A Biased BBC reader writes…

“Rape is a very serious crime that requires careful consideration and sensitivity. It is no doubt a horrific crime that should be investigated, prosecuted and punished with the full severity of the law.

The BBC and the rest of the MSM, however, seem to have this unpleasant, macabre obsession with trying to put the fear of God into every woman out there that they are neck-deep in a “rape culture” by a nation of revolting criminals. “Rape culture” started on colleague campuses and seems to be spreading like wildfire. You will see the BBC also has something along these lines today, in which sexual harassment is a 24/7 problem for some people.

A prime instance closer to home is this Ask for Angela story. Another “viral” story where a “simple code-word campaign for women feeling unsafe on a date has got global attention since a picture of this poster dotted around bars in Lincolnshire, England emerged on Twitter”.

“It encourages women to discreetly ask for help by going to the bar and ‘Ask for Angela’ – a phrase aimed at alerting bar staff to the cry for help so they can help defuse the situation.The poster also includes a phone number for Lincolnshire Rape Crisis (0800 33 4 55 00) for anyone who needs to talk.”

The poster was produced by Lincolnshire County Council, which clearly has the utmost contempt for its own citizenry. It conflates the idea of a date not going well with the violent and vicious crime of rape, which surely only goes to instil terror in local women. As for local men, pah, you are all rapists in waiting, especially if you are awkward on a first date.

Now, putting aside the issue of reported and unreported attacks (which is pretty much impossible to address fairly) the BBC told us that Lincolnshire had 74 reported rapes in 2013/14. The population of Lincolnshire is 703,000. That provides a victim per capita rate of 0.01 per cent.

Of course, any and all attacks are abhorrent. Victims deserve support, sympathy and safety. The perpetrators should face very harsh sentencing on being found guilty. Even so, such crimes seem relatively rare, according to statistics. 

 

Yes, people should be taught about vigilance and security. Stories like these instead seem to be designed simply to scare people into paranoia and distrust of all men, who appear to be one bad chat up line from becoming the vilest of attackers. Of course, the overarching goal is to push the narrative that rape culture is alive and well and thriving in the UK.

 

Strangely, this thriving “rape culture” narrative seems to evaporate when it is transposed to the BBC’s reporting of Muslim rape gangs…”

The BBC have found a new heroine. Gina Miller – she who brought the legal challenge to Brexit. The atrocious decision by the High Court to subvert the will of 17.4m people democratically expressed on June 23rd has warmed BBC hearts and all of a sudden it is supporting the notion that “Parliamentary Sovereignty” must be respected at all costs. Ironic given then for the past four decades the stripping away of this Parliamentary Sovereignty to Brussels has been met with glee from the BBC. This decision is going to make the BBC even more unbearable than ever.

Everyone seems to have forgotten this, including me….however I’m pretty certain that the BBC would ‘remember’ it had Trump been the one doing the ‘misremembering’…

The BBC likes to blame Libya on Cameron and yet it was a UN sanctioned operation and the Americans were in the lead….they certainly seemed happy at the result…is this not so very ‘Trumpish’?……

Here is a video from ‘The Young Turks’…..so not a covert Russian operation to attack Clinton….the BBC doesn’t bother at all with Clinton’s racist comments….

The BBC has been pushing the Democrat line that the FBI is guilty of only investigating Clinton and making that public…and yet it has long been known that the FBI was looking to see if there were any links between Trump and the Russian state…and you know what…so far nothing has been found as the New York Times reported two days ago….and…the email hack was not in support of Trump…..

Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia

For much of the summer, the F.B.I. pursued a widening investigation into a Russian role in the American presidential campaign. Agents scrutinized advisers close to Donald J. Trump, looked for financial connections with Russian financial figures, searched for those involved in hacking the computers of Democrats, and even chased a lead — which they ultimately came to doubt — about a possible secret channel of email communication from the Trump Organization to a Russian bank.

Law enforcement officials say that none of the investigations so far have found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government. And even the hacking into Democratic emails, F.B.I. and intelligence officials now believe, was aimed at disrupting the presidential election rather than electing Mr. Trump.

That is a completely different narrative to the one we get from the BBC which is linking Trump to the Russians and suggesting the email leak was to damage Clinton alone and that the FBI is solely investigating Clinton.

It is perhaps an irony that the BBC complains that Russia is interfering in a US election when the BBC is itself doing just that, pumping out massive anti-Trump, pro-Clinton propaganda that is widely seen in the US…and of course the Guardian is still at it despite getting its fingers burnt not so long ago doing something similar.

