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Post by carl1960 on Sept 5, 2011 20:03:02 GMT
As the (not much) fun and games that has being going on in my life subsides to it's normal level of disaster I hope to shortly re-start my own personal crusade against the Beeb. We finally got our new E-machine to find that the Linpus version of Linux is almost unusable. However our tame IT friend has now loaded the much more user friendly Ubuntu onto it. I haven't had much time to watch BBc in the last couple of weeks. However I have noticed a "roundabout" of stories on Breakfast these do the rounds every couple of weeks. One is alcohol the other is "unhealthy" food. This morning it was back to food and obesity and the ever present cry to "tax" "unhealthy" food. Obviously in the paralllel universe in which I exist fresh fruit and veg is expensive. Also I have to take my own rtesponsibility for what I eat not be dictated to. As usual with the beeb they then fall back to costs to the NHS. Newsflash BBc the NHs isn't free at least I assume some of the vast amounts of tax and NI I've paid out has gone towards it. Maybe we should have an guess what day alcohol or obesity is mentioned on breakfast.
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Post by Teddy Bear on Sept 5, 2011 22:15:38 GMT
I've got a good idea - take the money given to the BBC and give it instead to the NHS. Let the NHS misspend it, it will still do less damage to the society than at present. That itself will do wonders for my blood-pressure. Good to see you back Carl
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Post by carl1960 on Sept 15, 2011 18:24:58 GMT
Ahh I did manage to catch BBc Breakfast this morning for the first time in a while. However nice too see we are still watching the "roundabout" of "news". This morning we were back on the vast amounts of food that get thrown away..yes I made a complaint about this story last time they ran it. They seemed to have slightly learned a lesson this time around. Last time amongst the shock horror and outrage of it all they sent a reporter down to the tip to find the afformentioned "mountain" of rotting food and in fact was struggeling to find very much at all. This time they had libary footage of "waste " food being bulldozed around. Now whilst I do know one person who throws out food as soon as it hits the use by date the vast majority of people I know use their common sense on when to bin food.
So my prediction if the display on dates on food changes a story not long after about how much food poisoning is costing the NHS and how there should be dates giving guidanceon how long the product should be stored. Incidentally any one know why the BBc is giving the Tinke, tailor, soldier, spy film such a hype? They were on about it on Breakfast and bizzarely it was mentioned on the 10O'clock news a few days ago as well.
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Post by Teddy Bear on Sept 16, 2011 1:02:48 GMT
Not familiar with it to make any assessment. Like you though, I'm sure the reason will eventually become clear.
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Post by carl1960 on Sept 16, 2011 18:43:18 GMT
I caught a quick glimpse of Breakfast this morning when again "Tinker Tailor Soldier spy was being hyped. With A link to the (I'nmy opinion abysmal "Spooks" series) apparently it's on general release today. This is just about the only BBc I've seen in recent days. I did turn onto question time yesterday...up to the point I saw Diane (didn't win the liebour leadership ) Abbott and then turned it off i'e' about 30 seconds. So disappointingly I've not had anything to complain about, (not withstanding the ongoing Newsnight complaint they say they didn't get which I really must respond to wwhen I get a spare second.
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Post by Teddy Bear on Sept 16, 2011 22:20:20 GMT
Googling the film I see a review of the film on the IMDB website that might explain the BBC 'interest' in the film. I've underlined the relevant indicators That would explain it
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Post by carl1960 on Sept 19, 2011 17:37:08 GMT
Yep I think the above would cover the BBc sales push on tinker tailor.. Busy doing nothing today however at intervals during the day I have turned on the news to see what's happening at Dale Farm. the Bbc of course getting lots of shots of the scene with rentamob hanging around no doubt still the same idiots I used to abuse on my way in and out of buildings in the(union) conference season..the Socialist "don't" worker brigade. I did notice they got in a shot of the no ethnic cleansing banner, not really Bosnia is it lads. Seems pretty clear cut they are breaking the law, if I built something without planning permision I'd expect it to get knocked down I would also expect the law to applied equally to all. But hey I sometimes think I'm living in a parallel dimension. A prime example of that was in a discussion with a friend last week who informed me that Vince Cable was the only sensible member of the goverment. After almost chocking on my coffee I ran through a few of the examples of Cable's "brilliance" the come back was "well I suppose you'r right". So I was somewhat suprised by the fact that every time I've turned the news on today he's been staring out at me. Obviously every one has forgotten his chat with the journalists about how important he is in the goverment (yea right). So the economy is very bad and like a war zone?? How does he do it?He's an economic genius. Still the BBc seem to hang on his every word.
