Category Archives: BBC bias

Just where does the BBC get its journos?  Wherever perhaps they should consider recruiting elsewhere.

Clive Coleman provides us with some genius journalism…that is no doubt intended to ‘encourage’ the Remain protestors to step up their protests in their attempt to overturn democracy.

He asks…

Can the law stop Brexit?

No bias in that headline then.  Coleman seems a tad disappointed that Brexit seems unstoppable…

While lawyers may raise arguments, it seems impossible to see a legal challenge stopping the great democratic juggernaut now chuntering towards the EU’s departure gate.

There are times when politics simply outstrips the law.

This feels like one of them.

So his conclusion is that the law can stop it but that politics trumps it.  But erm, read his article and that’s just not true…the conclusion is really that the law cannot stop Brexit despite Coleman trying his best to engineer his piece to suggest it can.

For instance he asks if Article 50 can be stopped as it needs the assent of Parliament before it is invoked…

Article 50 says any EU member state can leave “in accordance with its own constitutional requirements”.

That phrase has given lawyers pause for thought as to what is lawful under our constitution.

In a piece co-authored by three legal experts, for the UK Constitutional Law Association, it is argued that under our constitutional settlement, the prime minister cannot issue a notification under Article 50 without being given authority to do so by an act of Parliament.

The Article 50 process would cut across and emasculate the 1972 act, and so, the argument goes, the prime minister needs the backing of a new act of Parliament to give him or her the constitutional authority to push the Leave button.

He also promotes this campaign which most people will never have heard of…

There is also an attempt to crowd-fund legal advice on the issue: “Should Parliament decide?”

The Crowd Justice website says a legal challenge could be “the most important public law case in living memory”.

If it was decided that a prime minister acting alone under prerogative powers lacked the constitutional authority to trigger Article 50, an act of Parliament would need to be passed giving him or her that authority.

What Coleman and these lawyers seem to forget is that the referendum wasn’t done on the whim of the PM it was authorised by Parliament in the European Union Referendum Act 2015 and as such must authorise any Out vote would enable the government to trigger Article 50.  Not a great deal of point in having a referendum unless you are able to act upon it one way or the other.  Curious that Coleman makes no mention of the referendum Act.

Coelman then goes on to contradict himself by saying the PM could trigger Article 50 himself without legislation…

Consider also that Article 50 arguably does not need legislation and can be triggered by a prime minister using prerogative powers.

In other words, the two-year period could run its course without any agreement and thus any legislation by the UK Parliament.

Ironically he does mention Parliament voting for a referendum but in the context of the much desired 2nd one…

The sovereignty of Parliament is a cornerstone of our constitution, so it is possible it could pass a law calling a second referendum.

Note that bit about ‘The sovereignty of Parliament is a cornerstone of our constitution‘…LOL…..not whilst we’re in the EU and all our laws subject to its approval.  Funny how ‘sovereignty’  is suddenly important to a no nation, no borders Beeboid when it counts in their favour.

He has a little bit of wishful thinking at the end..

However, although constitutionally possible, this is politically unthinkable.

It would take something akin to a revolution and full-blown constitutional crisis for it to happen.

If the petition grew to show a clear majority of the electorate now favoured Remain, that might be tantamount to the revolution and might possibly trigger the unthinkable.

But four million is a long way off that.

Get signing that petition Remainers…..go for it!!!  Vive La Revolution!

So Shami Chakrabarti has had her anti-Semitism inquiry and held a press conference to astound the world with its findings…apparently, and I paraphrase the BBC, there isn’t much to worry about.  Labour is an anti-Semite free zone.  Pretty much.  Apparently.

The Labour Party is not overrun by anti-Semitism or other forms of racism but there is an “occasionally toxic atmosphere”, an inquiry has found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbGREOz7iN0

Curiously the BBC makes no mention of the attack on a Jewish Labour MP by one of Corbyn’s Momentum Blackshirts only referring to a media scrum at the end of the event..no suggestion as to why there was a media scrum such as Corbyn not defending a Jewish MP at his own inquiry into anti-Semitism…couldn’t make it up could you?  The BBC doesn’t bother, it just ignores it here in its ‘analysis’ [LOL]….

There was a melee as the Labour leader was pursued out of the room by reporters and photographers.

And some of those attending were left bemused by Mr Corbyn’s comments appearing to liken the actions of the Israeli government with those of so-called Islamic State.

The comparison was no doubt unintended but it was a reminder of the huge challenge facing the party if it’s to encourage debate yet avoid causing unnecessary offence.

