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Anybody know why the bBC is happy to report the empire building of the Neu Russian Empire, but remains silent on the Chinese version. In fact across the world the bBC make out that actually it is those whom China is bullying who are the bullies:
Japan to build military site near disputed Senkaku islands
Japan has begun construction work on a military radar station near a string of islands that is at the centre of a territorial dispute with China. Correspondents say the move will anger Beijing as it may allow Japan to expand surveillance near the Chinese mainland. The new base – on Yonaguni island – is located just 150km (90 miles) from the Japanese-held Senkaku island group, claimed by China as the Diaoyu islands.
I loved this part:
Correspondents say the move will anger Beijing as it may allow Japan to expand surveillance near the Chinese mainland.
Really bbC? Lets have a look on the map just where Yonaguni Island is shall we?
Look to the right of Taiwan , the Island which is inhabited , has a runway and a couple of towns (As well as a port) is behind Taiwan when it comes to China. So how it could offend China is something of a mystery seeing as Tawian is in the way.
But that’s just it about the bBC for years now they have remained silent on the Nationalistic fervour of the Chinese, far easier to blame the victims.
I’d like to know why the BBC constantly refers to Britain’s colonial past as a ‘Dark Period’, yet it’s seemingly ok for Putin to rebuild the Soviet Union.
Dark things like trying to end widow burning, religious murder, and slavery?
I think the EU is an empire and it’s still in the making. Amazingly, this empire has been constructed in full view and most people have hardly recognised it, let alone raised any objections. But then most people look to the likes of the bbc for how to respond to just about every issue and if the bbc doesn’t shout fire, then even if the building is burning around them, most of us behave as if nothing bad is happening.
They interviewed a guy from Poland today who wanted a federal Europe with even more power and an Empire wide minimum wage which was the same in Romania as in Germany !
Thoughtful wrote:
“who wanted a federal Europe with even more power and an Empire wide minimum wage which was the same in Romania as in Germany !
The only way that will be achieved is if all the Eastern Europeans remained in their homelands and worked to better their county, If it worked for Korea,Japan,China, why can’t it work for Romania,Bulgaria,Hungary and Slovakia.
And will work for Vietnam, Burma and North Korea ( when it gets free of the commies).
Europeans have an unjustified sense of entitlement.
Here is another map to show how modest China is in its territorial claims
As you can also see, Taiwan falls within China’s ambition.
Two deeper worries about current reports on Islam.
In the case of the Boko Haram abduction of Christian schoolgirls – 85 still held captive – never any mention on the BBC (eg on the long item on Woman’s Hour last week) that there is a risk that they will be treated as sex slaves by their captors. Or be forced to “convert” to Islam. The woolly discussion on Woman’s Hour included NIL on what the captors might intend to do with the captives. As there have been no ransom demands – why doesn’t the BBC ask the obvious questions. Even Human Rights Watch – normally a “trusted” source for the BBC – spells out Boko Haram’s record on sex abductions of women and girls :
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/11/29/nigeria-boko-haram-abducts-women-recruits-children
In the Trojan Horse case – what seems to be emerging is a pattern of bullying of the minority of non-Muslim children – ignored by the teachers. Again – no mention of this on the BBC, even though their attempts to brush off the Trojan Horse stories have failed.
Something I’ve noticed about the bBC’s reporting on Islamic terrorism inside Nigeria is how they always mention how ‘Boko Haram’ means Western education is forbidden. At a stroke the bBC turn things around and legitimise this terrorist group as a foil to Western values imposed on an Islamic people.
Yet for all that, why would objections to Western education result in..Mosques,Churches,Prisons,Markets getting blown ?
Lets refer to Boko Haram for what they are:
Intolerant religious bigots who use the bullet,bomb and knife in which to further their relgious agenda.
Pounce
You give an accurate description of Boko Haram. Except you omit that they also use rape as a method of thrir jihad.
But that is certainly not how they were described on Woman’s Hour. The tepid discussion could have been about a bunch of girls invited by some lads to a picnic in the woods.
The disaster that has happened to all those children and families gets minimal and light-touch treatment by the BBC – compared, say, to the endless coverage of the children killed in the South Korea sinking. The sinking was desperately sad – but was probably not a deliberate act, more likely negligence and stupidity. Whereas the Boko Haram incident was planned and deliberate. Mass rape is the likely result, and the girls will have no real future even if they are eventually released.
I often think the BBC does not understand the word “evil”. Or “evil bastards”. Especially when it applies to the Rop.
Good point, and as an extra point under Sharia law any child by an Islamic father is automatically..a Muslim. (even if the Father converts to Islam and the child is no longer a child) That is why rape is used by Muslims so often.
I’ve heard this on the BBC but I can’t remember which program. I remember being surprised that they were covering it all though.
That link needs to be read by everyone, especially our politicians etc who faff about nothing yet are silent on genocide (where getting a bullet in the back of the head is a lucky way to die). Where are the womens’ groups, Christian groups, any effing group for that matter. The situation in Nigeria needs serious action (a la Sierra Leone but on a much bigger scale)
That’s why I was appalled at the docile tone of the Woman’s Hour discussion. Sanitising evil.
1st woman to run Boston Marathon – Witness – BBC News – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO2ChjVGL7c#t=11
Some liberal feminism brought to you by the politically neutral BBC.
At 3:38, a headline of ‘Save your egos, men, this race is strictly for women runners’ is shown, but the BBC doesn’t challenge that blatant discrimination.
It also doesn’t look at why officials didn’t allow women to run the Boston Marathon. Was it ignorant, chauvenistic sexism, as the BBC would like us to believe, or were there valid medical concerns?
And the Islamic jihadists’ motivation for the Boston massacre goes unmentioned.
BBC 5Live reporting that a minute’s silence was held at the marathon to commemorate ‘a bombing’ last year. I wonder who was responsible and why they did it? Suppose I’ll have to go elsewhere to find out.
The BBC is also pushing its feminist agenda with the new, weekly, “Women’s Football Show” (BBC3). Average attendance figures as low as 500/600 even for the ‘top’ women’s games, suggest that hardly anyone is interested in this outside the sad little BBC3 bubble.
http://www.football-lineups.com/tourn/FA_WSL_2012/Stats/Home_Avg_Atte/
Another example of bias leavened with ignorance on Today this morning: Vince’s new proposals to create more transparency concerning the ownership and control of UK registered companies were “discussed” by Prem Sikka (lefty academic, noisy lobbyist and anti-capitalist loonie – no wonder he’s on the Today speed-dial) and some dildo whose name I failed to catch (if it was, in fact, thrown). The “discussion” was chaired by a strictly impartial Evan who talked to “Prem” like the old friends they undoubtably are. The substance of the discussion was, basically, “has Vince gone far enough?” Prem, of course, said he hadn’t – the dildo said he had although there’s more to do.
What everybody missed was that the 2006 Companies Act already deals to a large extent with the problem of “hidden” control. The solution, embedded in existing law, is the shadow director rules. Not, I would suggest, that the shadow director rules couldn’t be tightened up (and properly enforced) but they’re there and could be used for just the purposes Vince suggests. But, oh no, because Vince is a both a socialist and an ignoramus (not mutually exclusive) we must have a whole new raft of unnecessary legislation to deal with these outrages.
