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BBC are sending black wheelchair athlete Ade Adepitan to Africa for a 4 part series.
He’ll be in Senegal discussing the slave trade.
… discussing the slave trade and air miles ……£
I wouldn’t mind so much, if my licence fee was paying for him to give constructive information for the disabled when they travelled – ie which places to avoid and which hotels have the best amenities for wheelchair uses etc etc. but the few reports from around the world I’ve seen him doing, are nothing of the sort.
In fact I am probably contributing to triple the cost it must be, in catering for his disability when he travels to remote parts that most able bodied don’t get the opportunity to go to. Does he have a helper, aside from the camera/sound man ? and the insurance cover cant be cheap, do we pay for that as well ?
Hope he has a close look at Africa : genital mutilation, murders of white farmers, corruption, stealing of overseas aid, maybe start with the Xmas jumper appeal money sent to South Sudan and haw many billions of oil revenue stolen by ther “president” and we feed the starving kids, yep africa lets have a close look at it and the thieving corrupt bastards in charge of the countries that starve and beg for money
Ann, he’s from Nigeria (but nationalised British), so any criticism just aint gonna happen.
I do know that he likes his afro-car music so he’s probably found leaning on the bar of any local live-music hotspot.
His BBC crew? Well, seeing that they are in the employ of said anti-Semitic company they will be seen at any gay bar in the area. I think they usually go under the name: “Pink Flamingo” inc.
Times “University lecturer likely to face jail for assaulting landlord in eviction row”
…Hm Orji is a strange surname ..is there more to this story ?
A few years ago my brother rented his house to a Nigerian couple – he was told they were a lawyer and a teacher. After a few weeks of the rent not being paid, it transpired that she was a prostitute and he was living off her earnings !! They know every trick in the book, is it any wonder that we get accused of racism !
shop worker from was spared jail after producing the highest recorded reading of alcohol in breath by Nottinghamshire Police for six years.
Is there a special reason for being lax on Kanagasingham Chellamuththu ?
Hindu name I guess
StewGreen,
Is there a special reason for being lax on Kanagasingham Chellamuththu ?
They couldn’t spell his name right on the charge sheet?
Technically he was charged and convicted, but git light punishment…needs car for family you see.
He’s an alcoholic..what if he kills someone ?
Immigrants magically make countries richer
Times : Rome has UN of gangsters : Nigerians run vice rings, Georgians take care of burglaries, Filipinos deal drugs and the Chinese handle counterfeiting, a report has said.
Not the BBC but one of those ‘Yer just gotta larf’ moments on the front page of the Times.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-47098166
Top right v main photo v centre right photo + text.
And shes wearing gloves because…? Ok, she might have delicate hands.
The sheer quantity of butt-sniffing here would impress even my hounds.
Much to savour (if with a well charged tumbler of single malt to hand) on the excellent complement to this site that is ITTB.
But if there is one post to start with, I would go with this one:
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2019/02/behind-scenes.html
Then laugh right in Tony Hall’s face.
Guest – thanks for the link – I often dip in. Our friends over at isthebbcbiased are kinder than me on the dead beeboid ‘funny man ‘ – my memory is long and I remember many of the disgraceful things he came out with as he was building his BBC credentials . Let him burn .
No mention on England THRASHING the Irish in the 6 Nations. Oh Sorry, that’s only when England are beaten
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/rugby-union/46752653
Even more pathetic is the juvenile failure in all the previews to acknowledge that the game was on ITV – although an exciting and in-depth commentary was on Radio5Live, for those diehard BBCRemainers who prefer to imagine their rugby.
Brexit next month. Just thought I’d mention it 🙂 🙂
And England beat Ireland at rugby in Dublin today, despite Brexit.
Where’s the Back-Stop when Ireland needs it?
LOL x 6¾ 🙂
BBC Online News:
“”Nissan ‘U-turn’ expected on new X-Trail SUV in Sunderland””
“”BBC business reporter Rob Young said: “The reasons for the investment cancellation are not known, but the industry as a whole has been warning Brexit uncertainty might hit investment.””
“”Labour Sunderland Central MP Julie Elliott suggested there was an “inevitable role that Brexit plays here…. None of it is conductive to encouraging business investment in this country”.””
And…
“”Work on the Qashqai – which makes up the majority of Nissan Sunderland’s work and is the best-selling crossover vehicle in Europe – is not expected to be affected by the move.””
“”The Japanese company refused to shed light on the situation. A spokesman said: “Nissan does not comment on rumour or speculation.”
“”Last April, Nissan said it was to cut hundreds of jobs at Sunderland, amid a decline in diesel sales.””
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-47102708
So, there you have it. Another BBC contrived anti-Brexit feature. No change there, then.
Nissan is largely owned by the French government isn’t it ?
bbc should be pleased as they urge us to become, none car driving, vegan, socialist, euro trans-genders.
Bloody vegans God spare us from their ever open gobs, just try googling the word. another intolerant and tiny minority that never stop forcing their views on others, remind you of anyone ? Inshalla
You want to live on dolphin friendly garlic muesli fine, just shut the F”’ up about it
Its the latest fad Ann. Last week it was the Fitbit, last month it was being a Trans, last year it was suffering with bi-polar, 5 years ago it was being gluten free.
I have to laugh when so many things like tables, shoes, cups and saucers (yawn) are now described as ‘vegan’.
I remember first coming across the term vegan 40 years ago. It was at green party conference where on the enrolment form we were asked if we had special needs. The two examples they gave were smoker and vegan. I knew what a smoker was but vegan had me stumped. I turned to a friend and asked what time could we expect the delegation from the planet Vega.
It would have been nice to have some extraterrestrial input, especially from little green men. But looking back I think a lot of the views we had were off the planet anyway.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m2tRbqZ-Us&w=560&h=315%5D
Yasser, you must have seen this, but it’s also for anyone else of course…
Scroblene, that should be required viewing for all BBC hacks since mostly what they do daily is fart fake news out at the public.
Thank you True! I still collapse in a huge giggle when I watch it! And what about the waitress’ hat then! Pure BBC canteen stuff!
I actually came back to see if I had got the YouTube starter page up as well! I know there is a way to embed, but am damned If I can make it work!
Yasser/Ann stumped ? walking around the supermarket I saw there was a food display with a PLANT sign across the top. Plant based food – TBH it took me a few minutes to realise that it was vegan food !
It took years and years to see a few shelves appear for the gluten free and Linda McCartney’s range of vegetarian has been in the freezers for decades, but now with the recent publicity for vegans, businesses have leapt into action with the speed of light with pound signs in their eyes.
I wish they were as quick to put mother and baby parking at the far end of the car parks ! They are fit and able to walk the distance to the shop entrance with their prams, while the elderly and not so able have to struggle – I’m talking here of those who are not disabled enough to warrant a blue badge. I’ve lost count of the number of times I see yummy mummies or trendy daddies park at the front door and stride into the shop, while those with arthritic problems have to walk from the far side of the car park. Not Fair !
