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Seems like the BBC disinformation ‘journalist ‘has a series of her very one ‘ misinformation with ( from ) Mariana ‘. I wish I was Marianna – Marianna is a hero – …
Well Anglo Saxon used culturally is different, generally to mean white British.
we know there were 3 distinct groups or tribes, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, rather than a distinct group wearing AngloSaxon T-shirts
(any firm using it on a genetic test is misleading)
Next topic – Islam is not a real religion.
Includes interview with 3 teachers from Bately.
Packham won £90K in the libel court against Country Squire editor etc.
Cos as with a lot of activists they went too far and shouted they knew someone was LYING and FRAUD when they actually only had the suspicion, NOT the full evidence.
They’d not actually written that Mr Packham had forged a death threat letter to himself
but the judge ruled that 3 “untrue and defamatory allegations:” of theirs had incited people who had written that
The 3 CS editor’ stories/tweets
Mr Packham had dishonestly raised funds from the public by stating that tigers had been rescued from a circus where they had been mis-treated, whereas in fact (as Mr Packham knew) the tigers had been well treated and had been donated by the circus;
Mr Packham lied when he said that gamekeepers on two Scottish estates were burning peat during the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, when he knew that was untrue;
and At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr Packham dishonestly sought to raise funds for the Wildheart Sanctuary by appealing for donations whilst concealing that the Trust that ran it was due to receive a £500,000 pay-out under its insurance.
The Court concluded that:
“Mr Packham did not lie and each of his own statements was made with a genuine belief in its truth. There was no fraud of any type committed by him in making the fundraising statements.”
https://countrysquire.co.uk/2023/06/05/qb2021001227packhamvwightmanors2023/
So of course Matthew Sweet is crowing about the judgement
“Mr Packham did not lie and each of his own statements was made with a genuine belief in its truth”
REPEAT IT AND IT WILL BECOME TRUE!
We don’t get a choice really other than to hear you.
Most of your age are hanging outside Tescos with some cider, I wish you were.
You’re voice apparently matters before you even passed an exam or raised a family or paid a single penny in tax.
I want. i want, i want, before I ever conceive of giving.
that’s what children do, just look at the bbc.
However as is the way of things Matthew Sweet himself tried to cast shadow on Neil Oliver
‘He’s at a conference with Bhakdi a man on trial for holocaust speak’
Only thing wasSweet lost out cos Bhakdi was acquitted
.. https://twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet/status/1661032183589380101
“Consecutive tweets from the organisers of the anti-vax Comicon being hosted
@ApexHotels
in Bath. One urging support for an antisemitic anti-vaxer currently on trial for trivialising the Holocaust. One welcoming
@GBNEWS
presenter Neil “Coming Storm” Oliver as MC. Such bad luck!”
“trivialising the Holocaust? “ – by doing what?
I don’t think it is a crime to question the official version of the holocaust in this country yet. It is in Germany, Poland and most of the EU.
“trivialising the Holocaust? “ – by doing what?
You are not allowed to question the official story.
“To address this resurgence, German authorities look to a system of hate speech laws passed by the Bundestag, Germany’s federal legislature, over the 76 years since Adolf Hitler was defeated and that are still evolving today.
The German penal code prohibits publicly denying the Holocaust and disseminating Nazi propaganda, both off- and online. This includes sharing images such as swastikas, wearing an SS uniform and making statements in support of Hitler.”
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/germanys-laws-antisemitic-hate-speech-nazi-propaganda-holocaust-denial/
Sweet seems anything but
Bitter-Sweet … good name for a parody Twitter account
Will you or shall I?
Somethings wrong in the BBC Propaganda Department !
10 days or so of very pleasant weather and we are not being told to expect water shortages and droughts in some parts. At the very least, hosepipe bans. Where’s the representative from the Met Office and/or Professor Dimwitt from some local Uni to tell us, ‘The End of the World is Nigh’ This is not what I expect from our ‘Worlds Most Trusted Broadcaster’. Perhaps they now fear scrutiny and the search for truth and, ‘misinformation’ from within their ranks…………….. Surely not.
taste like chicken I hear
Well done!
2023 – Bob Stewart has been charged with two public order offences after telling an activist to “go back to Bahrain” in December last year. Stewart has been accused of “using threatening or abusive words or behaviour” and “threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress“. He’ll be up in front of Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 5th July…
order-order.com
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1765 …. **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one ’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.** They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765
Shocking, how long before this is Britain?
Prince Harry says he will open a Soup Kitchen!
Prince Harry says he will open a Soup Kitchen!
…but only if there’s a Netflix documentary crew on hand to film his ‘private’ charity work.
you are strong ….
There are one or two spots in the Yorkshire Dales where on sunny summer Sundays there are large numbers of Muslim families barbecuing , women dressed in black robes, young girls wearing head scarves , huge numbers of children. I’m sure whites were outnumbered. It doesn’t look like it used to! Give another twenty years and even this beautiful national park will be a third world shit hole like they have created in Bradford. All very depressing , a nightmare from which there seems no escape.
When mecca opens for visits by the jews – then we have a tolerant world!
Sweet was excited about his gotcha on May 20
Precious Muir was being goaded by barrister ex-MP Jerry Hayes
“ITV have been covering up for Schofield for years”
Hayes “What are these allegations against Philip Schofield ?”
Muir “Allegedly he’s been having relationships with young children”
Hayes “You can’t cover yourself by saying allegedly”
Sweet and his gand jumped in thinking GB news is sure to get closed down
But time moved on and it’s come out that people did know Schofield was having an affair with a guy he met when the guy was 15
Now of course that doesn’t make Schofield a a man whose been having sex with 11 year olds, but her line is close enough to make it reasonably certain ITV and Schofield won’t be suing Precious Muir
video : https://twitter.com/Claxton_98/status/1660416530566246400
Sweet : https://twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet/status/1660208660579069953
GBnews did eventually take down the May20th prog from their website
BTW
Sweet must spend his days glued to GBNews with box of tissues for company . Looks like the BBC has given him the gig of getting GBNews closed down . I wonder what the deal is ? Money ? Documentary series ? I can’t think why someone who has no track record on such stuff is suddenly on the case …
I wouldn’t miss GBNews but it’s important to have different approved BBCOFCOM angles eh?
