It is incredible what nonsense some politicians, amongst others, are allowed to get away with on the BBC.

Labour’s Frank Field came out with a doucey yesterday (6 mins) when talking about recycling unused food to charities and how the systems for doing so are not good enough claiming that:

‘…This practice has grown up [in the past], it was clearly very wrong [even] in times when people in this country were not hungry and now we have people who are hungry in this country…..’

So no one was hungry before the Coalition came to power then?

An astonishing, and highly political, claim that the BBC let slide.

Just a reminder to Frank and the BBC…the Trussell Trust set up its first foodbank in the UK in 2000:

The foodbank is born

Whilst fundraising for Bulgaria in Salisbury in 2000, Paddy received a call from a desperate mother in Salisbury saying “my children are going to bed hungry tonight – what are YOU going to do about it”. Paddy investigated local indices of deprivation and ‘hidden hunger’ in the UK.

Guess the hunger was so hidden that poor old Frank didn’t see it….and when did the fabled  ‘cost of living crisis’ begin, should there actually be such a thing?….in 2003 under Labour’s guiding hand…

Has the ‘hunger’ gotten worse?

No.

The black line being the rise in foodbanks, the red line being the number of people using the foodbanks….a direct linear relationship.

The figures show that the numbers using the foodbanks have grown in direct proportion to the number of foodbanks.

‘…you see the need has always been there, this is about volume and it’s about awareness. It’s primarily about awareness and I would say the one thing that the recession and economic downturn has done for Foodbank is to enable journalists to have a reason to pay attention to what we’re doing.’

The increased use of foodbanks as a whole is purely because of increased numbers of them and increased awareness.

The Trussell Trust is a highly poltical organisation that knows how to manipulate the Media to garner publicity and political support in order to influence government policy which is its intention…….

‘The Trussell Trust mission is to replicate the Foodbank Project throughout the UK: ‘Every Town Should Have One’. This will be achieved by empowering Churches and Christian organisations with the necessary tools, training and back up required to set up and run a successful Foodbank in their town.’ [Trussell Trust 2004 p.2]

The Trust must take active advantage of the fact that they are uniquely placed to raise awareness of the social injustices faced by their clients, to promote and facilitate change.
in recent years the Trussell Trust has developed an approach to campaigning which aims to raise awareness of the issues faced by clients visiting Foodbanks and to advocate policy change.
Since approximately 2007 the Trust has been developing their campaign work, driven by the imperative to ‘speak out about justice’. The campaign work revolves around raising awareness of ‘Hidden Hunger’ and is designed to both raise public consciousness and to influence government policy.

‘We’ve put a lot of effort into marketing and we’ve adapted and improved our marketing and we learned a bit better about targeting. […]So there’s a thing about us and the effort we make and we do plan, we do strategic plans, business plans, we think about it’ [Strategic Interviewee]
 It’s really, really hard to set up your first couple of projects in any replication. […]But there’s something that happens down the line where it starts to multiply of its own accord, if you do the marketing so, you know, our efforts, we target churches and we target the media.’[Strategic Interviewee]

Janet Daley asks the question the ‘elite’ should be asking themselves:

‘It has become received wisdom that the reason for that massive electoral rebellion against the EU was that the people were throwing a harmless tantrum: they were just letting off steam because they knew that their votes in this election did not matter.’

And what do people do next when they realise that their votes don’t matter?

We are in many respects living in an apartheid state…the rich, elite politicians, supposedly representing ‘us’, aided by ‘their friends in the Media’, who decide amongst themselves, regardless of public opinion, how they will run the world.

In apartheid states throughout the last century such elitist, powerful vested interests were met with differing strategies.

As Janet Daley asks, when the People really understand that they have no say in the decisions that they consider of major importance and decide to change that situation what will they do?

What would Gandhi do? What would the ANC do?

Today has brought us two perfect examples of the ‘Establishment’ moving to protect its interests…and all without a demurring word from the BBC.

Europe has seen anti-EU and anti-immigration movements becoming increasingly popular and those in charge do not look kindly upon such threats to their hegemony.

In response the unelected left-wing EU Commission has proclaimed that the UK must follow a new path economically...one remarkably similar to Labour’s own thinking…probably not a coincidence…and more than likely done at the instigation of Labour EU fanatics Mandelson and Blair…..both now increasingly in the headlines seeking to promote more ‘Europe’.

Nice that the EU dishes out pro-Labour propaganda in election year….designed to boost thier election chances and ensure an immigrant friendly government takes the reins?

And remember this?:

EU should ‘undermine national homogeneity’ says UN migration chief

The EU should “do its best to undermine” the “homogeneity” of its member states, the UN’s special representative for migration has said.

Peter Sutherland told peers the future prosperity of many EU states depended on them becoming multicultural.

