Really excellent and moving report on 'from our own correspondent' by @BenjaminZand. I nearly cried too, Benjamin. #thankyou

— Sam Smith (@samhenleysmith) September 23, 2017

A new tactic from the BBC to tug at your heart strings?

We are well used to the well modulated, middle class tones of BBC journalists sermonizing to us about immigration and the plight of ‘desperate’ migrants.  Most people recognise this for what it is, the liberal Establishment’s extremist propaganda pressing for open borders and an unending stream of people from around the world to be allowed to force their way into Europe, the BBC talking down to us and ‘educating’ us on our moral duty.  How many times have you heard a BBC journalist question a phone-in caller’s morality or sense of humanity if they voice an opinion that goes against the BBC mantra?

The BBC knows that such a message from the privileged, vastly overpaid and clearly contemptuous of the ignorant great unwashed, BBC journalists will be received with a great deal of cynicism.  So what to do?  How about the same message but  different messenger…how about a ‘working class’ regional voice…such as Benjamin Zand from Liverpool…admittedly the name perhaps evokes exactly the same thoughts about the BBC types as any middle class voice would….never mind using someone of immigrant stock to push the message…not likely to voice anti-migration thoughts is he?

Seems his reports are seen by many as somewhat one-sided…naturally he is a ‘victim’ of their prejudice….

A man from Liverpool. I make documentaries and then people send me offensive messages on the internet.

Zand is in fact of Iranian extraction and is BBC through and through…his interests are their interests….but he has a Scouser’s accent.  No doubt the BBC thought this would give some street cred to their ‘reports’ on immigration and fend off the criticism of a privileged elite imposing their extremist open borders immigration policy upon us.

Zand appeared on FOOC which was just a puff piece advertising his fuller Panorama programme…who said the BBC doesn’t have adverts?  Just for their own programmes….maybe they should run the ITV and SKY schedules past us as well?

Unfortunately the programme seemed to reinforce my ‘prejudices’ as we heard that these migrants are in fact economic migrants who come here expecting to be given jobs, housing and money.  Despite that the message is the  usual….we must do more to help migrants come here in safety.  His real target is those who want to block migration…and he does so by sensationalising the problems of those who hit the migration trail and blaming the problems on those who don’t provide a concvenient and easy route for people to come to Europe.

Watch @BenjaminZand's doc exploring the horrors of the migrant trail, and the impact of the EU blocking it – tonight, at 8.30pm on BBC1 https://t.co/qYnaW4vajH

— Amnesty UK (@AmnestyUK) September 18, 2017

BBC One tomorrow, looking at horrors people face on the migrant trail & the impact of millions of EU money spent on stopping people coming pic.twitter.com/u62uBBpNeC

— Benjamin Zand (@BenjaminZand) September 17, 2017

One example was an Iraqi who said he decided to come to Europe when his heart began to fail and he needed treatment..he couldn’t of course go back to Iraq because, he said, he had no family there.  Now that’s pretty unlikely…and he didn’t have any family in Europe…so rather than go back to a country of his birth, to the language, culture and religion of his birth, he comes to Europe.  It’s a similar paradoxical excuse we get from the BBC when they tell us illegal immigrants can’t be deported back to their home country because the family has roots here now and it would be like going to a strange and unfamilair place if they were sent home….but the migrants in the first place break their ties with their homeland and culture and come to a completely foreign, strange and unknown place when they come to the UK.  So how is it OK for the BBC to encourage them to leave all that is familiar and traditional to them in order to come to an alien Europe?  Why is going back to the homeland a fearful experience whilst uprooting themselves from that homeland and exposing themselves to the extreme dangers of the migration route and human traffickers OK?

It was a bizarre programme…clearly intended to engender sympathy and a new accepting attitude towards migrants and yet it presented evidence that showed how wrong that would be and how migrants are being lured by tales of riches and false promises…so often given credence by the BBC and its like themselves [the BBC actually published a guide for African migrants on how to make the journey here ‘safely’]….Merkel’s open invitation to the world to come to Europe is often quoted by migrants…Merkel ‘invited us’.

Shame the BBC doesn’t spend so much time, money and emotion on the extremely negative effects of such migration on the lands to where the migrants go.

Frightening where the propaganda starts now as the BBC narrative infiltrates schools and ‘poisons’ children’s minds….

