The Biased BBC continues to breach its Charter by social campaigning without any restraint . Something must be done to fix that .
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“Blackouts might boost the population” I didn’t have sex during the last blackout, how could I ? My computer wasn’t… - Zephir Oct 7, 19:13
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Yes, the muslim mask slipped for a little while there did it not ? - Flotsam Oct 7, 19:03
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Quite honestly the Police were under such a ferocious attack that they didn’t get a chance to use their weapons… - Zephir Oct 7, 19:02
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Net Zero……….Industry, jobs, home heating, transport Blackouts might boost the population and solve the need for more illegal immigrants. - Zephir Oct 7, 18:59
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Armed police under severe attack that did not use their weapons, or even unholster them.. Remarkable restraint, can’t see that… - Zephir Oct 7, 18:56
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In reality there should be two separate cases, one for the attackers and another for the Police. I’ve never heard… - Northern Voter Oct 7, 18:55
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Officer told George Floyd to ‘stop yelling’
The US policeman accused of George Floyd’s murder told him to “stop yelling” as the unarmed black man repeatedly gasped under the officer’s knee, according to transcripts of body-camera footage released in court.
They reveal that Mr Floyd cried out for his late mother and said “tell my kids I love them”, as he said more than 20 times he could not breathe. The transcripts were made public on Thursday as lawyers for one of three officers charged with aiding and abetting the murder – Thomas Lane – asked for the case against him to be dismissed. Read more.
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Not keen on ‘reading more’ about a single case in another country, designed to stir up Mercedes of color drivers here.
I merely ponder how being unable to breathe still allows 20 claims of same and other exclamations.
‘stop yelling’
Ah, but we must not miss the important symbolism here. We may think we’ve heard quite enough from eratic drivers of expensive cars but we must applify not quell their voices – whatever tosh they might be coming out with.
Speaking of the BBC ME stirring, this was the lead headline…
ANGER IN LEICESTER
The copy below amplifies, with a final para tucked away that suggests the anger, and bbc subbing is utter bollux or, at least, something the bbc left unverified for bbc reasons of stirring.
“…in a letter to Labour MP Liz Kendall, business minister Nadhim Zahawi claims the city council has spent less than £500,000 of a £3.5m discretionary grant awarded to it.”
Is such a ‘claim’ Beyond the wit of 20,000 ‘essential‘ staff to check?
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – There is one
Thought I’d look at a bit of Sunak’s Summer Budget and piece of click bait misleadingly titled ‘Will coronavirus mean I have to pay more tax?’. The BBC don’t do science any more and don’t realise that influenza is a coronavirus as are other viral infections; they don’t realise they need to be much more specific than that and state ‘Will Covid-19 mean I have to pay more tax?’.
Anyway, the article is apparently a consideration of the mini-Budget. It has a HYS attached. The HYS is nearly two months old.
What?!!!
Someone at the Beeb has messed up big time. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52663523
As the bbbc are fully supportive of blm can we take it that the bbbc want to defund the police?
All else is a distraction now. We need to get on with
our no 1 task: To Defund the BBc.
That is quite the claim.
Especially for the bbc to be pushing.
I can already imagine the new official forms being printed now – please tick the correct box below, are you black, woman or neither?
Racism AND misandry within the same quote. Something for Radio 4 to be proud of.
FakeNews report : Nick Ferrari said it says Right/Left/Islamic activists have been using Covid situation to spread FakeNews.
It’s coming up on BBC SouthAsianNetwork
BTW the accounts tweets
June18 “Listen to @CommissionCE Sara Khan on @BBCr4today programme @ 2:35:35
on *far-right extremism*
.. #hatefulextremism ”
June 21 “Horrified to hear about the stabbings in Reading.
Our thoughts are with the victims and their families.”
July 7th “15 years ago today 52 people died and hundreds were wounded from an act of Islamist terrorism in London”
The BBC have been doing plenty of misinformation spreading of their own, especially when not bringing on scientists and doctors onto programmes to be interviewed carefully and fully.
The MediaMainRoom (might need to look at that branding, racists) podcast pretty much relies on Beeboids.
