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So desperate are the BBC to mock and malign Trump they get it wrong yet again…

A short clip that sums up this G7 summit: look who has chosen not to hear a translation of his Italian host's speech #G6 pic.twitter.com/6pXbBlfvof

— James Landale (@BBCJLandale) May 27, 2017

You can see the small earpiece behind the glass…

Emma Barnett is name-checked in this video but her attitude is endemic and institutional throughout the BBC in regard towards ‘Fake news’.  The BBC has a huge vested interest in generating the impression that ‘fake news’ is a massive problem…..the BBC is trying to consolidate and reinforce its position as the dominant news provider suggesting only it can be trusted as the disseminator of accurate, trusted and impartial news. [Amused to hear George Osborne have a sly dig at the BBC yesterday on Nick Robinson’s show as he suggested the BBC was of course impartial….‘in its charter’...not in real life then?]  To do this it has to convince politicians and the public that fake news is out there, a massive conspiracy  by people out to make money, by sinister right-wing groups and by State enemies of ‘democracy’…such as Russia who seek to undermine our national interests.

The BBC of course has already had one crack at smashing its political and commercial rivals with its unchecked support for Leveson…it now seeks to promote further clamp downs on websites and the likes of Facebook and Google who are becoming evermore the preferred means of absorbing news and culture.

As said in the video it is often those who complain about fake news the most who are the biggest disseminators of it….that’ll be the BBC and the Guardian then.

The BBC’s biggest fake news story of late is what it doesn’t tell you about Corbyn.

Imagine if he’d said ‘I am happy to commemorate the young Muslim who died fighting for an ethical British foreign policy.’

Not hard to imagine….because that is what he did say in effect as he stood before us just days after 22 young people were slaughtered at a pop concert because they were not Muslim, saying how he would change British foreign policy to reflect the vews of Muslims like our bomber ‘friend’.

Perhaps because Emma Barnett is Jewish she feels she cannot criticise any element of Islam especially when events as happened in Manchester this week unfold.  Or, perhaps it is because she has imbibed the BBC ethos not to criticise Islam unduly.

Laughably she held court over a discussion this week on her programme that suggested what we need is action….and indeed she has doubled up on that by writing something similar in the Times today entitled…‘My grieving city is built on grit – but sees little of it in the powerful’.  Reading the article you will find no real analsyis, no thoughts on the real cause of the problem other than that Manchester is tough and craves ‘action’.

This is the Emma Barnett who sided with Corbyn when he decided that the best approach is to appease Muslim sentiment and bow down to the bombers….he will change foreign policy, and no doubt domestic policy towards Islam, in order to suit Muslims who oppose that foreign policy…and who threaten us with ‘angry and alienated’ Muslim youth should we not comply.

And so Barnett complains that the ‘powerful’ have no grit to deal with the problem and yet she backs the one who abjectly surrenders to the threat.  She opened her programme with talk of Emmeline Pankhurst and how Manchester had ‘marked a sea change’…..ridiculous to proudly parade the feminist Emmeline Pankhurst and not say why she is important in the context of an Islamic attack on what were mainly young women enjoying themselves, and as for a ‘sea change’…a sea change in what?  In attitudes towards Islam, or how to deal with potential terrorists?  She doesn’t say.

What will she make of a Muslim calling for internment camps?

7/7 Met police chief calls for extremists to be locked up in INTERNMENT camps as he says MI5 and police cannot keep track of 3,000 terror suspects

Are we at war?

Macron in the French election debate used this line against Le Pen..‘the greatest wish of the terrorists is that Madame Le Pen takes power in France…because they are looking for the radicalisation, the division, the civil war that you bring to this country.’

Trouble is it is the Establishment politicians like him who cower and surrender in the face of bombs and blackmail who have created the civil war, their policies of mass immigration of people who hold radically different beliefs and values to Europeans have created the divisions that tear Europe apart now.  Le Pen might have had the answers and the guts, Macron has grand words and nothing else….just as our own politicians and media have as well.

You can see the problem vividly exposed in the video below…again it’s left to Andrew Neil to ask the difficult question such as ‘what lessons have we failed to learn?‘…with Hazel Blears refusing to put the blame where it belongs….and Douglas Murray suggesting we control immigration to stamp down on this problem.

