The jailed joke-cracking Muslim Brotherhood leader
The core of the movement stayed patient, and non violent, deepening its influence by providing the closest thing poor Egyptians had to a welfare state.
That’s the oldest trick in the terrorists book…providing ‘welfare’…Hamas does it, Hezbollah does it. It’s a recruiting device….hearts and minds….but it doesn’t negate the essential fundamentalism of the groups…their reason for existing and their methods.
Bowen goes on:
….in government President Morsi and his people were incompetent, alienated too many Egyptians, and the army removed them from power in the coup in July this year.
Well….that wasn’t the problem…the problem was trying to impose fundamentalist Islam on Egypt….and it wasn’t ‘the Army’ that removed them from power but a massive uprising by the population.
The BBC’s Middle East Editor should pay more attention surely?
He continues….
Essam al-Erian is now back in Tora prison, with the rest of the Brotherhood’s leadership.
Hosni Mubarak is there too, with his sons, and his chief lieutenants, including Habib al-Adly.
I doubt they are all in the same wing, but if they did sit down to lunch together imagine the table talk.
Yep…imagine the table talk….
‘Here’s Bowen’s phone number…….he’s very reliable…..’
The BBC renews its attack on Israel and its right to exist by broadcasting a film made by an anti-Israel Israeli, Ilan Ziv.
The film was originally scheduled to be shown in April but was shelved by the BBC….this site looked at the background to the film and the man who made it then:
‘…evidence revealed here, suggesting that the Jewish exile from Jerusalem in AD 70 may never have actually happened, has such severe ramifications for relations in the region….raising ethical questions about its impact on modern Middle Eastern issues.’
In other words the film aims to prove that there was no such thing as a Jewish exile and therefore no Jewish Diaspora, and therefore there shouldn’t be a Jewish Nation to come ‘Home’ to…i.e Israel.
Unfortunately….genetic studies show that Jews around the world have definite connections to each other and stem from the Middle East, and that far from somehow converting en masse whole populations, producing ‘ersatz’ Jews, the reality is that when Jews moved to different regions they inter-married and their spouses converted…a different thing altogether.
Ziv claims there is no relationship between his film and another anti-Israeli ‘scholar’ Shlomo Sands who thinks:
The idea of the Jews as a single people or race is a myth, a fiction based on Old Testament “mythistory”, argues Shlomo Sand, a Jewish historian based at the University of Tel Aviv. It is also one of the founding assumptions of the state of Israel, and throughout this polemical, revisionist history Sand has Zionist ideology in his sights. In essence, his book undermines the moral right of the state of Israel to define itself as exclusively Jewish…..He can find no evidence of any Jewish exile, and without exile there can be no right to return.
Clearly as Ziv is trying to prove there was no ‘exile’ and that there is no such thing as an ‘Israeli People’ they are on the same course.
Ziv himself says: “Part of the editorial debate [within the BBC] was that one freelance employee who was hired as part of the re-versioning of the film called it propaganda,” he said. “Another person inside the BBC, claimed (or so I was told) that the film drove some political point of view.
Ziv has some strange associates to help promote the film as BBC Watch reports….which should have made the BBC think twice before screening it:
The film-maker announces a screening of the full-length version of the film in Manchester.
”I will be showing the original long version of EXILE A MYTH UNEARTHED in Manchester on Monday November 4th. Please inquire and RSVP with LindaClairlindaclair@btinternet.com“
Linda Clair is of course a member of the Manchester branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the screening is promoted on that organisation’s website:
Once again the BBC is pumping out pro-Palestinian propaganda of a very dangerous nature, attempting to delegitimise Israel as a nation….and thereby set the agenda whereby Israel can be legitimately attacked and the Jews driven out….to put it euphemistically perhaps.
‘The whole of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, can be read as a record of people coming to terms with failure. In part this was done by the invention of a heroic past, in the empire of Solomon’s time, something that may have been one of the truly great mistakes of history.’
