Stephen Glover

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:41 pm

satnav wrote:

Glover is using the classic Mail tactic of attacking the BBC rather than criticising the actual policy. It doesn't come as any surprise that housing benefit spending will rise as a result of the recent changes because many landlords will push up rents on their smaller properties if they can't earn as much from their bigger properties.

They can earn just as much. They can immediately re-let to groups of young workers.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2843

If Mr Cameron wants to show who's in charge, he should order those bone-idle Sir Humphrys to go to work during the Olympics

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From July 21 — six days before the Olympics opening ceremony — until the Paralympics end on September 9, tens of thousands of Whitehall staff will be able to work from home. This amazing dispensation is justified on the grounds that it will ease traffic chaos in London, while athletes, visiting fat cats and one or two members of the general public travel by car to and from the Olympic Stadium.

In other words, the Olympic Games are being put ahead of the efficient administration of our country — and this at a time of severe economic woe. If working at home were as productive as being at work, we would not bother to build and maintain expensive offices for Whitehall bureaucrats in the heart of London.

And although we may joke that many of them do precious little good in their offices, that is no reason for ensuring they do even less good while walking the dog and mowing the lawn when at home for seven weeks.

One marvels that a Government that has the brass neck to urge those in the private sector to work harder can virtually in the same breath permit civil servants to stay at home. The inconsistency is scarcely credible.

DTR · **Posted:** Thu May 17, 2012 9:15 am

I wonder how many DM columnists clock in every day at Northcliffe House.

satnav · **Posted:** Fri May 18, 2012 1:09 am

Glover seems to imply that working at home equates to people skiving but surely lots of people who are self employed routinely work at home. If he real does believe that only people in the public sector are capable of skiving he ought to try to making an afternoon appointment to see a golf playing solicitor during the Summer months.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2843

Cuts? What cuts? Ignore the BBC and the Left, public spending is HIGHER than under Labour

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The all-powerful BBC has contributed mightily to the general perception that there have been savage cuts. When did any of us hear a BBC presenter or economist say there have hardly been any overall cuts in public spending, or that the minor ones already planned will be mild in comparison to the much sharper austerity programmes being visited on Italy, Ireland, Spain and Greece?

By contrast, we hear almost daily about the allegedly awful effect of particular cuts, and are never told the whole truth, which is that very few inroads have yet been made into the enormous maw of public spending.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7339

Messianic Trees wrote:

Cuts? What cuts? Ignore the BBC and the Left, public spending is HIGHER than under Labour

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The all-powerful BBC has contributed mightily to the general perception that there have been savage cuts. When did any of us hear a BBC presenter or economist say there have hardly been any overall cuts in public spending, or that the minor ones already planned will be mild in comparison to the much sharper austerity programmes being visited on Italy, Ireland, Spain and Greece?

By contrast, we hear almost daily about the allegedly awful effect of particular cuts, and are never told the whole truth, which is that very few inroads have yet been made into the enormous maw of public spending.

There's no contradiction: mass redundancies create a temporary spending spike. Result, cuts and spending up.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2843

The last thing the Biased Broadcasting Corporation needs is yet another Labour stooge at the helm

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Who can dispute the Corporation's institutional Leftish bias? Mr Thompson admitted in that interview that it used to be 'massive' though he is under the illusion it no longer is. A BBC internal report in 2007 said the organisation should make greater efforts to avoid liberal bias, and conceded it was slow to appreciate the importance of stories concerning immigration and euroscepticism.

Has it changed? Hardly. There are almost daily examples of what that report termed 'a liberal-minded comfort zone'. Look at the BBC's constant evocation of supposedly severe overall 'cuts', which so far amount to about one per cent of public spending. (Such gross exaggeration led Mr Cameron to brand it as the 'British Broadcasting Cuts Corporation' last year.) Or mark its almost complete disregard on its news bulletins on Tuesday of the demand by the European Court of Human Rights that British prisoners be allowed to vote.

The BBC has its own agenda, and the arrogance of foreign judges defying the will of Parliament doesn't feature prominently. It wouldn't matter if the Corporation were not so powerful. According to a recent study, 47 per cent of the average British person’s news comes from the BBC, which gives it an enormously wider scope than any other news organisation.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 7:34 am

Nice...

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Presume Glover would be happy if the BBC showed a Tory bias. As Cameldung's party only got 36% of the vote in the election and is now down to 30% in the polls, why should the public media not reflect this?

- stephen, rotherham u.k, 24/5/2012 06:27

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We do not need it privatised by the back door like the NHS. I want the BBC kept free and great quality without ads. Like it or not at least it doesn't broadcast according to the whims of a media magnate. It's not perfect but it is brilliant.

- Chris, Our BBC is precious like the NHS, 24/5/2012 01:21

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If you go on the Guardian site they all think the BBC is some arch right-wing conservative organisation. Maybe it's just balanced?

- Monkfish, London, 24/5/2012 00:40

Athough, once a wanker...

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The BBC (Blair Brown Corporation) has become a disgrace, a national embarrassment within the UK. Their political bearings have increasingly dethroned themselves over the years, and as such, ought to be stripped of their continual annual extortion privileges ie 'TV Tax', also laughingly better known as a 'licence'. I hope their ratings plummet. Judging by their excrement-poor offerings of late, their demise draws hopefully closer.

