Bye bye BBC

[Bentley Bullet]

Eh Pan's People. There's one special one - beautiful Babs. Dunno what her name is.


© Norman Stanley Fletcher

[scawsby steve]

BBC is Marxist BLM anti British crap. Brexit Bashing Corporation. The TV licence has to go NOW!

Disgraceful, woke gammon snowflake cancel culture!!

This is the organisation that helped win the war. Lord Reith, Pan's People, Rovers as match commentory on Radio Sheffield.

You with your Londoncentric views and football team, continually knocking our historic culture, disgraceful...

Nothing wrong with Pan's People mate. F*cking gorgeous the lot of them.

The only thing missing was Ann Widdicombe.

I bet I know more of them than you do.

Get us a coffee first match back at the KM and I will slip you a phone number...

There's definitely 2 of their phone numbers you won't be giving me; Louise Clark and Flick Colby, as they're both now in that great dance studio in the sky.

However, if Babs Lord, Cherrie Gillespie, Ruth Pearson, and Dee Dee Wilde are still available, then so am I.

That is, if they don't mind gargoyles.

[Filo]

BBC is Marxist BLM anti British crap. Brexit Bashing Corporation. The TV licence has to go NOW!

Disgraceful, woke gammon snowflake cancel culture!!

This is the organisation that helped win the war. Lord Reith, Pan's People, Rovers as match commentory on Radio Sheffield.

You with your Londoncentric views and football team, continually knocking our historic culture, disgraceful...

Nothing wrong with Pan's People mate. F*cking gorgeous the lot of them.

The only thing missing was Ann Widdicombe.

I bet I know more of them than you do.

Get us a coffee first match back at the KM and I will slip you a phone number...

There's definitely 2 of their phone numbers you won't be giving me; Louise Clark and Flick Colby, as they're both now in that great dance studio in the sky.

However, if Babs Lord, Cherrie Gillespie, Ruth Pearson, and Dee Dee Wilde are still available, then so am I.

That is, if they don't mind gargoyles.

Ruth Pearson is no more

[scawsby steve]

BBC is Marxist BLM anti British crap. Brexit Bashing Corporation. The TV licence has to go NOW!

Disgraceful, woke gammon snowflake cancel culture!!

This is the organisation that helped win the war. Lord Reith, Pan's People, Rovers as match commentory on Radio Sheffield.

You with your Londoncentric views and football team, continually knocking our historic culture, disgraceful...

Nothing wrong with Pan's People mate. F*cking gorgeous the lot of them.

The only thing missing was Ann Widdicombe.

I bet I know more of them than you do.

Get us a coffee first match back at the KM and I will slip you a phone number...

There's definitely 2 of their phone numbers you won't be giving me; Louise Clark and Flick Colby, as they're both now in that great dance studio in the sky.

However, if Babs Lord, Cherrie Gillespie, Ruth Pearson, and Dee Dee Wilde are still available, then so am I.

That is, if they don't mind gargoyles.

Ruth Pearson is no more

Wow, I didn't know that.

Only 3 left. That's sad.

[Bentley Bullet]

Look on the bright side, SS. You'd only get turned down by three of them now!

[scawsby steve]

Look on the bright side, SS. You'd only get turned down by three of them now!

I'm used to it BB.

F*cking Ann Widdicombe turned me down last week.

[Bentley Bullet]

You're not missing much.


Oops!

[wilts rover]

BBC is Marxist BLM anti British crap. Brexit Bashing Corporation. The TV licence has to go NOW!

Disgraceful, woke gammon snowflake cancel culture!!

This is the organisation that helped win the war. Lord Reith, Pan's People, Rovers as match commentory on Radio Sheffield.

You with your Londoncentric views and football team, continually knocking our historic culture, disgraceful...

Nothing wrong with Pan's People mate. F*cking gorgeous the lot of them.

The only thing missing was Ann Widdicombe.

I bet I know more of them than you do.

Get us a coffee first match back at the KM and I will slip you a phone number...

There's definitely 2 of their phone numbers you won't be giving me; Louise Clark and Flick Colby, as they're both now in that great dance studio in the sky.

However, if Babs Lord, Cherrie Gillespie, Ruth Pearson, and Dee Dee Wilde are still available, then so am I.

That is, if they don't mind gargoyles.

She nearly ran me down in her car not so long ago (then again probably about 5 years which at our ages isn't so long ago). I was out on the lanes near her house when she came out of the lane without looking (or maybe she did look, saw it was me and thought I can get him!).

Stopped, apologised and then went off on her way. It was only later I thought, I should have got here to sign the saddle. Then I could say I have sat on one of Pan's People.

