Has the BBC become a Tory tool?

[citizen_maine]

Anyway, back to what GL actually said .
He made a reference to the use of language and by implication, the effect of certain words deliberately used to shape attitudes and behaviour.
Governments and businesses big and small spend fortunes every day on advertising and PR people and focus groups to find out which words best suit their intentions and aims, and to portray certain attitudes, whether they are accurate or not, the damage is done, and that works successfully.
Words and slogans have an effect on people. They can be persuaded of the righteousness of anything if the words chime with their own views and legitimises them, or they can be persuaded. Attitudes and views can be engendered or reinforced by repetition.
Why do fat bald blokes with tattoos, draped, in union flags stand outside hotels full of immigrants, hurl abuse and hold up banners saying things like ‘no more immigrants’ , ‘this country is full‘ and ‘send them back’, when, with a different use of language by the influential powers that be, and those to whom they give credence, they could be holding banners saying ‘we want a fair and sensible system for processing these people in an efficient and quick way, through safe passage based on legitimate claims so that they do not have to risk their lives in small boats, and we don‘t have to stand out here in the cold shouting at them?

cos it would need a really big banner

 

[Chris B]

We restrict the rights of those convicted of a crime after due process. Those crossing in boats under the new bill will be denied due process. They will be treated as not worthy of due process ie not fully human.

You‘ll get there eventually.

Due process: welcome to the uk do you have a valid entry document? No, well then you’ll be treated as an illegal immigrant. How much more process is required? These people are chancers and should be treated as such.

 

[sh249]

Because he condemns racism while indulging in casual anti-semitism by minimising the evil of the Nazi regime and holocaust. Andrew Bridgen was suspended from the Conservative Party for the same thing recently.

Fucking hell.

 

[west didsblue]

Due process: welcome to the uk do you have a valid entry document? No, well then you’ll be treated as an illegal immigrant. How much more process is required? These people are chancers and should be treated as such.

Mask well and truly slipped now now that we know that you consider every asylum seeker arriving by irregular means as chancers and should be treated as illegal immigrants. That is exactly the view of Braverman and her supporters, a view that is totally at odds with international law and various treaties.

 

[Tiattos_Waterbottle]

Anyone who didn't like or disagrees with what Lineker said is either a Tory Stooge looking the other way at Cruella dehumanising the most desperate people in society, whilst her party presides over making the poorest people in the country worse off, starving and freezing or simply a troglodyte racist who hates brown people.

Not going to say where and what as exactly, but I work with Asylum Seekers, and it's not the amazing life some people think it is, especially after they're moved out of the hotels, which aren't always the best quality as some people think, and are actually very detrimental to their mental health a lot of the time.

The rhetoric of Cruella is very similar to terms used by the Nazi regime in 30s Germany, it dehumanises the most desperate people of all.

People will probably come back with whataboutisms about it being mostly men, or how they didn't stop in a different country, or how there's no room despite only 8,7% of the land having being built upon (I know it's not all usable for housing etc), and whatever right wing bingo terms you want to come out with, but ultimately, these are people. People are drowning in the channel because they're desperate to get here, because they believe it's the best place for them whether it's language, community or friends/family over here already, they are willing to risk their lives for it.

Sadly, I'm not sure what the solution is, most of the media is controlled by the right, Corbyn said he'd change it and got set upon by the likes of Viscount Rothermere and Murdoch and with the internet, people will have already been too deeply convinced that foreigners are evil, just like single mothers, just like the left, just like unions and just like people on benefits.

Doesn't help the other side, are basically just Tory-lite at this point, and I'll probably end up voting for them because whatever they are, they're still the preferable outcome to these slimy, corrupt, evil, power hungry misanthropes we have in charge at the moment.

tl;dr - Sod tories, sod racists, Gary is right.

 

[Postman Pep]

The doorstepping continues

 

[city2]

Half a million more viewers surely that’s people just having a butcher’s to see the format without presenter, personally I think all presenters should be sacked and a revised version brought in. having ex players from the same clubs is across all the sports channel. I would rather choose to watch city’s game with just the sound of the crowd I don’t want some **** slagging my club off whilst I’m paying for that privileg.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Same as Rashfords shameless dive

Saw that before. Jesus they are desperate bastards aren’t they.

 

[leighton]

I thought it was great to watch the highlights with just the noise from the crowd it was so refreshing and if they bring that option in keep it.

 

[inchy14]

Comic sans - and no, as it would simultaneously breach the Health and Safety at Work and Road Traffic Acts.

There’s a few on here who’s lick them clean before it went that far….