The BBC has a running campaign against UKIP….oft repeated slurs and jokes abound on the BBC’s airwaves…sly associations with Nazism are made, blatant claims that UKIP’s policies are racist are deemed acceptable without any evidence,  jokes that UKIP wants to shoot immigrants are freely made.

Here’s a cheap joke from the BBC that surely isn’t a genuine technical error:

The picture was originally tweeted by BBC TV Sportscaster Olly Foster, before he deleted the post saying: “Apologies for my previous tweet. An error of judgement on my behalf.”

 

Not as if it’s not been done before…so did someone at the BBC ‘lift’ the idea from Father Ted?:

That UKIP comes under scrutiny is a natural part of the political process and is essential in any democracy.  However, when such scrutiny is not extended to other political parties in the same manner there is a problem.

It does seem that the BBC is intent, along with its fellow travellers, to do down UKIP and to finish it off as a political force to be reckoned with.

Peter Oborne notes the BBC’s determination to ignore UKIP:

The British media and political class has always found its basic proposition – that Britain should leave Europe – unthinkable. For a long period, Ukip had virtually no airtime on the BBC (which controls some 60 per cent of news coverage), while on its rare appearances it tended to be mocked.

When Ukip gained its first major breakthrough, scoring 16 per cent of the national vote in the 2004 European elections, the BBC literally wrote it out of the script. Its election graphs recorded the Ukip vote as “other”, even though it had won more votes than the Liberal Democrats and not that many fewer than Labour.

 

Every time any UKIP member, politician or political candidate makes some kind of error it is blown up into a major story of scandalous proportions.  When UKIP’s Roger Bird was alleged to have sexually harrassed someone the legend became ‘fact’ regardless of the real story.  Even now the BBC when referring, as it does so often, to UKIP misdemeanours, mentions this episode as if it really happened despite the evidence that the complainant was, one, an ‘ex’- Labour Party  member and two,  a liar….the possibility being she in fact set up Bird.

The News Quiz is one place that specialises in anti-UKIP slurs….whilst so often dodging the other parties’ own horror stories…at least in comparison to the amount of time it gives to attacking UKIP…..it’s not as if Labour isn’t itself the party that keeps on giving ….Labour’s recent document on how to handle UKIP and the question of immigration went entirely unmentioned on The News Quiz and yet it is a major story and a major embarrassment for Labour.

In order to rectify the situation I have done a bit of legwork to help out the idle and bigoted BBC comedians who seem unable to bring themselves to make similarly relentless attacks on Labour but are happy to label UKIP racist……here are some helpful reminders of other parties’ embarrassing people:

From the Spectator:

Cllr Pervaz Khan said he felt “ashamed” for belonging to Middlesbrough Labour group which “is treating some of my Asian family and friends in a manner which they perceive to be racist and, incidentally, so do I”
‘Cllr Sajaad Khan also criticised the current Labour leadership saying it was “different under Sir Stuart Bell, who would not have stood for all this”.’

From the BBC:
Nine councillors have split from the Labour party in Harrow, north-west London, amid racism claims, leaving the council with no party in control.
The leader of the newly formed Independent Labour Group, Thaya Idaikkadar, cited unfairness and “elements of racism” behind the split.
Labour group leader David Perry said it was a “gross distortion” and challenged all accusations of racism.

From the Mail:
Labour MP in ‘racist’ photo: Backbencher criticised for posing alongside his son who had blacked up for fancy dress party

From Yahoo News:
Why are Ukip the only party branded racist, when Labour and the Tories sing from the same hymn sheet?

As the left/right competition for immigration rhetoric on the airwaves heats up, you can’t tell ’em apart. It’s only Ukip that can be called racist.
Labour is stepping up the immigration row. David Blunkett’s warning that an influx of Roma migrants could lead to riots in Britain should be taken very seriously. Yet when Ukip talk about it, it’s classed as racism.
The Conservative party, whilst trying to detoxify itself with the green agenda, hugging hoodies and gay marriage, has also stepped up its nasty party language on immigration with a massive own goal with the racist immigration vans.