Blears talks of a threadbare, worthless ideolgy, saying ‘we’ve tackled Nazism and Fascism, we need the same determination to defeat this ideology’...Neil suggests it was ‘total war’ that defeated those ideologies…Blears said she wouldn’t contemplate that of course……hmmmm…. it would help to  identify that ‘threadbare, worthless ideology’….is it the violence or the religion she is concerned with?…Murray says it comes from the religion…….he also says that there is a complete disconnect from what politicians think is the problem and what the Public across Europe recognise as the real problem…immigration.

Blears says it is essential to have critical thinking to tackle the ideology, lol…and then attacks Murray saying that his rhetoric, ie his critical thinking,  upsets Muslims and inflames the situation….note the counter-terror officer rebuts Blears line that the Muslim community’s attitude is not part of the problem…..

Who was right…The EDL’s Tommy Robinson who argued we had to combat Islamic extremism or Lord Hall whose organisation worked relentlessly to cover up and excuse that extremism and present it as a ‘normal’ British way of life whilst vilifying and demonising Robinson?

Nothing ‘normal’ about this attack on the British way of life…..

These are some of the Muslim practices that the ‘moderate’ and most representative Muslim organisation in Britain, the MCB, demanded in 2007 that schools adopt in what turned out to be its ‘blueprint’ for the Trojan Horse plot…it’s based around blackmail…adopt Muslim practice or Muslims will become alienated and, left unspoken, the threat is…they will become radicalised….music is the devil’s work….Manchester was chosen because of its cultural implications…young people out freely enjoying themselves, boys and girls together enjoying a music concert…it’s not just violent extremists who object…..Muslims should not give up or compromise any of their beilefs or values…it is for the British to do that….

Failure to recognise and affirm, or even worse the creation of situations involving conflicts of belief or conscience is likely to have an alienating effect where pupils may feel that they are not valued and may give rise to inappropriate assumptions that in order to progress in society they will have to compromise or give up aspects of who they are, and their religious beliefs and values.

Schools are asked to respect these views and principles, which are held sincerely on the grounds of conscience, and to honour parents’ wishes by not placing pupils in situations of religious and moral compromise.
Whilst Muslims have no wish to constrain the freedom of others, they would urge schools to organise and manage physical education so that pupils can choose other acceptable forms of activity, for example, athletics, games, gymnastics, outdoor and adventurous activities and swimming within the curriculum.

“All forms of music that may include the use of obscene and blasphemous language, encourage or promote immoral behaviour, arouse lustful feelings, encourage the consumption of intoxicants and drugs or contain unethical and un-Islamic lyrics would be considered objectionable. For this reason some Muslim parents may express concerns in the way music is taught in school and the extent to which their children may participate in it. Some Muslims may hold a very conservative attitude towards music and may seek to avoid it altogether, not wishing their children to participate in school music lessons. In such cases the school can show great understanding by providing alternative musical learning opportunities.”

It is also important, in schools where there are no Muslims, for all pupils to learn about Islam.

It is not permissible for Muslims to actively participate in non-Islamic acts of worship.

Girls should be covered except for their hands and faces, a concept known as ‘hijab’.

The most suitable sportswear for boys and girls that respects the requirements of Islamic
modesty is a tracksuit and in addition for girls a headscarf tied in a safe and secure manner.

Any decision by Muslim pupils to manifest their religion by growing a beard should be respected by their school.

School makes arrangements for their Muslim pupils who wish to perform daily prayers in school.

School allocates a regular place for the daily prayers that fall within school time.

School ensures washing facilities are available, preferably in close proximity to the prayer area.

School builds or adapts a washing facility in the toilet areas where pupils can conveniently make ablution which includes washing of the feet.

Schools can recognise and celebrate the Eid festivals by highlighting the importance of the
message of Eid through collective worship and assemblies. Schools may want to share sweets amongst all children to mark this event. In addition, schools may make the normal school meals a special Eid meal for all the children

Some sports involve physical contact with other team players, for example basketball and football.   Most Muslim parents would find it objectionable for boys and girls to play such sports in mixedgender groups.  Schools can respond positively to this concern by making sure that contact sports are always in single-gender groups.

