Lifelong politics addict that I am, I am pretty much exhausted by anger. I am avoiding broadcast news as far as possible and from this point on am not listening to anything the BBC has to offer apart from music. If Radio Three pauses the music in favour of a half-hour talk-programme, it goes off.
What the fuck is it with the fucking BBC? Stupid? Blind? Past caring? Plain fucking corrupt and evil?
I am stomach-crampingly, biliously, retchingly sick of the BBC's incredibly unremarked series of near-daily attacks on the Conservatives.
The clear assumption in every examination of every single Tory policy is that it is derided and dismissed by people who know about such things - in other words, the Tories are amateurs in every single field, simply not up to governing.
Most stories about Tory policy open with a critical and dismissive quote from a high profile opponent, Mandelson if possible, obviously.
Despite the Tories' consistent lead in all polls, the BBC has not found enough material for a single supportive, pro-Conservative vox pop. Not one. None. None at all.
But there is plenty of time for Tory-hating old psephologist, 'Professor' John Curtice on the rare occasions when there is mention of the Tory lead in the polls, and only then in terms of 'hung parliament'. God forbid there is discussion of a possible Tory government other than in terms of gawdelpus.
If there is no political question with which to beat the Tories, BBC hacks (patrol leader Crick M) will insinuate or play up something negative about personal relationships between members of the ShadCab
Meanwhile, BBC editors maintain a total radio/TV blackout on Labour's historically unprecedented record of destruction and incompetence. Does this presage silent support of the incoming government, of whatever party?
A blind eye and a deaf ear are turned to the Cabinet's established Brownian policy of Stick To The Big Lie.
No mention is made, ever, of Brown's widely-discussed weirdness nor of the fact that policies being 'announced' now for implementation in a year or two may never come to pass because the electorate may not permit it.
Anyone who attacks the Labour government is subjected to intense, erm, scrutiny, as the generals will attest, with slimeballs like Bogdanor brought on to condemn them.
The BBC has dispensed with all pretence of impartiality and political balance, its hacks obviously reckoning that although once the election starter gun is fired they will have to behave themselves, by that time their work as Labour's Pravda will be done.
They brazenly raise two fingers to the voting public who pay for the BBC under pain of imprisonment, as they go busily about their task of propagandising for Labour, shoring Brown up and skewing the polls and (they hope) the election result in favour of the government generally agreed to be the worst in modern British history.
And the longer this goes on, the more they have to stick to it lest Project Stop The Tories fails, the Tories form the government and begin dismantling Pravda.
Bastards.
As for me, I've had enough of this.
Superb graphic old chap. Mind if I nick it?
ReplyDeleteSomeone, somewhere within the BBC might be waking up to the problems of covering up the actions of NuLabour.
ReplyDeleteIt is of course far too late to prevent the problem.
The whole bastard show is run by wimmin and wimmin always waggle their arses in front of the current alpha male, aside from being genetically socialists.
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ReplyDeleteGo ahead, old bean. I nicked it myself. If I could remember from where (smack) I would credit them.
@ everyone else? Is it yours? Please let me know via prodicus@zakeroo.com
I went through the anger barrier about 3 years ago. It was one of the women 5live presenters in the morning. There was a discussion about whether the Home Office was 'fit for purpose'. Reid, I believe introduced this expression into the debate to cover up his disastrous failings.
ReplyDeleteThe first 'question' to him was 'It must feel awful to try so hard and get all this criticism?' Then she spent the phone-in chastising listeners with 'but its not fit for purpose, [mirroring his slogan] and he's trying weally weally hard!'
Paradoxically as more of us desert the BBC it gives them a kind of strength, because there are fewer people observing their filthy, disgraceful bias.
So we switch off in disgust, and we moan about it to like-minded people; but we forget that not everyone is able to spot the blatancy of the bias.
ReplyDeleteNope, most people just suck it up like mother's milk, and that's why the BBC is so poisonous and destructive to the political soul of this country.
Working hand in glove with the state education system (a year! An entire bloody year studying the slave trade in history! When do they study the Enlightenment, or the Glorious Revolution?) the new establishment is insidiously moving the political 'datum level' leftwards, and removing the critical abilities of a population to notice.
We have to fight back, before the dark Orwellian night finally descends...
And people wonder why DC's policies are vague and cuddly. Suppose he'd set the Tories up for years of vilification rather than months of undermining- do you think it would have improved his chances? I get fed up with people who say that he's not offering enough of what they want and encouraging a boycott- to actually do anything he needs a majority, and that majority must include a lot of people who still believe the BBC is reliable.
ReplyDeletestopped watching and listening to the useless retards years ago. The labor line and global warming bollox was just too much.
ReplyDeleteHaven't paid a TV licence for two years since I threw the TV out of the upstairs window, the radio went after it last week.
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