I still have sleepless nights over those stupid “Nicam Stereo” TV adds.
I realise that they were not on the BBC but of late I’ve become an enemy of independent TV because of their bias coverage of Brexit.
I first understood about crazes when the world went mad for hoola hoops.
Compare and Contrast:
Sky News in their first line state that he’s a Democrat.
BBC hide it for all they’re worth.
https://news.sky.com/story/virginia-governor-faces-calls-to-quit-over-racist-photo-taken-in-1984-11625476
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47102614
Our romanian beeg eeshue seller is still there today, 10 years now begging on our high street, Euro freedom of movement working well to allow this and we can expect the Turks next, lock up your daughters, (and sisters, wives , grandmothers etc. )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Turkey
Rape
Further information: Women in Turkey § Crime against women
According to a study, some commonly-expressed views on rape were given to individuals from various professions, who were asked to agree or disagree; results recorded that 33% of the police officers agreed that “some women deserve rape”, 66% of police officers, as well as nearly 50% of other professional groups except the psychologists about 18% and 27% of psychiatrists, suggested that “the physical appearance and behaviors of women tempt men to rape.”[2]
In 2015, Turkish university student Özgecan Aslan was murdered as she resisted a rape attempt[3] on a minibus in Mersin. Her burnt body was discovered on 13 February. The murder was committed by Turkish minibus driver Ahmet Suphi Altındöken, his father Necmettin Altındöken and his friend Fatih Gökçe.[4] According to Turkish Daily Sabah, Özgcan Aslan became a symbol for Turkish women who are the victims of violence.[5]
A June 2008 report by the Turkish Prime Ministry’s Human Rights Directorate said that in Istanbul alone there was one honor killing every week, and reported over 1,000 during the previous five years. It added that metropolitan cities were the location of many of these, due to growing immigration to these cities from the East.[7]
In 2009 a Turkish news agency reported that a 2-day-old boy who was born out of wedlock had been killed for honor. The maternal grandmother of the infant, along with six other persons, including a doctor who had reportedly accepted a bribe to not report the birth, were arrested. The grandmother is suspected of fatally suffocating the infant. The child’s mother, 25, was also arrested; she stated that her family had made the decision to kill the child.[8]
In 2010 a 16-year-old Kurdish girl was buried alive by relatives for befriending boys in Southeast Turkey; her corpse was found 40 days after she went missing.[9] Ahmet Yildiz, 26, a Turkish-Kurdish physics student who represented his country at an international gay conference in the United States in 2008, was shot dead leaving a cafe in Istanbul. It is believed Yildiz was the victim of the country’s first gay honor killing.[10][11]
In 2013, The Guardian reported that ‘the rape and torture of Kurdish prisoners in Turkey are disturbingly commonplace’. According to a report from Amnesty International in 2003, Hamdiye Aslan, who accused of supporting the Kurdish separatist group had been detained in Mardin Prison, south-east Turkey, for almost three months in which she was reportedly blindfolded, anally raped with a truncheon, threatened and mocked by officers.[6]
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Sky is in a league of their own when it comes to Brexit today.
Even the BBC has realised the X-Trail story was crashing and burning yesterday, but Sophy had Vince wheeled on to try and revive it.
Then, by way of boosting trust and credibility… Shami.
More wall-to-wall lefty propaganda over on BBC 4: a trailer for A Very British History extolls immigration; then some black guy in dreadlocks and a wheelchair (3 ticks, 4 if he’s gay) tells us how great Africa is, though I’m guessing he won’t be moving there anytime soon. (Imagine all the extra logistics – and cost, you license payers – of humping a wheelchair plus handlers around the dark continent, not renowned for its wheelchair access! And for what? For no reason whatsoever other than virtue signalling.)
Then some ‘drama’ about boat-people asylum seekers to Australia, and on and on.Wiki says this of Safe Harbour: “Although critically acclaimed, the series did not perform well in the ratings, peaking at just 146,000 viewers.”
In other words it’s the sort of didactic pc crap that right-on ‘critics’ love, but real people switch off in droves.
May it bomb on the beeb as badly as in Oz.
They really go the extra mile.
There is something here that the rabbinical court profoundly understands but secular, Westernised, self-centred Jews like this woman don’t. The future of Israel as a Jewish state depends on their strict marriage laws. Without realising it, Israel could easily cease to be Jewish, the same way London has ceased to be English or San Francisco has ceased to be clean. Either you are serious about your national identity or you aren’t.
I haven’t seen any BBC this weekend. Can anyone tell me if No Hijab Day is being covered at all?
Its all over the internet.
What, and admit that all muslimas are not delighted to wear the symbol of oppression of their favourite religion?
Don’t be silly.
Lucy, Vlad,
Wales is multicultural and I am pleased to see support for World Colander Day for members of the recognized religion – The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster – whose followers have fought for the right to wear the colander, which is their religious headgear.
Cefnogwch Eglwys yr Monster Spaghetti Deg trwy wisgo’r colander
Did he say anything else about the Colander on his head – like, was it male or female?
Must get the sex right or else Peter Tatchell will be on his back! Literally.
Please note – Not Me !
The EUrocrats worst nightmare: the spread of Brexit, Frexit, Italexit…
Denexit
LP – 2537 people are talking about this
Most of them anti EU and anti Micron.
European elections soon, I expect parties committed to a referendum on leaving the EU will do very well.
A doodle on the Russia story
There are lies, damn lies, and then there is the BBC…
Does Britain not have any farms of her own? If we were THAT dependant on Europe for food, things should be changed. Another overwhelmingly good reason to leave IMO.
Lucy Pevensey
I rent 30 acres of farm land just for my dogs, at a price cheaper than it would cost me to park my van in a council ran country park. The farmer has no use for it because of regulations. The land is rich and could be used for crops. The land is increasing in value. One day he will sell the land to the developers and will live in luxury.
Brilliant I’m still laughing and laughing at the fact that the bBC cannot see how stupid they are and that everyone sees through them – well almost everyone.
Hilarious!
Thank you Jip!
Really, the entire BBC and Sky and Ch 4 editorial should be put together in a room and, well, just leave it at that.
Stew Green,
Top of the morning to you. I replied, belatedly to you re transcripts on YouTube, bottom of previous page.
Bbc news watch
Project Fear – Queen to be evacuated from London when ReichEU start blitz version 2 .
PM adopts new negotiationing strategy with ReichEU . It’s called “ battling for Britain” a wholly news scheme which doesn’t involved giving into every thing the Brussels drunks want -plus free money .
Sounds like the Peugeot Nissan story is going to be run all week until some frog formally announces that they are not making a French car in Blighty .
The EU sells us three times as many (top end, expensive) RHD cars as we sell them LHD cars.
