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

Thomas Mair has been convicted and sentenced for killing Jo Cox. There are no excuses for what Mair did, no ‘understanding’, no moral equivocation.  But there is a stark contrast in how the BBC treats a Far-Right killer and a Muslim one as, with unfortunate timing for the BBC, which had just published a heart-warming story of a Muslim ‘victim’ of radicalisation, this BBC  ‘report’ illustrates… “An extremist in the family”.….oh he was a terrorist himself but naturally he was the victim having been a lovely lad led astray, a Muslim alienated by a cruel Britain made an easy and vulnerable recruiting target for the extremist recruiters….and his blameless family were helpless, shocked and distraught at the turn of events having no idea how he came to be ‘radicalised’.  The same Dominic Casciani who made ‘An Extremist in the family’ also conjured up this white-wash for the killers of Lee Rigby…and naturally one of them suffered mental health issues…

He was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and began suffering periods of acute mental illness, including delusions, such as hearing voices. This mental decline would come to play a key part in his later trial for Lee Rigby’s murder.

Also unfortunate that the mother of this ‘terrorist in the family’ was one of the school governors caught up in the Trojan Horse plot who had to resign.  It is remarkable how the BBC blithely assures us that it is a complete mystery how Muslims become radicalised and take at face value claims by the families that they had no idea that their kids were being radicalised or how that could have happened…never mind that again and again we subsequently find out that it was as much the parents doing the radicalising as anyone else.  We can be pretty sure there is a constant drum beat of anti-Israel, anti-Iraq War, anti-Western presence in the Middle East and in other Muslim places and conspiracy theories about 9/11 [it was the Jews] and 7/7 [it was MI5] in Muslim homes up and down the country….for example The Jan Trust [Muslim led] was championed by the BBC for its ‘anti-radicalisation’ stand and yet they were promoting the idea that it was right to be angry about Palestine and the various wars…just don’t express that anger as violence…so hardly doing the genuinely important anti-radicalisation work…that of changing the narrative of Muslims under attack…one that the BBC itself spreads.

The BBC disgracefully tried to link Mair’s actions to the Leave campaign in order to make the Brexit debate ‘toxic’…the judge in the case noted that nationalist or patriotic sentiments are legitimate but Mair tainted them and made them toxic…something the BBC tried desperately to exploit in order to paint Leave campaigners and voters as racist, Far-Right extremists…as it continues to do of course…

Addressing Mair, Mr Justice Wilkie said: “You affect to be a patriot. The words you uttered repeatedly when you killed her, give lip service to that concept.

“Those sentiments can be legitimate and can have resonance but in your mouth, allied to your actions, they are tainted and made toxic.”

The BBC was quick to pick up on the police claim that Mair was a terrorist…and yet the poice did not charge him as such…and the judge made no mention of terror…merely stating that the murder was politically motivated.  The Police claim is of course itself politically motivated as Muslims and the Left press hard for the likes of Mair to be classified as terrorists in order to allow them to say Muslims are not the only terrorists and therefore anti-terror actions and Press coverage should not concentrate on Muslims and Islam….attempting to close down anti-terror policies and censor the Press.

The BBC has no doubt Mair is a terrorist but remarkably, and commendably, the Guardian raises the question…

Should Thomas Mair be considered a terrorist?

There are arguments for and against, Mair may or may not be a terrorist….there is no proof he intended to ‘terrorise’ either us, the Public, or the political Establishment…rather, it was all very personal towards Jo Cox herself by Mair who was acting alone without any  outside direction or coercion to kill…

It has become a cliche question among race-rights campaigners (with whom I have common cause): “Why aren’t far-right crimes considered terrorism?” Such a common question that now, it seems, the police are changing tack and labelling Thomas Mair a terrorist (though not so much that they actually charged him with terrorism offences).

It’s certainly true that a narrow definition of terrorism as a “political act” would include Mair. But whatever one particular dictionary might say, there is no widely agreed definition of terrorism.

And while I don’t doubt that Mair’s motives were political, in the common understanding and usage of the term “terrorism”, more than this is required. Because, though he had far-right sympathies, it’s clear his actions weren’t supporting anyone’s agenda but his own.

