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
How about the subliminal message “Don’t forget to pay your TV poll tax before you buy Xmas presents, or we’ll gaol you” which regularly comes through the letterbox?
Such hypocrisy – and embarrassment too, because Tory Hammersmith and Fulham’s council tax keeps going down as they continue to cut costs.
What a contrast with the BBC, whose salariat, wasteful capital expenditure and golden handshake money keep rising – as the license fee will have to after the freeze, to pay for it all.
if only the BBC would let people comment on all of its news stories instead of just one or two items here and there, their standards of journalism would soon increase ten fold.
Its censorship and hatred of free speech has a negative effect on the quality of journalism for its 8,000 so called reporters
David, I take your point but, as others have said here before when complaining about the BBC – they simply do not want to listen.
They are right, and you are simply too ill educated to understand the issues, so your opinion does not count. It’s the classic intellectual lefty liberal clap-trap that has me watching less and less of their output. They so desperately want to think like they do in order not to feel alone. Total arrogance !
You’re right mark. I just thought if they had let people comment on this obviously poltically biased article, people would point out the bias and even ridicule them so next time the reporter wouldnt make the same mistakes.
But like you’ve reminded me, they dont listen. They didnt listen over the absurd coverage of the dead terrorist and if you read the comments on Mark Eastons pro immigration multicultural propaganda, Mr Easton certainly doesnt listen to the people who pay his wages either. None of them listen
Its beyond reform, it should be scrapped
Quite right, the Friday ‘Feedback’ program is a farce. The Producers, Directors et al when responding to Listener’s complaints do not concede they were ever in the wrong let alone actually taking steps to rectify the issues highlighted.
I think Roger Bolton does a good job, and lets the self-satisfied producers et al have enough rope to hang themselves. He’s limited in what he can do but I think he does his best.
“It’s the classic intellectual lefty liberal clap-trap that has me watching less and less of their output.” At what stage will you stop paying for it ?
Never complain to the enemy. Never works and is demeaning.
Maybe not as demeaning as what can happen if always obeying the invitation to pick up the soap on the shower block floor?
So I fear I must disagree with you statement.
True what ‘works’ is hardly inspiring, yet, but there is a log kept and they really won’t like it when the files do see the full glare of sunlight as the default FOI exclusion walls crumble.
There are many more good people than there are bad, some who have indeed gravitated to the secure nest that is the BBC and its secret complaints division.
Do nothing and they triumph.
And so that is exactly what they are hoping for.
It really does not matter what people in the BBC generally think of you when you complain. You maybe merely seen as a nuisance BUT this is valuable in itself as they have to think about the things you are saying. Sometimes the alternative position you give can even cause them to query the BBC line.
You’d think… hope.
One is sure that daily log they palm off folk dropping things at this point with is a sober must read for all in editorial.
But what the BBC thinks is, as you rightly say, irrelevant.
There is still that log, and a record.
Even if they’ve stopped things from being confirmed as upheld (a minor miracle to get to, as any who have will testify) a box they’d rather not exists has a tick.
And when the files get reviewed and an accounting comes, one day, it may not hurt for those trotting out these blow offs have back of mind that history can be recent, and an unsympathetic judge.
Actually, its seen as a collection of eccentric comments.
‘Actually, its seen as a collection of eccentric comments’
Likely so, based on some views expressed before.
May I ask, seen in this way by whom? And is that based on belief, or something more tangible that there would be value in sharing here.
Such lumping all in the same location to dismiss en bloc would seem less than professional and hence entirely in keeping.
Just as Progressive = Marxist, so Activist = Trouble-maker
they used to call activists protesters. Dont know why they’ve rebranded these protesters as activists. Suppose protesters has negative connotations whereas activist is a bit more positive. Cultural Marxism in action?
‘Like Santa Claus it seems our Tina comes out to play at Christmas each year’
Channeling my inner Grammar Nazi, maybe she’s more an unfair wether girl? I’ll get me coat.
I have accord the author full marks for tongue in cheek understatement:
‘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.
Shocked, I tell you… shocked!
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Bet the law-abiding residents of Rock St. were entirely chilled about this one when it went up, eh, BBC?
Especially given TVL’s habit of making accusations that are often not borne out in fact on a ‘throw enough mud and something might stick’ legal basis, which sounds as bent as it can get for a proven nest of hypocrites.
No offence meant, of course.
But really guys, wheeling out tame outrage industry merchants, in such numbers, as the basis of a politically stitch-up really needs the BIJ to do the job well (until needing the licence fee payer to bail them out again). That is if they are not too busy ‘helping’ Newsnight ply their trade again.
I do like the graffiti, however.
Great find there Guest…
Needs to be sent as a reply to their story they are running on H&F…
Oh yeah, you can’t post pictures in reply on the BBC’s site, can you….suppose you could always post it on their facebook page 🙂
I regularly get letters about how I’m being investigated because I don’t have a TV licence. I don’t have a TV and don’t watch live TV so I don’t need one. If I’m slow to respond to the warnings I get threats of possible court action. Doesn’t bother me and I tell them I don’t need a licence and that’s it till the next time. But very hypocritical of the BBC to point the finger at any council that reminds tenants to meet their obligations.
The BBC didn’t mention their independent, innocent vox pops was an activist?
Rule #1 in effect, as usual. It’s getting really old. Maybe it’s time somebody collected all of these incidents to make a nice data set of BBC dishonesty.
Did the BBC not pull the same devious trick not many weeks ago when they featured a disabled woman? She was portrayed as a random victim of a cut in benefits, but turned out to be an activist too. When is someone going to make people at the BBC who engage in these distortions accountable, that is when are they to be sacked? It may seem a hopeless question, but as has been said, they won’t change unless they are made to experience consequences from their corruption.
I have been criticised by censorship elsewhere in attempting to use the word about the BBC, in that to say that the BBC is corrupt is too wide-ranging, but it is in may view visible at the top and all the way down.
The BBC is just far too powerful and corrupt to the core. Would that we had politicians with the gonads to do something about it! We can only dream!!!!
Forget that, 46 per cent of H&F tenants are in rent arrears.
46 per cent. All paid for by the taxpayer.
If I got into arrears in my (more expensive) private rented accommodation I’d be pushed out pretty sharpish.
You’re forgetting, Techno: ‘No one, but no one has the right to deny any person, whether they are disabled or not, the right to live an independent life.’
It’s their right, you see, whether or not there’s a smidge of responsibility to be found in their entitlement-infested DNA.
ALAN or David, please what is the score? Do we assume automatically items raised by you or David like this BBC bias by omission of the Labour Councils similar behavior to that of Conservative Fulham are being complained about direct to the BBC by you as a matter of course? Or is it assumed or expected to be picked up by the BBC complaints departments since they daily check all the reports and rantings on this board? Otherwise it would be a travesty that nobody is making a direct complaint to the perpetrators.
Just want to check please..
‘Or is it assumed or expected to be picked up by the BBC complaints departments since they daily check all the reports and rantings on this board?’
I think you might have a slightly exaggerated view of your own importance there.