Author Archives: David Vance

IS IT THE END OF THE WORLD YET?

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BBC has moved into hysterical mode concerning the alleged scale of the cuts to come across Government. Ten O’Clock News come into meltdown with apocalyptic visions of courts closing, meltdown all round. This is the beginning of the next election campaign and the comrades at the Beeb are out to help the Trade Unions by echoing the hyperbole and whipping up hysteria.

Also, I knew the BBC would be unhappy about the fact that some Councils are shutting down the speed-camera network and so it is that it shrills THIS story whilst studiously ignoring THIS story.

Finally, aren’t the people of Pakistan suffering enough without……gasp…Orla Guerin?

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WHAT FRAUD?

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Well, you can be certain that any attempt by the Coalition to cut back on the rampant Welfarism that has disfigured the UK so under Labour is going to met by BBC resistance.  Just after 8.10am on Today we had pro Labour Common Purpose loving Demos vs Chris Grayling, with the BBC as independent arbitrator! Demos were arguing for higher levels of benefit (with tougher conditionality, sure) and the BBC seemed intent to suggest that most Welfare fraud was done through error, as opposed to wilful and deliberate fraud. As time goes on, the BBC narrative is building into what will become the next Labour manifesto, one seamlessly morphing into the other.

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A LITTLE TROUBLE FOR OBAMA

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Kevin Connolly had a wonderful piece of veiled Obama worship here at 7.49am. Poor Obama – all that spending and it still isn’t enough. Don’t think Irwin Stelzer’s suggestion that the US needs to take the path to austerity went down too well!

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PAKISTANI AID…

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BBC news coverage of the Pakistani floods is saturating (!) the airwaves but I think even the BBC interviewer was surprised during this interview with a Bradford lady Anjum Tahirkheli who has set up a charity that involves sending cash to Pakistan to buy food from Pakistan that then goes to beleaguered Pakistanis, The question was posed if the food was already available in Pakistan why did it need money to go from the UK to have it distributed within Pakistan – a very poor answer was given and no follow up question was forthcoming.  Best not to delve too deep….

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NOT A RELIGIOUS BONE IN HER BODY

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The brutal murder by Islamic thugs in Afghanistan of humanitarian workers will have disgusted all civilised people. The UK media has naturally focused on Dr Karen Woo who was tragically included amongst those executed by the Taliban. The Taliban alleged these workers had been slaughtered for the unspeakable crime of spreading Christianity. The BBC seem intent to register the fact that Dr Woo was not a Christian and, as they broadcast earlier this morning “did not have a religious bone in her body.” It would not matter if Dr Woo, or any of her colleagues, had been dedicated evangelists 24/7, there is simply no excuse whatsoever for murdering these fine people and it would have been nice to see the BBC focus on the dark ages savagery that motivates the Taliban to carry out such an atrocity. Some may say it has a name – Islam. You can be sure the BBC side-steps that particular angle and instead plays up the secular card when in truth all that does is distract from the evil of the perpetrators of this violence. Dr Woo and her colleagues died because these savages hate Christianity. Why does the BBC avoid pursuing from whence such hatred comes?

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THE COALITION ISN’T WORKING!

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Had to laugh at the BBC’s promotion of the idea that the “economic recovery” (?) of the last six months is being put in peril by the wicked plans of the Coalition that the State sector should live within it’s means. Yes, the good work of Labour is being undone by nasty Mr Cameron. Economic realities are never mentioned – the crunch issue for the BBC is that the Conservatives are going to preside over rising unemployment and therefore all guns will be trained on them. Is it too late to bring back Ben Elton? The BBC appears unaware or disinterested in the simple fact that Labour allowed the State sector to grow to unaffordable and elephantine proportions and corrective action is both timely and necessary. The narrative is going to be simple one – Voting Conservative costs jobs and the BBC will be the fore in assiduously promoting this in the time ahead.

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MAGGIE THATCHER, MILK SNATCHER!

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Oh what a dream start to the new week for the BBC. They instantly move in to exploit Cameron’s slap down of the idea that subsidised milk for under 5’s could be scrapped. There was an item here on it and then how do they start the 8.10am prime time slot – by Mr Humphyrs intoning “Maggie Thatcher – Milk Snatcher, catchy slogan”. The “nasty party” inferences were present and correct and then the conversation meandered to the need for “more State involvement” in the Nation’s health, brought up by John Humphyrs. This was an example of the interviewer using his opinions to lead the debate, thoroughly unprofessional but typical. I also note that Humphrys let Professor Ian Gilmore away with the unsubstantiated claim that the smoking ban had reduced heart attacks by 10%.  

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FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT..

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A Biased BBC reader spots the delights offered on RADIO 4 in just one day..

“Beyond Belief: Santuary” 

A look at Britain’s history of offering sanctuary to those fearing persecution. 

“The Mossad” 

The BBC’s Security Correspondent talks to the world’s most feared and fabledsecurity services.

“Face The Facts” 

Is the legal aid system failing asylum lawyers and their clients?

“Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star” 

Alan Johnson meets people who have tasted the fame he craved in the 1960s

“Women’s future in Afghanistan” 

How will women’s rights be affected oncecoalition troops leave? 

Tuesday 03/08/2010

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THE WAR ON THE BANKS….

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The BBC seems outraged that Banks make profit. Today, it seems affronted that RBS has made a half-year profit of £1.1bn. We have Peston droning on each morning, and the BBC not being able to make it through a sentence on RBS without reminding us that the “tax-payer” owns 84% of this bank. The way I see it, the license-payer owns 100% of the BBC and it doesn’t provide us £1.1bn profit every six months. In fact it costs us £3.5bn each year to keep this anti-capitalist parasite afloat. Given the choice, I’d keep RBS and sell off the BBC.

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