Monthly Archives: March 2009

B-BBC VLOGGING

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BBC VLOGGING IT!

Here you go – my first ever VLOG here at B-BBC. Three points for you to consider; 1. Yes, I know the cam quality is not great but hey, I haven’t a £3.5bn budget for these things you know. 2. This is not the real David Vance – it is my body double, I am naturally much younger in real life. 3. Hope the shock of seeing me isn’t too much for you!

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STOP YOUR CYNICISM

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Have to laugh at the desperation of the BBC’s attempt to save the Dear Leader’s utterly disastrous world tour leading up to the even more hopeless G20 summit. “Beware cynicism”, we are warned, from the uber cynical Brown and his BBC pals. Is it just me or does Brown’s head look funny in the accompanying pic? Brown is so painfully inept that it is little wonder that non-stories such as the alleged reform of our Monarchy are essential fodder if the entire nation is not to be reduced to a state of laughter. Meanwhile, did anyone catch Any Questions earlier this evening. This time, after the Eric Pickles disaster of last night, another Conservative in the form of Chris Grayling was set upon concerning his expenses and second home allowances. The BBC has been hunting down Conservatives over this issue, once again trying to distract us from the fact that Brown carries culpability for what is going on – or is he in offfice but NOT in power?

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Friday Night General BBC-related comment thread.

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Please use this thread for comments about the BBC’s current programming and activities. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog – scroll down for new topic-specific posts. N.B. This is not an invitation for general off-topic comments, rants or chit-chat. Thoughtful comments are encouraged. Comments may also be moderated. Any suggestions for stories that you might like covered would be appreciated! It’s your space, use it wisely!

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BREAD, CIRCUSES AND POLLS.

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Nice little diversionary tactic from the BBC this morning. At a time of economic turmoil (for those outside the State sector) what could be MORE important than for the Dear Leader to be discussing Royal succession reform with the Palace? The BBC have even produced another of their notorious polls to show the public to be wildly supportive of the ending of the concept of a Protestant monarchy. All wrapped up in the colourful decor of equality, this is red meat for those (such as the BBC) who loath our enduringly successful Monarchy and who seek to reduce it to the same sort of mess so much else of our once great Nation has become under siLabour “reform.” I can’t believe that this is the big issue on anyone but the most rabid republican’s tongue so why is the BBC out commissioning a poll on it?

PS Since writing this the BBC have invited me on the Nolan Show to discuss. I will repeat the views stated above – plus any thoughts you may have.

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Desperate Times, Desperate Measures

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Don’t get me wrong. I think we can all feel a little sorry for Gordon Brown these days – at least until we look at our pensions, or our children’s futures. The BBC were really doing us all a kindness when they kept his poor rictus grin off the screens as Nigel Farage and Dan Hannan tore into him the other day. It was painful to see him.

But when Gordon’s advisers study the polls and attempt to get some more positive media coverage for him, there’s no need for the republicans in the BBC (i.e. 97% of the staff) to go quite so far overboard. Is the fact that the Great Leader is attempting to browbeat HRH over the tragic Royal discrimination against Catholics really worthy of the main headline on all BBC channels and the website this morning ?

It’s certainly not a subject that exercises Catholics, and I don’t think that’s what the recent trouble in Northern Ireland’s about either. The only people who are really bothered by it are the usual left wing suspects (who generally can’t stand Catholics unless they’re armed, anti-British and homicidal) and Lib Dem MP Evan Harris.

Why the BBC is acting as a megaphone for Gordon’s “diversionary exercise” I simply can’t understand – any more than I can understand why Robert Peston does the same for him on the economics front.

(of course the problem with the Act of Successsion is that Britain is (formally) not a secular democracy, but an explicitly religious state, with the head of state also head of the state church. Once discrimination against Catholics is removed, the basis of the UK constitution must also change. And why stop at Catholics ? Discrimination is discrimination, surely ? Shouldn’t Prince William be able to marry someone like Chah Oh-Niyol Kai Whitewind ?)

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GETTING MIGHTY CROWDED.

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Did anyone else catch this bizarre item on the Today programme this morning concerning the imaginary correlation between population growth and climate change? It’s well worth a listen if you missed it if only to understand just how demented the BBC has become on this topic! Professor Guillebaud is clearly an ecowacko of the highest order but listen to the easy ride that Naughtie gives him. Did YOU that one birth in the UK creates 160 times as much global warming effect as one in Ethiopia (Don’t tell Binyam Mohamed, ssssh!) and that “the ONLY way out of poverty is to reduce carbon dioxide” All unchallenged by your trustworthy State Broadcaster.

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YOU COULDN’T MAKE IT UP!

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I quote this verbatim from the BBC Today site this morning…”Some 25,000 pupils across the UK will be involved in producing their own news stories as part of the BBC’s School Report News Day. Romaissa and Rayma, from Islamia Girls’ High School produced a report on celebrity culture, and they discuss their experience interviewing PR guru Max Clifford.” And we FUND this garbage ?

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BAMBI – A HERO FOR OUR TIMES.

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Am I the ONLY person in the United Kingdom who gets annoyed that the BBC gives maximum publicity to the claims of Ethiopian illegal immigrant aka Cockney Geezer Binyam Muhamed concerning the “crimes” allegedly committed by our security services against him yet NEVER once  enquires as to the serious crimes of which Bambi himself stands accused by the US government? It seems to me that the BBC is very quick to embrace the claims of an illegal immigrant but also quick to dismiss the detailed allegations of the US Government. Al Queda  must give thanks every day for the wilful complicity of the BBC in going alone with the “torture” claims of every Gitmo resident.  I bet they will all get stuck into this one on QT tonight – including the Tories – with Britain in the dock instead of the Jihadi vermin that were rightly interned in Guantanamo. Our military and our intelligence do all they can to try and keep us safe and yet time after time they are portrayed by the BBC as the bad guys whilst Islamic terrorists are presented as benevolent kind-hearts. It sickens me.

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