The Lord Harris review commends London’s emergency services for their improved major incident readiness, with responses now substantially faster and more effective than five years ago. The quality and effectiveness of the work done by the intelligence agencies and the counter-terrorist police here is, he says, amongst the best in the world.   London Mayor’s Office

Labour is saying the terror attack in London was due to insufficient resources and thus police and security failures are the result.  Funny how they ignore a report, commissioned by Sadiq Khan, Labour Mayor of London, that said

It is now nearly five years since I was last heavily immersed

in the policy and practice involved in protecting us all from

terrorism. The headline conclusion of this review is that the

response by the emergency services would now be substantially

faster and more effective than it could have been then.

However, it is important to be clear. The quality and

effectiveness of the work done by the intelligence agencies and

the counter-terrorist police is amongst the best in the world.

Funny how the BBC ignores that.

Funny how the BBC ignores this car crash interview with Abbott, our potential Home Secretary in charge of police and security….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq8Dd5Sa7fI

Abbott is quizzed by Sky’s Murnaghan on the above Harris report…he asks her about its contents….she doesn’t know…he asks her specifically about one recommendation, the first one in the report…about barriers being put up…

Lord Harris goes on to make 127 recommendations for the Mayor, the Government and other agencies to consider, including:

• The Metropolitan Police to further explore the use of temporary barriers to protect against a Nice style attack in London.

That of course might well be the Mayor of London’s remit to check if such measures were being taken.  Barriers are now being put up on bridges in London…..why not before?  Maybe the BBC will be doorstepping Khan instead of just hyping his claims that the Tories are going to slash Met. Police numbers.

The BBC ignores that interview…despite Abbott now pulling out of an interview on the BBC’s own Woman’s Hour.

This is the person, as said, who will be in charge of our security and the anti-terror programme…not only does history prove she is ideologically unsuited to the job but intellectually incapable of doing it….what’s scary is not that she hasn’t read the report…but that she has read it and doesn’t understand it.

How come the BBC is not headlining with such a news report?  This is going to be one of the most powerful and important polticians in Britain and yet she is completely unfit and unsuited to the role.

A change in the #WHdebate line-up this morning: @HackneyAbbott taken ill. @UKLabour say finding a replacement. Tune in at 9am.

— BBC Woman's Hour (@BBCWomansHour) June 6, 2017

From the Mail:

No one at the BBC cares when we’re accused of bias, says Evan Davis: Newsnight presenter reveals corporation receives constant complaints without taking any action

No one at the BBC takes account of accusations of bias, according to the presenter of Newsnight.

Evan Davis said the BBC is constantly getting emails from licence fee payers accusing them of pandering to certain political parties.

But he claimed that ‘no one at the BBC takes those kinds of things into account’ because it is ‘very rare’ for the issue to be brought up.

His remarks at the Hay Festival come days after the corporation was accused of Left-wing bias in its Election Debate programme.

Speaking at the festival in Wales, Mr Davis said: ‘All the time we get those emails. And honestly, no one at the BBC takes those kinds of things into account.

‘Maybe people at the very top of the BBC do, I don’t know. Maybe they do. But none of the people who are making programmes do.’

Mr Davis, who replaced Jeremy Paxman as presenter of Newsnight in September 2014, was at the festival to promote his book Post-Truth: Why We Have Reached Peak B******t and What We Can Do About It.’

Father brazenly parading ISIS flags with his toddler outside Parliament is stopped by police… but is allowed to walk free after officers say he is NOT breaking the law

 

The BBC are attacking the government for cutting the police and suggest this has meant the police do not have the resources to gather intelligence from the community about those individuals who may be going down the road of extremism…the above report illustrates that is nonsense…the police know but cannot touch many of these individuals…the BBC is peddling Labour propaganda days before an election on a major, major issue.  The BBC attacks the police for failing to stop attacks when they already knew of these people and their views and then the BBC attacks the government by saying cuts meant the police don’t know who the attackers might be…despite 23,000 being ‘on the radar’…guess the police must be doing some work.

