Is Brian “Limmy” Limond worthy of a BBC license payer funded pay cheque?
“Scottish comedian Brian ‘Limmy’ Limond has apologised for controversial Twitter messages about Prince William and the Conservative Party, after calls were made to sack him from the BBC, which also came to the attention of Conservative MP Louise Mensch this morning. Last night, Limmy, turned his attention to Prince William’s involvement in the FIFA Poppy ban on the England team’s shirts, which drew the eire of members of the Conservatives, who called for him to be sacked from the BBC. The BBC subsequently released a statement stating that he did not work for the organisation and that his comments were his own. This morning, Limmy continued to provoke the Conservatives, members of which, it is understood had contacted the BBC to complain about the comments, by adding an avatar of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with the words ‘Die Now’ written in red over it.”
Thoughts? I see he has wiped out the offending tweets although if you read some of the subsequent ones, I struggle to understand why the BBC, or anyone, bothers with his clown.
On this day of all days, when we remember and give thanks to servicemen past and present for laying down their lives so that we can have freedom of speech, including the freedom to abuse that freedom of speech, then we muct give thanks for this “Libby” Person for identifying himself/herself in this offensive way and letting us all know that he/she is a talentless nobody who is deperate for attention.
Let us all do the opposite and deprive that desperate fool of that attention and never ever mention them again.
Yet another argument for granting Scotland immediate independence.
He is not alone a lot of them really do not like us English. It is almost a pathalogical condition with some of them.
dave s,
As a Scot, I sadly have to agree with you. But, I do believe that the Scots who blame the English for everything are a minority who get the most publicity. Let by the ultimate narrow-minded, bigotted racist, the odious Alex Salmond.
Yes, their hatred is pathological and I believe it stems from their own inferiority complexes.
You tend to find that most of them have never travelled further than the Costa del Sol.
Personally, I disown these idiot low-lifers, completely.
“let” should read “led” , except , of course, Salmond is no leader.
I have known many Scots im my time and I can honestly say only one of them blamed the English for everything.
It probably is pathological. There was even a gratuitous anti-English remark in Trainspotters. It was wrapped up in self-loathing as well, just as Grant says.
Hmmmm…. wonder how the BBC would react to News International trying a line like that: ‘we didn’t employ any private detectives, we just paid a large cheque to the company they own, then featured their work in our output’?
I’m guessing Dame Nikki Campbell would be having a stroke – in every sense of the word.
Meanwhile, given what the lovely Brian says about the English, I’m thinking the BBC owes Carol Thatcher an apology plus reinstatement with full back pay.
‘wonder how the BBC would react to News International trying a line like that: ‘we didn’t employ any private detectives, we just paid a large cheque to the company they own, then featured their work in our output’? ‘
That’s diff… er..unique.
I am not sure this one will easily be swept away:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/louisemensch/100116958/why-is-the-bbc-using-licence-fee-money-to-pay-a-man-who-wishes-margaret-thatcher-dead/
Common cause?
The BBC is extreme and likes to mix with extremists such as this comedian.
Yesterday the BBC ran a piece on Woman’s Hour about ‘equality in the police force’. Last night Germaine Greer gave a question and answer session about Islamic women’s rights on Radio 3.
We have never had equality (communism) in the UK. It is an extreme doctrine. As far as Germaine Greer is concerned, why the does the BBC hang on her every word?
When are we going to have a question and answer session with Helen Boaden about the Balen Report?
“The BBC subsequently released a statement stating that he did not work for the organisation and that his comments were his own.”
Okay, so let’s forget about Brian. Now, what about those who do work for the BBC and make politically partisan comments on Twitter?
This get-out clause of ‘my comments are my own and not those of the BBC’ is a bit of a nonsense, really. It would be like Nick Griffin Tweeting some vile racist comment and then claiming the views expressed are those of his next-door neighbour, not the BNP’s.
