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I was listening to the BBC report on yesterday in the Lords on Today. It was tucked away around 6.45am but what struck me was the incredible pro-Labour spin the report. Combined with the sneering tones of the presenter, there was little in this report to suggest balance. It’s all part of the pro-Miliband riff that the BBC is playing and it is 24/7.

The BBC intended to broadcast a show that gave a platform to last year’s rioters so that they could excuse their actions and blame society for their behaviour…which let’s not forget involved…..‘The riots across England in August 2011 should need no introduction. Following the police shooting of Mark Duggan, a peaceful protest in Tottenham developed into explosive violent disorder.  Over five days trouble spread across the country with people looting, setting fire to property and attacking the police.  Five people died and over 2,500 shops and businesses were damaged. To date 1,290 rioters have been sent to jail.’

But as the BBC tells us:  ‘A court order has been made preventing the BBC from broadcasting the programme as planned on 16 July. The BBC will broadcast the programme at a later date. You will be able to comment on Nicola’s post when the programme airs.’

No reason is given, it may have to do with ongoing criminal proceedings but whatever the reason it’s a welcome block on the BBC’s campaign to white wash and excuse the arsonists, looters, rioters, killers, thieves and thugs who took the opportunity to have their fun at many other people’s expense.

This is what the BBC believe the programme represents:  ‘As a TV production team, we were faced with the decision whether to use this important and illuminating piece of work, even though it granted anonymity to criminals.  In our view it was justified because of the insights it provides into why and how the riots had happened.’

‘Illuminating, important, insightful’?  Hardly, it makes all the old excuses…the report (from left wing Guardian and LSE) this programme is based upon fingers bad parents, bad schools, bad government and of course bad policing but fails to mention the truth….that a hard core of criminally minded people took the opportunity to raise hell and destroy as much as they could and steal whatever they could carry away….and enjoyed themselves immensely.

It wasn’t ‘raging at the system’,  it was unbounded pleasure and criminality….the fact that the secondary riots only occurred when it was realised the police weren’t going to intervene shows that it was too little ‘system’ not too much that encouraged the riots.

The Guardian and LSE already had the answers they wanted to finish up with…they just needed to get the dogs to bark the right tune. Who knows what ended up being written out of the report, what questions were asked, what answers were really given, and what is on the cutting room floor.

Look at the format of the programme….actors are repeating the words of the rioters, it is not a normal, rigorous, in depth interview with rioters being asked to back up any statement…….

‘Whilst we are able to listen in to these accounts to garner fresh insights, viewers may feel frustrated or even angry because the tone of the interviews is very different to what we might expect from BBC TV: as journalists we challenge our interviewees and ask them to justify their words, but we can’t here.

Similarly we can’t elucidate what our characters say or ask them to explain references that they make.

Some speak in a street vernacular that is likely to be unfamiliar to many BBC Two viewers and some of the nuances and context of what they talk about are in danger of being lost.’

In other words the rioters are able to say what they liked with no questions asked….the one question that can be asked is would you believe them?

This is highly dangerous polemics…it is giving the BBC’s sanction to rioting and looting.  It is  meant to precipitate government pouring millions, if not billions of pounds into helping the rioters turn over a new leaf and become honest citizens.

The BBC is acting as a part of a large left wing pressure group that spins a web of lies to ensure that politicians are embarrassed and pressurised into ever more generous handouts from the tax payer’s funds….let’s remember…these aren’t ‘forgotten families’…these are families that get massive amounts of state money thrown at them already…far beyond the normal benefits of free schools, NHS, dental and opticians, policing, housing and a judicial system to protect them….they also get endless social workers, counsellors, special needs teaching, never mind constant police attention and free room and board at Her Majesties Pleasure.

Only this morning on ‘Today’ it was stated that one family was estimated to cost a council upwards of £250,000 to help keep them under control. 

These are not ‘forgotten families’.

