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GoOnThen
17 Jan 17 18:11
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Woeful performance from the BBC. They're reporting like it's a day of national mourning.
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Report Torquemada • January 17, 2017 6:16 PM GMT
The BBC lost any semblance of impartiality years ago, they're now openly far left wing. A joke of a channel.
Report Ibrahima Sonko • January 17, 2017 6:20 PM GMT
I dont think anyone takes the BBC seriously anymore.
Report alun2005 • January 17, 2017 6:28 PM GMT
Sadly the licence payer has to.
Report ZenMaster • January 17, 2017 6:30 PM GMT
The BBC must be seething that Farageism has gone mainstream.
Report anxious • January 17, 2017 6:37 PM GMT
Thers always the Murdoch filth for you intellectuals Laugh
Report saddo • January 17, 2017 6:38 PM GMT
Run by wets, aimed at wets, the majority don't matter at all.
Report A_T • January 17, 2017 6:38 PM GMT
don't watch it then - stick to your fake news muppets
Report saddo • January 17, 2017 6:40 PM GMT
I don't watch it much, but I pay for the right to be represented as much as any remoaner.
Report anxious • January 17, 2017 6:40 PM GMT
Farageism  dear me  what nonsense Laugh
Report anxious • January 17, 2017 6:41 PM GMT
More like Del boy and Donny the clowns across the Atlantic Crazy
Report GoOnThen • January 17, 2017 6:42 PM GMT
I can't see Farronism or Sturgeonomics catching on!
Report donny osmond • January 17, 2017 6:42 PM GMT
i saw mays speech on bbc

they didnt interupt her, and had northern ireland minister on to
spin it, and allowed her to interupt labout bloke whenever she wanted

biased, lol
Report donny osmond • January 17, 2017 6:43 PM GMT
labour bloke
Report fool proof • January 17, 2017 6:45 PM GMT
Sturgeonomics involves Scots voting to start using to EURO,Quite scary
Report donny osmond • January 17, 2017 6:47 PM GMT
mayonaise setting in ?
Report SPOT THE DOG • January 17, 2017 7:04 PM GMT
When i turn the news on, i want to hear the news (facts)
Not laura kuenssbergs take on the news, of how she would like it.
Report Just Checking • January 17, 2017 7:05 PM GMT
C4 News must be in a quandry as to how much time to devote to attacking Brexit and May and how much time to devote to the nightly attacks on trump.

They've got to strike SOME sort of 'balance'!
Report donny osmond • January 17, 2017 7:06 PM GMT
ah yes pundits, she is the alan green of news punditry
Report ZenMaster • January 17, 2017 7:11 PM GMT
Great to see the centre ground champions (the Tories) adopting Farageism.