So the Guardian suggests ‘Somebody’ invented an ‘heroic past’……‘one of the truly great mistakes of history‘.
Who would that ‘somebody’ be?
The ‘Jews’ of course……the Jews invented their past…invented their existence as a ‘nation’ and invented their right to exist as such a nation.
The Guardian calls that ‘one of the truly great mistakes in history.’
Because it lead to all the trouble in the world..didn’t it?
If only little Israel would just magically go away!
Almost 100 years later, when the memorial came under threat, a family descendant expressed his concern – David Cameron.
Jeremy Paxman made an appearance on The Graham Norton Show (about 26 mins in) to advertise his new book and TV programme about the First World War and in the process made a highly political, and as it turns out farcical, attack on Cameron for, according to Paxman, suggesting we should ‘celebrate’ WWI.
Only Cameron didn’t say that, far from it….you might have thought someone like Paxman, who makes a living as an interviewer, would pay more attention to what people actually say…..especially as he goes onto claim that this was Cameron’s clumsy use of language.
What we got from the BBC was an utterly wrong headed, highly political attack on the Prime Minister from one of the BBC’s leading political interviewers.
The attack was clearly preplanned….the BBC flashed up a conveniently available photograph of Cameron (29 mins), one of the least flattering that they could get away with…so they knew exactly what the subject of the interview was going to be.
They must have looked pretty hard for this particular photo because I didn’t find it on Google…
They could have used the photo on the Government website where the speech is located:
In his speech, made at the museum last year, Mr Cameron said the centenary would be a ‘personal priority’ and promised the museum £5million.
Mr Cameron added that he wanted ‘a commemorationthat, like the Diamond Jubilee celebrations this year, says something about who we are as a people’.
Cameron didn’t say a ‘celebration like the Diamond Jubilee celebrations’…..he said a ‘commemoration…which tells us something about who we are as a people’.
A completely different take on his words from that chosen by Paxman.
Cameron was….Calling for the nation to remember the ‘extraordinary sacrifice of a generation’, he also said the War helped shape Britain by prompting medical and technological advances.
He said: ‘For all the profound trauma, the resilience and courage that was shown, the values we hold dear and the lessons we learnt changed our nation and helped to make us who we are today.’
The completion of transforming IWM London will see the Imperial War Museum reopened as the centrepiece of our commemorations for the centenary of the First World War. With that transformation, new generations will be inspired by the incredible stories of courage, toil and sacrifice that have brought so many of us here over the past century….it is actually a special place for us all to come, to learn about a defining part of our history and to remember the sacrifice of all those who gave their lives for us, from the First World War to the present day.
Our duty towards these commemorations is clear: to honour those who served, to remember those who died, and to ensure that the lessons learnt live with us forever. And I think that is exactly what we can do with these commemorations.
That all sounds pretty respectful and shows Cameron fully understands the sacrfices and horrors of that war…but Paxman thinks not, claiming Cameron wanted to turn it into a jolly ‘knees up’:
Mr Paxman said: ‘Not to recognise that it was one of the most consequential events in our history would just be perverse.’
He said: ‘These occasions, when the Prime Minister escapes from his speech-writers, are hazardous.’
‘Our Prime Minister promised the First World War commemoration would be “like the Diamond Jubilee celebrations”. What on earth was he talking about?’
Paxman, whose great uncle died in the War, said: ‘The commemorations should have almost nothing in common with the Diamond Jubilee, which was an excuse for a knees-up in the rain to celebrate the happy fact that our national identity is expressed through a family rather than some politician.
On Graham Norton Paxman adds.…‘Only a complete idiot would ‘celebrate’ such a calamity’
John Bishop then pipes up...’They’re not normal people, they don’t represent normal people, you shouldn’t be a politician unless you’ve had at least one job’
Paxman replies…’I share that prejudice…I had to interview Russell Brand the other day…and he was banging on about how people are really disenchanted with politicians and I think he’s right…absolutely right about posturing politicians who say there is only two ways of looking at the world…their way or their opponents way…and it’s rubbish.’