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Post by Teddy Bear on Sept 19, 2011 21:33:11 GMT
The only way Cable could be 'brilliant' is by plugging him in to an electric socket. Judging by the amount his opinions are a regular feature of BBC items, they're clearly scratching each others back.
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Post by carl1960 on Sept 21, 2011 16:29:15 GMT
Oh Dear I've just caught (a bit like the plague) todays edition of Newsround. Story 1 Someone on Deathrow in America with of course no real background story and how capital punishment isn't used in the UK but is still used in places like China. Let's of course ignore the fact that in polls the majority is for bringing back the death penalty, the fact that the viewer was only given the bare minimum of information on the offender in America and oh yes lets not forget we don't live in America.
Story 2. Floods in Pakistan and how the people are angry not enough is being done for them. No mention of the amount of money Pakistan spends on weapons procurment. No mention of if this happened last year so what happened with all the money Clegg and co handed over on our behalf wether we wanted to or not, guess whaI didn't want to give them any money it would of been better off spent on things like pensioners here being able to heat their houses. Story 3.Rescued baby squirrels. Ahhhhh.
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Post by Teddy Bear on Sept 21, 2011 20:58:23 GMT
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Post by carl1960 on Sept 22, 2011 19:00:02 GMT
AS I was had just made myself Mushrooms coen uon toast and it was 17:00 I thought I know I'll turn on ethnic round..err sorry Newsround.Just to see their spin on the exucution of Try Davis in Georgia. Still giving very little details( however see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Davis_case) the comment was he said he was innocent faced with a lethal injection is that any suiprise. Talking of suprises I was and for once pleasantly. The Top of the pops re-runs from 1976 finally reached one of my all time favourite bands Eddie and the hot rods with a performance I can't remember seeing at the time (probably down the pub) of Get out of Denver. Many years later I remember buying Barry Masters a drink. However just to annoy me the BBc insist on moving this around being just about the only program on BBc I can actually be bothered enough to check when it's on.
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Post by carl1960 on Sept 25, 2011 16:28:17 GMT
So as I settled down to watch the Lewis Hamilton Show formally known as BB F1 I had a quick bet with Carole as to how long it would be before they mentioned Lewis Hamilton. I said 5 minutes Carole said 30 seconds it was actually about 5 seconds. We then had an interview with Hamilton then a chat with him on the starting grid (tou'd never think he was behind Jenson Button would you). Once again he drove into Massa although the commentry team came up with the usual cover the stewarts gave a drive through penalty. Compare this with the last race when the commentry team almost exploded after Micharl Schumacher "held him up". Nice to see and hear no bias whatso ever going on again.
More bizzare and coincidences on the coverage of the "Old grey whistle test" a seies of three programs about the once great music program that the BBc killed off. Bizzare as all three programs had various portions of themselves on all three programs. Considering the size of the footage they must have was it really necessary to show (mostly) clips of various lengths of the same bands on each program? More confusing to me despite having Annie Nightingale and Bob Harris on the show the voice over was from Joe Brand. So why not funny comedienne was given the job apart from it being a job creation scheme I'm not sure, I wasn't aware she was famous for her love of prog rock..but who knows. Also strange when showing presenters from "rival" Top of the pops" they were all show in a clip with at least one non white stood next to them, I'm really not sure what all that was about..coincidence???