The BBC can't land a punch anymore or will the demonise TMay like they did Sir Nigel?
Report not allowed to bet • January 17, 2017 7:13 PM GMT
ch 4 is hilarious
I really couldn't resist watching it.
You think the BBC is biased towards the EU.- Try ch4!!!
Report not allowed to bet • January 17, 2017 7:14 PM GMT
Latvian commisioner?  Wee krankie and another eu person I cannot remember. All featured.  Then the interviewer went through a list of eu spokesperson's quotes.All in the negative.
Report GoOnThen • January 17, 2017 7:19 PM GMT
Ch 4 news.. Thornberry hilariously inept!Laugh
Report not allowed to bet • January 17, 2017 7:22 PM GMT
I wonder how ch4 gets away with it.
Report anxious • January 17, 2017 7:24 PM GMT
Laura kussenberg is defo biased for the Spivs
Report anxious • January 17, 2017 7:25 PM GMT
What does the Spivs and the little Englanders want a Nuremberg rally
Report not allowed to bet • January 17, 2017 7:28 PM GMT
Someone on here said they would bash brexit, but how long for, then switch to bashing trumpton.  It took 25 minutes!!!  So so predictable.  All negative again.
Report not allowed to bet • January 17, 2017 7:31 PM GMT
The military/political military/military manufacturers  are really worried trumpton may shake hands with putin!!  It could well hurt manufaturing shares. It could well mess up a lot of vested interests and careers.
To intefere with the military/industrial complex could be dangerous!!!!
Report not allowed to bet • January 17, 2017 7:35 PM GMT
Whoops!!! Snow interrupting Kissinger and then doesn't get the response he was expecting. 
Snow said 'you have been kind to trump'   
Kissinger says to give trump a chance!!!  Snow with his anti brexit agenda as well.
Does this chap never give up!!??
Report mad mad moon • January 17, 2017 7:38 PM GMT
Snows interview with Kissinger was so obviously biased. How does he get away with it?
He kept asking leading questions, and looked most put out when Kissinger didn't slag off Trump.
Report Just Checking • January 17, 2017 7:46 PM GMT
Prior to the election itself, one of them, I think it was that obnoxious guru murphy, was interviewing a black guy in the US.
The black guy, and I'm sure they weren't expecting this, turned out to be pro trump LaughLaugh.
So the interviewer talked over him and then just cut the interview short!!
Report Ibrahima Sonko • January 17, 2017 8:01 PM GMT
Love the way C4 went back to a poll telling us that trump was the least liked president, they will never learn from the polls that have been wrong for years.....
Report Facts • January 17, 2017 8:07 PM GMT
Don't think Trump is popular. Do you ?
Report Alias • January 17, 2017 8:27 PM GMT
Fuxake, the BBC is propaganda arm of the tories. Farage never off the screen. QT stuffed with right wing nutters pandered to by Dimbleby.
Disgrace of a publicly funded broadcaster.
Report casemoney • January 17, 2017 8:29 PM GMT
LaughLaughLaugh Right Wing LaughLaughLaugh
Report casemoney • January 17, 2017 8:31 PM GMT
I would Imagine Trump is Quite Popular and Unpopular, Tbh
Report Platini • January 17, 2017 8:31 PM GMT
more chicken wing than right wing.Laugh
Report STUDYFORM • January 17, 2017 8:32 PM GMT
Amazing!!!!

I put a post on the thread and within minutes it's removed!
Report casemoney • January 17, 2017 8:33 PM GMT
Pmsl Plat Laugh
Report ZenMaster • January 17, 2017 8:35 PM GMT
Study

You negatively advertised the forum?
Report not allowed to bet • January 17, 2017 8:38 PM GMT
For newspeak control and censorship try the guardian comment pages
mention the M word or the I word you can be in trouble. 
This from a 'liberal' newspaper
Report bongo • January 17, 2017 8:56 PM GMT
The BBC is left-wing to the core. Left-wing means that government should be the default preferred provider of services and goods. And the BBC is a government broadcaster. Every employee , every decision is taken by someone who was appointed by someone who was appointed by a government Minister. Not one single person of influence who works for the BBC has EVER been appointed by the people who pay for the fecking show which is the licence fee payer.

The only thing keeping the BBC straight is competition. At least we live in a society where that is now allowed, but it was a heck of a fight. In the days of pirate radio, a few  mariners ended up nearly dying in the seas around Britain fighting for the right of the British people to have an alternative to government approved entertainment information and education. And lefties should not forget this.
Report STUDYFORM • January 17, 2017 9:31 PM GMT
Andrew Neil, Tory Activist and ex-Sunday times journalist.
Nick Robinson, head of Oxford University Conservative association, and chief BBC political Editor.
Laura Keunssberg, Granddaughter of Lord Robertson, also great niece of governor of Nigeria.
And so many more.
The BBC is happy to allow the Left-wing bias thing to be popular belief because it helps individual causes.
Paxman, Marr, et al all freely open about their support for Conservatives. All the way back to the BBC founder, the Conservative peer, Lord John Reith.

In fact it has been proven beyond doubt that Corbyn has had more negative publicity than ANY politician in television history. So any (and they are rare) Labour supporters are not 'left-wing' as Labour hasn't been a left wing organisation since 1995. Who are these left-wingers who run the BBC. No-once can find any of them.

Your definition of left wing is somewhat flawed, bongo.

