Boris Johnson was interrupted 57 times on the Andrew Marr Show today; PM was only intrerrupted 23 times two weeks ago. #marr
Andrew Marr when interviewing Boris Johnson (40 mins) misquoted by omission Gerard Lyons, suggesting that he said Brexit would entail a period of dislocation, uncertainty and job loss in the transition…there would be, Marr told us, a period when people lose their jobs using a quote from Lyons to back that up….this is what Lyons actually said….
Leaving the EU will come with transition costs. While the UK public may want quick wins, the most important thing will be stability, a road map for the future and a clear strategic vision. Just as a new government may require one or two full terms to implement its manifesto, likewise it will take a number of years to repatriate powers and laws to our country.
Brexit will be an economic shock. We encounter such events throughout our own lives, when we move house or change jobs. Unless planned for they can be disruptive. That doesn’t mean growth will contract or jobs will be lost, but investment plans may temporarily be put on hold.
Marr then quotes, I paraphrase… ‘Leaving the EU is always worse than the alternative…’….a quote chosen you might suspect to put a very negative spin on Brexit..…But that is giving an impression so far from what Lyons thinks about the EU and Brexit it’s untrue…literally untrue…….
Leaving the EU would be an economic shock. Most, if not all, economic shocks depress economic activity. Thus economic forecasts that focus on, say, a couple of years ahead would tend to show that leaving the EU is always worse than the alternative. In compiling the Europe Report we felt it would be more meaningful to look at the likely impact longer-term, rather than just the initial shock period. Indeed the very fact that this referendum is taking place, four decades after the previous referendum, appears to support the case for a longer-term view.
Why does Marr not quote all the stuff Lyons says in favour of Brexit? Marr has deliberately plucked out a half a quote in order to back up a false claim that Lyons says Brexit will be worse for the UK….something Lyons clearly does not think…..as his Tweets confirm as he responds to Marr’s piece…..
Lyons himself is not impressed with Marr’s misuse of his words…..
Trump isn’t anti-migrant or anti-Muslim…he wants to stop illegal migration and temporarily control Muslim entry to the US until they work out how to deal with the threat of Islamic State infiltrators who aim to kill as many Americans as possible…..many established Hispanics support Trump’s statement as they see the vast numbers of poor Mexicans as a threat to their livelihoods…whilst the Democrats want an open door policy because those vast numbers of poor Mexicans will usually vote Democrat…in the same way that Labour hoped immigrants to the UK would vote Labour.
Many middle-class, non-immigrant Hispanics worry that large-scale migration will undermine their hard-earned status as core Americans, impoverish their neighborhoods, drive up crime, worsen local schools and compete for jobs. Polls show the growing support for conservatives policies as Hispanics families root themselves in America — but the polls also show how the growing number of poor Hispanic immigrants keeps refreshing the Democratic supermajority among Hispanic voters.
The BBC for some reason doesn’t have a bad word to say about Obama rigging the election by importing millions of potential Democrat voters.
Let’s not forget this when the BBC attacks Trump for his comments about controlling Muslim immigration…Obama said……‘we are at war with ISIL’…
After the San Bernardino killings in December 2015, Obama acknowledged in a televised address to the nation that the US was at war, a concession he must have made with some reluctance.
At war? Who with exactly? Of what religion are they exactly? If you’re at war then you have to take measures to control those who may adhere to the enemy’s ideology….the US didn’t just stop Japanese immigration after 1941 they interned all Japanese, even those born in the US.
Obama tries to have his cake and eat it by attacking Trump and then admitting some Muslim communities are radicalised…
If we’re to succeed in defeating terrorism we must enlist Muslim communities as some of our strongest allies, rather than push them away through suspicion and hate.
That does not mean denying the fact that an extremist ideology has spread within some Muslim communities. This is a real problem that Muslims must confront, without excuse.
President Obama ended his address by saying, “Let’s not forget that freedom is more powerful than fear.” What he probably should have added is that freedom, to be more powerful than terror, must be successfully protected.
Jim Naughtie, along with the rest of the BBC, really seems to have it in for Donald Trump, or ‘The Donald’ as he calls him in a juvenile attempt to belittle him.
