Whatever the BBC does Boris seems to survive…so far.
A long BBC campaign to get rid of Boris continues apace…..Boris being the popular face of a real Brexit and of course a possible leader of the Tory Party…so two good reasons for the BBC to try and make him too toxic to touch.
R4 last night asserted that May must get rid of her biggest irritant, Boris. He must go as he has been undermining her authority by laying out his vision of what Brexit should be….which is pretty much what May told us she was going to deliver…Brexit means Brexit. Any Questions on Saturday was demanding to know if Boris is ‘fit for purpose’ and, that other BBC narrative, how long can May last and who can replace her, is she ‘terminally damaged’?….a constant theme from the BBC clearly trying to create the feeling that May is weak and has not long to go….the BBC thinking as I heard last night is she can’t possibly stay on after Christmas. This is the BBC trying to make the news not reporting it, the BBC trying to sow doubt and concern and the thought, amongst the more stupid and weak minded Tory MPs, that they need to unseat her and that there is broadspread background chatter to do so when that just isn’t so…it’s all BBC black propaganda.
Asked what she would do about Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson – who has been seen by some as disloyal after writing two articles setting out his own vision for Brexit – she said she would not “hide from a challenge”, and would “make sure I always have the best people in my cabinet, to make the most of the wealth of talent available in the party”.
But she added: “I have a terrific cabinet.”
And that is basically it….no word about any other cabinet minister who might be sacked for ‘disloyalty’……which is odd as both the Telegraph and the Mail have the same story…that MPs are demanding Phillip Hammond’s head…..
May wanted to fire Hammond after the election but he was saved by her weakness following the result. There’s a case that Hammond is far more at odds with government policy than Boris or any other Cabinet Brexiter.
Switched on the radio to hear the BBC’s Chris Mason telling us that John Major’s ‘support’ for May shows how precarious her position is after the ‘disastrous’ conference speech. Hmmm…no…it shows how strong her position is…she’s going nowhere so Major gives her a little shove…..Major is an arch Remainer and far from being loyal his intervention is a sly backstabbing attempt to undermine her further as he attacks just about every article of her government’s policies calling Universal Credit “messy, socially unfair and unforgiving”. Hardly out and out support. The BBC naturally fails to tell us that Major is that arch Remainer just as it fails to mention that the Times papers are pro-Remain as it reports the Times is saying May will demote Boris. Really or is that wishful thinking to get rid of the biggest beast [or Lion] in the cabinet who supports a Brexit that means Brexit? [May clearly doesn’t as she prefers appeasing Hammond/Rudd, keeping a lid on things, protecting Party before Brexit]. The BBC says…
Asked about speculation she might replace Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson – who has been seen by some as disloyal – Mrs May said she would not “hide from a challenge”.
Why not ask about Hammond being replaced, do we ever hear the BBC raise that possibility? Hammond is Pro-EU and anti-Brexit, the BBC likes him. And why is Boris ‘disloyal’ when Hammond, who tried to hijack Brexit when May was abroad, or the likes of Shapps and his rag-tag mutineers, or the backstabbing Major, are not?
In light of the attempt to unseat May it may be more clear why Matthew Parris, ex-Tory wet MP, a wild-eyed, frothing at the mouth pro-EU raver against the deplorable racist half-wits who voted for Brexit [‘Do not trust these human types.’….of course he meant sub-human really], ‘revealed’ the truth about the Transition Period [as if we didn’t already know]…that it was just a delaying tactic until Brexit could be sidelined by events dear boy events…and of course by the machiavellian manoeuvres of the likes of Parris and Hammond. Why did he trumpet this devious trickery of the Remain camp? Could it be that he knew in advance of the attempt to unseat May and intended to whip up anti-May fury in the Brexit camp by telling them she was betraying their dream in the hope that any Brexit supporting MPs would join the mutiny? More than likely.
Two years before departure, another two years’ transition, and staying in the EU might seem a good idea.
The Brexit crowd are right to smell a rat.
With apologies to fellow Remainers who may accuse me of letting the cat out of the bag, I must tell you that this business of a ‘transitional’ or ‘implementation’ period after Britain has formally left the EU — the plan that Theresa May endorsed in Florence last week — strikes me as carrying a secret threat to Leavers’ hopes: a threat Remainers should not disclose yet.
‘What (Brexiteers fret) if, four or five years on from the 2016 referendum but still a part of the EU, Britain should start to wonder if it’s really all that bad after all? So serious headbangers are desperate that momentum should not be lost. And remember: their supporters are much older than ours. They’re dying faster. Every year there are few hundred thousand fewer. And a Labour government could bring in votes for 16-year-olds. Logic may whisper that staying until we’ve agreed our leaving terms makes sense rationally; but some inner hunch, some nameless dread, whispers to them that it’s better to burn those bridges fast.