Lorraine Heggessey
Media executive
Lorraine Heggessey has had some of the biggest jobs in broadcasting – head of Children’s BBC, controller of BBC1 (the first woman to do so) and chief executive of Talkback Thames. Now a media consultant, public speaker and advisor to Channel 4, she left the media world in 2017; and spent two years working for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, as chief executive of The Royal Foundation. In this in-depth interview, Lorraine recalls the time she memorably fired Blue Peter presenter Richard Bacon for taking cocaine, describes the risks she took when commissioning Strictly Come Dancing in order to “reinvent Saturday nights,” and discusses her work as chair of the Grierson Trust, which helps young people from diverse backgrounds to get into documentary making.
Oh, goodie. More ‘my trans younga bruvva’ docos by Sharneece, aged 12.
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/353382/netflix-defies-odds-finances-soar-without-ads.html?
So the secret is producing stuff folk are prepared to pay for voluntarily?
Or stay ‘unique’ and push stuff no one is interested in paid for under threat.
on LBC retired Asian police officer
“I can honestly say I stopped more black people than my white colleagues
cos that is who commit the crime
… grief ? grief from BAME yes especially from my own community cos I am a Muslim
people would say why are working in the police?”
…. sounds like his Muslim community was being racist.
These #PRasnews releases go to media constantly.
https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/99836/images-in-science-are-still-biased-towards-white-men-new/
So cue Lammy on the BBC in 3, 2…
Speaking of geniuses, when are the Nobels going to sort out their rampant diversity biases?
Speaking of #PRasnews…
Entitled ‘Racism in your postcode’, MSM feed farm 38 BeeGees comes out with another corker to keep them in funding.
Content warning: this email references emotive stirring BS
Dear Rube,
The murder of George Floyd, a 46 year old black man child in Minnesota, sent shock waves across the world, driven almost exclusively by activists like us and credulous or complicit media working up brain donors. But those of us* (*we have cute diverse types here too, just like the BBC) reading this who experience racism know this wasn’t an isolated incident.
So it’s up to all of us to do something to challenge it. Racism won’t be solved with a single email, the removal of a statue alone, or another government review. It will take a commitment from all of us, to keep not working productively: staying on furloughs paid for taxpayers day in and day out to dismantle structural oppression in our homes, communities anot nd [poof reader slot open] country. Plus smashing up anything we can find, sending mobile footage to media, and appearing on VD as much as we can to wail about wibble.
And already people are rising to the challenge. Like the petition set up by 38 Degrees member Yvonne, calling for an independent public inquiry into the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups. Or the petition set up by a London Councillor which got slave trader Robert Milligan’s statue taken down within days. That is a full two, in addition to us.Plus the BBC.
So Rube, we wanted to let you know that if there’s a pathetic whinge campaign you were thinking of launching, big or small – from calling on the government to adopt an anti-racist policy, asking your local school board to teach colonial history or calling out a company to drop an advert that uses racist stereotypes to getting all chocolate turned into Milky Ways – we’re here to help. From top tips on how to grow your campaign, share your message or influence important decisions – we’ll be there every step of the way. And we have direct access to the MSM. Especially BBC Three and BBC Sounds, though their stuff doesn’t seem to stay up long. But long enough.
Every anti-racist campaign will play an important part in helping tackle institutional racism in the UK. So why not spend just a few minutes setting up a petition today, and spend a lot more propping us up and the media who rely on our wibble to have any content they like?
Thanks for everything you do,
Molly, Ruby, Robin and the 38 Degrees team of people of Pantone. (trust us)
P.S Here’s a collection of resources that might be helpful:
If you’re a person of colour, there’s some links that might be helpful to support you in whichever way you’re feeling now.
If you’re White or want to take action on racism, there are articles you can read, organisations you can support and actions you can take.
38 Degrees wouldn’t exist without you, Ruby.
38 Degrees has no big donors or corporate sponsors. Everything we achieve together is only possible because of fivers and tenners from ordinary people like you.
Please will you consider chipping in a fiver, a tenner or whatever you can spare now? Click here to donate securely to keep us in nice flats in London and PowerMacs in cafes owned by BBC directors.
I can only presume that the London crane collapse and the attendant search for trapped people didn’t involve any BME people.
It was a site for a housing association, so nobody will get the blame…
…except some poor sod who just may have not checked the holding-down bolts during lockdown, in the dark, in his own time, without union representation, under threat of redundancy, earning minimum wages, having worked overtime to make up his non-existent ‘furlough’ for his association clients and their union sponsored Emir Khan-type mentality ‘supervisors’.
You can safely bet that absolutely nobody paid by the public purse will get clouted.
This left-wing march through the institutions must be all but complete.
