Question Time LiveBlog 26 April 2012

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Tonight Question Time comes from Question Time from Romford in East London. On the panel: Employment Minister Chris Grayling MP, Shadow Health Minister Diane Abbott MP, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats Simon Hughes MP, UK Independence Party Leader Nigel Farage MEP and Tuscany villa-owning socialist Polly Toynbee. Your Moderators line-up consists of David Vance, David Mosque, TheEye and John Ward. It’s a 10:30pm kick off and afterwards we will … Continue reading →

Repeat After Me: “There. Are. No. Cuts.”

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“There are no cuts to the housing benefit budget, only cuts to the projected increase. I should like to place a dunce’s hat on Mr Naughtie’s head and make him repeat that three times a day. It may also astonish him and his BBC colleagues to learn that overall there has been no cut in public spending, though, of course, some individual departments have suffered.” Stephen Glover in the Daily … Continue reading →

TAXI! UPDATE

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David Preiser has received a reply from Stuart Hughes’ boss: Having looked into this I do think Stuart got this wrong and have told him so. Read the rest in the comments to the original post here. [Click the title to see the link – the blog’s template doesn’t seem to like links on the main page.]

Gone To The Dogs

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Well, well, well. After ten days, reality has at last forced the BBC to acknowledge the big joke about the President being fed dog as a child. How many of us here have noted that they’ve refused to touch this story? BBC US President editor Mark Mardell finally decided to address it. Nobody is really taking it too seriously as a negative on the President, but it has been an … Continue reading →

Immigration Games

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(UPDATE: See my comment below) I was going to comment about this in the open thread, but in the light of today’s noise about the housing benefit shuffle in Newham causing “social cleansing” and allegedly inspiring right-wing extremism, I thought it was worth a full post. I’m talking about the BBC’s revelation that immigration from Mexico into the US is being reversed. Mexico-US migration slips after 40 years of growth … Continue reading →

NO TIME FOR TEARS….

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The battle for London Mayor is in the finishing straight and the BBC are doing what they can for Ken but between you and me, I don’t think it is going to be enough. Biased BBC’s Alan exposes this instance of BBC selective reporting… The BBC didn’t bother to investigate Ken Livingstone’s fake tears nor his fake video but they have had time for a jokey take down of Boris…. … Continue reading →

DUTCH COURAGE IN FRANCE

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So, the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande managed to outpoll Sarkozy in the first round of  the French Presidential race. And aren’t the BBC happy about it? I suggest that the idea of a French President determined to raise upper tax threshold to 75%, increase the number of State Workers whilst raising the minimum wage and thus ignoring the concept of fiscal austerity is their kind of guy. I can only … Continue reading →

OLIVER’S ARMY

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Those swines in the Coalition. How DARE they support  Academies that better meet the needs of local parents and pupils without the dead hand of Government telling them what to do, how to do it, when to do it by and how often to do it! I mean if people get the idea that Education can prosper without the State, where might it all end? Health…god forbid even Broadcasting? So, … Continue reading →