Yes…but it’s a political system supported by the BBC who instead of genuinely analysing policies, facts on the ground and all possible remedies hands the airwaves to the Labour Party whilst shutting out other voices like those of UKIP
And certainly it is the Oxbridge BBC themselves who are vastly out of touch with the population on economics, immigration, welfare, climate, Islam…well with just about everything. So it is a bit hard to accept Paxman criticising politicians for being out of touch.
Is that not a ‘proper’ job? Carlton Communications is a media company, not unlike the BBC…..do I need to say anymore?
Why did Paxman not admit Cameron had this job, choosing instead to imply that he had never worked outside politics? Is it purely so that he could make a cheap political point…based clearly on a lie?
Transcript of the speech given by Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday 11 October about plans to mark the First World War centenary.
Prime Minister
Thank you very much, Andrew, for those words and thank you for all the work that you’ve done. This is, I think, a very exciting time for one of the finest museums in the world. It is a museum I particularly love. I will never forget when my mother brought me here as a boy and being absolutely captivated by everything within the museum. But almost more interesting was bringing my own children here, quite recently, they’ve come twice, I think, altogether. And realising that even when I was a boy there were still people alive who had fought in the Great War. There aren’t now, but my children were just as captivated and interested as I was. I think that speaks volumes about what we are discussing today.
The completion of transforming IWM London will see the Imperial War Museum reopened as the centrepiece of our commemorations for the centenary of the First World War. With that transformation, new generations will be inspired by the incredible stories of courage, toil and sacrifice that have brought so many of us here over the past century.
From the breathtaking sights of the hanging gallery to the unforgettable smell of the trenches, from great art – like this painting of The Menin Road by Paul Nash – to the many moving stories recorded from the front line, the Imperial War Museum is not just a great place to bring your children – as I said, as I’ve done – it is actually a special place for us all to come, to learn about a defining part of our history and to remember the sacrifice of all those who gave their lives for us, from the First World War to the present day.
We should also recognise that in the decade since the introduction of free access to our national museums, the annual number of visitors here has increased by almost two-thirds. I passionately believe we should hold on to this heritage and pass it down the generations. That is why, even in difficult economic times, we are right to maintain free entry to national museums like this. It is why we will continue to do so.
Today, I want to talk about our preparations to commemorate the centenary of the First World War. I want to explain why, as Prime Minister, I am making these centenary commemorations a personal priority, and I want to set out some of the steps we are taking to make sure we really do this properly as a country.
Let me start with why this matters so much. Of course, as Andrew said, there will be some who wonder: why should we make such a priority of commemorations when money is tight and there is no one left from the generation that fought in the Great War?
For me there are three reasons. The first is the sheer scale of the sacrifice. When they set out, none of the armies had any idea of the length and scale of the trauma that was going to unfold. For many, going off to war was a rite of passage. Many of them were excited; they would eat better than they had when they were down the mines or in the textile mills. They would have access to better medical care, and many thought they’d be home by Christmas, anyway. There is the story of the Russian High Command asking for new typewriters and being told the war wouldn’t last long enough to justify the expenditure.
As Major J V Bates from the Royal Army Medical Corp wrote:
‘Being our first experience of war, we men were not so much frightened, as very excited. It wasn’t until after two or three weeks of continually fighting rear-guard action, reconnaissance patrols and seeing our mates killed and wounded that the real horror of it came home to us. And if everyone else was as frightened as I was, then we were all petrified.’
Four months later, one million had died in the heavy artillery battles that actually came before the digging of the trenches. Four years later, the death toll of military and civilians stood at over 16 million, nearly 1 million of them Britons. 200,000 were killed on one day of the Battle of the Somme. To us, today, it seems so inexplicable that countries which had many things binding them together could indulge in such a never-ending slaughter, but they did. The death and the suffering was on a scale that outstrips any other conflict. We only have to look at the Great War memorials in our villages, our churches, our schools and universities.
