This week the Centre for Policy Studies published a report claiming to have found a left of centre bias in the BBC’s online reporting of think tanks. They also claim right of centre think tanks are more likely to receive health warnings than their left of centre counterparts.
The CPS itself is hardly impartial on the BBC – it argues for a smaller BBC and campaigns against the licence fee.
BBC News provides impartial and independent coverage to a quarter of a billion people across the world.
Fran Unsworth
A new day, a new head of news, the same old bias ala the Today show.
List it all here……
ELO Live at Wembley Stadium on tv just now. What a fantastic mono cultural crowd.
The exact opposite of what the BBC portray the UK as.
I always marvel at the lack of diversity in the crowd at Leicester City home games – a city that’s around 50% ‘ethnic’.
According to Anne Marie Waters, the For Britain party Facebook page has been shut down too.
See earlier thread at bottom of previous page
Apologies for duplication Stew. I thought I’d cancelled the first comment.
But two mentions of Anne Marie Waters can’t do ‘the cause’ any harm can it? ☺
Aint the BBC covering this story?
even The Sun has it
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5154409/bookies-under-fire-for-posting-photo-of-blacked-up-darts-fan-who-dressed-as-diane-abbott/
Hillarious:
BLACKFACE ROW Fury as darts fan ‘blacks up’ as Diane Abbott – and bookies hail racist costume as ‘best fancy dress’
I didn’t t know that Diane Fabbot was a darts fan, but then she is a natural. Oh and that 190, that’s her weight in Kgs.
The article claims that Fatbot receives half of the “abuse” that “women MPs” get, or as she would say 13%.
What worries me is not her gigantic size but her gigantic majority.
Thousands and thousands more people voted for her at the 2017 GE than in 2015. This despite her obvious racism and utter incapability to hold a responsible post.
Is it the snowflake vote feeling sorry for her? Or the black tribal vote which votes on the very racist grounds she claims to oppose?
Flabbott doesn’t need to be able to do sums to make a good Home Secretary. Her colour is enough – heck, it got O’Barmy a Nobel Peace Prize – along with her sanctimonious grievance attitude, her ability to play the racism card and her student Marxism. Ample qualification.
Flabbott’s half the size of all women MPs combined so it’s only natural she gets half the abuse thrown.
She’s also twice as annoying, so she should count herself lucky.
Invest in popcorn; quick.
Quoted tweet from Marr Producer
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It’s not like we are a majority
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We have many complaints hereabouts concerning institutional BBC biases. The penchant for the EU, the ingrained blanket antipathy toward Britain and particularly Englishness, treating conservative values as an anathema, the remarkable sympathy toward a particular Middle Eastern cult, devotion to public sector economics…
But for sheer toe-curling self-congratuatory hype, we have the BBC News Channel Breakfast show this morning inviting the “TV Critic” for the Radio Times in for a bonaza of Strictly Come Dancing onanistic regurgitation.
Prompting the thought – please make it stop. Not just in my home where I can deploy the off switch. But de-fund the entire horrible ediface.
Somebody earlier in the thread talked about how people like Tommy Robinson were described as extremists. Surely somebody wanting the status quo to remain i.e. the demographics and laws of the country to remain as they are, is the very opposite of an extremist?
How can NOT wanting to change make you extreme?
Surely if you had to make an argument against them, the language would be of a luddite or similar. Just another example of the ridiculous wordplay that liberals use to denigrate those that disagree with them.
Thinking for them : libmob would see that the status quo is “the world changing to become ever more liberal”
..therefore if someone wants to stop this, they’be a “radical”.
Now if you wanted to say stop “gay marriage laws” with bombs that would be “extremist”
..so them using the word against Tommy is their normal language creepage tricks
..devious framing.
Let’s see if Sarah Smith ups her game this week, I won’t hold my breath.
This is the response I received from last weeks complaint about the programme.
Thanks for contacting us about BBC One’s ‘Sunday Politics’ broadcast on 10 December.
I understand your felt that Sarah Smith wasn’t challenging enough in interviewing Emily Thornberry in contrast to her interview with James Brokenshire.
We always strive to be robust in our dealings with politicians and other figures of public interest. The interviewer’s role is to seek answers that will inform our audiences.
Our journalists seek to hold politicians and other public figures to account by asking them pressing questions on a variety of topics. However, the nature and tone of these questions might well be different depending on the programme concerned. For example, an interview on The One Show is likely to have a more laidback tone than the robust and searching questioning associated with news and current affairs programmes.
There are occasions when an interview demands a different style. While a direct, no-holds-barred interview might appear more rigorous, it is sometimes the case that a softer, less confrontational approach can be just as revealing – and more difficult for a politician to handle.
All staff working for the BBC, though clearly entitled to hold personal opinions and beliefs, are acutely aware that their views should never in any way influence their work for the BBC, nor should they be apparent to our audience. It is important to recognise however that a fundamental part of the role of our interviewers is to offer analysis, using their experience and knowledge, but this is not indicative of bias. Similarly, when an interviewer challenges a contributor, they aren’t expressing a personal viewpoint, but simply fulfilling their responsibility to scrutinise a claim that is being put forward but we’re sorry you feel the programme has went downhill since Andrew Neils decision to lighten his workload.
Thank you again for contacting us, we value your feedback about ‘Sunday Politics’. All complaints are sent to senior management and programme makers every morning and I included your points in this overnight report. These reports are among the most widely read sources of feedback in the BBC and ensures that your complaint has been seen by the right people quickly. This helps inform their decisions about current and future programmes.
Kind regards
Andrew Gilfillan
BBC Complaints Team
Wronged,
Why bother complain. There is never admission. It’s like listening to that waste of air – feedback where that get some £100 k beeboid creature to spout defensive nonsense about fairness and interpretation .
Just don’t pay for them and don’t tell them that ( obviously ).
“There are occasions when an interview demands a different style.”
When it’s a Labour or SNP politician being interviewed, usually.
Sorry BBC Complaints Team.
I cannot believe bollox.
Does anyone ever listen to Paddy O Connell’s ‘Broadcasting House’ on a Sunday morning? I sometimes switch on the radio , forgetting to look at the time, and there it is: irritating, infantile, propagandistic – a waste of airtime. And he always sounds SO pleased with himself. A bit like Eddie Mair. Where does the BBC find these people?
