Category Archives: BBC bias

‘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…..

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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.

Churchill describing the rise of Communism…..

‘In a speech to the House of Commons on November 5, 1919, Winston Churchill said: “…Lenin was sent into Russia … in the same way that you might send a vial containing a culture of typhoid or of cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy. No sooner did Lenin arrive than he began beckoning a finger here and a finger there to obscure persons in sheltered retreats in New York, Glasgow, in Berne, and other countries, and he gathered together the leading spirits of a formidable sect, the most formidable sect in the world … With these spirits around him he set to work with demoniacal ability to tear to pieces every institution on which the Russian State depended.”’

Sounds kind of familiar doesn’t it that description of how a violent ideology is spread around an unwitting victim country?

Adding to the post on Tommy Robinson and the great and the good’s refusal to admit what is happening….and indeed to actively work to cover it up telling us there is no problem, in fact, they tell us, the ‘problem’ is actually the solution and should be welcomed and embraced….because they have absolutely no intention of tackling that problem due to its embedded nature and the fact that they created it themselves making it intractable and almost impossible to deal with now without major upheaval on their watch….leaving it to future generations to handle the resultant massive conflict and bloodshed that will almost inevitably be the consequence of today’s lack of backbone and character.

Niall Ferguson in the Sunday Times writes…

We let Lenin rise, millions died.  Now it’s Islamism.

The West failed to stop communism and is repeating the awful blunder.

 

According to The Black Book of Communism the grand total of victims of communism was between 85 and 100 million.

All communist regimes everywhere, without exception, were merciless in their treatment of “class enemies” and aggressive too, invading country after country during the cold war.

Could more have been done to stop the Bolshevik pandemic that broke out in Russia in 1917?

The problem was that people underestimated Lenin & Co.  They seemed an unruly bunch of intellectuals: writers of pamphlets, makers of speeches.  No contemporary western observer thought for a moment that their crackpot coup would last.

Foreign intervention, incompetent liberals, clueless bankers: that makes three reasons the Bolsheviks weren’t stopped….along with so many fellow travellers….who so shamefully betrayed their country to Stalin and turned a blind eye to communism’s crimes.

Another reason that the communist virus continued to spread for so long was that good men underestimated the Soviet threat and were assailed by doubts about how much should be done to resist it…often lacking the stomach for the fight and succumbing to relativism…perhaps everything was really the fault of the United States.

Have we learnt anything from this history?

Not nearly enough.

What concerns me is the entirely familiar response we see to a different but, to mind, equally dangerous threat…the rise of militant Islam.  Millions of dollars that have found their way from the Gulf to radical mosques and Islamic centres in the West.  Incompetent liberals – the proponents of multiculturalism who brand any opponent of Jihad an “Islamophobe”.  Clueless bankers who fall over themselves to offer “sharia compliant” loans and bonds.  Fellow travellers – the leftists who line up with the Muslim Brotherhood to castigate Israel at every opportunity.  And the faint-hearted – those who were so quick to pull out of Iraq in 2009 that they allowed the rump of al-Qaeda to morph into ISIS.

We are repeating the catastrophic error of the Bolsheviks.  I fear that we shall wake with a start to discover that the Islamists have repeated the Bolshevik achievement, which was to acquire the resources and capability to threaten our existence.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Which is why the BBC makes enormous effort to rewrite the past, British Empire bad, Muslim empire…a Golden Age.

And of course it’s not just militant Islam that the BBC supports….that virus ‘Bolshevism’ is on a surge…..Corbyn and his fanatical supporters are riding the wave….the “class enemies” must know what is coming….there’s been plenty of warning….Kuenssberg herself must know…bodyguard and all.  ‘Crackpot’ Corbyn should not be underestimated, nor should what would be the ultimate result of his power grab as his cohorts seek to ensure the revolution is safeguarded ‘for the good of the people’.  Corbyn’s sinister running mate, McDonnell, cheered on the IRA to use bullets and  bombs  to ‘unite Ireland’ and ‘joked’ about kneecapping those who were slow to come round to their way of thinking.  By all means necessary.