To my knowledge there is no organisation that calls for the violent overthrow of the state, or for the killing of leftwing MPs. And though some eyewitnesses reported Mair shouting “Britain first” during his attack on Jo Cox, there’s no evidence he was acting for, or under the instruction of, the legal rightwing organisation of the same name.

The BBC naturally makes no mention of Mair’s well known mental health issues in contrast to how they instantly raise such issues for just about every Muslim terrorist.  Here’s the BBC’s only, and very disingenuous, comment on mental health in the Mair case in their write up...

The precise state of Mair’s mind at the time of the attack remains unclear.

He has largely refused to engage with the court process, including attempts to assess whether or not he is capable of standing trial on mental health grounds, or even to enter a plea of not guilty.

No mention that the day before he had sought help from a mental health service…as the Mail points out today…

Jo Cox’s killer sought help for mental health issues day before murder

The Guardian doesn’t like the fact that the Mail has a rounded story with all the facts…

(Although it’s worth noting that Mail Online again highlighted Mair’s mental health and thoughts of matricide rather than his extreme ideology.)

Actually the Mail does state quite clearly and at length in different articles Mair’s obsession with the Nazis and Far Right ideology…

Mair, 53, spent hours looking up information on the Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organisations before brutally attacking the Labour MP in her hometown of Batley, West Yorkshire.

So the BBC at the same time as it makes excuses for a Muslim terrorist, who has done Allah knows what in Syria or Iraq, a BBC that so often claims mental health problems were the cause of ‘Muslim’ terrorism, makes a determined attempt to avoid noting Mair’s well documented issues and rapidly labels him a terrorist when that is up for debate technically and legally as even the Guardian accepts….’political motivation’ alone does not make him a terrorist.  He may well be a terrorist but he gave no indication that he intended to ‘terrorise’ others by killing Jo Cox and we would need to see all his communications with Cox to judge exactly what was going on between them.

It’s not just some sections of the Press that raise the mental health issue…it’s one for the legal profession…

Why was no medical evidence called on the state of Mair’s mental health?

The prosecution would have had no interest in proving that he was insane, or that his responsibility was diminished as a result of mental health problems.

Why then did the defence not call any such evidence? Insanity or, more realistically, manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, provided the only remotely plausible escape route from a life sentence. So why did the jury not hear from any psychiatrist? There are quite a number of explanations: perhaps Mair had refused to co-operate with the preparation of any such report. Perhaps he had co-operated but the psychiatrists had agreed that he was entirely sane and not suffering from any relevant mental health problems.

Even though the defence did not run any form of “psychiatric” defence, it is likely that before he is sentenced the judge will want to give some consideration to his mental health

So, in light of other widespread comment, you have to ask why the BBC fails to comment on this and use it as an excuse when it is so ready to do so for Muslim killers?

The new recruits to 5Live are stars…Emma Barnett and Nihal….the same old BBC groupthink mindset but on steroids.  Hard to believe Barnett could be worse than Derbyshire but it looks like it.

Today she was pretty certain that the fact the story of a serial killer who targeted gay men was not on the frontpage of every newspaper meant that the ‘wider Press’ [naturally not including the BBC] are homophobic…oh…and the police are probably homophobic also as they didn’t do enough to link all the crimes [never mind one victim was buried and had to be exhumed because the police saw no suspicious cirumstances originally]  Of course other stories were bigger…the Autumn Statement and Jo Cox.

Ironically the Guardian is complaining that the Mail didn’t put Jo Cox on its frontpage [The Guardian seems obsessed with what the Mail prints and where…of course this is part of its, and the BBC’s, campaign against ‘right-leaning’ papers and media trying to associate them with the Far-Right, racism and ‘Islamophobia’, in an attempt to shut them down or censor them].

The police of course have many priorities and this results in them targeting various crimes more than others as a report today points out…perhaps Barnett should do some more research rather than jumping to conclusions shaped by her own prejudices…are the police anti-children as well as homophobic?…

What was especially interesting was the truth….Barnett had on someone from Pink News who told us that he didn’t think homophobia was the issue here….why not?  Well, most of the media had been constantly in touch with Pink News in order to find out more about the story…all except one organisation.  The BBC.