‘So guys, not a word about where this proposal for a transition period must logically lead. Not yet.’
The BBC’s still at it, attacking Trump for his ‘failure’ to help Puerto Rico. No doubt the BBC sending a Muslim reporter there adds to the mix…Aleem Maqbool.
Not a single word in praise of the effort to help Puerto Rico from the BBC on FOOC…the entire piece was one long negative protrayal of events….apparently Trump has forgotten Puerto Rico, well not quite… only enough to treat them as second class citizens. You’d have no idea that 10,000 personnel were sent from the mainland and that enormous amounts of aid have come in as well as a huge effort to get the infrastructure back on track…no idea that it was difficult to get aid in initially as the island was completely destroyed with no roads, bridges, airports or power…kind of makes it difficult to move around the island and to fly in immediate aid if there were no landing strips.
Rossello and other officials praised the federal government for planning its response before the storm hit, a contrast with what Puerto Rico has long seen as the neglect of 3.4 million Americans in a territory without a vote in Congress or the electoral college.
Large amounts of federal aid began moving into Puerto Rico on Saturday, as the island tried to recover from a battering by hurricane Maria. Local officials praised the Trump administration’s response.
The aid effort quickened with the opening of the island’s main port in the capital, San Juan, allowing 11 ships to bring in 1.6 million gallons of water, 23,000 cots, dozens of generators and food. Dozens more shipments are expected in upcoming days.
The federal aid effort is racing to stem a growing crisis in towns left without water, fuel, electricity or phone service. Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) said they would take satellite phones to all of Puerto Rico’s towns and cities, more than half of which were cut off.
The island’s infrastructure was in sorry shape long before Maria struck.
And here is the official FEMA explanation of its preparations….
Maqbool does what all of Trump’s devoted enemies do and twists his words as he attacked him for saying Katrina was a ‘real’ catastrophe….they then go on to claim he meant hurricane Maria was nothing to worry about. But that’s a complete lie and misrepresentation of what he said and meant. The word ‘real’ was not meant to mean genuine or authentically substantial, he used the word as any normal person would to emphasise how bad Katrina was…’real bad’, its colloquial, he did not mean to diminish the severity of Puerto Rico’s disaster and indeed went on in the next sentence to make that clear. He then went on to further explain by praising Puerto Rico for saving lives….Katrina had killed hundreds if not thousands whilst only 16 [not exactly the genocide that the hard-left mayor of San Juan dramatically claimed Trump was inflicting upon Puerto Rico] or so at the time were killed in Puerto Rico…Trump put that down to good reactions by Puerto Rico. Not that he got any praise in return from the likes of the BBC. Here’s his words….
“Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous — hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here, with really a storm that was just totally overpowering, nobody’s ever seen anything like this. What is your death count as of this moment? 17? 16 people certified, 16 people versus in the thousands. You can be very proud of all of your people and all of our people working together. Sixteen versus literally thousands of people. You can be very proud. Everybody around this table and everybody watching can really be very proud of what’s taken place in Puerto Rico.”
Why send a prejudiced reporter all the way around the world to bring us a report that he could have cut and pasted [maybe he did] from CNN or one of those other fake news outlets.
The BBC’s News Quiz joined in of course…they never let the facts get in the way of a good bit of bigotry. Apparently Trump didn’t help because he is a ‘slow-witted racist’.
The News Quiz…lol…what a joke…a bunch of leftwing racist half-wits who just regurgitate their bar room student witticisms about May needing a p45. V.funny.
Jeremy Hardy told us that Boris’ reference to the ‘roaring British lion’ was all nonsense….. isn’t it the ‘Right’ that has taken up using the image he tells us [he wraps up the whole spectrum in that…Right, Far Right, Nazis…of course if you’re to the right of Jeremy you’re probably still a Stalinist]. So that’ll be the Engand rugby team, the football team, the cricket team…
and oh yes the passport….along with the unicorn.
Of course Jeremy may not believe in the British Lion but he probably believes in the unicorn, a mystical beast of fantasy….just as he believes in Jeremy Corbyn. Dickhead.s
The funniest thing is that the BBC and the likes of Hardy sneer at Britishness and tell us there is no such thing, that we are a nation of immigrants with no national identity or loyalty…and yet they quickly tell us Muslims are definitely ‘British’, in fact Muslims are more proud of being British than the British…which kind of makes you ask does the BBC not then think of these proud Muslim ‘Brits’ as British?
Who knew Lefty Frank Skinner and the Jewish David Baddiel were in fact raging Nazis…..