Fake –
When he started he was reasonably fair but he got exposed to the court of Eddie” arnt I Great “ Mayer and it went down will from there.
Another off the list .
“Where does the BBC find these people?”
Yooni?
BBC’s current strategy is to keep bombarding us the cheap untruth that most of the people in this country do not, Repeat do not want to leave the EU. They use evidence from lefty papers to support this strategy.
They invite gueats such mentally twisted lefty Emma Barnett to support this.
Brainwashing the masses, normal Marxist tactic from Marxist Common Purpose BBC.
Wronged ,
It’s hard to estimate whether people who watch al beeb absorb the propaganda and change their view or alternatively just get worn down by the constant background . I know people who are only interested in the pop programmes like baking and come dancing and opportunity knocks – never news. But they care less about who runs Blighty as long as there is parking space in tescos .
I used to sneer at this when I was younger but now I say “ who am I to judge ?”
To most , I think politics is a game – fame –
money – their place in History – you can see it clearly in these ridiculous ‘negotiations’.
I think it’s important to realise a lot of these people in the bubble are NOT THAT CLEVER and that puts it into a sad perspective .
Fedup2,
Sounds to me like you’ve given up the fight. I agree that, to the rich and Common Purpose group, moulding society to their own personal needs is a bit of a game, but I’m not prepared to roll over, I wouldn’t sleep at night.
I completely aggree that the london bubble is not that clever, but as much as I find their irrational stupidity frustrating, I don’t and will not, accept it.
My time maybe wasted often writing to MP’s and the BBC but if more people in this country did it, it might bear some fruit. I live in hope. Keep fighting the very biased, immoral and corrupt BBC.
Wronged
You are not far off . I find myself taking in less al beeb product and often have to force myself to listen to the Toady programme which i have listened to since i was a kid and jack de manio was in charge
I fear we are losing on all fronts .
Wronged
You are not far off . I find myself taking in less al beeb product and often have to force myself to listen to the Toady programme which i have listened to since i was a kid and jack de manio was in charge
I fear we are losing on all fronts .
Fedup2,
Never liked Frost, I thought his show ‘that was the week that was’ was appalling in its treatment of PM Macmillan, the mocking of him when his wife was having an affair with the despicable Boothby was a disgrace.
I liked Jack De Manio though. I even liked Brian Walden(ITV) who although a former Labour MP asked the right questions and then followed them up. He was probably harder on Labour than the Tories when interviewing. I admired him greatly for that.
I suppose Robin Day was the last great inquisitor who approached a degree of being unbiased.Not always though, his abuse of Knott was not acceptable
Brillo’s good but often supressed which means he is not in the class of the aforementioned others.
These worked in the days when the BBC took greater pride in its ability to inform and educate its viewer.
Times have changed and not for the better I’m afraid.
I will continue to do my bit before’ I pop my clogs’. I want my children and grandchildren to be wise and not BBC brainwashed. I’m pleased to say that they each have a brain and are aware of the immoral antics of the BBC.
I’ll continue to annoy the Beeb and MP’s until maybe one day they will see sense. I live in hope.
Merry Christmas everyone.
“Did the FBI and the Justice Department plot to clear Hillary Clinton, bring down Trump?”
A big story you’d have thought, but strangely our favourite broadcaster isn’t covering it wall to wall like they have been the unsubstantiated allegations about Trump collusion with Russia.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/12/15/gregg-jarrett-did-fbi-and-justice-department-plot-to-clear-hillary-clinton-bring-down-trump.html
vlad,
See the last series of ‘Homeland’?
Planet Orwell where Diversity = Conformity
new cabinet office statement
Wonder who made that slick film ?
\\ @ChocolateFilms
Director @RachelALWang has been chosen to support in the advancement of @cabinetofficeuk’s #Diversity in Public Appointments Action Plan #strongwoman #publicboards //
To be truly representative, a percentage of appointments should be Jihadis.
But I suppose that’s already covered by the ethnic minority requirement.
Public Appointments Action Plan – sounds like a load of pap.
P.S. Are we the only people in history to legislate for our own demise?
But at least, they stick to the proportionality unlike the BBC.
Proportionality depends on the pool of qualified people not the % of the general population.
The normal error is that BME is skewed to the youth age range.
So to make 14% of 60 year old judges BME, would mean trying to get 14% from an age range that I guess to be 4% BME, so you’d be taking less qualified BMEs just make up the number.
Similarly I would expect public appointments to reflect the proportion of people averaging about 45 years old, not `15 years old.
The BBC have a take here
Meet the women leading our public bodies By Becky MortonBBC political reporter 15 Dec
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42359724
Two police officers killed
A man has been arrested.
Nothing of interest here.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-133528/Two-police-officers-killed-road-chase.html
G.W.F.
Yeah, “The van driver, a 38-year-old man”. Perhaps of Norwegian appearance?
Problem is, everyone (certainly here), is expecting any perpetrator of a crime to be an adherent of our favourite religious persuasion. A corollary of their continuing and mounting misdeeds.
Our immigrants of all colours and religions are wise, law-abiding, have PhD level qualifications and the good judgement of this specimen –
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/m1-horror-crash-caused-driver-938038
g
Shocked actually that 2 coppers seriously injured in London gets the coverage but 2 dead in Leicester gets….. nothing . I know al beeb is London centric but that is pretty breathtaking
Gents,
That RTA where two policemen were killed transpired in 2002:
A man has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering one police officer and unlawfully killing another after he deliberately rammed into their car during a high-speed chase. Leayon Davi Dudley, 39, mounted a curb after a five-mile chase and, travelling at 80mph, drove straight into the patrol car which burst into flames.. A jury at Stafford Crown Court took nearly 12 hours to find the labourer, of Birmingham, guilty of murdering Pc Bryan Moore, 39, and not guilty of murdering 37-year-old Pc Andrew Munn, but guilty of his manslaughter. After reaching their verdicts, the jurors were told that Dudley had previous convictions for attacking police officers. He killed Pcs Munn and Moore after storming away from his ex-girlfriend’s home in a jealous, drunken rage. He had been drinking at a party on the evening of August 15 last year, before visiting the home of his ex-partner, the mother of his two children.