Still at least the Old grey whistle test did give me a corrupted quote I still us to describe myself to date. "I'm more contraversial than the Jesus And Mary Chain"
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Post by Teddy Bear on Sept 25, 2011 18:52:34 GMT
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Post by carl1960 on Sept 27, 2011 20:59:11 GMT
Ok So I'm still busy doing what seems to be not much however I did catch Pravda,,no sorry I mean the BBc news. So it's the Liebour conference and the BBc heralds that Millibland wants to make a new contract with us. People will be rewarded if they work hard..hang on I'm sure I've heard this one before, I didn't believe it then but was it Cameroon saying it before I'm not sure.. Also they admit they made mistakes and they've learned their lesson. Which ruddy PR company brought up this "learned our lesson" phrase? Ok so they flooded the country with immigrants who took jobs, lowered wages and instigated the boom in buy to let. They dismantled the job that I used to enjoy. They sold our gold reserves when gold was at an all time low price. They extended PFI projects an idea I thgought was so barking mad it was barking mad. They introduced student fees but you wouldn't know it listening to them talking about student fees. These and many other things and hey think if they say sorry it'll all be ok. Watching politics these days is pretty much like having to watch a crap support band at a gig..you know the ones where they shout out the main bands name to get a cheer and cover up their own ineptitude. The politicians do this with the "evil" banker. Mention irresponsible bankers and you're bound to geet a cheer from the masses. This wore thin with me a long time ago here's why and before that I do not work for a bank in fact I wasin a massive dispute with my bank not long ago when they in my consideration breached the data protection act on my account. Banking is one of the most heavily regulated industries in this country in certain areas of banking if an employee even misses a sentence out of their script they will be pulled off the phones and lose their (not massive usually bonus. Remember when I had a job interview with a bank 12 months ago the starting pay was £12K. Secondly who was it who set up the FSA in lieu of the bank of England regulating the financial market oh that would be the end of boom and bust Gordon. Liebour may claim they didn't cause the global recession however they were the ones throwing money every where, was it to buy votes make your own mind up. All I know is at work every hour at work on the radio there was an advert for Surestart. Anyway back to the news the Beeb stated they were going to go out and find what locals really thought about Millibland. So that's going to a cafe to talk to a couple of trade union members and the boss of a small business..suprise non were really critical of Millibland they never seem to ask people who are of similar persuasion to myself, although to be fair if they did interview me they probably wouldn't be able to broadcast it. In the Army I was a Trooper and I consder I still have the resources to swear like one.
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Post by Teddy Bear on Sept 27, 2011 23:51:53 GMT
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Post by carl1960 on Oct 2, 2011 0:29:40 GMT
I missed question time this week as instead I ventured out to see old "punk" band the Angelic Upstarts, Trouble was as the last time I bought one of their records was in 1979 and I forgot about their "socalist" ethos. Still I'm sure it was still better than question time. I did however catch the reporting on weekly bin collection reinstatment (or not) and the proposed speed increase on the Motorways (or not). So weekly bin collection I'd of thought that would be a good thing having moved from an area with fortnightly collections to an area with weekly collections. But no, shock, horror, outrage it "may" reduce recycling. ?!? Then following on from an earlier comment they interview the person with what I consider to be an idiot opinion. Yes they find the man who doesn't mind if his bins are only emptied once a month or more. So we have either a man who loves the smell of rotting rubbish in the summer/throws away no rubbish/ has a grant to study vermin/ owns a bin cleaning company or is possibly on day release. I mean really is it only me that thinks it odd that this view is put forward. Second story raising the speed limit to 80mph on motorways. More shock horror doom. You would think the BBc employees now working in Salford would think it's a good idea if they are commuting. No the hippies think the extra pollution will be an issue andthen they managed to find a woman who spouted a bunch of statistics that for all I know she made up on the spot about how every mile per hour increase increases the chances of accidents by ..blah blah blah. Having failed my statistics "O" Level back in 1977 even I know statistics can mean anything that you want them to. They of course ignore the massive increase in vehicle safety compare the size of the tyres discs and brakes on my ST Focus + ABS system with the Datsun Cherry I used to drivewith my foot to the floor back in the early 80s on the unrestricted parts of the autobahn.