Yes, we know Jane Bradley’s views are not those of the BBC because there are 20,000 people of all shapes and hues working for the Corporation, the majority of whom are probably a little more mature than her. But if you identify yourself as a BBC employee on Twitter or Facebook, by default you are a spokesman for that organisation whether you like it or not. When Griffin or Anjem Choudary utter something, you or the media do not dissociate them from the organisations they represent, do you?
So why should the BBC – who are supposed to be politically-neutral public servants, after all – have this exemption?
On the eleventh day of the eleventh Month, lest we forget BBC funny man Anthony J Richardson and his UAF subservience reveling in Violence toward women
But there again, is anybody really surprised anymore?
Radio 4 Extra (Radio 7 as was) has taken to throwing more money at useless “comedians” by using them to provide unfunny links between evening programmes. Most of them are the usual boring crowd – Arfa Smiff etc.
Earlier this week they came up with a new one – who claimed he was also a ventiloquist and also transvestite.
Stay classy, BBC. Delivering Quality ?
Ventiloquist transvestite? Well, now that should make classic radio.
Does he mime as well?
How can you tell an alternative ventiloquist transvestite comedian? His lips move, he’s not funny and you can see the join.
Balding Limmy looks far too old to be coming out with angry teenager/student bile like this.
But then we live in an infantilised culture, created in no small part by the BBC.
I suppose he’s meant to appeal to likes of the BBC’s Radio 1 audience for the very latest sounds in teenybopper music, which alarmingly has an average age of 33!
Phil,
33 months, that is !
Another BBC-NUJ-Guardianista comedian, Phil COOMES, decides to spend licencepayers money on this propagandist left-wing doodle.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-15672930
One passage stood out in that article, regarding Margaret Thatcher :
“Forgetting the politics, she was always friendly and open to the photographers who were with her, in a way that would be hard to imagine today.”
That’s because, agree with her or not, she actually stood for something and had the confidence to deliver it. As such, there was little need for the shallow obsession with style and appearance that plagues today’s political leaders, who require the orchestration of every detail in their presentation as a substitute for the complete lack of substance and belief in their political agenda.
Have a look at Damon Green’s description of the set-up for the bizarre and infamous Ed Miliband-robot interview for evidence of how appearance is everything to the modern politician (and they even fail at that) :
To me it seemed simple enough. But I hadn’t bargained with the team of three handlers waiting for me in the Opposition Leader’s office. They demand control of the interview location. Well… OK, we are in Ed’s office, fair enough. They want him in front of his bookcase, with his family photos over his left shoulder. Er… sure, is he going to be long? We are running late. It isn’t that unusual for political PRs to demand control over the composition of an interview shot. I gather that David Cameron’s people will never let him be filmed in front of anything expensive, or ornate, or strikingly Etonian. But it isn’t until our shot has been checked by all three press officers – all peering into our viewfinder and offering helpful advice about framing and depth of field (a term they turned out not to understand, as my cameraman Peter Lloyd-Williams triumphantly established) that we turn to the topic: `What questions are you going to ask?’
And yet he still went through a convincing charade of pressing me on my line of interrogation, urging me to keep my questions brief, and even – this was a macabre touch – placing a voice recorder on the table beside me as a kind of warning not to try and misquote his boss.
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/bfensm
Ah , yes, in front of the bookcase. That proves he is well-read Ed.
“The BBC subsequently released a statement stating that he did not work for the organisation and that his comments were his own.”
I don’t remember the BBC being so charitable to Kilroy Silk.
Yes; Kilroy-Silk’s comments were not about some members of the British ‘establishment’, but about some Arabs, so therefore an automatic sacking offence to Islam Not BBC (INBBC).
These are important distinctions to INBBC on how it operates its rigorous political censorship on behalf of we licencepayers, whom it regards as dupes.
Here’s a screen grab I took from this charming fellow’s Twitter page when it was discussed on the Open Thread. Bears reposting, I think. He’s certainly not backward about proclaiming his work for the BBC.
In the old days this man was would have ended up in a padded cell. He is deranged.
