David Dimbleby presents this week’s show from Stratford-upon-Avon. Panellists include Conservative MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfields; Justine Greening, businessman and former Dragon Theo Paphitis, broadcaster June Sarpong, Labour MP for Wigan Lisa Nandy and SNP MP for somewhere in Scotland, presumably; John Nicolson.
Local Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi won’t be making an appearance for reasons unknown.
Kick off tomorrow (Thursday) at 22.45
The BBC’s Hugh Sykes has tweeted that the alleged sex abuse of a 15 year old girl by Sunderland footballer (ex), Adam Johnston, was the result of a conspiracy by Manchester United to undermine Sunderland….or so he has heard from ‘credible’ sources.
The BBC long ignored allegations against Islamist Tower Hamlet Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, until reality caught up with them and they could no longer ignore the story. Similarly they seem to be ignoring reports about London Mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan who has been linked to Muslim extremist groups by several reports…..and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is in the mix too.
What is also interesting is that the reports about Khan’s brother-in-Law shows how the BBC’s claims that Muslim extremism in the UK is purely a result of the Iraq War is, well, a complete lie, a lie that is politically motivated as the BBC tries to blame all the world’s ills on that war which it so ardently opposed….
‘Mr Javaid’s name appeared on a fatwa in 1998 calling for a “full-scale war of jihad” against Britain and the US.’
From the Mail:
Sadiq Khan, Labour candidate for London mayor, made a speech while the ‘black flag of jihad’ was flying and gave his support to groups linked to extremism
From The Sun:
Extremist views: Labour terror error as Tories fear rout in London mayor contest
LABOUR’S candidate for Mayor of London and party boss Jeremy Corbyn attended a rally in 2006 with an extremist Muslim leader who threatened “fire throughout the world”.
Sadiq Khan later defended Dr Azam Tamimi, a senior figure in the Muslim Association of Britain, for using “flowery” language.
Last night Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke slammed the news, telling The Sun: “Once again this goes to show how the hard-left clique at the top of the Labour Party hate the West and everything we stand for.”
From the Telegraph:
Labour’s mayoral hopeful Sidiq Khan linked to ‘online bin Laden’
Labour’s candidate for London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has faced criticism, after it emerged that Labour’s candidate had shared a platform with a group backed by an extremist imam who was as an al-Qaeda recruiter.
From the Evening Standard:
The links of mayoral hopeful Sadiq Khan’s former brother-in-law to one of the UK’s most notorious extremist organisations are revealed today.
Douglas Murray in the Spectator illustrates why people like Khan are a problem as they seek to downplay extremism and claim Islam is not extreme itself in comparison to a Western society:
Sadiq Khan MP had a piece in the Telegraph last week attacking an excellent piece by Charles Moore in the same paper the Saturday before. In his piece Sadiq makes a number of claims which are worth rebutting…..
Once again a prominent Muslim has used what could have been an opportunity to tackle a problem to instead underplay the problem and deride legitimate concerns expressed about this. Rather than distracting people from the main problem, Sadiq Khan has merely highlighted it.
Problems such as this:
Among those running against Mr Khan at the 2010 general election in Tooting was a Liberal Democrat candidate who was an Ahmadiyya Muslim. Personally I find the Ahmadiyaa among the most admirable as well as progressive movements within Islam. They are also among the most persecuted and reviled, deemed to be heretics by many Muslims. Bigotry against Ahmadiyaa Muslims was extended towards the Liberal Democrat candidate in Tooting. Indeed it was so strong that during the 2010 campaign it was reported that he was told not to come to an election hustings at Sadiq Khan’s own mosque – the Tooting Islamic Centre.
When the Conservative candidate arrived at the same mosque he was reportedly mistaken for the Ahmadiyya Liberal Democrat candidate. The Conservative candidate then had to be locked in a room at the back of the mosque by members of the mosque to safeguard him from attack.
Why does the BBC also seek to playdown and hide the problem of Islam based ‘extremism’ and also fail to report, until forced to by weight of evdence and other Media being more honest, Khan’s reported links to extremists?
I imagine the naive BBC would love to see a Muslim London mayor, so cosmopolitan…..remind me, just how did that work out for the non-Muslim residents of Tower Hamlets?
It is less than a month since Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered in Woolwich, yet already the incident feels half-forgotten. In terms of the legal process, all is well. Two men have been charged. There will be a trial. No doubt justice will be done. But I have a sense that the horror felt at the crime is slipping away.
The media, notably the BBC, quickly changed the subject. After a day or two focusing on the crime itself, the reports switched to anxiety about the “Islamophobic backlash”.
Anti-imperialist though he is, Mandela was educated with a profound respect for the British culture of parliamentary democracy. It became, in many respects, his model for a multiracial South Africa. It arose from good beliefs inculcated early in life. In our own country today, almost the opposite happens. In our state schools, in mosques, on the internet, in university gatherings, many young people are taught to detest the freedom in which they live. Just as surely as good teaching, bad teaching has its power. We refuse even to face it, let alone to stop it.