From the Tottenham Journal:

Wood Green councillor found guilty of ‘reckless’ racism slurs
Labour councillor Pauline Gibson has been given a slap on the wrist for sending emails that made “reckless” and “unsubstantiated” allegations of racism.
The councillor for Noel Park ward in Wood Green was the subject of complaints from three people after she subjected them to “unfair, unreasonable and demeaning treatment” by sending “widely disseminated” emails containing “accusations of racism and discrimination against them,” Haringey Council’s standards committee has found.
It decreed that “neither the content of those accusations nor the choice of audience for them could be reasonably justified.”

From Bramcote Today:

“Racist Comments” from Kimberley Labour Councillor

Anna Soubry MP has called on Kimberley Town and Borough Councillor Andy Cooper to resign immediately, following racist comments about a former fellow Town Councillor. This morning a tenth Town Councillor, Janet Pearce, resigned after she received an email from Andy Cooper which he sent to all Councillors and in which he used racist language to describe Katharina Boettge who was born in Germany. Ms Boettge and fellow Green, David Kirwan, resigned from Kimberley Town Council last month after allegations that the Council was not being open about its finances and was being run in an undemocratic way by the controlling Labour group.
In her resignation letter, Janet Pearce says she has resigned because of the way the council’s finances are being run and because of Andy Cooper’s racist language, stating, “Such a comment is more befitting a member of the BNP and not a member of the Labour Party. Shame on you Andy!!”
Anna Soubry MP said, “Councillor Cooper should resign; his description of Katharina was highly offensive and to use racist language is never acceptable especially from an elected representative.
In his email to fellow Town Councillors and the Town clerk, Councillor Cooper wrote:

“Amazing how Kirwan and Eva Braun can turn up at KRA meeting but go missing for KTC. I was told a by election would cost £10,000.00! Andy”.

Haringey borough councillor Nilgun Canver found guilty of perverting the course of justice
Councillor Nilgun Canver was accused of lying to police after her son crashed the family’s car in Tottenham in January, 2013.

A London mayor has apologised after claiming the riots of 2011 were ‘the best thing that’s happened in Tottenham for a while’.
Sheila Peacock, who was elected as the Labour mayor of Haringey Council earlier this year, made the comments in a documentary released in June.
They only recently came to light, however, when Tottenham councillor Alan Stanton posted the video on a community forum, prompting angry responses from local residents.

From Conservative Home:

CllrSue Gray, a Labour councillor on Thurrock, has been suspended from her Party after forwarding an racist email. I haven’t seen the full email but while it may not be racist it certainly sounds inflammatory and inaccurate. The police being involved sounds like a misuse of their time and a breach of free speech.
Do the people of Thurrock want the police to be out on the streets catching yobs or having long discussions with Cllr Gray on her insights into race relations and demographics?
On the other hand Cllr Gray’s defence that she forwarded the email on to lots of people without reading it does not come across as entirely reassuring. So probably Labour were right to suspend her.
Among other comments the email said:

“This is unbelievable. It’s now predicted that Britain will become an Islamic state by 2070. (Time to think about your children/grandchildren). Please forward this e-mail asap so that 40 per cent of British voters who didn’t vote last time might get the message.”

From the Mirror:

Labour MP Diane Abbott apologises after ‘racist’ tweet storm

Labour frontbencher Diane Abbott faced calls for her resignation today after claiming “white people love playing ‘divide & rule’.”‘ We should not play their game #tacticasoldascolonialism”.

From the Standard:
Labour urged to sack councillor for ‘racist’ Cameron caricature

Bob Piper was reported to the Commission for Racial Equality after using the image of the Tory leader portrayed as a black and white minstrel.
Mr Piper, a member of Sandwell Council in the West Midlands, was unrepentant over the picture and denied he was a racist.
The image ridicules Mr Cameron’s attempt to make his party more inclusive to ethnic minorities by showing him blacked-up next to the words: ‘Take the homeboy test. Yo niggahs. Is it because I’s black?

