THE GENTLE TOUCH?

THE GENTLE TOUCH?

>> WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2011

Did you see the BBC running with the faux outrage from the usual suspects that it could take..gasp..almost another HUNDRED YEARS before UK women managers are paid the same as their male colleagues? Here's the link. I heard a comrade on from the Trade Unions on saying that at least they were fighting the good fight for equality in the Public Sector but those evil males may still be earning more! I was intrigued to read that the author of the report is Lord Davies of Abersoch. He was elevated to the Lords byGordon Brown and worked alongside Peter Mandelson. So, no hint of bias there. Leftists love to whinge about the imagined pay discrimination in the work place, suggesting that employers are intrinsically sexist and discriminatory. We're not. But we base salary on experience, continuity of employment and competence. That. of course, flies in the face of the utopian logic employed by Lord Davies and willingly lapped up by the BBC.

OPEN THREAD...

Mid Week, end of month, and time for a new Open Thread. The site's been buzzing, let's keep it that way, the floor is yours...

GYPSIES, TRAMPS AND BBC PRODUCERS....

So, let me see if I get this right. When some Irish Gypsies decide to go ahead and build despite planning permission, and the Council moves to evict them, the question we must ponder is; "Does evicting people from the largest traveller site in England amount to ethnic cleansing?" Thus ponders Jeremy Vine. And we should also note that BBC sympathy for the "Travelling Community" in this situation is shared by luminaries such as Vanessa Redgrave and what the BBC terms "activists from Sweden, Italy, Belgium and France." There was an interview with Basildon Councillor Tony Ball (link is broken for some reason) on the BBC this morning and one cannot help but feel that the BBC entirely sympathises with those Irish Gypsies concerned and has contempt for the Council and the ratepayers of Basildon. I wonder why?

CBI ATTACK

The BBC has been running with Saint Vince's latest diatribe against the evil banks. Don't get me wrong, as a businessman I have plenty of dealings with banks and they are certainly no angels but to suggest, as the BBC repeatedly does, that they are the source of all evils is malicious and playing into the Labour copybook. Anyway, the BBC invited CBI Director-General John Cridland onto the Today programme today and Evan Davies decided that rather discuss the issue of banking regulation he would instead assault the integrity of the CBI itself, suggesting on several occasions that it was a/ A mouthpiece for the banks and b/Divided against itself. I thought Mr Cridland did quite well in response but it was the sheer inappropriateness of the line of questioning that appalled me. Give it a listen here and you will know what I mean. The BBC still rejects the complicity of the Labour Government in bringing about the financial meltdown and instead chooses to assault the banks and anyone who dares defend them.

B-B-B-BUILD?

The BBC has been hyping up the lack of houses in England. But what could possibly be the cause? A Biased BBC observer notes; "Personally I thought it might be connected to the couple of million immigrants that have flooded into this country....cleary not as the BBC didn't think it relevant to mention immigration as a factor at all. What do I know though....I should have listened when the campaigners told us that the problem wasn't the number of immigrants demanding to be housed but that we weren't building enough houses. The number of immigrants is not a problem. The problem with all these foreign prisoners filling our prisons to overflowing is not the number of prisoners but that we don't build enough prisons. The number of criminals and crimes is not a problem. If you want to be blunt you should ask just how many murders, rapes, muggings, robberies, frauds and thefts have been committed by immigrants allowed into this country by Labour's open door policy. When a Labour politician or a BBC home affairs correspondent tells you that immigration is beneficial to us think about that...think about the NHS, schools, housing and the welfare system and ask if they are sustainable under the current immigration policies when nearly 500,000 foreigners turn up wanting to be housed, fed and their kids schooled and treated by the NHS annually. Clearly not. Mass immigration means the end of the welfare state. Labour likes to claim it created the welfare state.....it is Labour that has killed it."

PROTECTING SINGLE MUMS...

A Biased BBC obeserver notes the State Broadcaster rushing to defend the honour of single mums 'stigmatised' by Tory politicians as having caused the recent riots. Joint BBC/Guardian effort (as with Toynbee and her class war piece). http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b013y465 Colin Paterson talks to the singer Jamelia. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0140p9n/Jamelia_Shame_about_Single_Mums/ Jamelia presents a show on single mothers. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/aug/20/jamelia-single-parents Jamelia talks to the Guardian. Jamelia actually supports the notion of the 'family' but falls into the BBC 'think' of not wanting to judge single mothers.....in this she makes the second mistake by lumping all single mothers together....because the mothers being 'stigmatised' were one particular type, those who not only had many children by different fathers but also didn't bother to control or teach them anything. The riots were not blamed on single mothers but irresponsible parents as a whole were criticised, but it was mostly irresponsible politicians, liberal social activists and certain media types who were finally challenged on their policies and blamed for the riots. Jamelia's final words told us everything about the intentions of the programme...not a gritty honest examination of single motherhood warts and all but a plea not to judge, not to condemn bad behaviour, not to demand better behaviour.

'What single mothers deserve more than anything else in the world is respect.'

Wasn't that precisely the attitude that produced the riots? You can do no wrong....you have a hard life and so cannot be condemned for your behaviour....you deserve more regardless as to whether you have worked for it or not. But look what else Jamelia says essentially blowing her liberal emotional argument out of the water with her own real life observations:

'Absent fathers, she believes, are the reason many teenage boys go off the rails – there's no strong male to keep them on track. " If my brothers had had positive male role models around, people who looked out for them, they wouldn't have got into trouble. I believe that 100%,"

During the riots, one middle-aged Afro-Caribbean woman told a television crew: "This would never happen in Jamaica." Jamelia agrees. In Jamaica, there's a very strict moral code, which is quite Victorian. Grandparents look after the children a lot because Jamaicans are very family-oriented. "I do think parents have been too liberal."