Coming to the BBC’s role here: if the BBC is going to do analytic journalism, questions which might be asked are: “is there a problem?”, “how big is the problem?”, “do the proposed new rules deal with the problem?”, “is this overkill?” Of course, the BBC default position on regulation of anything (except its complaints procedures) is that it’s never enough and the participants in any broadcast discussion will comprise a dildoic defender of the new rules and a critic from the left egged on by a BBC “journalist”. An interesting – even enlightening discussion – would have included someone who has practical knowledge of corporate law and practice and (by virtue of that knowledge) considers Vince’s proposals as bullshit PR by legislation.
Vince was always considered a wise old man good for the odd soundbite before, but now he’s in bed with the evil Tories he’s toxic and they get the boot in at every opportunity.
Another meaningless Today discussion this morning concerned education and comprised contributions from Jack Straw (treading on eggs not to cause offence to any “new Britons” out there) and some taqqiya-spouting mouthpiece from the Muslim Council or another self-styled Islamic representative body. Luckily Jack, John and the mouthpiece agreed that the conversion of primary schools in Moslem-dominated areas into madrassahs is not only not happening but, if it is, is due to a “tiny” minority of believers. On that note of agreement the item was brought to a satisfactory conclusion (excepting that the ritual demonisation of Michael Gove was, unusually, not broadcast. Rest assured someone at the BBC will have his card marked for that omission).
Ah received a reply of sorts to my complaint (from over 3 weeks ago) about how the bBC allowed a the brother of a Muslim terrorist to play the victimcard:
Thank you for taking the time to contact BBC News.
We understand you felt it was inappropriate to interview Jeremiah Adebolajo.
All the interviews we conduct are carefully considered. We decided this interview, which was robust and challenging throughout and let listeners hear for the first time the reaction of Michael Adebolajo’s family to his sentencing, was in the public interest. We also want to reassure you that we notified Lee Rigby’s family in advance of the interview being broadcast. However, I certainly do appreciate you feel very strongly about the points you have raised. Therefore, please let me assure you that your comments have been placed on our audience log. This is a document made available to staff throughout the BBC, including news editors and members of senior management. The audience logs are seen as important documents that can help shape decisions about future programming and content.
Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.
Kind Regards
Declan McCrink
BBC Complaints
Anybody else feel like the cunts at the bBC have just fobbed me off.
They couldnt care less mate!
Their audience log must be a wonder to behold.
Perhaps you could ask them how many other murderer’s families had been asked to comment on sentencing. I doubt it is a high number.
“We also want to reassure you that we notified Lee Rigby’s family in advance of the interview being broadcast.”
How very considerate, BBC, how considerate. Talk about rubbing salt in the wounds.
I wonder if Lee Rigby’s family were offered the right of reply?
Don’t despair. At least you got a reply of sorts from the arrogant sods, that’s more than i usually get. Well done, and stick at it .
But don’t let them fob you off!!! Carry on complaining until they understand that you are serious .
It’s when things get serious they get worried about running out of ways to make it all go away before that mistreated audience log (that registers nowhere) becomes an actual upheld complaint, and as a few here have shared, an expediting is their favoured tool of censorship to prevent that.
‘This is a document made available to staff throughout the BBC, including news editors and members of senior management.’
And possibly further if they feel so disposed? Holding them to account can exercise some beyond reason.
How do you know any of this about the audience log?
Adopting the nicknames of the recently deceased to only ask but never answer questions has poor precedent.
Not to surprised what made you appear again, though.
I see. Not like you to avoid the question.
‘Not like you to avoid the question’
But entirely like you to cycle through the Borg box for tasteless nicknames to pose daft questions like a tot with Tourettes.
However, I will answer.
I may or may not have a device, not patented so as to preserve commercial confidentiality, that may or may not be used and may or may not enable me to listen through BBC complaints walls when such things are discussed in meetings that make WIA seem like a re-enactment of the Cuban missile crisis.
Fact.
Also look up ‘possibly’ in the dictionary. BBC editors use it a lot too. Plus of course CECUTT staff at all levels.
I’d really advise you to regain the ring down thread with your tag team partner du jour.
For those of you who remember I complained about the BBcs reporting of the UN climitage change malarky. I’ve received this today:Thanks for recently contacting the BBC. We aim to reply to complaints within 10 working days (around 2 weeks) and do so for most of them but cannot for all. The time taken depends on the nature of your complaint, how many others we are dealing with and can also be affected by practical issues such as whether a production team is available or away on location.
This is to let you know that we have referred your complaint to the relevant staff but that it may take longer than 10 working days to reply. We therefore ask you not to contact us further in the meantime. If it does prove necessary however, please use our webform, quoting any reference number we provided. This is an automatic email sent from an account which is not monitored so you cannot reply to this email address.
In order to use the licence fee efficiently we may not investigate every issue if it does not suggest a substantive breach of guidelines, or may send the same reply to everyone if others have complained about the same issue. You can read full details of our complaints procedures and how we consider the issues raised in feedback at http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/handle-complaint/. In the meantime we’d like to thank you for contacting us with your concerns. We appreciate your patience in awaiting a response.
So it looks like a brand new excuse as to why they find it so difficult to put opposing sides of a story in a report may be on the production line.
Well, from initial investigations into the people at the BBC, who deal with the complaints, they do seem to prioritise the employment of people who are experienced in the environmental public relations industry.
So fobbing off complaints about Climate Change coverage seems the top priority of the BBC’s complaints procedures, as they have to fob off independent scientists complaining about the BBC’s environmental activist Journalists.
I’d be interested to hear what investigations those are?
Because I am in a position to know that that is fiction.
Do you work in the same hollowed out volcano as special agent Name-shifter?
‘So it looks like a brand new excuse as to why they find it so difficult to put opposing sides of a story in a report may be on the production line.’
Unlikely.
Those they have still serve, as what can you do?
Pursue?
Of course you can, and must.
But be prepared for attrition.
For a corporation apparently with weightier issues on its mind, a vast amount of time and money is invested in denial & obfuscation.
I view that as more serious than simply ‘fobbing off’.
Its a standard, automated reply sent if your complaint is older than 10 working days.
Just what on earth is the point of complaining? The BBC is never at fault. It is perfect. It is the ultimate media company.
It is as one with truth and the staff is ever beyond reproach.
I could go on and on but you get the idea.
Just ignore them.
Delingpole gets it right again as bBC 5dead sprouts its anti-Christian message all morning.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/04/21/Britain-isn-t-a-Christian-country-Claim-the-usual-intolerant-lefty-Gaia-worshipping-Guardianista-suspects
I think that school dinners should be banned, and parents forced to give the children breakfast before they attend, even if it means getting their kids up at 5:00 am and that the schools should not allow any kind of food or drinking during the day.
Parents can feed their kids an evening meal when they get home at night, if they work long hours then a meal at 10:00pm is acceptable.
Everyone else with me on this?
Soon it will be Ram-a-down-your-throat !
“Yet another wise and well thought-out policy from that wisest of all Western governments, the British”
Tarek Fatah “Looks like UK is in a race to be named the first Islamic Madcap circus in the world.”
I do hope that D Camerimam, consulted S Warsi, and got advice from T Ramadan on the best way to proceed. eh!
R Spencer :-
“These young jihadis are being stopped from going to Syria. They might then cast about for opportunities to wage jihad at home … but at least they won’t be waging jihad in Syria!”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/uk-police-raid-home-of-muslim-who-praised-his-brother-for-waging-jihad-in-Syria
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/375233/Police-raid-the-home-of-a-Muslim-man-who-praised-his-brother-for-fighting-holy-war
“Nuthin to see – BBC” … softly, softly on the old Jihadaddy
oops apologies I mean grieving parents
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01xp81y
and not on BBC anytime soon T Fatah/Ezra Levant
“Homegrown Terrorism”
Came across this website which adds a bit of meat to the bones of 28gate. It makes for interesting reading and shows how the brainwashing of today’s kids to act as mini-stormtroopers for the eco-fascist movement is probably more organised and advanced than any of us thought.