Sweet does have one major record
He smashed Naomi Wolf, her publisher and the college that gave her PhD
by exposing her for imagining “Death recorded” meant old British courts had executed people after finding them guilty of homosexual practices
Sweet read to Wolf the definition of “death recorded,” a 19th-century English legal term. “Death recorded” means that a convict was pardoned for his crimes rather than given the death sentence. Wolf thought the term meant execution.
Matt Hancock has just finished giving a personal statement to the Commons, apologising for “inadvertently” committing a “minor breach” of the Members’ Code of Conduct. In a short contribution, he said:
“The Committee on Standards found that I did not seek to break the rules, had no prospect of personal gain and acted without malice. However they recommended that I apologised to the House and the Commissioner for this minor breach… I am happy to do so.”
Case closed.
order-order.com
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Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement 2022
Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.
1,860,000
Theresa May, Former UK PM earned £1.86 million in her 2 years since leaving Downing Street, figures show
500,000
Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
400,000
Matt Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the I’m a celebrity.
315,00
Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and ‘fireside chat’ in United States
65,040
Chuka Umunna Advisory Board of The Progressive Centre UK think tank (also known as Global Progress)
20,000
Jeremy Corbyn Labour party leader accepted up to £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV
18,450
Keir Starmer £18,450 from Harper Collins as an advance payment for a book.
15,000
Boris Johnson Accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000 Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines
10,000
Jeremy Hunt £10,000 from Citigroup Centre for speaking at an event on 9 March 2021. Hours: 4 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Charity not mentioned)
5,822
Nadhim Zahawi MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables
2,200
MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for ‘dramatically increased’ duties last year
1,950
Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts
I think that we are the only Country in the World that ‘believes’ those from Albania claiming asylum.
I think that no other Country has given even one Albanian asylum.
We have tens of thousands of Albanians here and many have been granted asylum.
To me it’s obvious the lefty civil snowflakes are just waving them through and their lefty mates are all saying they are real asylum seekers because they are being granted asylum.
What a load of crap our ‘rulers’ are.
2018 … As 200 migrants float across the busiest channel in the world …
“… there have been 551 asylum claims in Britain from people from other EU countries – like Poland and Spain. All but a handful were turned down – but they cost over £4 million to the British tax payer. So we will end this absurdity ….” – Theresa May – Oct2015 – @25:05
551 Asylum Claims @ £4 million?! (£7,259 per claim)
Asylum from Poland and Spain??????
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/12/28/4th-day-of-christmas-thread/comment-page-2/#comment-959683
Like you EG I’m sure that the authorities don’t believe the claims but their plan is to swamp us with trash . By God our leaders must despise us but not as much as we despise them.
I haven’t seen any TV coverage but I understand the outgoing PM is telling us there is a 20% year on year reduction in boat invaders .
He didn’t sound convincing . In fact he sounded desperate . Maybe the views of ex Tory voters are starting to get through to the blue labour regime .
If you add the lie about cutting income tax or NICs perhaps they are waking up just as the knife falls on the rabble ….
That’s a photo of an old tweet
from Thursday 24 Mar 2022
Forgot to add date – just showing that Rishi understands our plight comrade.
Rishi’s ‘most embarrassing moment’ was not knowing how to use a contactless card
Kirsten Robertson
Wednesday 10 Aug 2022 1:20 pm
https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/10/rishi-sunak-was-taught-how-to-use-a-contactless-card-17159690/
Gordon Brown calls Labour supporter a “bigoted woman”
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown heads into his last television debate today before next week’s general election — a debate now overshadowed by Brown’s unguarded description of an elderly voter as “bigoted” after she challenged him on immigration from Eastern Europe.
Fedup2 ,
Nobody is saying the obvious….Stop the RNLI and Border Farce Taxi Services bringing them here , it’s so obvious and simple ! , empty all the Hotels and return them all to France , Maggie would never have allowed this to happen .
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65809944
how much of a gusher can they write about their own output
“The couple, who married last year, will read Emily Coxhead’s Find Your Happy, about a sloth learning to navigate their emotions.”
Sloths have LGBTQ pronouns too? Well I never.
Footnote: I once worked at a place where a colleague had the nickname ‘Slothy,’ you can guess why. When he was hired, the manager didn’t want him and had picked another candidate but the HR woman sent the acceptance letter to the wrong person. Irrelevant I know, but true.
Asteroid …
please
Abtaha Maqsood, who plays for the Hundred’s Birmingham Phoenix team, says you can be whoever you want to be
The Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case concerns the 2007 arrest, trial, conviction, imprisonment, and subsequent release of British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons, who taught children of middle-class Muslim and Christian families at Unity High School in Khartoum, Sudan.[1] She was convicted of insulting Islam by allowing her class of six-year-olds to name a teddy bear “Muhammad”.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_teddy_bear_blasphemy_case
You want to be a teacher to religious fascists ?
Great career choice,
maybe next you should try teaching the wonders of condoms in a Catholic school, then sell your story with inappropriate eyebrows.
I never did like those bloody Ewoks.
@ Marky Mark :
No need for Greta, thats why they invented cats
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Not news.
https://order-order.com/2023/06/05/new-bbc-staff-affected-by-massive-payroll-data-breach/
“For some reason, the BBC hasn’t covered this on their own channel yet…”
Gary Lineker is ok, though.
TNI partner actually reports?
https://www.racket.news/p/cover-those-nazi-symbols-please?
