based provision.
And Australia spends only about the same on healthcare as does the NHS.
I mention all of this because John Curtice reckons many voters still see the NHS as a bigger election issue than Brexit.
But what 70 years of state brainwashing does to the brain cells is to render them too lazy to picture even the remotest possibility of different and better ways of doing things.
This morning in the UK by contrast I queued at 0750 in the cold and wind outside my GP health centre as did a dozen others, all waiting for the door to open at 0800 in order to secure an appointment on the day. And millions of people seem to think the solution is to throw more money into the system, and so gullibly respond to politicians eager to appease them by providing those billions uncritically.
How pathetic have we become ?
Lower queues … Australian policy is to offshore migrants boats
thus most boats stopped.
The XR supporters one , is empty tarmac
The BBC strive for wokeness and takes its lead from Australian ABC
Here’s their equivalent of Question Time
She claims civility was invited by white men
.. Actually I think the idea exists in most countries
.. do you think Japan is uncivil ?
Warning : examples of her uncivilty
Didn’t she claim in that diatribe that she wanted to “stop being raped and murdered”.
Yeah love, you’re not dead and hence haven’t been murdered. We have laws to dissuade people from committing rape and murder though she early said that she doesn’t approve of incarceration!!
So she advocates violence against the patriarchy to get her way but doesn’t agree with punishment for acts of violence.
There’s bias and then there is downright lies and the fact that the Beeb forgets to mention that Biden himself openly bragged on recorded television that he demanded someone be fired for investigating him and withheld aid to make it happen, is utterly disgusting.
I don’t know what is worse the swamp like corruption of Biden and his son or the Beeb’s continued refusal to point out Biden’s corruption.
Stuchbery thinks he has got a gotcha video of TR
Except it doesn’t look that way , he’s done TR a favour by publicising it
And the BBC won’t publicise the amazing amount of HATE you see below the tweet videofrom Stuchbery’s mob
Breaking : the policeman that tasered the black footballer in the Midlands has been charged with murder.
I suspect that few would know much about Euromaiden which appears to be about getting Ukraine INTO the EU
One can find BBC archives but it perhaps didn’t get much coverage
This stuck on the end of the article might sound familiar –
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Mr Yanukovych had expressed willingness to hold early elections this year.
The protests first erupted in November when President Yanukovych rejected a landmark association and trade deal with the EU in favour of closer ties with Russia.
Since then, the protests have spread across Ukraine, with the demonstrators’ main demand being snap presidential and parliamentary elections.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26280710
2014 Ukrainian revolution
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Successive Ukrainian governments in the 2000s, including that of Yanukovich, sought a closer relationship with the European Union (EU).[35][36] One of the measures meant to achieve this was an association agreement with the European Union[37]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ukrainian_revolution
Correction – Euromaidan not Euromaiden
Celtic:
As the EU never tires of telling us, it has prevented war in Europe since it was created. Which is true so long as you ignore NATO, and the fact that EU meddling was an important part in bringing about civil war in Yugoslavia and now Ukraine.
But then as Verhofstadt tells us, the EU is now an Empire, and it is in the nature of Empires to wish to expand. That is why Brexit is such a mortal insult to the EU. If the colonies get the idea they can leave the Empire, where will it end? For the likes of Verhofstadt, life outside the clutches of the EU Empire is literally unthinkable.
Important issues:
Is any political party going to discuss IMMIGRATION?
Thought not.
theisland
UKIP will but they are racists aren’t they?
And For Britain. I like their ‘freeze immigration for five years’ policy.
Click to access For_Britain_Mini-Manifesto_March_2019.pdf
When my UKIP membership lapses next year, I’m considering joining For Britain. I like Anne Marie Waters and she’s tireless in her efforts to alert our fellow Englishmen and women about the dangers of islam. I just wish I saw more of other members of that party in interviews and such.
A new exhibition by Turner prize winner Steve McQueen at the Tate. “Year 3” is being advertised across the capital:
—”This vast new art work is one of the most ambitious portraits of children ever undertaken in the UK […] Artangel is staging an outdoor exhibition spanning London’s 33 boroughs, giving the public a glimpse of the future of their city.”
Waiting for the gushing reviews from the beeb and the Guardian.