Here’s Craig’s transcript of what Naughtie claimed Trump said and what he actually said….you might agree that what Naughtie missed out was rather important to the context and meaning…
Here’s a transcription of what listeners heard on The World at One. Would you really have assumed straight way that Donald Trump was talking specifically about Islamic State from this?:
James Naughtie:On international security you hear The Donald in full flow. This isn’t language the State Department would ever use, Nor a plan that any previous American administration would have contemplated.
Donald Trump: I would bomb the shit out of ’em. I would just bomb those suckers. And, that’s right, I’d blow up the pipes. I’d blow up the refin….I’d blow up every single inch, and there would be nothin’ left. And you know what? You’ll get Exon to come in there and in two months…you ever seen these guys, how good they are, the great oil companies? They’ll rebuild that sucker, brand new. It will be beautiful. And I’d ring it, and I’d take the oil.
For context, here’s a fuller version of what Donald Trump said:
Donald Trump: ISIS is making a tremendous amount of money because they have certain oil camps, right? They have certain areas of oil that they took away. They have some in Syria, some in Iraq. I would bomb the shit out of ’em. I would just bomb those suckers. And, that’s right, I’d blow up the pipes. I’d blow up the refin….I’d blow up every single inch, and there would be nothin’ left. And you know what? You’ll get Exon to come in there and in two months…you ever seen these guys, how good they are, the great oil companies? They’ll rebuild that sucker, brand new. It will be beautiful. And I’d ring it, and I’d take the oil.
Craig says…
What’s puzzling me here is that what Donald Trump actually said is pretty jaw-dropping, isn’t it? So why would any critic of Donald Trump (especially a BBC one) want – or need – to gild the ‘offensive’ lily any more?
But actually as with much that Trump says there is more than an element of truth to it and his ideas are essentially what most people probably think but don’t articulate in such a forceful manner.
In fact both the British and US government think he’s right as they carry out that exact policy of ‘bombing the shit’ out of IS oil assets…
The US-led bombing campaign against Isil has cut its oil revenues and squeezed its finances to a point where it is cutting fighters’ salaries, according to a new report.
Just hours after military action was approved, four British Tornado jets took off from their base in Cyprus to attack Islamic State targets in Syria. The first bombs were dropped on the Omar oil refineries in the east, that it’s believed were used to fund the terror group.
And as for what he said about Mexicans…
“[Mexico] are sending people that have lots of problems, and they are bringing those problems to us. They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and their rapists,” the business mogul said.
US Gen Philip Breedlove said they were “weaponising” migration to destabilise and undermine the continent.
He also suggested that criminals, extremists and fighters were hiding in the flow of migrants.
Not a peep out of the BBC or the Guardian or all the others who attacked Trump for his comments so vocally.
Why are British prisons so full of foreigners now? Open the borders and allow anyone to come here unchecked and uncontrolled and what do you expect? The BBC et al don’t give a damn about the people murdered, the women raped, the thousands of victims of crime who wouldn’t be victims if we had proper border controls….they tried to whitewash Cologne, blame Paris and London on anyone but the people who carried out the attacks, and avoid associating any crime with immigrants….preferring not to mention ethnicity or religion if possible….such as in Rotherham where the BBC’s cover up still continues.
After David’s post on Somalia I thought this piece might be of interest and open a few eyes at the BBC whose narratives on Empire, colonialism and immigration are increasingly naive…..Diaspora Somalis are seen as ‘foreigners’ who do not integrate, destabilise Somali society which the Somalis want to keep ‘pure and authentically Somali’ and are acting like colonialists wanting to improve the natives…….
Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, is transformed between June and September every year as Somalilanders arrive from Europe, north America, the Gulf and the rest of Africa. Traffic jams clog the rough roads, salons fill up, hipster beards and skinny jeans appear, hijabs slip and skirt hems rise. It’s an important boost to the local economy.
Recently, though, appreciation for the returnees has shown signs of ebbing away, and there are a growing number of complaints about the visitors: that London boys are selling drugs from their hire cars; that gangs from Copenhagen are fighting gangs from other countries; that girls from Toronto are teaching local girls to dress and behave improperly.