From Libdem Voice:

This is the leaflet the Labour Party is delivering through letter-boxes in a ward where the sitting Conservative councillor — Cllr Azam Janjua, a Reading resident for half a century — is facing a Labour opponent, Eileen McElligott. See if you can notice the oh-so-subtle way in which Labour puts its lips together to dog-whistle:

From Kent Online:

[Tory] Bob Frost accused of racism after ‘frogs’, ‘ragheads’ and ‘sons of camel drivers’ comments on Facebook and Twitter by North Deal councillor
He has previously been criticised for referring to ‘ragheads’ on Facebook, while during the London riots in 2011 he was suspended from the Conservative party for using the term ‘jungle bunny.’   The ‘jungle bunny’ row led to him leaving his job as a part-time maths teacher at Sir Roger Manwood’s School in Sandwich, although he was later cleared of wrong-doing by the standards committee in 2012.   The latest incident was sparked by Twitter comments made on March 28 when Cllr Frost responded to a post by MP Charlie Elphicke referring to a possible change in management of the Port of Dover.    Cllr Frost tweeted: “Simple. Status quo = bad. Sale to frogs/sons of camel drivers = bad. Mutual ownership = good.”
Heywood & Middleton Labour candidate and her BNP colleague

Spare a thought for Labour candidate for Heywood & Middleton, Liz McInnes. There she was, all set to call UKIP ‘racist’, ‘fascist’ and ‘nazis’, and she seems to have forgotten one of her colleagues.

Trevor Maxfield. Maxfield  was originally elected as a BNP councillor for the ward, before defecting to the Labour Party, which rapidly changed its mind about him being a ‘racist’, ‘fascist’ and ‘nazi’ – so much so that they made him Mayor of Darwen.

Still, things work a bit differently in Rossendale & Darwen. The local Labour candidate – they lost the seat to the Tories in 2010 – is none other than William Straw, son of former Home Secretary Jack. Readers may recall that back in 1998, he was cautioned by police for selling cannabis, something which would have stopped anyone less propelled by nepotism from being selected.
Will himself did plenty for race relations, which is probably why a former BNP councillor speaks so highly of him. After all, Will caused no little controversy shortly after his selection when he was attacked and decried as a racist after being pictured with two fancy dress goers who had ‘blacked up’.

Some more notable embarrassments brought to us by ‘Nopenothope’:

Cllr Stephen Fenwick (Lib Dem, Sutton) (March 2014) was convicted of the racially aggravated assault of a barman at the pub on Charing Cross station concourse.
Former Cllr Lester Holloway (November 2014) resigns from the Lib Dems after racist remarks, and complains that the party is not doing enough to promote racial equality and is deliberately failing to select Black and Asian candidates for winnable seats
Cllr Farooq Ahmed (Labour, Rochdale) (June 2014) resigned from the Labour Party because they failed to give him sufficient support following his conviction of a public order offence after hurling homophobic abuse at a fellow Labour councillor in the street.
David Bishop (Conservative, Brentwood) (May 2014) resigned as a candidate after he made homophobic and racist tweets

The arrest for rape of Conservative MP Mark Pritchard
On the same day as Pritchard’s arrest, the former leader of Rotherham council, Labour’s Cllr Barry Dodson, was arrested for the sexual abuse of a 13 year old girl.

Rotherham: In the face of such evil, who is the racist now?

Men of Pakistani heritage treated white girls like toilet paper. They picked children up from schools and care homes and trafficked them across northern cities for other men to join in the fun. They doused a 15-year-old in petrol and threatened to set her alight should she dare to report them. They menaced entire families and made young girls watch as they raped other children.

The Labour Party, in particular, is mired in shame over “cultural sensitivity” in Rotherham. Especially, cynics might point out, a sensitivity to the culture of Muslims whose votes they don’t want to lose.

Racism Festers in Lambeth Labour

The fact is, Lambeth is not an isolated example, across the country I am inundated with complaints from Labour Black members who are suffering after being victimised just like Adeline.