In a previous post I did suggest that the BBC may well be tempted to throw caution to the wind and go all out to get Labour into power.  They may gamble that becoming a blatant propaganda mouthpiece for Labour is worth the risk…Labour wins and Corbyn will reward them rather than take them to task, Labour loses and the BBC knows the Tories don’t have the guts to tackle the BBC and its dangerous bias.  Win win for the BBC and Labour….a Labour Party whose leader has been a very vocal supporter of terrorist groups and who boasts of having voted to block every piece of anti-terror legislation put forward in Parliament….not to mention Abbott and McDonnell who have both followed similar paths to Corbyn.

Why does the BBC not highlight this very, very pertinent accusation….

CORBYN BLOCKED TERROR LAWS

Jeremy Corbyn ‘bragged about blocking terror laws’ during Stop the War speech

Have to say that subsequent developments have confirmed that the BBC going all out to promote Labour is a distinct possibility as the BBC pushes Labour’s line about cuts to the police being responsible for the terror attacks because ‘community police officers’ would have provided a link to communities who would then report their concerns about individuals to the police and security services and we would then know who these people were.

Except that is obvious rubbish…very, very obvious rubbish….here’s the top, headline story on the BBC frontpage….note the police officer talking to the extremist….the police already know who most ‘extremists’ are but  their hands are tied…often because legislation to allow them to deal with the extremists has been blocked…by the likes of Corbyn…..

Met defends dropping inquiry into attacker

We’ve already noted that Labour proposed cutting the police budget by an extra 10% in 2015 and said that doing so would not harm policing…and that the Tories have in fcat protected the police budget since 2015 and indeed increased massively spending on the intelligence and security services.

The BBC does not remind any Labour spokeman of that awkward fact.

In fact the BBC does very little to challenge Labour’s attack on May as it claims cuts in the police have led to the terror attacks.

This morning Justin Webb gave a platform to Labour’s shadow justice secretary, Richard Burgon, to peddle his propaganda almost without any questioning at all…there was no depth, no context, no intelligent counter-arguments to Labour’s case.  The only point put was that Lord Carlile, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation,  said cuts in community policing were “nothing to do with terrorism”, saying “nobody in the security services is complaining about their funding”.

Burgon dismissed this out of hand preferring the politicised police union, the Police Federation’s, version of events and insisting cuts to community officers allowed these terror attacks to happen because we don’t get information from the community that brings the extremists to police attention.

Why did Webb not mention Corbyn’s career long attempts to block anti-terror legislation?  Why did Webb not raise the issue of Corbyn’s opposition to ‘shoot to kill’?  Why did Webb not raise the obvious point that nearly all these terrorists were already on the radar…3,000 who are labelled as of significant interest and another 20,000 of interest but on the fringes.  That the ‘community’ does rpeort these people… hypocritically the BBC attacks the police for not following up on these reports…so do the police know or not know?  Arrests are made everyday and many terror plots disrupted.  Indeed many of these extremists appear on televison, not just C4, but the BBC itself…the BBC famously refused to report suspicions about one participant in a BBC paintballing programme…

BBC ‘funded paintballing trip for Islamic terrorists and didn’t pass on information about 21/7 bombers’

The BBC also gave a platform to not just one extremist but two in its series called ‘Muslims like us’……one even wore a sweatshirt with the logo of the extremist group ‘Cage’ on it…

When C4’s Dispatches produced a programme called ‘Undercover Mosque’ that exposed militant extremism in Mosques the BBC completely ignored the information and the police even tried to prosecute C4 for incitement.  What were the BBC interested in on C4 that same week?  Jade Goody, labelled ‘white trash’ by the BBC, who said something ‘racist’ on Big Brother during an argument…the BBC spent the week trashing Goody, programme after programme discussed and attacked her….but ignored the Muslim extremists spouting racism and religiously inspired bigotry on the other C4 programme.

The BBC in fact were accused of lazy journalism by C4 after the BBC’s only report into the Dispatches programme slated it …the BBC accusing C4 of producing fake TV [in 2007?  Surley that’s pre-the post truth era?]

C4 calls BBC ‘lazy’ in Mosque row

The Channel 4 deputy head of news and current affairs, Kevin Sutcliffe, has criticised BBC News 24 for its “lazy” coverage of the Dispatches Undercover Mosque row – as a leading lawyer claimed the broadcaster has grounds to sue for libel.