Pounce
Thanks, I must have got it from the wrong source.
Here’s today’s London story
“North Circular crash: Two police officers fighting for life after car ploughs into them”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/north-circular-crash-two-police-officers-fighting-for-life-after-car-ploughs-into-them-near-brent-a3721466.html
Fraid’ I have to report that, one week on and I have not received a reply from Jacob Rees-Mogg’s ‘campaign’ team to my request: “Before I contribute, I need to know what Jacob’s policies and vision for the UK is. In particular, I need to know whether he is the man to reverse the growing problem of the Islamification of the UK with its completely separate adherents.
Please direct me to Jacob’s Policy documents.”
Draw your own conclusions…………
‘There are children in this country for whom British values are meaningless’
Who could write that? The Far Right? The EDL? Right wingers destined to be supported by the Prevent Strategy?
Nope. The chief inspector of OFSTED!
The Times page 40 on Saturday.
She goes on to mention the threats she has received …”venomous stuff ……a mixture of Islamic extremists and the hard Left”
None of whom of course got a mention in Al Beeb’s Far Right Prevent feature yesterday.
You can read a little of Ms. Spielman’s situation on the bBBC website. Its in the Education section, below a more prominent article about the Wimmin’s and Equality Committee. There’s the bBBC priorites for you. Right there.
To be frank, I have every sympathy with the “Far Left and Islam”.
Of course, Spielman thinks like this, she`s Nicky Morgans choice of limpwrist.
They`ve all long given up on education-all they want is a vaccination room, an Obama stencil and a place for getting free condoms, or vibrator batterires recycled.
The Soviets DID do education well enough for nearly all their tactics and terminology to be prevalent in teacher training, psychology, psychiatry and sociology-even after 100 years.
That it`s all mind grooming lies and softening up for the New Order(Pink division) doesn`t mean it`s not being very effective in its aims.
Islam of course has no teaching tradition in modern times, it being stuck in the fourteenth century on a good day. But at least Arabic poetry has its merits and the content of both learned and tested properly-indeed jihadists can quote the decapitation surahs by heart as they wish.
And, although they are thick-they DO respect intelligence and learning, hence the Al Anzar judgements on how snowmen become haram if there`s no face or head on the creation.
Without such rulings, they`d be seen to be thick, dependent and utterly trivial.
So both Soviets and Muslims at least honour education. OFSTED have been a nonces rubber ruler since Major set them up with child-bride Chris Woodhead at the helm. Very Muslimic…
Sluff you missed bits
She has ‘accused far left activists and religious extremists of trying to stop her CLAMPDOWN on illegal Muslim schools’
It was a long article .
And yes interesting the R4 segment mentioned that an evil “rightwingers idea of Britain is a Nazi salute”
Yet DID NOT tackle the Prevent team going into schools where they have ‘beat your wife ‘ textbooks
… Makes it look like the BBC has an enormous agenda.
… She also mentioned 70,000 yes seventy thousand kids missing from the education system
..where have they gone ? to be child brides ? actually being in other countries whilst child benefit is claimed here ?
In back street madrassas ?
There is an interesting article which gives some incite into life in the hive on the Beeb website
Fran Unsworth’s hellish new job
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42365957
Well the hellish job is going to be 340k. Which is a lot, but…..
“That is a huge salary, though it is worth noting that American counterparts in charge of organisations of comparable size would be paid several multiples of that.”
But of course there is no comparable news organisation in the US like the Beeb, so her chances of getting a $1m+ job in the US is probably about zero.
“Unfortunately, the sorry financial state of much modern media means that editors’ time is increasingly spent doing less fun things, like begging advertisers for money, or sacking people.”
Well the Beeb gets £3.4bn from the UK public, so hardly in dire straits nor does the advertising reference apply. Sacking people, hopefully she will do a lot of that.
“I don’t know and haven’t asked, but I would suspect that at times, at least a third of the job involves justifying decisions, often taken by people several rungs beneath you.”
All you need to know in the first sentence, he DOES NOT KNOW!!!!
Then there is a section about Brexit coverage and impartiality, well the proof of the pudding is in the eating and we know the majority commentators. panellists, are Remainers, so nice try…..
And then there is the budget squeeze poor Frau Unsworth will have to contend with:
“Aside from all these daily traumas, the financial challenge is immense: about £80m has to be saved from BBC News, and quickly too.
I spoke to one final round candidate this week about how these savings would be found. I asked if the best route to £80m was salami slicing (ie taking out a proportion from several different bits) or big, symbolic, chunky cuts, like losing particular programmes, or even channels.
Their response was: the trouble is, even after you do both – ie cut lots of big stuff and salami slice – you still get nowhere near the £80m.”
Now £80m sounds a lot, but what isnt mentioned is the overall budget, so impossible to say if 80m is 1% or 10%, so in effect a meaningless number. And if you (really) make cuts how can you not reduce the budget significantly!!!! For starters I suggest pension off John Humphrey’s and close down BBC Pidgin.
It’s written by the Amol
..what a clique.
Not the strange grammar in the first sentence
I would rephrase it as
“.. is undoubtedly one of the biggest in British journalism (‘in international journalism’ some would say) “
” at least a third of the job involves justifying decisions, often taken by people several rungs beneath you.”
FFS
The common phrase on Feedback is “We asked for an explanation, but the BBC said no spokesperson was available”
“her credentials on impartiality are impeccable”
funny way to spell laughable
Odd, isn’t it. Only over the past 2/3 years has the political state of the Western World become really apparent. Right across Europe we can now see the extent to which the left/liberals have their tentacles wrapped around the levers of power. Like Poison Ivy slowly sucking the life-giving moisture out of the host.
