CHURCHILL - LIABILITY OR ASSET?

CHURCHILL - LIABILITY OR ASSET?

>> THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 03, 2009

What can I say? On the day that 70 years ago saw this country go to war against Nazi Germany, the BBC chooses to run a discussion as to whether Sir Winston Churchill was "more of a liability than an asset". Today @ 8.190am. I suppose that depends on which side you take - ours or the Germans?

DEATH PANELS IN THE UK

It's funny but when Sarah Palin brought up the great dangers posed by Obamacare, using the term "death panels" to vividly describe possible outcomes, the BBC were quick to get stuck into her. Then, oddly enough, Today covers an item @ 7.45am (no link at time of writing this) in which a group of senior doctors who care for the terminally ill have written a letter in the Telegraph warning that some patients are dying prematurely because of new NHS guidelines in England. It seems to me that our own socialised healthcare system is all the warning the US needs, as Dan Hannan properly observed.

NHS MANIA

It was of course inevitable that Brown would reject the very sensible recommendations made to cut the NHS workforce by 10% over the next five years. (Personally, I would favour much deeper workforce cuts in this monolith but at least this would be a good start) His response is entirely political and not based in economic reality rather like his entire period when Chancellor. Earlier today the BBC dragged on NuLabour cohort Sir Gerry "We love the NHS"Robinson to discuss the issue and I thought he was fair enough agreeing that cuts could be made at both administration and clinical level, presumably not the result the BBC were looking for! So just after 8am, we had a discussionbetween Niall Dickson, chief executive of the health analysis charity the King's Fund and Carl Emmerson, Deputy Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Lots of BBC digs at Daniel Hannan during this item, by the way. And, of course, wealth distribution gets a favourable reaction.

What did you think of it?

COLOURBLIND

>> WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2009

Just wanted to bring this comment to your attention from the Open Thread by George R. I did catch it earlier on the BBC and he is quite accurate in his assessment! The BBC just cannot accept that South Africa under the ANC is profoundly racist....

More BBC political bias on 'racism' as BBC supports South Africa's ANC in its criticism of Canada in accepting a WHITE refugee from South Africa: BBC report: ('Africa' page, not Canada page, which doesn't exist, of course)- "Canada SA refugee ruling 'racist'" [Extract]: "South Africa's ruling African National Congress has condemned as 'racist' a decision by Canada to grant a white South African man refugee status. "Brandon Huntley, 31, had told officials in Canada he could not return to South Africa after seven different attacks. "They included three stabbings, which he said he had suffered as a result of his skin colour. "His lawyer said he was granted asylum because the South African authorities were unable to protect their citizens." The BBC does not recognise nor condemn 'racist' attacks on whites, apparently. Some reading for BBC on conditions in black South Africa: R.W. Johnson, "South Africa's Brave New World" (Alen Lane.)

AND AFTER JUSTIN, MARK

I have been reading some of Mark Mardell's posts on his blog. Mark, as you know, has taken over from Obama's number one fan Justin Webb, and seems determined to continue as a cheer leader for The One,whilst ensuring he is as faithful as possible to McDoom. This latest post states US State accepts that Brown "did not make the decision" to release Megrahi. Good for Gordon. Then there is one entitled "Conservatives against Obama's war" - how dare they! Prior to that it is "Coming back to work will be tough for Obama." How awful for him. I'm sure Mark's experience as a cipher for pro EU propaganda will prove helpful as he eases himself into the departed Justin's shoes.

LORRY DEATH PAIR

I don't know about you but I have to say that I read the item title "Cameras capture Lorry Death Pair" with some disgust. This story relates to images captured on CCTV of little 9 year old Stacey Lawrence and her suspected murderer, Darren Walker, her mother's boyfriend. Walker is suspected of sexually assaulting this child before strangling her. He later hanged himself. My point is that there is a chilling insensitivity in this heading - they were not a pair - and whilst it is not biased per se it does show stupendous crassness.

THE DECENT THING...

"O what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive" - Sir Walter Scott's words (Good inspiration for a blog btw!) come to mind again reading McDoom's latest evasions over the shabby and degenerate deal to off-load Megrahi for Libyan Oil. Have you read this BBC treatment of Brown's desperate efforts to get his DNA off the Libyan appeasement? I did enjoy the little side quote from the HYS section, highlighted to get our attention. "It's a sad state of affairs when on the one occasion a politician does a decent thing, he is forced to prove that he has no ulterior motive." Yes, very sad, though not quite as sad as losing family at 30,000 ft when a plane explodes.

The BBC is trying to be sympathetic to McDoom and the gang by placing all the responsibility on that "Scottish Government" and it's world-famous "Scottish justice" which Nelson Mandela himself has endorsed. Brown just keeps digging himself into a deeper hole on this one and try as it might the BBC needs to realise that Brown and Salmond come out of this looking exactly what they are - two faced double dealing shysters.