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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 David Vance # BUDGET DAY OPEN THREAD Well, the Chancellor in his Downing Street bunker will be doing some serious spinning today as he seeks to steal more of our cash and we can naturally rely on the BBC to cast things in the most favourable light possible for Draling SO I thought I would open up this thread for your comments as we go through the day. Vince Cable was the first man on the BBC this morning to offer his words of, erm, wisdom - not sure if the BBC has heard of the Conservatives but the rest of the day will tell the tale. Speak later! Comments: 55 (unread) - Biased BBC Home David Vance # THE FASCINATION WITH TERRORISM. Has there ever been a terrorist group that the BBC did not instinctively like? (Well, apart from Irgun?) I listened to this item on Today just before 8am concerning the looming defeat of the so-called Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka and the entire tone was one of showing brotherly solidarity with these vicious terrorists.  Both the commentators that the BBC used took the view that the Tigers could never be truly defeated and that one could not trust what the Sri Lankan government said. I wonder WHY the BBC finds it so hard to dislike those who carry out terrorism? Maybe a terrorist is just a friend you have yet to meet? Comments: 21 (unread) - Biased BBC Home David Vance # NICE MAN JACK? The  death of Jack Jones, the Trades Union baron from the 1970's who helped bring Britain to it's knees, has produced grand eulogies on the BBC this morning, with the game being how often the word "socialism" could be repeated in one sentence. Determined not to let the moment pass, BBC stalwart St Tony Benn was invited on to talk about his good fried Jack and instantly turned it into an attack on Margaret Thatcher, without a hint of BBC disapproval. The Free Market was also castigated by Benn asthe cause of the recession, without any contrary opinion. One can only assume Jack Jones would have been proud. As a post-script, Thought for the Day followed. This time, the Rev Jones launched an onslaught on our "consumer" society. All in all, a wonderful little 10 minutes for socialism - brought to you by our State Broadcaster. Comments: 25 (unread) - Biased BBC Home Laban # Stephanie Flanders this morning ... "Today Alistair Darling will make plain the full depth of the recession" Er ... shouldn't that have read "the full depth of government economic incompetence" ? Comments: 8 (unread) - Biased BBC Home Tuesday, April 21, 2009 David Vance #