There really is no resistance…
Almost immediately Dick of the Yard apologised to the two blacks who were pulled over by the police for a litany of motoring offences. Although, confusingly, we’re told the police did nothing wrong and were following procedures.
But you know, the really telling thing is, I’m not even remotely surprised that Dick grovelled and stabbed her officers in the back. Actually it’s a blessed relief this pathetic, half-witted bint wasn’t kneeling as she offered this humiliating apology.
If you’ve got a leader like that you really don’t stand a chance…
So, we’re in a situation now where the police kneel and grovel in front of a mob desecrating The Cenotaph.
If they see a similar group of thugs ripping down a statue in Bristol they stand idly by. Sections of the press then praise the bravery of the police chief in not intervening. Yep, quite heroic…We needed this sort of fortitude during the dark days of the blitz and the Battle of Britain. With this type of heroism our armed forces would have formed a guard of honour and escorted Adolf up Whitehall.
Meanwhile, that ne’er-do-well, Nigel, pops into his local for a pint and almost before he’s got home the police are on his doorstep.
It’s a small wonder he wasn’t cuffed and dragged off to the cells for intensive questioning.
Makes you proud to be British…
The Today Programme has appointed Owenna Griffiths as editor.
Owenna is currently editor of PM and Broadcasting House and will start her new role in September, replacing Sarah Sands.
Hopefully Owenna is… ‘sound’.
Oh, yes. Well blonde.
https://twitter.com/omrgriffiths?
June Sarpong might be iffy on her mind.
Found a nice little afternoon prog on BBC1 – as yet its woke free, no knee bending, and (so far) diversity is a bit thin on the ground. Its Home is Where the Art is. I like the concept, and it does showcase the incredible talent we have in this country.
Illegal migrants crossing Channel could hit 7500 by Christmas.
Priti Patel has refused to set a target date for ending this [Telegraph].
There is no difference between Conservative and Labour in this respect.
It is a great pity that For Britain gets no publicity. Imagine a government who want to freeze immigration and deport illegals.
They will be fighting local council elections next May.
https://www.forbritain.uk/border/
Theisland,
“Respect”? –
“Priti Patel has refused to set a target date for ending this [Telegraph].
There is no difference between Conservative and Labour in this respect.”
The UN’s Migration Compact has no, “respect” for the flavour of Governments or, the views or desires of its populations. One size fits all – you will take them whether you like it or not.
Joining the Compact, (agreed/signed by Traitor May), is voluntary and, if he wished, the pro-UN, pro-Globalist, pro-muslim, pro-multiculti Prime Minister Johnson could simply withdraw. If he wished……………
This invasion will go on and on and on. Likely, seen as being highly successful, the numbers will rise substantially in the future.
Classic BBC Social Media ‘News’ by “quotes” (not fake)
BBC News
Verified Account
Impeachment trial witness ‘bullied by Trump’ quits military
Lt Col Alexander Vindman was the victim of a “campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation” by US President Donald Trump, ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………his lawyer said.
As I understand it, it was Colonel Vindman who started the whole impeachment charade by what he claimed the president said to the Ukrainian president. He tried to bring down the elected head of state, yet expects no pushback when his attempted coup failed? Who’d have thought it?
Spiked
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53347021
BBC Have decided to scrap over 75 licence fee concession and incredibly have opened an HYS, needless to say they are getting slaughtered, deep joy!!
Over 75’s to pay BBC tax. Comments are going well.
Don’t expect the Tory farce to object.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53347021#comment_140041743
Ben Bradley MP (Con) retweeted Martin Daubney. Bradley recently announced he is cancelling his TV licence. What about the others, eh?
As David Sedgwick said in his interview with David Vance “… any Conservative MP who supports the BBC is not a conservative, it’s as simple as that.”
This will be giving the bBC ideas …
Alex Belfield quick vid : Private Email From Met Police Officer – OFFICERS ARE NOT THE ENEMY
In a longer video Belfield drops a bombshell about his court case against the BBC
He claims he’s got concrete proof that the protagonist Dehany changed his name from Dehaney after serving jail time for defrauding Barclaycard customers whilst working in the call centre.
He’s suing the BBC cos they & Jeremy Vine are promoting this Dehany guy who republished a defamatory email apparently originating out of the BBC.
https://youtu.be/a2GvyCUga5w
Belfield 583,538 CANCEL BBC LICENCE OFFICIAL FOI – Defund BBC NOW
He’s dropping a BBC FOI per day
He explained there is a scam whereby BBC subcontract stuff to BBC studios then claim as it is a commercial venture so doesn’t need to answer FOIs.