One of the one's above and you will be delighted to know that she still dances and takes dance classes if you are feeling 'fit'.

[scawsby steve]

You're not missing much.


Oops!

That's twice you've usurped me with a woman.

The same bloody thing happened with Bella Emberg.

[Bentley Bullet]

That wasn't Bella Emberg, it was her sister Kelly.....

[wilts rover]

I see it as another massive own goal by Cummings/Johnson btw. And just another tabloid plant they have not properly thought through.

Either he wont appoint them - in which case his right-wing supporters will go mad.

Or he will appoint them and Moore will do what he always said he would do and slash funding and programme content. Bye/bye live sport (on tv & radio) local radio & tv full stop (lot of nice buildings there to flog off) expensive drama, world service, etc.

A new DG isn't just for Question Time - they are for the whole of the BBC.

What a suprise. Bloke Cummings wanted to break up the BBC and reduce the amount of funding it gets from the public - turns down the job because government won't TREBLE his wage! The BBC should spend less money - but more of it on me!

Yet another policy announcement that wasn't. Do your discussions first then annouce it. Then at least you will look just hypocritcal without being so incompetent with it.

https://twitter.com/henrymance/status/1312660221735600130

[BillyStubbsTears]

You know how the BBC is this nest of Lefty infiltrators, twisting the news to their own ends?

Funny how well hidden they are isn't it?

After you have Kuenssberg acting as a spokesperson for Cummings, and Andrew Neil, the top interviewer who is chairman of the Spectator, and Nick Robinson, the key Radio news anchor who used to be head of the Cambridge Conservative students, here's another one. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54468229

Allegra Stratton was the Economics Editor at the BBC who used to tell us every night on the news how vital it was that the Govt cut the deficit, she went off to be Rishi Sunak's adviser and will now be the spokesperson for No 10.

I wonder where these lefties are? They must be somewhere cos folk keep banging on about them but I'm buggered if I can find them.

[wilts rover]

Wife of the editor of the Spectator. Where of course Cummings' wife is a senior editor. Must have been a tough interview that one.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Just caught up with the Andrew Marr show today. BBC's flagship news comment programme.

They set the scene every week by going through the papers with a single media expert from a major media outlet. Naturally, the media expert brings their own political take and frequently chooses stories to highlight which cast one political side in a better light than the other.

In the past 4 weeks, they've had a journalist from the (very right wing) Yorkshire Post, a journalist from the (very right wing) Telegraph, the Editor of the (very right wing) Spectator and today the Assistant Editor of the Spectator.

Somebody remind me about the facts that clearly show the BBC has a left wing bias?

[tommy toes]

Andrew Marr's gone at the game. The last straw for me was last week when he pathetically tried to question the odious Jenrick about him and his mate lobbying each other to get tens of millions for their constituencies when both areas were way down the list for the money.
He let Jenrick ramble on avoiding the issue and then thanked him very much.
F***ing useless.

[BobG]

Did you spot it's going to be bye bye Channel 4 too?

Channel 4 news has been the only news broadcast worth watching for a while now. Clearly, the government do not like a news organisation that asks questions, so this spineless government have banned Channel 4 from various events and refuse to put up anyone to appear or even speak. As an aside, that's hardly Mrs Thatcher is it?

But the news last week that the future of Channel 4 is under review and 'all options are on the table' says it all. it will become yet another poodle - owned, and milked, by some right wing chum.

BobG

[EasyforDennis]

Andrew Marr's gone at the game. The last straw for me was last week when he pathetically tried to question the odious Jenrick about him and his mate lobbying each other to get tens of millions for their constituencies when both areas were way down the list for the money.
He let Jenrick ramble on avoiding the issue and then thanked him very much.
F***ing useless.

Andrew Marr is the cabinets pet poodle. He is well past his sell by date.

[BillyStubbsTears]

There's a new generation of politicians around who have realised  the fundamental flaw at the heart of the mainstream media. The media has been predicated for decades on the principle that the politicians all play the game more or less fairly. They don't outright lie. And the interviewer's job is to question them in a way which gets the facts out in the open, for people to digest and make their minds up.

But times have changed. People increasingly don't want to engage with facts that challenge their beliefs and preferences. And online, they can find whatever they want to support their preferred assumption of reality.

