The BBC: where did it all go wrong?

So what is the BBC News channel doing here?




For an organisation built on objectivity, impartiality and neutrality. the output of BBC has been nudged to the left for the past twenty years, in a very specific effort to dilute and offset the innate English national tendency, which is to be conservative and suspicious.

So Labour politicians inserted governors and appointed others "in their own image" - like Mark Thompson - to devise and implement a long term project of social engineering, to reflect what is broadly described as the bundle of assumptions and presumptions that sum up the view of those labelled as "politically correct".

This clip is one of many examples of where the BBC has plainly lost its way. We have seen the result of politicians and their assumptions concerning economic development; dare we now allow "received opinion" and assumption to exclude the possibility that global warning is another monumental misjudgement, waiting to blow up in our faces?

What about the possibility that global warming is a construct of politicians eager to address the political problems of dwindling oil reserves in the hands of despots - and scare new taxes out of the gullible?

Yet the one global crisis "proven beyond all doubt" that impinges on every aspect of the planet's resources is that of over population. How much time has the BBC devoted to placing that item on the agenda? Injudicious building on flood plains on the UK is the result of population pressure, not global warming.

The Daily Business

Watching our mostly foreign deputy PM, Nick Clegg, waffle on, can be really depressing. Such a waste of space; but Cameron actually said something sensible recently on the Marr show, and has realised at last that 3m small businesses taking on a new member of staff could happen next week, whereas employing even 1m in big businesses and capital projects takes years.

The basic business climate is as bad as TMP can recall while everyone waits for the next instalment of bad news on the Euro. No one wants to do anything but wait and see how bad it’s going to get – and it is IMPOSSIBLE to get anyone to pay.

We don’t want to be a labelled as a Jeremiah, but it is self-evident that no one “in charge” has a clue. These are unprecedented times when all the traditional fiscal levers have been pulled, and still the ship is sinking. Why would the same cast of failed self-serving politicians, bankers and media commentators that got us into this mess, be the right people to get us out?

Someone has to stand up and start demanding new faces, new policies and new ideas – and leading by example.

So how about taking the success of the Apprentice to the next level with a practical daily example of new businesses that are doing things and hiring people? Andrew Neil gets the wholly self-serving and incestuous “Daily Politics” show - which is purely for the amusement of Westminster bubble occupants, and will not put ten bob in the nation’s till.

A daily business show aimed at getting out and about and specifically aimed at all hand-to-mouth businesses under 20 employees would be beyond the ken of the media (esp the BBC), but it could be produced as a mostly Internet web site using YouTube. Just as retailers eventually realised that the old ways were done for, and online was the future, so someone has got to lead from the front with Internet based alternatives to increasingly pointless linear broadcast distribution (which is potentially vast new industry in the wings with something like YouView to make it more accessible).

We have all witnessed the “unexpected” interest in business since the first Apprentice aired, we know this would get a following.

High speed rail

The infrastructure of the South East and East Anglia in particular was pretty much abandoned by the last government for lack of voter potential. However, VAST sums were lavished on traditional Labour supporting areas in the North, Wales, Midlands and of course Scotland - where Broon and his Caledonian cabal hung out.

And now CMD is planning to blow £30bn+ (that we don't have) on trains to get the occupants of North Britain down south even faster? We can only assume that this will be using entirely British technology from end to end.

But fibre to every building in the land would be a FAR better use of the money - assuming it was using all UK made kit.

No more rearranging the deckchairs?

David Cameron showed up on the Andrew Marr show (Jan 8th 2012) and said a couple of encouraging things. So far the coalition has been mostly  obliged to take bearings in a tempestuous global situation, compounded by Labour's 13 years of cock-ups and creeping state oppression. But rearranging the same old deckchairs has to stop sooner or later.

One subject he addressed was the inevitable/obvious move of calling the Scottish independence bluff, and forcing the issue of independence. Which we imagine came as a bit of a shock to the not-nearly-as-smart-as-he-thinks-he-is Alex Salmond. Intriguingly, although Cameron has always said he wants Scotland in the union, at this time ist's not at all obvious if he is bothered any longer, given the fact that Scotland has been a tory-free zone for several elections, and there are plenty of Tory MPs who have been pressing to split for years. Faced with the stark reality of making a decision, the general suspicion is that most Scots will not trust Salmond and his preposterous "Arc of Prosperity".

At the same time, we are assuming that the infamous "East Midlothian Question" of Scotland's dramatic over-representation at Westminster will be nailed once and for all, and the English can look forward to no longer to having to pay for Scottish social services.

The other significant comment was that Dave realises that ONLY the UK's small and micro businesses are going to be able to create the required 3 million jobs. Great news: now let's have that promised bonfire of red tape and positive action to help this crucial sector.

Moreover CMD came across very clearly the only politician anywhere in the British Isles with a whiff of leadership about him/her. Other than Boris, perhaps...