Let’s talk about BBC

[briantrumpet]

Also heavily redone in the studio.

Music, you say?

https://ncap.cyclechat.net/threads/the-naca-music-art-general-creativity-thread.328/

 

[farfromtheland]

More Songs about Buildings and Food is my fave.

 

[briantrumpet]

Why is this 'news'? We already know he's a racist living overseas for tax purposes. Is this the BBC's effort to get xenophobic Reform voters to trust the BBC?

 

[Psamathe]

Why is this 'news'? We already know he's a racist living overseas for tax purposes. Is this the BBC's effort to get xenophobic Reform voters to trust the BBC?

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Farage gone quiet so BBC need to keep their (or Robbie Gibb's) cause going?

 

[briantrumpet]

Farage gone quiet so BBC need to keep their (or Robbie Gibb's) cause going?

I have made another complaint, as much as anything to see if they can dream up some justification.

 

[Psamathe]

Why is this 'news'? We already know he's a racist living overseas for tax purposes. Is this the BBC's effort to get xenophobic Reform voters to trust the BBC?

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Although with eg UK Government providing £600m guarantees to an overseas resident (avoiding UK tax) for a plant based outside UK employing non-UK workers, you can see why he's lost confidence

(from 2024) The UK government is providing a €700m (£600m) guarantee for the billionaire Jim Ratcliffe to build the biggest petrochemical plant in Europe in 30 years that will turbocharge plastic production.
...
But despite admitting the plant’s adverse impact on climate, biodiversity, the environment and the risks to social and human health, the British government has provided financial guarantees of €700m to support the building of Project One in Antwerp.

The support from the UK government’s export finance department, an arm of the Department for Business and Trade, to Ratfliffe, ... exceeds that promised by the same department for countries in Africa and the Middle East to adapt to climate breakdown.
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...jim-ratcliffe-carbon-bomb-petrochemical-plant

 

[briantrumpet]

Although with eg UK Government providing £600m guarantees to an overseas resident (avoiding UK tax) for a plant based outside UK employing non-UK workers, you can see why he's lost confidence

Worth remembering for obscenely rich people like that, 'enough' is never enough. They are destined to be eternally miserable.

 

[Pblakeney]

Worth remembering for obscenely rich people like that, 'enough' is never enough. They are destined to be eternally miserable.

Also worth noting that while he seems to be blaming the current government he moved to Monaco in 2020 while the tories were in charge.
He is just another tax dodger who made most of his money from government grants.

 

[secretsqirrel]

Also worth noting that while he seems to be blaming the current government he moved to Monaco in 2020 while the tories were in charge.
He is just another tax dodger who made most of his money from government grants.

Serial whinger. What is it about being a multi billionaire that makes a person so miserable.

 

[briantrumpet]

Also worth noting that while he seems to be blaming the current government he moved to Monaco in 2020 while the tories were in charge.
He is just another tax dodger who made most of his money from government grants.

I think it was probably this 'news item' that annoyed me last time - complaining about benefits for immigrants. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15x4x7p93lo - most of his claims then were debunked.

 

[Pblakeney]

I think it was probably this 'news item' that annoyed me last time - complaining about benefits for immigrants. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15x4x7p93lo - most of his claims then were debunked.

How much has he claimed in benefits/grants?
I've not been counting but it will be many, many millions. Greedy tax dodging hypocrite.

 

[Psamathe]

Serial whinger. What is it about being a multi billionaire that makes a person so miserable.

Another example

INEOS threatens to close UK plant unless it can dodge EU pollution rules​

The chemicals giant said thousands of jobs could be lost unless it is exempt from EU clean air and water regulations, documents reveal

An analysis of data from the Environment Agency (EA) also reveals the plant clocked up 176 permit violations between 2014 and 2017, 90 of which related to air and water emissions. An EA spokesperson said: “air emissions are well over legal limits and this poses a risk to the environment”.

The threat to close the site – made in a letter to business secretary Greg Clark in October last year – comes as the UK prepares to leave the EU, removing the power of EU institutions to enforce environmental standards.

 

[briantrumpet]

Farage gone quiet so BBC need to keep their (or Robbie Gibb's) cause going?

It does seem very likely... gotta keep the trickle of Reform-friendly items coming. Weirdly, given the BBC's keenness on 'balance', I don't see overtly pro-immigration pieces appearing on BBC News. Odd that.

 

[briantrumpet]

I do wonder if neither Starmer nor Burnham dealing with the Robbie Gibb thing (and leaving him in post despite his Reform-leaning pedigree) is because it helps justify their immigration-sceptic stances: a coward's way out of trying to argue that people with brown skin can make a positive contribution to UK PLC. Gibb in effect is their shield: "Reform voters are safe voting for us because look who we've left at the BBC calling the shots!" Ditto Mason, Webb and Kuenssberg.

 

[briantrumpet]

It does seem very likely... gotta keep the trickle of Reform-friendly items coming. Weirdly, given the BBC's keenness on 'balance', I don't see overtly pro-immigration pieces appearing on BBC News. Odd that.

Others noting the same. This 'both-sidesism' shouldn't work just one way.