Labour and the BNP:
The Labour party publicly takes a stance of the British National Party as being their sworn enemy, yet the BNP draws most of its support from the same working class areas of Britain as Labour. A Yougov report takes this comparison further by revealing that over half of BNP voters are former Labour supporters who believe that Labour “used to care about the concerns of people like me but doesn’t nowadays”. I’ve personally witnessed a great deal of this in Liverpool.: former Labour voters who now vote for, or at least feel very sympathetic, to the BNP. This is ironic in that Labour tends to refer to the UK Independence Party (a nationalist party without the historical affiliation to racism of the BNP) as “racists”. UKIP picks up a lot of votes from former conservative “right wingers”, yet Labour appeals more directly to the “racists” they claim to oppose.

Who voted BNP and why?

A Yougov report reveals that over half of BNP voters are former Labour supporters.
Channel 4 News has been given exclusive access to a unique YouGov poll on BNP voters and their attitudes. Here YouGov President Peter Kellner gives his views on the poll’s findings.
 the most startling finding came when we tested anecdotal reports that many BNP voters were old Labour sympathisers who felt that the party no longer speaks up for them. It turns out to be true. As many as 59 per cent of BNP voters think that Labour “used to care about the concerns of people like me but doesn’t nowadays”.
What is more worrying for Labour is that this sentiment is shared by millions of voters, way beyond the ranks of BNP voters. Overall, 63 per cent of the British public think Labour used to care about their concerns – and only 19 per cent think it does today.
Yes, Labour has a problem with voters deserting the party for the BNP. But its far bigger problem as it heads towards the next general election is to extinguish the overwhelming public view, reinforced by the scandal over MPs’ allowances, that today’s Labour Party is no longer on the side of ordinary voters. And that, more than anything else, is why its vote collapsed to just 16 per cent in the Euro election.

Never mind Baroness Warsi wanting to disarm the Israelis and arm the terrorists or her resistance to the Prevent’ anti-terror programme, or her association with the extremist linked FOSIS.

Or Libdem’s anti-semitism.

And on and on and on.

Must be some comedy gold in all that lot for BBC lefties….surely?

The BBC wonder….

New York killings: The price of ‘anti-police’ rhetoric?

Not of coursewondering about  the Media’s role in whipping up anti-Police sentiments but the role of the politicians.

The BBC has no self awareness on this and its own role in helping to generate such feelings.

That the BBC still doesn’t understand or refuses to admit its own guilt is evident in this final part of the article:

Meanwhile, protesters continue to take to the street to decry the recent high-profile incidents in which unarmed blacks have been killed in confrontations with police. They see it as representative of a larger problem of police unaccountability and a law-enforcement system that is inherently suspicious of black Americans.

It’s creating a toxic mix of fear and resentment that shows no signs of abating.

 

Saying they were ‘unarmed’ is highly misleading…..Michael Brown was very large and violent, he attacked a police officer and tried to take his gun….that Eric Garner was unarmed was irrelevant…he was resisting arrest and man-handled to the ground, he wasn’t shot or ‘killed’.

To use the word ‘killed’ is also misleading in the case of Garner…’killed’ is a perjorative term with connotations of deliberate violence aimed at ‘killing’ someone.  In Eric Garner’s case this was not true…he was being arrested and died because of his serious medical conditions that made him susceptible to some sort of health issue under stress.

Even in the case of Michael Brown ‘killed’ can be seen as an emotive word…Brown was shot by a police officer in self defence who feared for his own life having already been attacked….’killed’ almost suggests an execution without reason.

A new week and the BBC starts early. On the Today programme this morning we had someone on to defend the good reputation of North Korea followed by someone demanding even MORE street lights be turned off. Detail the bias here folks.

Two New York Policemen have been shot dead whilst sitting in their patrol car by a black man who proclaimed he aimed to kill some police in revenge for the death of Eric garner and Michael Brown.

The BBC tells us that:

It is not clear yet why the officers, both men, were attacked.