I’ve posted before, UK car manufacturers can switch to more RHD production to pick up the slack. By charging, and keeping, the EU’s 10% tariff on cars and offering incentives to U.K. built cars registered here from those tariff monies we can provide a shot in the arm to U.K. car production. Nissan will be falling over itself to satisfy U.K. demand.
Just a bit of fun from Sesame Street.
For the remoaning government and all remoaners who are [2.5 years] too stupid to understand what EXIT means. 🙂
Someone tells Evan Davis
Bbc ‘journalists’ (My quotes) are also known for not using certain terms when they don’t suit. Like political affiliations when editorial integrity has no space.
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2019/02/behind-scenes-2.html
C’mon… this is top comedy.
They should make a companion piece with some thug of sub-Saharan origin saying things like “We are readily identifiable. We are black. We wear garish trainers. We carry massive blades that are definitely illegal. We ARE dangerous. But many people, especially in the BBC, don’t seem to be aware of us or our traditions of territorial disputation.”
GW,
“Knowing the difference between a knife and a ceremonial sword”.
But knowing the difference between an Asian carrying it?…………
Memories of islamic terrorists escaping in burkas anyone…………..
Our favourite subject!! –
“‘Netflix effect’ sees nearly a MILLION Britons cancel their TV licence in last year as viewers ditch BBC in favour of streaming services”.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6660177/Netflix-effect-sees-nearly-MILLION-Britons-cancel-TV-licence-year.html
It’s, “doomed I tell ye, doomed”…………
G
Not doomed. Just ask the government to approve of an increase in the licence fee.
Assolandy Marr effectively inciting Sinn Fein’s President to have their elected MPs take their place at Westminster; presumably they would be expected to vote down Brexit.
Sorry! Beat me to it.
He seems agitated. Hope he doesn’t suffer gropyhandism again.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47105990
Brexit: Theresa May ‘determined’ to leave EU in March
The Traitor in Chief is on her own.
Everyone in the ROI and the EUSSR is reported as saying “no can do”.
Translation, they will perform some acrobatics to stop Brexit.
The last time I heard May acknowledge there were many other issues with “her” deal was before the Big Bang.
My MP replied to my email of ten days ago apologising for the delay, due to being busy in the House of Traitors.
The email nearly stated that the May Brexit is not Brexit. But they hope they got away with it.
We LEAVE next month.
I didn’t see ‘CRASH-OUT’ on the Referendum voting slip back in 2016.
The BBC needs to get it’s terminology right. But it won’t, of course.
I suspect that the EU is happy for us to leave. They fully believe the BBC’s anti-Brexit propaganda and anticipate that we’ll come crawling back after six months, at which point they would hope to cripple us.
DS
The Black Broadcasting Corporation bias will increase.
“I suspect that the EU is happy for us to leave”
No, in public they may appear calm.
In private they are terrified that their beloved “project” will collapse.
Their new treaty will not include the possibility of leaving the EU.
I read that the Gilets Jaune are demanding FREXIT, welcome to free France.
FREEXIT.
So the French are revolting?
Tumbleweed passes. I blame too much Carry On exposure at a delicate age.
BBC’s hypocrisy at work…..
Empire, colonialism, whitey in the driving seat, interventionism, national pride, nation states and national identity….bad, bad, bad things.
All change…Now ‘The West’ must do more to help ‘Africa’ as the BBC asks….
Why has the mute button been pressed on Africa?
And remember…
‘It cannot be said often enough: Africa is not a single social, political, economic or cultural entity. As the popular phrase goes, Africa is not a country.
DR Congo, Sudan and Zimbabwe are each shaped by different histories, albeit with a common legacy of colonial rule.’
Important to recognise they are individual states not some overarching ‘superstate’ called Africa…or ‘The EU’. Shame the BBC can’t recognise the same about Britain and other ‘nation states’ in Europe. Europe is not a country.
Note the final signing off quote printed in bold at the bottom of the article….we must put aside our differences in the interest of the Nation…..so not a BBC message which thrives on smashing the nation state, opening borders, identity politics [which is a paradox really for those at the BBC who don’t like a nation state as they do however like aggressive ‘mini-states’ lurking inside ‘society’ based upon racial or religious identity] and creating division and conflict…..
“In this tumultuous period, our people must redouble their efforts and vigilance. We must be even more demanding to make the policies accountable to us. Regardless of our political affiliation or our ethnic identity, we must put the nation above all.”
‘Put the Nation above all’….lol….so, so not BBC.
Today on ‘Sunday’ we had another fine example, not just of BBC hypocrisy but of Brexit scaremongering….apparently Christians across the world will die #duetobrexit! Since when has the BBC shown any concern about Christians being persecuted, especially those in Muslim countries…of course the BBC could start looking for persecution on their own doorstep…literally, as it is the BBC that drives much of the anti-Christian narratives….Ironically the Muslim Mishal Husain stating that it was a ‘backward and unpleasant’ ideology due to its views on homosexuality and abortion…hence the BBC’s stance, in part, towards Trump [and Bush in his time] who wants to limit abortion. It was only a couple of years ago that the BBC was telling us that Christians were ‘thriving’ in the Middle East even as they were being slaughtered. When the BBC does notice it blames not the Muslim killers but ‘The Iraq War’ Or ‘Libyan’ interventions….er…doesn’t ‘The West’ need to intervene more to protect and promote democracy?
This morning the BBC wanted to know, in light of the news that Christians were being persecuted around the world, what priority the government would give to raising the issue when in talks with other governments trying to drum up post-Brexit trade. The BBC wanted to know if trade would trump all other considerations…intangibles such as political, moral or ideoligical or faith concerns and if so doesn’t this mean that Chrisitians will continue to suffer because of Brexit as we ignore their plight in order to get trade deals?
Oh hang on….the EU just did a trade deal with Japan and told us that the deal would help the EU promote its values around the world….
‘1. Cooperation and leadership – the strategic case for a deal
The EU-Japan trade agreement would not only boost the EU’s economy. It would also strengthen Europe’s leadership in shaping global rules according to our values.
Like us in Europe, the Japanese believe that the challenges our societies are facing today cannot be solved by protectionism or by turning our back on the world.
We need to work with reliable partners because we need more cooperation, not less, both in Europe, and globally.’
Clearly the BBC’s interpretation of such deals is far more cynical…when it is a Brexit inspired deal.
The hypocrisy is that the BBC has spent two and a half years ignoring such intangibles when it pushes its anti-Brexit messages. It almost solely concentrates upon trade and the economy and refuses to discuss what the vote to leave was really about…..the ‘benefits’ that the voters wanted…sovereignty, national identity, taking back control…and of course the BBC fails to discuss what would happen if we stay in the EU and how that would impact upon all those concerns as the EU moves rapidly towards becoming a tax gathering, law making, army building superstate that crushes all other national identity and sovereignty.
That is a huge lie from the BBC, a lie by omission as it misses out an absolutely crucial part of the debate….what a future EU would look like and how Britain would be subjugated to its rule if we remained in it.
