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Sep082014
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill The BBC Board and its climate alarmists
David Keighley has in interesting article up at the Conservative Woman, which looks at the membership of the new BBC Executive Board. Several of its members seem to be keen on climate alarmism.
Reader Comments (12)
The idea that there is anything left wing about the BBC could have been written by John Cook. There has been a stupendous swing to the right in this country in the last 30 years, but the nutters can still see communists in the rafters.
The only thing in there that Keighley got wrong (and the error is understandable) is the phrase "lunatic new technology projects that cost licence-fee payers more than £100m"
It's fundamental to the BBC failings all round. These projects didn't cost the licence-fee payers a penny. The licence fee is decided by government and imposed on the owners or hirers of TV sets. Thereafter what the BBC does with it is nothing whatever to do with the general public. So it can carry out whatever projects it feels like and the "cost" to the rest if us is effectively nil.
Which is why it can get away with what it does. New motto: Nation will lift two fingers unto nation! Someone improve on that for me!
Swing to the right, smiffy? I must have missed it. This is the most left wing Tory government since Peel.
Interesting article.
I had already reached the conclusion that the BBC was beyond reform. This article confirms that.
Part of the problem with people like esmiff is they have lived in socialist society for so long they have re-calibrated the range. Right wing to him now means allowing anyone over 100k to stay out of jail.
This country has moved so far to the right all it's institutions have clean gone right through and come out on the left, smiff!!
Mailman
Besides being card carrying lefties and greens a scary aspect for me is the cult of leadership, the notion that if someone ends up being "in charge" of something like the National Trust then they will succeed at being in charge of something else like the BBC.
About 50% of the Guardian campaign for AGW is that deniers are bat crazy right wing nutters. Where did they get that idea ?
How do you feel about the Monsanto created Lesbian Lizard lady on Dr Who, dudes ? I thought she was vile. It's all genetic you know. LOL !
smiffy
The answer to your question is very simple.
Anyone whose opinion diverges more than a fraction from the Received Wisdom of the Age, as handed down to Polly Toynbee, is a bat crazy right wing nutter.
For a century and more the intellectual (joke) left has been (in the eyes and minds of those in the intellectual left) sole arbiter of right — ie left — thinking.
Please note: these people have no connection with Labour, of if they do it is purely tangential or politically convenient. There is an argument to be had that they have done more damage to the true Labour movement than the entryists of the 70s and 80s.
Generally speaking when I refer to "the left" it is not the likes of Nye Bevan, Jim Callaghan, or Denis Skinner that I am referring to but the heirs of the Webbs and Shaw and Stopes — people like Miliband père and Grayling.
... and of course Toynbee and Alibhai Brown, needless to say.
Cook has a portrait of himself over his bathtub.
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Haha, Kim, vey funny mental image inside my head now.
Cook beneath his portrait in the tub with his SS-cap on, big foam layer all around, candles, a yellow rubber duckie floating around here and there...
Thanks!
And under the heading of: 'Oh, here we go again..' - on the BBC News website this morning we have a feature by their Environment Correspondent, Matt McGrath, entitled 'CO2 rise fastest since 1984'...
Not having heard from him lately, I suppose it was a case of: 'Matt, better go out and find an environmental story, otherwise we may have to let you go...'
And guess what..? 'Scientists are puzzled..' 'The heat has gone into the oceans..' 'We must act NOW before its too late...'
Etc, etc...