Sign up to our Bookmarks email Read more The nationalities of those blamed change regularly, but the persistent refrain is “those” people are bringing their “foreign” ways to a country that the year-round residents are trying to keep pure and authentically Somali. At night, checkpoints at regular distances throughout Hargeisa maintain surveillance on diaspora youths and enforce cultural norms. Somaliland’s financial dependence on remittances sent by those who work overseas adds a further layer of tension and mutual hostility.
“Diaspora” is an ancient word that applies to many Britons. I have always felt myself part of one; from lullabies and superstitions to baby names and funeral rites, there are times when my roots on another continent blossom in my everyday life. For most members of a diaspora, perhaps Jewish, Indian or Somali, the relationship to the “motherland” is a complex, demanding and sometimes maddening one. You are both of it and beyond it, an insider and an outsider simultaneously. Called upon yet often ignored.
The reaction of Hargeisa’s diaspora visitors to this new antagonism varies widely: some accept the status quo and absorb the prevailing attitudes as the correct ones; some diplomatically maintain one public face and another private one; others push the boundaries and insist on acting just as they would at home. Simple decisions such as whether to wear trousers can become for women a radical act; similarly for men with earrings. This constant navigation can be exhausting and can lead to another form of them and us. A semi-colonial relationship rears its head, in which the “white man’s burden” is replaced with the “diaspora’s burden” – to enlighten, to change, to fix. A desire to return to make a positive change can sour when faced with suspicion and contempt, and turn into a belief that local Somalis are corrupt, backward, dishonest and all those other tropes that colonial officials perpetuated.
Jama Musse Jama, a mathematician and publisher from Pisa, Italy, returned after a 20-year absence to establish the Hargeisa book fair in 2008 and last year moved there permanently to establish and run the Hargeisa cultural centre. He is driven by a desire to celebrate literature, inspire debate and create a space for Somali arts. Sitting in his office, surrounded by ancient manuscripts from a religious order in Berbera, his work seems academic and peaceful; but it’s not always that way. This year there was much more vocal opposition to the book fair but Jama knows that he can only overcome it by reaching out to religious leaders, the government and the community itself. This commitment to staying and working with the local population is the necessary ingredient to making a successful return, it seems.
Growing up, I always assumed I would return to Somaliland, to “make a difference” and to reconnect with a place I was so abruptly torn away from. In those 30 years I have changed dramatically and so has my home city. I am one of those summer visitors and I see much that I identify with and much that I don’t. I intend to spend more time there, working in the arts and with organisations that work with vulnerable children, but I hope that the welcome I expect will still be offered in the years to come.
Here’s an interesting tip off I received in the mail. It concerns the BBC enforcing Islam compliance with regard to headscarfs. It shows how the BBC caves when it comes to Islamic bullying. How can we trust it when it does not trust itself?
“The BBC World Service has censored a video of its OWN JOURNALIST reading a news bulletin because Islamists complained she was not wearing a headscarf. The journalist works for the BBC Somali service which is paid for by BBC Licence Fee. The decision was made by BBC Africa Editor Solomon Mugenra and agreed by senior BBC managers.
Why, when the BBC is so interested in FGM and women’s rights, does it ignore a book by Elham Manea, a Muslim, that says the Islamic laws that some sharia courts in the UK propagate are more antiquated and extreme than in parts of Pakistan, courts that enforce laws that condone wife beating, ignore marital rape, allow men to have 4 wives and give the father ultimate power over everything his daughter does?
She says that the courts increase segregation, inequality and discrimination and eventually foment political instability and home-grown terrorism.
Surely some eye-catching statements there…and yet the BBC has ignored them preferring instead to keep feeding us conservative Islamic propaganda from the MCB through the ‘moderate’ voice of Ibrahim Mogra….the same MCB that says these same Sharia courts ‘perform an important function.’
Why is her book, ‘Women and Sharia Law’, not on Book of the Week?….after all the BBC instantly, the day it was published, put on corrupt Muslim cop, Ali Dizaei’s book, on the programme because it made lurid claims about police discrimination against him…the BBC is ever drawn to claims of racism for some reason…but only racism by white people.
The BBC is however quick to get a quote off her if it can be used to condemn Saudi Arabia (She is of Yemeni descent)…ironically the BBC complaining about the same Islamic laws that are being introduced into the UK…and yet it remains silent about that whilst being very vocal about the far distant Saudi Arabia.