Mostly all of the important left/liberal factions stepped into the daylight during the so-called, ‘Refugee Crisis’ in 2015 for one reason or another. What with the UN/Soros imploring BAME’ers to invade Europe during which they actively encouraged the invasion of Europe to various navies (including the Royal Navy) to act as taxi’s to ferry them up. It took one vessel, paid for by public contribution filming these so-called, “Rescue” vessels to stop that by using the law. But I digress. This really is a war, certainly, probably the final ‘War to end all Wars’. Slight amendment: “…..all major Wars”. I modify because it will be small factional wars that will continue as they have done for centuries when one group do not subscribe to the others’ views e.g. Sunni / Shia. Just imagine such a war, as is inevitable in my view, between a hypothetical Shia Bradford and a Sunni Birmingham. Scenes from Mosul? No need anymore as those white faces left will have a ringside view from within ‘Good ol’ Blighty’. It is now a war against common sense dogma and reality. It could take (if it happens) eight years to extricate the UK from the tentacles of the evil empire. Question: if there were to be another referendum around that time (as seems likely) how many of those (like me) in their seventies will be around to vote?
Where is that UK Trump? We need him/her/it Now. (latter all inclusive for the sake of Political Correctness)
G
Good post and I find it hard to disagree with anything you’ve written.
There is one point which totally baffles me. Now, as I understand it George Soros is Jewish and the Jews and the Muslims don’t seem to get along too well together, so why would a billionaire Jew wish to see Europe flooded with Muslims? I can’t seem to get a handle on that one yet, particularly as European governments at the moment are worried about the rise in Anti Semitism. Seems to me he is using his wealth against the welfare of his own people. Maybe he converted to Islam. He is certainly anti European and many Jews reside in Europe. Very odd.
There is a theory that ‘the Jews’ are out to destroy the ‘white races’ leaving them as the ‘master race’.
Perhaps there are ‘some’ that think that way, in a world of seven billion plus people I’m sure there must be at least one example, (a bit like the way the BBC can find the one winner of the Nobel prize in the Calais jungle but never a thieving, cheating, murdering scoundrel!).
There are ‘some’ in this country that say that the Toryeees are only looking after the rich but if the ‘poor’ don’t have any money then they can’t buy the things that make the rich rich. Equally if one was rich would one want festering scabby shabby slaves? Surely the ‘poor’ have to kept happy enough not to riot? Ditto if one were a ‘master race’ Jew would you really want to live in isolation, surrounded by Barbarians, or be part of a world capable of providing you with sophisticated luxury and cultures?
Soros might be a Jew by birth, but he certainly isn’t an observant Jew these days. Indeed, it is well documented that he collaborated with the authorities in his own country, Hungary, to save his own skin. Nowadays, his “religion” would be international liberalism if it’s anything at all.
G
Your use of the pronoun “it” started me thinking. I began to imagine two medics discussing the problems facing a transgender patient. During the conversation they could hardly refer to the patient as “him” because the patient isn’t male. Likewise they couldn’t in truth refer to the patient as “her” Because the patient isn’t female. So they must be left with referring to the patient as “it” which would certainly be viewed as offensive and likely to result in the doctors being struck off. I’ll see if my GP has the lowdown on this one. I wonder how they approached this problem 20/30/40 years ago before it was fashionable to be a don’t know?
Beeb site’s Must See section: Grenfell (again); Saint Obama (takes photos apparently); Warnings for Defiant MP over Brexit; The Poor at Xmas; Central American migrants’ mothers; the NHS.
Don’t get me wrong, some of those are worthy enough stories, but they’re all very SJW-ish. Must See?
Almost as if the beeb had a leftie agenda, heaven forbid.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news
‘Saint Obama (takes photos apparently)’
Takes, or has taken? Or both?
The BBC are currently in full gush that St. Barry has granted an audience with Ginger Prince, plus the fact that every move he made was preserved by his personal shutterbug; a man who can now only walk backwards whilst bowing.
Not sure everyone has taken this awesome narcissistic achievement quite as the BBC has.
‘a man who can now only walk backwards whilst bowing’ Ha ha 🙂
I read that the Detective Constable who failed in his job to be a ‘detective’ by not handing over relevant evidence in the alleged rape case, where the life of a 22 year old has been on hold for 2 years, ….. goes by the name of Mark Azariah. I’ll leave you to guess the rest. But where we are seeing many medics of colour being hauled before the GMC for gross misconduct, are we now to see the same in our august police forces ?
Bet he’s losing sleep – quite rightly . Probably play the race card
CBC scraps plan to air BBC Trans-child doco
Worth checking BreitbartLondon Twitter feed everyday for those stories BBC filters out.
eg WTF Cameron gave a lecture sponsored by Soros
and said Trump is lying about media doing FakeNews
Ain’t life grand. ‘Squeeky’ Beckham hired out the Natural History Museum ice rink (like you do) for the sole use of his family to have a play around on. Buckingham Palace in the summer, now the NHM, what next Dave ? House of Parliament for a New Year’s knees up ????
You can take the boy out of Leytonstone but you can’t ….
The daily remainer- otherwise known as the Guardian reports my lord Matlock Brown is to coordinate the remain campaign . Warms the heart that unelected peers can pronounce upon voters from the heights of £300 a day – he can join other self important squirrel hunters like heseltine and Adonis to undermine democracy using taxpayer cash .
Correction for lord Matlock Brown please read “ lord bollock Brown”
Shurely not the same Michael Heseltine who thought himself to be superior to Margaret Thatcher, then funked it when the ‘chance’ came? Didn’t he preen himself in front of all the cameras for days before he turned tail and ran away, leaving the others to face the music…
I wish I had 300 notes a day to blast that particular parasite from the limelight; he’s just like Clarke, spouting drivel, failing in body, mind and now apparently, common sense .
But he gets 300 quid a day to be a pillock as well – has he no pride?
Of course, the bbbc love him now he’s a remoaner, and not a very believable one either, but which under-manager on the bbbc really cares, or was even born when this silly old prat was seen as a potential leader, then turned himself into yet another waste of space in Westminster.
“JAILED: Taxi driver found with huge haul of weapons and £1.5m worth of drugs.”
No mention on beebistan.
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2017/12/15/jailed-taxi-driver-found-with-huge-haul-of-weapons-and-15m-worth-of-drugs/#86HkFGULKM5CGEL7.99
What? No cellar-full of young white girls?
Sir Arthur
No that’s what the drugs and guns were for. If the drugs don’t work the guns will.
vlad
As the Mayor of London has reminded us we must accept that this kind of thing is to be expected as part of living in a big city. Well maybe in Iraq or Afghanistan but this used to be England.