So he can’t get info on Countryfile or Graham Norton’s salary.
https://youtu.be/cGFNkaNPAx8
Since the BLM riots first erupted in the US (and here) the lying Beeb’s biased agenda has been to portray the anarchist revolutionaries in a favourable light, and to minimise the ensuing crime and violence.
In this vid Turley exposes the huge surge in violent crime in those cities were BLM took to the streets, including a 358% rise in shootings in NY.
I don’t suppose the beeb will be reporting the killing of 16 children in just 2 days of ‘peaceful demonstrations’ by their favourite terrorist group.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/07/16-children-shot-some-killed-cities-us-violence-spikes/
Or these ‘peaceful’ demonstrators, armed to the teeth and harassing white civilians.
Big list of 72 racist things
.. and she misses off garage door pulls
Quite a few are BBC related … countryside
Quite a few are Green related.
“That’s fair punishment for having the WRONG opinion about something”
Who is he spoofing?
Christ is just for Christmas, the NHS has you from cradle to grave.
Nativity scene re-purposed with a bit of help from Lego.
Mano y mano
BBC: ‘Solihull man arrested over £495,000 ‘furlough fraud”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-53351271
‘The man was also arrested – along with a further eight men from across the West Midlands – in relation to a separate suspected multimillion-pound tax fraud and alleged money laundering offences’
These men, eh… always doing man crimes.
Coventry Telegraph website have a picture of a chap in handcuffs – it’s what they call a “file picture” – so you can guess certain attributes of the pic they have chosen. That’s as maybe. Time will tell. The ringleader is said to be aged 57 so authorities and media probably can’t withhold his name when charges are brought.
Reading about the ‘JK Rowling letter’ re: ‘cancel culture and how SHE should be allowed to say whatever SHE likes… without stopping the sale of HER books (obviously), because SHE is so amazingly talented and never, ever wrong, about anything… ever’, took my right back to my days at (Hogwart’s) school.
Sounds to me just like that time the biggest, ugliest bully in the playground got a taste of her own medicine and ran crying to teacher “Miss! Miss! They’re all being mean to ME!”
Not sure how to take your comment BBC, you surely cant mean that you agree with all the twatter trolls who are already having companies kow tow to their way of thinking ? And, actually, I too am a woman and I’m NEVER wrong about anything, I’m also amazingly talented, stunningly good looking, and can still wear a short skirt with panache !!! Cross me at your peril 🙂 oh, and if that doesn’t satisfy, I make a coffee and walnut cake to die for.
Coffee and walnut cake served in a short skirt does sound appealing, but I would have thought a cake tin was more practical?
I’ll very hastily add that I’m well aware that you women are far superior to us men in every way imaginable, and women of colour even more fantabulous in every single way, of course (who could doubt it?) In fact, I’m appropriately humbled and ashamed of being born of the inferior, male gender… and pretty much white too… oh the shame, perhaps I should never get up off my knees again?
I certainly don’t agree with the nasty trolls of Feacesbook and Twatter, I just find the hypocrisy and arrogance of Ms Rowling staggering Brissles, no not staggering, what’s the word, oh yes hilarious.
“and if that doesn’t satisfy, I make a coffee and walnut cake to die for.”
I’ll be round later, Brissles, my dear old thing. (Well, the Test cricket has started.)
Found this article on the internet, re bBC Scotland
“During its core hours of broadcast – from 7pm until midnight – it is the most watched digital channel in Scotland with a share of 3 per cent.”
Yes 3 per cent! the beeb must be so proud
And the comments left make interesting reading to, quote:-
“Really time to fold the BBC. We cannot allow them to continue squandering vast sums of our money on poor productions and looking after the ‘in’ people, presenters / DJ’s etc who earn fortunes. As for BBC Scotland, pure rubbish.”
Should you wish to read the full article the source is found here..
https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/bbc-scotland-evening-news-bulletin-among-21-programmes-with-no-viewers/
Deprived of my afternoon watch of Home is Where the Art is, due to an ‘update of Coronavirus’ – its replaced with Repair Shop stories narrated by Jay Blades (and which I avoid). I managed to catch the opening sequence to be told by Jay Blades that living in a multicultural society shows how migrants have ……….. you know the rest, and then added how his roots are in Barbados and that his Nan came over as a nurse to work in the NHS. I switched off.
