27 May 2021
Diary of a Corbynista
Panorama of Lies
by Don Urquhart
20 May
Message Board responses to Corbynista in Shaw Sheet 279:
Walsall:
I happened to be in the gym when the Cameron grilling took place and so dipped in and out. I would be inclined to amend your wording and say you watched for as long as you could stand. The questioning was reasonable for the most part, apart from the Tory at the end, who just seemed to want to toss easy lobs to him. However, I was rather non-plussed by the assertion from Cameron suggesting that when putting down that he was a shadow director, he did not understand the implications of that. He came across as remarkably clueless.
Agree re difficulty of Israel/Palestine problem, but vehemently disagree with the idea of a one state solution. I am continually struck by the single minded pursuit of a no Palestine solution from Israeli governments. They agreed to the two state solution in 1947, as I understand it, but seem to believe that might is right and, being backed by USA, have taken liberties, ever since, to a greater or lesser degree.
I don’t know how this will ever work out.
21 May
Shock horror that there was a bent Panorama in 1995, where a lady was tricked into telling the truth on TV. This may have contributed to her early death.
No mention of the bent Panorama in 2019 which was a hatchet job on Her Majesty’s Opposition under the pretext of institutional anti-Semitism.
This may have contributed to the election of the worst government this country has ever seen with negative impacts for hundreds of thousands including many early deaths.
Here is the Labour Party’s response to the 2019 programme:
The Panorama programme was not a fair or balanced investigation. It was a seriously inaccurate, politically one-sided polemic, which breached basic journalistic standards, invented quotes and edited emails to change their meaning. It was an overtly biased intervention by the BBC in party political controversy. An honest investigation into anti-Semitism in Labour and wider society is in the public interest. The Panorama team instead pre-determined an answer to the question posed by the programme’s title.
How reassured are we supposed to be that Prime Minister Johnson thinks that the BBC should have a shot at re-establishing itself as a beacon of independence and integrity?
Here’s Corbynista from 10th March:
Tim Davie has been Director General of the BBC for nearly 6 months. His appointment raised some concerns about political bias given that he had been Deputy Chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative Party. The appointment of a new Chairman of the corporation a couple of weeks ago was a fine opportunity to redress the balance but what we got was Richard Sharp, a former adviser to the current Prime Minister and to the Chancellor and a considerable donor to the Conservative Party – £400,000+.
22 May
I have been invited to a Zoom meeting of my local Labour Party tomorrow. We will be nominating people for roles on the NEC and selecting delegates for the Brighton conference. If it runs on beyond 4 pm I will be leaving to watch the Arsenal struggling to get into Europe.
23 May
Dr Jenny Harries is on Andrew Marr to discuss Dominic Cummings’ assertion that the government had a clear herd immunity policy early last year. She maintains that the topic had not been raised at any meetings she had been at but then she had been too junior to attend high level discussions. Which makes you wonder why Marr couldn’t find someone more senior to comment. The Chief Scientific Adviser might have found it particularly difficult.
24 May
Late entry to Message Board.
Chippyboy:
Our Home Secretary has recently claimed that a cabinet minister’s job is in fact very hard, and in trying to do the job successfully a minister cannot be tied down by rules. Whilst sympathising with the good lady in some respects, I do wonder how Ms Patel would tackle other jobs within our community that do require working within a legal and social framework i.e. rules. Take for example a nurse working in ICU during the peak of the pandemic. Despite the extreme pressure of that job, nurses are still expected to work within clear ethical and clinical rules. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t last long in the NHS. Ditto a police officer, the sort of job Ms Patel should be fairly familiar with. In fact, most people might claim that their job is very hard, in many different ways, but by and large they accept the rules that abound and get on with their job. It therefore seems reasonable to expect that Ms Patel should accept the need to sort herself out and decide whether she is truly matched to her reasonably well paid and very influential job.
25 May
R S Archer on Twitter gives us:
The World Health Organisation has announced that dogs cannot contract Covid-19 and as such dogs previously held in canine quarantine can now be released. This of course means…………. WHO let the dogs out.