‘A 28Gate Climate Crusader Coaching Children for The Cause.
One of the many somewhat curious choices of participant in the infamous climate-alarm lobbying seminar held by the BBC in January 2006 is ‘Eleni Andreadis, Harvard University’. She has since helped launch a programme aimed at turning children into political activists, driven presumably at least in part by her being seized with fear about the future thanks to rising CO2 levels.
I had noticed that an executive from Children’s BBC was amongst those revealed by 28Gate (Anne Gilchrist, Executive Editor Indies & Events, CBBC), and I wondered if she had been taken in by the crusaders. I don’t know if she was or not – a study of the subsequent programmes would be required. ‘
I don’t have the time and inclination to watch Cbeebies, mainly because my granddaughters are too old for it and my grandson isn’t old enough, but if anyone has first hand evidence that Ms Gilchrist might be applying her 28gate-acquired knowledge to her children’s programming then please share it with us.
I see the BBC have now started reporting about themselves in their main news program. News (Left-wing propaganda) at Six reported on the history of BBC 2 and interviewed a BBC reporter taking part in the Boston Marathon; on both counts who cares? This is not news. Classic indoctrination aimed at further brainwashing the masses into thinking the BBC is the only news channel. Also, their reporting of this joke of a letter by the PC Brigade admonishing Cameron was a disgrace.
And in others news, reassurance is at least provided that all is well at the very top of the top talent tree overseeing the BBC….
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/taking-stock_19.html
‘the holder of more Chancellorships than anyone in history’
The BBC ‘never mind the quality, feel the width’ priorities clearly inspiring all levels below.
‘holiday home in the Tarn area of the Midi-Pyrenees – a rather shambling 17th century farmbuilding, but complete with ageing tennis court, small pool and frog ponds’
What, no duck house in the moat? Clearly a man of the people.
A wonderfully “balanced” article on the South Sudan conflict on the BBC website (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27102643). Let’s get one thing clear: very unpleasant things are going on there and it’s not a very nice place for its inhabitants. But the BBC is very coy (that is, silent) on a major cause of the problems, many which of stem from the desire of the predominately Muslim north to try and impose its will on the predominately Christian and Animist south. Instead we get multiple references to “certain groups”, “various communities” and “mosques”. The overall impression is that these “communities” are the main victims – although words such as “Muslim” and “Islam” are not actually used. A more realistic assessment is that there is ongoing anarchy and civil war and some of it is payback time for decades of persecution by the north (which is not meant to justify it in any way of course). The 4 billion pound BBC – proud to bring you censored “News Lite”.
Well posted, Ian..It is the usual poor biased, pro muslim reporting which is the norm at the bbbc.
‘How can this be allowed to continue?’, I ask myself.
The bbbc don’t care, they are irresponsible almost subversive in their output. They are completely out of control and the entire lot needs to be closed down
An article on the BBC website discussing the link between leaded petrol and crime, and a graph to prove the link.
There is a correlation that introducing lead into peoples bodies makes them more aggressive, and also that some countries have not phased leaded petrol others have not introduced unleaded at all.
What they don’t tell you is which those countries are, so I will:
Mixed leaded / unleaded
Algeria
Tunisia
Egypt
Albania
Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia – Herzegovina (the former Yugoslavia).
Syria
Uzbekistan
Afghanistan
Unleaded only
Yemen
North Korea
Burma
I think they might have a point !
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27067615
So, there was no crime before the advent of the motor vehicle?
Interesting point.
Interesting. I wonder, will this introduce a new Twinkie defence?
More biased terminology from the BBC in the headline for this article about UKIP posters. “Nigel Farage defends UKIP poster campaign”.
Notice the word “defends”. This is no doubt to give the impression that UKIP have done something wrong.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27105374
To the BBC they have done something wrong. By existing at all.
Slightly off topic but have just taken a screen shot of the DM comments re the UKIP posters.
Currently the top comment is pro UKIP with 3426 up votes and 323 downvotes, there is not a anti UKIP comment in sight, lets see what tomorrow brings …
Not to mention nearly every contribution is from people who hate UKIP. The only quote in support is from someone they make sure to point out is a former Tory donor. Nobody is even on hand to challenge the baseless claims from Labour’s little minions that the campaign is “racist” when there’s no mention of race anywhere on any single one of the posters.
Dear Diane, Ken, Owen and all the other lefty Connected supporters of the amazing, what Len called ‘Step Forward’ Venezuela way.
http://www.trendingcentral.com/venezuelan-tyranny-exposes-evil-british-left/
Just wanted to let you all know that the BBC has reported that unfortunately Diane’s prediction has turned to worms! Remember what you said Diane? “a better way is possible”.
Such a shame the inevitable socialist nightmare, like what Labour did to this country, (twice now since they had power in my lifetime), is happening:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-27099900
Owen you just make me laugh so much, (from about 3 mins in – but even funnier from 5 mins), how wrong can you get son:
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Diane
Thank you Charlatans, I have used your post for my face book page!
Dear God! I gritted my teeth and endured this, mercifully short, interview. The delusion of this woman is wonderful to behold. (that will be the end to my voluntary exposure to Abbott for this year).
Owen you just make me laugh so much (from about 3 mins in – but even funnier from 5 mins)
Hilarious………….and even funnier when you know that the idiot actually believes the garbage that he spouts.
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it, anytime I see OJ Simpleton running off at the mouth, I cannot help but think it is an old sketch by Hugh Laurie from the 80’s, and I always wait for Stephen Fry to walk upon the scene.
Robert Spencer on Russian TV, not on INBBC TV-
Unlike Russia’s ‘RT’, INBBC would have had on an Islamic apologist, instead of Robert Spencer-
“Video: Robert Spencer on RT’s Worlds Apart, full edited interview as broadcast”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/video-robert-spencer-on-rts-worlds-apart-full-edited-interview-as-broadcast/comment-page-1#comment-1039414
On defence of New Yorkers:-
1.) Pamela Geller-
“NYPD’s ‘Muslim mapping’ saved lives”
http://pamelageller.com/2014/04/nypds-muslim-mapping-saved-lives.html/
2.) Islam Not BBC (INBBC)-
“New York police disband Muslim ‘eavesdropping’ unit”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27055329
If you were an alien who crash landed on Earth and out of sheer boredom ended up reading this report, you’d not know that the Bomber followed a particular religion of peace!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27099441
Yes it did stand out that a certain word was missing from the description of the bomber. Bit pointless as we all know.
When the identity of perpetrators in a BBC story is either omitted or strangely described then you know what that means.
Strange how we never used to have problems with gangs of “Asian men”. Time was (and still is for me) when that meant Chinese or similar. Now it seems to mean something else.
The anniversary of the bombing was covered on the 6pm Radio 4 news. Apparently it was carried out by ‘ethnic Chechens’.
Someone posted the story before, but just read a BBC News FaceBook feed story entitled “Are cheap package holidays responsible for rising rates of skin cancer?”
They may have got away relatively unscathed if they’d left out the word “cheap”, but they didn’t.
So the ensuing comment thread is a treat.
Bet they’re wishing they could vanish it.
Quite the perfect nightcap to the Easter weekend.