One passage stands out:
“In November, during a meeting with Times reporters near the front line, a Ukrainian press officer wore a Totenkopf variation made by a company called R3ICH (pronounced “Reich”). He said he did not believe the patch was affiliated with the Nazis. A second press officer present said other journalists had asked soldiers to remove the patch before taking photographs.”
Narrative type ‘journalists’?
WTF has our WEF King honoured the WEF outgoing prime-minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern:
David Kurten at a loss why this should be so. I guess I answered my own question.
Seems to me to be the promotion of the incompetent and the malicious. Personally I favour an exception case of abortion provided that the feminist in question is under 80 years of age.
https://www.steynonline.com/13536/steyn-sues-the-uk-censor-ofcom?
“!Breaking news from Ofcom!
We can today confirm we will not be pursuing complaints made about ITV’s coverage of the Coronation of King Charles III. Some viewers complained about comments made on the Royal family’s appearance on the Buckingham Palace balcony.
According to its decision, Ofcom received 8,371 complaints about a comment actress Adjoa Andoh made about the balcony being “terribly white”.
Our decision to not pursue these complaints further also takes into account broadcasters’ and guests’ right to freedom of expression.
Right-o.
Meanwhile, Mark was convicted in Ofcom’s pseudo court after only 4 complaints in which he presented his take on official government numbers…”
https://www.steynonline.com/13536/steyn-sues-the-uk-censor-ofcom
How the lying msm distort news (that includes YOU, BBC).
Compare and contrast: when Trump walked cautiously down a slippery ramp, wearing slippery dress shoes, the msm were all over it, implying he was senile.
When recently Biden actually FELL (on top of all his other stumbles and gaffes), nothing to see here, he’s fine.
Did the BBC even mention it?
“You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Meeja – We know your game .
Evidence of bias ( easy) from the BBC website ‘Tory MP charged with racial blah blah ‘….. whereas if it was a red labour one it would be “ MP charged with ….blah blah “ – the bias is so so deep I wonder if they realise any more …..?
Apparently bob Stewart told a Bahraini to go back to Bahrain – which is enough for a criminal charge these days …. Avoid speaking to the coloured folk …
Soros and his Open Society org are a menace to all countries. He should do everyone with any sense a favour by ceasing to breathe.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/30/asad-abukhalil-soros-in-the-arab-world/
Imagine if a Chinese billionaire were funding a political message in Western societies the way Open Society is doing in Arab countries.
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Christine Lee: Labour MP Barry Gardiner says Chinese agent ‘gained no political advantage’ from him
Mr Gardiner received more than £500,000 from Ms Lee over a period of six years. And he revealed he had spoken to her as recently as this week when, Mr Gardiner said, she enquired about his elderly parents-in-law.
https://news.sky.com/story/christine-lee-labour-mp-barry-gardiner-says-chinese-agent-gained-no-political-advantage-from-him-12515277
China ‘agent’ activity below criminal threshold – Patel
How many MPs have links with China ?
From concerned – taffman.
Cameron exploited lobbying loophole to discuss $1bn China fund with Treasury
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-04-24/cameron-exploited-lobbying-loophole-to-discuss-1bn-china-fund-with-treasury
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Tiananmen Square: Hong Kong police detain activists on anniversary of massacre
Published
1 day ago
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No mention in Commons on China?
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/search/?q=Tiananmen+Square
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/more-evidence-that-jabs-increase-risk-of-catching-covid/
Just one of the comments from the above article:
Refusenik
5 hours ago
I just spoke to my mother (who stopped at two jabs) and she told me about a recent conversation that she had with her cousin. Her cousin told her that she’d just recovered from Covid (she has had 4 jabs) and that she had never felt so ill in all of her life.
Her husband and GP wanted to take her to hospital but she refused. She then went on to say that she couldn’t wait to get her next booster shot as she didn’t wish to go through such a horrible experience again.
Sometimes you just have to laugh.
From the DT – Complaints against the BBC …
STARTS The BBC’s internal watchdog has been dismissed as “unfit for purpose” after it emerged that just 25 complaints of bias have been formally upheld in the past five years.
In the same period, the BBC received 1.7 million complaints, of which more than 600,000 are likely to have been about bias, based on previous data.
Campaigners said it “defies belief” that the BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) found that an average of just five complaints of bias each year had any substance.
The Government is currently examining the effectiveness of the complaints process as part of a mid-term review of the BBC’s 10-year Royal Charter. Critics are calling for a complete overhaul.
Tim Davie, the BBC director-general, has promised to improve impartiality at the broadcaster, which has been dogged by accusations of bias in recent years. The new data suggest much more progress is needed.
News-watch, a monitoring organisation set up by David Keighley, a former BBC journalist, has submitted a 95-page report to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which is in charge of the mid-term review.
It is among those calling on the Government to order a rethink of the whole complaints process, suggesting the BBC should not be “its own judge and jury”.
‘Unfit for purpose’
The News-watch report showed that since the Charter was renewed in 2017, just 0.00015 per cent of the complaints made to the BBC resulted in a complaint of bias being formally upheld by the ECU.
Research by the broadcasting watchdog Ofcom last year showed that 39 per cent of viewers’ complaints were about bias, which would translate into 663,000 individual complaints out of the five-year total.
Mr Keighley suggested it was inconceivable that all but 25 of those complaints were either without merit or were dealt with to viewers’ satisfaction informally.
He said: “Despite huge public concern about BBC integrity and impartiality only a tiny fraction of complaints concerning the central Charter requirement of impartiality were upheld or partly upheld by the BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit – just 25 cases.
“It defies belief that the BBC is so rarely found to be biased.”
It comes after The Telegraph revealed on Saturday that the BBC attended the Government’s Counter-Disinformation Policy Forum during the pandemic.
The Government has been criticised for a lack of transparency relating to the forum after huge swathes of the minutes of its meetings were redacted before being released.
A BBC spokesman said the broadcaster attended the Counter-Disinformation Policy Forum in an observer-only capacity.