Is the BBC homophobic?  Guess so.

Biased BBC reader and writer David Sedgwick has an interesting post here that I commend to you. Give it a read and say hello to him please!

“Well I finally did it, after months – nay years of prevarication – I’ve finally gone and dumped the BBC. And it feels good, very, very good. I can only describe the feeling as that of when, after years of giving second, third and fourth chances, you finally rid yourself of that toxic girl/boyfriend.”

A budget statement today and the BBC’s John Pienaar’s analysis?…

There’s no good news…it’s a grim economic outlook….and we’re having to borrow £1oo billion because of Brexit.

That’s all true except for the fact that it’s all baloney.

Plenty of good news and far from a grim economic outlook the future is still bright with growth and no recession.  Curious how the BBC doesn’t immediately go back and remind us of what the Remain campaign said during the referendum…..that we would be plunged immediately into recession and economic armageddon upon voting for Brexit.

What’s also curious is how the BBC don’t want to remind you that Osborne had already dumped the 2020 target of balancing the budget….after having missed it once before in 2015 of course.  What was the cause of that?  Worldwide downturn and a fall off in tax receipts…not Brexit then?  Osborne was already £56 billion in the red….curious the BBC fails to remind us of that…

George Osborne’s budget 2016 giveaways ‘mask £56bn black hole’

George Osborne’s attempt to woo voters ahead of Britain’s EU referendum has come under immediate and intense scrutiny after he used a range of accounting devices to disguise a looming £56bn “black hole” in the government’s finances and deliver a promised surplus by the end of the decade.

What does the OBR say the main cause of more borrowing now?  Is it really Brexit…or again, that fall off in tax receipts?  The latter…and why is that?  Because Osborne took millions out of tax with the increase in the allowance [something Labour always forgets]…and because he has increased business costs with the ‘living wage’ and other costs such as the apprentice levy.

The OBR tells us that over the next five years the total fall off in growth will be 1.4 percentage points…

the economy will grow more slowly than we expected in March, with GDP growth in 2017 revised down from 2.2 to 1.4 per cent and cumulative growth over the whole forecast revised down by 1.4 percentage points.

The BBC tells us…

The OBR said the referendum result meant potential growth in the current Parliament would be 2.4 percentage points lower than forecast in March. Government finances are forecast to be £122bn worse off than in the spring.

The BBC keeps headlining with that £122 billion figure and making a direct connection to Brexit when the bulk of that figure comes from other causes.

Fraser Nelson in the Spectator has done the work for me, and the BBC, and told us a completely different tale of what is going on to that you hear from the BBC…

Brexit to cut immigration by 80,000 a year – and other OBR observations

[Brexiteers] will be delighted that the OBR pretty much trashes the main assumptions made in HM Treasury’s now-notorious dossier on jobs, recession, house prices etc. [You know that ‘dodgy dossier’ that the BBC reported as ‘fact’ and now fails to backtrack on]

1. Brexit will lower net immigration by 80,000. Or, more accurately, immigration would have been 80,000 higher had Britain voted to Remain. The OBR has always seen net migration as a big contributor to GDP, and it says lower migration accounts for about chunk of its downward revision. [Note not long ago the BBC was telling us that GDP was an unreliable way of judging the health of an economy as it didn’t tell you the actualy wealth per person…hence a higher GDP did not mean we were better off individually]
2. OBR sees no Brexit effect after 2018 Thereby rejecting the idea – relied upon by the Remainers – that the Brexit would result in permanently lower growth.  It has downgraded its 2017 and 2018 forecasts, but has not changed its 2019 or 2020 forecasts. Which is significant.
3. No sign of that house price crash promised by the Treasury dossier. If we voted for Brexit, the Treasury officials said (or were made to say) that house prices would fall by up to 18pc. The OBR now says they’ll grow for the foreseeable.
4. Brexit won’t cost a single job or, rather,  the OBR isn’t forecasting it to have any employment effects. It expects to keep on rising (graph, above) half a million more jobs, not half a million less as the Treasury had said in that now-infamous dossier.

And so on.  A far more positive, and probably honest, appraisal of what the OBR says that the good old BBC provides us with.