So Corbyn didn’t intend to make such a comparison of Israel with the Islamic State…yeah right…Corbyn has form on this….remember his ‘friends’ comments about the Islamist terror groups…..watch the video and Corbyn’s excuses for what he said ring hollow as he says Hamas is a peace-maker dedicated to the good of the Palestinian people and is not a terror group….

Corbyn definitely did compare Israel to the Islamic State and other terrorist organisations (not Hamas obviously!) and Shami Chakrabarti herself in her attempt to explain away Corbyn’s remarks made exactly the same comparison as she said that what was being compared was Jews being asked to justify Israeli actions and Muslims being asked to justify the actions of Muslim terrorists….in other words she compared Israel to Islamic terrorists just as Corbyn did.

Why can the BBC not produce an analysis that suggests the inquiry was a total whitewash...the Telegraph can….

Anti-Semistism a report a ‘whitewash’

Justin Webb tackled Chakrabarti on Corbyn’s comments on the Today programme but he made no comment about her own remarks as she in effect also labelled Israel a terrorist sate…and no mention by Webb of this revealing bit of film from the end of the inquiry press conference that shows Corbyn on very friendly terms with the same man who attacked Labour MP Ruth Smeeth, he knows him so well that he has his phone number…..

Turns out Chakrabarti is quite the loyal little lapdog as she unquestioningly defends her new found master…just as she praised and defended the Islamists of Cage.

Boris wrote an article post Brexit in the Telegraph on Monday.  He has been variously denounced for the content of it and the BBC et al are making much of the suggestion that this article led to his downfall.  The BBC itself may have led to much of the misunderstanding of that article if it indeed was a catalyst for the Gove alleged assassination.

We have already looked at the BBC’s original report on Boris’ letter in which the BBC falsely suggests that Boris is backing away from Brexit and is compromising his position as leader of that campaign.

The Mail had a different interpretation of the article and suggested that Boris was in conciliatory mood and was building bridges as he sought to reassure Remain voters about the outcome of Brexit.  Reading the article you can see this is true and that at no time does Boris back out of his Brexit ideals….of bringing back sovereignty, of escaping the clutches of the EU laws and the ECJ and of course of limiting immigration.

Boris made it clear that the vote was a straight win, if narrow, for Brexit…. ‘In the end, there was a clear result. More than 17 million people voted to leave the EU – more than have ever assented to any proposition in our democratic history.’

The BBC’s original title for their piece was ‘Johnson vows EU cooperation after referendum result’  it is now ‘Brexit: Boris Johnson – time to build bridges with Remain voters’.   In other words their original take and emphasis on the article was wrong.

Boris has been woefully treated and maligned for something he did not do.  His article was a balanced, reasoned and principled piece that sought to reach out to Remain voters whilst upholding the values and ideals of the Leave side.  Far from being recklessly ‘dashed off’ as his critics claim it was carefully considered and thought out piece..and as for him taking his time….well where was Osborne at the same time?  He was all but invisible until Monday and Cameron vanished himself from the stage completely reneging on his responsibilities and duty.

Did the BBC report that suggested Boris was selling out the Leave team influence events and result in Boris being butchered?  We can never know but it was almost certainly written with the intent of sabotaging his campaign by undermining people’s trust in him.  It looks to have succeeded.  One more success for the powers of darkness then.

The BBC has won and finally got their man.

Had to laugh at this from the Guardian:

No one can predict what sort of outcome might emerge from his capricious gamble, and it doesn’t look like we’ll even get to vote again until all of that is done and dusted. Europe doesn’t crush our democracy. It protects what’s left of it. Now that protection is gone and our limited, gestural, dysfunctional democracy is all we have.

The unelected European government protects our democracy?  Pull the other one.  It’s busily smashing and suppressing democracy right across Europe and gets ever more arrogant, overbearing and dictatorial as time goes on.

We’ve just had one of the most democratic votes in the United Kingdom’s history with a massive voter turnout and the Guardian thinks our democracy is under threat……well yes…under threat from the likes of the Guardian which refuses to accept the outcome of that vote and whose columnists threaten ‘not to forget’ those who voted to leave and encourage their readers to ‘hold onto their fury’.

The biggest danger to democracy is the likes of the Guardian and the BBC who twist and corrupt the news as they malign and demonise the people whose politics and values they don’t accept…so much for tolerance, diversity and multiculturalism.  Only get that ‘acceptance’ if you run a ‘takeaway’…according to Labour.

