Bbc Boris Bias Conspiracy

[Gromit]

Our Gaffe prone Prime Minister managed to cock up laying flowers at the cenotaph yesterday by laying them upside down.

Fortunately a mix up at the BBC Breakfast News programme resulted not in yesterday footage of the embarrassing incident being broadcast. Instead the BBC broadcast an old clip of Boris as London Mayor laying his flowers properly.

[Gromit]

https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/11/bbc-shows-three-year-old-clip-boris-johnson-instead-wreath-laying-blunder-11078714/

[emmie]

i confess he looked ill at ease at the Cenotaph. How do you know that they showed old footage. I watched the service at 11am and didn't see a problem, but then i was wiping away a few tears after the Last Post...

[spathiphyllum]

Well... It would be unfair for Boris to take the light away from the usual Anti Corbyn Rememberance Sunday opportunity to take a stab.

[spathiphyllum]

In fact I think it's a tradition for anti corbynites to use Remembrance Sunday to take shots at Corbyn and use the remembrance day as a warped opportunity to force their political propaganda, from bowing heads to how to lay wreaths to Marxist slander.

[Gromit]

// Instead the BBC broadcast an old clip of Boris as London Mayor //

Boris had in fact ended his term as London Mayor in May. He was there as Foreign Secretary.

[spathiphyllum]

Boris was mayor until 2016. The article you linked to Gromit says the video they used was three years old. As far as my maths goes, that would mean he was mayor at the time,

[jim360]

I don't see why I or anybody else should care about a mix-up either in the footage shown or, for that matter, in the original incident. If you like the guy then you'd forgive a minor slip, and even on a list of reasons to dislike Johnson, laying a wreath at the wrong orientation seems rather low.

[spathiphyllum]

Ah he was mayor until may.. I don't think what position he was there as has any relevance more than the BBC using old footage. I pay them £25 a month you know. I don't want to pay for this tory propaganda.

[spathiphyllum]

I'm going to stop paying for my TV licence. What are they going to do about it? Arrest me? Come and try Yawn. I'm not paying for this tory bias.

[jim360]

Re spath: according to my Maths, May 2016 comes earlier in the year than November 2016.

[spathiphyllum]

It's a shame that the metro can't get such basic maths correct.

[emmie]

your maths is skewed, if you pay 25 quid a month for your tv licence you are paying double what i pay...

[spathiphyllum]

Mine costs me £25.

[spathiphyllum]

Oops, I just checked it's actually £13.50 sorry Emmie.

[Peter Pedant]

calm down, calm down everyone
and JOm that last comment was unworthy of you

anyone remember the field day the press had when Michael Foot the then head of the Labour turned up at the Cenotaph in a repaired Donkey Jacket ?

I think it was an editorial decision ( taken at the highest level blah blah blah) so that the Beeb could not possibly be seen to be partisan on the Labour side by implicitly ridiculing such a duck-head thing

I dont think the Beeb is pro Tory - we get huge slabs of thinly disguised marxist propaganda whenever they talk about southern africa - RSA, Zim and Angola. Did anyone notice how the south africa rugby side in the recent championships was only mentioned in the same sentence as Mandela?

[Gromit]

jim360

Depends on whether you believe the BBC error was genuine. Or a deliberate act to spare Boris’ blushes.

[Peter Pedant]

// If you like the guy then you'd forgive a minor slip......///
yeah christ I mean look at the minor slips they are forgiving the President stateside hur hur hur

[Peter Pedant]

deliberate decision to avoid looking biassed in an election where the butt of the joke is standing for PM.

[spathiphyllum]

"Depends on whether you believe the BBC error was genuine."

I don't think you an class putting in 3 year old footage as being an "error" of cause it was deliberate.

[naomi24]

What a load of rubbish.