 

But it is perfectly clear why he killed the police officers as the New York Daily News points out and the killers Instagram entry makes obvious:

Two NYPD officers dead in ‘ambush’ while sitting in patrol car in Brooklyn by gunman who boasted on Instagram about killing cops for ‘revenge’

You have to ask whether inaccurate, one sided, anti-police reporting of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner contributed to the belief that it is acceptable to kill police officers….the BBC was as guilty as any in misreporting those deaths and encouraging the anti-police atmosphere and feeding the ‘all police are racist’ narrative:

Will black Americans finally get a fair deal?

Well, slavery may have long gone, but apprehending someone because they could be up to no good, simply because they’re black is still police policy in much of the land.

The usual race hustlers played their part in whipping up the anti-police hsyteria…..but  now they rush out to deny any association with these murders:

Al Sharpton said in a statement: ‘I have spoken to the Garner family and we are outraged by the early reports of the police killed in Brooklyn today.

‘Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

The BBC’s irresponsible and misleading reporting may have played its part…..and no doubt such reporting has transferred across to the UK and has added to the same anti-police sentiments here amongst some in the Black communities.

And it is noticeable how slow the BBC are to get any facts about the killings…hours after the event…the Mail has extensive coverage.

Ironic perhaps after James Harding’s boast that the BBC news will provide:

What you need to know, wherever you are, whenever you want it.

 

 

 

 

I see the BBC are delighted at Obama’s roll-over to Cuba. I caught an interview this morning on the Today programme with a Labour MP who enjoyed a travelling to Cuba to have a chinwag with ol’ Fidel and who was able to inform us that the REAL cause of Cuba’s woes was….yes, America. The BBC never changes — sighs. A new thread for you!

I  caught quite a few BBC news bulletins yesterday and was left under the impression that the NHS was in meltdown, especially in A&E which has had its ‘worst week on record’, and from what I gathered it is due to a reckless lack of resources…apparently.

Here is a clue as to why the BBC’s coverage might be less than honest:

The scale of the drop is causing concern not only to the health service, but to the government too with an election just around the corner.

Here the BBC makes no mention of the real causes of the innundation at A&E in the last week:

A&E has ‘worst week’ in England

Nor here:

Why are hospitals under so much pressure?

Nor here:

Hospitals struggling as winter hits

Oh…that last one gives a hint as to one of the real reasons but then instantly dismisses it as being too early in Winter for it to occur:

A&E units across the UK are struggling to hit their waiting time target as winter hits, latest figures show.

Demands on the NHS tend to increase during the colder months because of illnesses like flu and norovirus.

But with winter just getting under way, pressures are already reaching record levels.

 

That last sentence suggesting the NHS is buckling already before such illnesses make an impact.

Is that true?

Here this Express article suggests not:

NHS beds crisis as flu hits three-year peak

With flu levels at their highest seasonal level since 2011, NHS England revealed there had been 111,062 emergency admissions last week.

There were also 440,428 patients at A&E departments – more than 24,000 up on the same week last year.

Casualty wards could hit major difficulties if the numbers suffering from flu and norovirus continue to rise, experts warned.

Public Health England data showed flu infection rates last week were 66 per cent higher than last year.

The Telegraph reports:

Rates of norovirus are more than a third higher than last year, while flu is at the highest level for three years.

 

The BBC merely mentions the illnesses as a future pressure on the NHS, one that isn’t happening yet quoting this but failing to bring us the news of the record levels of flu and norovirus already happening:

So what next? “Predictions are very hard to make,” says Chris Hopson, of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals. “What we don’t know is what will happen with Norovirus or flu.

But it seems we do know…..the Express and the Telegraph reporting so.

The BBC prefers to emphasises and concentrate on other causes of pressure on A&E.

The BBC tells us that ‘attendances are going up across the UK ‘  but fails to say why…that GP services are so hopeless that people head to A&E instead…and that with the massive population growth from immmigration there is even more pressure both on GPs and A&E…..the BBC merely tells us that ‘GP surgeries are struggling to cope with unprecedented levels of demand.’