“TV licences: BBC to go ahead with over-75s licence fee changes”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53347021
What can I say, Comments could be going better.
Are you paying yours ? Action speaks better than word.
So the BBC are to push ahead with their plans to go back to grabbing dosh from the elderly to keep their shit-show and all it’s sycophantic overpaid gonks going.
I have however become aware of a bit of a phenomenon. Broadly whereas I find any discussion with people over the age of say 60 generally results in agreement that the BBC actions are despicable and that it needs to either change or go.
However, oddly, people younger than that appear to be either neutral or even a tad pro BBC on this one.
What is it about being born after 1960-ish that caused a veil to be pulled over peoples ability to comprehend what the odious outfit, the BBC is trying to do to them?
There is almost a resignation amongst them that the BBC “must” exist, a bit like the NHS! And all this despite the fact that very few of them actually even watch it!
I get either blank stares or even hostility if I try to reason with most from this age-group, as if I am trying to slag off their parents or something.
The BBC are obviously aware of this phenomenon and are just trying to buy time until enough of opposition from the older serfs die out.
I think this will end in the license fee being eventually collected by force with no opt-out through the taxation system, guaranteeing the survival of the BBC into the future.
The only hope is that enough of our political leaders will stamp on this because if they don’t they will be stuck with a National Information and Education behemoth that will be shielded from criticism of any kind, a bit like the civil service in fact.
Digg, very very very soon the over 1960’s will be our age, and this is the lot who could find themselves out of a job in the next few months, then the chickens come home to roost, no job, too old to find further employment, so its down the benefits office til retirement and universal credit. THEN it’ll be a different story when THEY too will have to cough up probably double the tv licence price, and then they will be kicking off big time.
My Mum is 92….and still manages about the house herself….
as it is going to be a huge potential influx of cash to this enemy of the state you could imagine they will fully enforce its collection…
They must know the end is nigh….and the money is intended for payoffs, golden goodbyes , champagne bashes etc.
My worry is she will freak when the torrent of letters arrive……
You can only hope this action is countered by BORIS and he orders in the “Consultants” to advise on preparation and plan for privatization.
Its a grossly unfair action against the elderly……….shows the desperation and hatred of this malign operation.
S.
In some ways in might be a good thing – anything which makes the BBC even more unpopular helps our campaign – could it be any more disgraceful than going for the elderly – especially since the Evil BBC is openly aiming at ‘capturing younger people ‘ …..
I know the elderly tend to be more compliant with the law and pay there bills – but I really hope a lot just ignore the demand to get a licence . Are they really going to prosecute 80 and 90 year olds ?
What it wants is for some Capita ‘operative’ to get over-enthused and pin a pensioner down, followed by a nationwide movement – PLM springs to mind – and the BBC implodes. Sorted.
PLM!
Magic!
Brilliants start to a campaign, Beltane, and it started here, with you, Brissles, Fed, Taff, STrubs, and of course, Digg! I’m going to Blog it straight away! Tell Guido too, and Iain Dale, as he lives in Tunbridge Wells (near us), and knows what old people look and behave like!
PENSIONERS LIVES MATTER!
Done it!
http://scroblene-webley-bullock.blogspot.com/
No need to comment when you have less time…
All you good people got my dander up, so maybe a small, half-inch nail in the coffin of W1AA may just help, just a little – just…
…just…
Or OLM – Old Lives Matter
5pm. Frankie Howerd, W1A.
“Hi guys… sorry to keep you back from going home to be as essential there as you are here, but we may have… again… popped a round or two into the old footeroonie with stiffing the biddies to keep Botney in lift music. So… looking for ideas of a cause to really swing the public behind us using an icon they can identify us with… anyone!”
“You could call in Al?”
“Brilliant!”
The Today Programme
The former heroic Clinton administration Vice President, Al Gore, is now a modest, humble environmental campaigner and chair of sustainable investment firm, Generation. He spoke to an obsequious Justin Webb about his hopes for a lower carbon, less unequal future, in response to the pandemic. For the poor people. He is calling on governments to take advantage of a “once in a generation obligation” to ensure the global economic recovery is also a green one. All about the Benjamins.