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Post by Teddy Bear on Oct 2, 2011 22:07:17 GMT
Any change, other than the BBC's known agenda, which as we know has nothing to do with their charter, unless it is proscribed by the EU is always portrayed as ludicrous, regardless of merit in actually benefiting society.
I was busy while Question Time was on last week, but it was in the background. I just caught the section they had on the introduction of the 80mph limit. One stupid woman in the audience, as the BBC tend to invite, made the comment along the lines that 'it was only businesses (said in a manner that implied 'evil-businesses as they all are') that wanted it so they could move their trucks around quicker, and that it was about time the government thought of the (poor) regular people'. Obviously somebody who thinks the supplies in shops are always magically there. I think everybody on the panel had to resist the urge to show up the absolute mush that was this woman's brain, but then - that's the BBC target audience, although one of them did mutter about that if trucks could move around quicker it would make more profit, and allow them to hire more people. Since it was so obvious to anybody capable of real thought that I think they decided it wasn't worth elaborating any further.
But it shows how the BBC audience is so easily led, and so willing to allow the BBC to 'think for them'.
Yes, strange statistic about speed. If vehicles don't move it's unlikely that anybody will be killed in a road accident, so logically we should ban vehicles. Never mind that we'll all die of starvation and freeze to death very shortly after, at least we won't be run over.
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Post by carl1960 on Oct 5, 2011 10:40:01 GMT
So looking back to 5/9/ my first mention of the "roundabout" of news. So this morning a strange feeling of deja vu- wait for it - YES it's tax on fatty foods time again a month gone already. Yes apparently Denmark has taxed butter, pizza and chips. Turnbull came out with the good old standard that obesity costs the NHS...blah blah blah. Yes let's start taxing food and make the cost of living even higher. Going back to my comments about the BBc's public opinion interviews (was it Southampton) the majority of members of the public of making remarks that seem to support a "fat" tax (I assume untill they have to pay it) with one person commenting that it was not a good idea. I wonder how the results would be if went out in the street and asked if people wanted a 20% rise in items of their food bill what results I'd get?
So what will be next on the "roundabout" of news?
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Post by carl1960 on Oct 8, 2011 16:59:58 GMT
The "Roundabout" of news spins and lands yet again on banking yesterday. First a report on breakfast about the downgrading of 12 UK financial institutes. The BBc of course concentrate "on state owned" LLoyds group. With the calming comments of "don't panic". Of course there is nothing more than the BBc would like than for the public to panic so they can be filmed outside a company trying to withdraw their money with the comments of "don't panic". The same strategy is used during petrol shortages where the camera crew heads out to the garage with the no petrol signs and a big line of cars with the words don't panic there is enough petrol to go round if people don't panic buy. Or in severe weather the crew head out to the supermarket looking for empty shelves , don't panic supplies have not been effected. Come on you know it's true you've all seen these reports. What I wanted to know was who the other downgraded companys were apart from LLoyds, RBS, Co-operative & Naionwide which were the only ones mentioned. Lucky I managed to ressist the urge to pull my savings out of the Nationwide. Anyway this is the most comprehensive report I could find with a quick look around the interwebb net. citywire.co.uk/new-model-adviser/moodys-downgrades-12-uk-financial-institutions/a530623
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Post by carl1960 on Oct 9, 2011 14:12:59 GMT
Si it's Sunday and grey I've just watched The Lewis Hamilton Show (previously BBc F1) where he again managed to drive into Massa with I perceive a slightly different reaction from the commentry crew than if someone had driven into him or even dared (Schumacher) to hold him up. As I was up early I therefore did have the misfortune to click over to that dreadful program Susanna Reid does in the few short seconds it was on before I turned it over I did notice (It's the roundabout of news again) yes again about Fat people. Suprise one of the guests was none other than Derek Hatton billed as a "fitness fanatic" not exactly what I'd call him but there you go. Where does the BBc get it's guests from?