- Withnail Xtreme, Camden Town, 24/5/2012 0:49

The Brass Moustache · **Joined:** Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:04 pm **Posts:** 69

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... Press.html

Rampant corruption and what M'lud Leveson could learn from looking into France's poodle Press

This was actually written a couple of weeks ago but I only saw mention of this whilst looking through last week's copy of The Week. Fairly typical of the sort of defence of the tabloids we've seen since the Leveson report began, in which the popular press is depicted as heroically seeking justice and honesty, whilst up against the intersts of those in power within an imagined liberal elite who seek to prevent this heroic and crusading representative of the public from taking up its noble and democratically necessary purpose. In arguing about what a wonderfully important role the popular press ('which shouts loudest and hits hardest and has the greatest resources') has in this country, (as opposed to the more serious nature of newspapers in France) the prime example he uses for this is the expenses scandal which of course was actually published in The Telegraph (which whatever you may think about its declining journalistic standards wouldn't really be classified as being part of the popular press which Glover talks of), and was turned down by The Sun as they didn't believe it was of a nature that would be of great enough interest to its readership. In fact the only example he uses of the popular press doing something beneficial for society is the role of the Pall Mall Gazette in seeking to end child prostitution, in 1885! But of course I'm ignoring the more contemporary successes of the popular press without whom who would be there for whipping up storms that get doctors beaten up, hacking dead children's phones, labelling grieving football fans as murderers and blackmailing people into giving interviews about dying relatives. French society must really be missing out in not having a tabloid press as wonderful as Britain's.

Just noticed whilst looking for the above article that he also recently wrote an article describing how the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic games was in fact 'Marxist propaganda' (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... ganda.html), including this gloriously ridiculous rubbish:

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I would even question the depiction of the Queen, which most people apparently regarded as a hoot. Her Majesty (or at least a double) was shown parachuting out of a helicopter, and the television viewers and the crowd in the Olympic Stadium were treated to a view of risibly elaborate Royal underwear.

A joke? Of course — but a joke with a purpose. Mr Boyle, we may reasonably surmise, is a republican. As even he can’t actually get rid of the Queen, the next best thing he can do is to have her chucked out of a helicopter in a manner that was hardly intended to increase the dignity of the institution.

What a ridiculous gobshite of Peter Hitchens-like proportions Glover is.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2843

Just how many articles are the Mail going to do on this?

Why the BBC hates good news

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The BBC has defended its coverage of last week's employment figures with its usual guff about impartiality, but I'm afraid it wasn't balanced ...

The truth is that the two Cabinet ministers who are most criticised by the Left in The Guardian and the BBC are Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, and Mr Duncan Smith. (Incidentally, it was recently revealed that the BBC buys more copies of the low-selling Guardian than any other newspaper.) For my money, these ministers are the two biggest success stories of the Coalition.

Mr Gove is disliked because of his encouragement of self-governing Academy Schools and his willingness to take on hidebound teachers' unions and the educational establishment in his quest for higher standards ...

Mr Duncan Smith is disliked because he is in the process of reforming the welfare system in a way that no previous government has dared to attempt ...

Incapacity or sickness benefit ... is a case in point. A new system of assessing all claimants has led to a fall of more than 80,000 in 18 months. These people are being forced to seek work. Isn't that a good thing?

Abernathy · **Posted:** Tue Aug 21, 2012 4:24 pm

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For my money, Michael Gove and Ian Duncan-Smith are the two biggest success stories of the Coalition.

I'm gasping at the sheer bollocksness of that statement. But then again, in relative terms, it may actually be accurate.

satnav · **Posted:** Tue Aug 21, 2012 5:09 pm

Today's economic figures showing a fall in tax revenue and an increase in government borrowing would appear to back the BBC's assessment that many of the new jobs created are either part-time or government schemes like the New Enterprise allowance where people are only earning similar amounts to what they would receive on benefits.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:19 pm

I muddle Stephen Glover and Stephen Pollard up. Pollard wrote some tripe about Gove being "the undoubted star"

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2843

By ignoring the lawless internet the judge proves he's on another planet

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Dm take a look at the right panel of your articles and realise what hypocrites you are being on this issue.
- WereWoof, Redditch, United Kingdom, 30/11/2012 6:31

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Its a good thing the Daily Mail's around on the internet. I'd never know intimate details of US reality shows that your print cousins would look down their noses at, or what Suri Cruise was wearing today and all those oh so important things in my life.. Plus which wannabe starlets are just reaching 4 years to consent... What's that Mr D? Can't quite hear through the muffle of that black mask and cape.. you're claiming to be my parental unit?
- Jehovah, Zanussi, United Kingdom, 30/11/2012 2:35

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7339

Messianic Trees wrote:

By ignoring the lawless internet the judge proves he's on another planet

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Dm take a look at the right panel of your articles and realise what hypocrites you are being on this issue.
- WereWoof, Redditch, United Kingdom, 30/11/2012 6:31

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Its a good thing the Daily Mail's around on the internet. I'd never know intimate details of US reality shows that your print cousins would look down their noses at, or what Suri Cruise was wearing today and all those oh so important things in my life.. Plus which wannabe starlets are just reaching 4 years to consent... What's that Mr D? Can't quite hear through the muffle of that black mask and cape.. you're claiming to be my parental unit?
- Jehovah, Zanussi, United Kingdom, 30/11/2012 2:35

After the special pleading come the whataboutery.

We await evidence that the Internet has hacked thousands of citizen's phones, bribed policemen, shamelessly promoted the most distasteful aspects of the Conservative party or tampered with Queen's evidence.

Stephen Glover

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