Having good and successful trade relations is important but that wasn’t what Leave voters voted on…they want to take back their country and they don’t want to be part of an EU superstate, a mere tax-paying region run by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels who hold them, their views and democracy in utter contempt…..that’s their priority.
When will the BBC start prioritising that narrative rather than continuing to push the Remain project fear line about trade, economy and empty shelves.
Pug,
“When will the BBC start prioritising that narrative ….”. It won’t, anymore than alter it’s hippy liberal, foreign inspired approach which it infects all that it encounters.
Coming up on LBC with Maajid Nawaz
#3 item so probably 1pm or 1:30pm
Police chief who had to apologise for her role in failing to prosecute grooming gangs has been PROMOTED to head antislavery
“Why has no police or official been prosecuted for grooming gangs ?”
#2 Vegan vs Green energy so 12:30 or 1pm
: All green energy firms are not vegan as they all use biofuel power from animal bio-products
#1 Item is toxic
cos he’s doing Brexit shouting “crashing out” , but says term “projectFear should be banned”
Oh I got #2 and #3 the wrong way around
I guess the vegan thing is coming up
the grooming gang item was done at 1pm Twitter thread
SG,
What a hero. Medal an all……..
Depends what she got her medal for ..could be legit
BTW MN said the police didn’t convict cos they were too busy signalling they weren’t racist
..he himself then thought it necessary to signal he doesn’t like Tommy
“We are not talking about TR who was quite rightly convicted of taking photos outside the court”
… Actually TR hold no conviction for taking photos outside a court
His Leeds conviction was overturned
..and his Kent conviction was for taking a photo “inside a court step”
.. (which I don’t think is actually sound ..It was a stitch up where the court chose to interpret the case differently for the sake of a couple of feet.)
The vegan electricity item was Maajid basically giving his mates Ecotricity a free advert
“The Vegan Society recognise only Ecotricity as vgan electricity”
.. well I wonder if they have a financial link ?
The Vegan Soc website says “sign up from here Ecotricity will donate £30 to The Vegan Society”
Maajid is not bright enough to recognise what Anaerobic Digesters are or that Ecotricity claim everyone else’s AD’s use animal waste whilst their own fleet only uses cut grass “grass to gas”.
… Of course even vegan farming has impact on wild animals and all leccy sources impact animals and the enviroment by taking up space and mining for materials etc.
Plus
#1 Ecotricity’s vegan customers don’t get special electrons, they get the same as everyone else
#2 Even vegans like it that vets have 24 hour electricity
They wouldn’t take their pet to one that switches off when the wind drops
Just seen a rubbish episode of Sunday politics.
The north east version with richard Moss as the supposed impartial host.
It turned into the Catherine McKinnel show.
The brexit hating labour mp was given the lions share of the commenting, never interrupted. She also got the obligatory ‘crashing out’ catchphrase in a few times.
The conservative councillor was continuously interrupted by moss and incessantly talked over by McKinnel.
When the conservative councillor brought up, regarding Nissan, that diesel sales are 60% down, Moss didn’t like that and stopped him saying “we’ll come back to that” (but of course he did not)
They had ‘normal’ people interviewed in Darlington (voted leave) yet most of these people interviewed were remainers.
This following on the bbbc radio where a chaplain was interviewed who blamed Brexit for Nissan with an outside broadcast airing 6 selected ‘random people off the street’ who were all remainers. This in Sunderland who voted 2 to 1 for leaving.
And now, I’ve just seen Julie Elliott, one of the 3 Sunderland MPs (who were voted in on a brexit promise yet are all remainers doing all they can to trash Brexit) saying this Nissan decision will cost tens of thousands of jobs.
This is because Nissan are now not going to build the suv diesel sometime in the future.
No jobs are being lost.
Nissan are making the sensible decision not to build diesel cars because they are now seen as bad for the environment as opposed to a few years ago when they were seen as good for the environment. EU decisions caused this change.
Would a company like Siemens go ahead with a new factory to build tv tubes or CDs now that demand is disappearing? Same with Nissan.
Remember, not 1 job will be lost.
Great shame that many people might lose their jobs as left-wing media outlets go broke. Echoes of Maggie’s comment on socialism might be appropriate…
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
Trouble with left-wing publications is that they eventually run out of anything of interest to say to people, they have little credibility and don’t really reflect what is going on in peoples’ lives nor what these people think….in fact the very same ‘business model’ the BBC adopts….only of course they don’t have to worry about actually producing anything people like or associate with in order to raise money….the BBC can keep on insulting, abusing, mocking and holding in contempt its viewers and have very little comeback.
Future of digital journalism in question as BuzzFeed and HuffPost lay off 1,000
…and of course the BBC’s very own Lauren Lavern’s personal project goes pear-shaped….
‘Online women’s magazine The Pool enters administration’
Maybe if these publications had a more mainstream, or dare I say, populist approach that looked at things in a more rounded, unbiased, non-partisan way they might succeed more instead of shouty, left-wing identity driven bombast. Guess there must be a limit to how much people can take being made to feel guilty for allegedly being, as the likes of the BBC profiles them, racist, or sexist, or Islamophobic or homophobic, transgenderphobic or planet killers or meat eating animal murderers, future stealing oldies….because that is what you are even if you don’t show any outward signs of these things…subconsciously we know you think them…how do we know? You’re white, male, toxic Christian, or at least not Muslim, meat eating, Tory voting, Brexit voting, knuckle-dragging monster that needs re-education or a good dose of ethnic cleansing….which of course is what open borders is all about…as Labour intended…the ‘browning’ of Britain and getting rid of all those hideous white people…and of course what the EU’s ‘freedom of movement’ is all about….smashing national identity and importantly smashing national loyalty….you’re all good EU citizens now….who will all those EU citizens in Britain feel more kinship with and loyalty for…Britain or the EU? It’s going to be the EU for the vast majority….and when they can vote in British elections, or referendums, that becomes an important factor as British democracy is ‘hijacked’ by imported workers, the EU’s own little demographic timebomb.
Lavern is a lefty, anti-Brexit, pro-mass immigration and anti the ‘Nation state’ so no tears for her, shame she takes her employees down though.
Buzzfeed was the BBC’s favoured child which it adopted in the hope that its youthful ‘buzz’ would rub off on staid old Auntie as the new media groomers lurking in the shadows like Netflix and Amazon and Facebook tried to steal away the youth audience….hence the constant BBC attacks on them, especially Facebook…dressed up as concerns about data and Brexit but really about trying to maintain BBC control and dominance of the media narrative…just as the BBC’s attacks on right-wing papers such as The Mail and The Sun are targeted at doing….its support for the Leveson Inquiry no coincidence as it saw the chance to help take down a commercial and ideological rival in Murdoch and News International.