Given the choice between mixed or single-sex swimming, Muslim parents would always opt for a wholly single-sex environment for swimming.

Dance is one of the activity areas of the national curriculum for physical education. Muslims
consider that most dance activities, as practised in the curriculum, are not consistent with
the Islamic requirements for modesty as they may involve sexual connotations and messages
when performed within mixed-gender groups or if performed in front of mixed audiences.

Sex and relationship education (SRE) is taught in single-sex groups, by a teacher of the same gender.

The use of sexually explicit videos, pictures and objects are avoided as aids for the teaching of SRE.

School takes account of Muslim sensitivities and sensibilities with respect to sexual morality and includes Islamic moral perspectives when teaching SRE to Muslim pupils.

Schools should consider giving Muslim pupils the opportunity to study Arabic and/or
other languages relevant to their family background.

Wonder if she has any views on Brexit.

Oh…here’s the youthful Diane Abbott…

Nick Robinson hears from the former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith about politicians and decision-making on security; discusses the political power of the press with the editor of the London Evening Standard, George Osborne; and talks to Mark Damazer (former Radio 4 Controller) and Stewart Wood (former adviser to Ed Miliband) about the week’s big campaign interviews.

Treachery, treachery…what to make of a man who not only sells out his country but also his own political party as he undermines both in order to betray the Brexit voting public and sell us out to Brussels?…that man being George Osborne of course.

The BBC have been continuing the effort to attack May’s campaign as they have from the start…when the campaigns were supposedly postponed out of respect for the victims in Manchester the BBC wheeled in a couple of ringers in the shape of Labour ex-senior politicians, Blunkett and Jacqui Smith, to give us their opinion on events….they being ‘civilians’ and so not subject to the imposed silence on the in-office politicians and thus able to carry on campaigning for Labour…and not just campaigning but making the most outrageous claims…that the Tories were responsible for Manchester because of cuts to the police.  The BBC has been helpfully pushing that  line, Emma Barnett demanding a Tory politician admit his guilt saying…’I want you to accept that cuts to the police led to terrorism.’

No coincidence that this is a major Labour narrative now…despite Labour in 2015 saying they would cut an extra 10% of the police budget above what the Tories had already cut….and note the police budget has not been cut since 2015 whilst counter-terrorism has seen a huge rise in budget…..the BBC graciously tell us that but strangely, in its ‘Reality Check’, fail to mention Labour’s prospective extra 10% cut….and notably fail to give us a conclusion.

Today we had Smith wheeled back in though saying little of consequence this time in a programme by Nick Robinson which seemed designed purely as a vehicle to attack May and praise Corbyn….note all the guests were Labour, ex-BBC or anti-May.  The major ‘attraction’ was George Osborne, ostensibly there to talk about Press responsibility but in fact given a platform to further attack and undermine May….what the Telegaph calls a ‘blistering attack on May’s manifesto pledges’.

Naturally this is all related to Brexit and Osborne’s love affair with Brussels….he hopes to fatally wound May, perhaps make her lose the election or at the very least perform so badly that her position as leader is under question…the hope being she is replaced with a more pro-EU person who will kick Brexit into the long grass.   No such thoughts and analysis from Robinson despite Osborne’s motives being blatantly obvious.

Whilst May was savaged it turns out, according to Robinson, that Corbyn has had a great time, successfully keeping his feet apparently [the BBC yesterday praising his pro-terror speech as ‘bold and audacious’]…that’s despite being subject to massive criticism for his pro-terror stance.  Seems Robinson does not read the papers or watch the news.

With Corbyn getting a pretty clean pass from an uncritical BBC [Neil aside] and May savaged at every opportunity it’s no wonder Corbyn is seeing an apparent rise in the polls as he promises the earth buying votes without having any idea how to pay for it all.  His Marxism, his pro-terrorist stance, his bankrupt economics, all get a free pass from the BBC.

