Political bias at BBC - something has to be done surely

[coppice]

Try talking to a few people who claim AA - and why - before spouting nonsense about people less fortunate than yourselves eh ? Old age, disability - Christ , they'll be giving them parking discs next .

[chris watton]

coppice said:

Try talking to a few people who claim AA - and why - before spouting nonsense about people less fortunate than yourselves eh ? Old age, disability - Christ , they'll be giving them parking discs next .

I don't think anyone minds the money going to those that need it, but the way it's worded makes it seem like a 'free for all'

So please, cut out the transparent virtue signalling nonsense.

[anonymous-user]

Why do these tts assume I want to line the pocket of Chris Evans and Paul Hollywood?????

[coppice]

chris watton said:

I don't think anyone minds the money going to those that need it, but the way it's worded makes it seem like a 'free for all'

So please, cut out the transparent virtue signalling nonsense.

Not so much virtue signalling- not intentionally in any case - but frustration that people can fall into the easy trap of criticising something without actually knowing much about it . FWIW my now late father(90, infirm, leukeamia and other bad stuff and needing help to live at home ) was found to be ineligible for AA and a late friend with MS was eligible , eventually. It's not a cake walk .

[don4l]

coppice said:

Try talking to a few people who claim AA - and why - before spouting nonsense about people less fortunate than yourselves eh ? Old age, disability - Christ , they'll be giving them parking discs next .

Nobody is saying that people who need it shouldn't get it.

We are saying that multi-millionaires shouldn't get the allowance to fund butlers.

If you disagree then tell us why you disagree.

[rallycross]

How come every time I put the news on they have the Clinton/Trump stories as headline news?
Means nothing to most people in the UK so why is this crap so heavily promoted in UK news shows?

[greygoose]

don4l said:

coppice said:

Try talking to a few people who claim AA - and why - before spouting nonsense about people less fortunate than yourselves eh ? Old age, disability - Christ , they'll be giving them parking discs next .

Nobody is saying that people who need it shouldn't get it.

We are saying that multi-millionaires shouldn't get the allowance to fund butlers.

If you disagree then tell us why you disagree.

Have you any evidence that multimillionaires are claiming it to fund butlers or are just making it up?

[turbobloke]

greygoose said:

don4l said:

coppice said:

Try talking to a few people who claim AA - and why - before spouting nonsense about people less fortunate than yourselves eh ? Old age, disability - Christ , they'll be giving them parking discs next .

Nobody is saying that people who need it shouldn't get it.

We are saying that multi-millionaires shouldn't get the allowance to fund butlers.

If you disagree then tell us why you disagree.

Have you any evidence that multimillionaires are claiming it to fund butlers or are just making it up?

It's not needed - the situation under discussion is an illustration not an example. An eye-catching illustration, sure, but they're good for catching the eye

The benefit in question is not means-tested so millionaires are eligible.

The benefit received need not be spent on meeting the need for care which led to the benefit being paid, so it could be spent on part-funding a live-in butler.

It's not difficult, the nature of the benefit is under discussion and those who genuinely need it aren't being dismissed in any way as undeserving. To claim otherwise is a clear misprepresentation of what's being said.

[turbobloke]

chris watton said:

I don't think anyone minds the money going to those that need it, but the way it's worded makes it seem like a 'free for all'

So please, cut out the transparent virtue signalling nonsense.

Well said.

[anonymous-user]

This attendance allowance thing: do millionaires get it as of right or do they have to apply for it?

[turbobloke]

desolate said:

This attendance allowance thing: do millionaires get it as of right or do they have to apply for it?

Is this a realistic prospect? How many benefits are there that you don't have to apply for?!

If you don't apply for benefits, how much do you get in benefits?

[anonymous-user]

turbobloke said:

Is this a realistic prospect? How many benefits are there that you don't have to apply for?!

If you don't apply for benefits, how much do you get in benefits?

Child benefit?
Pension?


I really don't know how it works but I don't think you apply for the above.

[turbobloke]

desolate said:

turbobloke said:

Is this a realistic prospect? How many benefits are there that you don't have to apply for?!

If you don't apply for benefits, how much do you get in benefits?

Child benefit?
Pension?

I really don't know how it works but I don't think you apply for the above.

Claim your State Pension online.
https://www.gov.uk/claim-state-pension-online

Claim child benefit.
https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit/how-to-claim

Child benefit claim form.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-b...

If you don't have to claim benefits but receive benefits, then Nanny State is psychic and something's going wrong x2. First of all it simply shouldn't happen, secondly we're not claiming any benefits and we're not getting a penny.

[Europa1]

Any Questions hit a low point last week in allowing some syrupy voiced child to ask a question based around grammar schools. Maybe I am being over cynical, but the language and sentence structure smacked of it being drafted by her parents, in which case, if it's the parents' question, they should be the ones asking it.

[Johnnytheboy]

I'm not being deadly serious when posting this, but it was one of those "this could only be on the BBC" programmes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07v33l4

Garden designer James Wong asks if British gardening is stuck in the past.

In the course of 30 minutes, his interviewees managed to conclude that the "English country garden" style of garden is:

Nationalistic - specifically pro-English and anti-Welsh/Scottish/Irish
Racist - specifically anti-Asian



It's a flowerbed ffs.

[Stickyfinger]

and all I wanted a SHRUBBERY !



Classic BBC "drip drip drip"

[The Don of Croy]

Europa1 said:

Any Questions hit a low point last week in allowing some syrupy voiced child to ask a question based around grammar schools. Maybe I am being over cynical, but the language and sentence structure smacked of it being drafted by her parents, in which case, if it's the parents' question, they should be the ones asking it.

I did take notice when the Times columnist started to give it both barrels on the post-Brexit economic basket case scenario, fully expecting the impartial and experienced question-master to bring her into line with a statement about ARM or perhaps Micro Focus (being factual events) rather than her spouting venom.

But then I remembered it's another Dimblebore luvvin.

The former Panorama bloke was almost to the left of Dave Spart. Another grammer school alumni wanting to deny others the same chances.

[Europa1]

The Don of Croy said:

Europa1 said:

Any Questions hit a low point last week in allowing some syrupy voiced child to ask a question based around grammar schools. Maybe I am being over cynical, but the language and sentence structure smacked of it being drafted by her parents, in which case, if it's the parents' question, they should be the ones asking it.

I did take notice when the Times columnist started to give it both barrels on the post-Brexit economic basket case scenario, fully expecting the impartial and experienced question-master to bring her into line with a statement about ARM or perhaps Micro Focus (being factual events) rather than her spouting venom.

But then I remembered it's another Dimblebore luvvin.

The former Panorama bloke was almost to the left of Dave Spart. Another grammer school alumni wanting to deny others the same chances.

I have never rated Dimbleby, but recently he does seem to have got worse.

[turbobloke]

The BBC's head honcho Lord Hall has appointed an ex-Labour minister and culture luvvie as the broadcaster's new radio and education chief - without advertising the position - ~£300k of pure lefty cronyism.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/29/bbc-to-...

[turbobloke]

Just in case there's anyone who still doesn't know the score, the primary source here is the comedian.



Radio 4 comic says he was told he had to go because the BBC wanted more women and minorities.