Buzzfeed was the firewall that allowed the BBC to make scurrilous and unverified claims whilst denying responsibility. Buzzfeed published the dodgy Trump dossier which allowed the BBC to claim it was merely reporting on the story that Buzzfeed had released this dodgy dossier…and it just so happens we, the BBC, as part of our thorough and indepth report, mention what is in the dossier and raise the likelihood that it all points to Trump being a Russian stooge.. No mention that the mis-information came from Russian intelligence officers who must be laughing all the way to the Kremlin that they have put a huge spanner in US democracy and its helpful idiots in the left-wing media have been promoting their black propaganda for them and doing enormous damage to the US President.
Who is working with the Russians? Trump or the BBC, Jon Sopel and their ilk?
Don’t expect the BBC to go into administration any time soon. The free money just keeps on rolling in regardless which makes them totally unaccountable.
Excellent post. But the BBC is under pressure. I see in the Express today that the corporation is trying to get the MPs to force the over 75s to pay the LF. In the news the other day it was reported that people under 35 were watching less and less BBC and more and more on their computers , so hopefully not paying the LF. So dear old auntie is trying to force those older folks who may still watch its leftist tripe to pay up. Leaving aside their ability to find the money out of their pensions , it seems that the BBC is now determined to attack one of the few age groups who still watch their dismal programmes. Smacks of desperation to me.
Punishment for voting Brexit….BBC hopes they will all die off soon…will solve so many of the BBC’s problems.
Who can forget this deeply unpleasant Remainer deathwish that the BBC promoted?….
The BBC generation have already died out. The over 75s don’t watch the BBC either. My parents watch Yesterday, Talking Pictures, ITV3, Drama, Film4, True Entertainment or Movies4Men, as well as a choice of 295 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine on DVD such as “Deep in the Heart of Yorkshire”, “The White Mans Grave”, “Keeping Britain Tidy”, “The Really Masculine Purse”, “The Frenchies are coming” and “Set the People Free” including an Anti-EU rant by Nora Batty in “Bicycle Bonanza”.
Granddaughters and Nieces watch the Youtubes, and would rather watch a Tom and Jerry cartoon or a Laurel and Hardy film than BBC News.
Nobody wants to watch the BBC anymore, anything interesting is now effectively censored. The most interesting people, scientists and competent journalists are banned or rarely appear on the BBC. Writers of books, especially those who write about the BBC, EU governance or Climate science, are not even mentioned as existing.
No the future is a 21st Century Global Britain. The 19th Century was the Century of the British Empire. The 20th Century started as the Century of the British Commonwealth and ended as the European Union in decline. The 21st Century is the Century of the Royal Commonwealth. At over ten and a third million square miles, the Royal Commonwealth is the largest sovereign Union under the rule of a single person in the world today. Sixteen Realms comprising exactly one hundred separate territories loyal to Her Majesty the Queen. Thirty territories with Union Jacks in their Flags and the Queens Head on the Coins of 17 of the Worlds Currencies.
For the first time I’ve skimmed the 54-page AGE-RELATED TV LICENCE POLICY Public Consultation document
Click to access consultation.pdf
Apparently there are three ‘remain-type’ choices (copying, restoring, reforming) – but not the obvious and much-needed one (i.e. scrapping entirely).
And they have their own ‘transition period’ (p. 47).
Do any of you bother watching the BBC’s The Big Questions?
I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t, I’m only having a quick squint before I head off and chop some wood for my highly polluting log burner.
They’re discussing “feminism”. Oh God, what a dreary, predictable bunch. The audience, as per u, are made up of ghastly Guardianistas, lesbians, lots of self loathing middle class types and angry blokes dressed up as women.
So, a typical bunch of Brits according to BBC standards.
We’ve had cropped haired lesbians lecturing us about the patriarchy, a black girl waffling about white male privilege and most bizarrely a geezer dressed up to look like Mrs Brown telling us women in the workplace are being sexually abused.
However, it’s not the female feminists that get up my beak nearly as much as their male counterparts who feel the need to loathe their own gender and empathise with the supposed female predicament.
If virtue signalling ever becomes an Olympic event we have a couple of potential medalists in this audience.
They really irritate me. I felt like shouting “FFS, grow a pair”.
Though perhaps not to the bloke dressed like Mrs Brown…
Meanwhile, for QT, maintaining bbc ‘balance’ is a no-brainier.
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2019/02/we-try-we-keep-trying.html#comment-form
https://twitter.com/iconoclast1982/status/1092035245858271238?s=21
Sky is from Venus, the BBC from Marr. Neither on this planet.
QT is in my constituency shortly after our supposed flight from Egypt date. I’ve applied, giving my real name, political/Brexit leaning etc. I’ll be astounded if I’m invited to attend.
Peter Grimes – Don’t give up hope. I applied to QT a few years ago. I told the researcher on the phone that I normally vote Conservative but at the next election I intended to vote UKIP. Naturally I thought I had spoiled my chance by telling such awful truths. But I WAS invited. I was surrounded by lefties and didn’t get to speak but I was in the audience. So it can happen. Best of luck. Give a wave to all your bBBC pals.
Yep..heard the classic self-flagellation last week as they discussed the apparent, and horrific, dearth of black opera singers in Britain. One speaker confessing to being a white, male, middle-class, Oxbridge graduate…so much privilege! He just had to do more to get black people singing opera and to overcome his racist stereotyping of Blacks…..guess like those colonial time christian missionaries ‘improving’ the savage natives who only want to rap or produce drill music. LOL.
Black people can only get on in life and improve their lives with the help of sincere, educated and remorseful white people who understand and recognise their own guilt for having historically oppressed the Black man and woman.
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Very few blacks in North America choose to move to Africa. I wonder why.
Africa, where Africans have severed their chains and created the first recognised paradise on Earth. A paradise created with no help whatsoever, apart from £££££££££££££££, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and €€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€€.
“Yep..heard the classic self-flagellation last week as they discussed the apparent, and horrific, dearth of black opera singers in Britain.”
Well if they’re not interested in joining the audience from time to time, they’re hardly going to be motivated enough to spend years training to become opera singers, are they?
This stuff always amuses me, it happens in lots of things – opera, theatre generally, orchestras, country houses, traditions, anything historically or culturally European. Even visiting the countryside. They try to correct a perceived imbalance with some futile attempt to attract those least likely to take part, as if the most and the least cancel each other out like double entry bookkeeping. Some of it can be explained by simple class differences, although nobody seems to care when white, working class people are under-represented in something. The Labour party used to care, but hasn’t done so for years.
If you want to increase participation in something, it’s generally best to target those who are most likely to take part, but that wouldn’t produce the required result.
Femi can carry a tune. Apparently.
If he isn’t opening the RSO season it will be obvious racism.
Jeff – I used to watch it all the time but I got sick of listening to all those lefty weirdoes. Like you I particularly loathe those weak-minded male feminists. The only edition I remember enjoying was when Milo was on getting stuck into Kate Smurthwaite.
jeff.