My primary school in Huyton is watching current affairs docs & showing me love on Twitter. I have officially achieved all I ever dreamed of. https://t.co/YzJjuyK4Kj

— Benjamin Zand (@BenjaminZand) September 19, 2017

@BenjaminZand teachers and all staff @malvernprimary were so impressed with your programme last night. Talk of the staffroom! #proud ????

— Malvern Primary (@malvernprimary) September 19, 2017

Just what are Pienaar’s politics?  He has given a very good impression of being a Labour fanboy for many years, you’d hardly ever hear a critical word come out of his mouth about Labour and not much has changed.  Just listened to him explain Labour’s position on Brexit…he admitted it wasn’t really clear but he said…that’s their job as the Opposition.  So Labour’s job is to confuse, baffle and essentially lie to the voters…just as they did throughout the general election and Pienaar thinks that is acceptable?  Corbyn lied to the public and did massive u-turns on his famously long and deeply held convictions about so many things….the BBC barely blinked an eye…indeed they describe his changes of policy as Corbyn ‘evolving’ which is a description intended to portray him as reasonable and open to change when needed when in fact he cynically exploited his position and the BBC refused utterly to nail him for it.  So not a cynical, opportunistic vote buying scam as Corbyn u-turns in an exercise of massive deception but a lovely ‘evolution’ of his politics.   Wonder what they will make of it when he ‘evolves’ back into the swamp creature that he really is.  May, of course, was slaughtered for her u-turns.

And now Corbyn has done another back-flip…promising in the election that Labour was backing Brexit and leaving the Single Market….but that’s all changed now…now we are to be kept in the Single Market in an open-ended agreement that just means we are in the EU but on far worse terms, held hostage by the likes of Druncker.  May of course has betrayed Brexit and the voters and has rather decided to do what her Remain cabinet colleagues want…keep us in the EU until, they hope, things change and Brexit can be dumped.  Just why are we paying the EU for access to their markets when they sell us far more than we sell to them?  Shouldn’t they pay us for access to our market?  We have no legal or moral obligation to pay them anything.

Pienaar went on to suggest this was a good politicial ploy by Labour….sit on the fence, keep everyone guessing and then swoop in when Brexit goes wrong [er…will it?] and then pick up the pieces with Jezza in No10.

Apparently all those fanatical Jezza supporters are merely ‘idealists’ who want fairness and equality…not extremist far-left thugs as the BBC portrays anyone on the Right then?

Pienaar seems a little in awe, if not in love, with Corbyn.

The BBC has run a campaign of hate and demonisation against those people in Britain who voted for Brexit and in particular the politicians who led the campaign such as Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.

The perfect example of this was their reporting on the death of a Polish man in a late night fracas in Harlow which the BBC sensationalised as a racist killing #duetoBrexit…the BBC telling us that Brexit has apparently given licence to all the racists in Britain to freely express their hatred and prejudice towards immigrants.  Britain, the BBC frequently opines, is a ‘nastier and more racist place’ since Brexit.

The death of the Polish man was reported in alarmist tones such as this on the Six O’clock News…

‘the fear is that this was a frenzied racist attack triggered by the Brexit referendum’

BBC Newsnight went all the way and put the blame squarely on Brexit and indeed put out an accusation that Nigel Farage had ‘blood on his hands’ and told us of ‘the ugly mood in our country post-Brexit.’

Trouble is there was not a jot of real evidence this was the case and indeed the truth was that it was the Pole who started the fight and who made racist comments.

The BBC have refused to apologise for what is in effect a blood-libel against all those who voted Leave accusing them of being racists and Fascists.  Tony Blair likes to say openly that Brexit ‘was driven by the Far Right’...a complete lie….but it is not just him who uses that language, it is the respectable, impartial, non-partisan, accurate and truthful BBC that does so also.  Emma Barnett saying ‘some might say Brexit is an extreme right-wing stance’….that was her immediate reaction to Dominic Grieve suggesting Corbyn was a hard-left politician.  Interesting reaction that tells us a lot….Barnett spits out an aggressive defence of hard-left Corbyn and does so by labelling Brexit as a Far-Right plan. Think we know where she is coming from…the same place so many of her BBC colleagues do….one on the Today show who recently labelled Brexit politicians as ‘Ultras’…and we all know what that means…extremist, fanatical, dangerous, violent, Far Right thugs.