The programme is in two parts…the first the rioters, the second the police…..no victims then?  And no voice of the man on the street who wasn’t in the riots…surely their views count for something?…..but the BBC and Guardian want to shut them out…because they suspect, rightly, that there will be little sympathy for the rioters from the vast majority of people in Britain.

The BBC is manipulating the facts for political ends and the consequences are that massive amounts of government funds are diverted to pay for the wrong solutions and subsequently wasted rather than being spent on people and projects who would benefit vastly from it and would appreciate what’s being done to help them…and go on to change their lives because of it.

It is a shame more of the BBC’s programmes are not forced to undergo judicial review before being broadcast….but then again that wouldn’t leave much on the telly if all the biased, highly partial, politicised, Labour supporting, polar bear hugging, Muslim extremist apologising, anti-Israel claptrap was taken off air.

Given the events in Bulgaria and BBC non coverage so far, I can just about bring myself to make you aware of this programme “Great British Islam” on BBC 1 tonight…

“As Ramadan approaches, this documentary tells the little-known story of three English gentlemen who embraced Islam at a time when to be a Muslim was to be seen to be a traitor to your country. Through personal journeys of still surviving relatives, the programme looks at their achievements and how their legacy lives on today”

It says a lot.

Breaking news. At LEAST 3 people have been killed and 27 hurt in an attack on an Israeli bus in Bulgaria. 24 minutes into the main BBC 5 O Clock PM news, not a mention of it. Utterly shameful from this £3.5BN a year broadcaster. I presume they are too busy getting Jenny Tonge on speed dial…

The jihad against smokers was only the beginning. Next came the assault on those who enjoy drinking alcohol.  Today we see that those who do not exercise are now  in the cross-hairs.

A lack of exercise is now causing as many deaths as smoking across the world, a study suggests. The report, published in the Lancet to coincide with the build-up to the Olympics, estimates that about a third of adults are not doing enough physical activity, causing 5.3m deaths a year. That equates to about one in 10 deaths from diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and breast and colon cancer. Researchers said the problem was now so bad it should be treated as a pandemic.

This is the sort of nonsense from the left wing Lancet that the BBC so enjoys repeating. Relax though, the State (and it’s broadcaster) will soon be working out how much exercise you must take. Not sure how they will apply this to the bloated chavs that so concern Owen Jones and the rest of the political left?

Delingpole on good form here…

“The BBC has nothing whatsoever to do with the free market. Nor – I’d wager – do most of those 148 BBC stars channeling their earnings through private companies to avoid tax. With the possible exceptions of Jeremy Clarkson (and frankly even he’s a bit politically suspect what with his rampant brown-nosing of the Cameron set) and Andrew Neil, small-government, free-market, low-tax types just don’t get a look-in at the Beeb.

“Why isn’t the government doing more to solve this problem?” On any given subject, this is the BBC’s default position. Indeed, one of the reasons our state sector is now so bloated (and ruinously expensive) is because for decades our national broadcaster, with its compulsory licence fee and quasi-monopolistic stranglehold over television and radio, has been propagandising on its behalf. Of all the organisations that have contributed to Britain’s economic and political decline, there is probably none that has done quite so much insidious and long-term damage as the BBC.

If – as its stars’ tax arrangements suggest – the BBC is now tentatively embracing the free market then I applaud its good sense. Perhaps we can now do our bit to helping it in this direction by scrapping the licence fee.”

You would need a heart of stone not to laugh at the irony;

“A presenter on the BBC consumer affairs show Rogue Traders has been jailed for 12 weeks for benefit fraud totalling more than £24,000. Dan Penteado, 40, from Bournemouth, admitted eight offences of dishonestly or knowingly claiming housing and council tax benefits.”

The upbeat BBC is coming in for a storm of criticism today over its coverage of the Olympics which has centred on the G4S farce and according to listeners and viewers has been entirely too negative and is leaching the joy out of the Olympics, spoiling the expectations of many.

The complaints have been building over several days but switching on to different programmes I have heard the presenters all admitting they are receiving many complaints.