The story was picked up by rolling news channels and press agencies. However, the police and CPS refused to issue a further statement – leading to Channel 4 having to defend itself against allegations of TV fakery.

Speaking today at a packed forum organised by think tank Policy Exchange in London, Mr Sutcliffe said he was “disappointed” by how some rival broadcasters had not checked the story.

“Particularly BBC News 24 which really just ran it as a TV fakery story. They framed the debate early on and that was lazy.”

So the BBC completely uninterested in exposing radical Muslim preachers…no surprise there.  The BBC’s own Phil Mackie in fact reports from the same msoque in Birmingham telling us how moderate it is and how it is fighting the extremists’ narrative….but then again he did think the Trojan Horse Plot was fake too.

So Webb completely ignored the one fact that completely undermines Labour’s attack…that nearly all these terrorists are already known to the police…they’re on the radar.

What appeared next on the Today programme just confirms the thought that not only did Webb deliberately dance aorund the inconvenient facts but that the BBC has an agenda.

Fifteen or so minutes after Webb’s ‘interview’ with Burgon Mishal Husain attacked the government for ending an inquiry into one of the attackers…

Scotland Yard says one of the men named as an attacker was known to police and MI5 but there was no intelligence to suggest an attack. Does that suggest a failure by the security agencies? Lord Ricketts is former national security adviser under Cameron.

So not a few minutes earlier Webb allowed Labour to say police failed to stop the attackers because thy didn’t know who they were…then instantly we have a complete turn around and the BBC is complaing that the police did know but did nothing.

As said this is the BBC’s top story now…and yet Webb made absolutely no reference to it when talking about intelligence and the police being able to identify potential extremists….the police know who nearly all these people are…

The Metropolitan Police have defended a decision to downgrade an inquiry into one of the men who carried out Saturday night’s terror attack.

They said Pakistan-born Khuram Butt, 27, of Barking, London, was known to police and MI5 in 2015, but there had been no evidence of a plot.

The police know who most extremists are but Labour says they don’t…the BBC pushes the Labour line.

Watch the video above as Peston on ITV quizzes Corbyn on the interview he did with Laura Kuenssberg back in 2015 when he told her he was ‘unhappy’ with a policy that allowed shoot to kill.  Corbyn tells Peston (2 mins in) that his answer was in relation to shoot to kill policy in the 1980’s in Ireland….he also claims that he went on to say ‘in a wholly defensive position [shoot to kill] is the right response’.

No, no he didn’t.  That’s a lie, two lies, by Corbyn.  Watch the actual interview…it is quite clear Kuenssberg’s question is related to events in Paris and whether Corbyn, if such an event were to happen here, would endorse a shoot to kill policy…and he nowhere stated that shoot to kill would be right in a defensive position…the interview ended quite clearly without him adding that qualification…..

Kuenssberg asks first about his response to a Paris-style attack if he was prime minister and whether he would “order security services onto the street to stop people being killed”.  Corbyn replied: “Of course you’d bring people onto the streets to prevent and ensure there is safety within our society.”

Kuenssberg then continued and asked “If you were prime minister, would you be happy to order people – police or military – to shoot to kill on Britain’s streets?”  Corbyn replied “I am not happy with a shoot to kill policy in general. I think that is quite dangerous and I think can often be counter-productive.”

Quite clear this was one narrative linking Paris to Corbyn’s own likely policy on shoot to kill.  Nowhere was Northern Ireland or the 1980’s mentioned.  Corbyn lied.

The BBC Trust, after a complaint about this interview, as it was run on News at Ten, was thrown out 4 times, eventually backed the complainant and ruled against Kuenssberg...despite it being blatantly clear she was right.

Interesting though how the BBC pretty much ignores the massive u-turn that Corbyn has executed on terrorism and shoot to kill….after decades of supporting terrorists and as above, denouncing shoot to kill, he has now suddenly, just before an election, cast aside all his previously held principles and sold out.  Little to no comment on this from the BBC but they are remarkably eager to attack May for her u-turns.

