Author Archives: David Vance

BACK TO NORMAL..

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Well, I’ve been away for a few days and didn’t listen to the BBC but that changed this morning, God, but it is bad, isn’t it? This morning we had Diana Fulbrook of the Probations Chief’s Association on to shill for a liberal approach to those who commit serious crimes, following on from the BBC’s approval of Ken Clarke’s ludicrous statement that there is no connection between sending people to prison and falling crime levels. It seems to me that the BBC is in rapture to Ken Clarke’s uber-liberal approach to our Justice system.

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SANITISATION OF RECREATIONAL RIOTING

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BBC Today programme very keen to paint the notion that the past few nights of Republican thuggery on the streets of Northern Ireland are in some way linked to “contentious” Orange Order Parades. This is so outrageous that I thought I might set the record straight. In most instances, the violence is taking part in IRA controlled heartlands and those terrorists firing at police officers are out to KILL them. The reason why the BBC plays the establish game is that to delve too deeply into these riots might expose the rancid appeasement that lies at the heart of the “peace process.” It’s a little tricky to spin the line that violence does not pay whilst IRA godfather Martin McGuinness sits in high office and the scum on the streets of Northern Ireland are merely following the template provided for them. Odd how the BBC chooses not to investigate that line of thought. Instead, it chooses who is interviewed very carefully and the impression that this is a little local difficulty is conveyed so the lotus-eaters here can keep on dreaming…

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RAOUL MOTE – POLICE VICTIM

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It’s amazing the way the story swings. Reading this latest BBC account, it seems nothing but criticism is being hurled at the Police. By contrast, Mote is increasingly being portrayed as the victim – when in fact he was a victim-maker. The Police are put in impossible positions and this is one. BBC keen to given Andy Hayman a platform, I note.

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DON’T GO IN THE WATER,,,,

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BBC reports that swimming lessons in some Staffordshire schools should stop during Ramadan to ensure Muslim pupils “do not swallow water”, a council has suggested…..

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has issued an 11-page Ramadan guide for schools to help pupils who may be fasting when the school year starts in September. It said swimming was acceptable to Muslims but posed a high risk of swallowing water that may break a fast.

There is a real moral dilemma for the BBC here. On the one hand it has long been an advocate of sex education in schools but the challenge is that this Labour dominated Council (Leasder Mohammed Pervez) has other ideas…

It also suggests re-scheduling sex education classes during the holy lunar month, as Muslim followers who have reached puberty are required to avoid sexual thoughts during this period.

I wonder if everyone in Staffordshire agrees with the banning of swimming lessons? Reading the BBC, we will never know.  Still, since the Muslim Council of Britain is behind this it must be OK?

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IGNORE THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM..

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Shocking loss of life in Uganda as football fans watching the World Cup final last night were blown to smithereens in terrorist attacks. But in THIS BBC report, reporter Will Ross is determined to cast doubt on the overwhelming likelihood that Islamic terrorists were behind it. The modus operandi fits the Al Queda template, as does the inhumanity of it But through the Islamic-friendly prism of the BBC, why it could be anyone who was responsible.

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WORLD CUP CRAZY

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As we approach the final for the World Cup this evening, the BBC is boasting what a terrific success it has been and one in the eye “for those” who said South Africa couldn’t produce such a high quality tournament. (Meme, ANC = good) Throughout the tournament the BBC coverage of the games has had a fair smattering of cultural awareness reporting spliced amongst it aimed at making us feel good about the new South Africa. The BBC are drooling at the prospect that Saint Nelson Mandela may actually be at the Final tonight – cementing the multicultural fairytale the BBC seek to construct. Frankly, had we got rid of the BBC panel and had an Octopus and a Parakeet, the coverage would have been less cloying.

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JUSTICE FOR MOATY

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Now that the killer Raoul Moat has killed himself, the BBC are not happy. Their angle on the story is to query Police strategy and in particular the use of tasers, the use of negotiators, etc. The tone of the story is that Moat is some sort of victim. He isn’t. He was a killer. But then again BBC hatred of the force of law and order runs deep…

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THE TALIBAN COME FIRST…

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A Biased BBC reader observes…

I was listening tothe BBC World Service (in Singapore) shortly after the news that British troopswere to be redeployed from Sangin to other parts of Helmand province. I wasastonished when the news reader went to the BBC’s correspondent in Afganistan forreaction to hear that the ONLY reaction sought and reported on was from theTaliban; who predictably described it as a British defeat etc. To say that(quite apart from the offense to the relatives of those killed in Helmand),this lacked journalistic integrity is a massive understatement of the BBC’sdisgraceful standards of reporting.

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