Last week we had three huge untruths from the BBC, three headlining heavyweight political stories that were fake…made up by the BBC for their own political purposes

That Trump had made a spectacular u-turn on Obamacare…when in fact he had made the same statement, that some parts of Obamacare were good and he would keep them, over a year ago and continued to make it openly on TV debates.

That the NHS was ‘secretly’ making reforms and hiding them from the public…based upon a report whose author smacked down Justin Webb for suggesting there was a ‘secret’ plot going on to hide bad news…and yet the BBC kept on reporting this as fact.

That there was a ‘leaked’ cabinet memo that damned the government over Brexit…turns out this was not commissioned nor solicited by government…it was a private exercise by a consultant company panhandling for work….and yet the BBC continued to report the memo as if it were fact even after admitting it was not a ‘cabinet memo’.

Today we had another doozy, from Emma Barnett….In an argument with John Whittingdale she insisted that there were no foodbanks before the evil Tories came to power in 2010…when pressed on the facts she suggested, after telling us she had done her research, that there might have been 3 foodbanks pre-2010.  Well apparently there were around 59, so spot on Emma!  Barnett was trying to claim that any economic problems were a result of the Tories economic policies completely failing to ‘remember’ they were in fact the result of Labour’s mess inherited by government post 2010.

Naturally the number of foodbanks,  or indeed the number of people using them, tells us nothing about the state of the economy especially as the Trussell Trust, which has most foodbanks and from whom the BBC gets most of its ‘facts’ about them, is run by a Labour Party supporter who uses the foodbanks as a political weapon to attack the Tories….his aim to get a foodbank in every town and city…so the increase in foodbank numbers and the rise in people using them is misleading because they hadn’t been there before, so there would naturally be a ‘rise’ in use as people go to this new set up, and they are being set up as a deliberate political ‘lightning rod’ in the knowledge that the media will use the foodbanks as a shorthand way to illustrate the evils of welfare reforms.

What else was the world’s finest news broadcaster caught out on this week?

Oh yes…on Wake Up to Money a leading City businesswomen insisted that low productivity  [that great ‘productivity puzzle’ the BBC refused to find the real answer to] was a result of a failure to invest in training and innovation and a failure to do R&D as a result of decisions by companies to take the easy option and import cheap labour from abroad instead.  The presenter really wanted to move on from that and not talk about it….cheap immigrant labour.

In another WUTM programme we had Digby Jones come on and slamdunk the Remainers who talked of ‘Soft Brexit’ as a viable option.  Jones said in no uncertain tones that they were lying [his word] and that there was no such thing as a ‘soft Brexit’…such a thing was in fact pretty much the status quo with us remaining in the EU.  The BBC of course peddles the myth of a Soft Brexit as a viable option without spelling out that it actually means a reversal of Brexit.

So again and again the BBC’s narrative and ‘analysis’ has been proved wrong….that’s what happens when you turn yourself into a campaign group, a political party, instead of a news source that people can rely on for honest, impartial and accurate news.

And then there’s their reporting on the budget….lol…all the fault of Brexit…we’re doomed, doomed I tell ya!!!

Well THIS is the least surprising thing I have seen on the BBC. A full on character assassination of those it calls the “Alt Right”. Apparently they are Nazis, anti-Semites, Holocaust deniers and racists. Personally, I think this is the BBC projecting yet again!

Time for a new one of these! This is where you detail the bias from the rancid BBC.

The site received this email and I am sure the author would like me to share. He is Jonathonharker@gmail.com The typos and grammar are not mine, btw 🙂

“So now that it has been established beyond a shadow of a doubt that Thomas Mair was ‘politically’ motivated, and the full details of her horrendous murder made clear. Along with his refusal to give evidence.

Are you going to apologise for your and your ‘audiences’ grostesque comments back when it happened?

Ive rarely seen people so despicable and so willing to try and justify and cover up their prejudices.

Its clear on some level you are deeply ashamed of yourself, elst you wouldnt be justifying it, but that you dont have the moral courage to admit it.

However awhile along when the history of this era is assesed your website and the record of your bigotry will be accounted for.

Shame on you, you utterly revolt me.”