The BBC has also refused to apologise to Nigel Farage despite making a hugely offensive comment about him that has led to both himself and his family being abused.

What has the BBC done?  It has ploughed on regardless and continued to peddle its campaign of hate against the British and promote the idea that they are all racist and are targeting the ‘other’….rather than apologise and admit their reporting has been racist and highly irresponsible, giving licence to Remain campaigners and so-called anti-racists to attack and vilify Leave voters and politicians, they double up on the claims and continue to peddle the type of anti-British narrative that they did in the reports about the Polish man…..

‘I want to get rid of my Polish accent’

About time Lord Hall Hall was hauled up before a Parliamentary committeee and asked to explain why he is presiding over an organisation that is running a hate campaign that paints white British people as far-right racists who hate immigrants.  Hall Hall was extremely bitter about losing the referendum and no doubt is happy to see his employees run such a campaign, he certainly does nothing to stop them.  Farage should sue him for every penny…he has a water-tight case against the BBC that would expose the anti-Brexit bias that runs throughout the BBC and its reporting.

The BBC were caught out by the Uber story as 40,000 drivers were put out of work at the stroke of a pen and a highly successful and ‘popular’ company was potentially put out of business in London at the whim of the Mayor, Sadiq Khan…TFL would never have done this without Khan signing it off, this being such a huge and consequential attack on a private company of such significance.

Khan is a Labour Mayor and undoubtedly did this to assuage Labour’s Union paymasters who have long campaigned against Uber….it must be seen as just another prong in the Labour attack on capitalism and Big Business.

As with Grenfell where Khan was practically invisible despite the London Mayor being ultimately responsible and the person who should be responding in a major way to help the local council, the BBC have not put Khan in the frame for the Uber attack and were pretty much onside yesterday about the decision noting on 5 Live that there is ‘a growing reality that rapes are on the increase’ …linking it to Uber.

Trouble is mini cabs have long been associated with sexual assaults and even Black Cab drivers have been caught carrying them out…so why does Khan and Co single out Uber?  Political?  You’d never guess from the BBC reports.

Who is really to blame…TFL for not regulating and issuing licences properly?….

A separate FOI revealed that in 2014/2015, a staggering 141 drivers were named as suspects in sex offences.

These included 31 in cases of rape, and 110 for other sexual assaults.

The figures relate to a wide range of vehicles, including legally booked and illegal minicabs, rickshaws, chauffer driven cars, and black cabs.

Angela Clarkson, 62, is secretary of the United Cabbies Group, the second largest taxi organisation in London.

Ms Clarkson, who has been a black cab driver for 30 years and lives in Chislehurst, has worked with organisations including the Suzy Lamplugh Trust in a bid to increase women’s safety when travelling in cabs.

She told the Standard: “These figures are absolutely appalling, the blame lies squarely at TfL’s door.

“For every hour that TfL’s offices were open at one point they were handing out one licence every three minutes and 40 seconds – it’s impossible to do the checks and balances.”

London black cab driver jailed for sex attacks on sleeping women

Cab driver John Worboys jailed for rape and sex attacks

London cab driver John Worboys given indeterminate jail sentence after being found guilty of 19 charges of drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women.

The judge said: “Drivers of licensed black cabs in London have a worldwide reputation not only for the reliability of their driving but for their professional trustworthiness. As somebody with an enduring and powerful interest in sexual matters you saw an opportunity through cab driving.

China had its credit rating dropped by S&P in the last couple of days….the BBC barely mentioned it despite China being the driving force behind the world economy …however Moody’s has downgraded the UK’s rating and that was big news….’#duetobrexit’ of course.

The irony is that Moody’s told the BBC that it had downgraded Britain’s rating because of a ‘looser fiscal framework’ being adopted….ie we are going to spend more and not cut the debt…we are going to abandon austerity.  So the BBC is warning us about this ‘alarming’ economic news and yet it is because the Government is abandoning the hated austerity that the BBC has fought against for the past 7 years.

Always amused, sort of, to hear Labour attack austerity and in the same breath attack the government for not having got debt down….the BBC never notices the paradox….it just campaigns for more money for everything as if there were some magic money tree.

One for the number crunching skills and meticulous record keeping of Craig at Is the BBC biased?

