Category Archives: BBC bias

Talking of the infamous £350 million the BBC always likes to say we don’t send the EU any actual money…and that the UK has a veto over any decision to axe the rebate should the EU, as would be likely, especially if we were to ‘rejoin’, thus…the rebate is safe and can’t possibly be included in any discussion on how much we pay the EU.

Strange then that the EU wants to hold onto our rebate.…how can they do that if they don’t get paid it?….

Europe is threatening to keep back Britain’s final rebate payment of €5 billion as part of the negotiations over 
the Brexit bill, The Telegraph can disclose.

Senior British sources said that 
negotiations over the bill, which the EU sets at €60 billion (£53.6 billion), had still not settled whether the UK would receive the €5 billion (£4.46 billion) payment as part of the final settlement when it leaves the EU in March 2019.

“There is a problem here, and the issue over whether the EU will pay us the 2018 rebate has not been resolved,” the source in Whitehall confirmed.

No veto then?  The EU was always likely to reverse the rebate, veto or no veto, whether we voted to stay or go….something the BBC doesn’t want you to understand.  You can guarantee it will go if we are forced by the Remainders to go cap in hand to the EU begging to be let back in….they will take us for everything they think we owe them and then add on the defunct rebate on top as well as imposing some draconian rules upon us in the City and on trade until we ‘prove’ our commitment to the cause and the Grand Project.

The BBC’s Reality Check tells us…

Reality Check verdict: He’s [Gove] right that the rebate is not a permanent feature of EU membership, but the UK has a veto over the process that would scrap or reduce it.

The level of the UK rebate is decided every seven years, as part of the EU’s long-term budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), which is negotiated by the EU leaders.

The long-term budget determines EU spending levels and priorities and it has to be approved unanimously by all 28 EU leaders.

Last time, as part of the 2014-2020 budget negotiations, the UK rebate was preserved. It will remain in place in the current form until 2020.

When the EU starts to negotiate the next MFF, the rebate will certainly be on the table again. Many other EU countries would like to see it scrapped or reduced.

But with the EU leaders required to approve the MFF unanimously, the UK could use its veto to stop the erosion of the rebate.

Except is that right?  The EU will introduce majority voting on this as soon as it thinks it is necessary or find someother way around it…Cameron already surrendered the veto for majority voting on many issues last year and told us it was a great success by him giving away our veto.

BRUSSELS has today unveiled plans to abolish all member state rebates fuelling speculation that eurocrats were preparing to raid Britain for more cash if it voted to remain in the European Union.

And consider that the EU can always find a way of increasing the total we ‘owe’ the EU so that when the rebate goes through we still pay them what they want….like the supermarket inflating prices and then telling you you have a bargain when they ‘drop’ them…or ‘Britain could be put under pressure to compromise elsewhere if it wants to keep the rebate, European Commission sources say.’

The EU is no-one’s friend….it is about filling  its own pockets with our gold and a massive power grab for the unelected and unaccountable EU superstate that can change the rules at will to justify and licence its every unjust and illegal move…..and the ECJ is so politicised that it is essentially there to rubberstamp what the EU wants.

‘Omerta’…that’s a Vauxhall car isn’t it?  Apparently not, it’s the vow of silence that the EU national leaders have taken so that only Barnier gets to speak as the voice of the EU [H/T Craig at Is the BBC biased?] according to Katya Adler who was explaining why her, and the BBC’s, coverage seemed so biased and favourable towards the EU’s version of events.

I heard Adler this morning giving us her best effort to convey Brexit events and I, clearly rather rashly, thought immediately how one-sided her comments were…as usual.  I was being unfair…apparently…according to Adler who tells us…

As Europe Editor it’s my job to put across the European perspective. Now that might come across as anti-UK but actually it’s just putting across the other point of view.

So as an experienced and professional journalist with the ability to think, analyse and put together a coherent story linking it all together she can’t convey both sides of the story?  Just the one?  Surely, as ‘European Editor’, that includes reporting what the British side says as well and to do so without implying they are deluded and unreasonable?