Out of more than 14,000 parishes in the whole of England and Wales, there are only around 50 so called ‘thankful parishes’, who saw all their soldiers return. Every single community in Scotland and Northern Ireland lost someone, and the death toll for our friends in the Commonwealth was similarly catastrophic. In the 1920s over 2,400 cemeteries were constructed in France and Belgium alone, while today there are cemeteries as far afield as Brazil and Syria, Egypt and Ireland.
Rudyard Kipling, whose own son was lost, presumed killed, at the Battle of Loos in 1915, described the construction of these cemeteries as the biggest single bit of work since any of the pharaohs, and as he pointed out, the pharaohs only worked in their own country. Such was the scale of sacrifice across the world. The then Indian empire lost more than 70,000 people; Canada lost more than 60,000, so did Australia; New Zealand, 18,000. And as part of the UK at the time, more than 200,000 Irishmen served in the British forces during the war, with more than 27,000 losing their lives. This was the extraordinary sacrifice of a generation. It was a sacrifice they made for us, and it is right that we should remember them.
Second, I think it is also right to acknowledge the impact that the war had on the development of Britain and, indeed, the world as it is today. For all the profound trauma, the resilience and the courage that was shown, the values we hold dear: friendship, loyalty, what the Australians would call ‘mateship’. And the lessons we learned, they changed our nation and they helped to make us who we are today.
It is a period of our history through which we can start to trace the origins of a number of very significant advances: the extraordinary bravery of Edith Cavell, whose actions gained such widespread admiration and played an important part in advancing the emancipation of women; the loss of the troopship SS Mendi, in February 1917 and the death of the first black British army officer, Walter Tull, in March 1918, are not just commemorated as tragic moments, but also seen as marking the beginnings of ethnic minorities getting the recognition, respect and equality they deserve.
The improvements in medicine were dramatic. In 1915 wounds which became infected resulted in a 28% mortality rate; by 1917 the use of antiseptics saw the death toll drop to just 8%. Plastic surgery developed into a well-established speciality over the course of the war.
At the same time there were hugely significant developments in this period, which, frankly, darkened our world for much of the following century. The advance in technology transformed the nature of war beyond recognition. The tanks and aircraft of 1918 were the forerunners of those that fought with such devastation in World War II. They would have been almost unimaginable for the cavalry regiments that set out in the autumn of 1914.
The war’s geopolitical consequences defined much of the twentieth century. It unleashed the forces of Bolshevism and Nazism and, of course, with the failure to get the peace right, the great tragedy was that the legacy of ‘the War to end all wars’ was an equally cataclysmic Second World War, just two decades later.
So I think for us today to fail to recognise the huge national and international significance of all these developments during the First World War would be, frankly, a monumental mistake.
There is a third reason why this matters so much. It is more difficult to define, but I think it is perhaps the most important of all. There is something about the First World War that makes it a fundamental part of our national consciousness. Put simply, this matters not just in our heads, but in our hearts; it has a very strong emotional connection. I feel it very deeply. Of course, there is no one in my family still alive from the time, or anything close to it. My grandfather, my uncle, my great uncle all fought in the Second World War. I have always been fascinated by what happened to them and tried to listen to their experiences.
Even though the family stories that I’ve heard direct from the participants, as it were, were all from World War II, there is something so completely captivating about the stories that we read from World War I. We look at those fast fading sepia photographs of people posing stiffly and proudly in their uniform. In many cases it was the first and last image ever taken of them, and this matters to us.
The stories and the writings of the Great War affect us too. That mixture of horror and courage, suffering and hope; it has permeated our culture. From the poems of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, my favourite book, Robert Graves’s memoirs recounting his time in the Great War, Good-Bye to All That. To modern day writers like Sebastian Faulks, from Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy, focusing on the aftermath of trauma, to War Horse, showing the sacrifice of animals in war. Current generations are still absolutely transfixed by what happened in the Great War and what it meant.