“They really irritate me. I felt like shouting “FFS, grow a pair”.”
That’s why that Campbell fella produces them! You should listen to him weekdays on BBC Radio5live 6:30 AM till 9 AM. Gloves are really off with this fella! Hate! Bile, you can practically smell his foul breath over the airwaves.
Men hold down a man who tried to rape a teenager until cops come.
Not on BBC yet. But on numerous other sites who give no information about the man.
I wonder who the man is, or where he is from? No details.
https://news.sky.com/story/men-praised-for-stopping-attempted-rape-of-teenager-and-holding-suspect-11625960
GWF,
“”Secondly, I would like to take my hat off to the group of men who intervened, stopped the attack, then gave chase so police were able to make an arrest.” Says a police officer. He went on to say (my fiction!): “Some of that group of men have been charged with GBH against the suspect while the remainder of the public spirited group will be charged for affray and aiding and abetting in the principal crime”………………….
A, “Manchester man”?…………..
Always love it when the geriatric old white Beeboids start bonding.
Wheel in John Simpson and Jeremy Bowen and you have a whinge of bitter old farts.
GW – Love it, whinge.
Whynge (spell it differently to differentiate it from the usual term). Collective noun.
Definition : A group of Socialists bewailing the imminent death of their nasty beliefs.
Should be in the OED as new English word of 2019.
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So Sykes is saying (or sarcastically implying that other people say)
.. that having a head covering (like a nun etc.) makes you an ISIS terrorist.
The John Sweeney who has this on his Twitter description…‘Trump: “Thick” Arron Banks: “Liar” Farage: “Disgusting” Scientology: “Bigot”’
The John Sweeney who told this enormous lie about a Brexit polluted ‘racist’ Britain in this fake news slander…
Newsnight seems to have an eye for the looney fruitcakes….James O’Brien, Sweeney and Mason….not to mention extreme ‘liberal’ journos’ like Maitlis, Davis and Wark.
Looking down Sweeney’s feed we have this retweet…..Tulsi Gabbard is a Democrat….will the BBC machine move into action and rant about ‘Russian interference’ and claim she is a Russian stooge?
Maybe not….they will adopt the sensible narrative that US Intelligence said was actually happening in the 2016 elections that the Russians support all sides in the hope of spreading confusion and doubt but which the BBC chose to ignore preferring as it did the line that the Russians only supported Trump, he was ‘their man’…….. however this BBC freelancer chooses the sensible narrative about the Democrat Gabbard…..funny that….I imagine it will be the orthodox line adopted by the BBC now until they find a Republican similarly ‘compromised’ and all that reasonable rationalisation will be forgotten and the message will be ‘Republicans colluding with Russians’….
I find it extraordinarily incomprehensible that the Government/legislators plough on with ensuring that sensible, prepared members of the public are unable to defend themselves.
Click to access 2018-06-20_Overarching_Fact_Sheet_v0.1.pdf
Whereas, they must know that those to which the legislation will really apply to, have no regard to honouring the law. For others, who will remain unnamed here, they as a separate group, do not even accept the laws of the kaffir and neither will they.
One’s thing for sure, eventually when the public have had enough, they will join the factions above irrespective of, ‘The Law’. By the way, ‘Bring back hanging for Treason’ I say. First candidate? the PM who amended the law to halt hanging for that offence. Guess who?
Maajid has his deported Ghanaian convicted & deported mate on
..”Ooh on Tuesday 32 Jamaicans are going to be deported and that will leave 23 British children without fathers”
…. tell that to their victims mate.
On Wednesday the Stansted 15 anti-deportation “terrorists”* are to be sentenced.
(They have a terrorism conviction)
SG “without fathers”
All the statistics show that the blacks desert the women ASAP.
The “single parent” is used by the Black Broadcasting Corporation every day as an excuse for the criminal behaviour of young blacks.
These “fathers” would mostly be absent anyway.
Whynge.
“the blacks” don’t do anything, cos like any group, they are not a mass, but rather individuals so they’ll be plenty of good fathers , but a certain portion of individuals DO “desert the women ASAP.” just as a proportion of white individuals do.
Thomas Sowell says that bad outcomes in American black families is often linked to absence of fathers
I think that the argument is that US white couples had less absent fathers, but they did exist eg in the war etc. but society more often had a stronger system of support mainly from grandparents etc.
That’s how Obama did OK with his white mother, when his father cleared off.
Jan 13th Rod Liddle;s Times column was
“Half of black children do not live with their father. And we wonder why they’re dying”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/half-of-black-children-do-not-live-with-their-father-and-we-wonder-why-they-re-dying-pj0n3th6g
Thanks to Guest Who for posting the latest on the isthebbcbiased blog. Here’s how I responded on that blog to the info that Andrew Marr was going to host Ash Sarkar of Novara Media:
Hmm… Ash Sarkar from Novara Media talking to the BBC alongside journalists from serious publications – the Times and the Spectator?
Novara Media is a far-left subversive outfit with a YouTube subscription of about 13 people (OK I’m minimizing that a bit) and the Ash creature is, by her own admission, a communist:
What on earth is she doing on the BBC?
The only thing Sarkar has going for her is that she is a typical whinging subversive. Here she is on an Intelligence Squared panel ‘debating’ whether Corbyn is fit to be PM:
She begins her ‘contribution’ to the debate by asking the rhetorical question: What the %#&@ are we doing here?
Funny how people are proud to declare themselves communists, whereas to say you’re a fascist would put you beyond the pale, would get you non-personned on the beeb and most msm, and possibly prosecuted.
And yet there’s barely a rizla thin difference between the two, and in terms of millions murdered, tortured, imprisoned and starved, communism has far more blood on its hands.
But I guess our little trAsh hasn’t read too much history, or just doesn’t care, so long as she can virtue signal and feel all righteous and indignant.
PS. The couch candy airhead next to Piers is pretty obnoxious too.
Don’t mock the Communists. At least Jacob Rees-Mogg read that they were “Sound on Europe”.
Truetoo
No doubt she is the pride of mum and dad now she’s on the grown up teli . I’ve written here before that we must be aware that dusky people who want to rubbish the West need to find a niche to get on the BBC panel show s like QT and ‘ now’ thing .
Then she can do baking and dancing and write a book or column about nasty Blighty .
Once that’s understood – such a vacuous waste of life can be ignored ….
“Ash Sarkar ”
Tis true! Nowt worse than a poacher [female version] turned gamekeeper. Mad Muslim to atheism. Their silliness still betrays them.
@TT Novara Media “29,246 subscribers”
400 of those are probably BBC accounts
typical view count is 8K a recent high was a video saying BBC was biased against FlAbbott on QT got 48K
Maxi would argue that they are mainstream whereas PJW and Tommy with a million subscribers each and videos of a million views are “the extremists” who should not be awarded any platform by the BBC
Looking at a BBC freelancer’s twitter feed and I saw this….
