Paul Mason gave us so much amusement when he had his loafers under the BBC’s desk I think we should give him a parting present for Christmas to show our appreciation.
A fan of Northern Soul he can be happy that the younger generation are keeping the faith and the flame alive:
Mason’s love of Northern Soul could explain a lot….. not a revolutionary at all…
Just a fan of Northern Soul….
And a Merry Christmas to all Biased BBC’s readers as well…
Richard Bacon, you have to think, just says whatever is on his mind at the time which naturally let’s slip his political leanings all too often.
However that works the other way…in that he isn’t PC, at least not in the preferred BBC mode…a couple of days ago he was discussing the attempt to firebomb a shop in NI by Irish Republians (dissident of course) when he asked (13 mins):
‘Do you think they are stupid?’
The reply was that they are ‘ideologically committed…with no purpose other than their ideology….much like Jihadis’
Bacon suggests that no one can reach out to these Republicans and explain things rationally.
Following an ideology blindly, the futility, the true keepers of the ideology with no realistic endpoint…. an internecine community, like a religion, a sense that the world hasn’t moved on for them…no realisation that communities are mixing and intermarrying, and that it’s a modern world.
As said ‘much like a religion’…except when it’s not as the BBC et al try to impose a different view of religion, or at least one religion, when it suits…. as witnessed immediately the verdict on the killers of Lee Rigby came out….everyone seemed more concerned with reassuring us that this had nothing to do with Islam, Islam is a religion of peace as you know.
Labour’s Sadique Khan, Muslim, decided the real culprits were the ‘Far Right’ and he was glad that the Rigby family had not wanted anything to do with them…of course he meant the EDL….the evil ‘far Right’ group presumably because they oppose homophobia, misogyny, anti-Semitism and all round oppression and repression as expressed by the Islamic religion…as admitted by Mehdi Hasan.
Blinded by an ideology….and not just the people living by it.
Would Bacon ever ask ‘Are committed Muslims stupid?’ Christians…he might ask that…but Muslims?
Whatever Ed Miliband says goes….straight onto the BBC News.
A ceiling collapses in a theatre and instantly Miliband is there posturing for the BBC which happily reports his every word….nobody expected him to say anything or wanted him to…no doubt his PR people thought it a good idea….but isn’t it just Miliband ambulance chasing for headlines which he was given on a plate by the BBC?
Now Miliband has ‘vowed to give councils the power to ban high stakes roulette machines from bookmakers’ shops if Labour wins the next election.’
I heard that on the radio news bulletin…but there was no mention of Labour’s part in legalising these machines in the first place in those bulletins….so giving credit is given to Labour for attacking them but failing to place the guilt where it should be.
A couple of weeks ago we had Labour’s Tom Watson on the BBC, Derbyshire I believe, admitting that Labour ‘dropped the ball badly‘ on this:
“these pernicious machines are destroying the lives of the poorest in society”.
Strangely in the following news bulletins Labour’s part in that wasn’t mentioned…Watson claiming to be the moral scourge and that only Labour would seek to ban the gambling machines seemed to be the story.
You would have had a completely different view of who was to blame if you relied solely on the news bulletins for your news.
Either the BBC is being manipulated by Labour…in which case the supposedly highly experienced BBC should know better and be able to counter that…or the BBC is a useful idiot willingly going along with Labour’s narrative.
This short segment from the Simon Mayo film review show (14:41) perfectly encapsulates the mindset of our betters in the BBC…and why the NHS fails:
They are discussing ‘Anchorman 2’ with Will Ferrell when Mayo gets onto the subject of the US and UK news broadcasters….
‘We have the BBC [hurray!]…..we don’t have your Fox News….do you think we are missing out?’ [Said of course in tone that suggests that is really quite funny thing to say…so very ridiculous!]
Ferrell, Democrat, replies, when the laughter slows:
‘It depends on your belief systems…hahaha…personally no, you’re not missing out.’
Mayo continues:
‘There’s a key moment in the movie when you say ‘why don’t we give Americans what they want rather than what they should have‘…probably that conversation did happen [with Rupert Murdoch]...and is still happening.’
A perfect illustration of the patrician and arrogant BBC Liberal mind at work….‘We know what is best for you.’
Ferrell earlier said of the ‘Anchormen’ that they ‘Bang through life with no self awareness or emotional growth…they are at war with the way the world is with no idea that people think differently to the way they do.’
He thought he was describing a satire of ‘Fox News’….but that is in fact a good description of the BBC…stuck in the leftwing student politics of the 60’s, completely out of touch with real life and what people think and want.
The BBC deciding to provide us with what we ‘should have’ leads to this…from the Telegraph not the BBC….which has presumably decided you ‘shouldn’t need to know this’:
THE NHS should not be treated as a “national religion” while millions of patients receive a “wholly unsatisfactory” service from GPs and hospitals, the official regulator has warned.
David Prior, the chairman of the Care Quality Commission, said the health service had been allowed to reach the brink of crisis because it was “too powerful” to be criticised.
He said parts of the NHS were “out of control” because honest debate about the weaknesses of the health service was not tolerated.
Mr Prior suggested that the “target culture” imposed by Labour a decade ago fundamentally damaged the culture of the NHS, creating a “chillingly defensive” operation in which the truth was often sacrificed.