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Post by Teddy Bear on Oct 9, 2011 16:43:19 GMT
Where does the BBc get it's guests from?Are you kidding? According to this on Wiki, he's a BBC wet dream. Hatton became a member of the Labour Party and later the high-profile deputy leader of Liverpool City Council in 1983. Hatton was the most vocal, prominent member of the council's leadership and a member of Militant Tendency, a Trotskyist organisation then pursuing entryist tactics within the Labour Party. The Leader of the council, John Hamilton, was a quietly spoken but much admired and passionate non-Militant socialist member, with great standing in the Liverpool party.[citation needed]Says it all really If only he was black, gay and Muslim we'd never see him off the air.
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Post by carl1960 on Oct 11, 2011 17:18:42 GMT
A few days ago you will recall the BBc did it's shock horror banks are downgraded "don't panic" story. Well as usual things seem not to be the way BBc was spinning them in the case of Lloyds group at least. The version I've now been told is that Lloyds group long term lending only has been downgraded one notch. The reason is because Lloyds group is paying back the goverment's intervention (not a lot of mention of that) the view on the downgrade is that as the goverment "owns" less of a stake it will be less willing to partake in another bail out, and therefore Lloyds are increasingly more dependent on themselves.
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Post by carl1960 on Oct 17, 2011 15:09:02 GMT
I've avoided BBc for most of the last week. I did see the Mother of St. Stephen of Lawrence on breakfast promoting a trust she is launching. I turned over and back again and no word of a lie she was saying "institutional racism" just before I turned over I suppose there was no mention of the white victims of racism though. I did start to watch Questionable time last week but gave up after five minutes for the life of me I can't even remember who was on it. More strangely strangeness, watching BBc breakfast this morning they (when I was watching) never mentioned the results of the Korean Grand Prix bearing in mind that Red Bull won the constructors championship at the race you would have thought there would be no reason not to mentiion it. Especially as they made a point on Friday of telling us Lewis Hamilton was fastest in practice. On the Lewis Hamilton show (Formally BBC F1) again we had a featurete and they were bigging him up from the start..well up till corner number 4 anyway.
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Post by Teddy Bear on Oct 17, 2011 20:49:52 GMT
'Questionable Time' is a good one The usual 4 left (5 including Dimbleby) to 1 right panel, as much as any Conservative MP is right wing, to ensure proper balance (their style). This included Andrew Lansley, Red Ken Livingstone, former chief press spokesman for the Liberals Mark Littlewood, NHS-focussed 'comedian' Phil Hammond and deputy editor of the Evening Standard Sarah Sands. It was as dire as usual, especially with the presence of Red Ken and that typical type lefty the BBC refer to as a comedian - Phil Hammond, that like to show how serious and passionate they are about the 'real issues' like saving the planet, and drop all pretence at the little humour they had.
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Post by carl1960 on Oct 24, 2011 9:24:04 GMT
After a weekend away I find that not much has changed on planet BBc Breakfast. It appears that I got up too late for the "revolver" of news item - student fess are £9Kp.a.- I didn't think every University was charging that but hey. We then had the Europe referendum item where we had the Europe Minister spouting out about how people were telling him a referendum was just a distraction to the real issues, like unemployment. Of course to suit the BBc agenda there was no counter-point. Well funny that I've been having an on going conversation with both my present and past MPs about us being given the opportunity to get out of the EU, in fact I sent an E-mail last night asking if he would be supporting the wish of all thoses who signed up for the E-petrition. Still never mind. Next a writer who bases her stories on Greece! Who informed us after the war Greece was bankrupted and it takes decades to get their economy back together!!!!!? Not like any other country following WWII then, bearing in mind it's not that long ago we finally paid of the WWII loans to America. Then finally to top it off as we are getting an extra hour we can teach someone we know how to use the internet if they don't know how to!!! What "extra" hour exactly are they talking about unbelievable...almost. In fact the BBc has annoyed me with their one sided report on the EU referendum debate I'm going to send an E-mail complaint their way. If the main issue is employment for young people then stopping unrestricted migration from Eastern Europe would mean that the jobs taken at present by migrants couldn't be.