The News-watch report said that months of research into the BBC had “highlighted glaring inadequacies” in complaints handling which showed the process was “unfit for purpose”.
Out of the 1.7 million complaints received, just 125, including the 25 about bias, were upheld or partially upheld by the ECU. The report said: “The ECU responses are almost risibly biased against the complainant’s points of view.”
‘Tinkering at the edges’
The BBC’s current Charter included a new complaints process called BBC First. Although Ofcom has overall responsibility for broadcast standards, viewers must first take their complaints through a multi-layered internal BBC process before Ofcom will get involved.
In the first stage, a response can be handled by BBC Audience Services but if a complainant is still unhappy it is escalated to a BBC manager. None of these stages involve a formal ruling by the BBC.
Only if the complaint is escalated to the final stage of the process – the ECU – is a formal decision taken on whether to uphold or reject the complaint.
News-watch has dismissed the reforms as “tinkering at the edges of the problem” and is calling on the Government to review the whole process.
Ofcom has previously found that only 18 per cent of complainants surveyed reported a “satisfactory experience” with the BBC First system. In response, the BBC promised to make its complaints website easier to use and ensure consistency of how complaints were handled across editorial teams.
News-watch has also criticised a rigid framework for complaints, which means viewers can only lodge concerns about a single programme – rather than how a subject is being treated across a range of programmes.
The campaign group studied the most recent 100 complaints on the ECU website and found the process took an average of 118 days, but the longest was almost a year – 339 days. The quickest turnaround was 37 days.
Viewers fared little better if they took their complaint through an appeal process with Ofcom. In the first five years of the new charter, Ofcom received 14,564 complaints about the BBC but conducted a full investigation on just nine – finding just three in breach of broadcasting codes.
A BBC spokesman said: “The BBC has the most transparent complaints process in UK media and we welcome the thoughts and views of audiences. The vast majority of people do not refer their complaints to the Executive Complaints Unit, which works independently of content makers and publishes its findings fortnightly.
“Anyone unhappy with a response can escalate complaints to Ofcom. Since April 2017, only one complaint of bias has been upheld in this way.”
‘The BBC treated me and my complaint with utter contempt’
By Robin Aitken
What is the point of the BBC’s complaints system? I only ask because I’ve had contrasting experiences of complaining to public sector bodies recently – a contrast which highlights a serious problem.
In one case, I complained to the Inland Revenue because I felt I had been unfairly penalised for a minor infraction of the rules: I dutifully followed the instructions on the website about how to appeal, filled out the forms and sat back to see what happened.
In truth, I did so without hope in my heart – one doesn’t expect the taxman to be a very forgiving soul – but just a few days’ ago I got a courteous letter from HMRC saying all was forgiven, the fine was rescinded.
All of which was very heartening. I had a complaint, I followed the rules, was treated with courtesy and consideration by everyone I had dealings with, and the ruling was delivered promptly. What more could you ask?
Contrast this with my experience at the hands of the BBC and Ofcom to which I made a joint complaint back in 2020. Forgive me if what follows reads like a dull litany of dates and responses but it provides the context for what comes next.
My complaint was about BBC Radio 4’s Today programme’s coverage in the run-up to the general election in December 2019.
Like many other people, I felt that the BBC was very anti-Brexit and had always been pro-EU – it certainly was when I was working for it.
I didn’t notice any change during the general election campaign and there still seemed to be an obvious bias towards Remain. So, using data compiled by News-watch, which had analysed about 350 items broadcast by the Today programme, I formulated a complaint to the BBC which was lodged with them on March 31 2020.
Brexit ‘imbalance’
I maintained the data showed there had been a clear imbalance in terms of time allowed to the two sides; Remain got more airtime and some Leave arguments were neglected altogether.
What’s more, the tone of the coverage overwhelmingly stressed the downside of Brexit – there was virtually no discussion of the opportunities Brexit might offer. Looking at the data, I felt we had a strong case and I thought the BBC was duty bound to consider it seriously.
After all , as the BBC’s own website promises it “takes complaints seriously, and seeks to respond fully and fairly to legitimate concerns about its performance. This is an important aspect of the BBC’s accountability to the public”. It claims the system “provides transparent, accessible, effective, timely and proportionate methods”.
The BBC’s first response came in May 2020 acknowledging receipt of the complaint. There was then a long delay blamed on the pandemic at the end of which they rejected the complaint.
I wrote to Ofcom saying that the BBC hadn’t considered the details of the complaint which I felt they were honour-bound to do; in March 2021 Ofcom wrote to say that it had written to the BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit asking it to “consider the substance of the complaint”.
It then took the BBC a further 18 months until September 2022 to consider the matter. When, finally, they wrote back they said that the complaint was rejected because it had fallen outside the allowed period for making a complaint (which is 30 days after a broadcast).
I wrote again to Ofcom saying that, as this was a complex complaint which had taken weeks to pull together (the data wasn’t collated until early February 2020) and which raised very serious issues, the BBC shouldn’t be allowed to wriggle free on a mere technicality about timing.
But finally, a couple of weeks ago, I got another letter from Ofcom dismissing the whole complaint again, citing the timing issue as the reason.
I leave you to judge whether this was “transparent, effective and timely”. My own view is that the BBC treated me and my complaint with utter contempt; it took them more than three years to finally give me the written equivalent of sticking two fingers up at me.
The process was anything but what it promised to be – and I’m far from alone in enduring this type of charade at the hands of the corporation’s complaints mechanism.
Luckily, people have started to notice just how “unfit for purpose” (to employ one of BBC News’ favourite clichés) the complaints system really is.
Not just civilians like me but some Tory MPs have begun to take a very close interest in it; which is timely because, as it happens, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has been involved in a mid-term review of the BBC’s current Charter, which runs out in 2027.
The terms of the review, published last May, says the way the BBC handles complaints will be examined and whether Ofcom “successfully holds the BBC to account”.