The fact is, individually and as a country, we keep coming back to it, and I think that will go on. This is not just a matter of the heart for us in Britain. It is a matter for the heart for the whole of Europe and beyond. From The Last Post Association, whose volunteers have played every night at the Menin Gate since 1928, to Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery, to the Memorial to the Missing, in Belgium, which is the largest British war cemetery in the world, visited by nearly half a million people every year, still today, to the battlefield memorials right across Western Europe.
For me, when asked: what is the most powerful First World War memory you have? It is going to visit the battlefields at Gallipoli. I’ll never forget going, having a fantastic Turkish guide who showed me the beaches we were meant to land at, the beaches we did land at, the fight that went on up those extraordinary hills. One of the most powerful things I’ve ever seen is the monument erected by the Turks in Gallipoli. Before I read you the inscription, think in your mind, think of the bloodshed, think of the tens of thousands of Turks who were killed, and then listen to the inscription that they wrote to our boys and to those from the Commonwealth countries that fell. It is absolutely beautiful, I think. It goes like this:
‘Those heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives, you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore, rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us, where they lie, side by side, in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries, wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land, they shall become our sons as well.’
So beautiful, beautiful words on this First World War monument. For me, those words capture so much of what this is all about. That from such war and hatred can come unity and peace, a confidence and a determination never to go back. However frustrating and however difficult the debates in Europe, 100 years on we sort out our differences through dialogue and meetings around conference tables, not through the battles on the fields of Flanders or the frozen lakes of western Russia.
Let me turn to the plans for the centenary. Last November I appointed former Naval doctor Andrew Murrison as my special representative. I am very grateful to him for the excellent work he has been doing in assembling ideas from across Government and beyond, and for putting the UK among the leaders in this shared endeavour and for laying the foundations of our commemorations. Today, I am honoured to be able to say that he is going to be joined by some of the most senior figures in British public life, including Tom King, George Robertson, Menzies Campbell, Jock Stirrup and Richard Dannatt. That’s two former Secretaries of State for Defence, one of whom was also a Secretary General of NATO, a former Chief of the Defence Staff, a former Chief of the General Staff. They’ll be joined by others, including world leading historians, like Hew Strachan, and world class authors like Sebastian Faulks. I hope they’ll provide senior leadership on a new advisory board that is going to be chaired by the Secretary of State for Culture, Maria Miller.
Our ambition is a truly national commemoration, worth of this historic centenary. I want a commemoration that captures our national spirit, in every corner of the country, from our schools to our workplaces, to our town halls and local communities. A commemoration that, like the Diamond Jubilee celebrated this year, says something about who we are as a people.
Remembrance must be the hallmark of our commemorations, and I am determined that Government will play a leading role, with national events and new support for educational initiatives. These will include national commemorations for the first day of conflict, on 4th August 2014, and for the first day of the Somme, on 1st July 2016. Together with partners like the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the custodians of our remembrance, the Royal British Legion, there will be further events to commemorate Jutland, Gallipoli and Passchendaele, all leading towards the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day in 2018.
The centenary will also provide the foundations upon which to build an enduring cultural and educational legacy, to put young people front and centre in our commemoration and to ensure that the sacrifice and service of a hundred years ago is still remembered in a hundred years’ time.
Now, the Imperial War Museum is already leading the First World War Centenary Partnership, a growing network of over 500 organisations, helping millions of people across the world to discover more about life in the First World War and its relevance today. Today we are complementing that with a new centenary education programme, with more than £5 million of new Government funding. This will include the opportunity for pupils and teachers from every state secondary school to research the people who served in the Great War, and for groups of them then, crucially, to follow their journey to the First World War battlefields. I think that will be a great initiative and really welcomed by secondary schools and secondary school pupils.
We are also providing a further £5 million of new money, in addition to the £5 million we have already given to support transforming IWM London – this project right here at this incredible museum. It will match contributions from private, corporate and social donors.
So our commemorations, if you like, will consist of three vital elements: a massive transformation of this museum to make is even better than it is today, a major programme of national commemorative events properly funded, given the proper status that they deserve, and third, an educational programme to create an enduring legacy for generations to come. All of this will be overseen by a world class advisory board chaired by the Secretary of State for Culture, supported by my own special representative Andrew Murrison.