“The whole culture of the NHS became so focused on targets that it obscured what real quality was about,” he said. “The voice of the patient wasn’t in those targets.”
The BBC has long hidden Labour’s deadly mistakes during its time in control of the NHS…and continues to do so as they tried to bury this bad news for Labour:
A senior NHS official has accused Andy Burnham’s office of ”misinterpreting and misreporting” evidence about taxis being used as ambulances “in order to present a grossly inaccurate picture for the purposes of apparent political gain”.
The BBC’s politics…. getting in the way of the truth? and the result is…patients suffer.
Time for a new Open Thread to see us off into the run up to Christmas week…the floor is yours…
Guest Who links to this from Conservative Home:
The BBC reports that Hammersmith and Fulham Council claims that “tenants” have found “disgusting” and “offensive” a card sent out urging them to pay their rent. They manage to come up with two. There was Tina Buckley – who is a prominent left wing local activist – and her mother.
I represent hundreds of council tenants in this borough – none have complained to me.
Oddly the BBC have not featured other councils who have been running similar campaigns. Labour-run Luton Council is sending out the festive message to their tenants that if they don’t pay their rent they will lose their homes. Cllr Tom Shaw said:
“Most people are feeling the economic squeeze at the moment, but please make paying your rent and council tax a priority over Christmas and New Year and don’t risk losing your home. Pay up or seek help immediately before allowing debts to spiral out of control so we can cut the eviction rate, as well as our arrears bill.”
Why do the BBC present this as a great controversy regarding Hammersmith and Fulham but not mention Labour councils doing much the same?
I fear it might only add to the suspicions some hold of a left wing bias in the Corporation.
Like Santa Claus it seems our Tina comes out to play at Christmas each year:
No one, but no one has the right to deny any person, wether they are disabled or not, the right to live an independent life. I’m not disabled, so have very little insight into the work and support of the ILF. I’m so angry with this government for the stress & fear they are causing so many people who just want to make the best of their lives regardless of what restrictions they are under, be they disability, financial or mental health issues
The Ed Balls’ ‘Turkey Taunt’ story is still on the BBC’s frontpage in a prominent place….strangely this story, via Guido, is nowhere to be seen on the website as far as I can see, not even on the ‘Health’ page….you have to dig for it:
A senior NHS official has accused Andy Burnham’s office of ”misinterpreting and misreporting” evidence about taxis being used as ambulances “in order to present a grossly inaccurate picture for the purposes of apparent political gain”.
Pretty serious accusations you would think….but the BBC clearly doesn’t seem to agree.
It has managed to report it….hidden away on the ‘Democracy Live’ page…under the ‘House of Commons’ sub-section:
A claim that Labour had “misinterpreted and misreported [the information] in order to present a grossly inaccurate picture for the purposes of apparent political gain” should surely merit a major headline on the Frontpage…instead the BBC has buried the story where no one will ever look or come across it by accident.
No accident that?
All the more curious because it was only a few days ago that the BBC were trumpeting their own investigation into waiting times at hospitals and the use of ambulances….all given lots of airtime on the radio:
Some patients taken by ambulance to A&E departments are waiting in the vehicle for much longer than the recommended 15 minutes, with one case involving a six-hour delay, figures show.
Data for ambulance services in England, Scotland and Wales, obtained by the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act, suggest Wales had the longest waits.
Why so coy now?
It’s getting embarrassing this love in between the BBC and the leading politicians of the Labour Party….maybe it’s not just Stephanie Flanders who had a bit of a passion for the two Eds.
Miliband was given massive coverage and airtime for his spat with the Mail and was given the prime spot on Desert Island Discs to further polish his image….never mind all the unappealing or just plain dishonest things about him and his policies that the BBC sweeps under the carpet.
Ed Balls also seems to have the BBC poised at a moment’s notice to leap to his defence as well as being given a primetime slot on Jeremy Vine’s show to come on and play the piano….sorry…but if that isn’t pure political showtime what is?, and the BBC know that.
But the BBC goes further than burnishing Balls’ ‘human side’ to make him voter friendly…extending their services in his defence…..last year when he made a mess of the Autumn statement they were there to smooth things over:
Rather bizarrely the BBC then republished the exact same story to explain his similarly bad performance in this year’s Autumn Statement (see above).
The we hear that even his own colleagues think he is a bit of a nightmare….no fear…the BBC are on hand to downplay that with this story:
Followed up a while later with this touching tale:
Was anybody really so interested that the national news broadcaster had to seek out the opinion of Balls’ wife….and what exactly was she expected to say…yes, by God, he’s a bit of a nightmare really?
And today Balls gets booted into touch by Cameron, yet again, and yet again the BBC leaps in to defend him:
A minor taunt from Cameron and the BBC mobilises its forces to help Labour’s Balls out.
Anybody really interested? Anybody really care? No.
So why does the BBC feel the need?
Remember the BBC mantra:
‘An enemy is only someone whose story you haven’t heard yet.’
That’s why they push the family man ‘face’ of Miliband and the ‘all too human’ Balls bashing away at the piano…it’s priceless propaganda and it’s free.
Once you get to know Balls and Miliband as lovely, caring individuals, and so obviously ‘in touch’ with the struggles of ‘real people’, you will start to like them personally…and vote for them.
‘Plan B’ failed miserably, they hope ‘Plan Be Nice’ will be more successful.