Bbc TV news at one leads with a lengthy feature on Labour spending plans, followed by a brief mention of Conservative plans. Next feature: Norman Smith in front of a Labour bus, sprouting Labour.
Bias? You betcha! Labour Bbc.
The news rounds off with a lengthy Christian Fraser feature on Labour, in Leeds.
Other parties get a brief mention at the end.
The text is heavily biased. It’s all about Labour. Blatant. Unbelievable.
You won’t hear this on the BBC ‘Strictly’ program soon – (or on BBC radio or TV being EVER being discussed at QT; ‘Scientists Discover First New HIV Strain in Nearly Two Decades. According to the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, the strain is a part the same family of virus subtypes to blame for the global HIV pandemic’.
(details here).
That fact that its now totally legal for HIV sufferers to give blood, (UK) – does not reduce the overall ‘health-risks’ to those that would never normally acquire it; (through a ‘celebrated’ sexual activity much approved by the BBC). Thanks to a botched NHS blood transfusions service that approved contaminated US blood being used ‘risk free’ (they did not check the batch for HIV). Its a shocking experiment, that went badly wrong. It was an ‘accident’, and yet it was also negligence on a grand scale. Lives lost, even entire families were infected.
Many of those infected in the UK back in the 1980’s are now dead, including wives and children (who were entirely innocent, and not told of any blood contamination). It has been called the worst NHS cover up ever. Nobody has been charged with negligence. It was over 30 years ago*. (although it still occurs, via other means in the NHS to this day). BUT we are not allowed to know the extent thanks to new NHS staff secrecy since, it can never be reported publicly again. The BBC will, of course, comply with that secrecy as its a protected ‘characteristic’.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/24/tainted-blood-remembering-victims-long-fight-justice/
When the BBC claim to be as ‘vital to the UK as the NHS’ (quote: Lord Haw Haw), I will refer to this incident (one of many in the NHS). The BBC would claim even making the link is a ‘hate’ against diversity. HIV disease is becoming an endemic as Doctors cannot state explicitly where it comes from! To state the obvious is to be sacked from the NHS.
Of course the BBC would claim its the fault of the ‘government’ and yet we all know that the BBC are very much part of that same cover-up and are still promoting this idea of sexual liberation and diversity that promotes this disease as being part of a ‘healthy’ lifestyle. Only the BBC think this ‘healthy’ lifestyle chosen is a UK success story. Its bleak for the rest of us.
800 families were affected. 3,000 died in the aftermath…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7641485/Cover-tainted-blood-scandal-echoes-Nazi-atrocities.html
Good post with so much of relevance to the bias of the rotten BBC.
(1) The NHS can’t be criticized, as it’s nationalized and Labour can claim the credit for setting it up. No amount of evidence such as this HIV blood transfusion story (or the Mid Staffs scandal or Morecambe Bay or Basildon or Ipswich or Gosport or the Bristol infant heart deaths, etc, etc) can ever change the narrative: “The NHS is great”.
(2) Homosexual men can’t be criticized, however much the promiscuity of some of them makes the HIV/AIDS problem worse for themselves and others. They are a protected minority, high up the ‘victimhood’ league table, even if not at the top (i.e. ethnic minorities and Muslims). The BBC has had a disproportionate number of such people in prominent positions: Evan Davies, the Rev Richard Coles, Stephen Fry, Eddie Mair and Ben Bradshaw (both now ex-BBC) and their respective partners, Nigel Wrench, Paul Gambacini, the late Ned Sherin, two of the four ‘Strictly’ judges, etc, etc. Here’s Andrew Marr actually admitting it:
The BBC is “a publicly-funded urban organization with an abnormally large proportion of younger people, of people in ethnic minorities and almost certainly of gay people, compared with the population at large”. All this, he said, “creates an innate liberal bias inside the BBC”.
(3) Governments (especially Tory) and private US blood suppliers can be criticized; but gay individuals can’t be. They must never be required to take responsibility for their own actions; they are ‘victims’. Hence the BBC’s non-judgementalism about ‘pozzing up’ (knowingly becoming infected with HIV) and ‘barebacking’ (anal sex without a condom) and ‘ChemSex’ parties (drug-fuelled gay orgies). To criticize such behaviour isn’t homophobic, because the same dangers would attach to many equivalent heterosexual activities.