I thought it was the sun that gave you skin cancer not cheap package holidays,or really really dear holidays.
Trojan Horse News
R Spencer
“This is the Britain that British authorities have chosen.
This is the Britain that they want.
They refused to believe that Islamic supremacism existed. They refused to believe that Muslims would make any demands or threats against the prevailing non-Muslim culture.
They stigmatized those who warned that they would as “bigots” and “Islamophobes.”
When it turned out that the people who were issuing the warnings were right, they went into full appeasement mode before the supremacists;
Note that Tahir Alam dismisses all concern about this school as “Islamophobia.” He knows what buttons to push to make the dhimmi Brit (Gov) fall into line”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/uk-school-at-center-of-muslim-takeover-plot-had-morality-squads-of-boys-bullying-girls-not-wearing-veils-and-confiscating-easter-eggs
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/471558/Birmingham-school-is-claimed-to-confiscate-Easter-eggs
Given the choice of appeasing the ‘extremists’ and the moderates the Fascists will appease the ‘extremists’ every time. Mostly because they haven’t got the first clue what Islam is about, and they’re scared to death of their own bully words.
So if an ‘extremist’ says he wants to ban all talk of Christian festivals, which the majority of Muslims are happy with, the fascists will seek to give him (for it’s always him) what he wants. They will not consider the effects on the wider community because they’re terrified of being called Islamophobic, or worse ‘Waycist’.
The Left see Islam as the quickest way of dismantling our society. Trouble is, the thick bastards can’t see they’re in the mixer too.
Another complete waste of our telly tax tonight with a dire adaptation of Jamaica Inn, not faithful to the book and can’t understand a bloody word of dialogue. Should have gone with ITV’s Tommy Cooper biopic.
The story so far…
No anachronistic placement of BBC-approved role models from ethnic or religious minorities (we seem to have been delivered from Robin Hood excesses)
Location filming veers between Cornwall and ‘other moorland’, presumably the Yorkshire moors and impenetrable darkness
Cornish accents reasonably accurate (spoiled by poor sound) in my local experience
Heroine seems to deal with everything by going for a walk
Smugglers’ goods apparently delivered by sea by no-one
Closet gay vicar in attendance – not having read the story I have already marked him down as the brains behind the smuggling organisation,
Day 2 and the BBC has turned up the sound (do they not perform test screenings?) so we now know for sure that Joss IS mumbling
Taking his acting cue from Col Kurtz of Apocalypse Now (although thankfully without the head washing) he stares moodily into space and mumbles incoherently about ‘wreckin’ in between alcoholic binges and informing the heroine that her father was a smuggler
Still he seems in pretty good fettle for an alcoholic as he leaps off across the moors followed by Mary Ellen who still seems to be able to spy at will without any retribution
As predicted the closet gay vicar has turned out to be No1 (albeit without hollowed out volcano). Mary cheated of her night of cross-dressing passion with likeable rogue Jem (credentials established by selling stolen horse back to silly Tory magistrate’s wife the original owner)
In summary – less mud, more rain, still lots of walking to no good purpose and Mary Ellen’s unshakeable moral superiority is under severe pressure
PS good to see Moaning Myrtle again
Well an interesting interview on ‘Today’ between Paul Nuttall, (UKIP) and the hysterical Labour Fascist who screamed his meaningless bully word (waycism) at every opportunity, but was unable to explain why it was waycism.
Paul Nuttall put in a good performance, it could have been better, but it left the Labour Fascist looking completely stupid, out of touch, and a bigot who screams ‘waycism’ whenever he gets frightened by other peoples ideas.
I hope that everyone here will support a campaign to make wrongful accusation of racism a criminal offence. This is a word which can do tremendous damage to peoples careers and their personal lives. It is absolutely wrong that the Fascists can use it with such impunity on the basis that Liebour believe white people are an inferior group and deserve it.
If someone calls me a racist when I am not – is that libel ?
The word ‘waaaycist’ is so devalued it’s now meaningless.
Racism is now code for Anti White.
Jared Taylor ” Why do they call us names, waaycist, bigot, nazi ?”
Yes it is, but can you afford to use our ridiculous legal system which effectively limits access to ‘justice’ only to the very wealthy. The UKs most expensive private case involves Libel and the costs were in excess of £100Million.
I think the answer is yes. Libel law applies even to online exchanges (such as forums like this), which is why people need to be very careful about what they write about specific individuals online.
I actually did threaten legal action over accusations, slanders and libels made against me on another forum (where I was attacked by the usual left-liberal fascist goons and called a racist, homophobic bigot, etc and much, much worse, for declaring my support for UKIP). I got a public written apology on the forum and I didn’t take the matter any further – but the threat of my being fully prepared to do so worked.
The fact that I could prove that not only was I not a homophobe (I am very open about my own homosexuality, after all) and have never uttered a racial epithet in my life in word or on screen/paper (yes, my best friends really are from the Caribbean and I had a Malaysian partner for five years!) seemed more than enough reason for those idiots to very hastily retract their foolish slurs.
The ‘meeja’ – being intolerant and undemocratic – allows anyone who uses the ‘waysist!’ word in order to denigrate UKIP and its supporters a free, uncritical pass. They should be very much more careful – and UKIP and its supporters should become much more prepared to face down their slanderers in a court of law if necessary.
clarification needed 😀
happy to oblige
The left have seen to it that indirectly we have all become involuntarily racists by removing our right to question anything that ascertains to the colonisation of our country. Frustration has made it that way.
I have seen a very good man given a final warning because of his audacity to question the amount of time a colleague was taking off for a myriad of cultural reasons and the ‘managements’ inability or desire to act…
This has been the big mistake of the liberals. Driving people into their private thoughts is no way to create a harmonious country. In private people all speak very differently. We all know this. I suspect that the liberals do as well and hope that by instituting a repressive regime on the public sphere they can hold the line.
Never will work. Never has worked. Read your history books liberal idiots.
It is one of trhe main reasons for the success of UKIP. Not so much about Farage and the policies but a protest against the elite’s attempt to silence us.
The BBC? Has not got a clue about this.
Just read the story of the young Brit deported from Sri Lanka becasue of a Budda tattoo. the bBC end their peice with this:
Over the past year monks belonging to certain hardline Buddhist groups have led violent attacks against Muslims and Christians, a trend which has given rise to considerable concern among religious minorities in Sri Lanka.
So on that note when was the last time the bBC wrote something similar for violent attacks by Muslims in which to explain their blood lust?
The poor BBC, still desperately trying to discredit the peace in Sri Lanka. Not perfect, but still pretty impressive if you go by these figures
http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx?country=186
Did something happen in 2009? Maybe the BBC could find out?
According to the CIA Sri Lanka’s economy is doing more than OK
“Sri Lanka continues to experience strong economic growth following the end of the 26-year conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.”
GDP – real growth rate:
6.3% (2013 est.)
6.4% (2012 est.)
8.2% (2011 est.)
(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ce.html)
and … on the very same day … reports of beside themselves parents pleading with the Islam poster boys
Boko Haram to release their 230 schoolgirl captives!
BBC – from preachers to slave traders
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22538888
ps … don t hold anything fragile
shame on the BBC
surprisingly not BBC news
Nigeria: Jihadists burn church on Easter Sunday, murder over 150
http://www.spyghana.com/police-and-boko-haram-massacre-over-150-dead/
Hi everyone. It’s Earth Day. Pollution is bad. Couldn’t agree more. I checked, and think they bought into global warming in 2000. Does anyone know what year they managed the unprincipled sashay into climate change? Anyway, I missed Earth Hour, so I’ll be switching on all my electrical appliances for sixty minutes later today. You have to do your bit. And yes, the world has gone mad.