Mr Sutherland recently argued, in a lecture to the London School of Economics, of which he is chairman, that there was a “shift from states selecting migrants to migrants selecting states” and the EU’s ability to compete at a “global level” was at risk.

The UNHCR has decided that Europe should be taking in more refugees…it calls them refugees but in reality they are anyone who wants to get aboard the welfare gravy train in Europe…no coincidence they mostly want to get to Germany, the Nordic states and the UK.

The BBC was reporting this all day on the radio presenting it as an issue about Syrian refugees but then moving on to encompass all migrants from the Middle East and Africa…..telling us without blinking an eye that the UN wants Europe to have an open door policy….essentially if you can get on a boat, train or plane and land in Europe you’re here for good and entitled to all the benefits that Europe can provide…or should provide according to the UN.

The BBC, as with the EU Commission’s intervention in UK politics, didn’t raise any questions about the UN policy and didn’t present us with anyone who would provide any challenge to the pro-immigration narrative.

Curiously the BBC has not reported the UN’s demands on its website as far as I can see….perhaps deciding it is too inflammatory.

The Guardian reported it…but got the story wrong:

Europe faces ‘colossal humanitarian catastrophe’ of refugees dying at sea

The United Nations has been forced to consider establishing refugee holding centres in north Africa and the Middle East due to the spiralling numbers of migrants attempting perilous journeys across the Mediterranean in a desperate effort to reach Europe.

The EU had not found effective mechanisms to prevent migrants dying at sea, he said.

Instead of focusing on ever tougher border controls, the EU needed to establish safe routes.

Note that last sentence….forget border controls…just let them in.  A familiar tale from the UN….The EU should “do its best to undermine” the “homogeneity” of its member states….a “shift from states selecting migrants to migrants selecting states”

The UN does clarify one point:

UNHCR Clarification on Guardian Article

In an article entitled ‘Europe faces ‘colossal humanitarian catastrophe’ of refugees dying at sea’ published on 2 June by The Guardian, UNHCR is paraphrased as saying the UN is considering Africa holding centres for asylum-seekers trying to reach Europe using irregular sea crossings. UNHCR wishes to make the following points by way of clarification:

UNHCR is not considering “holding centres” as an alternative to address the challenges of refugees and migrants risking their lives at sea.

UNHCR is calling for urgent, concerted action by coastal and non-coastal states to improve search and rescue at sea, ease disembarkation, ensure protection for refugees, asylum-seekers and the stateless, and halt harmful measures such as pushbacks and detention.

Asylum seekers should have their claims for asylum processed in a secure environment with adequate procedural safeguards in line with international refugee and human rights law.

So the UN opposes any restrictions on migrants, opposes any detention, and demands what amounts to massive handouts to the illegal migrants.

Which all might seem a bit odd…as the UN admits we can’t even cope with the problems created in 1995 in the Balkans….so how can we possibly cope with millions of migrants of vastly different cutlures, beliefs, values and demands?…..

‘The difficulty of integrating beneficiaries of international protection into their host societies in many European countries requires UNHCR to give priority to promoting good practices in this area in 2014.

UNHCR continues to search for durable solutions for those displaced during the 1991-1995 conflicts in the western Balkans and during the two conflicts in Georgia. It is cooperating with the Balkan States on the Regional Housing Programme, which is expected to provide sustainable housing solutions for some 74,000 vulnerable refugees. At the same time 97,000 IDPs still remain in need of solutions in Serbia. In Georgia, the Government successfully implements a durable solutions strategy and action plan, supported by UNHCR. However, 284,000 IDPs are still awaiting solutions.’

So 20 years on and they still look for a ‘durable solution’ to refugees created way back when…..the UN is clearly taking a political, ideological approach to immigration much as Labour did when in power…..such an approach is unworkable and undemocratic and once again demonstrates the reality of ‘democracy’ in Europ and the futility and dishonesty of the UN’s immigration ‘policy’.

The BBC  seems to have decided that there are no downsides to this flood of humanity heading towards Europe or if there are any they have decided to suppress such difficulties in the hope that people will not notice…and if they do they can be shouted down as racists and nazis.

Apartheid is alive and well in Europe…the political and media classes are fighting hard to maintain their grip on power and suppress the masses, keeping them in ignorance and what is basically servitude.

Why isn’t the BBC raising any challenge to any of this?  Because it is part of that class that has its boot on the neck of the People…the People who pay for the comparatively vast salaries and benefits, the hobnobbing with the rich and famous, the networking, the sporting, cultural and political access enjoyed by BBC staff…..the BBC is a bit of a parasite….greedily leeching off the working man and gorging on the licence money whilst sending in the bailiffs or police officers to lock up the poorest in society who can’t afford the TV poll tax funding the BBC grandee’s Dolce Vita.

Gandhi or the ANC?  How will people react when they realise they are being ignored?

