Newsnight hit a new low on Thursday night, failing to challenge the claims of two climate protestors. Ross Clark in the Spectator has more.
Newsnight’s presenter, Victoria Derbyshire, proceeded [held] a three-way discussion between herself, a Just Stop Oil activist, Indigo Rumbelow, and, er, Rupert Read, formerly of Extinction Rebellion. Read now leads an embryonic organisation called the Climate Majority Project, whose web page suggests it has a strikingly similar outlook to Extinction Rebellion.
There were obvious questions to ask Rumbelow: namely, who do you think you are, thinking you have the right to ruin a sporting event that is enjoyed by millions, either as participants or spectators? And why target a running event, which is surely all about doing something of which you ought to approve: getting about on foot?
There were questions to be asked of Extinction Rebellion, too – given that it has offered to ‘police’ the event. Are climate pressure groups now operating as a kind of protection racket, to which we are also supposed to go and negotiate before we are allowed to go about our day-to-day business?
None of these questions got asked. Rather, Newsnight first ran a short video in which it asserted that “violence’”was being shown towards climate protesters; it illustrated this partly with a police officer doing his job and arresting a member of a mob vandalising a building with red paint.
Rumbelow was then introduced. She asserted that “we need to move into civil resistance against our criminal government which is pushing for new oil and gas”. Derbyshire failed to challenge this remark and ask the obvious: what criminal law is the government supposed to have broken?
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Indigo Rumbelow said in the interview that courts were refusing to convict climate protesters. In fact, Two Just Stop Oil protestors who scaled a bridge over the Dartford Crossing and caused 40 hours of gridlock were jailed for five years yesterday.
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I can’t remember who said it but someone on here described the BBC as the world’s best funded political campaigning organisation.
Censorship. Gestapo.
This smirking ugly and her ilk will fail.
Attempts to suborn reality always do.
The BBC is simple a globalist shill and globalism as guided by the twin fascisms of Health and Climate will fail. All of it.
I like to think they will as they are contrary to our true nature
Ahem. Me, actually …
I will try to remember that and hats off to you sir.
BBC attempting to create a ministry for truth, paid by ppl who haven’t realised they can avoid paying this tax easily.
In BBC land Obama and Biden are Good but Trump is bad. Palestine is good but Israel is bad. Climate Change is unchallengeable science and no questions on any aspect of it or the policies that are supposed to sort it all out are ever to be asked. —-But hold on a second isn’t it the case that in science you challenge and question everything? —Yes it is.–So the BBC then which is ofcourse funded by all of us and not just by progressives is simply a mouthpiece for the 5 main leftist agenda’s —-Equality Diversity Race Gender and Climate, and anything that deviates from the Liberal Progressive world view is “misinformation”
Well on the topic of ”conspiracy theories”, I don’t know who this ‘John Bye’ is but he can go choke on a bag of dicks. He sounds like a BBC fanboy! He’s no fan of Andrew Bridgen though, nor many of his associates, most of whom are familiar to us by now. This is quite a lengthy thread so here’s just a few he’s attempting to ridicule and discredit;
”Andrew Bridgen has shared a letter he recently sent to the Metropolitan Police, accusing the government of murder over the covid vaccine programme! He’s calling for police to meet some of the most extreme conspiracy theorists in the UK. Here’s who they all are…..
Michael Yeadon claims covid vaccines are “toxic by design” and part of a plot to wipe out most of the Earth’s population. He also thinks the Spanish Flu pandemic didn’t happen, and everything from nuclear weapons to moon landings were faked.
Aseem Malhotra claims all excess cardiac deaths are caused by covid vaccines “until proven otherwise”.
Bridgen attended the launch of Malhotra’s “paper” blaming covid vaccines for his dad’s death. Bridgen later repeated much of it verbatim in Parliament.
Norman Fenton is another HART member, who claims the ONS is lying to cover up supposed covid vaccine deaths (because he doesn’t understand the data).
He defended Bridgen against accusations of anti-Semitism when he compared vaccines to the Holocaust.
Tess Lawrie has claimed that 9/11 was a false flag attack, and that a “megalomaniac cabal” would fake an alien invasion.
Last year Bridgen spoke at her “Better Way Conference” and invited her to Parliament, and recently spoke alongside her in Ireland.”
https://twitter.com/_johnbye/status/1765121139011981431
His avatar and style looks to be ‘Jimmy Joyful’ probably a 77th brigade naysayer who inhabits Conservative Woman’s comment pages.
Andrew Bridgen did NOT compare “vaccines” to the Holocaust. Midazolam Mat claimed this is what Andrew Bridgen said and as it was not true Mr Bridgen is taking Midazolam to court.
‘….he can go choke on a bag of dicks.’ Beautiful, but I now have to go and reheat my supper because I can’t eat and laugh..
“…at one point in the book, in a part about racism, she writes that “a mural that honoured [Marcus] Rashford in Withington, the suburb of Manchester where he’d grown up, was defaced”, strongly implying that this was motivated by racism, even though it wasn’t.”
So this is actually misinformation: she’s implying racism when there is none. In fact the BBC has been a big source of misinformation since the Covid madness took hold. They misinformed us about Covid, about vaccines, about the George Floyd lunacy, about anything Islam-related, about mass immigration, about the Russia hysteria, about climate change idiocy, about anything the leftists push on us. Because that is what the BBC is now: a mouth piece for the Labour Party.
She’s says she’s the ‘disinformation specialist’ at the BBC, but in fact she’s a leading minister of the Labour Party Reich ministry for propaganda, a Joseph Goebbels in waiting, clamping down on anything the Labour Party doesn’t like. Look at her face, she looks deranged.
The facial recognition software in my Brain says ‘ No’ . There is nowhere in that face that radiates Trust .
The eyes are the windows to the soul.
Honesty and integrity there are none.
Only a justaxposition of “me first” and trust me.
And she’s in a position of power.
Christ.
A smug, smirking, cabbage patch doll.
It’s a two way street.
“UK Extremism adviser has received funding from Israel lobbyists, Declassified UK finds”.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/extremism-adviser-has-received-funding-israel-lobby-declassified-uk-finds
I have different views to yours regarding Israel I think but I don’t think the U.K. government should have an “extremism advisor”.
Certainly not one who takes money from Israel.
Well the whole idea of a “government extremism advisor” strikes me as “let’s find a plausible way of shutting down anything we don’t like”
Politicians are next to useless.
They need advice on everything they do.
Those advisors should be impartial.
This one is not.
I’d feel safer if the UK govt forgot about “extremism” and stuck to the basics.
So would I tof. Some hope. Actually, do they know what the basics are?
I doubt they give it a moment’s thought
If a job such as “government extremism advisor” is created what is the likelihood that the “government extremism advisor” finds lots of extremism?
100% Exactly like SAGE whose existence depended on their being an “emergency”
The BBC is merely the propaganda arm of the British establishment.
That fucking SMUG smile.