And that is not all, because we stand ready to incorporate more ideas because a truly national commemoration cannot just be about national initiatives and government action, it needs to be local too. So the Heritage Lottery Fund is today announcing an additional £6 million to enable young people working in their communities to conserve, explore and share local heritage of the First World War.
That is in addition to the £9 million they have already given to projects marking the centenary, including community heritage projects. And they are calling for more applications; they are open to new ideas, to more thinking. So whether it is a series of friendly football matches to mark the famous 1914 Christmas Day truce, or the campaign led by the Greenhithe branch of the Royal British Legion to sow the Western Front’s iconic poppies here in the UK, I think we should get out there and make this centenary a truly national moment, but also something that actually means something in every locality in our country.
So, in total over £50 million is being committed to these centenary commemorations; I think it is absolutely right they should be given such priority, as I have explained. As a twenty-year-old soldier wrote just a week before he died: ‘But for this war, I and all the others would have passed into oblivion like the countless myriads before us, but we shall live forever in the results of our efforts.’
Our duty towards these commemorations is clear: to honour those who served, to remember those who died, and to ensure that the lessons learnt live with us forever. And I think that is exactly what we can do with these commemorations.
The BBC never seems to miss a chance to try and portray the Miners as heroic victims of a callous Thatcher…despite Labour closing more pits and putting more miners on the Dole than Thatcher ever did.
And here we have what is blatantly just pure propaganda of the same kind paid for by you and me.
Any bets that there’s no mention of Scargill who led his miners on a merry dance to their doom just as Unite did for the workers at Grangemouth ?(again ignored by the BBC…see today’s Sunday Times).
Thanks to Disgruntled of Enfield who spotted this:
The Silk actress, 39, has written and stars in the Radio 4 play Queens Of The Coal Age, about four miners’ wives who attempted to save pits from closure by occupying a mine.
She told the Radio Times: ” People talk of (Margaret) Thatcher removing the glass ceiling for women in this country, she’s even been labelled a feminist, but I strongly disagree. These were the real Iron Ladies. “
The Village actress, who grew up in Bolton, Lancashire, told the magazine: “I was 10 years old when the miners’ strike started in 1984 and it’s the sole event that plotted out my political landscape.
“Even at that young age I knew, somehow, that this wasn’t just an attack on the miners, but on working-class people in general.
“The strike was a potent and historic event: the country on the brink of civil war and miners fighting for their community’s survival.”
Maxine said that her grandfather, a member of the Communist Party, was “on the receiving end of police victimisation” after collecting for the miners in 1984.
The Shameless actress said that she “always had a burning desire to tell the truth, but at the time I had no idea how.”
Maxine’s first radio play, about the cyclist Beryl Burton, was broadcast last year.
When asked whether she would like to pen another play, she said that she “didn’t hesitate” to suggest the occupation of Parkside Colliery at Newton-le-Willows in 1993, led by Arthur Scargill’s then wife.
Queens Of The Coal Age will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 2.15pm on Monday November 4.
As said…this is nothing more than socialist propaganda dressed up as ‘art’ by BBC leftwingers indulging themselves on the licence fee payers shilling.
As stated in the last post Miliband gets a free pass from the BBC when it comes to real criticism of his policies…and it seems that the BBC aren’t so keen even to give airtime to those who do have critical things to say.
The CBI head presents the Labour leader’s plans as dangerous Bolshevism. But in an age of market failure, most businesses won’t agree with him.
But the BBC didn’t bother to report claims of Miliband’s ‘Dangerous Bolshevism’ from a major business organisation in the UK as reported in the Daily Mail (so much for Rosie Millard’s claim that the Mail sets the BBC’s news agenda!)
The head of the CBI said last night that the prospect of a return to 1970s-style socialism under Ed Miliband ‘raised the hairs on the back of my neck’.
John Cridland attacked the Labour leader’s policies, including an energy price freeze and higher corporation tax.