Charles Moore on Any Questions got remoaner hackles up [audience heavily Remoaner, pro-BBC?  Judging by the extremely hostile response to Moore might suggest so] and Dimbleby on the defensive as he suggested the BBC coverage was biased and negative towards Brexit…the BBC more often than not adding ‘despite Brexit’ to any good news stories [that’s if they publish or broadcast that good news and don’t just bury it] portraying Brexit as a bad thing…..

Of course that particular form of words is not the only one used to suggest good economic news has arrived even as the ‘disastrous’ Brexit takes effect…and even then the BBC still levers in the phrase…

GSK: UK still ‘attractive’ post Brexit as it invests £275m

GlaxoSmithKline is to invest £275m to expand its UK manufacturing sites, saying the country remains “an attractive location” despite Brexit.

and of course we have the bad news stories that are ‘due to Brexit’.…

“Brexit has had a stronger effect now. Export expectations in the chemicals sector have fallen significantly due to Britain.”

 

The UK and US have reached a deal to develop a special relationship for science.

An agreement between the two countries aims to make it easier for researchers to travel, collaborate and share facilities.

US science bodies are said to be “eager” to take advantage of research opportunities lost because of Brexit.

The BBC has a little trick it likes to pull….invite in one of its luvvy friends from the Arts to discuss their work, but it’s all an excuse, a ruse, concocted to fill the airwaves with their views on whatever issue of the day the BBC wants an ‘independent’ and erudite celebrity voice to rubbish.  George Bush during the Iraq War was a long term victim of this as a steady stream of writers, artists and musicians were invited onto the BBC to talk about their work but for some reason were always asked what they think of George Bush and the war.  Naturally to man these lefties railed against him and denounced him for all they were worth much to the delight no doubt of whomever was pulling their strings at the BBC.

You may have noticed a similar ploy with Brexit….a steady flow of distraught Remainder luvvies mouthing their despair at the unwashed masses having had their say….the deplorable idiots!

Today it was the turn of Martin Amis [08:25] who hates Trump and Brexit equally.  Apparently Brexit is suicidal people wishing for some utopian golden age, a rural idyll of warm beer, village greens and church bells or somesuch nostalgic nonsense…except that Brexit is the complete opposite of this as it seeks to go global and not be confined by the EU straitjacket rather swashing Britain’s buckle as it once again sets out for riches, adventure and a glorious heyday around the globe.  This of course is Martin Amis who lives in New York [not in the EU then?], who admits he has never used social media and doesn’t want to live in the modern age…hypocrite?

Amis thinks Brexit is a foolish attempt to keep Britain vibrant and relevant in the world [again….showing how his put down about ‘nostaligic’ Brexiteers is rubbish and contradictory] and that we should just accept we are a nation in decline and fade away gracefully…presumably to become some sort of museum of historical interest for foreigners to come and visit..again the hypocrisy of that as he wants us to remain forever stuck in the past and not seek to improve and better our world whilst complaining that is exactly what Brexit is.

Who the hell cares what Amis and his kind think about Brexit?…it’s a BBC deceit and indulgence that is intended to manipulate the listener and sway their views…the thinking being that they will be influenced by the likes of Amis because he is famous.   I’d like to think all listeners are quite able to make up their own minds without the help of Amis and Co…but the BBC obviously thinks less of you and you’re intelligence.

For months the BBC has been telling us that British consumers have been suffering a spending squeeze due to high inflation and low wages #duetobrexit.  Unfortunately for the BBC reality keeps on  mugging them as consumers defy the BBC’s ‘truth’ and keep on spending…however the BBC, whilst keen to promote the idea that Brexit has caused an alleged spending slowdown, isn’t so keen to make the reality widely known.

Today we hear that the deficit is down significantly and that retail sales have outperformed expectations by a wide margin.  But you’d be hard pushed to know that if you relied on the BBC for the information.  There’s nothing on the frontpage and nothing on the UK page…you have to go to the specialised Business page to find out these significant stories.  Extraordinary no?  Almost as if the BBC was hiding the good news ‘#despitebrexit’.  5 Live certainly wasn’t trumpeting the good news today as it usually does with bad news #duetobrexit.  Bad news is discussed at length and leads the news bulletins all day.

Even when they do report on the stories they short change us.  The forecast for retail sales was a growth of 0.2%, the actual growth was 1%…but the BBC don’t bother to mention this improved performance.