The R4Today podcast.
https://bbc.in/2CoKRoE
BBC Radio 4 – Best of Today, ‘Hyper inequality is a threat to both capitalism and democracy and we (not us in ways that hurt) simply must deal with it’
It’s interesting, though hardly surprising, that the BBC have shown their true colours and are making the elderly stump up nigh on £160 a year for the privilege of owning a telly.
The Beeb will plead poverty. “We don’t want to do this,” they’ll whine. “We just don’t have sufficient funds…” Utter bollocks!
They’ve got sufficient funds to cough up 1.7 million a year to give to old jug ears Lineker. An appalling waste of money…
And they have enough money to throw at their puerile pet schemes, like the £100 million they’re splashing on a “diversity project.”
Instead of constantly spending our cash on propaganda pieces for trans rights, green issues and the BLM, how about some real diversity? There will be no need for extra funding. In fact it won’t cost a penny.
Just get a few more right-wing, Brexit voting, white lives matter supporters on the box. Some ordinary, regular normal people. The sort of people who pay for the licence in the first place, but have seemingly disappeared from our screens.
That’s real diversity…Diversity of opinion.
Job done.
Government briefing watch
Oliver Dowden – the minister responsible for the BBC – led the briefing on Thursday and was asked a couple of times about the BBCs decision to go after the over 75s by making them pay for the TV licence . ….he is ‘disappointed ‘ … and ‘saddened ‘ that the BBC couldn’t make the necessary efficiency savings to fund the ‘free’ licence ….
… he also mentioned that the review of the consultation on decriminalising the no licence offence would be published in the Summer – so I reckon August will be that time .
I think it is inevitable that they will decriminalise it – and if they do it quickly – as in this year – I think it will send a clear and good message that the BBCs time is up .
I don’t know about you but the idea of the BBC sucking more and more money from a public about to suffer a recession just doesn’t make it .
Fed … “I think it is inevitable that they will decriminalise it – and if they do it quickly – as in this year – I think it will send a clear and good message that the BBCs time is up .”
Do you *really* think they will decriminalise it?? !! I have no faith in Gov’t doing anything to get rid of this behemoth ,, they do not have the guts.
IMO the only way this propaganda unit will be demolished is by the public defunding it themselves by cancelling their direct debits. This will only be achieved by *getting it out there* that there is a legal way to stop paying it. Most people still believe they will be thrown into prison.
The BBC have engendered so much fear into the populace over the decades, including the lying abomination of the “detector vans”, that people are brainwashed into feeling they must comply. There will always be the “I must watch Cory or Strictly ” sheep but others need to be given the legal information as to how to stop paying it.
It won’t be Gov’t it must be us.
Crone
I think number 10 would like to do sometging with the BBC . But it still has a strong brand image ( in my view) . So the best thing would be a series of cuts – starting with decriminalisation. Then maybe some kind of ‘review’ of the idea of a Royal Charter or even better – subscription .
The biggest fear would be funding it out of general taxation – which would leave us high and dry and the BBC even more unaccountable – if thats possible
ITV local news
” routine Covid testing is to be extended from NHS workers to taxi drivers and some cleaners”
oh look they have made an essential journey to Bradford to stick their microphone into taxi drivers window
and look whose next to Ali’ car it’s Naz Shah
I paraphrase “Boris is not good enough, Tories are dirty & they smell”
6:07pm and we’ve moved onto live scene from a Hull gym
and a beautician on zoom.
New from the BBC TV Licensing Blog for midweek:
BBC reneges on promises made to over-75 TV licence holders. Read the terms of the BBC’s agreement with the Government in our latest article:
– BBC Confirms Over-75 TV Licence Reforms WILL Take Effect from 1st August 2020
If you haven’t already done so, please download our totally free ebook TV Licensing Laid Bare.
The 70 page book is packed full of information about the harassment and intimidation meted out by the BBC in the name of TV licence enforcement.
tvlicensingblog
A highly Recommended site.
BBC news ends with a mention
“Stormzy turned up to redecorate a teens bedroom as a reward for good behaviour”
They played no video.
Jeff Taylor
Brexit – Spain drops claim over Gibraltar! (to help with a trade deal with the UK).
Er, just added a small contribution to this post – er – a few posts by Digg, Beltane, Brissles, Fed etc. above – er…
Just…
http://scroblene-webley-bullock.blogspot.com/
Just started watching the ‘The Repair Shop’ spin off ‘Fixing Britain’ this afternoon only to find a few minutes in that the BBC have given it a new WOKE look. Well done BBC, I was so looking forward to seeing it and you’ve made it unwatchable.