The BBC has also ignored another major book…a biography of Tony Blair…..which the Daily Mail led with most of the week and the BBC studiously ignored even in its papers review….which was remarkable given its dominance in the Mail’s coverage….but of course you can understand the BBC’s reluctance when you know the contents of the book and how they are so diametrically opposed to the narrative that the BBC has spun for so many years about immigration….
‘I suppose throwing rocks at a tree does resemble, a little, the Muslim ritual of “stoning the Devil” on the hajj during Eid al-Adha, in which pious Muslims pelt three walls with seven stones apiece. Laura [The scientist who observed the chimp behaviour] did not make this connection – perhaps because buried within her is a certain valuable instinct for survival. I have mentioned it because, of late, I have become bored with my head and do not much mind being separated from it.’
It is in fact an interesting theological question…How would ISIS deal with religious monkeys? They have no pockets so can’t really pay the protection money tax, they can’t really convert, or can they?, so will they have to be exiled or killed? And what of the females? Not even going there!
BELIEF in the values of the BBC entitles an employee to the same protection at work as faith in Christianity, Islam and the world’s other leading religions, a review for the state equality quango has concluded.
Smartwatches that allow pupils and students to cheat in exams are being openly sold on Amazon. An advert for one such watch, which has 4GB of memory, was offered on the website for £44.95.
“This watch is specifically designed for cheating in exams with a special programmed software. It is perfect for covertly viewing exam notes directly on your wrist, by storing text and pictures. It has an emergency button, so when you press it the watch’s screen display changes from text to a regular clock, and blocks all other buttons,” the seller wrote.
Joe Sidders, the deputy head at Monkton Combe senior school, in Bath, told BBC News that such devices were making exams a “nightmare to administer”. “I expect the hidden market for these sorts of devices is significant, and this offering on Amazon is just the tip of the iceberg,” he said.
Mr Sidders said it was irresponsible to sell such devices and called for exam boards to challenge those involved in making them.
Not sure whether to believe this review or not…has the ring of truth about it…
At first, I loved this product. It enabled me to pass my GCSEs with A*s, achieve four A*s in my A-Levels and get into Oxford University to study Politics.
After getting into the University of my choice, I decided to drink my way through 3 years and £35,000 of debt. When my final exams came around (faster than I thought) I uploaded important facts and data onto the watch and took it into my exams. Thanks to this watch- I ended up with a 1st Degree in Politics!
Now that I am a Conservative member of parliament, my watch lets me down. When asked challenging questions by the opposition, I am forced to resort to name calling in order to avoid answering. When asked to provide facts and data, my watch often provides the wrong information and I am made to look a fool.
I think that this company should start producing ‘Cheat Glasses’ and some kind of ‘Cheat Voice Box’, which could respond accurately to questions asked in real time. Maybe a ‘Cheat Mask’, which could provide appropriate facial expressions would be good too.
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As John Humphrys proposes we open the borders to allow in what will be millions of Muslims into Europe and the Pope surrenders his religion there is at least Rod Liddle manning the borders……the ‘open border’ narrative is similar to the multicultural one where we place no restrictions on other cultures who seek to colonise Europe….we can only benefit from such rich diversity…can’t we?…
If it’s Islam, you can count on the BBC and the Guardian not to mention it
We are back with the liberals, the people who think that something is a circle when it isn’t a circle. The BBC managed to deliver a series of three reports — the top story of the day — on the conviction of the Muslim child sex abusers and rapists from Rotherham, without at any point mentioning the words ‘Islam’ or ‘Muslim’. They were just yer every-day ordinary British folk, then.
I mentioned this fact in a short Sunday Times article and a small handful of liberals objected. What relevance is their religion? Well, on one count, it was the fact that they were Muslims which prevented, for politically correct reasons, the social services and the police doing anything about it for a decade or longer. But even then I might swallow the libtard argument were it not for the fact that this was not a one-off. Very far from it. The same vile abuse has happened up and down the country and the one thing the perpetrators had in common was their religion. If there had been 15 separate incidents of, say, Christadelphian or Methodist gangs raping and sexually abusing children then I suspect that the BBC might have found this strange thing that they all had in common worthy of comment and possibly even investigation.