” It’s Earth Day ”
The agenda by the U.N is to do away with our separate nations and become global citizens.
”And yes, the world has gone mad. ”
No it’s not gone mad, the long term plan is intentional, deliberate and quite diabolical.
Radio 4 is broadcasting the ‘Soul Music’ series, with Myffanwy being the subject.
They covered the Aberfan disaster, but did not touch upon perhaps the single most squalid and disgusting thing the Labour party ever did (and God knows there’s been a lot!)
For those who don’t know, following the disaster and the deaths of the children, a fund was set up for the families of those who lost their children, and the people of Britain, shocked and touched by the disaster gave generously.
Unfortunately they didn’t know how those funds were going to be used, and the Labour administration of the funds got off to an appalling start, after all no one can fuck things up like a Socialist can!
Parents whose children had been rescued but not physically injured were barred from claiming’ even though the trustees were making payments to them, the Labour run Charity Commission threatened to remove trustees and seize the money from them personally if they did not cease.
They tried to implement some kind of deluded test to see ‘how close parents had been to children who had been lost’.
“Although the Davies Report had found that the NCB’s liability was “incontestable and uncontested” and it was widely felt that the NCB should have to bear the entire cost of removing the dangerous tips above Aberfan, Robens refused to pay the full cost, thereby putting the Trustees of the Disaster Fund under “intolerable pressure”. Robens then “raided” the Fund for £150,000 to cover the cost of removing the tips – an action that was “unquestionably unlawful” under charity law – and the Charity Commission took no action to protect the Fund from Robens’s dubious appropriation of funds”.
Robens was a trade unionist and Labour Minister. Nothing but nothing can excuse what he did immediately after the incident throws into clarity the nature of the Fascist Labour party.
The Queen received a posy from a three-year-old girl with the inscription: “From the remaining children of Aberfan”. Onlookers said she was close to tears.
But not the Labour people !
When word of the Aberfan disaster reached him, Robens did not immediately go to the scene; he instead went ahead with his investiture as Chancellor of the University of Surrey, and did not arrive at the village until the evening of the following day (Saturday).
When he did get there he lied that the springs under the spoil heaps were not known when they were common knowledge.
he refused to allow Coal Board funds to be used for the removal of the remaining tips above Aberfan.
Robens refused to give evidence to the commission set up to hear evidence as to how the events happened. He later changed his mind & did attend:
“Lord Robens made a dramatic appearance during the final days of the Tribunal to give testimony, at which point he conceded that the National Coal Board had been at fault; had this admission been made at the outset, much of the tribunal’s inquiry would have been unnecessary”.
In keeping with the current Labour employment policy (for their mates) of no blame no accountability:
Nine senior NCB staff were named as having some degree of responsibility for the accident, but no NCB staff were ever demoted, sacked or prosecuted, and Lord Robens and the entire Board of the NCB retained their positions.
If you have the misfortune to open your door to a fascist party canvasser this election time, along with the usual grievances, ask them about what their party thought they were playing at during the Aberfan disaster, and whether they think now might be the time to make a public apology to the town for what they did. Reparations from Labour party funds might go someway to making any apology have some meaning.
Truly an episode of shame only the Labour party could be capable of.
Expect the BBC/Guardianistas to go ballistic over the UKIP posters. I can hear them already- racist, doomladen, evil, and so on and on. Talking liberal heads writhing in anger. Nothing so funny as an indignant liberal.
The bandwagon is rolling and all the liberal whining is not going to stop it. We are going to get a referendum on our terms not Cameron’s or anyone else.
“…Nothing so funny as an indignant liberal.”
True, but also nothing quite so dangerous, either. Whilst it’s certainly easy to expose the hidden fascist concealed just beneath the surface of most ‘progressives’ one needs to exercise a certain amount of caution when teasing out their inner dictator; things can get quite nasty and very personal remarkably quickly if one isn’t careful with such creatures.
Anyway, you’re right: the BBC has wasted little time in pouring its usual bile on UKIPs biggest pre-election campaign to date: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27105374
One can sense the Corporation’s barely restrained vitriol in the article, which is actually quite amusing.
I happen to think it’s very effective, well designed campaign. UKIP ‘coming of age’ at last and looking every bit as professional as their sneering critics.
I agree, it is professional and well measured.
Reading the comments of the poster story in the on the printed BBC site (Guardian) are a hoot, yet from what I can see the top comment agrees they are not racist.
Quote
“It can hardly be accused of being racist. It is a reflection of reality, a reality we should not shy away from addressing as it is changing the fabric of British society and access to jobs for the less well off”
But when one comment “F**k UKIP” can muster 166 upvotes you realise the mentality of the average Guardian reader!
I don’t think it’s a good or effective poster, the one with the out of work worker, but nor do I think it’s racist.
They made sure to avoid accusations of racism by not featuring a Turk from Berlin or an Algerian from Paris.
I was persuaded to watch Jamaica Inn last night, the new drama series from the BBC.Utterly unwatchable, or should I say unlistenable. The sound quality was so poor you could not make out what the actors were saying. Apparently the BBC was flooded with complaints. Today’s Telegraph has an article dedicated to the sound problems, with lots of readers comment complaining about the BBC.
Just what is the BBC for these days ? News is biased and late and unreliable. BBC documentaries are dumbed down to the point of being unwatchable, Channel 4 (and even Channel 5) make better documentaries these days.
The BBC can’t even make a decent drama without messing up the most basic technical details. Anyone who has done any film or video production knows the vital importance of sound. It is no exaggeration to say that sound is 50% of the production, i.e. just as important as the pictures. But the BBC can’t even getthat right. Maybe they should have subcontracted the production to the ITV team responsible for Downton Abbey?
The BBC are selling us short here, what the hell did the production cost? I wonder if the sound will be improved on tonight’s episode….
Its interesting, we were told that with the advent of HD we would also have Dolby 5.1 digital sound on drama’s and music programs, and indeed we did when the BBC HD Channel was launched circa 2008, Later Live With Jools Holland was in 5.1 as were drama’s of the time. My TV hasn’t flagged up a BBC 5.1 production since Christmas (Strictly). The bit rate of HD back then was also superior, now we have HD ‘lite’ almost indistinguishable to the standard def channels, which incidentally have a higher sound output.
This of course is to save bandwidth to allow for HD versions of dross like BBC3 and the ‘nudging’ of Ceebies and CBBC also to be in HD (why?)
Geoff – yup, the Beeb used to be known for technical excellence, but no more. I tried Jam Inn on 2 TVs, and on Iplayer – all terrible.
Some turned on subtitles, many switched off.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0426t6z/Jamaica_Inn_Episode_1/
They want to replace BBC 3 , when it goes to iplayer only ,with BBC 1+ 1 in SD & HD . ITV , Chans 4 & 5 are all opposing it . It would affect their advertising as BBC 1 would be getting 2 bites of the prime time audience . I hope the commercial chans win this .
Odd for them to get the tech so badly wrong.
Haven’t yet watched it (probably not now) but presuming this was the result of using real locations?
If so, such as ‘Murder in Paradise’ (if dire) or ‘The Three Musketeers’ (quite enjoyed it, even if the viewer figures tanked) had no obvious issues.
Why the difference?