Apols for my absence. BT stripped me of ALL broadband for a week and I am now catching up on all my various platforms. I think the BBC are playing a blinder FOR the Prime Minister at the moment. They are carefully playing along with the whole “Will he or won’t he get a deal on the EU” in the full knowledge that this is a foregone conclusion. The only time the BBC will facilitate a Conservative Government is when it’s Prime Minister is out to keep us IN the rancid EU. Regardless, this is where YOU detail the bias so let’s be hearing from you!!!
A new open thread to tide you over….
BBC Grandee Jonathan Dimbleby has been at it again…urging us, the paying public, to support his life of ease and licence fee sponsored largesse and his overweening sense of entitlement.
Apparently he has been berating the Any Questions audience to write to their MPs to stop the government and the vested interests of those on the right-wing from crushing the BBC…never mind that the government has given many reassurances that the left-wing BBC is basically untouchable.
Not the first time Dimbleby has expressed his fear and loathing for the Tory government and those ‘vested interests’, not the first time he has abused and exploited his position to propagandise on behalf of his employer…
The veteran political broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby has attacked the commercial enemies of the BBC for setting out to destroy it, and has urged audiences to rise up to defend the corporation.
Making an unexpected intervention at a recording of Radio 4’s long-running current affairs comment show, Any Questions?, Dimbleby, brother of David and son of the BBC’s first war reporter, the late Richard Dimbleby, said the corporation’s opponents “have to be taken on by the BBC and by those viewers and listeners who own the BBC”. He added: “Go around the world, listen to what people say about the BBC, they think it’s astonishing we are having to think about whether or not it should survive.”
And here he is again confecting outlandish conspiracy theories…
Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby has hit out at the BBC’s “enemies” and warned against cuts to the licence fee.
The appointment of Tory MP John Whittingdale, who has called the licence fee “worse than the poll tax”, to the post of culture secretary has led to speculation that the broadcaster could face major changes to the way it is funded.
But Dimbleby called on the government to think twice before delivering a punitive licence fee settlement when it comes to charter renewal.
He told RadioTimes.com that “the nation would lose massively if the BBC were to face any kind of demise”.
“I believe that while there are powerful vested interests who would like to see the BBC denied a licence fee, without a licence fee the BBC could not do what it does.
This is the BBC which is the overwhelmingly dominant news provider, one that seeks to crush the competition be they Sky, News Internatonal or the smallest local newspaper….just remember how the BBC took part in the anti-Murdoch witch-hunt that was the Leveson Inquiry….it did everything it could to attack its biggest commercial and ideological rival.
Talk about ‘vested interests’ and ‘enemies’. Dimbleby is very selective in his ranting.
Here for example is a case in point that illustrates the reach, power and dominance of the BBC…
Classical-Music.com
The official website of BBC Music Magazine
Not only does the BBC have a classical music magazine but it has a website also……how many more BBC magazines have such websites? Should the BBC be providing these magazines that compete so unfairly with the truly commercial sector?
The BBC’s magazines are published by a private company, Immediate Media Company, but of course the content comes courtesy of the BBC which also gives the magazines huge amounts of publicity, every programme being an advert for the magazine in effect, as well as back up in the form of BBC ‘roadshows’.
The profits from the magazines help fund BBC programmes…hardly fair to genuinely commercial media companies…
BBC Music magazine is published by Immediate Media Company Limited under licence from BBC Worldwide, which helps fund new BBC programmes.
BBC people like Dimbleby obviously don’t know just how well off they are, or rather they know all too well that they have led an enchanted life at the expense of the licence fee payers and are scared to death that they have been found out.
They don’t like it up ’em.
Curious how the BBC loves to ‘help’ us judge the effeciveness of the Tory government whether it is how it runs A&E or how successful it is in providing affordable homes for people. Neither of those helpful sites were particularly accurate…the housing one suggested it was impossible to find an affordable home in London and yet one look at estate agent websites showed that was just not the case. In light of which you have to roll your eyes at the latest wheeze from the BBC….tracking how the government is doing in fulfilling its manifesto commitments…
Daily and Sunday Politics manifesto tracker: Economy
We all know that the real world and the opposition of other political parties and pressure groups, one being the BBC itself, means that manifesto policies rarely become reality which is why you have to wonder at the reason behind the BBC move which can only highlight government ‘failure’ in the main, to varying degrees…will the BBC put such ‘failures’ in context and put the blame for the failure where it belongs or is this merely an exercise to provocatively ‘shame’ the government and call it a failure?
Here are two examples from the BBC’s most recent ‘tracking’….
Aim to achieve full employment in the UK
– Manifesto, page 18
The government has not defined full employment, but William Beveridge, the architect of our welfare state, defined it as a workforce that was 3% unemployed. The current unemployment rate, as of February 2016, is 5.1%. The ONS employment rate – the proportion of working-age people in work – shows 74% of those aged 16-64 were in work in September-November 2015
Now that’s pretty misleading as we know that employment is at record levels in the UK...UK employment rate hits highest level since records began…..Why no mention of that context?
And what of this?….