Man arrested after car mounts pavement outside London museum, hitting passers-by
Mirror:
‘Multiple’ people injured after car ‘ploughs into pedestrians outside London’s Natural History Museum’
Mail:
BREAKING NEWS: Taxi driver mounts pavement and ‘deliberately mows down pedestrians’ outside Natural History Museum before being pinned down and arrested in front of stunned tourists
The event may well be an accident or a ‘crash’ as the BBC has decided to call it but to do so is to prejudge what happened and is not a neutral headline…just as the Mail’s isn’t. The BBC’s headline gives the completely wrong impression that there is absoutely nothing to see here and that there is definitely no terrorist connection…and yet the BBC cannot possibly know that yet. Note it doesn’t publish the photo of the man being held…clearly trying to damp down any speculation of what might be the cause…can’t have people thinking ‘Those Muslims at it again’ can we? If the driver had been white you can imagine how it would be reported though…somewhat differently…‘The Eagle has landed…in SS-GB!!!!’
Nothing to do with BBC bias but an interesting thought…did the so-called comedian get into the Tory conference because police vetting him deliberately ‘missed’ his previous caution for similar behaviour? The police who had been at loggerheads with May when she was Home Secretary and who have been known to stitch up Tory ministers they don’t like? Any possibility they hoped to see May embarassed? No, of course not.
Tories who want to lose an election so that we are forced to stay in the EU. Traitors to Party, Country, Democracy and The People?
Curious how Boris has been absolutely pilloried by the BBC over the last three weeks and his ‘disloyalty’ to May highlighted and denounced.
Odd how ‘Remain’ Tory MPs are not so treated as they actually seek to unseat May as PM never mind try to influence how Brexit is negotiated which was apparently Boris’ crime.
Grant Shapps and Ed Vaizey have been leading the charge on the BBC to remove May from office [the BBC has been helpfully spinning that May is a disaster and can’t last long as PM]…both of them are Remain…and you have to suspect most of the alleged plotters against May will be also.
So who is the most disloyal, who are the backstabbing little traitors, who are betraying May? More important why?
The BBC tells us Boris was ‘disloyal’ for raising his voice in support of May’s ‘Brexit means Brexit’ slogan but Tory MP’s who want to unseat May are not? These MP’s seek to force another election which they know that they will in all likelihood lose to Corbyn. Why? Because they put their loyalty to the EU before their Party, before their country, before democracy and before the people of this country. They hope Corbyn and a change in government will create such confusion and distraction that there will be an excuse to stop Brexit.
Hardcore Remainer Amber Rudd slips the knife in suggesting May should ‘not resign’…..with the implication that she might have cause to do so…as the Telegraph notes…’However, in calling on Mrs May to stay as Prime Minister, Ms Rudd becomes the first Cabinet minister to acknowledge that there is a question surrounding Mrs May’s immediate future.’
A small group of incredibly disloyal EU insiders and collaborators are trying to hijack this country and betray those who voted for Brexit…and the BBC doesn’t have much to say at all…except a few quiet hurrahs!!! no doubt as Lord Hall Hall parties on.
The boss of Radio 2’s pronouncement that “there’s no gender pay issue here at all” has been met with scorn by BBC women.
Lewis Carnie, whose promotion to head of the music station was announced last November, denied that it had a gender pay gap.
“In our case at Radio 2, there is no gender pay gap. No one’s comparing like with like,” he told the Evening Standard.
I’m sure all the women are earning £700,000 like Jeremy Vine for chatting amiably for a couple of hours a day. Libby Purves asks if the ‘talent’ is really worth all that…….
Speaking at the Henley Literary Festival, broadcaster Libby Purves, who lost her job presenting Midweek earlier this year, said it was “very rare that the magic is in the presenter, it’s in the production”, adding that many stars “went downhill” after leaving the corporation for ITV or Sky.
She said: “I wish the BBC would be just a little bit tougher and say: ‘Actually we’re not going to pay you that because we just really don’t think you’re worth it. You may be Graham Norton but, you know what, I go to the Edinburgh Fringe and there’s lots of Graham Nortons’.”
She added that she had never attempted to negotiate a higher salary. “I find the amounts of money that people are willing to ask for ridiculous,” she said.
Have to say she is right….just why are the likes of Vine paid such eye-watering amounts for such easy work that basically many, many people could do just as well or better for say £30,000?…and they’d think they were lucky to get paid that.
The BBC’s coverage of the police failure to get any evidence against Ted Heath seems somewhat careless with its innuendo leaving you with the impression the BBC is declaring Heath guilty...their major narrative all day has been that …
Sir Edward Heath ‘would have been questioned’ over abuse claims
The over emphasis on this and manner it is pronounced as if somehow massively legally meaningful suggests guilt despite this being a standard procedure and that absolutely no evidence has been found to back up any claims and indeed out of 118 claims 112 were thrown out almost instantly.