Some of the liberals went on to assert that the commonality was cultural rather than religious — but it wasn’t, not in the other places away from Rotherham. The commonality was Islam and the attacks were occasioned as a consequence partly of its somewhat tendentious view of women and what one should be allowed to do with them, and its similarly dismissive view of humans who are not Muslim (all the victims were non-Muslim). Nor were the horrific sexual assaults on the continental mainland — the mass attacks at Cologne railway station on New Year’s Eve being the most infamous, but there have been many others — perpetrated by Pakistanis or Bangladeshis, but by North Africans and Arabs. But then the BBC didn’t care to report the identity of those people, either, showing a remarkable lack of curiosity.
The BBC seems Pope-mad at the moment practically reporting every word of any Pope living or dead…indeed rifling through John Paul’s very personal letters for salacious tittle tattle that doesn’t exist…..hardly a day goes by without some dope on a Pope…
Pope Francis questions Donald Trump’s Christianity
Pope Francis decries migrant ‘tragedy’ at Mexico Mass
Pope Francis set for historic Orthodox Patriarch meeting
The Secret Letters of Pope John Paul II
Australian sex abuse victims want meeting with Pope
Curiously the BBC seems entirely unconcerned about a recent Papal declaration…
The pontiff explained how previous invasions of Europe had enriched its cultures:
“We can speak today of an Arab invasion. It is a social fact.” … “How many invasions Europe has known throughout its history! It has always known how to overcome itself, moving forward to find itself as if made greater by the exchange between cultures.”
So we’re being invaded by the Arabs/Muslims…and it will have some sort of effect upon our own culture and society…..Maybe the Pope, like the BBC, just doesn’t see what is going on around Europe where there are heavy concentrations of ‘Arabs’ or people who subscribe to the same religion as the ‘Arabs’.
Is there any wonder the Christian church, of all denominations, is struggling when the head of one major branch firstly can’t bring himself to acknowledge openly that this is a ‘Muslim’ invasion but secondly he actually encourages his flock to embrace this new ‘culture’….a culture that is aggressively opposed to the one he is supposed to be the leading spirit of.
What hope can there be when the Pope doesn’t stand up and defend his own religion?
What hope when the Great and the Good don’t have the convictions and courage to stand up for their own beliefs?
Cameron is selling us down the river to Europe, the Pope is retiring Christianity from Europe and the BBC cheerleads them both.
In fact just been listening to John Humphrys (around 08:38) feeding ‘questions’ to the EU’s immigration commissioner, a Greek, Dimitris Avramopoulos, asking him if Europe, including the UK, must accept far more ‘migrants’.
The answer? Of course, open the borders.
Humphrys accepted that without comment making no attempt to suggest any problems that might entail from such pious grandstanding…such as the one above….or indeed the clue that Greece has been overrun and overwhelmed by migrants….and as they continue to flood in in a never-ending stream how long before Europe is overrun and overwhelmed? Let more in, smart thinking, a smart solution to being overrun and overwhelmed! A Europe eventually divided on religious grounds….if not a Europe at war….Syria but on a much larger scale. And of course no mention of the government’s prefered solution…..funding camps near to Syria…no mention of the £2 billion being spent on helping the refugees.
This wasn’t an interview, just the BBC giving a pro-immigrant voice free rein to voice their opinions…..and now we’re hearing that most of the refugees are children….Humphrys and the Today programme going for it today.
The BBC is less than reluctant to mention the reality….Most of the migrants are Muslim males which has consequences for any society they are allowed into….never mind that they will be demanding the rest of their families be allowed in at a later date.
It is an irony that the more the Popes, the Camerons, the BBCs of this world do to silence the debate on immigration and instead warn us of the dangers of the Far Right gaining power the more the Far Right succeed in mobilising people who see their own justified concerns dismissed and maligned….The BBC et al are creating the very conditions that will give rise to a Right-Wing uprising…if the Pope won’t stand up for his own religion and European culture it looks like there are others who will….
Über nationalism coming to a land near you because of the BBC’s hatred of Über nationalism. Will the BBC be showering praise upon Father Jacek Miedlar for working to save Poland from Islamic ideology as they did for Lech Wałęsa as he saved Poland from the Commies and their totalitarian ideology?
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