It is also proven, beyond doubt that 90% of the written media and privately owned radio and TV is 'right wing'.

By ANY definition. even yours.

The moment any journalist or commentator says a single thing not part of the (let's call it) "New facist" doctrine, as so readily expounded ad nauseum on this forum.
Report STUDYFORM • January 17, 2017 9:32 PM GMT
it gets called 'leftie'
Report bongo • January 17, 2017 10:07 PM GMT
Can you name any of that lot who were appointed by someone who was appointed by the licence fee payer?

Btw, it is possible to be a Conservative and a leftie - read a conservative manifesto and see how much they believe government should control peoples lives. Believing government and not the licence fee payer should select the Board and set the licence fee is pretty fundamental to lefty-ism. Believing you should have the option to sit down for breakfast with government-approved television without any say in it is about as hard core lefty-ism as it gets. And get taken to the Magistrates' Court and fined if you disagree. Authoritarian or what?

Let the licence fee payer elect the Board, and let the Board set the fee and the scope of the beast without government interference. Power to the PEOPLE.
Report STUDYFORM • January 17, 2017 10:25 PM GMT
The fact that they were all appointed speaks loudly enough about those who did the appointing.
I would be all for the people electing the boards for every quango, commission, in fact everything. I do believe most people would not, however, have much of a clue who or what they were voting for, just go for those who told the most convincing lies!
I'm a little confused still about you definition of Left and Right. I think authoritarian diktat without question would be more aligned to Pol Pot or Kim Yong Un, or other despots - there are dozens of examples of life controlling states throughout history and all over the world - but they could usually be described as leftist.

It may well be possible to be a Conservative and a leftie, just as it's possible to be a butcher and vegetarian. It's not, I would suggest, all that common.
Report anxious • January 17, 2017 10:43 PM GMT
It is laughable when you hear the spivs scream about the BBC being a subversive left wing organization, the bullying done by Tebbit , Thatcher and Murdoch and the rest of the filthy gang of tory hardmen on the bbc has actually nearly destroyed it completely , as usual the tories and their fanboys protest to much.
Report Platini • January 18, 2017 1:35 PM GMT
left wing and right wing don't mean anything these days. That doesn't describe what the BBC are or do.
You could say they are liberals but I think that's insulting to many liberals who don't share their warped views on certain topics.

I'd say I have fairly liberal views, but I draw the line at surrendering common sense in favour of political correctness.
Report saddo • January 18, 2017 1:39 PM GMT
I think STUDYFORM is correct, we need a collective term for the feeble minded pc brigade.
Report Ibrahima Sonko • January 18, 2017 5:07 PM GMT
Libtards !
Report Breedingmad • January 18, 2017 5:20 PM GMT
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-davos-meeting-hsbc-idUKKBN1520SW
Report doridoru • January 18, 2017 5:25 PM GMT
and on queue, possibly the biggest libtard arrives with YET ANOTHER LINK no one looks at!
Report Breedingmad • January 18, 2017 5:29 PM GMT
Only 1000 jobs moving to Paris.
Report not allowed to bet • January 18, 2017 5:59 PM GMT
Have they seen what's on the streets of Paris lately?  Even the Chinese are shunning the place.
Report donny osmond • January 18, 2017 6:00 PM GMT
what makes them leave mobo ?
Report doridoru • January 18, 2017 6:15 PM GMT
They won't leave it's just more FALSE NEWS, and France??! lol must be crazy
Report not allowed to bet • January 18, 2017 6:24 PM GMT
London's streets are paved with gold.  Paris streets are paved with .............
Report rogerthebutler • January 18, 2017 6:31 PM GMT
dead Charlie Hebdo journalists and concert-goers?
Report Breedingmad • January 18, 2017 6:31 PM GMT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiWomXklfv8
Report rogerthebutler • January 18, 2017 6:33 PM GMT
What happens if Le Pen wins next years French presidency vote and in the meantime Britain has, reduced its corporation tax to attract / retain international companies, following the economic threat to us posed by a bullying EU Brexit negotiation stance?

They're going to look like c-units
Report not allowed to bet • January 18, 2017 6:46 PM GMT
There appear to be problems.