The BBC always presents whatever the EU says as gospel, as the only reasonable view of events, their every demand presented as realistic and sober and that it is the British who are unreasonable, irrational, unprepared, led by a weak government in chaos.   The very fact that Adler claims that the EU won’t let her speak to the national leaders should say something about the EU…but the BBC doesn’t notice…nor do they notice that the EU is trying to annex Northern Ireland and split up Britain….you might think they would have somethng to say about a foreign power trying to takeover British territory, they have so much to say about Russia in America, but no.

It just isn’t true that the leaders have taken a vow of silence…..the Irish PM certainly  hasn’t, German politicians haven’t….Merkel continually makes comments as do her officials, not Poles, Mr Tusk was pumping out the propaganda only yesterday.  And Macron was in the Spectator a few days ago with a very strange piece.…Napoleon lives on…

The EU must be reformed through sovereignty and democracy. Here’s how I plan to do it

He starts off well enough but soon reverts to type…

The European Union contributes to its own downfall when it fails to stand up for itself through an excess of conformism and a lack of vision. What can we say about the February 2016 agreement that offered the United Kingdom an ‘à la carte Europe’, yielding to its blackmail?

As for not denouncing Brexit…funny way of not doing that…

Brexit expresses the weaknesses of a political class that found its scapegoat —Europe — and failed to explain that leaving Europe would lead to disaster. Protection from a public debate in which experts’ arrogance and demagogues’ lies were lumped together indiscriminately…..We must not allow our citizens or our ideas to be monopolised by rabble-rousers or extremists.

And if you think the EU will risk the rest of Europe having referendums…maybe not….The ‘project fear’ handbook is ready to smash you…..

For countries organising a referendum, a coordinated campaign must be organised to generate democratic debate at European level.

So no….national voices have not been silenced and Barnier is far from the only voice to be heard….the EU itself has Juncker and Tusk on the airwaves all the time.  Adler talks through her hat justifying her bias with complete twaddle and revealing the fact that she must be a terrible journalist who can’t access the decent sources.

Newsnight’s James O’Brien, he’s everywhere, you can’t take a step without finding him underfoot….no wonder his friends call him Jobby.  Here he is talking to the Great British Conscience herself….a cross between Anne Frank, Mother Theresa and a gender fluid Jeremy Corbyn.  It’s, as you might imagine, very hard work, the decor is lively compared to the chat…not exactly challenging…Jobby admits to ‘feeling protective’ towards Allen.  He admits that he used to be a showbiz journo but he was rubbish at it….he’s not a showbiz journo anymore but what else has changed?  Not a lot really.  Naturally it’s all the usual targets that Allen is either a victim of, the Right-Wing Press, or a champion of…such as Grenfell.  Hmmm…where 71, not the 150 claimed by Allen, were unfortunately killed.  Oddly despite all her sound and fury about the numbers, and indeed the mention in this interview, we have no comment from Allen now that real figure has been released….just a retweet of someone else’s comment…which of course tries to cast doubt on the figure…you just can’t trust The Man…er…man.

These numbers could well be correct. But it's the lack of faith in the authorities, based on real history, that means it's so difficult to take anything at face value.

— Pilgrim Tucker (@PilgrimTucker) November 16, 2017

Perhaps Pilgrim Tucker and Lily Allen should take this wise advice……

Conspiracy theories (if false or not leading to concrete benefit) can act as dangerous distraction and waste of limited time and energy that could be spent on real issues

— Pilgrim Tucker (@PilgrimTucker) November 16, 2017

This was her immediate reaction to hearing of the Grenfell Tower figure….

Surprised face???? : Theresa May's husband's firm named in the Paradise Papers leak https://t.co/jOHA9TKDWm via @BIUK_Finance

— Lil Yellin (@lilyallen) November 16, 2017

I guess she never learns….her latest conspiracy theory….120,000 killed due to austerity…and it might be the BBC’s fault…maybe that’s why she’s on ‘Joe’….

