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This little piece of BBC bias was picked up over on Twitter by @IvorGrumble.  I bring it your attention thanks to her eagle eyes…

Tensions over fishing rights around the British territory of Gibraltar have been raised, following an incident involving Gibraltarian police boats and British Royal Navy, and Spanish police. It comes after several days of dispute in which Spanish police escorted Spanish fishing boats near the area.  The Gibraltar government says fishing with large nets there is illegal because of an environmental law. Spain claims sovereignty over Gibraltar, a British colony since 1713.

Huh? Gibraltar is NOT a “colony” — it is a British territory. The BBC just cannot help themselves, can they. Be it the Falklands or Gibraltar, you KNOW which side they are on.

A Biased BBC reader asks the sensible question….

“Yesterday it emerged that many BBC announcers, news readers and regular stars of major BBC programmes are being paid through companies, thereby paying lower rates of tax. Why are BBC journalists, as employees of a public broadcasting corporation, not investigating and reporting this news, together with background information and names, with the same passionate fervour at every opportunity on radio and TV, as usually experienced when members of the government, civil service, business executives and other branches of the media or entertainment community outside the BBC are alleged to be managing their tax affairs to reduce their tax bill? They seem quite capable of reporting even the flimsiest allegations, together with inuendo, comment from pressure groups etc when it is some other organisation or individual but seem reluctant or even not prepared at all to do it when it s “one of their own”. How transparent and fair is that?

A BBC Four programme that asks ‘Roundhead or Cavalier….Which one are you?’.  B-BBC alan wonders…

“I didn’t know what to make of it at first but a metaphor soon sprung to mind that suitably encapsulates everything that this programme is about….imagine driving down the road and you look up to see a small boy mooning you from the back of a bus….amusing huh?….only on a closer look do you see that the works of Karl Marx are printed on his backside….not only is he mocking you but the mocking comes with a message attached!

Of course the young schoolboy is not to blame…it is his mate giggling alongside him who incited him to carry on in such a bawdy, rude manner….the schoolboy who grew up to be a BBC editor no doubt.

And that in essence is how this programme engineers its hidden message into our lives…..it employs one of the BBC’s favourite tricks of using ‘useful idiots’, and some knowing knaves, to say things that the BBC couldn’t say themselves…and then have them edited into a narrative that suits the BBC’s message…in this case what might that be?

Bet you can’t guess.

Cavaliers and Roundheads, the English Civil War where the fight for equality and democracy was won by the forces of Godliness and discipline against those of decadence and thoughtless self interest.

That’s right – it’s Tories against the Caped Crusaders of the Left.

It’s still playing out today and throughout the last 400 years…Whigs against the Tories, Liberals against the Tories,  Socialists against the Tories.

Everyone hates the Tories you see.

The Tories, sorry Cavaliers….they don’t care about anything too much, they don’t care about details, not interested in the nitty gritty of organising life and politics, they have no overall plan, they have style but no substance.

But it’s OK….the Socialists, sorry, Roundheads, will save the day….being careful, organised, Godly(?), dutiful, professional, thoughtful, sincere, principled, purposeful and rebellious.

Who might be good examples of such virtues? George Osborn, Ken Livingstone, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Arthur Scargill and Boris Johnson, The Sun newspaper and the Guardian.

You do the maths on which is which.

The BBC don’t actually have much faith in your ability to spot their subtle anti Tory black propaganda so they slip in some pretty jarring shots and comments just to ram home the message….Tory bad and decadent, Socialist good and caring.

Human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson blurted out that he laughed at Tories who dismiss the European Court of Human Rights…..so undemocratic of them…do they not realise that the English Civil War was fought for these European laws? Wasn’t it?

A Times columnist, Ben Macintyre, claimed that Cameron was a Cavalier by instinct, weaned in the Bullingdon Club with a belief that he is born to rule….a very dangerous aspect of his character he proposes.

However…Miliband is a natural Roundhead with clear and crisp ideas of where he wants to go….can’t understand why everyone hates him.

The finale was a comment overlaid with a film of Cameron…..the interviewee stating that ‘Britain is now a society that is a pyramid of snobbery and wealth.’ and then the last dig….the narrator saying ‘It now seems there’s a little bit of Roundhead and Cavalier in all of us.’…..juxtaposed against a lingering shot of Gordon Brown, Roundhead, and then George Osborn, reckless, irresponsible Cavalier.

Hang on, rewind,  wasn’t it a certain ‘Gordon Brown’ who was so cavalier with our cash, destroyed our economy, and broke the Banks of England, Scotland too?

As the narrator said at the beginning of the programme….‘To understand the origins of this great divide (between Cavaliers and Roundheads) is to understand what it means to be British today.’

That’ll be right, Anne Widdicombe, David Davies, Norman Tebbit, John Redwood and Margaret Thatcher all natural Cavaliers!