I wonder why all taxi drivers in many towns are Asians (and I don’t mean Japanese, or Indians)?
Obviously it’s convenient for doing drug deals, avoiding tax and cruising for underage girls, but do they deliberately keep out whities, and if so how? Could make an interesting report by our fearless most trusted reporters…
when pigs fly.
Just like my home town where visible taxis are almost all Indian subcontinent incomers. The answer to your question as to why they are all Asian is, in my opinion, because once a taxi firm is in Asian ownership, they have policy of hiring only Asian drivers. This is, of course, illegal, but happily for them, our wonderful justice system has always turned a blind eye. Doubtless, direct intimidation also plays a part.
The Birmingham car accident which has had unusually big coverage from al beeb throughout the day is starting to explain itself . The dead taxi driver was called Mohammed . It is sick to wonder how many of the others are minorities – white Anglos for instance .
Maybe albeeb will turn it into another Grenfell . Inquiry -blame – justice – taxpayer payouts
A terrible tragedy, as are all such accidents.
The bbc is of course all over this one on social media, highlighting the lead victim who was apparently hard-working and a wonderful father, of six.
Given the early stages of any information available, it seems remarkable the bbc has learned this and opted to share so quickly.
All cash businesses. Taxis, Hair/Beauty Salons, Cornershops etc.
Thats a bit too close to home for my liking, my home town has so far this year provided various cannabis growing factories, one of the scum who raped that poor girl at Aston station and now this. Honestly, I’m beginning to wonder if Mr BCW and I should just cut our losses and move away, think it is only going to get worse and worse.
I’m beginning to feel like a outsider in my home town.
Mrs BCW, come and live down here in rural Kent.
We have the best beer, the best local wine, no fear of overpopulation, (except for the types of Tunbridge Wells planners, who are idiots), and a lifestyle to dream of!
I’ve vowed never to set foot in a major town from now on – retired you see – except for funerals, but even then I’ll shut my eyes and think of England!
If you need a job in London, then it takes an hour on a clean speedy train. Loads of nice shopping and all for a pleasant lifestyle you deserve.
OT…slightly.
This from a BBC ‘source’ of growing choice:
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2017/12/16/government-announcement-transparency-hilarious-thing-i-read-week-opinion/
One wonders what The Canary feels about the BBC commitment to transparency, given it keeps saying it has one whilst refusing to answer anything.
Just been watching Flabbot on YouTube .
Now I’m alright in my truck as its over 7’6″ , but you car drivers take care . Her mouth is not the Rotherhithe tunnel .
A BBC Two commission and the politicisation of Christmas
Tags : alternative Nativity, West Bank, Banksy
https://bbcwatch.org/2017/12/17/a-bbc-two-commission-and-the-politicisation-of-christmas/
Thanks for the warning. WE can all guess the stance it will take seeing as who is involved. Virtuous feelings all round I assume.
Some of you might have heard of the quaint Islamo-Arabic game of taHarrush, where large groups of men harass and rape women, such as in Cologne.
It’s now spread to Sweden.
Where apparently the last few remaining Swedish men with any balls formed some sort of defence vigilantes to protect their women folk.
But here’s the good bit: Swedish feminist wimmin put out a statement to those gallant few Swedish men saying ‘it’s YOU we fear, please don’t protect us if we get raped by immigrants.’
For this and other festive fun, have a look at the link below where you can read about more merry mayhem in Sweden such as ‘Four Muslim migrants assault and rob 97-year-old woman in her home’, and elderly overweight Swedish women gagging for a bit of rumpy with Arab toyboys. Could that be what it’s really all about? Decades of feminism having emasculated their menfolk, they want a bit of fun with some real men who can give them a good time?
And 2 of my favourites:
“World’s First Lesbian Bishop Calls for Church to Remove Crosses, to Install Muslim Prayer Space.”
And: “Former Swedish PM Reinfeldt: Sweden belongs to the immigrants – not the Swedes.”
Friends, The Church has had it. Sweden’s had it. The West has had it. We’ve had it.
http://barenakedislam.com/2017/12/16/sweden-four-muslim-migrants-assault-and-rob-97-year-old-woman-in-her-home/
Sweden was predicted to go first and Reinfeldt has made it semi-official. I wish I had gone there while it was still a decent place.
It’ll be like a house of cards. Germany next, followed by France, Italy, Greece and Norway. Then it will be our turn. 15 years at most.
Definition from Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3395390/The-Arabic-gang-rape-Taharrush-phenomenon-sees-women-surrounded-groups-men-crowds-sexually-assaulted-spread-Europe.html
And is it true that Gothenburg churches will take migrants in over the Christmas holidays-but not native Swedes who are also homeless?
And would anybody be surprised if indeed it is true?
Thanatos-death wish.
SO I check PeterSweden and he’s tweeting about the sudden death of Bechir Rabani who’s on the same side as him digging up stuff against lefties and Soros .
And Bechir was in the middle of an expose of a big Swedish leftist who happens to be Jewish
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42386721
“A British woman who worked at the UK embassy in Beirut has been found dead, Lebanese police have said.
Rebecca Dykes’ body was found on the side of a motorway on Saturday.
She had been sexually assaulted and strangled, the BBC was told by senior police sources.”
http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/terror-attack-on-catholic-church-in-pakistan-s-quetta-at-least-2-killed/story-kKXgWyTp4gvrRvT5xQAQ8N.html
I notice that in the Hindustan Times, The Islamic State is not “So Called”
“Islamic state suicide bombers attack Pakistan church, 9 dead
The attack during the midday service at Bethel Memorial Methodist Church was a targeted assault on the minority Christian community just a week before Christmas.”
As you know Lucy, the ‘so-called’ is a beebistan ploy to distance the murdering terrorists from the so-called ‘real’ Islam. Part of their overall strategy of pretending IS is “nothing to do with Islam”, when it blatantly is.
The Indians, who’ve had centuries of invasion and oppression by the Religion of War and Conquest, followed by mass slaughter at the time of Partition, and low-level war and terror ever since, don’t believe a word of that western liberal crap.
So called
a) news
b) broadcasters
c)neutrality
d) comedy
e) entertainment.