He accused Mr Miliband of trying to drive a wedge through the business community, praising small firms and demonising big ones.
Mr Cridland, the head of Britain’s biggest business lobby group, welcomed signs the economy is picking up – but warned the outlook for enterprise has been damaged by Labour’s lurch to the left.
Some of Britain’s lowest-paid workers could get pay rises under plans drawn up by Labour leader Ed Miliband.
If the party wins the next election, Mr Miliband plans to offer firms a 12-month tax break in 2016 if they agree to pay the so-called “living wage”.
Although the BBC reports this:
Labour claims the plan will save money because benefit bills would go down and tax revenues would increase.
…it misses the essential point that claim raises….
If benefits are going down, and this ‘predistribution’ is merely a replacement for those benefits….then actual cash in the hand doesn’t go up for the ‘poorest’…in fact it might go down….
Labour claims the plan will save money because benefit bills would go down and tax revenues would increase.
Miliband will take the plaudits and credit for supposedly ‘increasing pay’ and then tax the workers on it.
The ‘poorest’ will remain the ‘poorest’ and in fact may be made poorer by Miliband.
And what about the big companies that now subsidise the small ones…..as the taxes of the big companies go towards funding tax allowances and benefits now used to top up low wages will those companies get a tax cut?…..Is Miliband cutting Big Businesses tax payments whilst imposing huge costs on small business who may well find themselves no longer in business?
Or…will small business be forced to fund Labour’s new ‘benefits tax’ on the poorest(see what I did there….just as the Tories introduced the ‘bedroom tax’ by cutting benefits….) and Big Business continue to be taxed at the same rate….thereby increasing massively the tax burden on the nation’s businesses?
The BBC doesn’t provide that analysis…though strangely reports the words of Union Dinosaur, Bob Crowe, who does at least see part of the problem….
“Offering employers a tax break to try and drag them into paying a decent rate just smacks of corporate welfare.”
Yet again another laughably ruinous idea from the Two Eds to add to the list…..
Miliband’s craven U-turn in tackling the Unions….
Miliband’s grand plan for ‘apprentices’…roundly panned….and no longer heard of…
Miliband’s freeze on Energy prices….again roundly panned as unworkable…
and now his ‘Predistribution’ or as rebranded, the ‘living wage’ scheme……again totally unworkable in the real world.
(and let’s not forget the green taxes imposed on us by Miliband)
And yet none of these have received the critical and rigorous scrutiny from the BBC that would show them to be no more than the headline grabbing hype that they are clearly intended to be but which the BBC so obligingly co-operates in highlighting for Labour.
The BBC left leaning?…..All an agenda by the right wing Press.
The BBC isn’t watched by the Northern Labour voting working classes…and therefore it isn’t Left Wing because it must reflect its audience….(So it’s the type of audience which watches the BBC that defines whether the BBC is biased?….therefore Question Time is biased?)
The Daily Mail’s front cover sets the BBC’s news agenda (presumably to deny and counter everything the Daily Mail reports)
Question Time is gone through with a fine tooth comb to check for bias…..but it does reflect the BBC culture…David Dimbleby is absolutely the voice of the BBC.
Vast majority of BBC voices are from Oxbridge….they are promoting the status quo…batting for the Establishment…conservative, small C.
The BBC attracts a certain creative type….you could say they were Liberal…but not really…most send their children to private school.
The BBC tries to give a viewpoint…er…access to all people who pay the licence fee…it leaves out the working class…it leaves out people from the North…you hear the same commentators all the time…it’s not left leaning…may look that way but only because it wants to have an argument against the government…which happens to be right wing.
The BBC makes sure all other broadcasters maintain a certain standard of broadcasting…it is a rising tide (red?) that lifts all broadcasters.
and it aims to spread its spending to keep taxi drivers and hairdressers employed in the sticks.
“In a world where people can choose their news when and where they want it, and from a huge range of sources, we want to understand how best the BBC can retain their trust and confidence so that it remains clearly their number one choice.”