He’s edgy, he’s foul-mouthed, he hates the Tories and he’s not funny.
The BBC is his natural home.
Alternative Comedy?
An alternative to comedy, ie; it’s not funny.
Sorry, biodegradeble. I stepped on your line above.
No problem, yours is funnier.
Alternative Comedy is like Techno Music; I techno notice of it.
Ben Elton was far funnier with his jokes about ‘Fatch and those evil torees back in the 80s than this cretin.
He doesn’t “work” for the BBC. Presumbly meaning he does not have a contract of employment. I assume that payments from the BBC are made into his personal service company to avoid income tax but, of course, I may be wrong.
You’re quite correct, Grant. That’s what we suspected yesterday: the BBC pays Limmy’s production company for the show, which in turn pays him. Just like Top Gear and Russell Brand, and a host of other BBC shows and on-air talent.
It’s a get-out-of-bias free card, and a seriously disingenuous one at that. Helen Boaden can say with a straight face that Limmy isn’t a BBC employee.
The problem is that we know for a fact that the BBC believes Twitter to be outside the boundaries of their impartiality mandate. Mardell said so at the BBC College of Journalism. So pointing at biased tweets won’t change a damn thing.
I think the best we can do with Twitter is continue to amass evidence that when every single BBC employee reveals their personal bias in a tweet, it’s ALWAYS and ONLY from the Left. No exceptions. The numbers will add up to show that there’s a culture of far-Left beliefs at the BBC, and there won’t be any easy way to refute it.
It is extraordinary the senior BBC execs are unconcerned by the twitterers. They are all out of the same hive . Think the same . Something is very amiss at the BBC .
I should at that DB has at least shown that giving individual Beeboids a hard time can sometimes cause them to delete posts or even change their account, which is a good result. What I should have said is that doing this won’t change the big picture.
I guess that if this to**ers’ rant was unacceptably racist (as opposed to the endorsed anti-english racism be deploys to so little humorous effect) then the BBC would find time to comment, and he would be subject to the full force of BBC action despite it being in the twittersphere.
I think a FOI request is necessary in each of these ‘not employed by the BBC’ evaisions – do these individuals benefit financially or indirectly in any way as a result of their relationship – whatever that may be – with the BBC?
yes they do
So entombed in their left wing ideology that they can imagine even for a moment that this would be a person to invest in, let alone find humorous. That they do, shows the twisted sick mindset of the BBC.
No doubt somebody there is thinking about a new programme to highlight the plight of some creature somewhere as a result of ‘climate change’, to give the impression that they do really care. The same person will be jumping up and down with their hand in the air to be part of a 100 staff BBC jag, especially if it means international flights and hotels.
Some people ARE SOULS – The BBC ARSEHOLES!
Whilst we’re on the subject of Scottish tossers (not you Grant) did anyone else catch the Radio 5 phone in this morning? They did a phone in (rightfully) on remembering the dead.
HOWEVER, Dame Nikki told us that was not going to be the original phone in, it was going to be about those bushy bearded f**kwits and their poppy burning ban.
How the F**K can the BBC even think to do that on a day like today? What is it with these inbred liberal morons at the BBC?
You can just imagine them all sitting around a table at Radio 5 giggling like little girls “oh yes let’s do a phone in on the Muslim poppy burners, that’ll have the Daily Mail lot up in arms”.
I’m guessing it wasn’t Dame Nicola or the fat bird he works with who had a change of heart, probably some producer or manager who thought “I can see a shit storm if we do that” (they probably did want to rubbish our war dead though, that’s the sort of thing these c**ts like to do)
To all who ‘work’ at Radio 5, do us all a favour, head to Beachy Head and just jump.
Martin,
At 11 am today, I compared Sky’s coverage with BBC News Channel.
Sky had cameras at the Cenotaph and various other locations and were respectfully quiet and also showed quite a bit of footage afterwards.