As Janet Daley says ‘what do people do next when they realise that their votes don’t matter? ‘

‘First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.’

The BBC have seen the uncomfortable shadow of UKIP and its popular immigration policies upsetting the cosy apple cartel of elitist politicians and their media friends who want to keep the doors firmly propped open.

This article is a rather desperate attempt to claim that the Tory immigration targets are being met…and so ‘nothing to worry about here then‘ about immigration:

A shortcut to hitting net migration target?

The government could already have hit its target to bring net migration down to the “tens of thousands” a year – if short-term migration was included.

Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show a lot more people leave the UK for between three and 12 months than move to it from other countries.

Yes that’s right…go abroad for an extended holiday or to work for 6 months and you have emigrated.

Desperate stuff from the BBC.

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Channel 4 News editor Ben de Pear has mixed feelings about the BBC. He sees Newsnight as his main rival and variously describes the corporation as “stifling”, “crippling” and “a monster”. Equally, though, he speaks with relish about the level of competition it offers him.

“I think it’s an incredibly healthy time for British broadcast journalism to have two strong, daily broadcast journalism programmes.”

He goes on to point out the challenges presented by the BBC. “When it comes to the digital side, we are swamped. I wouldn’t even call it David versus Goliath. We are like an ant versus Goliath when it comes to the BBC. It stifles competition online,” he says, adding that a good online exclusive for Channel 4 News will often get far more traffic on the BBC website when it is followed up.

Channel 4 News has, he says, no more than 50 journalists, eight of whom will be working online “on a good day”. He says that the BBC has thousands of journalists who are able to work online each day (BBC News says it has 8,000 staff including 5,500 journalists).

“We know that we can compete in television news – because it’s all about that hour-long programme, or that three minutes of television. We know our journalists and cameramen are as good as theirs, if not better,” he says.

“But we are swamped by the BBC’s online resources. We constantly think how can we put this out and keep the traction we have, because it’s such a monster. It’s just a massive thing.”

He adds: “Our biggest priority is to extend even further our digital reach. But we are, in terms of television news websites, swamped by their size, their ability to deploy resources.”

Morning all! Monday arrives and so does this! Let’s DETAIL the bias….!

Don’t you think it a little strange that despite its vast resources and all those “world class” journos it employs (at our expense) the BBC might have picked up on the fact that a French-based Muslim extremist has been arrested on suspicion of having slaughtered four Jewish people in Brussels last week? Still, at LEAST it is bringing us the breaking news that climate change is going to be the death of us…..

Nicky Campbell ran a phone in about the state of the economy…notably several callers said that when they raised the question of a pay rise with their bosses the answer was ‘There are plenty of East Europeans who will do it for a lot less’.

Whilst Campbell eventually highlighted such comments this is what the BBC’s economic genius from Wake Up to Money, Adam Parsons, said in response (55 mins):

‘Fascinating that, that disaffection that people sometimes have and their limited horizons…..it’s one of the symptoms of that long period of downturn and the change in the dynamic really of the British economy…we have got people who are prepared to work for lower wages, there’s a lot of them coming in, but I wonder sometimes whether the spectre of that, the memories of all those Polish plumbers who came along, resonates in people’s brains as much as the reality of it.’

Even as he admits there are workers being imported who undercut British wages he denies it saying it is just some sort of residual mythical belief generated by the Daily Mail no doubt.

So not, maybe, he says, the reality….never mind the callers stating quite plainly that it is happening to them here and now.

Of course Parsons does a double act with the venerable Micky Clark who is always more than happy to be unhappy about good news….the other day as the British Chamber of Commerce and the CBI stated that they believed the economy was bouncing back Clark decided (ala Flanders and the OECD) they couldn’t be trusted….saying they had got it wrong so many times before.

On that basis Clark and Parsons should be taken off air.

One of our occasional off thread rambles to provide a short break from the usual.

I see the BBC is employing the services of a firm that employs Lord Hall’s wife to headhunt a new BBC Trust Chairman.

As the BBC previousily spent £350,000 to headhunters to fill two vacancies and then filled them from within its own ranks perhaps the money might be better spent on employing the services of a cleaning company, whether or not it has relations of Lord Hall on its books.

BBC’s new £1bn HQ a ‘toxic waste pit that is making staff sick’ claims presenter Peter Dobbie after contracting a vomiting bug that left him needing treatment in intensive care

Newsreaders at the BBC’s flagship £1billion headquarters have complained that the revamped building is a ‘toxic waste pit’ which is making them ill.

Staff at the new Broadcasting House in Central London claim there is a ‘trend of filth, human waste products and a badly built building’.

They have called on bosses to intervene ‘as a matter of urgency’ over the ‘unclean and dangerous’ premises they say are so unhygienic that staff regularly become sick.