Please retweet this if you think 120,000 deaths linked to government austerity policies should be thoroughly reported by @BBCNews pic.twitter.com/SjH82zsXuz

— Rachael (@Rachael_Swindon) November 17, 2017

I don’t think she has caught onto this one yet but it can’t be long…the Tories want you to change sex because they all have shares in the drug companies that make the drugs that can help you down that yellow brick road:

Big big money to be made in transgender politics ???? Any coincidence that Tories so happy to support changes to gender recognition act? https://t.co/IttYfx1mUB

— Pilgrim Tucker (@PilgrimTucker) November 18, 2017

Total testosterone sales in 2013 totaled 2.1 billion, and is projected to jump to 3.8 billion by 2018. Tell me again how the surge in teen girls coming out as trans is about civil rights.

— Jennifer Bilek (@bjportraits) November 18, 2017

Allen treading carefully?  Jennifer Bilek [why @bjportraits and not jbportraits?] is a self-described radical feminist…and they are apparently ragingly opposed to men who change gender calling themselves women…hence Germain Greer is no-platformed at university for saying something along those lines…..triggering the safe-place zealots etc.

“I don’t believe a woman is a man without a cock,” she said. “You can beat me over the head with a baseball bat. It still won’t make me change my mind.”

Identity politics…oh what fun.  They all want a slice of the pie for themselves…except Lily…..who is above all this….

Can i get a slice of absolutely nothing to be gained pie please ? And a side of just trying to make the world a safer place for my children https://t.co/bGOoiFPWHO

— Lil Yellin (@lilyallen) November 4, 2017

The BBC is all for gender fluidity and children making those decisions early doors judging by the frequently expressed positive views on the subject…maybe Lord Hall Hall has shares.

Universal credit: Households to miss out on benefits over festive season

The latest in the ever more desperate attempts to drum up any possible further controversy over universal credit.

It isn’t until the last segment of the article that we find out, ‘The government said the payments balance out, as claimants will receive more in the following month.’ So people aren’t actually missing out on anything, despite the scary headline and the picture of a sad woman lamenting fascist Tory policies.

People felt they had lost control of their country….they were right….

Labour couldn’t jail the bankers because they gave them free rein to do what they liked…bankers would be in jail next to Gordon Brown.

The BBC continues as per normal…spinning against the Tories….here trying to say the budget is being rigged purely in the Tory Party’s interest and not national interest…

Chancellor Philip Hammond plans to use “headroom” in the public finances to target spending on housing and health, a close friend has told the BBC.

Stephen Hammond – a former transport minister – said the chancellor wants to use next Wednesday’s Budget to “attack problems” that contributed to the Tories’ poor election performance.

…..the chancellor was planning to use the Budget to reach out to voters who had abandoned the Tories.

Trouble is that isn’t what he said…it’s pure BBC spin, their own interpretation….He actually said the Chancellor had been listening to criticism of his policies…..nothing about voters and using the budget to win them around to vote Tory.  That might well be the case but Stephen Hammond didn’t say that in the clip or in their report…the BBC kindly provides us with his words so you can judge…

“I think what the chancellor will be doing is saying, ‘Look it would be silly to throw away all the good work we’ve done in getting down the deficit level, we’re about to turn the corner on debt but yes of course I am listening.

“‘In my autumn statement I created some headroom… and I will be looking at what… ways that headroom could be used to attack the problems that so many people have spoken to me about.'”

‘of course I am listening‘…from that they create a whole negative narrative that wasn’t intended by the speaker.

When Corbyn bought the ‘youth’ vote with promises to relieve them of their student debts where were the BBC digs that this was Corbyn buying votes and rigging the election with what were, as we now know, hollow promises that he never intended to keep?  The BBC of course went out of its way to get the ‘youth’ to vote.

The BBC rigging the next election?  Probably why they have been concentrating their fire on mental health services over the last couple of years after the Tories cut provision….you cannot switch on 5 Live without hearing the latest sob story about the crisis in the NHS and in particular in mental health.