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Post by Teddy Bear on Oct 24, 2011 12:32:19 GMT
Sounds like a "...since we get complaints and accusations of bias from all sides of the EU debate, we must therefore be balanced..." type of response coming your way. Let's see if they surprise us
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Post by carl1960 on Oct 24, 2011 17:16:26 GMT
Ahh on checking the BBc Breakfast I find that they did have a Euro sceptic on before I managed to drag my carcass down the stairs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15426249 So I think therefore a complaint would be pointless (more so than usual) as I'm sure as I will be referred to this as the "balance" I'm not sure however what time this was actually screened. Somehow the irony that we are promoting democoracy abroad but then the Goverment and the opposition pull this stunt off here seems to be lost.
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Post by Teddy Bear on Oct 24, 2011 21:27:07 GMT
Reading the article you linked to, it looks like they've decided to gamble and use this guy for the purpose of attacking Cameron than any real desire to have a referendum on the EU PM's stance on Europe undemocratic, says Bernard Jenkin
A conservative MP has called David Cameron's stance on Europe "undemocratic".
Bernard Jenkin told BBC Breakfast that the majority of British people would like a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union.
But David Cameron has issued a three line whip ordering Tory MPs to vote against a referendum.
The prime minister is facing growing unrest from his backbenchers over the issue, with around 70 Tory MPs expected to ignore the whips and vote in favour.
Mr Jenkin is among them.
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Post by carl1960 on Nov 7, 2011 19:09:10 GMT
Hi. I've not been watching a lot of the Blatently Biased C**p recvently so I havn't had a lot to coment on. Over the last fortnight I've been involved in getting myself a radio show on the local community radio station so I can play the kind of music I and lots of other people like but is ignored in the main by the BBc. However the Young Foreign and over here program did initiate a bit of shouting at the telly on my behalf. Apparently they don't like British Women, think it's expensive are suprised they can't get a job and don't appear keen on the amount of ethnics here. Simple solution, don't come here. I now have my reply from my MP as to why he didn't vote for an EU referendum which I can sumarise as waffle waffle waffle. Interestingly on points of view a viewer had asked why they always put a negative spin on the story and if there is a positive story there is always a... but! The Beeb replied with there usuall hogwash about giving the full picture although I must admit I was rapidly slipping into a coma at that point. Perhaps someone can tell me if the BBc ran this story on air www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15588726 I didn't see anything myself but it is on the BBc website. BBc darling but for me uber clown Cable throws out confidential waste brilliant. However I'm sure the data commisioner will be after him...Not.
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Post by Teddy Bear on Nov 7, 2011 20:43:25 GMT
This appears to be the only Cable article concerning his negligence on the Beeb website. Notice the headline and opening paragraph Vince Cable sorry for confidential letters left in bins
Vince Cable has apologised "unreservedly" after confidential documents were discovered in bins left outside his constituency office. Just to make sure the public are aware that 'Cable is a real stand up guy, who takes responsibility for his actions, even when wrong, and owns up - expressing full regret'. Not even a mention in the article that just a week ago he was penalised by the taxman for failing to pay up to £25,000 in VAT - and this is the UK Business secretary. I mean here's a guy just begging to be kicked from hell to high water. I also notice no Conservative viewpoint on his conduct. What's the difference between the way the BBC portray him, and if he would have been a Conservative? The Conservative would have simply been guilty of gross negligence, and questions would have been raised if he could continue to do his job. Cable = Responsible - responsible people keep their jobs. Guilty people get fired or worse. Just contrast this with the way the BBC presents Theresa May over the immigration debacle. Theresa May: Numbers of unchecked at UK borders unknown
Home Secretary Theresa May has admitted she does not know how many people came into the UK without proper checks. Theresa May = Ignorant
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