Works for me.
Been a good year, never been easier to see what the BBC are up to all the time now.
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)-reads as “tedious” too!
Am listening to the EBU giving us a Day of European Christmas music on Radio 3. If only the BBC would stick to this eh?
I have been on catch-up on this Thread only as far as near the foot of the previous page. While I share some of the gloom (and it ain’t just the weather!) about the lows of the last week’s national politics, I think we have to be realistic – Brexit was never going to be easy with a majority of the elected and appointed Parliamentary chambers and the UK Civil Service, along with a majority of the UK media, totally opposed to it.
I apologise for sermonising this a bit, again, but if we are going to get out of and away from the EU, we may have to march out – just like the Church Visible & Invisible – on our knees. We will need a miracle, perhaps many miracles, to see it through.
Think on this though: on 1 January 1973 no-one would have thought that a mere sixteen years or so later, people would be standing on top of a wall on the eastern edge of the EEC, hacking lumps out of it to keep as souvenirs …. without being shot by the guards standing nearby.
There were people nearby and further away, around the world, who believed it could happen and hoped and prayed for it to happen. They would have been very much in a minority, whether in the EEC, elsewhere in Europe or in the wider world. Most people accepted the status quo, especially those in the increasing affluence of the West.
The minority never abandoned their hope or prayers and it happened.
Freedom day came.
Stoikiy muzhik.
Up2. Take heart my friend.
Church penitent, militant and triumphant is how I know it.
There is now a seismic credibility and democratic deficit. We only obey laws that WE created-and there is nothing in the last forty three years that we agreed to in terms of ECJ, ECHR, UNCHR and all the rest of these soft soviet puppets of Soros and Delors deviants.
I read my Kipling, I study my Orwell and Churchill.
And after March 30th 2019, the statute of limitations, the guarantees of my obligations and duties to the law will revert back to what my parents would have obeyed. Not what Harman or Clegg think I should be obeying.
There will be real riots in 2021-have been in 81, 91, 01, 11-and even my dopey maths primary boys can see a pattern.
I intend to be on the right side of those riots, starting on March 30th 2019. Whatever May does until then matters not a jot, her mandate runs out with the Brexit date as set.
Nobody voted for this omnishambles of the elite-when we voted to leave, we assumed that they could find it in their hearts, stomachs and brains to do it. Not difficult whatsoever, unless you conspire to make it so.
Remember the brief flap last June 24th when the price of the pound spiked and fell? Remember the synthetic collywobbles over the Millennium Bug?
Well, it`ll be like that-and we can vote afresh to get more fiery Brexit types and terrify the Remoaners as they like to do to us.
There won’t be riots if we don’t come out on the set date . There will be shrug of the shoulders . Al beeb will put something good on the tele to distract people .
Fedup2 is right – The right and Leavers aren’t the type to riot. We have jobs to go to, responsibilities to carry out and livelihoods to worry about protecting for we know that the police and media would come down on us like a horse running into a poll tax protestor.
Over the last few days, I have clearly seen and heard a rise in the number of drive by accusations of Trump as being some kind of sexual predator, who has yet to face Harmans “Court Of Public Opinion”.
Matthew Wright on Channel 5 explicitily said that he was a molestor or predator just in passing on a paper review, And given how angry and embarrassed the Left are now with Harvey and how smug they are that Bill Clinton has got clean away with it, I`m pretty sure that Trump will be getting co-ordinated efforts by paid former employees or candidates on his shows , as paid for by CNNBC etc.
Because they reckon on getting clean off as they`ve done re Russia, their open efforts to get him impeached or openly slated as an anti-Semite or sexual predatory deviant will now be doubled down up-if only to take the pressure of re the Oscars and media awards.
He needs a decapitation strategy with a few dirty fighters on his side, he should NOT have binned Bannon or Gorka. The left must be disgraced in this fight to the death that is soon to come.
I myself would sue the BBC next time there`s another smear re his sexual conduct. He really needs his Ambassador here to listen in and report-London is the sue capital of Europe and the BBC etc need to know they cannot get away with this without evidence.
I agree on Gorka. The guy was a savage attack dog that was, and is, a joy to behold.
Thanks Stew for that link. Boyle, Banksy and the BBC. You just know their documentary is going to be a steaming pile of crap. A drone watching over the nativity scene! Wow! This is the kind of facile idea that seems to impress leftie bureaucrats. Wouldn’t a better idea be if the Star of Bethlehem was identified as a Hamas rocket? The Three Wise Men from the East suddenly reaching into their suicide vests for their gifts? You know, something that was related to reality and took some balls to offer as a work of art when you’re surrounded by Palestinians? This is not art. It’s politically wrong. It’s artistically wrong. It’s just garbage.
Countryfile does a good job of totally misrepresenting the countryside and giving a townie romanticised view
…But but there aren’t enough of Radio4’s favourite Scottish lesbians on it
…Oh hang on
Susan Calman is clearly the new ‘favourite’, pushing old Nadya off her perch. Um, Nadya who ???? I wish someone would do the same to Ore Oduba (kick him off his perch), who’ll still be proclaiming his Strictly win in 10 years time.
This is just a snippet from his own website, ……….
“On-air, on-screen and on stage, Ore has established himself as a true all-rounder since winning the 14th series of Strictly Come Dancing. Now undoubtedly one of the industry’s most sought-after talents, Ore’s energy, warmth and charm has seen him emerge as a fan favourite.”
http://oreodubaofficial.com/about/ ….. if you want to read the rest of how wonderful he is.
Tbh, I’m just amazed that they managed to drag the glitterball trophy away from him, can’t stand him!
A few days early but I would like to wish all my fellow Biased Beebers a Merry Christmas and if any of you have got a couple of spare quiet moments, give Jake Thackray a listen as he sings one of his own songs reminding us WHY we celebrate Christmas and not HOW we celebrate The Occasion.
Lefty
Thank you – sadly I can’t imagine it on the Albeeb r2 playlist when they’ve got Shaky, Pogues and noddy holder s’ pension scheme.
God bless good old Jake
Sports personality has already featured Paralympic athletes, women’s football and is currently having a mass emote about a child who had cancer. Can’t we have anything unsaturated with SJW virtue signalling? God just let us enjoy one thing without involving politics for f**k’s sake.