I could give them a short answer to both. The review is due to be published soon and it is crystal clear that the complaints system is ripe for reform.
BBC marks its own homework
How could things be improved? Clearly the biggest problem is that the BBC marks its own homework when it comes to complaints.
The Executive Complaints Unit is part of the BBC corporate structure – there are no outside voices on it. Furthermore, Ofcom has a preponderance of ex-BBC staffers on its payroll; a cynic might say that the corporation and Ofcom are birds of a feather and look after each other rather than the public interest. What is needed, surely, is oversight by outsiders chosen for their diversity of opinion.
There’s another big problem with the current system which is that the BBC says it will only consider complaints about individual items on individual programmes – a complaint like mine which seeks to demonstrate a pattern of bias based on the content of many programmes over a long time period is simply disqualified.
That is completely wrong and unjustifiable because it means that a niggle about, say, bad language in a single programme will be considered but a far more serious allegation of consistent political bias will not be.
This is very convenient for the BBC; it shields them from proper scrutiny and I know that even some senior BBC people know this is the case. It is long overdue that this loophole was closed so that – for example – the BBC’s anxiety-inducing, one-sided reporting of the ‘climate emergency’ could be investigated.
What is striking about my experience is that, according to the correspondence I have received, the substance of my complaint remains unexamined.
I wonder about this. I have a suspicion that the data was looked at, possibly found to have substance and therefore could not be acknowledged, because to do so holes below the waterline the BBC’s impartiality fiction. If so, that would explain why they relied on the flimsy pretext of the late arrival of the complaint to dismiss it.
It’s outrageous, of course, that it should get away with any kind of slippery manoeuvre – but there’s nothing anyone can do about it. The BBC is, and has been for many years, a rogue institution whose output is coloured by its own political prejudices; its complaints system is completely inadequate for anyone seeking remedy and serves only the interests of the BBC. As currently constituted, the BBC is a law unto itself which suits it just fine.
I do not accept that it’s inevitable that the Tories will lose the next election – but obviously there’s a strong chance they will. If so, that means that this mid-term review is the last chance a Tory government will have to impose meaningful reform on the corporation.
We’ve had Tories in government for 13 years now and the BBC sails on, completely unreformed, completely opposed to everything conservatives think important and hold dear.
What a missed opportunity it will be if the Tories end their period in office having done nothing significant to remedy the long-standing scandal of political bias at our national broadcaster, which so brazenly advances the cause of the progressive liberal Left.
Robin Aitken MBE is a British journalist who for many years worked for the BBC. His 2007 book, Can We Trust the BBC?, alleged pervasive and institutional liberal Left-wing bias at the national broadcaster.ENDS
The BBC is merely a propaganda arm of government and the snivel service supported by OFCOM
Is the head of OFCOM still Capt. Louis Renault?
Just completed a predictably idiotic several month exchange with BBC Complaints and then a BBC ECU Director whose skill set appears to be saying they can’t understand English.
They have now directed me, with a giggle, to OFCOM.
ALL of the problems the UK faces will immediately disappear once the dozy English working class voters realise that voting for Brexit was a big mistake and that they really must once again vote for BIG BROTHER who will tend to ALL of their needs using ONLY the rich taxpayers dosh and of course he will forgive and overlook all of their recent historic treachery. Big Brother is waiting.
Oh dear Oh dear Oh poxy f—–g dear!
Replies lay into the RAC and AA
Could he go out and help?
Maybe they are stuck behind Just Oil.
Maybe the RAC & AA now have a self serve policy.
Zoom calls only?
what to say
so many things wrong with the “conservative” party
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/06/05/immigration-promises-were-a-lie-and-it-wont-be-going-down-political-establishment-tells-bbc/
Not directly BBC but an indication of the level of PR trickery of modern Britain.
Last week I bought a what to me looked like a big jar of Tesco Gold decaf coffee for £2.75
Today another shops yellow sticker computer went crazy and made some things 75% off so a big jar of actual Nescafé Gold decaf was £2.50
Strangely the Nescafé jar looks much bigger and heavier
I looked & they both only have 200g of coffee in.
If the total Tesco jar weighs 500g
guess how much the Nescafé weighs ?
… flipping 600g !
I’d bought twice as much glass as coffee.
Anchor butter is going the same way Stew.
200 grams not 250, but the packaging looks the same, and the price seems to be cheaper, which it ain’t…
… and I see the 12 bottle boxes of budweiser are now 10 bottles at the same price.
This comes after the bottles changed from 330ml to 300ml.
Which came after the alcohol content changed from 5% to 4.5%.
That kids’ counting song needs updating.
‘And there was nothing worth drinking at the end any more than at the start…’
My abject apologies but Stew’s comment sparked me off, so with absolutely no pride, (lots actually), here’s the post which resulted from all the shenanigans…
http://scroblene-webley-bullock.blogspot.com/2023/06/fiddle-de-dee.html
Sometimes when I am zoning out in a supermarket queue – I reflect on how I once wanted to deceive the great British public into buying stuff they didn’t want at rip of prices but making them think they got a bargain .
BTW – I think the supermarket queue is now the new front line for Rage – having witnessed a major q jumping Event caused by a violent scouser (55? ) in his ‘trackies ‘ – ‘offering out ‘ any one who had a problem with his ….. conduct …. There was a weird mix of fear – anger and comedy …. After the ‘event ‘ he waited outside rolling up the sleeves of his ‘trackie’ top … truly a ‘Harry Enfield ‘moment ….
One for BBC Reichsministry of verifizieren to studiously avoid?