The BBC didn’t talk over the 2 minute silence, but as soon as it was over cut to some Beeboid who was wittering on about something or other. I was channel-hopping so didn’t see everything but the Sky coverage seemed more respectful.
Listening briefly to Nick Ferrari on LBC this morning on the segment regarding banning this group. The logic, (or lack of it), employed by the left wing mindset, prevalent and indoctrinated by the BBC, is highlighted.
It is one thing to have a high regard for freedom of speech. I believe most of us here exert so much energy about BBC bias precisely because our voice is largely ignored or diminshed by them. So we know full well what stifling speech entails.
In the case of remembrance day, there is a 2 minute silence to remember those who fought and died precisely to preserve these freedoms. If this silence is disturbed by protesters then the freedom to observe this silence is lost to those who claim the freedom to destroy it. For the freedom of speech to destroy the freedom of meditation then it comes at a cost, and is not equal.
Left wingers need to decide which side they’re on. Their inability to get off the fence with their endless platitudes without a clue as to what actually achieves real results, is the reasoin the country is already in this state, and further in decline.
Teddy,
I think Lefties have already decided which side they are on and it is not the same side I am on.
I know what you mean, and it would be the same for most of us here. My point is that they want to be seen to support ‘freedom of speech’. The Catch 22 here is that if they condone the freedom of speech for those who would be shouting during the time of those who want ‘freedom of silence’, there is only one group who would win.
So the lefties have to do something that they hate – make a decision about which side they want to support and stick by it – so they can be judged in the future.
Just read his recent tweets, and to be fair he’s quite simply an imbecile. He can’t help himself.
Makes him perfect BBC fodder.
To paraphrase Helen Boaden
“Being an inbecile is in our genes”
Alfie,
Apparently he cancelled his Twitter account some time ago when he tweeted that he had punched his pregnant girlfriend on the jaw and people complained.
Looks like he has opened the account again.
It just gets better and better, I wonder if Louise Mensch was aware of that?
“punched his pregnant girlfriend on the jaw”?
Old Scottish tradition, punching your woman. Sunday morning, A&E departments are full of women with broken jaws. Bet he didn’t knock any of her teeth out though. Wuss.
This young tosser is almost certainly a liar. Real men don’t tweet.
Actually London, up here among the Barbarians , it is usually the women who punch the men.
Grant a small country that can produce the likes of James Watt and Adam Smith to name but two are far from “Barbarians”. 😉
That’s disgraceful… I hope the BBC look again at the cash they stump in his direction.
I won’t hold my breath.
I hve had a look at some of the reports about this man. How can the BBC think that he is someone who should be on the air? Strange, offending certain groups is a hate crime, being f***ing offensive all the ****ing time is ****ing funny. So go **** youself daily mail reader.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3507310/Brian-Limond-tells-fans-on-Twitter-You-can-all-f-off-and-die.html
He isnt “edgy” – he is mad
Limmy is typical of certain Scots attitude to the English and to Tories. Within the confines of Scotland these attitudes would go unnoticed, they are “normal” The question is who in the BBC decided to “export” this so-called comedian outside of his natural habitat Scotland.
Perhaps someone at the BBC has just discovered this huge untapped reservoir of Tory-hatred, the equivalent of North Sea Oil. Tory-bashing on tap. Expect more “Scottish Comedians”, coming to a BBC screen near you.
London,
As a Scot living in Scotland, I can assure you that idiots like limmy are not “normal”.
Have you ever been to Scotland ?
Yes Grant, I’ve been to Scotland many times. My wife is Scottish, from Glasgow, and I have a lot of family there. The smarter men have learned to duck.
Oh, ok , London. I was just about to write a stereotype of the Southern English, but will leave it !
The best humour is often self-deprecatory, laughing with or or taking the mick out of one’s own folk. Les Dawson and Ken Dodd on Northeners, Kevin and Stacey on the Welsh and Essex, Rab C Nesbitt and so on. I can enjoy belly laughs with any of them, because underneath it all they are expressing rueful pride in their own stock. All my Welsh friends like K and S, for instance.