Probably by not being the broadcast arm of the Labour Party, the European Union, Climate fanatics and Al Qaeda.
The Trust has opened a public consultation today seeking views from audiences on the BBC’s News and current affairs output.
The review, announced in February, is the latest in the Trust’s rolling programme of service reviews. It will examine the performance of the BBC’s network news output against the commitments set by the Trust in the BBC’s service licences and its broader public service role.
The review will cover the BBC’s network news and current affairs for UK audiences across TV, radio and online, including:
On TV, the daily national bulletins on BBC One, relevant weekday morning output (such as the Daily Politics) and Newsnight on BBC Two, 60 second news on BBC Three and World News Today on BBC Four. The review will also follow up on our 2012 service reviews of the News Channel and BBC Parliament.
On radio, news bulletins and Newsbeat on Radio 1 and 1Xtra, news bulletins on Radio 2 and 3, Radio 4’s daily news programming (Today, World at One, PM, The World Tonight) and daily politics output, 5 live’s daily news output (largely its weekday daytime schedule) and news on the Asian Network.
Online, the news sections of the BBC’s website and the Red Button, including mobile apps and social media. Current affairs output includes Panorama, This World and around 40 hours of output on BBC Two and Three, as well as political strands such as Question Time and the Daily Politics. On radio this includes the range of Radio 4 and 5 live’s current affairs and politics programming.
The review will particularly focus on what audiences think about the quality and distinctiveness of BBC News and current affairs, the ways that audiences consume and access BBC News, and how well positioned it is to deal with future challenges such as changing audience viewing habits and technological shifts.
Remember only talk about ‘quality and distinctiveness’ because:
This review will not look at impartiality, because the Trust already has a rolling programme of major impartiality reviews underway, or at the market impact of BBC News, because that is outside the scope of all the Trust’s service review work.
Which is at odds with the earlier statement:
[We] will examine the performance of the BBC’s network news output against the commitments set by the Trust in the BBC’s service licences and its broader public service role.
Judging by past reviews by the BBC perhaps we should be judging the quality of those reviews…..
From Seesaw to Wagonwheel....which didn’t look at all at its coverage of Israel/Palestine…one of its most contentious areas of journalism.
Or The Balen Report…..into the Israel/Palestine conflict…..so contentious that the BBC spent £300,000 hiding the conclusions…presumably because it shows that the BBC has been working on the side of the Palestinians and providing anti-Israel propaganda.
The BBC is facing questions over the impartiality of its coverage of the European Union after its charity arm received millions of pounds to promote the EU’s political agenda.
BBC Media Action, which is part of the broadcaster’s Global News division, was paid £4.5 million from Brussels last year, mostly for work designed to ensure the progress of the enlargement of the EU.
Based at the BBC’s Broadcasting House headquarters in London, the charity received the bulk of the money for a project to train hundreds of journalists in countries which share potentially volatile borders with the EU.
MPs said the extent of the charity’s dependence on money from Brussels could undermine the credibility of the BBC’s coverage of controversial European issues, including EU enlargement.
A BBC spokesman said any suggestion that coverage of EU issues could be influenced by the charity’s funding arrangements was “completely unfounded and confused”.
“BBC Media Action is an independent charity which works to support free and fair journalism and reduce poverty around the world,” the spokesman said.
“The BBC’s editorial remit is to deliver fair, balanced and impartial coverage and we are satisfied that our coverage of the European Union does just that.”
49% of people questioned wanted the BBC licence fee scrapped….
and 21% want it cut.
Only 18% wanted it frozen…
and 10% want it increased.
The BBC tells us:
‘…the licence fee is the most popular means of funding the BBC, ahead of subscription and advertising, the spokesman said.
“With 96 per cent of the UK population using BBC services for more than 18 hours a week on average, the licence fee model has shown itself resilient and continues to remain good value for money to the public,” the spokesman said.
As 2016 is post Election….I wonder what sort of coverage the Tories will be getting now in the run up to 2015 from the BBC.
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