Her story was initially corroborated by Amnesty International, a British-based global NGO, which published several independent reports about the supposed killings[3] and testimony from evacuees. Following the liberation of Kuwait, reporters were given access to the country. An ABC report found that “patients, including premature babies, did die, when many of Kuwait’s nurses and doctors … fled” but Iraqi troops “almost certainly had not stolen hospital incubators and left hundreds of Kuwaiti babies to die.”[4] Amnesty International USA reacted by issuing a correction, with executive director John Healey subsequently accusing the Bush administration of “opportunistic manipulation of the international human rights movement”.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
Ghana patients in danger as nurses head for NHS in UK – medics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65808660
Got me thinking about the other week when the bBC reported about 75 NHS staff were in sudan and the RAF airlifted them to the UK
75 in Sudan, how many in India, Pakistan, and the rest of the world, not actually working in the UK for the NHS at this time
I’m on a waiting list for 54 weeks for the initial NHS appointment, and then after that wait for the operation
‘Racist’ Gandhi statue removed from University of Ghana
Published
13 December 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46552614
Diversity built britain – destroyed Ghana!
“Built” being in the past tense, just goes to prove further that Rich Sunak is a complete liar. Brits built Britain. Diversity is destroying it.
I think what he’s really saying is: Diversity gave you…
MEE!!!
When MP and member of the health select committee David Treddinick suggested that the NHS should offer astrology to its patients he was widely ridiculed. To me it seemed wildly unfair that this man was so heavily criticised for expressing his personal views. Although he has no experience in healthcare provision, and although he holds beliefs that are almost universally disparaged, I see this as absolutely no reason why he shouldn’t hold a position on the most influential health committee in the House of Commons. If I believed in earthly politics he is exactly the kind of man I would vote for.
https://bjgplife.com/nhs-and-astrology-gp-with-a-special-interest-in-witchcraft/
Yeah what about a bit of satan worship in the maternity unit car park ? Although I think they are doing that already at the abortion clinic ( sorry ‘family planning / ending )
UFOs get a significant upgrade
Russia has blown up major Ukrainian dam, says Kyiv
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-65816109
So the BBC tell us about all the images on social media and show us this one:
With the caption:
‘Images circulating on social media this morning show a massive breach in the dam at Nova Kakhovska, northeast of the Ukrainian city of Kherson.’
So this complete BBC idiot thinks that big gap is where the dam has been ‘blown up’.
But earlier in the same report (clearly unknown to the later BBC reporter in this ‘Live update’ special), we see this with what looks like minor damage to the roadway:
And here’s a picture from back in February:
Most definitely not ‘blown up’. More BBC fake news. Are they just typical Lefties who are clueless about anything in the real world or just shameless liars following their agenda ?.
Currently in BBC ‘accused of’ territory.
Seems Prezel called an emergency meeting where th3 first order of business was to let Naga know.
A bit more convincing than what they managed earlier.
I liked the bit where he scaremongered about the nuclear power station telling us that ‘if the water level falls too much then it just won’t have the water’ implying some kind of nuclear disaster. But clearly that means the entire river runs dry.
Or they could just turn the reactors off of course.
Here’s whate Zelensky says:
‘Russian terrorists. The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam only confirms for the whole world that they must be expelled from every corner of Ukrainian land. Not a single meter should be left to them, because they use every meter for terror. It’s only Ukraine’s victory that will return security. And this victory will come. The terrorists will not be able to stop Ukraine with water, missiles or anything else.’
Sorry, but I can only think of North Korea when I read rhetoric like that.
The only explanation that makes sense is that Ukraine did it.
Corruption in Guv? Channeling one’s inner Goodness Gracious Me… see… Indians…
Due to colonialism?
GW,
It pays to put cement in concrete. Oh! Hang-on there. The production of cement is high on Green folk’s list of causing CO2. So I wonder whether the builders of the bridge were just being, say, ‘Climate Aware’?
The information is very sketchy about what happened which I presume is on purpose because it looks a lot like it has been damaged across the upper range as opposed to hit by a bomb – which infers it had explosives planted across it like a demolition.
If Russia did it, there will be some valid military reasons they did it but we will never be told that by the BBC. I look forward to a report in one of the youtube channels I watch to find out what they are.
The complete lack of reporting on the ‘new Ukranian offensive’ is very suspicious and what there is is full of meaningless statements like ‘gained some territory towards Bakhmut’ which could mean 10 meters of open field.
The dam looks pretty damaged in the video
top sections of the wall smashed
but not the whole wall
.. a I’d say badly damaged rather than completely destroyed
it could break in the future I guess
The BBC Verify box on the page says
We’ve been investigating social media videos this morning that allegedly show the aftermath of *a massive breach* at the Nova Kakhovska dam.
…
Aerial video – shared by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – that shows significant damage to the dam
A video featuring a close-up of a destroyed building with the name of the power plant written on it
And another aerial footage – shot from another angle – showing extensive damage to the main dam structure and water flowing freely south of the facility
The damaged bit is in a Russian controlled area
Are they going for the ‘mona’ Dam as well ? Is there a dog involved Whose Name Can Never Be Mentioned ?
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kakhovka+Reservoir/@46.7791348,33.3673173,827m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x40c335f3a620aa11:0x3676d2e88f04c46c!8m2!3d47.5010474!4d34.9413742!16zL20vMGQ3a2R5?authuser=0&entry=ttu
The blue gantry cranes are seen here at the other end, and they toddle backwards and forwards from the hydro-electric plant at the Eastern end.
The bit the Rissians ‘hit’ isn’t anywhere near the big white area where the water is meant to flow through and presumably does make a splash when they want it to!
One for the Beebolic Soap Vilify to have another look at, but don’t hold your breath – they’ve got enough to do to cover up all those salaries being hushed up…
Lincolnshire local news ends “Apple is to launch a VR headset in the US next year”
what ?
How will the people of Lincolnshire live , without that knowledge? Thankyou BBC
#PRasNews for Guardlanlalaland’s favourite company
Wonder if the bbc will send one to Paul Mason to add to his man of the people collection?
Could add to his MP ambitions.
Apple are indeed the technophobe’s tech company….
The Zuckerberg headset seems to have trouble selling – I wonder if Apple’s effort has a belt pack battery that will allow beeboids to wander the halls of the BBC with their reality adjusting headsets on?
