There is a bidding war going on as to who is the most humane, the most compassionate, who can get the most brownie points for making the boldest bid for pro-asylum seeker empathy. Labour’s Yvette Cooper opened the bidding, no doubt as a cunning ploy in her leadership election run, with a grandiose gesture of 10,000 whilst Andy Burnham claimed he had always been thinking along those lines … Continue reading
From the Guardian: Culture secretary warned BBC over EU coverage John Whittingdale told the corporation its track record was ‘not faultless’ and it needed to correct ‘erroneous views’ quickly, letters reveal The culture secretary warned the BBC that it must be impartial in covering the EU referendum and act quickly to tackle complaints about “erroneous views”, it has emerged. John Whittingdale wrote to Rona Fairhead, chair of the BBC … Continue reading
Quotas…how does that work? If the migrants don’t want to live in the country they are forced to go to what use are quotas and why should one country or another then have to take them just because they have decided they want to go there? The Today programme devoted the last half hour to the migration crisis….that’ll be half an hour and the other 23.5 hours on the … Continue reading
It seems we are being fed a line on the migration crisis and people are happy to look the other way and accept whatever is said if it makes the migrants tales more harrowing and piles on the ‘guilt’ that puts pressure on politicians to open the borders. The Today programme had a tale of terror from Kobane in Syria telling us of the dreadful dangers that the inhabitants still … Continue reading
Hope you weren’t looking forward to “A Question of Sport” on the BBC tonight. It’s been cancelled and they are running a “Migrant Special” instead. Expect to see lots of cute kids and smiling mums. Not that the BBC have an agenda or anything, no way!
Well, the emotional blackmail from the BBC (along with others) has worked and we can now look forward to thousands of Syrians enriching our country. You have to hand it to the BBC, they use the power of their broadcasting monopoly to undermine our country at every opportunity! Anyway here’s a new open thread.
Boris Johnson counters Dan Hodges’ judgement of history with a bit of historical perspective…… ‘Mass migration brought down the Roman Empire’? Boris Johnson has reacted to the image of Aylan Kurdi and described it as a “very, very shocking image”, writes Henry Samuel in Calais. “It’s very difficult; we have to address the problem at the source and stop people coming like this, but certainly if … Continue reading
The Telegraph reports an example of those ‘desperate’ migrants….refusing to go to a refugee camp…..no longer ‘refugees’ then?…what is it they want, was it safety or a new life in Europe?….Maybe the BBC can answer as they report the migrants chanting “Germany, Germany.” EU migration crisis: Hungary refugees trying to reach Austria refuse to be taken to camp and forced off train – latest The train, which left … Continue reading
It’s all about the posturing, refugee one-upmanship…… Dan Hodges retweeted Peter Dominiczak @peterdominiczak 2 hrs2 hours ago Peter Dominiczak retweeted Michael Deacon Disastrous comment… Peter Dominiczak added, Michael Deacon @MichaelPDeacon Andy Burnham, asked about Yvette Cooper’s call for Britain to take refugees: “I called the day before for Britain to take our fair share” 19 retweets 7 favourites Dan hodges does his own bit of posturing with this … Continue reading
I don’t know about you but it strikes me that the BBC has gone into overdrive to soften up the Nation for a wave of “Syrians”. The image of the little 3 year old Syrian boy who drowned on the beach has been milked for maximum emotional blackmail and true to form the Left have seized upon this and are insisting that our borders open up and we let ’em … Continue reading