I thought I’d check it out.
Funny what you find. The BBC has for years taken the line that blamed the Tories, and especially Thatcher, for destroying our industrial base [never mind Labour closed more mines than Thatcher and that during Blair’s years factories closed at an enormous rate]….but is that in any way true? What might have been the real, underlying cause of our industrial demise? A Labour government refusing to invest in industry post-war thus failing to create a strong industrial base that would produce tangible wealth, power and influence?
Ironically from the BBC….
The Wasting of Britain’s Marshall Aid
‘Hard luck story
We all know the easy British explanation for our cumulative export defeat in world markets from the 1950s onwards, especially at the hands of the Germans. This story tells us that lucky West Germany had all her industries and infrastructure bombed flat or removed as reparations, and then was able to re-equip herself from scratch with Marshall Aid dollars. Meanwhile, so this hard-luck story goes on, poor old Britain had to struggle on with worn-out and old-fashioned kit.
This is utter myth. Britain actually received more than a third more Marshall Aid than West Germany – $2.7 billion as against $1.7 billion. She in fact pocketed the largest share of any European nation.
The truth is that the post-war Labour Government, advised by its resident economic pundits, freely chose not to make industrial modernisation the central theme in her use of Marshall Aid.
‘Financial Dunkirk’
A week after VJ-Day (Victory over Japan Day), the US Congress duly did stop Lend-Lease. What now? For the new Labour Cabinet, Keynes’s ‘Dunkirk’ solution of packing up all our ‘onerous responsibilities’ and becoming a second-class power was unthinkable, certainly unthought.
So instead, the Labour Government successfully cadged a loan of nearly $4 billion from the Americans. Thanks solely to this American tick, Britain could continue to entertain the dream of being a world power at the centre of the Commonwealth. Even so, the war-bankrupted country was still desperately hard up. The Labour Cabinet therefore sought in the first place to reconcile the dream with economic reality by means of salami-slicing the armed forces. The result was worrying – as Herbert Morrison shrewdly judged in November 1949:
‘We are in danger of paying more than we can afford for defences that are nevertheless inadequate, or even illusory’.
Just as true today, of course.
In the second place, the Labour Cabinet attempted to accommodate the costs of the world role and the expensive new welfare state by severely restricting capital investment at home. This of course served to handicap the much-needed modernisation of Britain’s obsolete industrial system, and the country’s clapped-out roads, railways and telecommunications.
And so we find – surprise, surprise – that during the four-year period of Marshall Aid, Britain planned to devote to net fixed investment in industry and infrastructure a proportion of GNP that was a third less than West Germany’s proportion.’
Curious how BBC presenters never get around to telling that tale when they talk about the death of British industry…of course now they’ll have another target of choice to blame…any factory shuts down, any shop closes, any blip in the stock market and it’ll be #duetobrexit.
The PM gets the Eurostar to the ReichEU this week to be told the sell out can’t be changed . All those amendments and traitorous manoeuvres by Greave and the rest will be for naught . Another week done and down to 40 days .
I think once we pass the month mark real panic will set in and the likes of cooper balls and soubry will go into full melt down as the End of the World approaches . So much popcorn to be eaten .
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If all else fails is there not some heinous crime that we as a nation can commit that would ensure our expulsion from this mouldy, decaying organization. Maybe the EU doesn’t do expulsion (too expensive) but relies on punishment. I think we can probably look forward to plenty of that. Our name is on ze list.
Interesting idea Lefty – maybe we could try these to get ourselves kicked out :
We could declare that we’ve had enough of illegal asylum seekers turning up on our shores and they will be instantly dropped back off in France.
We could declare a huge crackdown on illegals already here, and if any are found will be put in giant holding camps with minimal comforts until we can return them to their original countries.
We could declare we will no longer be part of the ECHR, ECJ or the UN as they are no longer fit for purpose – and if that doesn’t suit the EU then tough. Those bodies interfere with our ability to govern ourselves as we wish.
We could reintroduce the death penalty.
We could state that henceforward we will trade with who we damn well please, without reference to the EU, and if they don’t like it, come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough. Might as well be bold!
Unfortunately none of our politicians would countenance any of the above, in fact they’d be horrified. And that’s why 90+ % of MPs need to be mercilessly swept away at the next election. The country cannot afford such people pretending to represent their constituents.
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An impressive list there but I don’t think the EU Commission would consider any of that to constitute a sackable offense. They would merely instruct our traitors within to do the usual hatchet job using the MSM, although I doubt that an instruction would be needed – just a sly, knowing wink would suffice and the useful idiots would do their stuff. It’s a bit like the Mafioso – if you don’t meet our demands we’ll send the boys round. So I think it’s just walk away time and let the chips fall where they may.
Laugh…A.C. Grayling needs a lie down…on the one hand May is acting like despot Mussolini, on the other the terrorists’ party, Sinn Fein, is an acceptable ally for Remain….[as it has always been for the BBC]
Pug AC DC grayling was blubbing about people have to wear yellow stars after brexit which was pretty offensive and I reported to twitter .
He is obviously an approved snowflake
Ably supported by Oor Andy…
He doesn’t “come close to pleading”: he’s on his knees, BEGGING.
To be perfectly honest – I think the BBC would be more than happy if the Republicans started bombing public places and shooting policemen again – provided they said they did it “because of Brexit”
These brain washed idealogues are no better than sixth form revolutionaries. They have no appreciation of the misery that war brings, and are quite happy talking it up , if it helps to stop Brexit.
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“RemainAndReform”
The EU does not do reform, ask David Cameron.
Grayling is the one foaming at the mouth.
A genuine RemTraitor performance, I almost suspended my disbelief.
Sinn Fein might as well take the oath, 470 MPs have already broken their oath.
Whynge.
Just watched the Talking Pictures channel, and the excellent Robert Donat as The Young Mr Pitt. The dialogue could have been written today, and despite being set in the late 18th Century when the young William Pitt was PM, the problems with Europe were as relevant then as they are today.
Every Member of Parliament need to sit down and watch this film, particularly as the narrative spoken in parliament was authentic.
Brissles,
Any black/LGBT actors?
G
It’s funny as the excellent Talking Pictures got told off because some snowflake complained about a bit of 1970s language … now a clever sign is put up warning people that out of fashion racial descriptions might be heard …. oh the humanity …
G. Nope ! and no alien names either in the credits at the end. AND I didn’t need the sub titles on, because every word spoken was beautifully enunciated, a clear indication of real actors who knew their craft.
Another indication of the era, in the list of credits at the end, whereas normally there are accreditations for hair and make-up, I did a double take when I saw the word ‘ cosmetician’. l must remember that one.
The twitter highlights JRM making the beeboid Mardell sound stupid – because of brexit today on the 1pm news .
I don’t listen to Mardell or much BBC so called ‘ news’ much anymore but the 5 minutes of JRM finally declaring the continuous bias of Mardell and the BBC is worth it .