 Even today the BBC is suggestively linking Trump to the Russians…

Russian media’s love affair with Trump

No mention of the BBC’s love affair with Clinton.

And again oh so ironic…the BBC whinges about Russian hacking of the emails and yet both it and the Guardian had nothing but praise for Snowden, who, in all likelihood, was a Russian agent masquerading as a whistleblower [a brilliant ploy] and his massive leak of highly sensitive iintelligence material.  The BBC and Guardian were overjoyed…now not so much.  Wikileaks was flavour of the month then….again not so much now.

The BBC cannot help itself. Elsewhere, here is how the last ABC Poll in the US is being reported,

From the Independent.

Donald Trump overtakes Hillary Clinton for first time since May in ABC poll

From the Telegraph.

Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton in poll for first time since May in wake of email scandal

And the BBC?

Trump closes the gap

Memo to BBC. He is ahead. It’s Clinton that now faces a gap. Deal with it.

Moving to middle of the week so let’s put up a NEW Open Thread on which you can share the relentless bias!

Here’s a great review of the BBC programme that was on a few nights ago called “Nigel Farage gets his life back” by David Sedgwick!

“Hell hath no fury like the BBC scorned. BBC2’s Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back proved just as much, over and over and over again. And some more.”

Do click the link above and read the full expose of the bias that runs through this onslaught on Farage. Odd how they never did do Ed Miliband gets his life back as a BBC comedy but then again he would need to have one on the first place!

A B-BBC reader writes;

“Today were hear that “Muslim women complain about Sharia inquiries”.

I misread the headline and thought that the story was that Muslim women were complaining about the blatant sexism and misogyny in Sharia and Islam as whole. You know, honour killings, forced marriages, domestic violence, sexual assault et al.

How stupid of me.

The Beeb chooses not to look at what the Qur’an or the Hadith say or their sanctions, such as:

Yes, the Clinton campaign is reeling and Trump is soaring so it it must be tough for the blatantly partisan BBC. Still, have a look at what a BBC copy writer and photo editor can do to try and keep the flag for Clinton flying. From their web portal…touching, isn’t it?

The National Union of Miner’s own website says:
Throughout the 1960s, with a Labour Government in office from 1964, the pit closure programme accelerated; it decimated the industry. During this period, nearly 300 more pits were closed, and the total workforce slumped from over 750,000 in the late 1950s down to 320,000 by 1968. In many parts of Britain, miners now became known as industrial gypsies as pit closures forced them to move from coalfield to coalfield in search of secure jobs.

They were victims of madhouse economics.

From what I’ve heard so far the BBC’s coverage of Orgreave is the usual one-sided affair that we’ve come to expect whenever the ‘Tories’ and the Police are involved…the BBC liking neither.

It’s been a day of tall tales about the police being a political army and of innocent miners who just wanted to work and the ‘enemy within’.

That of course is nonsense and the BBC should be challenging the miners who they bring on to say their piece rather than indulging their lies….and the ‘enemy within’ was Thatcher’s term, not for the miners, but for the NUM leadership which was to lead them to destruction….as much an enemy to the miners themselves as to the country.

Let’s be clear..there was no mandate for the strike.  Scargill forced it upon the miners after a ballot rejected the call to strike.

Scargill was using the miners as sacrificial pawns in his political battle to destroy the government…Scargill was ‘political’ not the police and miners suffered more from violence from other miners as they tried to intimidate them to stop work than they did from the police.  Scargill thought he should be running the country….helpfully part funded as the NUM was by the Soviets.

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.        Arthur Scargill

Scargill led the miners into poverty and ruin for his own purposes which had nothing to do with keeping mines open.

As for jobs, firstly Labour closed more pits than the Tories, second there is no right to a job for life, and the miners were offered extremely generous redundancy terms, far better than other industries received, which they rejected.

I must tell you that what we have got is an attempt to substitute the rule of the mob for the rule of law, and it must not succeed. It must not succeed. There are those who are using violence and intimidation to impose their will on others who do not want it. The rule of law must prevail over the rule of the mob.

– The then Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

We’ve looked at this subject several times and the BBC always presents the miners as victims, not of Scargill and his manipulation and trickery but of the police and Thatcher.

Labour ‘Decimated’ The Coal Industry…says NUM

Not So Minor Miner Facts

Played In A Miner Key

Always interesting the BBC take on events…and it is a ‘take’ rather than actual news, the BBC’s version of most things being shaped by their own prejudices and bias.