You should have watched the Tommy Cooper dramatised biography on ITV. Excellent performances all round. The biggest surprise was how good David Threlfall was as Cooper. It would have been easy for Threlfall to fall back on a Mike Yarwood type impression but he actually inhabited Cooper’s character and if you closed your eyes you would believe it was actually Cooper speaking. He even managed the difficult task of capturing Cooper’s comic timing in the recreations of his act.
I know this isn’t about BBC bias but it knocked spots off the BBC’s recreations of the lives of Frankie Howard, Hughie Green and Kenneth Williams. No hidden agenda for this ITV drama, just good story telling.
Another take:
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/are-your-sound-engineers-25.html
‘there was no apology for any technical problem at the end’
Shocked, I tell you. Shocked!
Much better to tell everyone it was alllll fine.
GW – no doubt they ‘got it about right’.
I see one of the bBC’s favourite relgious bigots has passed away:
Birmingham Central Mosque chairman Dr Mohammad Naseem dies aged 90
Yup the twat who glorified 9/11,7/7, who got the bBC to stop a gay muslim going on TV, who did everything he could to turn the UK into an Islamic state died today and is currently burning in hell with his pedopillic master.
Expect the bBC to go quiet for half a day
… any Mandela armbands left?
Can he deal with 72 virgins at his age or do you get a new body in Allah’s heaven? A good question for Mona Saddiqui to tackle on Platitude for the Day.
No virgins, I’m afraid. Only if he dies during physical Jihad (“Those who kill and are killed” Koran 9:111).
So the old boy’s sh*t out of luck…
Derek Bateman was a long-standing BBC Scotland presenter who now, set up with his own blog, feels free to offer his view of England and Tory policies which presumably made him to toast of the BBC canteen in Glasgow. Here’s a taste of his sarcasm:
Sorry for allowing your (English) policies to kill men in our biggest city in their mid-fifties – still it keeps pension costs down.
Sorry you (England) have so many shaven-headed louts with pit bulls on crime-ridden estates and have created one of the least equal societies on earth.
Sorry for thinking of you as stuck-up, effete, self-centred, unreliable t**ts when there is absolutely nothing in history to support such bigotry.<
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomgallagher/100268387/ive-never-voted-conservative-but-scotlands-anti-tory-hatefest-fills-me-with-shame/
Typical!
Maybe you should have referenced the original article by Bateman instead of relying on some edited highlights!!
http://derekbateman.co.uk/2014/02/21/these-are-a-few-of-my-favourite-things/
Tom Gallagher’s knowledge of Scottish Politics also seems to be somewhat limited when he claims:
“When Thatcher was pursuing economic policies that pushed fragile heavy industrial firms on Clydeside towards insolvency, Scots had the option of voting for independence. But very few did (I being one of those few in 1983).” Until the forthcoming referendum those resident in Scotland have never had the opportunity to vote for independence and certainly not in the UK General Election of 1983 to which he refers.
“I was girdin’ masel for a hurl at Gordon Brown with no little distaste I have to say since I can’t think of the sulking beast of Fife without a sense of dread and longing for a talent so wasted. So I was pleased enough to be side tracked by the latest attack on my good self in the mainstream media. The latest appears in…can you guess? Yes, the Daily Telegraph which not only omitted the context of my remarks but lifted them straight from Britain’s house magazine of doctrinaire bigotry, the Daily Express. ”
http://derekbateman.co.uk/2014/04/22/making-a-difference/
You would have thought that Professor Tom Gallagher would have at least referenced his sources to avoid claims of plagiarism against himself and the Telegraph.
Yeah, he’s just having a laugh. It’s funny. It’s not racist is it? It can’t be racist to make fun of the “English” can it?
No more “racist” than the original article it parodied.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/19/scottish-independence-76-things-apologise
Then again, I was not making any claims of “racism”. I merely pointed out that the article in the Telegraph was using selective quotes out of context.
I hadn’t seen that list and glancing at it I don’t find it funny. As you’ve read it does the Guardian list say anything about what the Scots are like? The other list seems to be full of claims about what the English are like.
The Telegraph article did give context and described Bateman’s comments as ‘sarcasm’, which seems fair.
It turns out that just a single Liebour Fascist MP called the UKIP adverts waycist, and was unable to substantiate his claims on the Today program this morning.
But the fact that one single false shout has been made is sufficient for the biased BBC to give it the headline spot on the news.
Outrageous bias, but I honestly believe it might have the reverse effect the BBC hopes for
Thoughtful
I totally agree………Same bias all day, every day. Day after day after day after day. I have just been watching Kay Burleigh try and take on Farage over the ‘waycist’ poster campaign. He dealt with her very professionally despite her coming across with the usual waycist stuff.
“Only bigots have a problem with UKIP’s posters.
“The Westminster Bubble is effectively telling us that members of the public have no right to discuss policy areas that are central to their democracy.”
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4892/only_bigots_have_a_problem_with_ukip_s_posters
Don’t forget the BBC. It does not do free speech either.
So that’ll be the non-racist Labour party supporting equal immigration criteria for all foreigners, black Africans and brown Indians as well as white Europeans, wherever they come from then?
They didn’t support white immigration even when it was white farmers fleeing persecution in the communist paradise of Mugabes Zimbabwe.
That’ll be the 1997 Labour Party that had mass immigration and the trashing of our culture as the hidden gems of their election manifesto.
So anybody what to read some impartial reporting about wind farms from the bBC:
Spanish headwinds
Since the time of Don Quixote, the winds have blown strongly across the Spanish plains. But these days, Cervantes’ deluded hero would be more likely to go tilting at turbines rather than mills. This is because sunny Spain has established itself as a European superpower in wind energy as well as in solar.….And in marked contrast to some of the nimby attitudes displayed by many Britons towards onshore wind turbines,Spanish villagers welcomed the new technology with open arms,
Now here’s a few facts:
Spain: Area: 505,992 km2, Pop:46,704,314,Density: 92/km2
UK:Area:243,610 km2.Pop:63,705,000,Density:255.6/km2
Density = people per square Km.
Spain is also the country that invented night-time solar power.
When the sun doesn’t shine just burn diesel and sell the output as solar. That is probably where Ed Davey got the idea to claim ‘Wind is Green’ while burning diesel to fill the gap when the wind doesn’t blow.
Mason was true to form today reporting on the UKIP poster campaign. Apparently the concerns expressed are only ‘perceptions’, a word he inserted into every sentence he uttered. He signed off with the infamous ‘ some people’ think UKIP is being racist. What he meant of course is that the BBC thinks that. ‘Some people’ are never identified……useful little phrase isn’t it?
No matter who, and they are all doing it, the ‘Some people/critics/community leaders are saying’ technique is now about as credible as a Newsnight/BIJ or Nick Robbo source.
Doesn’t happen often enough, but I do love it when an interviewee is doorstepped with such as this and demand to know who, how many, etc…. and then watch the hapless mic jockey gabbling away that they can’t say but they have been told…etc.
Kills what is nine out of ten times a set-up by the producer or a tribal chum’s press release stone dead.
Sadly only works when live as the subsequent edit can easily be sorted in post to claim an uncooperative interviewee.
I have to now been viewing UKIP as none-too-different, a bit one trick, Farage-dependent and riskily divisive (given the alternatives to the Coalition), but in the EU elections I am erring on joining those ‘sending a message’, as the stunts being pulled on them by the politico-media establishment have truly backfired with me.
The BBC’s shafting attempts have been so nakedly obvious, and dire (Laura K, HIGNFY), they’ve inspired their very own Operation Clarke County (h/t: Katz again) reaction.