Amused to hear Corbyn declaring that terrorism will not derail our democracy, that democracy will prevail…this the man who cheerled for the gunmen and bombers of the IRA and supported their terrorist campaign to force Britain out of NI….not much democratic about that….never mind his sidekick John McDonnell’s views on revolution and smashing the state.

Still…for a man who wants to disband MI5, to demob the Army and to give Russia the upperhand by disarming Trident…he’s pretty up for it when it comes to defending this Island……oh…but we don’t need the security services or police or army because Corbyn will have a nice chat with all those returning Jihadis and will convince them over beer and bacon sandwiches to hang up their knives and take up ‘democracy’ instead.

Jeremy Corbyn needs to get to Raqqa, Syria with a bunch of flowers and a box of chocolates to discuss the situation…

— Lord Ashcroft (@LordAshcroft) June 4, 2017

About time the BBC started getting serious about Corbyn and investigated and exposed his views properly…for such a controversial and extreme politician he has had a very, very smooth and uncontroversial ride from the BBC…no doubt having two senior journalists, Robinson and Dimbleby, come out for him and warn off others from being negative about him must have helped.

The BBC…you couldn’t make it up…..will the London terrorist attack be a positive or a negative for you Mr Corbyn?….Yeah says Corbyn…the more bodies the better….lol……Just what did the BBC think he would say to such a crass question?

We’ll give the BBC the benefit of the doubt here and suppose that their quota for white, middle-class, middle-aged Tory voting men was already full as they search for an audience [Might that quota be 0?]…

[H/T Craig at Is the BBC biased?  Looks like it don’t it!]….

BBC criticised over comparison of Anjem Choudary with Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi

Mark Easton, the corporation’s Home Editor, criticised Government plans to clamp down on fanatics and questioned what Mandela and Gandhi would think of attempts to silence Choudary.

 

Theresa May says ‘enough is enough’…

Speaking in Downing Street after a meeting of the government’s emergency Cobra committee, the prime minister said the country “cannot and must not pretend that things can continue as they are”.

“We believe we are experiencing a new trend in the threat we face as terrorism breeds terrorism,” she said.

Mrs May promised to step up efforts to combat Islamist ideology and work with other countries to prevent the internet being a “safe space” for terrorists.

She said there was “too much tolerance of extremism in our country” and while it would involve “some difficult and embarrassing conversations”, that must change.

“It’s time to say enough is enough,” she added.

We’ve heard it all before with Cameron promising to crack down on non-violent extremism…but what did he mean by that?  Muslim conservatism?  In a Western liberal, progressive democracy that would be the case.

From the Telegraph:

It is false, misguided political correctness that is part of the problem. We need more than mourning in response to the threats that we face. This is not business as usual. The dead never get to carry on as normal.

However the May response is better than the Corbyn cobblers as he put the blame everywhere but where it really should be as he blamed British foreign policy and cuts to the police…never mind Labour were proposing a further 10% cut to the police budget in the 2015 election on top of the 20% the Coalition had already made.

So let’s deal with that ‘foreign policy’ myth to start with.  Muslims don’t like ‘British’ foreign policy…they say it is a non-Muslim country attacking Muslim countries…so where do their loyalties lie…to Islam first or Britain?  Clearly it is Islam first. Then you might ask is this defence of Islam ‘Islamic’?  Islam demands Muslims ‘defend’ Islam from attack…hence if Muslims believe ‘Islam’ is under attack, as they do, helped by the narrative pushed by the BBC amongst others, then those inclined to take up arms will do so as part of a religious war….a Jihad…their religious obligation.  So yes it is ‘Islamic’.

Then there is the big lie central to all that…that we are attacking ‘Islam’…it’s a powerful propaganda tool used to great effect…but it’s a lie…when we went into Iraq the Muslim activists deployed that argument and encouraged Muslims to join up and fight Jihad in Iraq against the ‘foreign invaders’, ie non-Muslim invaders.  Apparently it was OK for these foreign, non-Iraqi, Jihadis to invade Iraq and turn it into a wasteland just on the basis that they were themselves Muslim….never mind most Iraqis hated them.  Iraqis rather like their country and its borders despite what the BBC tells you about Iraq being a colonial imposition on the Middle East….yet another of the BBC’s dangerous narratives that feed the Jihadi propaganda machine.