Mart
That must have WOKE you up.
Is it just The Repair Shop re-packaged, the same as Coast has been re-worked?
Old White Men, like Arthur Negus, worked in the trade for 45 years before getting on TV.
Changed times, but not for the best.
Just been looking at tweets to EvanDavis & his bbcr4PM prog
There really is a much lower number tweets these days
and half of them are like unofficial Labour PR accounts.
Jeff Taylor on licences for the over 75s
StewGreen
Oh well, I suppose it will at last, after 80 years, give me the chance to experience life behind bars in a British Communist prison.
Who knows I might even have time to write a book?
I always feel a little bit guilty not posting much here anymore – but I really cannot stand listening to the BBC R4 with its relentlessly, white hating, woke BS.
However today as I was driving a fair bit I weakened apart from the normal anti white anti Trump bull I think they were running possibly some sort of consumer programme (I could only stand 5 mins worth) and were (I think) covering interest free loans.
The scandal in question was the story of an 18 year old internet “influencer” who took out an interest free loan loan to buy a 500 quid handbag. She got in debt over this. Boo Hoo and as the concerned presenter said is it right that 18 year olds were being given these sort of loans?
The other upsetting aspect was (according to the girl) that this hand bag she was still paying for would not be fashionable after a year or so but she would still be paying for it – I must admit I shed a few tears for her, poor darling and then I remembered 76 years ago some 18 year olds were travelling through France getting maimed and burnt alive in tanks to fight for the right of this stupid girl to complain that it is someone else,s fault that she is in debt.
Why do the BBC think anyone actually cares about this?
When I hear this sort of self absorbed bilge – just sometimes I wonder whether just maybe these utterly self absorbed youngsters deserve what will be coming their way if the left finally prevail.
Oak – have you got any more details about this poor girl ? We must set up a crowdfunding thingy to keep her in cash for the rest of her life so that she can buy a new £500 handbag every year .isnt it terrible how the government treats 18 year old . ?
Fe2 they definitely get a bad deal, and remember its all our fault too that they cant afford to buy their own houses. Everyone knows regular foreign holidays and designer fashion wear are the essential priority when you should be saving for a house.
Oak
Im sure they wouldnt want to know that i flogged myself to death when i was 18 raising enough money for the deposit to buy my first house . And paying obscene interest rates …
As for posting here – oak – im in an even trickier position because im moderating but have excluded almost all BBC output from my life . It is possible and the result is reduced distress .
I used to listen to the Today programme out of duty to witness the bias here but i couldnt take it any more .
Fedup2
That takes me back when I was earning £1 an hour as fully qualified engineer…….and thought wow what am I going to spend it all on !
Wasted it all on Girls and drink until Marriage and first house for £7.000 ….kids today don’t know how lucky they are….yes that old chestnut !
I too now listen or watch very little BBC, so little that Mr D has decided not to renew our license. But I occasionally succumb to Radio 4 when working in the kitchen, and only need a couple of minutes listening before I have something to post here. And then the off button is used.
Fe2 – Same here
Listening to the BBC these days (I gave up the telly years ago because the left wing bias) makes me feel like an adult watching a child slowly pull the legs off a Daddy Long Legs but not being allowed to do anything about it.
You feel sullied and tainted by the whole experience.
Oak, it interests me how individuals in our society are becoming separated from any personal responsibility at all. You only have to look at items on the BBC web-site or at the tasters on the front pages of newspapers to see that it is largely the media doing this.
eg. ‘Do I need a TV Licence and what does it pay for?’
‘Coronavirus in Scotland: what can we do, and when?’
are just two of the current ones on the BBC site. There are usually far more of these sort of things on the BBC w-s all encouraging people to stop thinking and become mere dependents.
The BBC bears a lot of responsibility for the state intervention in all aspects of life now . Its that tired old thing about frogs in water being heated .. a gradual process so that personal responsibility is gone – no one is qualified to judge anothers conduct ( except for ‘ right wing stuff ) and someone else is always to blame . Add that to the fetish to ban or regulate as well as the ever long list of ‘ vulnerable ‘ and its a national socialist state .
Snuff – part of the “success ” of the BBC has been to encourage government policies that have divided us as a nation (such as migration) and have wrested any feeling from us that we have the power to influence events or politics (such as presiding over the political destruction of parties and individuals such as Gerard Batten, Katy Hopkins and Tommy Robinson who do still actually give a toss)
Oak, yes – BBC plus Blair, Mandelson and Brown.