The Guardian telling us that GPs get an extra 40 million consultations a year in 2012, presumably more now…‘The number of consultations has increased – from 300m in 2008 to 340m in 2012 – and doctors are seeing more patients with complex needs.’….but it also doesn’t mention immigration…..preferring instead to blame an ageing population.

The BBC tries to blame cuts in social care budgets but offers no proof or analysis:

A significant factor in this is the squeeze on councils’ social care budgets. Many of the patients who end up in hospital are frail and elderly, and when they are ready to be released need support in the community to get back on their feet. If it’s not there, they have to stay in hospital, which occupies a bed often needed for other patients.

The BBC goes on to blame the GP failure to cope on the government of the day for imposing heavy workloads:

Both the Royal College of GPs and British Medical Association have been vocal about the workload their members are facing.

A recent BMA survey found three quarters of doctors said their caseload was “unsustainable” – and that seems to have started impacting on patients, as latest data from the official NHS England patient survey shows they are finding it more difficult to get an appointment.

No mention that Labour’s reworking of the GP contract gave them huge amounts of money in return for less work…..one aspect of why people can’t get an appointment…the other being the huge influx of immigrants and the massive number registering at GP surgeries.

Listning to some of Peter Allen today and we were led to understand that the problem with GPs was really one of too much paperwork and bureaucracy…GPs were buckling under a mountain of the stuff apparently…so again the government is to blame….no suggestion of what that paperwork is for and why it is imposed…and no suggestion that the GPs employ, with the large budget they are given, someone to do that work.

So a genuine story about flu and norovirus at very high levels is ignored and in its place the BBC brings us a highly political ‘analysis’ of why the NHS is under pressure…..government imposed bureaucracy and an ever increasing workload (unattributed to the major cause) imposed on the poor GPs, an NHS crippled by a failing structure and lack of funding, and cuts to council budgets.

Must be an election coming.

The BBC’s reputation has taken one hell of a beating over Al Sweady having indulged in ‘reckless speculation’ aimed at smearing the British Army.

It has spent years giving a platform to the likes of lawyer Phil Shiner so that they can peddle their lies and have them given a bit of credence by virtue of being on the BBC.

But suddenly the BBC has gone quiet on the allegations of abuse and ill-treatment.

I didn’t listen to Today this morning but having a look at the running order the Al Sweady inquiry doesn’t get a mention, which would be extraordinary if so.

5Live, which has been Shiner’s second home, along with Moazzam Begg’s father, also failed to mention the inquiry…..the likely programmes all seem to have found other things far more interesting such as Sony’s cyber attack and obesity.

Not a peep from the news bulletins.

Surely one of the biggest stories around and yet suddenly the BBC has lost interest.

Does the BBC provide news or propaganda?  Looks more and more like agenda driven propaganda.

The BBC still doing their bit to promote Snowden’s treachery as a good thing:

Snowden spying leaks prompt millions to protect data

Never mind his spying has resulted in extremely serious difficulties for the intelligence services looking to combat islamic terrorists as they learn not just the intelligence gathering capabilities of the intelligence services but more importantly the techniques used.

The fact that the intelligence services could monitor so much information is nothing new as shown by this report from 1999:

Echelon spy network revealed

Imagine a global spying network that can eavesdrop on every single phone call, fax or e-mail, anywhere on the planet.

It sounds like science fiction, but it’s true.

So why would the BBC continue to tell us that Snowden has revealed anything new about the extent of surveillance or eulogise him for the service he has supposedly provided to the world?

Anyone would think the BBC believes the real enemy isn’t the likes of the Taliban and its Islamic fellow travellers but the intelligence services who are trying to protect us from such mass murderers.

If like me you have been listening or watching the BBC for the last few years and hearing their coverage of the alleged abuse of Iraqis or Afghans by British troops you will know that the BBC has given itself over to the likes of lawyer Phil Shiner and his extraordinary tales, his own very singular version of the truth.