Aggressive “humour” directed at “them” – at “other tribes” seldom works.
But still the BBC wastes our money on it.
In my dictionary, “edgy” is synonymous with boring crap.
sorry – that’s Gavin and Stacey
John,
Totally agree.
And notice that all the great comics you have mentioned have another thing in common. There is no malice in their humour.
Speaking of Rab, I remember the episode when he visited the south of england, maybe London and, every time he spoke , subtitles in english appeared on the screen. Great stuff !
When the BBC paid a visit to limmy for a new show they asked him if he hated the conservative party. After he said he was not sure the BBC locked him in a room and tortured him until he agreed to the BBC demands. After his 12 shows which all of you have seen from start to finish he knew then that not only being Scottish he had to hate in him.
It was then he posted his hate.
This site is the funniest site on the internet.
Keep it up!
You should seek some help – or are you using a socialist comedy routine?
Barely coherent. I do not need to view all of the works of a person to form an opinion. What view would you form of a person who made pro-apardheit jokes? Would you watch their entire ouvre or just turn off muttering about racist nonsense?
No the BBC didn’t force him to be an offensive arse, however he is acceptably offensive as far as they are concerned. The point being made on this funny site is that the BBC has a fundamental institutional bias – and in this case it is willing to accept his bile because it fits in with their narrative. The extreme anti-english nature of his ranting and the proposal of stiking a sword up the arse of prince william should be enough to persuade you that it is ‘inappropriate’ for him to be funded (in any way) by my money. After all Bernard Manning was popular and apparently ‘funny’ while deploying extremely offensive material, but he is a notorious hate figure. What’s the difference?
Oh and yes am back because i just knew Limmy would make this site.
ps
Is to Tony Benn the UK hitler?
“Is to Tony Benn the UK hitler?”
No Tony Benn is not the UK Hitler. Tony Benn is a democrat. I do not agree with most of his politics and I doubt he would agree with mine but he would still treat his adverseries with some decency. He would not be an English socialist “Limmy” type of person.
“ i just knew Limmy would make this site. ” and why is that? Is it because of his associatiion with the BBC.? Or is it that you think people who are hired by the BBC should show a little less bias on “controversial” issues.
I expect you will be straight onto the Amazon web site to order his latest BBC offering.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Limmys-Show-DVD-Brian-Limond/dp/B0041237GM
At £7.97 with free p&p how can you resist.
Stuart,
The point is that I , although I don’t agree with Limmy’s views or his childish way of expressing them , I still have to pay for him.
Imagine if you had to pay an annual fee to the Conservative Party by law on pain of imprisonment if you don’t pay.
Do you think that is fair ? Or is fairness irrelevant in the Left-wing mindset ?
JHT,
Like all good socialists, I am sure Limmy donates all his royalties to charity.
Stuart,
Things working out the way you had hoped?
Have to say, the latest hearts and minds assault this weekend by the cherry vultures is so far proving impressively persuasive.
Can’t wait for the next wave from the reserve troops, as the ‘B’ team seem to have failed to actually get out the trench before tripping over the feet in their mouths.
By such a welcome return, it would appear the strategy is not to put up hands and say ‘fair do’s, this is beyond the pale and hurting an already ragged reputation’, but to deploy the kapos to try and sow distraction.
Can be effective if done well.
Otherwise, simply another self-detonation alone in the desert.
My site,
“Kapos”. I like it !!
Tony Benn was an RAF pilot in WWII, not many of whom are often compared to Hitler. Or are you being “edgy”?
Yebbut in Rhodesia!
Daddy made sure little Tony didn’t have to actually fight or nuffin’.
Much of Benn’s self publicity comes with an ‘Archer’ attached.
BBC Newsnight a right hoot. Tossport talking about the Poppy stated that the EDL clashed with an ‘extremist group last year’
You forgot one word Steven Smith BBC wanker… MUSLIM.
Correct me if i’m wrong, but there weren’t even any non-denominational “extremists” for the EDL to clash with this year, were there?