Nigel Wrench of ‘PM’ fame admitted he’d lost count of the number of men he had had unprotected sex with since being diagnosed with HIV; and, as Robin Aitken has pointed out, such an attitude would not cause Wrench any trouble within the BBC as it would not be controversial.
Just for information, over in France, I can’t donate blood or plasma as I spent one year or more in the UK between 1980-1996. This is because of the possibility of transferring mad cow disease into the pure Gallic blood. Oh well, that’s the free glass of red wine and various restorative cheeses that I can’t have. ( There might be a fault in my knowledge of the French replacement for tea and biscuits)
If there were another fifty or so Andrew Neil’s working on politics
on the BBC,we wouldn’t need this website at least for
politics. But Andrew Neil is the only unbiased political
presenter on the BBC . And that is why we need this forum!
I know you can’t hide your bias Jo Coburn, Emily Maitlis
and the rest of you at the BBC. BUT if you ever read these
comments watch how balanced Andrew Neil is with his
questioning with EVERYBODY, and LEARN. You are supposed to be
unbiased at the BBC. DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT ?
However for those of you living outside the London area. We
have a party political broadcast on behalf the Labour party
every single evening between 18.30 and 19.00, in the guise
of the Londonistan Programme. I really should’t even watch it.
Because I am one of the 35% or so indigenous Londoners living
in the capitol. And I know the programme’s not meant for the
likes of me and the minority I come from.
Foscari,
You are assuming that the BBC is governed , or at least ought to be governed , by the impartiality clause in its Royal Charter. But the BBC abandoned any adherence to this long ago. The tragedy is that successive Tory governments far from bringing the over mighty BBC to heel have actually allowed themselves to be dragged towards its liberal left political position. They are scared to death of it.
The best that we can hope for is that a future Tory Government can be persuaded to downgrade not non payment of the LF to a civil offence rather than a criminal one. This would allow millions of people who disapprove of the corporation the chance to refuse to pay the fee without any risk of a criminal record. I believe that if this fairly mild measure was to be passed into law the BBC would be hit by a severe loss of revenue. Surely it isn’t too much to ask of a Tory Government to assist in the saving of Britain in this way. They don’t have to be brave and shut the leftist propaganda outfit down themselves but just make it easier for the British people to do it themselves.
Wow another example example of #DoubleStandard #OrwellianBritain2019
How come I’ve never seen it before ?
Sept 9th Steve Bray pulled over by the police and fined for blasting out his megaphone.
A smart Brexiteer had found out that there is a law which makes it illegal to use amplified sound equipment around a controlled area like Parliament, so he let the police know about Bray’s car blasting out from the loudspeaker on the roof.
– Bray’s drunk, driving a car , fails to first stop when request to by police, rants “you immigrant” “those right wingers”
and then at the end drives away in front of police, doing an ILLEGAL right turn.
Video by DavidPoulden Tweeted
https://youtu.be/S05VIZV2fow
– Second video from Buska Patriot
Compare this to the heavy handed treatment that James Goddard and Based Amy got
James Goddard was prosecuted for copying antifa’s harassing chanting “Nazi” technique.
Threatened into pleading guilty to obscure charge (others dropped)
Fined £800 and banned from parts of london. Can’t see his daughter. Criminal record.
Why am I getting up at 6am every morning to go to work, pay a mortgage, pay taxes, be a good generally law abiding citizen when there are utter bell ends like this Steve Bray character allowed to roam the streets of our capital behaving like a modern day Lord Haw Haw?
I
BBC can’t cut spending , to keep Free licences for OAPs
.. cos they have priority issues to spend money on
Stew, that’s an unfortunate acronym considering it’s aimed at the kids. Did they spot that? Is the beeb being edgy or sloppy?
Maybe we should ask Jeremy Hunt.
What’s that you say agenda-pushing #BiasedBBC PR team ?
(ambushed-named as #BbcNews )
“C.harisma,
U.niqueness,
N.erve … T.alent” ..tweet
Simple. Stop paying the licence fee.
Stop funding this rubbish.