All I can say is be careful of which you wish for.   Bankruptcy, unions on the rampage, chaos politicially and throughout society, Britain made a defenceless laughing stock that gets steamrollered by Brussels and terrorists roam parliament, the ‘honoured friends’ of Jeremy Corbyn.

Corbyn has done an enormous U-turn in his long held political beliefs…claiming after Manchester that he is an implacable enemy of the terrorist…this, and many other claims by him, are a lie….Andrew Neil exposed him but the mainstream BBC applauds him instead.  The BBC, whilst savaging May for her ‘U-turn’ completely ignores Corbyn’s own massive about face.

The Spectator is more critical as it notices that remarkable personal epiphany by Corbyn….

The three lies that Jeremy Corbyn told Andrew Neil last night

Why is a lifelong leftist seemingly abandoning hitherto unshakeable views? For the same reason any politician does anything: There are votes in it.

We learned something important from Jeremy Corbyn’s interview with Andrew Neil: The Labour leader wants to be Prime Minister and will do whatever it takes.

Corbyn told Neil: ‘I didn’t support the IRA. I don’t support the IRA. What I want everywhere is a peace process.’ This is a lie.

Corbyn told Neil: ‘I never met the IRA.’ This is a lie.

Corbyn told Neil: ‘My role was supporting a process which would bring about a dialogue and I believe you have to talk.’ This is a lie.

Extraordinary that a political journalist as astute and sharp as Nick Robinson would rather praise and cheerlead for such a man than expose him and his lies, his support for terrorists and most egregiously his opportunistic exploitation of the dead and wounded at Manchester in a series of lies and misinformation unchallenged by 99.999% of the BBC.

The Labour Party still doesn’t get it; a few do, but most don’t. Corbyn is not some mad old geography teacher with a lapel full of lost causes. He is not well-meaning or idealistic or a bit quirky in his views. He is an extremist and an enabler of extremism. He is a fellow traveller with terrorists and anti-Semites. When the IRA was murdering British soldiers and civilians, Corbyn had their back. When Hamas rains rockets down on Israeli kindergartens, Corbyn has their back. If he was Prime Minister and we came under attack, would he have our back?

The BBC doesn’t get it either.

“It certainly appears to be the case that the British only sit up and take notice when they are bombed into it”

Corbyn gave his speech today re-opening the election campaign with a promise to change British foreign policy at the ‘request’ of some ‘non-Muslim’ Muslim terrorists and linking it to home grown terrorism.

Corbyn has done an enormous u-turn after decades of cosying up to terrorists, along with McDonnell, honouring IRA dead, opposing just about every piece of anti-terrorist legislation going through Parliament, demanding the abolition of the British Army, seeking unilateral nuclear disarmament, demanding Britain make an immediate and unconditional withdrawal from Northern Ireland [a thing worth fighting for he thought], all that is now forgotten as he tells us that the terrorists must never prevail and that bombs and mass murder are terrible things.

Terrorism is so last week…until June 9.

Not so long ago he was insisting, much like the BBC’s Mark Easton, that perhaps Muslim terrorists weren’t so bad after all…maybe quite heroic in their way…

There are an awful lot of contradictions surrounding how we decide who is a good fighter and who is a terrorist; who is struggling for liberation and who is a terrorist. There was a time when people involved in Umkhonto we Sizwe in South Africa were known as terrorists; they were later welcomed to this country as freedom fighters. Things can turn full circle.

He also wants to negotiate with them [something he denied in the interview below with Andrew Neil]….and yet they will never prevail…

Jeremy Corbyn says there could be benefits to opening diplomatic back-channels with Isis

The BBC never noticed this U-turn, somewhat more significant than May’s social care cap retreat, and in the analysis post-speech on the radio and in print didn’t think it relevant to mention Corbyn’s past comments on terror and his links to organisations that supported it such as the paper ‘Labour Briefing’…on which Corbyn was one of the editors…

According to an authoritative parliamentary reference work, Mr Corbyn was general secretary of the editorial board. He wrote the front-page story in the same issue of Briefing.
“It certainly appears to be the case that the British only sit up and take notice when they are bombed into it”

Perhaps the sentiment expressed in that paper concerning the ‘audacity’ of the terrorists might explain the BBC’s attitude today…

The same edition of Briefing, for December 1984, carried a reader’s letter praising the “audacity” of the IRA attack and stating: “What do you call four dead Tories? A start.”