And while the result may damage Dave, I could care less anyway, but mainly because the BBC and its Ed puppet will really be on the back foot when their precious EU is exposed in a very unwelcome set of ways.
Pretty much why I’m voting UKIP. Its such a juicy kick up the arse for the sneering political elite and their MSN stooges. I noted the Telegraph stated that UKIP were “stealing” Tory votes last week. Stealing? As if they bloody own us? Pah! Roll on May!
Richard Bacon is discussing UKIP and ”dem waaaaycist ” posters.
Let’s just face it, the entire British population is racist from John O’Groats to Lands End. So why do Third World immigrants continue to come here, if we’re so ‘waaycist’ ? unless it’s all BS !!
Didn’t take that much effort on my part to predict this reaction from the BBC. Don’t they ever meet real people?
Everyone is a little bit waycist!
Of course some are more racist than others …
I have proudly claimed the badge of a racist.
All you have to do is say, it`s better than being “racialist” like they are.
Believe me-nobody these days who hurls cliched abuse at opposing views to theirs knows the difference.
And to watch the cogs stick as they get the Iphone out to google comebacks is quite funny.
“Are we all to be racist father?” as asked in Father Ted is the test…I know , if those UKIP posters are racist…then we all all Racisters today(to quote JFK…the lower grade of liberal oaf won`t argue that one either!).
Good old years of compulsory schooling and the BBC…it`s working well these days for me,,,
I once caused apoplexy in a meeting with a number of lefties when I said that I had never met anyone who wasn’t racist in some manner. They nearly exploded when I pointed out that each one of them was guilty of some mild form of racism at some point. I didn’t stay in that job long.
We all dislike difference, it’s natural, an inbuilt primitive instinct. But then so are lust and violence.
Civilised people go beyond base instinct and judge others on more salient features like behaviour and competence.
That’s why I can’t stand socialists! 😉
Jeez! Miranda Hart to revive The Generation Game? More BBC feminism.
This just shows how completely devoid of new ideas the BBC really are and their reliance and over exposure of their own ‘talent’ who only they think are funny or entertaining.
Saturday night TV fayre is dire and unimaginative and almost unchanged for years – generic Lottery show, Casualty, Strictly, Match Of The Day and the occasional Dr Who. Now we can add the Generation Game, what next Noel’s Houseparty?
Oh and I bet a woman will also get the job of the new presenter on Strictly.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2608560/Give-twirl-Miranda-Generation-Game-set-return-hosted-TVs-queen-comedy.html#ixzz2zN0bVAgt
Jeez!! Woman to present light entertainment programme on BBC. Such bias and evidence of rampant feminism – not!!!
Albachild my simple soul,
It’s called tokenism.
Only in your prejudiced mind – for others it is just someone presenting a tv show.
So in why your opinion the need to change the format? If it ain’t broke why ‘fix’ it?
There are far more humorous and better qualified presenters out there, men and women, Hart is just a BBC luvvie that few apart from those in BBC towers actually find funny and conveniently a woman…
The BBC have agenda’s and you know it, one of those being why they would never ask the exonerated Jim Davidson back to present it.
Opinion:
“……….. Hart is just a BBC luvvie that few apart from those in BBC towers actually find funny and conveniently a woman…”
Fact:
“The opening episode of the third series [Miranda] became one of the most watched shows in the UK over the Christmas period, attracting a total audience of over 11.5 million viewers.”
Only the first episode?
People obviously caught on quickly, oh and you answer my question.
Edit: ‘didn’t answer my question’
Will Hart do her favourite and – seemingly- only comic effect and keep falling over on the new, updated Generation Game? Will the show only have mixed-race and other ethnic couples as contestants? ( I know a large number of TV commercials seem to be populated by a bigger percentage of mixed-race pairings than is actually the case in real life).
As for Hart’s bewildering popularity, all I can say that in this age of the low information, short attention span, non-critical viewer of the MTV variety, the viewing public, starved of any decent talent, will devour the crumbs of mediocre entertainment the broadcasters – especially the BBC-throw at them. If people are told often enough a “comedian” is “award winning” and “very funny” they will believe it, having nothing better to compare them with.
Alba child my simple innocent naive soul.
Millions read the Sun newspaper, you’re not going to tell me it’s a quality newspaper.
And that was shite ,but when you get independence , get her up to Glasgow if Salmond allows it ,to make some SNP BC , or whatever name it is called to then , Saturday night entertainment programme , because `X` Factor & Strictly, infact anything “Made in England” ain`t coming your way anymore !
Not sure how we’d prevent Wee Eck from watching Strictly, jamming stations on Hadrian’s Wall? Although I suspect he’s more into reading Mein Kampf.
What will happen is that the lucky buggers won’t have to pay the (English) TV tax and will get their BBC for free.
it WILL be Noels House-party …. if he buys the BBC 😀
…. sorry ……………………………. ” I ll get me coat”
The Generation Game. Now you know the BBC has lost it. Better if they bought back the test card. More interesting.
Although I actually agree with Albaman on this one, and I’m willing to take the Miranda Hart appointment at face value, one prediction I’ll make is that the cuddly toy on the conveyer belt won’t be a golliwog 🙂
one prediction I’ll make is that the cuddly toy on the conveyer belt won’t be a golliwog 🙂
I bet it keeps falling over though …
Ah, yes– Miranda Hart, whose role on Call The Midwife as a part-time nurse/midwife married to a cop, “slumming” from her privileged background, echoes her own privileged background as a member of an aristocratic family, the Hart-Dykes.
I can see why she is billed by a truncated version of her family name– calling her “Miranda Hart-Dyke” would either be false advertising, or superfluous if true.
Probably because the BBC believe that the word ‘Dyke’ is banned as an offensive unPC name for a lesbian and therefore cannot be uttered by any presenter.
Must have made captioning that multi-grand piccy in the foyer a tricky one.
Just another trust-fund liberal.
France-Britain: Islamic jihad threat.
It seems that BBC-NUJ’s ‘Europe’ newspage has become a ‘Ukraine’ page, so BBC-NUJ ignores the following, in that distant country of France:-
“French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve will submit an anti-radicalisation plan to the cabinet on Wednesday aimed at stopping youths from joining jihadist groups in Syria.”
http://www.france24.com/en/20140422-france-syria-anti-radicalisation-jihad/
Peter Herbert chair of the society of Black Lawyers & ‘leading’ human rights lawyer, despite being very pale.
Advocating on PM the re-education of people who don’t understand racism.
It was all going quite well until he came out with that one!
If Farage, however, talked about “re-education” then it would be on the BBC 6 o’clock news. .
Maybe a nice camp for any in need?
Tony Blackburn being asked as to his opinion on the licence fee, and totally missing the point as he says it’s ‘terrific value for money’.
It might be if payment for it wasn’t imposed criminalising nearly 200 000 poor people a year.
Tony knows his music. He must be one of the few older DJ’s that actually likes music rather than seeing DJ’ing (if that’s what its called) as a vehicle for his ego and wealth. However he ain’t no great brain.
Nice enough, but you’re right about his brain. He was on Sky this morning, describing some Australian DJ playing with a record player (I think it’s called “scratching”) as fantastic, but dismissing Shakespeare as boring and pointless.
Well Verdi, Gounod, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Rossini, Verdi, Wagner, Berlioz, Schubert, Bellini, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Walton, Sibelius, Faure and the millions of people who quote him everyday (as Bernard Levin demonstrated) might disagree.