Today the BBC must be absolutely gutted as the Al Sweady inquiry clears, as expected, British troops of allegations they tortured and killed prisoners.

The BBC has put a lot of work into helping Shiner smear the Army’s reputation and put a great many soldiers through the wringer for so many years.

In 2008 the BBC’s Panorama produced a programme, On Whose Orders?, that claimed to investigate the allegations….here is what one viewer thought of the programme:

Is it just me or do these left wing lobbyists and solicitors actually work with, or very close with the BBC , they have a voice out of all proportion and seem to be able to spout whatever bollox they like on the BBC, I swear they should give Shami Chakrabati her own show, for someone who’s never been elected as any kind of public official, she seems to get more airtime than the PM!

Is it any co-incidence that her sister works for the beeb?

What I’m getting at is do these far left lawyers aproach the bbc with program ideas?

Make no mistake , this was phil shiners program, the bbc only tried to distance themselves from him at the end because of all the critisism they’d recieved in all the major newspapers , that’s the reason they emphisised the program was still being made in the newspaper reports, to do some last minute distancing from phil shiner.

 

The Sun newspaper wasn’t impressed:

Beeb ‘slurs’ on Iraq heroes

The BBC were initially blocked from broadcasting the programme but went to court to force the issue so insistent were they about finding out the ‘truth’ of the matter:

Panorama’s legal victory

Panorama has won an important victory in the High Court against the Ministry of Defence which was attempting to prevent the broadcast of details of alleged abuse by soldiers in Iraq.

The Panorama programme ended with a bit of a disclaimer…as set out in the web report:

Panorama has seen no proof that prisoners died at the hands of their captors and concludes that the case being brought by solicitors Phil Shiner and Martyn Day represents the most extreme interpretation of a troubling but confusing incident. They are asking for the bodies to be disinterred and evidence to be handed to Scotland Yard.

 

Despite that dsitinct lack of proof for the next 5 years the BBC continued to bombard us with the allegations in a manner that suggested there was far more substance to them than there was…as we now know…they being the result of deliberate lies, reckless speculation and ingrained hatred….you can wonder whether the judge was talking about the Iraqis, Shiner, the BBC or all three of them.

The BBC was very proud of its Panorama programme stating this on the announcement of the inquiry:

New inquiry into British army abuse in Iraq vindicates Panorama

Ironically the first line of this pyrrhic victory was this:

Time can make a world of difference in an emotive, ongoing story.

 

The BBC goes on to suggest:

In revisiting these allegations through public inquiries, the entire system of military justice will inevitably be called into question.

 

Well I imagine military justice has been vindicated…the RMP said there was no case…and there was no case….it was clearly a case of highly suspect allegations being encouraged by ‘ambulance chasing’ lawyers backed up by a media organisation that had its fingers badly burnt as it was caught lying about the Iraq War Dossier and has been seeking to exact revenge ever since.

As the BBC was so clearly ready to congratulate itself on firstly getting its ‘legal victory’ and then slapping itself on the back when it thought itself ‘vindicated’ perhaps it should now make a very large apology to the Public it so badly misled and not least the soldiers it helped pillory and their families who have all had to suffer these allegations for so long.

Con Coughlin at the Telegraph is of the same mind:

Al Sweady inquiry: The British Army deserves a full apology from the BBC

Looking back, it is amazing just how many people were prepared to believe the accusations that the British Army routinely tortured detainees.

BBC limbering up for a new bout of blackening the reputation of the British military today, ahead of the publication of the Al Sweady Inquiry report. I heard a BBC journalist intone this morning that on some occasions Iraqi combatants were…..gasp…SHOUTED at. Oh the horror. When you combine this with the BBC’s embrace of the partisan Democrat Senate report on the CIA, we see the remarkable sight of the State broadcaster damning OUR armed forces whilst the enemy slaughter at will around the world. It’s my view that had the BBC been as pervasive in WW2 as it is now, we could not have won the war because we had to actually FIGHT back. In this refined times that is not possible and the BBC ensures this is the case by pushing the £30m absurdity of this report, in my view.