Victoria Derbyshire had so many complaints that she had to stop her show to deal with them and alter the subject from G4S to defending the BBC and its coverage.

Admittedly the G4S story is a big one but it does seem to be the only story in the world just now…one programme finishes and another carries on where the last left off. Did we really need to hear the live inquisition by grandstanding MPs of G4S bosses? Not exactly riveting nor informative…especially if you’ve switched off.

It doesn’t help that you may have the suspicion that it is just another chance to bash the government…the Police have certainly not wasted any time in taking the opportunity to put the boot into G4S….especially as G4S are going to be part of the ‘privatised’ police force taking jobs from the boys in blue…ie the real coppers.

I have to admit I can’t help thinking the responsibility ultimately rests with Theresa May…who should have been keeping an exacting eye on the big picture…something she failed to do with border control as well…she doesn’t seem to have gripped her brief….I think she should go…and police should not be privatised…but all that is for after the Olympics.

People are right…yes, acknowledge the huge mistakes that have happened, report them, but don’t dwell relentlessly on them to the exclusion of the big event itself.

A final word about the effect of lazy journalism….Derbyshire ‘broke the news’ to us that out of 300 expected G4S employees only 20 turned up for work.

Now if I heard that figure I would immediately query it….the obvious thing would be that maybe the figures were the wrong way round…but they weren’t.

Those figures were released into the world by the BBC without any corroboration…as Derbyshire herself admitted..they came from the completely neutral Surrey Police Federation (ie Union) but she said she didn’t know who at the Federation told her those figures….they were ‘unattributed’.

A tabloid newspaper would of course leap for joy at headlines like that but a serious, trusted and respectable news organisation like the BBC should be expected to make some effort to check those figures before  announcing them to the world.

It seems they may have been too eager to damage G4S’ reputation….which they did….despite later correcting the figures, around 42 out of only an expected 70 workers turned up, the 300/20 figures have now attained the state of urban legend…at least twice in her show callers stated the 300/20 figures as fact even after the new figures were mentioned.

The BBC’s eagerness to be first with a story has meant that what essentially may just have been some black propaganda released by a Police Federation has now become truth and G4S’s reputation is dragged even deeper into the mud by lazy or wilfully blind reporting in the search for a headline.

The rain in Spain may stay mainly on the plain but here in Britain it means we don’t have a BBQ summer and inflation drops as people don’t buy a new summer wardrobe….as the BBC’s Stephanie Flanders informs us….

Wet weather helps Bank’s inflation forecast

The Bank of England’s inflation forecast is looking better than it has for a long time – it may partly have the weather to thank.

So good news  on inflation is nothing to do with the government…how different it was when the government said that the massive snowfall we had last year lead to a drop in GDP as people couldn’t get to work or to the shops.

That claim was roundly denounced and mocked throughout the BBC…Victoria Derbyshire even went so far as to put together a montage of clips of George Osborne talking about the weather just to mock him…because of course he was talking complete and utter nonsense and just making excuses for his failed economic policies….wasn’t he.

I’d put that BBC attitude down to blatant political bias…much the same as they treated Bush…but it could just be complete ignorance on Derbyshire’s part.

Cultural cringe at work….

BBC shows no sign of shock, horror or outrage when a black man suggests that it is necessary to have ‘ethnic loyalty’.

Sounds not too dissimilar to something the BNP might print on a leaflet.

‘Somebody called Ashley Cole a “choc ice” on Twitter over the weekend after the footballer testified in defence of John Terry.

Ekow Eshun, a former director of the ICA who now writes about culture, believes it is a “slightly odd and archaic term” as it dates back to a time when black people “worried much more about their place in society” as there were fewer black people in prominent positions.

“It’s sad to see words like this still in usage,” he told the Today programme.

Novelist Diran Adebayo says the term doesn’t bother him and he believes it is still fair for some black people “to feel there has to be a word for people to feel somebody else… has less ethnic loyalty”.