Maybe Covid-19 will change all that?
It was noticeable on TOADY this morning (Friday) although foreign holidays are now permitted, that apparently the F&CO will advise that cruises are to be avoided. I think people will shy away from venturing abroad unless young and determined to have that Ibiza holiday of a lifetime.
Lockdowns – no one allowed in or out do seem to work.
I thought these ‘influencers’ expect to be given stuff for free?
Some are like the Mafia, “Nice coffee shop you’ve got here mate, it would be a pity if my ‘followers’ got to hear anything bad about it. How about a couple of free Horchata Frappes?”
Another side of ‘cancel culture’.
Yep, ‘influencing’ the ultimate money for doing sod all, if they cant make it on reality tv.
Channel 4 news taking up the slack while the BBC have a rest.
Evening news run:
Item 1. Vigorous attack on horrid Trump by a vitriolic Trump hater over his tax returns.
Item 2. Black lady “poet” denouncing the horrid white racists in largely sparse black rural England.
Item 3. Attack on the horrid populist party agenda in Poland because they are for “normal” nuclear families.
Item 4. Attack on Social Media companies for not banning what they see as right wing opinions.
Item 5. Attack on owners of horrid stately homes in England. Jon Snow like a nodding dog to BAME professor of course.
I have no idea who watches this shit day after day other than the BBC.
tem 2. Black lady “poet” denouncing the horrid white racists in largely sparse black rural England.
This so called poet read her lousy poem on BBC 6.30 pm local news. Crapy poem, maudlin and disrespectful to decent country folk.
They need poets like her in many other countries.
As for the Ch4 attack on Trump, it occurs usually within 30 mins of programme
Excellent news – police watch dog to investigate racial discrimination practices in the police . It will recommend that all police should be coloured and that coloured people be excluded from stop and search or arrest . Handcuffs and stun guns will only be used on non coloured people . BBC must be exstatic.
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #2 – more obfuscation
The BBC have changed the way the information on the local look-up list for Covid-19 is presented. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274
I find this more than a little suspicious. The BBC love to point fingers at various bits of social media and ‘fact check’ them or dismiss them as presenting false information but they are happy to do their own share of obfuscation and ‘muddying the waters’. And WHO do it as well, with various Covid stories, one this week on possible air and wind transmission of the Covid-19 virus, on the efficacy of face masks, on whether it is a SARS virus, etc..
Up2snuff
To me the WHO are nothing more than a Communist outfit bent on destroying Capitalism. Am I mistaken?
Lefty, WHO certainly extract enough dosh from the larger economies that helps to drain them dry, just like the UN and a others.
Lefty, I don’t think you are mistaken at all. From where I’m standing they seem intent on turning most western economies into Venezuela.
And every time the government suggests even the most modest easing of the lockdown/mass imprisonment, someone from the WHO or SAGE appears and tells us gravely that “There could be severe consequences.” People have become hypnotised by this guff.
The WHO did nothing to warn the world about this virus when it was running rampant in China. Indeed they told us it wouldn’t spread. They’re either incompetent or corrupt. Trump is absolutely right!
And our own SAGE have been instructing the government from day one, so they’ve got to be at least partially responsible for the suicidal lunacy of returning the elderly and the sick to care homes…to save the NHS.
If it hadn’t been for the lockdown the rest of the insanity we’re seeing on our streets and sports venues wouldn’t have gained traction. Our economy is on its knees, Marxists are running rampant and the authorities are either complying or pathetically complacent.
Usually I favour the cock up over the conspiracy theory.
But this time I’m really not sure.
Something stinks…
Here’s one to get your nose around Jeff, a little paragraph tucked away in the D/Mail a week ago – a couple of herdsmen in rural China have been diagnosed with …….. Bubonic Plague. Didn’t Corona start off as being a little something out of nothing ???
Dickless Dick does what she’s best at: apologising.
“Scotland Yard chief Cressida Dick apologises to Bianca Williams for ‘distress’ caused by ‘racially profiled’ stop-and-search.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8501657/Scotland-Yard-chief-apologises-Bianca-Williams-distress-caused-racially-profiled-stop.html
vlad
It’s time to commit a criminal offense and replace the Dick with someone who strongly identifies as a white, heterosexual male.
Next commissioner must be coloured and preferably female – i dont think white guys are fashionable at thr moment ….