228 Responses to Weekend Thread 22 February 2020

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  1. Up2snuff says:
    February 23, 2020 at 6:04 pm

    BBC Radio 4 Shambles

    The Afternoon Drama is The Pallisers, apparently starting with Episode 4.

    Yes, honestly.

    If you search, you discover Episodes 1-3 were broadcast in November last year. I don’t know why the BBC have split up this series. It’s not exactly a good way to catch and hold an audience. The BBC appear to try to drive away audiences and deliberately sabotage something that they can, and do, do well – radio drama.

    If you wish to listen to episodes 1-3 of this series, the BBC put a further barrier in the way: you need to register for BBC Sounds and sign in every day, despite the BBC’s promise to keep Registered Users signed in. It is time for a new Director General to drastically reform the BBC and slash the Licence Fee.

    Or the only other option will be ….

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    • Up2snuff says:
      February 23, 2020 at 7:39 pm

      I have just reminded myself – while doing kitchen duties, as one does – that the possible reason why the BBC did not broadcast this radio series of The Pallisers in one go, November and early December is the unexpected UK General Election on 12th December. It might be the classic work of a long dead Victorian author but it also might be deemed too political during a general election period.

      That pre-supposes, of course, that in commissioning this piece, the BBC required the adaption writer, producer, director and cast to produce a work that could be ‘influential’ because it has a political slant.

      A BBC programme. Politically slanted? Really?

      Whatever next!

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    • StewGreen says:
      February 23, 2020 at 8:35 pm

      It doesn’t ask me to resign in

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  2. Dave S says:
    February 23, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    The BBC can no longer help itself. News at 6. Tyson Fury segment. Visit his old gym in Manchester. Talk to the children. Two ethnic minority boys and a girl. White boys? You must be joking. It never stops does it ?

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  3. StewGreen says:
    February 23, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    Countryfile :
    #Agenda1 Climate Change

    #Agenda2 ‘Look we’ve found a black farm vet’

    “Tom Heap asks whether the UK’s farmers can go carbon neutral by 2040.”

    “Adam meets a trailblazing vet”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fs1q

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    • StewGreen says:
      February 23, 2020 at 7:24 pm

      yNavaratnam Partheeban AKA Theeb
      “Trustee of inner city farm. Co-founder of British Veterinary Ethnicity and Diversity Society (BVEDS) ”

      He stated that the BAME population of Britain is bigger than Scotland and Wales

      hmm that’s 5.4m +3.2m =8.6m

      UK popn is 66m
      SO 8.6m is 13%

      and whites are 87.1% so BAME are actually slightly under 13%

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      • Up2snuff says:
        February 23, 2020 at 7:46 pm

        Or our UK population is more like 70 or 75 million.

        When you do some back of the envelope sums with things like passport renewals and driving licences and household numbers and GP registrations and so on, the official 66m seems a teeny bit on the low side.

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    • StewGreen says:
      February 23, 2020 at 9:31 pm

      Is BBC Countryside the pulse of the nation ?
      Nope the Tweet that mocked their Climate Change pushing
      was easily the most popular with 1,200+ likes

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      • StewGreen says:
        February 23, 2020 at 9:48 pm

        another

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  4. taffman says:
    February 23, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    “Housing shortage: Scale of UK’s housing gap revealed”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51605912
    Too many people coming in to the country, legally and illegally.
    Simples

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    • StewGreen says:
      February 23, 2020 at 8:28 pm

      Net immigration is a factor

      plus A million houses are left empty
      .. There are another million with planning permission
      … but not started construction.

      Other countries have a more fluid land market
      cos they don’t create an artificial shortage of building land by putting farmland in a reserved category.

      The UK property market is mad and the government could have stopped prices by merely signalling that if they kept rising it would greatly increase supply by freeing up more farmland or building more houses itself.

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      • taffman says:
        February 23, 2020 at 10:40 pm

        “freeing up more farmland or building more houses itself.”
        Good bye England’s green and pleasant land then.

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  5. Fedup2 says:
    February 23, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    Pug
    There is a defensive streak in Mr Neil which leads him , every so often , to act like a snowflake to keep his job on the BBC. I know he doesn’t need the cash but it’s nice – together with public exposure . So he make lefty noises . In the end – he’s just another journo taking taxpayers ‘ money …..

    People need to be free to speak ..eh?

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  6. StewGreen says:
    February 23, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    Neil DIDN’T compare the QT woman to the BNP

    Neil : Baddiel’s doco on Confronting Holocaust Denial was brilliant
    Baddiel : Thanks
    Neil : More power to your elbow. I am so depressed we are having to confront anti-semitism and holocaust denial in 2020. But we are. So we must. Taking no quarter

    Bystander Charlie : BBC platform for the Extreme Right on Question Time

    Neil : I remember when the BNP appeared on Question Time.
    It never recovered.
    Sometimes it works to take them head on

    ======

    Bystander #2 : It is extremely depressing that the UK has increasingly lurched towards racism and scapegoating of immigrants over the past 5 years.

    Neil : There are circa 6m non-British born workers in our labour force.
    The vast majority are NOT subject to racist abuse or scapegoating.
    And where they are, it must be slapped down with vigour.
    Like it or lump it we are forever now a multi-racial/ethnic society.
    For the better

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  7. Dover Sentry says:
    February 23, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    Police actions are driven by the Home Office. The Home Office issue targets to be met each year or senior officers lose pay.

    These senior officers chase these figures daily to ensure that targets are to be met. For instance, if a report is made to the police that a child called another child Gay in an offensive way, the police will have to act. The senior officers will have a daily computer report as to such crimes and will demand that court action is taken to achieve the Home Office targets.

    Common sense has no place in this.

    If Cummings can break this cycle, much good will be done.

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  8. callinson says:
    February 24, 2020 at 12:08 pm

    I agree that Boris wrote these things and probably believed them as he did so (although with Boris one can never be sure). But bear in mind that he was then married to and living with the very clever Marina Wheeler who is a eurosceptic lawyer with a respect for our Common Law and saw that it would be lost to some sort of a modified code system if we got in ever deeper with Brussels . Boris is now living with the young hip greenie Carrie Symonds, and I think this may have affected his views to some extent.

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  9. callinson says:
    February 24, 2020 at 12:08 pm

    I agree that Boris wrote these things and probably believed them as he did so (although with Boris one can never be sure). But bear in mind that he was then married to and living with the very clever Marina Wheeler who is a eurosceptic lawyer with a respect for our Common Law and saw that it would be lost to some sort of a modified code system if we got in ever deeper with Brussels . Boris is now living with the young hip greenie Carrie Symonds, and I think this may have affected his views to some extent.

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