Then consider Syria and the very same Jihadis.  When we failed to intervene in Syria due to Ed Miliband’s betrayal and cowardice this was remarkably presented by the Jihadis as the West betraying Muslims and thus became another narrative used to recruit more Jihadis…thus we have gone from the West’s intervention and deposing of a hated dictator being anti-Muslim to not intervening in the deposing of a hated dictator being anti-Muslim….and all the time in the background is the BBC’s narrative, which is essentially the extremist’s one.  It was a narrative that of course led to politicians like Miliband having backbone failure as they pandered and appeased the Islamist discourse of Muslim anger and ‘warnings’ of radicalisation all caused by Western intervention.

The BBC has been at the heart of the problem in this country covering up for, excusing and indeed promoting the Jihadi cause.  Let’s not forget its constant platforms for Cage, MPACUK, the MCB and numerous other Islamists and Islamist causes such as Guantanamo Bay, the undermining of the Prevent programme, and the unquestioning support for disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner’s ‘ambulance chasing’ which did so much damage to the British Forces’ reputation and put so many soldiers through the mill.

When May says there is…“too much tolerance of extremism in our country” and while it would involve “some difficult and embarrassing conversations”, that must change.’….she might want to start having a close look at the BBC’s output and consider if it recklessly published material likely to induce or encourage others to take the road to terrorism…..as Philip Hammond says...’Apologists for terror must take some blame’.…The Terrorism Act 2006:

Encouragement of terrorism

(1)This section applies to a statement that is likely to be understood by some or all of the members of the public to whom it is published as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to them to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism or Convention offences.

(2)A person commits an offence if—

(a)he publishes a statement to which this section applies or causes another to publish such a statement; and

(b)at the time he publishes it or causes it to be published, he—

(i)intends members of the public to be directly or indirectly encouraged or otherwise induced by the statement to commit, prepare or instigate acts of terrorism or Convention offences; or

(ii)is reckless as to whether members of the public will be directly or indirectly encouraged or otherwise induced by the statement to commit, prepare or instigate such acts or offences.

A BBC that tells us that the extremists are kind, clever, angry and idealistic….and of course victims themselves of a tyrannical British state….that tells us the Trojan Horse plot is a hoax, a result of racism, paranoia and Islamophobia [thus encouraging Muslim victim mentality], or that Jews should expect to be attacked for the ‘crimes’ Israel commits in Gaza, and that Muslim extremists will one day be seen as Churchill, Mandela and Gandhi-like figures….not to mention the highly, highly damaging narrative about Western intervention,  not just in Iraq in 2003 but the BBC line that ‘Skyes-Picot’ ‘carved up the Middle East’ and is the cause of all the problems we have now…along with the creation of Israel…this is a narrative we have just had from the BBC’s finest, its Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen…and it’s completely false, a great big shining lie that is in itself the cause of much of what goes on in the Middle East today…not to mention on the streets of Europe.

If the Prime Minister wants to change the conversation she has to start with the news organisation that spreads the biggest lies, the most malignant, toxic but influential pro-Islamist propaganda, the most murderous untruths.

The BBC is dangerous.  A very good case can be made that people die on the streets of Britain because of its lies.

https://twitter.com/Pamela_Moore13/status/871156460117536770

The Telegraph reports that after what looks like a terrorist attack in London the BBC has been told that the attackers shouted ‘This is for Allah’…

The Telegraph has reported that an eye witness on London Bridge told the BBC he saw three men stabbing people indiscriminately, shouting “this is for Allah”.

The BBC of course haven’t actually put that revelation in any of their reports as far as I can see, that live feed aside….nor is there a single description of the attackers….other than there being possiby three, male and with long knives…that’s despite a BBC reporter actually being at the scene on the bridge at the time of the attack and seeing one shirtless man being arrested…so ethnic origins highly visible?  She reports one of the victims near her was a French girl…and yet cannot even start to suggest the possible profile of the attackers?

BBC reporter Holly Jones, who was on the bridge, said a van driven by a man was “probably travelling at about 50 miles an hour” before it hit a number of people.

“He swerved right round me and then hit about five or six people. He hit about two people in front of me and then three behind,” Ms Jones told the BBC News Channel.