The BBC said Corbyn’s statement on foreign polcy, connecting it to Manchester, was ‘bold and audacious’.…but then again the BBC has peddled the same line for nearly 15 years giving credibility and support to the terrorists’ narrative… thus contributing to the radicalisation and terrorism that occurs as a result of that false narrative.  Manchester?  The BBC’s toxic coverage of the Middle East has consequences.  Manchester was just one of them.

Most people I imagine would just think Corbyn had confirmed what they knew already…that he supported terrorism and was quite prepared to surrender in the face of it…the BBC thought otherwise preferring not to mention Corbyn’s past support for terrorists of all sorts, Muslim included, as he told the British people that he totally and unreservedly condemned such terrorism…it was terrible and traumatic…the terrorists will never cow us, never prevail….

In the past few days, we have all perhaps thought a bit more about our country, our communities and our people. The people we have lost to atrocious violence or who have suffered grievous injury, so many of them heart-breakingly young .

Terrorists and their atrocious acts of cruelty and depravity will never divide us and will never prevail.

Over recent years, the threat of terrorism has continued to grow. You deserve to know what a Labour Government will do to keep you and your family safe. Our approach will involve change at home and change abroad.

Many experts, including professionals in our intelligence and security services have pointed to the connections between wars our government has supported or fought in other countries, such as Libya, and terrorism here at home.

That assessment in no way reduces the guilt of those who attack our children. Those terrorists will forever be reviled and implacably held to account for their actions.

Protecting this country requires us to be both strong against terrorism and strong against the causes of terrorism. The blame is with the terrorists, but if we are to protect our people we must be honest about what threatens our security.

We must support our Armed Services, Foreign Office and International Development professionals, engaging with the world in a way that reduces conflict and builds peace and security.

Our government is not chosen at an autocrats’ whim or by religious decree and [is] never cowed by a terrorist’s bomb.Let’s have our arguments without impugning anyone’s patriotism and without diluting the unity with which we stand against terror.

Corbyn lied throughout the speech and lied throughout his interview with Andrew Neil….Corbyn says he wants multilateral nuclear disarmament..that’s a lie…as the BBC could have told us today as they did in April….

Mr Corbyn is the first Labour leader to support unilateral nuclear disarmament since Michael Foot in 1983 – a stance which puts him at odds with the bulk of his party.

Neil missed a trick in the interview as he pressed Corbyn on Trident…he didn’t ask Corbyn if the missiles would ever be used, despite what the Party as a whole said, as Corbyn himself has said he would never press the button…or indeed that Corbyn wanted nuclear missiles with no nuclear warheads…a vast waste of money….

Jeremy Corbyn: I would never use nuclear weapons if I were PM

Neil also failed to press Corbyn on his meetings with IRA memebers which he denied ever having done…Google and Guido very quickly proves otherwise…

Corbyn Lies: “I Never Met the IRA”

Neil’s interview otherwise was pretty rigorous and you could see Corbyn seething quietly as he was hung out to dry…..he’s a proven liar and a terrorist supporter.  Shame that other than Neil the BBC reports on his speech seem to avoid contradicting or challenging anything he says…which you might think was important considering the claims he is making about the link between Iraq and terrorism and the consequences that flow from that…such as changing our foreign policy to suit those non-Muslim Muslim terrorists.

The narrative that he peddles, that our foreign policy is anti-Muslim and thus angers Muslims [though once they become ‘radical’ they suddenly lose their ‘Muslim’ status according to Corbyn’s law], is entirely false…Muslims in the UK have been ‘radicalising’ for decades and that the ‘radical’ Muslim, Osama Bin Laden, wanted to invade Iraq and topple Saddam himself…and yet that was a bad thing for the West to do….after years of being told we we wrong to support dictators.  We topple one, one that Muslims wanted to beBBC toppled and they get angry and ‘radical’?  The BBC sees no contradiction there.  The foreign policy narrative is just a useful excuse, if it wasn’t that it would be some other….shame on the BBC for promoting such a deadly lie….make no mistake……22 people lie dead in Manchester because of it.

