Has the BBC become a Tory tool?

[Vic]

Cool.

So what shall we all get outraged about this week then?

This week, I've started with the BBC going looking for stories about how hotels housing refugees are having a local impact (a florist whose business was supplying one particular hotel for weddings).

 

[argyle]

Bet the Tories love you.

Tbf he has a point. All political parties do the same.

They'll try to help the poorest and the working class better but that's about it. They can't fix the energy crisis nor rejoin the EU so the economy will continue to be shit.

They'll get rid of the Tory appointed people at the BBC though.

 

[domalino]

It'll all be about backlogs and lack of cash yadda yadda yadda. In the meantime very little will be achieved in terms of solving the problems which exist today and have done for years.

Backlogs are quite easy to fix, you just employ more people in the departments that resolve asylum cases.

Asylum case workers get paid 20-25k a year and there's currently about 600 of them in the country.

For <30m a year you could quadruple the number of caseworkers and clear the backlog.

But instead the gov has spent £120m so far on the Rwanda project before a single arrival there, and given £500m to France to build a detention centre.

 

[west didsblue]

Tbf he has a point. All political parties do the same.

They'll try to help the poorest and the working class better but that's about it. They can't fix the energy crisis nor rejoin the EU so the economy will continue to be shit.

They'll get rid of the Tory appointed people at the BBC though.

It was a discussion about how to deal with asylum seekers not about the general state of the country. Joe was bizarrely arguing that we should go along with the government’s plans even though everyone knows they will be expensive and won’t work, and it was pointless trying to do anything different, even though there are clearly things that could be done that would solve the problem for a fraction of the cost.

So on the subject under discussion he has absolutely no point at all other than an unconvincing attempt at playing the “all the same” card to justify to himself voting Tory or not voting at all.

 

[bluethrunthru]

why would the BBC do this? ......... oh yeah coz the Govt instructs them to

 

[Vic]

There seem to be a few "the BBC has learned / been told" stories. From whom? Tufton Street thinktanks?

 

[Chris in London]

You, my friend, are falling for the Tory bullshit. We are not being 'overrun' by refugees. The problem of lack of housing, poor health service, schools and public services in general has been the running down of these services by this government. If we hadn't run them down to the point where they are now we could easily cope with extra refugees but then people like you wouldn't be complaining about 'to many illegal immigrants' and 'our system can't cope'. Wise up.

Interestingly, the Office of Budget Responsibility published its forecasts on which the Budget last week was based. One of its assumptions was that we will have net migration of 250,000 per year.

They appear to think we aren't being overrun as well.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Plant based meat alternatives.

Saw some **** order one of these McPlants the other day.

That’s like going to a brass house full of hot as fuck 20 year old Squatqueens and leaving your dick at home.

 

[Summerbuzz]

There seem to be a few "the BBC has learned / been told" stories. From whom? Tufton Street thinktanks?

This is what's becoming apparent. Tories know how to commoditize their shitty attention grabbing stunts, and the journo's are in thrawl to getting in on the next big leak.

Interestingly, the Office of Budget Responsibility published its forecasts on which the Budget last week was based. One of its assumptions was that we will have net migration of 250,000 per year.

They appear to think we aren't being overrun as well.

It's a fact of life. The longer it goes on, travel gets easier. Equipment is cheaper and easy to find.

If I wanted to get to the far end of Europe, this week... let's have a think...

First. Phone. That's a GPS, torch, communicator, camera, information source for everything. Ridiculously useful.
Second. Travel. Assuming I need to go on my own. There are ridiculously cheap inflatables and all sorts on ebay and amazon. Electric bikes and scooters.

Clothing, again, this is the cheap goods thing. Cheap tent. Cheap waterproofs. Cheap rucksacks. Cheap plastic stuff of any description. Cheap soylent food. Cheap knife.

You want a cheap car, buy private? Old days, Exchange and mart, a small dealer, or wait for the local paper. Now, you've got facebook and a million other sites.

Same with advice from people, it's everywhere. If I want to go to a town in france, to get any idea of these places, thirty years ago I would have to research in a book. Or several books. Find the OS in the library and copy the maps. Now, it's all on the phone. All of it. When you need it.

It's just never been easier for people to travel, to do this stuff. If the world is coming to an end in your hometown, the bombs are dropping. What would you do? You'd give it a shot, for sure.

That's why the best idea is to stop the bombs dropping on civilian areas, and influence foreign leaders, rather than let Russia and China get their dirty paws in. They know creating waves of refugees puts the west into a crisis politically, and people like Assad are happy to assist. The issue is just so emotive, and it brings people into politics who never normally worry about it at all. The reality is, these countries want us to remain preocuppied with dealing with that political discussion. Otherwise we'd be running the show like we used to, and international standards would be rising. The divisive stuff tho will always end up stopping useful creative debates over how to improve things. Because there is no real way through it, apart from letting people see, yeah. You can try to stop it. But it will never go away. And most people deal with that. That's how life is. Nothing is perfect, nothing much about our country or lives suits any one person perfectly. Learn to accept or ignore what can't be changed. Rather than insist everyone bang their head on a brick wall for you and watch the country splinter and go backwards as a result.

 

[Ohrodneyrodney]

Anyone who reads the thread title and thinks 'yes' either hasn't been watching, listening, or reading the BBC for at least a decade.