The BBC have always been in the vanguard of daft Apple fanbois.
Fingers in the air and lobster mousse off the menu (because of Brexit) edition
That was a Swift one… Taylor and Brit rocker split after 1 MONTH – gossips the Sun headline reporting on this short-lived showbiz liaison.
Meanwhile, the apparent love affair between Times and Guardian continues to flourish. One notes the two organs riding tandem once again this morning. Yesterday saw the pair promise heatwaves this week on the basis of bullish Met Office finger in the air forecasts – illustrated by remarkably similar frontpage full colour photos of little girls outdoors in the sunshine. All sweetness and light – and in furtherance of the prevailing alarmist narrative, despite the sun coming out often about this time of year – ie Springtime.
Today sees the Times and Guardian in synch oncemore. This time it’s not the sunshine but war clouds gathered over their frontpages.
The PM’s curious spin cycle… The “grid”, a forward-planning diary that used to dictate the agenda under Blair… – that was the Guardian back in December 2007 bemoaning the fact that the then socialist PM Gordon Brown lacked the deft agenda planning and news narrative control and coordination the Gruan had so admired in Tony.
Yesterday Mr AsI passed through London Bridge railway station and couldn’t help but notice the automated PA message as he mounted the escalator leading to the platforms: “Hold the handrail provided and face the direction of travel” – ah, there’s a fitting mantra for our modern media age
Speaking, as we were, of PM’s of yore, Winston Churchill reflecting on Dunkirk warned wars are not won by evacuations. Bakhmut is lost to Russia but actually, we’re told, we’re winning anyhow.
Times and Guardian frontpages are united again and here to raise our blue and yellow flagging morale with a seemingly synchronised touch of photo-propagadalism.
The Guardian – which normally tends to view patriotism as the last resort of the scoundrel – goes with that most Churchillian of gestures: A Ukrainian soldier flashes the V for victory sign as he and comrade ride in a pickup truck on the frontline near Bakhmut
The formerly patriotic – for the old British red white and blue – Times has their Ukrainian squadies making hand signals for the camera more redolent with our American cousins: Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv offered gestures of defiance on what Russians and Americans alike described as the first day of Kyiv’s counteroffensive – soldier number one gives the thumb and forefinger extended sign – this being termed the ‘hang loose‘ or the ‘right on‘ – some call it the ‘shaka‘ and associate it with Hawaiian or Californian surf culture. Soldier two exhibits the more military specific raised fist and forearm indicating ‘attention‘ and when the fist is moved in a downward motion this indicates ‘move out‘
And just when you thought the Times couldn’t cosy up closer to the Guardian…
Michel Roux: Brexit? Things are going to get worse… Food inflation is killing business, says Michel Roux. His lobster mousse is off the menu, he tells Michael Odell — even at £100, the chef couldn’t turn a profit (Times)
Melanie Phillips highlights how people think and how it influences the broadcasts on the BBC. .
She tells in this video of how she argued in the 1990’s of that children are best bought up by their mother and father. She never dismissed that some would manage to bring children up courageously on their own but said that bringing up children as a single parent should be avoided as much as possible She even had social science evidence to back up her ideas . She was denounced at the time as being as heartless and cruel , anti feminist, and of course right wing. Statistics had been published to the effect that proved that children were better adjusted to life if they were bought up with a mother and a father but later these statistics became unavailable.. Why ? See this video
The onslaught on the traditional family was one of an early example of a world turned upside down where in certain cases when something that distabilisers became a human right.
There is always question about the mental state of far left activists – and also the ‘quality ‘ of any personal relationships they have . Those clips you see of hysterical Americans screaming about some issue infers certain ‘things ‘….
The comment ms Phillips about the ideologies being to achieve ‘utopia ‘ chimes …
The new rulers of Cambodia call 1975 “Year Zero”, the dawn of an age in which there will be no families, no sentiment, no expressions of love or grief, no medicines, no hospitals, no schools, no books, no learning, no holidays, no music, no song, no post, no money – only work and death.
John Pilger, Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)[1]
“but later these statistics became unavailable.” – Omission is the greatest lie.
TOADY Watch #1 – you haven’t seen my computer at work, have you, BBC?
The BBC are back trailing ‘the AI is going to wipe out humanity’ scare again. I have a completely stupid computer that already has a mind of its own and it doesn’t work properly when using it. As an OAP I can think and move faster than my PC does! Relax people out there, especially young people, do not get ‘AI Anxiety’. Do not develop Global Warming and Climate Change Anxiety either; in south-east England it is jolly cold this morning. It is a typical English summer day!
Up2,
“….a mind of its own….”
Operating system “Updates”. Last update rearranged my photos stored on my PC and unrequested, collected up like photo’s and presented them to me in an, “Album”. Thanks Microsoft. Now leave me alone and p*ss off ! Same with mobile. I resisted “Updates” but I needed an “app” which I could only obtain via, the “Update”. That update has been burrowing, unrequested, in to the material on the phone and has deleted many of my photos and changed lots of aspects.
Moreover, everyone suffers the same problem. That of needing to keep a record somewhere of every password used. However, it seems now there is a convenient solution: Microsoft ‘Chrome’………. Offering its services to store, free, all your passwords. Do they think the majority stupid? I have no doubt, ‘yes’. Many will be that stupid as to register that data with Chrome.
Only solution is to go back to a basic phone for calling and texts only. The PC? Stop updates.
Anybody else noted that the opening pages of web browsers (esp Android) are now being loaded up with TNI style pap?
Artificial Stupidity -©️will catch on ….
… have the Russians sabotaged the Gov UK website – I can’t get to the bit I want – day 2 ….
And the Russians have got my ‘boots ‘ data – the swines know I bought cream for insect bites …
In mid-May, Chinese stand-up comic Li Haoshi, better known by his stage name House, cracked a joke about his adopted dogs.