Accept the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission that the National Minimum Wage should rise to £6.70 this autumn, on course for a Minimum Wage that will be over £8 by the end of the decade
– Manifesto, page 21
In the Summer Budget 2015 George Osborne announced the introduction of a ‘National Living Wage’, starting at £7.20 and rising to £9 an hour by 2020
The BBC does mark that as a success for the government and yet they and the usual suspects have been attacking the policy as a failure for weeks now, in fact from the instant it was announced in the budget…despite the BBC never once, in my hearing, criticising Miliband for his ‘living wage’ policies and the ridiculous ‘predistribution’ plan.
Both examples illustrate how the BBC’s tracker is pretty much worthless as a trustworthy and valuable reference point as the tracker fails to report real world events and problems the government has in enacting its manifesto commitments.
Kind of suspect this arose from a brainstorm session for bored journos looking for something to write….preferably with the possibility of undermining the Tory government. Make-work for those who don’t want to go out and do some real investigative journalism and dig up some real stories.
I don’t know if anyone heard the 5Live exploration of the government’s requriement that landlords ensure their tenants are not illegal immigrants but as always it is interesting what catches the eye of the BBC.
The BBC doesn’t think much of this government policy and was busily subverting it with endless criticisms that demonstrated how it will never work. Curiously though they completely brushed over what was a much more serious concern…that of forged passports.
The landlords often use agencies to check paperwork and identities of their potential tenants. One such agency the BBC spoke to said that they received anything up to 10 fake passports a week…was the BBC concerned about the fake passports? No. They were only concerned to show how difficult things must be for the poor old landlords…never mind that the agnecy clearly had no problem spotting the fakes.
One agency receiving maybe 10 passports a week…so up to 500 a year…and that is only one agency…just the tip of the fake passport mountain.
Perhaps the BBC could investigate this scandal which has serious national security implications…oh hang on, who might be using these fake passports? Fake immigrants? Hush that one up.
Whilst on that subject how about these ‘desperate’ migrants’ who fled to Europe because their lives were so at risk? And then promptly went home again as it was too cold. So they’d rather risk a martyrs death than turn the heating up a bit in their Authority provided homes?
Thousands of Iraqi migrants ask to be flown BACK to Iraq from Finland because they don’t like the country and it’s ‘too cold’ for them
Any suspicion that their lives weren’t at risk and they were just here for the freebies?
Just waiting for the BBC report into this one.
Dan Walker has been given preferential treatment by the BBC because he is a fundamentalist Christian. He says... ‘I don’t want to be persecuted because I am a Christian’
The broadcaster, who currently hosts Afternoon Edition on BBC Radio 5 Live and Football Focus on BBC One, will replace BBC Breakfast’s Bill Turnbull when the veteran morning presenter leaves at the end of this month.
Walker, who does not work on Sundays, says his faith will not “affect the way I do my job….. I thought we lived in a tolerant society where you can be a Christian, you can be a Muslim, you can be a Jew, and you can have those beliefs and get on with life. I want to live in a world where Gary Lineker can present Match Of The Day even though he’s a Leicester City fan and John Humphrys can do Radio 4 even though he’s an atheist … that’s the world I want to live in. Not where I’m persecuted for being a Christian.”
All that demonstrates the convoluted problems and twisted logic that has to be applied once you start pandering to ‘special needs’ such as religion.
It clearly does affect his job in that he won’t work Sundays if required to and unstated is the fact that anything that goes against his Christian beliefs he clearly won’t be doing either.
No good taking a job that has certain requirements only to proclaim, once you have the job, that you won’t do certain things necessary for the job because of your religion…..no good applying for a job in a whiskey distillery when you are ideologically opposed to alchohol.
A whole can of worms opens up before the BBC now.
This might make it more difficult for the BBC progressives to openly sneer and deride the Evangelicals in the US…and I wonder if Harrabin is blocking Walker from reporting on climate change as people who believe in the Holy stuff are clearly loonies as he has oft said in his sly fashion….or is that only a contempt that he reserves for people on the ‘Right’ such as Republican politicians who don’t hold to the climate fascist’s orthodoxy?
David Dimbleby presents this week’s show from Llanelli. On the panel are Ukip Euro MP Nigel Farage (barring any further road based mishaps) and Welsh Conservative Secretary Stephen Crabb. For the first time, three comedians will be on the panel. They are Romesh Ranganathan, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood, and Welsh Labour first minister Carwyn Jones AM.
Kick off tomorrow (Thursday) at 22.35
Funny how the BBC turns a blind eye to the ‘Muhammedisation’ of Europe and yet expresses great concern about its ‘Putinisation’……
Poland accuses BBC of bias after broadcaster alleges country is being ‘Putinised’
Poland has launched a formal protest against the BBC in connection with a film suggesting that its current government was “Putinising” the country. A letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused the broadcaster of being biased in its portrayal.The report in question was broadcast on the BBC’s current affairs program Newsnight, which featured interviews with a government official, as well as members of the Polish public who are against recently introduced changes affecting Poland’s judiciary and the media.
“In our opinion, the report Is Poland being ‘Putinised? presented the current political situation in Poland in a superficial and distorted manner, far from the journalistic merits expected from the BBC and in apparent contradiction to some of the broadcaster’s own editorial guidelines,” a statement from Artur Dmochowski, a spokesman for Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, read.