Why is it always Andrew Neil who does the due diligence and some proper journalism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZiHl-HBnuk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_MvJm-dAd8

Oh dear….the BBC’s attempt to inform us on Corbyn’s policies, history and mindset in light of the interview?

General election 2017: Corbyn quizzed on Trident and IRA

Utterly hopeless…fails completely to question his answers giving us instead merely a list of questions that Neil asked and Corbyn’s reply…no analysis, no context, no contrast with Corbyn’s past statements and positions.

Considering this is supposed to be informing us so that we can make a decision on who to vote for it is far from being an indepth, intelligent and useful guide to Corbyn, his thinking and his politics ast and present…we have no  idea that he is being evasive and is lying to us from this BBC report other than his refusal to sign off on Trident.

May is hung out to dry everyday with her past positions and statements compared with today’s.  Corbyn does an enormous u-turn on terrorism and nothing from the BBC, Neil aside, May does a u-turn on social care and it is healdine news for days…and will be until election day as Labour try to capitalise on it and the BBC aid and abet…the News Quiz having much fun at May’s expense and hardly a thing about Corbbyn.

The BBC’s Emma Barnett to Tory James Cleverly on the subject of police cuts and the blame for terrorist attacks…

‘I want you to accept that cuts to the police led to terrorism.’

Barnett also tried to promote the Labour lie that soldiers on the streets were a result of cuts to Bobbies on the beat…failing to understand that the soldiers were there, not to replace beat bobbies, but to support the armed police in the event of a Mumbai or Bataclan type attack which the police alone could not handle.  Barnett, and she’s not alone in this of course, never seems properly prepared research-wise and frequently fails to understand what is being said by her interviewees despite it usually being clear and coherent, she seems to wing it thinking if she says something with enough confidence she can bluff her way through and score a few points….for instance has she any idea, is she bothered, that Labour proposed cuts to the police on top of the Tory cuts? [and remember this was the same Burnham who also proposed cuts to the NHS budget]…..

Yesterday, whilst the politicians were still in respectful silence after the Manchester attack the BBC and Labour tried to work around that inconvenience in order to politicise, weaponise, the bombing.  Instead of using current Labour ministers they pulled in ex ministers, David Blunkett and Jackie Smith, to keep pushing Labour’s message whilst everyone else were silent…they of course not being in Corbyn’s cabinet could be presented as ‘civilian’ commentators…and yet this was a highly, highly political intervention as they implied May had blood on her hands.

Blunkett and Smith were brought in to blame Tory cuts to the police for the Manchester attack…never mind 7/7 was under a Labour government when we supposedly had lots more officers…never mind the police make arrests everyday in relation to terrorism and billions more have been ploughed into security and intelligence…how much more can they do?  They seem to be completely on top of the job as far as possible.  The Americans had massive intelligence and police resources and yet a huge and intricate plot like 9/11 happened.

Andy Burnham has been grandstanding as usual…and as usual he’s a liar…..and he’s also been blaming, very quietly, cuts for the bombing…..as well as peddling the Muslim extremists’ narrative about Prevent…..

Meanwhile, Greater Manchester’s metro mayor, Andy Burnham, said that policing numbers should become an issue in the general election campaign after the initial response to the Manchester attack had been completed. He said there was a need for a “fundamental review” of Prevent, which he said had led to members of Britain’s Muslim community feeling “picked on”.

The Prevent brand is now “toxic” in parts of the Muslim community, he said. “I think we do have to have a debate now about whether or not the frontline police force can be cut. I don’t believe it can,” he said. “I would say this now needs to become an issue in the election campaign, once we have dealt with the immediate events of this week.”

Curiously in 2015 Burnham thought we should make up to 10% cuts in the police budget on top of what the 20% the Tories had already cut…….

Here you go, a new Open Thread to see us off into the weekend! Detail their rancid bias here please!

I don’t know if you watched BBC Question Time last night. This was the panel.

It had one key message.

The death of our children doesn’t matter.

The death of their parents doesn’t matter.

The hurt feelings of Muslims REALLY matters.

A new low for the abysmal BBC.