Over the past weeks you may have noticed how the BBC has been hunting down Bradley Wiggins and how their reports on TUE’s in sport have concentrated on Sky and repeatedly insinuate and be very suggestive that Wiggins is guilty of drug abuse.

Sunday morning we had Gary Richardson interviewing one of the people investigating how TUEs are used and it was clear that Richardson was completely uninterested in how sport in general uses TUEs and was intent solely on targeting Sky and Wiggins.  Any thought that it maybe that Sky is of course a big rival to the BBC in sport [and the BBC consistently attacks Sky’s funding of the Premier League] and that their arch-nemesis and bête noir, Rupert Murdoch, is deeply involved with Sky?  Nah…just coincidence the BBC seem to be after Sky sporting interests.

Odd how when Mo Farrah’s coach was being investigated for using drugs the BBC announced loudly and often that of course Mo was entirely innocent and that there was absolutely no suggestion that he had taken any drugs….and yet the finger is being pointed at Wiggins very, very fast for using TUEs that are legal to use….and indeed Farrah has used them twice in his career as well...and yet…..silence about him.  Perhaps Brad should convert to Islam and black up.

In a similar vein interesting how the BBC reports on Clinton and Trump.

Trump may be, in the BBC’s opinion, too loud, rude, crude, brash, sexist, vulgar and has patted a few butts [naturally not one of these ‘girls’ welcomed the attention of a multi-millionaire who could further their career…no not at all Mrs Merton] but what he did was not whilst in a public office and had absolutely no bearing on national security or trust.

In contrast Clinton has been in public office at a senior level for many years and has proved herself entirely untrustworthy in many respects.  The BBC jumps up and down calling Trump racist [proof of that?] and yet ignores Clinton’s reported remarks such as ‘Fucking Jew’.  The BBC also glides over her attempts to cover up for Banger Bill by attempting to discredit the women claiming he assaulted them and if that failed by trying to intimidate and bully them into silence.

Which is worse?  Trump and his ‘laddish’ behaviour or someone who whilst in office carries on with huge disregard for national security, the law and protection of women?

Justin Webb on Saturday [08:32], in the belief that of course everybody thinks the same as he and his BBC chums do about Trump, was casually insulting and demonising him telling us that Trump was ‘uniquely ghastly’…really?  So much more so than Clinton?  He also said that it was a choice between a ‘racist, misogynist,, narcissistic thug’ and someone who was merely ‘secretive and dishonest about some emails’…it was ‘no contest’ thought Webb, completely ignoring the fact that Clinton’s failures must surely be a huge negative for someone wanting to be President whilst Trump’s are matters of taste and manners.

As David says in other posts the BBC is pushing the Democratic narrative and pointing the finger not at Clinton but at the FBI…Mardell on his programme today made no attempt to investigate the emails, talk to the FBI or any neutral commentator..instead he brought in a hard core Democrat to tell us how ill-judged, if not illegal, Comey’s actions were.  No inkling that Clinton’s aide had told the FBI previously that she had handed over all emails….and yet thousands more were on her personal laptop.

No thoughts from the BBC as to why Comey didn’t press ahead with any action against Clinton previously and yet there is evidence that within the FBI that was a highly controversial move…and you can see that the Government [ie the Democrats] ‘warned’ Comey not to go further.

The Mail has a completely different perspective in things…

‘He talks about the damage that he’s done to himself and the institution [of the FBI], and how he’s been shunned by the men and women who he admires and work for him. It’s taken a tremendous toll on him.

‘The atmosphere at the FBI has been toxic ever since Jim announced last July that he wouldn’t recommend an indictment against Hillary,’ said the source, a close friend who has known Comey for nearly two decades, shares family outings with him, and accompanies him to Catholic mass every week.

‘Some people, including department heads, stopped talking to Jim, and even ignored his greetings when they passed him in the hall,’ said the source. ‘They felt that he betrayed them and brought disgrace on the bureau by letting Hillary off with a slap on the wrist.’

Comey’s decision to reopen the case was more than an effort to heal the wound he inflicted on the FBI. 

He was also worried that after the presidential election, Republicans in Congress would mount a probe of how he had granted Hillary political favoritism.

So many at the FBI thought Comey had let Clinton off the hook…and he is worried it looks like political favouritism for Clinton…whereas the BBC are pushing hard that he is favouring Trump.

You can see why the BBC has steadfastly refused to concentrate on the email scandal throughout the campaign as Clinton’s lead vanishes on the latest revelations, the BBC preferring instead to traduce Trump rather than analyse the charges against Clinton.