Oh, BB, how I agree with you. It used to be a joy!
Watching SPOTY used to be a sort of rite of passage approaching Christmas. It was always seemed to coincide with the day the decorations went up and the Christmas spirit was well in our household. Well, decorations went up today but I shall be giving SPOTY a definite miss. I don’t think I could bear the mega love-in fest which it is bound to be. And looking at the line-up of the finalists, I only know a few names….who ARE all these people? They are professionals and just doing their job!!
Watch out for innovation in a few years…we’ll get MPOTY!! (Make up your own mind what that will be!) And then we could have BOFY…that’s B for Broadcaster? Any nominations?????
Soapy
Why bother when every one knows Sir Mohammed of Mecca will win . Fixed
Now women’s cricket!
Followed by trans mixed treble tennis
Now a montage of the ‘Invictus’ games with Noel Gallagher singing ‘All You Need is Love.’
Now a segment about Jessica Ennis, even though she no longer competes; they are talking about 2012.
They are focussing more on women’s sport, as they are forever trying to achieve that leftist utopia of equal outcomes for all. That will not happen until females have as much testosterone and enjoyment of spatial tasks that men generally have.
Beeb
Is there not a theory that some women chaps have as much men chemical as chaps – like that chap who runs in Wimmins races
‘‘Tis fun watching al beeb trying to treat girly sport as proper instead of cheap filler that even Sky won’t touch .
Mo Farrah – what a joke. Dodges a drug test because “he didn’t hear the door bell” and doesn’t even live in the country that he enjoys leeching off.
Maybe they could have a category for Sports personality that actually resides in the country they represent. This of course would also blow out the likes of Lewis Hamilton etc.
Its time the BBC gave out the number of votes for each candidate, whether it be 15 or 1500. This ‘public’ voting is ripe for fixing in whichever way the Beeb want it to go. Its the same with Strictly.
BB
I’ve been surfing across the Freeview channels and alighted three times for a few seconds on SPOTY.
So far I’ve had the little boy with cancer, a women’s cricketer (not a scooby who she is) and Joanna Konta, a British (??) female tennis player who has done zippo for the last 5 months. I think there was a paralympian too. In no case was there any sports coverage.
Hopefully at some point they might cover for a few microseconds an actual world class British born sportsperson who has excelled at something simply on their own merits. Not that I will be watching.
Sluff is Lewis Hamilton there spending one of his 183? Days a year in Blighty to avoid uk tax through domicile – a true personality
And all of those personalities in the audience paying themselves dividends to avoid tax to care for kids with cancer and pay for kids to play sports . Cute
No idea. Just switched on to spoty to find Noel Gallacher playing.
Now there is a montage of predominantly elderly ladies keeping fit.
Maybe they have just given up on actual sport and moved entirely to SJW LeftMob virtue-signalling.
Is there an award for transgender asylum seeker of the year?
Oh wait. The 12 contenders are being mentioned. I have absolutely no idea who several of them are………..
Back over to the paint drying channel for me………
And now we have had a Hillsborough victims mention.
Sluff
Any chance of s cake with a candle in the shape of Grenfell Tower with the al beeb logo down the side ?
That would top it off nicely .
Mmmm.
The BBC logo going up in smoke,
What’s not to like?
Marr is itentionally fawning and pathetic when interviewing those of the Left
Today Abott got away with saying ‘we want a jobs first Brexit’ and then going on to say we want to be in the Single Market ,the Customs Union and not restrict immigration too much. So Abbott and Labour want to stay in the EU. As clear as the day is long. Only an ignorant thicko would not understand this.
If people don’t then Marr and the BBC have failed in their duty to educate and inform.
Marr was intentionally unable to pick this point up.
Two things emerged from this show today which everybody already knew
One,Marr is a disgracefully biased Left wing interviewer which is common knowledge.
Two, Abbott is thick and I mean really thick. She confirms my low opinion of MP’s,especially of the Left.
Wronged ,
I gave up when Frost gave up that programme – you know it’s a loser when they always have one of those black oil drum groups on at the end . Or a nice bit of Bollywood
You are completely right Fedup2, but I feel it is important that we must keep exposing the fraudulent BBC. There are people who are new to realising the BBC poltical bias pushing its own agenda.
It is them whose eyes we have a duty to open and understand that they are not alone in their condemnation of this fascist Common Purpose group.
There is a home here on this site for those recently ( and those always has been) disllusioned with the BBC, whose views we generally share and try and inform. We are the anti BBC. The truth tellers.
EuroNews … Pope declares fakes news is a sin. Says not to look at previous allegations and scandals …. I wonder why?
Sky News report that British Embassy worker in the Lebanon was raped and strangled. No mention o f rape on the BBC news page though. Probably editors in a meeting to see how blame can be pointed at some right-wing loony who shouted “Britain First” as he went about his dirty deed, or Brexit rather than one of their favourite peoples
I think SPOTY is all-time peak SJW. It almost feels like a parody. You would think no able-bodied men were allowed to compete at sport.
Yet another great programme ruined by their compulsive, pathological virtue signalling.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
SPOTY is won by Mo Farah. Who has not made the journey all the way from London to The Liverpool venue.
And just as he is about to be given the trophy and interviewed………..the video link goes completely dead !!!!!!!
Egg on face all round and frantic space-filling.
God clearly does exist………..
Ha ha
And there’s me thinking he is a tax exile . Couldn’t put a bet on him out of conscience although he had to win.
Didn’t watch but it doesn’t sound like it has the gravitas it had in the past.
Wonderful ! I’ve visions of some communications engineer being so pissed of with the result that he pulled the plug. According to reports, he acted so surprised, but then his daughter handed him the trophy as she was sat next to him on the sofa, which made a mockery of his feigned shock. At least his acceptance speech wasn’t heard by anyone.
SPOTY: Somalian Mo Farah wins, as predicted by another contributor to this site. I’d never heard of either of the 2 runners up, who both (presumably and laughably) got more votes than Anthony Joshua or Lewis Hamilton.
Mo wasn’t at the event in person, but was connected from another UK location by videolink.