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2016/html/sp161130_1.en.html
Report STUDYFORM • January 18, 2017 7:48 PM GMT
FFS!!!!!
2 of my posts deleted.....

Who is doing it and why.

I'm finished with this poxy forum.
Report not allowed to bet • January 18, 2017 7:49 PM GMT
you want to try the guardian for censorship
Report Breedingmad • January 18, 2017 8:15 PM GMT
Setting out her Brexit agenda, Theresa May has reassured the countries of mainland Europe that Britain harbours no ill-will following various events in 1415, 1588, 1815, 1918, 1945 and 2016, and that in the interests of peace, reconciliation and good trading relations, she is inviting them to apply for membership of the British Commonwealth, provided that Papua New Guinea, Zambia and Tonga raise no objections.

‘The wind of change is blowing through the continent, whether they like it or not,’ she stated. ‘Besides, everyone in Europe already speaks English all the time anyway. Obviously, they will have to get used to doing what they are told by some other country, but they should be used to doing that as part of the now doomed European Union. I’m offering you all the golden chance of a united Europe under British rule.’
Report ZenMaster • January 18, 2017 8:20 PM GMT
More copy and paste by Bleeding Mad.

He seems to have lost his own voice.
Report Breedingmad • January 18, 2017 8:22 PM GMT
I have a sore throat.
Report saddo • January 18, 2017 8:27 PM GMT
And a pea for a brain.
Report ZenMaster • January 18, 2017 8:29 PM GMT
Just make sure you highlight all your copy and paste jobs BM, you don't want to fool people it's all your own work now do we.
Report bongo • January 18, 2017 8:31 PM GMT
Other examples that leftyism and Conservatism can coexist are arts council grants for opera and farm subsidies to grow sugar beet ( and then taxing the saps that drink pop ). Leftyism is about government deciding what is best for you because leaving people to make their own minds up about whether the latest Donna Poncerama opera is good enough to be worth their own money would mean a collapse in societal values.
In the case of the above Conservatives benefit from the hand outs of the lefty philosophy. In the case of public lending libraries for example Labour voters benefit.
Report Just Checking • January 18, 2017 10:10 PM GMT
THe BBC guy in davos is grinning like the cat that got the cream as he talks about hsbc moving some jobs.

He can barely conceal his glee that he's got bad news to gloat over!
Report Shrewd_dude • January 18, 2017 11:35 PM GMT
left wing and right wing don't mean anything these days. That doesn't describe what the BBC are or do.
You could say they are liberals but I think that's insulting to many liberals who don't share their warped views on certain topics.

I'd say I have fairly liberal views, but I draw the line at surrendering common sense in favour of political correctness.


Very true. I've always considered myself as slightly left wing but I haven't the foggiest clue how advocating unlimited immigration is classed as left wing. It may be progressive and liberal but no idea how unlimited immigration is anywhere near any left wing objectives. I voted for Brexit and would have preferred Trump than Clinton. The only difference I see between the Remianers/ Brexiters and Trump/Clinton fans is one side is realistic and says what they think and the other lives in a fantasy world and says what people think they should think.
Report Ibrahima Sonko • January 21, 2017 9:26 PM GMT
This is hilarious.

.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38707997
Report Breedingmad • January 21, 2017 9:55 PM GMT
Don't you like Germans?
Report GoOnThen • January 21, 2017 10:16 PM GMT
They're a strange breed.
Report Ibrahima Sonko • January 21, 2017 10:25 PM GMT
Even by your standards that is a stupid question BM.

Not sure how i could answer it, i like everyone until they prove me wrong.

I find Henning Wehn hilarious.
Report not allowed to bet • January 21, 2017 10:44 PM GMT
Shrewd.

VOTES to keep the right out. It is that simple. The more vibrating culturalists, the more votes against the tory lot.  At least, that is the philosophy.
Report GoOnThen • January 22, 2017 9:37 AM GMT
McDonnell on Marr and Abbot on Sunday Politics today. Should help boost the UKip vote in Stoke.
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