Panic in the air methinks
er…..‘Vince Cable says he’s been in discussions for months with large groups of Labour MPs (and some Tories) about breaking away to form a new third party, although he’s vague about how it would actually work. Will he be happy playing second fiddle to Chuka?’
Hadn’t realised the LibDems had officially liquidated themselves. Sadly missed.
Haven’t they tried that twice before when they were shrinking beyond recognition? First we had the SDP formed by the gang of four and the fabulously young David Owen then the Lib Dems with the fabulously young Paddy Ashdown. So the fabulously young Chuka will be next? Same result. A toothless talking shop for people who only want the salaries with no responsibility.
So Nissan is making its X-Trail inside the EU #duetobrexit? Oh..hang on…it’s going to make it in Japan…and claims it has very little, to nothing to do with Brexit. The Japan-EU trade deal in which the EU’s 10% tariff on imported japanese cars is scrapped will only be in complete effect by 2027…so probably not a reason for the switch…however why not same deal for Japanese cars built in Britain? Bizarre.
The BBC however psins it as mainly a Brexit issue reportiing it in its ‘Brexit’ news section and slanting the first part of its report to give Brexit the main emphasis…
‘Nissan has confirmed that the new X-Trail originally planned for its Sunderland plant will instead be made in Japan.
In a letter to workers, it says continued Brexit uncertainty is not helping firms to “plan for the future”.
In 2016 the carmaker said it would build the new car in the UK after “assurances” from the government.
Unions described the news as “disappointing” and said they were “seriously concerned”.
The government said it was “a blow to the sector” but that no jobs would go as a result.
Nissan has made cars at Sunderland since 1986 and employs almost 7,000 people.’
The BBC doesn’t bohter with the finer deatils of what Nissan told us…here’s the Mail…
‘Nissan chairman Gianluca de Ficchy said in the letter that much had changed since the Japanese firm announced plans to build a new Qashqai and X-Trail in the UK in October 2016.
‘At that time they were both planned as ‘traditional’ models, powered by internal combustion engines. X-Trail was already going to be made in Kyushu, but there was a good business case for bringing production to Europe as well.
‘Since that time, as you know, the environment for the car industry in Europe has changed dramatically. To meet the changing emissions regulations we’ve had to invest much more in new powertrains for our future models like X-Trail. At the same time, the volume forecasts for X-Trail in Europe have reduced.
‘For those reasons the company has decided to optimise our investments and concentrate production in Kyushu, instead of adding another production site. For the European business, this does not change the fact that X-Trail is – and will continue to be – a crucial model for us.
‘Today’s announcement will be interpreted by a lot of people as a decision related to Brexit. We have taken this decision for the business reasons I’ve explained, but clearly the uncertainty around the UK’s future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future.”
The BBC’s indepth report of that…no mention of the emission’s issue……
‘Nissan said it had decided to “optimise its investments in Europe” by consolidating X-Trail production in Kyushu, which was the production hub for the model.
The firm’s Europe chairman, Gianluca de Ficchy, said: “Nissan is investing heavily in new technologies and powertrains for the next generation of vehicles in our Sunderland plant.
“To support this, we are taking advantage of our global assets, and with X-Trail already manufactured in Japan, we can reduce our upfront investment costs.”
“While we have taken this decision for business reasons, the continued uncertainty around the UK’s future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future,” he added.’
But note Nissan is still investing in its Sunderland plant and no jobs will be lost.
The world motor industry is in turmoil, not least because of green legislation to save the planet [at the BBC’s behest] and the BBC only wants to talk Brexit. Curious not at all concerned about job losses or massive inconvenience to people due to climate change legislation….quite happy to see the agricultural industry fold…..ironically losing all those EU workers their jobs.
Let’s face it – people are confused about what sort of engine to get if buying a new car. The emir or Londonistan is bringing his 12 quid a day for Londoners using diesels and others and the rest of the country will find an excuse .
I need a nearly new car but holding off. I care less about global warming and air quality in London. It’s bound to be bad because there are 8 million plus people here .
Luckily, since we know business and probity are as one, Nissan using the Brexit card would have nothing to do with pressurising the government towards underhand, under-counter deals involving favourable and ‘friendly’ tax environments for their existing production lines. It almost goes without saying that would not apply, luckily.
Not directly bbc related, but germane in that they share the same racism-obsessed mindset:
Mary Poppins is branded ‘racist’ over scene where she’s covered in soot.
Which shows that US ‘academics’ are at least as mad as ours.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6661605/Mary-Poppins-branded-racist-academic-blacking-iconic-sweeps-rooftop-scene.html
Funny how white people don’t go on about historic child abuse of children used as slaves to climb chim chimneys . Or Americans engaging is cultural appropriation – or dick van dykes cockney accent which some might say is a ‘crime against humanity – or a crime against cock en ee’ .
Some dark people have no sense of anything ….
So that explains why coal mines were systematically closed down from Harold Wilson onwards – it was to combat abject working class racism in places like S Yorkshire and S Wales.
Someone should have pointed that out to Arthur Scargill, I’m sure he would have understood – good cause ‘n all.
I hope there are no racist black people working in American salt mines.
I think the racist incident involves a retired Admiral on top of a house firing rockets at what he thinks are Hottentots, but are in fact chimney sweeps who just happen to be dancing on top of neighbouring roofs. Compounding the racism is also the fact that one of the chimney sweeps happens to be a Dutch American actor trying to speak English with a cockney accent.
vlad
“The literature professor”
That surprised me, it is usually sociologists.
Most of them are not real academics.
When I attended Grammar School about 10% of students attended University.
In the generation who taught me c7% attended university.
Some university placements were due to family influence, but the majority were the cream of the crop.
Fewer post graduate opportunities, so many very good graduates entered teaching.
In my small rural school.
The French Mistress graduated magna cum laude from a French University.
The Physics Master had a PHD, his post graduate studies were interrupted by WW2, during which he received serious head wounds and felt unable to return to university.
The Mathematics Master had an MSc from London university.
There were more but it was a long time ago.
Any pupil who showed real potential would be offered free, advanced tuition, by a member of staff, outside school hours. We had one pupil so good the Master felt he could not teach her any more. More advanced, still free, tuition was provided for her by staff from the nearest university.
The standard of teaching declined coevally with the standard of pupil behaviour and enrichment.
You’re right, sociology is heavily infected with Marxism and cultural Marxism, which obsesses with finding racism under every stone.
But like a cancer the disease has long spread to most Arts subjects, history of course, but also literature, and most of the others.
If it’s an ology you’re a scientist? Sadly not; you’re probably a Marxist.
Last week it was SO cold……….
How cold was it?
It was so cold even socialists had their hands in their own pockets.
Something to warm comrades up – David Vance on Twitter states that BBC is losing licence renewals at a rate of 2700 a day … come on get it to 3000….