Kinnock must be pleased that the BBC took his advice:

Another open thread….list the BBC’s endless bias here……

For your entertainment…..

Don’t vote for Corbyn….he might rule for ever and ever…

World’s first human head transplant successfully carried out

The world’s first human head transplant has been carried out on a corpse in China in an 18-hour operation that showed it was possible to successfully reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels. 

At a press conference in Vienna on Friday morning, Italian Professor Sergio Canavero, director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, announced that a team at Harbin Medical University had “realised the first human head transplant” and said an operation on a live human will take place “imminently”.

The operation was carried out by a team led by Dr Xiaoping Ren, who last year successfully grafted a head onto the body of a monkey. 

Prof Canavero, said: “The first human transplant on human cadavers has been done. A full head swap between brain dead organ donors is the next stage.

“And that is the final step for the formal head transplant for a medical condition that is imminent….’

The BBC of course might say May is ahead of him….so robotic is she.

Have to say the scientist who has led this operation kind of lives up to stereotypical expectations….

And just to gross you out some more…..

bbc.co.uk

Poor old Gladstone…who knew?  Such a bad lad.  Not a supporter of slavery but not a vocal abolitionist, and one who benefitted from his father’s ownership of slaves….apparently “a racially marred legacy” which we must  reject along with everything else he did.

Not long ago, as per the BBC film above, he was ‘one of the greatest Britons of all time’, an ‘outstanding prime minister’, an ’eminent chancellor of the exchequer’, those facts alone are ‘hugely impressive‘ but he dominated political life and ‘improved the lives of millions’ changing politics forever.

How soon forgotten as BME activists try to blacken his name and scrub it from history…the BBC’s run down of Gladstone’s life as it reports that?

Liberal politician Gladstone is the only person to have been prime minister on four separate occasions.

He is described as having “ultra-conservative” views and spoke out against abolition in Parliament because his family had slaves on their West Indian plantation.

And that’s it in two reports, very short reports on this subject….one of them bigging up the conceited Jon Snow far more than Gladstone.

No quote from those with a more rounded view of life such as….

Richard Kemp, leader of the Liberal Democrats in Liverpool, told the Liverpool Echo the debate was tokenistic and that Gladstone was “a worthy recipient of honours”. “He was born on Rodney Street [in Liverpool], and was the only person who has been prime minister on four occasions,” he said.

“His government laid the basis of the welfare state, widened who could vote and did so many things we take for granted in this country. We should be incredibly proud of him. Gladstone was without doubt an abolitionist – precisely what he argued to get it through is not for me to doubt.”

Maybe we should ban the name ‘Bevin’ after all he conscripted all those poor lads to work in the coal mines during the war…and what of those conscripted to fight?…so many sent to their deaths on the orders of politicians at home.  What of the press gangs and those deported to the colonies?  Who ordered that?  Find their names and erase them from history.  Who put all those people in the work houses or indeed in the factories that were such places of fun and comfort?

Life’s hard, often made harder by those in charge, then you die.  Black people [often sold by other black people] weren’t the only ones ‘enslaved’ in reality.  As Marx might say…“You have nothing to lose but your chains!”

And maybe Muhammed should also fall…’temples’ around the country celebrate this slaver and warlord.  Let’s see some radical student activist trying to get their name in the papers take a stab at denouncing him and his ideology….the living document and guide to all things Islamic, the Koran, after all approves of slave taking…hence ISIS.  Ban the Koran!  No?

And whilst looking at various sources for this  post I came across this from the Guardian…of course….

The National Service Act was the negative counterpart of the NHS, whereby civilians were dragooned into compliance with the demands of the state. Its chief proponent was Field Marshal Montgomery, the posturing bully who was in a permanent panic of denial about his repressed homosexuality, and hoped to use military service to mould national character towards chaste combative virility. For many conscripts their sense of the state was not the benign NHS but the bullying of national service square-bashing.

That’s another British heroic figure to cross off the list for repressing his homosexuality[?] and not openly supporting the LGBTUPUXVVBQ community.