Author Archives: David Vance

ONE KENNEDY THAT UPSETS THE BBC

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I dare say that the day US Senator Ted Kennedy pops his clogs the BBC will go into full on mourning. They just love that aquatically challenged oaf. However it seems that there is one Kennedy that has invoked the ire of the BBC, and her name is Sarah.

Radio 2 presenter Sarah Kennedy has been chastised by the BBC for praising
right-wing politician Enoch Powell during her show. During her early-morning
show on Wednesday, Kennedy, 59, described Powell as ‘the best prime minister
this country never had’. Enoch Powell was famously sacked from the shadow
cabinet by Ted Heath in 1968 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech about the dangers of
mass immigration. A spokesman for the BBC said that the corporation had received
25 complaints by Friday and that the presenter had been ‘spoken to’ about the
remark

I actually do listen to “Bunty” each morning and find her a harmless and good natured person. But god forbid that a BBC presenter should say something positive about a demonised figure such as the late great Enoch Powell. I suppose if she had praised Aneurin Bevan she would have been given a salary increase…

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MORE BUBBLY?

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Ah to be at the BBC, where it’s summertime and the living is easy.

The heads of BBC radio and TV stations and senior corporation management figures used public money to pay for flowers, champagne, hampers for stars and “thank you” lunches and dinners. Read the sordid details here!

It’s a luvvie merry go round oand we, dear reader, fund it. That’s what makes it so special, you see.

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DRIPPING POISON

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The BBC attack on the Conservatives is ongoing.

Just consider; The Andy Coulson attack story is being kept alive here. This is despite the fact that it has no no legs whatsoever. Meanwhile on the PM programme, I listened to Eddie Mair running a shock horror story about how poor old David Cameron’s Conservatives are linked to a Polish politician who allegedly made “homophobic” comments – NINE year ago! Is Mandelson on speed dial to Auntie?

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BBC FAMILY VALUES

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The traditional family unit remains the very best bastion against the growth of the State. One of the devastating consequences of decades of marriage breakdown here in the UK has been the resultant weakening of the family unit – so allowing Nanny State to enter our lives, interfere and contort things. I rather think the BBC appr0ves of this so that may go some way to explaining why a programme examining the connection between broken Britain and the sustained weakening of the family unit is buried away in a late night slot – having already been postponed during the local Council/European elections. To the Statist Beeb, Mum and Dad are optional extras. To any sane person, they are the essential bulwarks against the State. Tune in to BBC2 tonight at the 11.20pm to hear the connections the BBC would rather you didn’t! It’s a crucial topic and one that the multiculti moral relativists shy clear off lest we be judgemental. But without a strong family unit, the State just grows more powerful, more intrusive and it is a scandal that a topic of this importance is tucked away at a time when few will view it.

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QUESTION TIME LIVEBLOG!

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OK – so we go live later this evening and here is the panel for your edification. We have media opportunist liberal Lembit Opik, then there is phew wot a scorcher Conservative parliamentary candidate Margot James, (the new Nadine Dorries now she is mad); there is Trasha from garbage TV, and of course we shouldn’t forget FT Editor Lionel Barber; finally there is lovely boy Chris Bryant from the Rhondda. I invite you to visit Chris”s homepage here if you want a laugh, check out the excerpt from his maiden speech. We kick off at 10.30pm and best of all, I have two good gentlemen to moderate alongside me! David Mosque has kindly agreed to be here – and Geoff may be back for the first time since his accident. All in all it should be a laugh and don’t worry about the direness of the panel – we more than make up for that in our commentary! Be there.

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ON CUE FROM THE LEFT…

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I think that Stephen Glover has quite a perspicacious article here on the subject of how the BBC operates as a multimedia more powerful version of the Guardian.

As a publicly owned broadcaster funded by the licence payer, it is supposed
to eschew partisan or biased stories with a political agenda. In this case,
the newspaper lobbed a grenade into David Cameron’s back yard by targeting
Andy Coulson. The BBC blindly followed suit. But then the Corporation
often takes its cue from the Guardian. The two organisations share the same
values. Day after day, week after week, the BBC adopts the Guardian’s Leftist
preoccupations and prejudices. The relatively low-selling newspaper serves as
the Corporation’s brain, and many of the progressive causes it
promulgates are taken up by the BBC with its far wider reach.

I think this is about right. And because the BBC is so profoundly institutionally biased that there can be no salvation for it, I’m afraid. It has to be axed and the license tax burden removed. If it wants to push a leftist (or even a right wing) point of view, fine. Let it fund this itself.

Making predictions in the world of politics is to make yourself a hostage to fortune but I believe that David Cameron will shy away from doing what is necessary to the BBC. I believe that he will try to ameliorate the worst excesses of the BBC whilst remaining continually wary of the malign power of the State Broadcaster. He may even think that being nice to them will make things better. It won’t. The values of conservatism are incompatible with the BBC and it will continue to undermine these which is why the only viable option is the complete and utter destruction of the BBC as we know it.

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A WORD ON THE EYE

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B-BBC readers and in particular those who like to come along to the weekly Question Time liveblog – will know that Geoff aka The All Seeing Eye – is back on the long road to recovery after a serious accident and may even be able to join us tomorrow night! This is welcome news and proof that prayer is answered! So the Liveblog is ON for tomorrow night. Make sure you come along!

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