Standing on a stage in a packed venue in Beijing, he said his dogs “fought to win, forged exemplary conduct” – a catchphrase that Chinese leader Xi Jinping has used while speaking about the military.
It drew laughs from the audience, but one of them later commented on Weibo, or China’s version of Twitter, that it made him uncomfortable because it insulted the “people’s army”. State media and officials swiftly condemned it as a “serious insult” to the Chinese army. Li was detained, and the company he worked for – Xiaoguo, one of the most successful stand-up comedy groups in China – was fined nearly 15 million yuan ($2.1m; £1.7m).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-65776797
Is that little bit of freedom now in danger?
*Names have been changed to protect their identities.
HA HA HA HA!
Inside the Taliban’s war on drugs – opium poppy crops slashed
The BBC has now travelled in Afghanistan – and used satellite analysis – to examine the effects of the direct action on opium poppy cultivation. The Taliban leaders appear to have been more successful cracking down on cultivation than anyone ever has.
Could be no one will buy it anymore? HA HA HA HA
As far as heroin addiction in the UK and the rest of Europe goes, Mike Trace says a dramatic reduction in opium cultivation in Afghanistan is likely to alter the type of narcotics consumed. “People are likely to turn to synthetic drugs which can be far more nasty than opium.”
As long as the price goes up with inflation that s a good thing ? Sniff …
Fentanyl boom then
Kneel to get drugs!
I doubt If we’d notice the difference ….
This is certainly a positive move that rids the Kuwaitis of an ecological disaster at hand. In 2012, a fire was deliberately set in one of the tire graveyards in Kuwait. Five million tires were burnt in this act of arson, and the environmental damage was staggering. Burning tires is an environmental problem for numerous countries since burning tires releases carcinogenic gases in the air that also cause respiratory diseases. It is an issue that should not be taken lightly.
https://scoopempire.com/kuwait-tire-graveyards/
It’s not one everlasting fire, but a tyre dump that has occasional fires
the big reported one actually happened in April 2021 for 7 hours.
https://observers.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20210826-kuwait-tyre-graveyard-fire-pollution
It turns out the viral video is from a few months back. But fires often break out in this landfill
According to Kuwaiti media, a fire broke out on April 29 in the tyre graveyard. Firefighters, who managed to put out the flames after seven hours, said that there were no victims but that the fire was a case of arson
hardly any land actually “fill” there
Good photo – lots of infinite tyres with plumes of smoke.
Wonder why not buried?
tomo, MM, in Africa those tyres would be turned into footwear ie. sandals.
Old tyres used to be made into carpet underlay when recycling really did work, not the pale imitation of the process we have today, with successive lefties condemning everything which isn’t suitable, like an old Goodyear!
Presumably, the newer versions of underlay need much more natural resources, so are preferred as they are ‘cleaner’ and more acceptable…
And BBC Brekky wheels out Eliot Page in 3, 2….
Oh, no… Getty serves across all media.
Not archive of Ma Lammy, clearly.
Even lefty PR blog Snopes confirmed that Obama did put in an application for huge propane storage 2500 gallon tanks
I know the 6th of June comes round once a year ( unless the Emir of Londonistan bans it ) so I wonder if there is any mention anywhere of such a significant date ?
The answer appears to be ‘no’ as far as the BBC is concerned – perhaps it’s a mark of respect to a regime which – using the Goebells model ‘ undermined and destroyed everything with which it disagreed.
Any way RIP those boys who had their lives stolen from them by another evil regime ….
D Day. Pride Month.
My lovely but sadly late MIL would have been 103 today…
Happy Birthday Hazel!
xxx
The new rulers of Cambodia call 1975 “Year Zero”, the dawn of an age in which there will be no families, no sentiment, no expressions of love or grief, no medicines, no hospitals, no schools, no books, no learning, no holidays, no music, no song, no post, no money – only work and death.
John Pilger, Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)
Censorship of TCW:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/tcw-was-censored-by-the-uk-government/
Do we get the names of those in control of the information?
21 men and women,
The Telegraph article dramatically details how this Stasi-sounding unit had ‘assembled 21 men and women, with the purpose – the chairman explained – of “addressing the threat posed by Covid-19 mis- and disinformation”,’ and that ‘those present at the meeting included senior executives working for Google, Facebook and Twitter, as well as the BBC and Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator’.
‘I’m just on a Zoom about tackling anti-vax with [Culture Secretary] Oliver Dowden – obviously vital,’ he wrote. ‘Your team have been working really well with the department and the advertising ban is great – but we need to have a timeframe for removal of antivax material and how do [sic] to demonetise.‘
Dickie and MM, today’s Goon Show (second repeat just finished) was interesting in that in 1958 in ‘The Great Spon Plague’ Milligan & cowriters foreshadowed the events of 2019-2023. If you missed it, you can listen to it via BBC Sounds a.k.a BBC Noises thanks to our Fed.
Summer’s here and the Tinkers are a ‘rovin and stuff…
Wiltshire Times reports a crowd of Tinkers invading a sports county town sports field and deletes 30 comments + closes comments and also fails to report a helicopter assisted armed police raid on Tinker encampment in nearby Corsham….
Business corporations and the woke agenda:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/backlash-grows-against-the-business-world-of-woke/
“LGBTQ+ advocates have gone for overkill and ordinary people have begun to react.”
H- = Heterosexual minus = LGBTQ+ (plus includes everyone?)
Impartilal BBC presenter starting a FAkeNews thread against Sunak
so that his mates can pile in and sneer at the Tories
Same impartial presenter wasting time putting up a video of a crappy day time TV show where the presenter can’t pronounce a name and is then bullied by the guest.
No surprise that the presenter isn’t very professional
BUT
#1 The guest could have done the professional thing of actually saying her own name when asked
#2 Rutherford is being unprofessional by sticking an unnecessary F word at the beginning of his tweet
.. https://twitter.com/AdamRutherford/status/1656635802875461635