tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post8524482623690505388..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: How could I have not realised?Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-70230843449416973482019-02-10T00:13:03.894+00:002019-02-10T00:13:03.894+00:00Thanks for trying Peter! It's more 'a lar...Thanks for trying Peter! It's more 'a large Scotch' at this end!Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-86795171383388357942019-02-09T19:04:19.712+00:002019-02-09T19:04:19.712+00:00Noooooooooooooo! All I can suggest is copy and pas...Noooooooooooooo! All I can suggest is copy and paste. I am off for a small sherry.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-40335320215898779772019-02-09T19:03:09.791+00:002019-02-09T19:03:09.791+00:00There is a lot of repressed rage building in me no...There is a lot of repressed rage building in me now. Let’s try once more...<br /><br /><a href="https://postimg.cc/WdH6MqJf“>Please be an image</a> Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-76622815138608351512019-02-09T18:59:45.290+00:002019-02-09T18:59:45.290+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-51025319164480491182019-02-09T08:33:53.577+00:002019-02-09T08:33:53.577+00:00Sisyphus....... Of course Farage would be a lot mo...Sisyphus....... Of course Farage would be a lot more effective on Question Time, much more so than Rees-Mogg who's hardly a man of the people even though he's on my side and wanting to leave the E.U. But of course the BBC would be happy not to have an effective speaker that might persuade viewers that mistakenly voted to leave the E.U.<br /><br />Interestingly Rees-Mogg is well remembered as being the Tory candidate in the 1997 General Election fighting for the safe traditional Scottish Labour seat of Central Fife.<br />While out and about campaigning and standing on his soap box spreading the Tory message, onlookers and people standing by just laughed. They thought he was an alien from another planet.<br />A truly funny moment in British politics. The Tories were so out of touch with real people and nothing much has changed.<br />John.....N.London.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-34704461341173853932019-02-09T00:19:25.957+00:002019-02-09T00:19:25.957+00:00Sorry, Anon=John!Sorry, Anon=John!Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-15729130971174846922019-02-09T00:18:22.488+00:002019-02-09T00:18:22.488+00:00Now you mention it, Anon., the lack of big hitters...Now you mention it, Anon., the lack of big hitters is exactly it. On the Brexit side, the Beeb doesn't want to give a platform to the likes of Boris, or Farage because they're very effective speakers. They probably think JR-M is safe because the working class voter finds him, and Nanny, toxic - I'm not totally sure they're right on that one. But on the Remain side, who have they got? - Grieve, Soubry, Morgan, Greening, Cooper - competent, but not in the same league as Boris & Farage, whose patriotic appeal has just been given an immense boost by the cretinous interventions of Tusk and Verhofstadt.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-11325350989203481372019-02-08T23:56:10.228+00:002019-02-08T23:56:10.228+00:00Peter - the link is live (and blue!), but when I s...Peter - the link is live (and blue!), but when I select it, web search claims it doesn't match any documents - typo perhaps?Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-65660502964885680372019-02-08T23:19:46.394+00:002019-02-08T23:19:46.394+00:00Oh so Fiona (smiling through my teeth) Bruce can h...Oh so Fiona (smiling through my teeth) Bruce can hit back when she wants to...."Oh it's our fault." Well she chose to take on the QT role. This isn't The Antiques Show, It's Question Time where things will get heated.<br />But I loved the Basil Fawlty analogy.<br /><br />Fiona, smirking through her teeth...again, informed us at the end of this now even more dumbed down show that next week's super dooper guest will be Jacob Rees-Mogg. So I wonder which other three pro E.U panelists he'll be up against.<br />But I can't help thinking that Question Time no longer attracts any of Westminster's big hitters. I recall the days of Kinnock, Heseltine, Hattersly and Hain (now a Lord....traitor).<br />Some weeks I barely recognize the panelists as they're often picked from Business or Heads of Diversity groups with a couple of barely known Politicians thrown in.<br /><br />John.....N. London. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-9065991183397192032019-02-08T23:13:37.439+00:002019-02-08T23:13:37.439+00:00Must be true. It was on the bbc.
https://postimg...Must be true. It was on the bbc. <br /><br />https://postimg.cc/WdH6MqJfEmmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-24090955934317729072019-02-08T21:50:59.238+00:002019-02-08T21:50:59.238+00:00It's odd isn't it? Advertisers pay tens of...It's odd isn't it? Advertisers pay tens of thousands of pounds to put an advert on national TV to influence consumers, but BBC presenters get all coy about their own influence. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-50109012099045292842019-02-08T21:08:51.941+00:002019-02-08T21:08:51.941+00:00And the issue of how the UKIP audience member got ...And the issue of how the UKIP audience member got in a good gotcha question<br />..but has somehow been in the show's audience twice before ?stewgreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10223073927227101097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-2890555843626108552019-02-08T18:53:03.756+00:002019-02-08T18:53:03.756+00:00Fiona's retort sounded vaguely familiar - the ...Fiona's retort sounded vaguely familiar - the penny just dropped: substitute 'my' for 'our' and you have Basil Fawlty, discovering that O'Reilly has bricked up the door to the dining-room. To complete the allusion, Fiona should have stood up, said: "Ah well, if it's our fault, we must we punished then, mustn't we?" and slapped her own bottom. So, too derivative Fiona - and John Cleese was much funnier!<br /><br />Like Sue, I wasn't expecting much from the panel, but the audience more than made up for their shortcomings - who'd have expected such hostility towards Ms Sturgeon's party, from a Scottish audience? Entertaining stuff!Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-18325900478789473352019-02-08T17:03:39.483+00:002019-02-08T17:03:39.483+00:00As the saying goes - Sarcasm is the lowest form o...As the saying goes - Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit’.<br /><br />Fiona was quick off the mark to defend her beloved BBC. Full marks for mental agility but in reality sarcasm is just hostility disguised as humour. <br /><br />Deep down all beeboids know they can influence opinion and often do. They don’t like being reminded of it though and as we saw with Fiona they slap it down quickly. Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07341313534441507081noreply@blogger.com