‘terrific value for money’
Not the only point he’s missing, beyond the state compulsion backed by draconian penalties.
A £145.50 licensed, taxed and insured car would seem ‘terrific value for money’ to many, but if they found it only steered to the left, making a sensible journey in a straight line impossible, taking you to a destination of its choosing with a sat nav telling you are where you need to be, compulsion would be one of few means to ensure folk used it.
In an almost unbelievable two fingered salute to the Eurosceptics in and supporting his party, leftie Dave has chosen to invite the President of the European Council Herman Von Rompuy to dine & stay with him at Chequers tonight.
Of course the BBC isn’t covering this, no surprises there, but what a time to pick!
For a long time I have been saying that Leftie Dave does not want to be re-elected, and that there is plenty of money waiting for him for his dirty dealings after his stint in office.
It beggars belief that a Prime Minister being forced into third place in the coming elections would further alienate his supporters in this way.
It must present a dilemma for the BBC though, attack a PM of a party they hate, by publicising a visit from someone who pays the bills. Now I would love to have been a fly on the wall when they’re discussing that one !
I wonder where we will be this time next week, after today’s release of the UKIP Poster campaign and resulting relentless msm negative UKIP flak has taken its toll?
UK Polling Report, post Farage & Clegg head to head on BBC and LBC, quite an unbelievable UKIP rise and must be terrible shock to LibLabCon:
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/european-elections
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/04/13/uk-britain-politics-ukip-idUKBREA3C09S20140413
I am personally betting the big names like Nick Robinson, Peter Allen, Peter Snow, Kay Burley are all taking home goals by this universal, OT, mudslinging at UKIP. Do we all now see past that? Or does it stick?
Notwithstanding the real deal is on polling day, I am at a total loss trying to understand how our tolerant Nation, full of such hardworking intelligent people, can be so fooled for so long after the flocks of chickens have been coming home to roost in every Department of State under their watch? Labour still top of a lot polls?
Labour are the biggest blame shifters going. I’ve seen posters and stickers saying “Don’t blame me – *I* voted Labour”
Newsnight: main story: sacking of Moyes at Man. Utd. Hang on, managers from premier clubs come and go all the time. Is some Editor at Newsnight a Man. U. fan and wanted to push it up the agenda?
A manager getting the sack after one year, after he lasted– what? About ten years in his previous position (whether deservedly, your call)? Replacing a man who was there before there even was an Old Trafford (they just built it up around him as he simply stood there and Ferguson’d)? Dunno if that should be the top story, but you must admit, MUFC have a large following, and even amongst its haters, news about it is eagerly sought. So tell ’em the gory details and just get it the hell over with.
So, according to most and if not all of the Left Leaning press (which includes the far left BBC) UKIP is a racist organisation. Really? They haven’t thought this through have they? The leader of this racist party married a German. If it was a racist party, why would the members have their leader as someone who married a German?
And what race is European again? Xenophobic maybe? But not racist.
so you admit then that by definition the idiot who called the UKIP anti European immigration posters ‘racist’ must be wrong?
But Jon Snow said that this gave the lie to “British jobs for British workers” which is UKIP innit?
Or was that Gordon Brown under Labours Turd Reich?
Anyway Snow turned his back in a marked manner on the UKIP bloke who was tiring of educating the red-socked fop with the white poppy accesory?
So there-THAT is how angry the Liberal elite are with “Zenno Foabes” like UKIP.
The Snow is melting…so climate change can only be a good thing if we lose tosspots like him.
My favourite today was Nick Robinson on the BBC news, with an incredulous reaction to a black bloke who said he agreed with some of UKIP’s policies.
Priceless stuff…
The UKIP hit-pieces are coming thick and fast (Dan Hodges in The Telegraph today is a Goebbels Classic) and there’s still a month to go.
I don’t know which airforce general said it, but:
“you take the most flak when you’re directly over the target”
Let’s hope the liberal media keeps it up. There has been a real change in this country and the more they whine the more votes go to UKIP.
Yesterday’s people with yesterday’s opinions. I am enjoying seeing them floundering.
I have just read Robinson’s drivel on the BBC site. Whining on about Farage’s wife. If that is the best he can do he should follow Moyes into oblivion.
Nobody voting UKIP cares. How hard is that for the liberal to understand?
Very hard by the look of it.
Full panic mode at the BBC aren`t they?
Landslide for Nigel coming up…and the lefties will bury themselves further as they sneer at the electorate for voting for the ” Ray Cystz”.
Reckon I`ll be able to get a few hundred votes for Nig if I get an extra falafel wrap at Abduls House of Hummous. They wrap the kebabs in them if you ask nicely!
The Telegraph made a serious error with Hodges nasty little rant there.
He`s now in the Polly Tunnel(urgh!)…in that I will never read another piece he writes, whilst he is still employed.
Another candidate for Johann Hari`s New College of Churnalism
MALI:- Islamic jihadists murder French hostage.
Islam Not BBC (INBBC) is still in denial about Islamic jihadists, and euphemistically terms them mere ‘militants,’ as directed by CoJo.
Two reports:-
1.) ‘Jihadwatch’:-
“Mali Islamic jihad group announces death of French hostage: ‘In the name of Allah, he is dead'”
By Robert Spencer.
[Excerpt]:-
“Translating the name of this group as ‘The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa’ is misleading. ‘Oneness’ is tauhid, the Islamic concept of absolute monotheism. The Movement for Tauhid and Jihad in West Africa clearly has religious goals, but such goals are exactly what Western analysts are determined to ignore or downplay wherever and whenever possible, thereby dooming themselves to misunderstanding the motives and goals of such groups.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/mali-islamic-jihad-group-announces-death-of-french-hostage-in-the-name-of-allah-he-is-dead
2.) INBBC:-
“Mali militants say French hostage Gilberto Rodrigues Leal ‘is dead'”
[Ah, perhaps those Islamic jihadists heard that on INBBC World Service.]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27117001
Anyone see Newsnight? I could not believe it. Kuenesberg was actually having a go at the leftie NUT representative. I had to check which channel I was watching!
Well to be more precise, she was defending Labour Party supporting teachers against those who defined themselves as even more Left wing.
Yep, true enough.
The conservatives have left education….all we`ve got now are bitter old lefties and would-be childrens entertainers.
All they have in common is the drugs at the weekend.
Kuennsberg knew nothing….that NUT rep could have been easily filleted, but was able to gat away with his lefty blandishments.
But the film leading up to the interview said it all…the pictures made it clear that all the NUT are is the NUS of 1973.
Wonder what an Owen Jones head on a Che Guevara shirt would do for my credibility…with a Billy Bragg “squauk” available if you press the belly button?
BBC2, with customary BBC modesty, is currently celebrating the wonderful history of BBC2. Tonight it was “The Story of the Open University”, presented by faded-TV sleb Lenny Henry, who has recently complained noisily about the lack of representation of folks like Lenny Henry on the BBC. Poor old Len, another victim of under-representation, like the endless procession of women on the BBC whinging about the lack of women on the BBC.
And no credit given to Thatcher who saved the OU from the snobs of Oxbridge-when, at the time she could easily have removed it when Education Secretary.
No…only Jennie Lee and Harold Wilson.
But of course…so easy being a cyclops lefty…especially when it`s the BBC and the Open University.
Thatcher also protected Buckingham University from the left in the mid-80s…but, again…no credit.
The MA in Screen Writing eh Lenny that you`re doing?
When will we see the fruits…or even just ONE laugh?