tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post6141709089327635285..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Martin Bashir makes a pointCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-59205492792455161532017-08-07T13:19:23.114+01:002017-08-07T13:19:23.114+01:00As well as Sunday's R4 News, Cable's remar...As well as Sunday's R4 News, Cable's remarks were reported on Sunday's R5 News at 9 am and TWTW News at 1 pm. Each time without comments or "balancing reaction". <br /><br />It's clear to me that the BBC is part of a coordinated Remain strategy to make voting or supporting Leave in the next referendum/election as socially unacceptable as racism. <br /><br />Leave voters are consistently portrayed across all the BBC platforms as out-of-date, selfish, ignorant, xenophobes. Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-18040662388182781912017-08-06T18:17:21.593+01:002017-08-06T18:17:21.593+01:00Certainly given a pass on being 'a problem'...Certainly given a pass on being 'a problem' in some quarters.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-77635843552260292472017-08-06T16:38:34.515+01:002017-08-06T16:38:34.515+01:00Weird how it's not a big joke at the BBC that ...Weird how it's not a big joke at the BBC that the Lib Dems are now the party of old, white men. Being anti-Brexit absolves all sins, apparently.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-64551465675624839492017-08-06T16:37:27.183+01:002017-08-06T16:37:27.183+01:00Young Mr. Cable swung by my stand at Expo a few ye...Young Mr. Cable swung by my stand at Expo a few years back when 'something big in government', accompanied by a coterie of bright young things whose interests he doubtless had and still has at heart.<br /><br />He almost came out with 'You are all doing very well[' verbatim. I did not corpse. he is totally ga-ga. Diane Abbott seems almost sharp and on brief in comparison. Almost.<br /><br />One sPad peeled away from the herd as he wafted on, to ask me if I was important as the great man had shown interest. <br /><br />I said 'to whom?', and that was that.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-23089924051531967292017-08-06T16:37:24.014+01:002017-08-06T16:37:24.014+01:00Never mind the real point, then, that it's onl...Never mind the real point, then, that it's only recently that 'refugees' are the one issue where the bien pensant Left aren't insisting that we shouldn't interfere and that it's an African problem which should be solved by Africans.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-51795472664516011282017-08-06T15:48:33.876+01:002017-08-06T15:48:33.876+01:00The lower education / old age stat is an interesti...The lower education / old age stat is an interesting one, it just proves to me that older people had less opportunity to go to uni but are in no way less able to make an informed decision.<br /><br />Nor are questions being asked about the "brain washing" of the young uni graduates....surely it's an issue if we've produced a generation who can't think for themselves and all vote the same way...<br /><br />ClockworkOrange<br />30 something, BSc, MSc, Chartered something. <br />Clockworkorangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07538039281226245073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-23276337680664370642017-08-06T15:34:42.737+01:002017-08-06T15:34:42.737+01:00I don't understand why Vince Cable should say ...I don't understand why Vince Cable should say the the over 65s have disadvantaged the 'young of the UK' by their Leave vote. Are these not the same 'young of the UK' who have been seduced by Corbyn without realising what the outcome of a Corbyn led Government might mean?<br /><br />Far from 'disadvantaging the young of the UK', I would say that the over 65s, who do remember the 90% upper tax rate and the dreadful economic performance under Labour Governments of the 1970s, are using their experience to avoid the pitfall of continued EU membership.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-75420456063531430912017-08-06T12:15:01.653+01:002017-08-06T12:15:01.653+01:00The BBC has Vince Cable's Mail on Sunday piece...The BBC has Vince Cable's Mail on Sunday piece among its top three stories on the BBC News website, so they are really running with it. In stark contrast, neither the Sky News website nor the ITV News website considers it worth including as a story AT ALL. It's nowhere among their (many) headline stories. The BBC article is all Vince Cable's words and no reactions to them. <br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40842017Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-17923527944573380982017-08-06T11:59:54.307+01:002017-08-06T11:59:54.307+01:00BBC R4 News today has been enthusiastically report...BBC R4 News today has been enthusiastically reporting Vince Cable's speeches in the press where he blames old people's selfishness for the Brexit vote. <br /><br />It seems to me that this is the sort of rhetoric that has increased since the referendum, i.e. dividing the population and then slandering those who voted for Brexit. <br /><br />As a public service broadcaster, the BBC should be defending those who were asked to cast their vote and honestly did so, not continuously lining up and joining in with the attacks (remember "Brexit Street"?).Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-11346371872726287992017-08-06T11:49:32.701+01:002017-08-06T11:49:32.701+01:00It's all well and good, but is Uganda's of...It's all well and good, but is Uganda's offer for ever ?<br />Does it involve financial support ? <br />Will it destabilise demographics ?<br />Are there the issues of language, culture and religion to address ? Enoughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-53990118044437206492017-08-06T10:05:03.313+01:002017-08-06T10:05:03.313+01:00Perhaps Uganda will take back their own, like Yasm...Perhaps Uganda will take back their own, like Yasmin Alibhai-Brown?<br /><br />As Ozfan says, there is a huge difference between providing first-aid to a neighbour and mass immigration of alien peoples and their alien cultures.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-2776127043991272052017-08-06T09:31:46.506+01:002017-08-06T09:31:46.506+01:00Uganda and Sudan have a border. I dare say if the...Uganda and Sudan have a border. I dare say if there was war in say Wales, then England would accept a million refugees from the West. But what the situation in Sudan has to do with the EU referendum or even the need for the UK to accept mass migration from all over the world beats me. Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.com