One BBC journalist ‘analysing’ the issues told us that there ‘was a big question mark as Edward Heath is not alive to defend himself’ [Didn’t stop investigations and judgement on Savile]…no, there is a big question mark as the case against him seems to be based upon a large number of false claims…that doesn’t stop the BBC gratuitously listing in lurid detail the attacks Heath is supposed to have done. Why do that unless you want to try and disgust people and, despite no evidence, still associate this to Tory Heath….mud slinging and some sticks?….and as you may think from this quote the BBC looks as if it is still intent on creating that cloud of suspicion…
Operation Conifer has gathered a vast amount of evidence – pursuing a total of 1,580 lines of inquiry and it has made public the most serious allegations against the former prime minister, but it can’t tell us whether they are true.
More than anything else, this report prompts more questions than it answers
Hmmm….so an enormous amount of, er, ‘evidence’, and yet they cannot make a single thing stick? Never mind, the BBC can make the mud stick.
During the EU referendum the BBC studiously ignored the negatives of staying in the EU preferring to extol its supposed virtues, though even those are somewhat dubious. One of the major problems with the EU is its intention to create the EU superstate with complete financial, political, economic, industrial and military powers taken over from the individual states thus destroying their status as individual, sovereign nations with all that that entails including of course the EU giving itself the ability to redistribute money from rich areas to less prospeperous areas. This of course is already done but the scope for a massive increase in this will be handed to the EU. This naturally would be unwelcome for us [but we’re leaving hurrah!] but Germany would be in line to be the main milchcow to be drained of its wealth. Putin’s once colleague, Merkel, would no doubt be happy to take yet another chance to emasculate Germany after having set out to destroy its society and culture, now perhaps she will look to reduce its financial clout in the world by emptying the coffers and frittering away the money on white elephant projects in southern Europe, on farm subsidies to the mafia and a growing EU bureaucracy paying itself billions. Look at what is happening in Spain where one reason Catalonia wants independence is that it is fed up, as a rich region, of subsidising the rest of Spain.
Will the Catalans, resentful of subsidising farmers in Andalusia, quietly have no problem with subsidising Polish peasants in Lower Silesia?
Look at the EU’s response as Druncker ‘warned the Catalans against “separatist adventures” prior to the vote, asserting that “regional traditions” should not “set themselves as elements of separatism and fragmentation of Europe” and another EU politician stated that this was ‘a nationalistic propaganda act, undemocratic; a coup attempt against Spanish democracy, and so a coup against Europe’. The BBC’s response has been very muted and of course conflicted as it supports these little revolts against the nation state but also sees it as a threat to the EU...hence when an MEP states that the Catalan crisis is a ‘bigger threat to EU than Brexit’ the BBC prefers to talk about May’s coughing fit yesterday and today.
The BBC didn’t dwell much if at all on such important negatives of staying in the EU, never mind the basic one of loss of sovereignty to jumped up little jackasses like Druncker and Barnum but Guido shows that such things should have been, and should still be, considered as the referendum still seems to be ongoing with the BBC putting it about that Brexit is still undecided as Stout Remainer, Stanley Johnson, father of Boris, recants….
For me the critical moment came a couple of weeks ago when EU Commission President Juncker gave his State of the Union address to the European Parliament. The vision he presented of an EU with a single government, and with directly-elected EU ministers with EU-wide responsibilities, including finance and defence, was quite simply – it seemed to me – totally over the top.
Up until then, I was still ready to argue that if you wanted to steer the ship in a different direction, the best thing surely was to stay on board and try to seize control of the steering wheel. In other words, fight from within for change.
But the ship metaphor doesn’t really work. The train metaphor is a better reflection of reality. Mr Juncker’s Federal Express is heading down the track at an ever-increasing speed in a direction we really don’t want to go. Even if Britain stayed on board, I doubt if we would be able to change the points on the track ahead, or even slow the train down.
Boris, I have to say (but I would, wouldn’t I?), wrote a brilliant 4,200-word article in the Daily Telegraph pointing all this out at more or less the same time that Mr Juncker was giving that unfortunate speech. Boris argued that for 40 years Britain has been trying to nudge the EU towards a different destiny and on the whole we have not had much luck.
The time has come to bail out, he asserted. I agree. We may argue about the length of the transition or ‘implementation’ period but there cannot surely be any longer any doubt what the ‘end-state’must be.
What we always knew about the BBC attitude…..catch ’em young and keep ’em hooked for life…hence any attempts to criticise the BBC will be met with blinkered, adoring, mindless love for it or indifference to the BBC’s faults…..after all isn’t ‘uncle’ Attenborough so friendly and the animals so cuddly…how’d we cope without the BBC’s warm embrace…never mind the dodgy news and left-wing bigotry, we just love Attenborough….
There’s stiff pressure from the BBC Trust to fulfil its remit of reducing that audience’s age from today’s average of 33 (though he points out the most common age of listener is 23) into the intended 15-24 demographic – the idea being a Radio 1 disciple will stay true to the BBC for life.
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