The programme was a bright idea thought up by a BBC Labour lovey as a device to paint the Tories in the worst possible light by implication and association……pure propaganda from the impartial BBC.   Propaganda that is supposed to seep gradually into our subconscious only fully maturing and coming into effect on polling day like the parasitic being that is the BBC leeching off our license fee money and using it to offend and attack everything most people outsie of the ‘metropolitan elite’ value.

Finally let’s have a look at what the Roundhead Puritan’s really brought us….and why they were shoved off to America to be those Bible Belt fundamentalists that otherwise the BBC hates……

‘Puritans were dissatisfied and bent on the destroying of the dregs of Popery. They were a group of literate and often highly articulate people acting like a fifth column to undermine and radically change Britain through sympathisers in and activists. Some aimed to reform by peaceful means others wanted to turn England to their religion completely and join their co-religionists in Europe. up and down the country they took over parishes and imposed a new belief…that they were the chosen ones and everyone else was excluded and was damned. Where the Godly would get a foothold in a parish they would often tear it apart. They disrupted peaceful communities with their preaching and efforts to discipline those they regarded as godless resulting in bitter divisions and denouncements of sinners.’

B-BBC Contributor Alan notes “Perhaps I have missed the BBC report into this matter?”:

‘It emerged last week that the ASA is investigating an advertisement from the Coalition For Marriage (C4M), which campaigns against changing the law, following claims it is “offensive” to homosexual people.

Archbishop Cranmer, a popular political and religious blog, was asked to justify carrying the advertisements, which also appeared in a host of other media after 11 complaints to the ASA.If the complaints are upheld the advertisement could be banned. 

Yesterday Cranmer voiced disbelief after Lord Smith recorded a message for the “Out4Marriage” website, expressing his support for same-sex marriage.
“We have gained so much over the last 10 or 15 years and civil partnerships have been a major step forward but it still isn’t full equality and that is why I think this is a very important campaign,” he said.  “There is a personal reason too – as a gay man I would like to be able to marry.” ‘

Here is a man, Lord  Smith Chairman of the ASA, of undoubted high influence, in a position to use his powers to silence critics of gay marriage…and it looks as if this has been attempted. And yet the BBC look the other way and decide to ignore this abuse of power.

However not on all occasions….top billing in ‘gay marriage’ search on the BBC….
X-Men superhero set for same sex wedding
Marvel comic X-Men is to feature its first same sex wedding after gay character Northstar’s marriage proposal to his boyfriend.

No mention of Chris Smith.  The Left have for a long while now been ardently campaigning to silence ‘Rightwing’ bloggers and even journalists…..guess this is just another aspect of that and the BBC no doubt agrees in many respects.

What did Andrew Marr say?

“The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It’s a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias”.

Is that what we are seeing here…liberal bias by omission?

The BBC were wrong footed on Today when they asked Lord Woolf to comment on the running of ‘Inquiries’.

His first comment was about the  ‘Hutton Inquiry’ and the treatment of Lord Hutton…..he said that during the Inquiry Lord Hutton had been praised by all for his running of the Inquiry…however when his judgement was released suddenly that view changed and he was treated totally unfairly….and of course the BBC was at the forefront of that criticism.

Evan Davis had a little panic and changed the subject saying that perhaps the final judgement wasn’t important…. the release of evidence into the public domain was the important thing.

That would be convenient for the BBC….ignore the final conclusions of Hutton and carry on regardless.

In fact that has been what they have pretty well done since that Inquiry….the BBC have rewritten history ever since and now blatantly say that Hutton was ‘of course’ wrong and the BBC was right.

No, the BBC was wrong, ‘Today’s’ misleading report altered the public mood and perception of the Iraq War and you could reasonably make the claim that the BBC’s lies about the 45 minute claim cost British soldier’s lives…the government was put on the backfoot and was thereafter hesitant about committing the necessary resources in manpower, weapons and money to win the war outright and quickly.

Could the Today programme really change the public’s perceptions and views so effectively?

Look at what Baroness Deech, an ex BBC governor, has to say about its ‘power’:

‘One may wonder what all the fuss was about an interview on one radio programme early in the morning, but when I tell you that that programme is listened to by 7m adults each weekday morning, (more than 10% of the population and probably 25% of all adults) and prides itself on shaping the agenda for political discussion that day, you may comprehend it.’

As to the BBC rewriting history….that quote came from Baroness Deech’s speech at  Gresham College last year….in which she tried to vindicate the BBC and rubbish Hutton……the BBC has a very long reach and a long memory…and it has the ability, the continuous platform. to air its own side of the story whilst ‘opponents’ of course do not.

Funnily enough Evan Davis was pretty keen to talk about Leveson often praising it as an example of a pretty outstanding Inquiry beneficial to all mankind.

Wonder why?