The Guardian’s (and go to Guardianista for the BBC whenever they want ‘nuanced’ content in a programme) Jonathan Freedland threatens Gove and Boris…

A warning to Gove and Johnson – we won’t forget what you did

Freedland is one of the Guardian’s stormtroopers for the European Union’s undemocratic Empire, one of its useful idiots.

He bases his argument on economics, that whatever the rights of Brexit the economics say we must stay tied to the disastrous autocratic dictatorship that is the EU.

Such an argument is what put Hitler into power as the industrialists and elites looked to someone who could could bring order and stability to Germany so that they could keep on making money and maintain their entrenched elitist privileged status lording it over the German people as they adopted a wilful blindness to the reality of Nazism.

It didn’t work out that way and handing over our nation to the EU and relying on the kindness of strangers from all those other EU nations not to destroy our own nation as they seek advantage and benefit from the EU will result in the same scenario with the unintended consequence of an EU subjugation with the political and economic colonisation of Britain.

Freedland, a Jew, should know better than to pander to a threatening and rising power just because it seems to offer some form of protection which turns out to be a mirage.

He should certainly know better than to make the kind of threat that Hitler’s thugs would make...’We won’t forget you….you’ll pay for this later when we come for you.’

Where is the BBC’s concern about hate crimes?  Freedland is pumping out ‘hate’ towards the Leave voters making lurid and inflammatory claims blaming them for destroying Britain…hold on to your fury he tells Remain voters…we will not forget them he says.

Hate crime?  I’d say so.

Peter Allen, and Adrian Chiles, always seem out of their depth when talking of the big affairs of state…better stick to football and man bites dog stories.  Nice, friendly guys, but that is reflected in the way they interpret events….never prepared to condemn or say something harsh but true unless of course it’s someone from the ‘Right’.

Yesterday Allen revealed to us that he thought perhaps Brexit had ‘unleashed something in the nation that was always there.’….ie racism.  So a double whammy there….associates Brexit with racism and denounces the whole country, well the white bits, as racists who normally hide their racism until given license to be racist by Brexit.

Allen also took the usual BBC negative view of Brexit [When have you ever heard the BBC putting the positive case for it?] and when talking to the head of government in Gibraltar asked him what his fears were and if Gibraltar will survive...no negativity there then.  The politician quickly put Allen in his place and said Gibraltar would thrive and prosper and may well do better…and indeed a Remain voter on Gibraltar said that after a weeks thought on the result he felt that Brexit might actually be good for Gibraltar…needless to say that conversation with the BBC ended pretty quickly.

Just another day with the nice Peter Allen and the BBC….talking down Britain.

Why does the BBC give so much time and space to the ‘young’ to whinge unquestioned about Brexit?  When one ‘yoof’ complains that his family ‘betrayed him’ by voting Out where is the BBC challenge that suggests he is a selfish little p***k and that the referendum wasn’t all about him?  Whinge over.  All yours……

How soon they forget.  No not the Somme and all the sacrifices made on that battlefield, though some could do well to remember what the ‘young’ were doing then and in WWII to defend the right to vote and protest and speak freely.

How soon some forget their own ‘principles’ when the chips are down.

Firstly of course the BBC were busily telling us, pre-referendum, that Boris would never be Tory leader because he couldn’t raise the support amongst the MPs….now he backs out because he can’t raise the support and it’s all a big shock to the BBC, who rapidly put the boot in.  The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg has also gone a bit quiet on her relentless claims that Boris was only in the Leave campaign to build his case for the leadership, Kuenssberg suggesting he was a liar and a fraud…despite admitting later that she based her ‘journalism’ and claims about Boris on ‘vicious rumours’ from the Westminster bubble.  Personally thought he should have toughed it out as Gove doesn’t have a chance and never did whilst Boris did have support last year…as much as May did.  Why did Boris cave so easily?

Apparently Boris has been ‘stabbed in the back’.  I’m still awaiting the outraged frenzy that denounces those daring to suggest Gove stabbed Boris in the back.  The same outraged frenzy that accompanied claims that the wonderboy, Ed Miliband, had stabbed his brother in the back for the Labour leadership contest.

How can the BBC have forgotten this so soon?..

The Conservatives are standing by an attack on Ed Miliband that Labour said had dragged politics “into the gutter”.

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said Mr Miliband had “stabbed his own brother in the back” to lead Labour and was now “willing to stab the UK in the back” by doing a deal on Trident with the SNP “to become PM”.

Mr Miliband said the defence secretary had demeaned himself and his office.

“This is the day the election campaign got personal”, said BBC deputy political editor James Landale.