“I’d say there are about four severely injured people. They all have paramedics assisting them at the moment.”

She said the van, which was travelling from the direction of central London, headed towards the south side of the river.

Ms Jones later reported seeing a man being arrested by police. She said he was handcuffed and had his shirt off.

She said a French woman was among the injured.

Stewgreen links us to LBC which reports this…

“He said all three were of Mediterranean appearance”

Let’s hope, if this is ‘Islamic’, that some of those ‘Uncle Toms’ in the Muslim community that Sadiq Khan complained about give the police some good information [bit late of course]…but hey…who’d want to be labelled an ‘Uncle Tom’ in the Muslim community by the most powerful Muslim politician in London?  Life’s too short…and likely to be shorter.

Thanks to Mice Height for this:

https://twitter.com/Pamela_Moore13/status/871145427613224960

A few days ago I asked ‘Who was right? Who is the real ‘enemy of the State’?’  Was it Tommy Robinson or Lord Hall and his pro-Islam propaganda machine in light of the attack in Manchester and the BBC’s belated ‘exposure’ of the rapes and abuse in Rochdale?  The BBC film about Rochdale was a shameless attempt to rewrite history and to pretend that the BBC had been at the forefront of exposing such abuse when the truth is that it was one of the guilty organisations that knew what was going on and refused to bring it into the open because of the race and religion of the abusers.  How many girls became victims because BBC journalists stood silent and turned their eyes away?  And now they seek credit and applause for their ‘brave’ examination of the issues.

David Sedgwick [H/T DaveS in the comments] gives the lie to that BBC narrative showing that it contemptuously dismissed Tommy Robinson’s claims about Muslim grooming gangs….

Shooting the Messenger: The BBC’s ‘Asian’ Grooming Gangs

It wasn’t that long ago – five years – when in his role as anchor for BBC2’s Newsnight programme, Jeremy Paxman became very sniffy with a certain studio guest named Tommy Robinson. “You are seriously suggesting that young white girls are being sexually exploited by what you say are gangs of Muslim men? Is that what you are suggesting? Seriously?”

“Yes,” replied his guest, to which Paxman looked aghast. How could this racist, xenophobe suggest such rot? Sexual grooming of under-age white girls? How utterly absurd. The BBC weren’t having any of that. Had Robinson cared to cast his hostile gaze on the streets of Notting Hill he would have seen a thriving ‘multi-cultural’ paradise, where every creed and colour came together to produce a ‘vibrant’ Liberal fantasy land. Grooming? What grooming?

And here it is, the real BBC way of dealing with the issue of Muslim grooming gangs…shoot the messenger….and note this interview was in 2011 and Paxman opens with stating that ‘Tommy Robinson’ is a pseudonym and his actual name is Stephen Lennon…so why did Andrew Neil make such a fuss claiming that Tommy Robinson was hiding his real name for nefarious reasons in 2013 as Neil quizzed Robinson with questions provided by the Islamist Mehdi Hasan?

Neil, in a breath taking example of investigative journalism goes on to ‘reveal’ Robinson’s real name…or that of his long lost father, telling him…

‘We did find your birth certificate….you changed your name because it concealed for some time your BNP past….you were hiding your BNP membership.’

 

As David Sedgwick says:

If Tommy Robinson or any of the several thousand young girls who have been (and continue to be) victims of this abuse are waiting for an apology from the national broadcaster, they’d be advised not to hold their breaths. 

A new open thread for the weekend…..the weather’s looking stormy and the BBC is on full-on Mission Implausible mode…get Corbyn elected (holding their noses)….so stay in the warm and hit the keyboard with the bias…only a few days left to the election and the BBC is going all out flooding the airwaves with bias such as Boris ‘says no tax rises’ and then showing a clip of him actually saying ‘no planned tax rises’…that’s a big big difference…I am guessing the BBC will go for broke and become more blatant thinking that Corbyn will square it with Ofcom, packed to the gills as it is with people who look like they may well be on-side for the BBC anyway…and if the Tories win?   Well never mind, they’re too afraid to tackle the BBC….it’s a win win for the Beeboids….they have nothing to lose and everything to win…list the bias here….