I do not care for the masks.
But whereas those marching in them will have been doing so, not without cause, against generic and perennial evils in their many respective countries, here in the United Kingdom they were marching specifically against the Government's austerity programme.
They had the Police seven-deep around the Palace of Westminster last night, and they made it down The Mall, almost to the gates of Buckingham Palace.
Have I missed something, or was that a story? Approving or disapproving of the action was not, in itself, the question. Yet both the BBC and Sky News blacked it out completely.
Election results in an American city, and in two American states the capitals of which almost no one in Britain would be able to name, were deemed infinitely more important.
Not for the first time, it has been necessary to watch Russia Today in order to find out what was going on in Britain.
Election results in an American city, and in two American states the capitals of which almost no one in Britain would be able to name, were deemed infinitely more important.
Not for the first time, it has been necessary to watch Russia Today in order to find out what was going on in Britain.
Oh, well, never mind. This time tomorrow, we shall all be settling down to enjoy the "left-wing" BBC's broadcast of the edition in which Nigel Farage becomes the most frequent Question Time panellist since 2009.
Oh, don't worry-Nigel will, as usual be against at least four leftists and an allegedly "impartial" chairman-just like Peter Hitchens, whenever he's allowed on.
ReplyDeleteLike Hitchens, Farage will always, always be the only panellist who stands for exit EU exit, for grammar schools and for a complete end to mass immigration and multiculturalism.
There's never, ever, two of them at once.
But there's always at least four of the others.
There were two when Bob Crow was on. I expect that the researcher had been lax and remiss, but even so. Good to see that you want the Old Left and the Old Labour Right on television more. They are, after all, in the House of Commons. Unlike UKIP.
ReplyDeleteCrow recently used Any Questions to echo most of the specific policy views of Peter Hitchens on the previous evening's Question Time, the programme on which Crow, when he was last on it, defended the Catholic Church over child abuse on the grounds that the BBC was in no position to comment. And called for withdrawal from the EU.
There is hardly any "Right" in the House of Commons-a few dozen on the Tory backbenches and far fewer on the opposite backbenches, and that's it.
ReplyDeleteUKIP would never, ever be on at the same time as Peter Hitchens-the BBC would then run the risk of having two panellists actually agree with 80% of the public on grammar schools, the EU and immigration.
And that just wouldn't do.
You would not get an 80 per cent figure on those issues.
ReplyDeleteYou would, however, get 70 to 75 per cent in favour of renationalisation of the railways, the utilities and the Royal Mail.
I look forward to hearing such views expressed by more than one panellist, one of whom could be Peter Hitchens.
In fact, when he was last on, at least two did hold those views. But I suspect that the researcher had not realised that Hitchens did.
UKIP, on the other hand...