No David there was not. I hold no track with the EDL but it seems that they were arested “just in case” they caused a disturbance.
Yet these people who cover their faces and look very menacing indeed are allowed to go about there business with the police looking on.
Yes, JHT, that’s what I was thinking. I await an appearance by Shami C and Liberty to explain how the police got it wrong. The BBC so often finds time for her and a rash of other advocates when the police arrest people during actual demonstrations. Although to judge from previous statements the BBC gets from them, they’ll probably take a pass on speaking out for freedom of speech and, you know, liberty.
When they discussed it on the News Channel today, whichever Beeboid was talking always made sure to point out that the EDL guys hadn’t actually done anything, and there was no incident, but emphasized that the police felt it was necessary to prevent an incident from occurring. At no time did I hear a single Beeboid mention that there was nobody around for the EDL to even frown at. Sure, they said that the Mohammedan extremist group had been banned, but they didn’t say that none of them showed up, or that there were still Mohammedans – or anyone else, for that matter – who might have been the victims of EDL aggression (to take the BBC’s perspective).
But since they mentioned repeatedly that there was no violence and nothing happened, they can claim they got it about right.
Isn’t it a shame that the police couldn’t find this will to ‘prevent an incident from occurring’ before the riots this summer.
The British Police and the judicial system are a big part of the problem in this country. They all need to be seriously cleaned up.
Not long ago – before robberies, stabbings and shootings were a routine part of London life – the Metropolitan Police used to spend a disproportionate amount of their time stopping, searching, and arresting young black men “just in case” they were going on to commit a crime. The BBC decided that this was racist, evil and wrong, and used their broadcast near-monopoly to end the practice and fundamentally change policing in this country. I seem to remember a Smith & Jones sketch in particular that is hailed a classic for its distillation of the ‘phenomenon’.
So I now look forward to the whole of the BBC, including the full force of a new generation of ‘edgy’ comedians, taking up the torch at Broadcasting House to defend the rights of the EDL against being singled out by the police in such a discriminatory manner.
Well done Beeb, you really are earning your European Commission grant money – not just spreading muck around the UK’s proud Armistice Day ceremony, but also helping to break the UK up into bite-sized regions, by inciting racial hatred within it through your so-called comedians.
No doubt there’ll be jobs galore for you in the post-democratic, fascist empire of tomorrow, although personally I will do my level best to make sure that come the insurrection, all you corrupt, degenerate traitors end up at the wrong end of my crosshairs.
This is classic BBC selective censorship. Because they despise Margaret Thatcher and all she represented, this nobhead ‘Limmy’ will be free to spout his vile hatred whilst they ( with our money ) continue to fund his TV series. Contrast their attitude and actions toward ‘Limmy’ with the swift sacking of Carol Thatcher as a roving reporter for The One Show, when, in a private conversation in the green room, she remarked that a tennis player looked like a golliwog
I am no worshipper of Margaret Thatcher and I try to avoid whataboutery, but I can’t resist asking…
If a comedian used a Twitter avatar of Barack Obama or Gordon Brown or a Motoon image of Mohammd with DIE! splattered over the top of it, do you think the BBC gigs would keep rolling in?
Possibly not. And I doubt said comedian would have too many BBC folk following him on Twitter.
Flashback to Richard Bacon. A vile, disgusting rant openly promoted, then a very fast ‘apology’ – ‘I never meant to cause offence, it was all a mistake’. The BBC absoulutely accepts his apology and the matter is closed. Bet this ‘Lippy’ prick keeps his job, because it is ok being racist if you are anti-English.
Reminder that the BBC spends 4 times more on Scotland and Wales ‘local’ radio than they do on English local radio.
I’ve never really had much truck with Freud (I think it is pronounce Fraud) but this:
‘which drew the eire of members of the Conservatives’
makes me wonder if there something in it!
You know for years I thought Ireland was the ‘land of anger’ and not the ‘abundant land.’