On the deficit we get the truth…the improvement was due to a rise in VAT receipts [er…due to consumer spending] but this is strangely tagged on the end…

Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the improvement in August’s deficit reflected government spending cuts, rather than a strong economy.

Clearly not true.

They do tell us that ‘It was the 52nd month in a row that sales have risen.’  which makes you wonder why the BBC keeps telling us consumers are hit hard by the wage/inflation squeeze.

Breitbart tells us that Muhammad, in all its spelling variations, is the most popular name in Britain right now, which should give pause for thought about the future.

Muhammad is the top name for baby boys in the English regions of London and the West Midlands in 2016, and was the top scoring across the whole of England and Wales in the year when slight variations in spelling are taken into account.

The ONS has decided not to let us know that fact and the BBC is ignoring it completely not even mentioning ‘Muhammad’ in its report.…a report in which they are more concerned about mocking ‘Nigel’, Farage of course, and suggesting that perhaps the Far Right racist nazi fascist bogeyman Enoch Powell’s name is becoming more popular, just about……subtly linking it to Brexit…because as we know all Leave voters are nazi little englanders…..

One political name has undergone something of a revival in recent years, with 26 children beginning their journey in life last year as Enoch – up from none two decades earlier.

It is not known how many – if any – named their offspring after controversial “rivers of blood” MP Enoch Powell, however.

Curiously no mention that Muhammad has pushed ‘William’ out of the top 10….you might have thought the BBC would have noted that as Prince What’shisname, not Harry, the other one, is called William and commented on the lessening popularity of a name associated with such a high profile personage.

Curious absolutely no mention that ‘Muhammad’ has taken over.

Odd that so many people should name their children after a mass murdering slaver and war lord who has imposed upon the world an ideology that the likes of Churchill thought of as dedicated to spreading hatred and war and yet nobody says #Muhammadmustfall….no one questions the spread of the temples dedicated to this man and his ideology.  No one in the Southern States in the US thinks they should have another civil war and revive slavery and yet the statues of long dead civil war generals must be removed….in contrast how is it that a whole infrastructure dedicated to the glorification and worship of a 1400 year old ideology that is far from dead, one that is intent on subjugating the world, and whose worshippers seek to live their lives guided by Muhammad’s words and actions, is beyond criticism?

If I can put it to you, for someone like myself, it was in 1933, the year of my birth, that Hitler was democratically elected in Germany. He unleashed the most horrendous war. This country played a unique role in securing his defeat.

”So Germany lost the war. We’ve just handed them the opportunity to win the peace. I find that quite unacceptable.“   Michael Heseltine

The BBC has  been feting and glorifying Merkel in the last few days, no doubt in the certainty that she will be re-elected so a bit of sycophancy won’t go amiss from people who want access.

Apparently the German people all love her for her immigration policy which, also apparently, reflects their own views and values.  Naturally this was said with a tone of deep approval from the BBC.

No sign of any real critical thinking from the BBC.  Merkel makes a completely unilateral decision [was the German government asked let alone the rest of Europe?] to fling open the borders of Europe and invite in millions of Muslims.  This ties in with another question….is she the most successful agent that the Russians have ever had?  Merkel was raised in East Germany and was an enthusiastic Young Communist at the same time coincidentaly that Putin, a KGB officer, was stationed near her and quite possibly met her in the course of her duties as a party organiser.  No thoughts on that from the BBC of course.

One side to Putin’s decision to intervene in Syria was that he saw the mass immigration of millions of Muslims into Europe as a weapon…any coincidence that Merkel then actually smashes Europe’s borders and invites in overhelming numbers of people with radically different culture, beliefs and values to Europeans?  Short term we have a massive increase in crime and disruption, long term we have culture wars and the destabilisation and breakdown of society.  What’s not to like from Russia’s perspective?  An irony perhaps that we keep hearing how concerned the Germans are about Russian interference in the German elections….perhaps there is a reason we haven’t actually seen any…as their preferred candidate is the more than probable winner! If it ain’t broke….. Odd how the BBC doesn’t run with this conspiracy theory when it is more than ready to run with a similar one about Trump on less evidence.

Heseltine is wrong about Brexit…Brexit or no Brexit Germany is in charge in Europe….with Putin pulling the strings?