Showing posts with label Remoaners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Remoaners. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 August 2016

Forget issuing new guidance on the use of statistics, BBC - just hire some conservative and right-wing journalists

The BBC Trust has decided that the corporation's cultural Marxist propaganda platform, Newsnight, was wrong to allow the current doyenne of self-regarding, addle-pated, left-wing British luvvies (Emma Thompson, in case there was any doubt) to spew out lies about the likely effect of man-made climate change on average temperatures in the near future. According to the EU-loving, business-baiting, eco-loon actress - who showed her utter contempt for this country during the EU referendum campaign by calling it "a tiny little cloud-bolted, rainy corner of sort-of Europe ... a cake-filled misery-laden grey old island" - our evil, selfish, Gaia-raping activities are set to cause an increase of 7.2°F by 2013, "if they [oil companies] take out of the earth all the oil they want to." Despite her assertions being wrong on every single imaginable level, interviewer Emily Maitlis didn't think they needed to be challenged. The BBC's response to this display of journalistic incompetence and the subsequent knuckle-rap from the Trust has been to confirm that it's bringing in new guidelines on how statistics are handled.

Sunday, 17 July 2016

Yes, Mary Riddell, we selfish Brexiteers are all very, very ashamed of ourselves...

But probably not as ashamed as you felt this morning as you hunted for the Alka-Seltzer. (Do you still work for the Telegraph? I never see you in there.)  Labour MP Chris Bryant was also keen to blame the world's ills on Leave voters: 

Sunday, 3 July 2016

Stay away from Facebook right now, Brexiteers - it will just annoy the hell out of you!

I'll admit to not being a great Facebook user. I joined up when it first became a thing. I posted stuff on it, but when I contemplated using it to link to articles on this blog, I suddenly realised how unsuitable it would prove. Most of my friends aren't on it (at least, the ones I've looked for) and the people I'm "friends" with (one or two old pals, a few acquaintances, some former work colleagues who I really liked, and some relatives and in-laws) are, on the whole, mildly left-wing, as far as I can tell. I couldn't really see the point of causing an upset by exposing them to opinions that would only annoy them: by the same token, while I'm interested to find out what they're up to, I don't really want to be subjected to their political views (I had quite enough of that during 20 years at the BBC).

Monday, 27 June 2016

Only a bunch of Trotskyist loons could make the Tories look united at a time like this...

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Maybe Steptoe needs to consider the fact that Cameron seems like a weight's been lifted from his shoulders since announcing his resignation:</div>
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It seems way past time for the Labour Party to split once and for all - hate-filled Trotsyist nutters to the left, creepy Blairite virtue-signallers to the right, with Andy Burnham forming his own party for the spinally challenged somewhere in the middle: the current situation is utterly farcical. Who was the architect of the new £3 membership rule that paved the way for this unholy mess? Step forward and take a bow, Ed Miliband: if you hadn't bequeathed us Corbyn, Leave might very well have lost. <i>Thank you.&nbsp;</i></div>
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Meanwhile, I notice that - following an attempt to at least give an <i>impression</i> of impartiality during the referendum campaign - the BBC has reverted to type, and is now doing everything in its power to turn some inevitable short-term economic turbulence into a fully-fledged long-term disaster. Just to repeat myself: the dealers and traders who buy and sell currencies and stocks and shares and whatnot are, on the whole, a bunch of terrified, shrieking ladyboys, who herd together and stampede in the same direction whenever there's a hint of uncertainty - then, when a few of the braver members of their breed decide it's time to change course, immediately all race in the opposite direction. Obviously our state broadcaster has a duty to report these events, but it also has a duty not to eagerly fan the flames of public panic, or to use them for the purposes of anti-Brexit propaganda. The markets go up and they go down down. We know this. Try to reflect that in your reporting, and stop being so damned irresponsible.</div>
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I was watching BBC coverage yesterday when that abysmal excuse for a human being, Alastair Campbell, was wheeled on. He was given an inordinate amount of air time to voice his considered opinion that Boris Johnson was "finished". Yes, that's just what I was thinking - the Tory politician who twice won mayoral elections in a solid Labour city and who a few days ago won a stunning national referendum victory, despite the other side having the whole weight of the British and European political and economic establishments behind it (not to mention the President of the United States, David Beckham and Benedict Cumberbatch) is evidently <i>all washed up</i>. Given such a dreadful record of electoral failure, you'd have to be mad to imagine that Boris had any sort of political future.&nbsp;</div>
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Why Campbell was pushing this silly line is obvious: despite all his glaringly obvious faults, Boris Johnson has demonstrated on three separate momentous occasions his ability to transcend party politics by appealing to traditional Labour <i>and</i> Tory voters - Campbell knows that he would be toxic for Labour. The real question to ask is why the BBC allowed Campbell to spout this arrant nonsense <i>unchallenged</i>. And if I see the European Project's very own Gollum - i.e. the permanently besweatered Michael Heseltine - spouting alarmist anti-British nonsense from a comfy chair in the study of his no doubt immensely agweeable home - I will be... disappointed? This rather pathetic, obsessed old man has been demonstrably wrong about everything for decades, and I see no excuse for the BBC to keep foisting him on licence-payers.&nbsp;</div>
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