The Guardian of course was on the case as well…

I’m not sure how I managed to miss the fact that leadership of the Labour party is a hereditary position. Apparently, Labour hasn’t even got round to abolishing the rule of primogeniture, as the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, reminded us on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday. Fallon suggested that Ed Miliband “stabbed his own brother in the back”, appearing to suggest that modern political parties operate a line of succession similar to the royals.

No such defence for Boris or attacks on Gove, indeed today the BBC’s Jon Pienaar told us that this leadership contest was not about policies now but about character.  So character matters then in a leader?  Fairly obvious, but not apparently when it is the Labour leader’s character, then we mustn’t talk about it…nor his Marxist father’s hatred of British values, the values that saved him from the concentration camps.

What else does the BBC forget to mention?  How about Heseltine with his contemptible and malignant attack on Boris?  The BBC has been quoting him relentlessly but not a mention on the news bulletins that he is an ardent Europhile and Remainer….hence the real reason he might want Gove to step aside in order to let a Remainer, Theresa May, a clear run to the PMship.  Yesterday we had a stream of  remainers come onto the BBC, seemingly outnumbering by far those who back Leave and of course they all put the boot into Boris telling us he had ‘broken Britain’….obviously a party line here.  The BBC even dragged in Jenni Russell who has made it her life’s work to undermine and attack Boris…but of course the BBC didn’t mention that as she launched into a poisonous tirade against him.  We also had Anna Soubry, also pouring scorn on the Leave campaign and its ‘lack of leadership’ whilst praising to the skies Cameron’s ‘brilliant’ leadership.  Apparently Cameron and Osborne were extraordinarily ‘admirable’ as they put the country first.  Really?  That’ll be Cameron who abandoned the country and caused chaos, confusion and uncertainty by deciding to not lead the country out of the situation he placed it in by holding the referendum…he should have been prepared to lead whatever the outcome.  Osborne spent all his time spreading fear, alarm and confusion and as a result the markets panicked on the out vote…hardly the work of an ‘admirable’ man.

Ah yes, Osborne…today making big noises about the dreadful state of the economy, due to Brexit of course, and the need to shelve his fantastic budget plans…the plans the BBC panned as pure fantasy.

How soon we forget that in February this year he was telling us that the state of the world economy meant his previous budget statement about balancing the books and having pot loads of spare cash was so much hogwash…

George Osborne warns of further spending cuts in Budget

Chancellor George Osborne has warned he may have to make fresh cuts to public spending in next month’s Budget.

Mr Osborne told the BBC global economic turmoil and slower growth meant “we may need to undertake further reductions”.

He slowed the pace of cuts in the last spending review, but suggested savings could be announced in his 16 March Budget statement as figures showed the UK economy was smaller than expected.

Labour’s John McDonnell said it was “a total humiliation” for Mr Osborne.

Now it’s all about Brexit….could it be that Osborne knew his claims about 2020 were unavievable and took the opportunity to rejig things and blame Brexit for it?….nice if the BBC put the question…not so far though.

And on a final note…May’s attack on those politicians who ‘play games’ with people’s lives…I took that to mean Osborne, whom the BBC always accused of being the most political of all chancellors [but aren’t they all?  Brown not exactly straight with us], and yet now forget that and say May was attacking Boris.  No, she was attacking Osborne.   As always the BBC forgets its previous words when needed and lays into the current enemy.

A second referendum?  You’d think, listening to the BBC, that that was a perfectly reasonable and fair way to proceed.  You’d have no idea that it is a highly controversial, anti-democratic, unconstitutional, hugely dishonest and corrupt idea being peddled by pro-Remain politicians as they tour the BBC’s studios and get a warm welcome instead of an absolute roasting for their treachery and betrayal as they seek to ignore and toss out one of the most democratic votes in our history.

The BBC has long been telling us of the massive distrust of politicians and the breakdown of respect for the established order and yet make no comment about the lies, arrogant disregard, corruption and deceit that lie behind these manoeuvres to smash the referendum vote and keep the little people in their place.

Remember when the BBC trumpeted the socialist Occupy as they set about smashing the Establishment?…how different now when the revolution is perceived as a right-wing revolution.

Apparently the disillusionment of the masses can be safely ignored and the narrative that the old world order is in retreat from the forces of anti-politics and new insurgent People’s parties such as UKIP can be dismissed as dangerous talk that rouses and unleashes dark forces.  Want to smash capitalism, lynch the bankers and debag old Etonians, that’s fine…just don’t dare turn your back on the Empire.

The floor’s all yours….