You'd hope we'd have political leaders who would fight against that and objective truth above sectarian advantage. But increasingly we don't. You see it in spades with Trump who just invents the reality his supporters want and calls objective truth "fake". And we have our own Poundland version here as PM of course. No PM from 20 years ago could have survived illegally closing Parliament, lying to the Queen, lying over the NI customs arrangements, taking 3 weeks off to sort out his divorce while a deadly virus took hold, smirkingly saying in TV that he was shaking hands on a COVID ward while his scientific advisers were pleading with us not to. Even that batshit interview where he made up his hobby of painting wine boxes to look like model buses would have finished a career in previous generations.

People like Trump and Johnson have realised that there are enough people in the electorate who will support them irrespective of how often and blatantly they lie. So they lie. And the MSM doesn't know how to deal with it. They are reared on the concept of everyone playing the game fairly, and their role being a referee between two sides essentially playing the same game. They aren't capable of doing what really needs to be done, which is to unequivocally call out the lies and the liars.

There are some exceptions such as C4. And the Govt now has them in its sights. And not enough people care enough to do anything about it. And that is precisely how democracies crumble away.

[SydneyRover]

Cannot argue with any of that bst and it is why they are trying their best to dismantle media that they can't fully control as Bob G and many others have said.

There is another attempt to have a commission of inquiry into Murdoch and his control of the media here which is unlikely to get up.

The concentration of the media in Australia is out of control.

''How much influence does the Murdoch media have in Australia?
Kevin Rudd is convinced News Corp has too much influence. How much of the media does News Corp own in Australia? How much sway does it really have?''

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/how-much-influence-does-the-murdoch-media-have-in-australia-20201015-p565dk.html

[BillyStubbsTears]

There are plenty of people in here who have expressed their disgust at people politicising the COVID crisis.

I assume they'll be apoplectic at Brandon Lewis, who spent much of his interview with Marr today complaining about "socialist Labour policies" on lockdown.

In your own time chaps.

[wilts rover]

There are plenty of people in here who have expressed their disgust at people politicising the COVID crisis.

I assume they'll be apoplectic at Brandon Lewis, who spent much of his interview with Marr today complaining about "socialist Labour policies" on lockdown.

In your own time chaps.

Doh, now you have spoilt it for me, I was going to watch the repeat later.

He started off his interview with Sophy Ridge by brazenly repeating the lie that the government have tested 28 million people - which she didn't pick him up on.

We know that isn't true, the government have not published how many people have been tested for months. They have completed 28 million tests - stats which included both the postal kits being sent out and then returned, tests that produced inconclusive results and people who had to have two or more swabs.

We have no idea how many PEOPLE have been tested. I am sure the government do and I am also sure there is a good reason they are not releasing it. What we do know is that it is a long way short of 28 million. And if I know this - why doesn't Sophy Ridge?

[drfchound]

Genuine question wilts.
If no one knows how many tests the government has done how do you know that 28 million isn’t true.

[wilts rover]

Because they did use to publish both figures hound - and there was a significant difference due to the postal tests being counted twice and people requiring more than one swab. This is all in the public domain and we discussed it in the coronavirus thread in the summer. The number given by the government is the number of tests carried out - not the number of people tested:

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-how-did-the-uks-covid-19-testing-data-become-such-a-mess-11999797

https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/22/thousands-coronavirus-tests-are-double-counted-officials-admit-12742017/

[drfchound]

But you said that the government hasn’t published test figures for months and that no one knows how many tests have been done.
So you can’t know for sure that the 28 million figure isn’t true.

[wilts rover]

But you said that the government hasn’t published test figures for months and that no one knows how many tests have been done.
So you can’t know for sure that the 28 million figure isn’t true.

I suggest you read the links I have posted that explains why the number of people tested is vastly different to the number of tests done.

I did not say the government has not published tests figures for months. Why do you say I did?

[drfchound]

But you said that the government hasn’t published test figures for months and that no one knows how many tests have been done.
So you can’t know for sure that the 28 million figure isn’t true.

I suggest you read the links I have posted that explains why the number of people tested is vastly different to the number of tests done.

I did not say the government has not published tests figures for months. Why do you say I did?

Reply number 80, third paragraph.

[wilts rover]

But you said that the government hasn’t published test figures for months and that no one knows how many tests have been done.
So you can’t know for sure that the 28 million figure isn’t true.

I suggest you read the links I have posted that explains why the number of people tested is vastly different to the number of tests done.

I did not say the government has not published tests figures for months. Why do you say I did?

Reply number 80, third paragraph.

When did the government last publish the figures for how many PEOPLE had been tested?

I have not said the government has not published test figures. Why do you say I did?

[drfchound]

Because you said
“The government have not published how many people have been tested for months”.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Christ, this is hard watching.

[drfchound]

Christ, this is hard watching.

Don’t read it then.

A bit like when you keep harping on about stuff.