Unbelievably, the videolink went down at the critical moment, leaving millionaire presenters Lineker, Balding and the other one goggling at an empty blue screen. Lineker’s expression was thunderous!
Time this otiose event was canned. The BBC don’t actually do much sport any more. Most of the good stuff is on Sky and BT anyway.
I hope Mohammed thanked Mohammed in his thank you speach
Cheer yourselves up by listening to Goldberg on R5Live banging on about gays in sport
I see St Pauls is on the way to becoming a mosque
Apart from sharing grief with the thousands that perished in Grenfell there is no need to sing about allans snackbar in St Pauls.
Let historians of the future note this event
We were not always a nation of sniveling cowards .
Winston Churchill’s funeral in St Pauls, when it was a place for Christian worship.
At least I have proud memories to take to my grave
Churchill’s funeral shows how a nation respected someone they may not have necessarily agreed with politically. The dock cranes bowing in salute being a case in point. Contrast that with Margaret Thatcher’s funeral with backs turned and gobsh***es mouthing “ding dong the witch is dead”. The respect for someone you may not agree with is all but lost now.
Magnificent. Thank you GWF.
Peter Hitchens has a book where he compares the death of Churchill with that of Lady Di.
And brilliantly contrasts the two cultures.
Did I see Wilson wipe a tear from his eye at 3.09?
And a stumble as the coffin was getting moved?
Deeply affecting, most of those filmed will be dead now-and we need to remember them, so they didn`t waste their all on the likes of us and this culture we`ve let enter.
Any day now…
Whilst I have no problem with Muslims singing inside a church, I do have to ask the question is there any Mosque in the world (never mind the UK) which would allow a Christian choir to hold a service never mind sing hymns and I am afraid to say the answer is a big no. We would have people at the bBC claiming it is:
Insensitive
Racist
Oppressive
Humiliating
Alienating
Imperialistic
which all would boil down to making the usual suspects angry.
And of course not one person in the UK would point out in each and every UK planing permission , the clause which states:
Community centre to be used by all
Pounce, “I have no problem with Muslims singing inside a church,”
I don’t either. I think Muslims should be invited to church far more often. But the songs and the service should remain Christian. There shouldn’t be any praises to “Allah” He’s not really that great despite the claims of his followers. Muslims in the church should be invited to listen to the gospel message from The Bible. No Koran readings etc. If Church leaders can’t stick to that they are in serious error as Christian leaders. The Church in areas of the world where it was strong, should have been a means of support for Muslims trying to get out of Islam. A refuge. Not a reinforcement of the same globalist ideology pushed by the government.
Denominational church leadership appears to be abandoning sound doctrine and prostituting themselves to the cult of the progressive left. Compromising the faith for the sake of a false peace deal with Islamic leaders and the media.
It will not stand for long if it continues down that path.
Lucy
I am not a particularly religious bloke but I along with millions of other proles have sure lived a long and good life in what was once a Christian, Capitalist and free speaking country. Speaking as an ex believer in International Socialism I feel that the British people, particularly the young, need to reflect on the old saying “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” before we all lose it entirely.
Pounce, Lucy: I DO have a problem with Religionists of War and Conquest singing inside a church in full uniform: it’s normalising Islamocreep, subliminally sending out the message “See, it’s just another benign religion, they’re just like us.”
It’s not. They’re not.
G.W.F,
Were they searched before entering the building: if not, why not?
Spoty
Females Anya Shrubsole, Bianca Walkden, Joanna Konta, and Elise Christie in 9th to 12th places had a combined vote of 42000. Less than the 47000 for Chris Froome in 7th.
And then 1st to 6th were men.
So the biased BBC equality nonsense is clearly not being taken up by the voters.
More intensive brainwashing is sure to follow.
I can’t stand those melodramatic montages that they use for biogs, the same style of shit that precedes every Rugby international the bBbc are still allowed where that professional Welshman quotes War poems or hymns or uses inappropriate superlatives when showing us a try from an angle you can’t understand and they seem unable to clearly capture.
bBbc sport presentation has become so cliched and so desperate for an alternative angle, personal and camera, that it just seems to me to be both tired and tiring. I didn’t watch SPOTY, or spotty as the granite-faced Gaby kept calling it, in any great detail primarily because of Lineker and Logan and lack of interest and really don’t feel that I missed anything either. Although thankfully this included missing the bBbc pet pop project and musical magpie Parker Gallagher. Twat.
@MartinSLewis was kicking off on his Radio5 show the other day
‘All I was doing saying on Good Morning Britain that there is this really good Sharia Bank account that pays 2% PROFIT, not interest of course
..and now I’m getting tweets from nutcases saying I’m promoting FGM
..it’s outrageous I get this dog whistle response”
Of course opening an Islamic bank account doesn’t create 1 more FGM
… but libland suppressing discussion of Islamic topics could cause loonies to explode.
BTW I can only see one tweet against Lweis and Sharia
So either the Twitter search is filtering or he’s dramaqueening
It is silently outrageous that a group get different terms on their loans because of their religion. ‘Silently’, because I have not seen a single discussion program on TV about it.
Is it me or is it Al Beeb? But I can not find any HYS on their website?
Perhaps maxincony can inform us?
They are listed here
But all are closed right now
I’m guessing half the mods have all flown back to Africa for Xmas, so there is non weekended cover
Try tomorrow
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/have_your_say
Thanks, StewGreen.
So Gary gets to present SPOTY. I guess his leftie tweets have paid off.
Sickening.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t Mo record a response some days earlier ????
Highly likely Halifax. He probably buggered off back to the States afterwards – UNLESS he actually recorded the whole thing in his home across the pond, which might be nearer the truth.
World’s #1 broadcaster
..and its diversity of spelling
OT, but quite the exchange all round.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/kathy-gyngell-womans-hour-ties-knots-acknowledge-great-mrs-t/
I the words of Katy Kay (long form): wtf!
Replying at 8.21 AM !!! Christ was she in the bathroom brushing her teeth when she replied ? Clearly addicted to her phone.
Toady programme 8.45 this morning and Humpty asks one of the Legatum Institute’s trade specialists if it is true they are subject to Russian interference.
Will they do the same to the Leftoid NIESR or IPPR I wonder?
I know the answer!