Grammar Saves Lives

Today the BBC has shown that grammar is very important. Watch this BBC news reader announce the headlines.



Before you say anything, yes I realise my grammar is not perfect. It is however very funny to laugh at people's unintentionally funny grammar mistakes. Grammar has also not been a strong point of other CF members as well.

Do you think Sarah Jane will get a job in the BBC now?

Sanity Returns to the BBC

Last Night's Newsnight

Thank God the BBC News' mid life crisis is over. No more beard on Paxman.

This Is Only The Beginning

Dimbleby gets down with the kidz

I told you this tomfoolery had only just begun. Look what happened on Newsnight yesterday evening.

For the love of God when will this stop.

The BBC Gets Down With The Kids

What's going on in the BBC at the moment? Is it just me or ever since Paxman's beard is everyone on the political team trying to out do each other in youthful activities to get down with the kids.

As I mentioned before Paxman kicked off things with his beard; which, unlike 95% of the general public, I hate. Then we had Newsnight invaded by zombies and dancing the thriller, reminiscent of student costumes venturing out to clubs in the last week of October. Now it's Dimbleby's turn with a tattoo. The man's 75 years old, does he realise this?

Personally I think politics on the BBC is having a mid-life crisis. Unable to drive porsches around the news room they grow beards, do silly dances or draw on themselves. Whatever happened to the fun but real political anchors that didn't need to act like teenagers to get notice? What ever happened to the interesting but true political broadcasters like Sir Robin Day and his bow tie*? I'd much prefer a real life quirky character to Dimbleby's attempt to become an adolescent. Mind you I bet there will be a few mentions of the tattoo on Question Time. Perhaps that is all what this saga is about, an attempt by the shows host to have an off the wall debate for late night Thursday television.

Bring back Sir Robin Day.

*Yes I know he is dead, that's why I said like.

Update

Well the people have spoken and currently I am running to the hills from a pro Dimbleby lynch mob. I have lots of complaints about this article so it seems the vast majority of you want the newsreaders pretending to be hip, hop and happening. You'll come to my side when you see Huw Edwards break dancing on air or Finoa Bruce roller blading whilst reading the headlines. I want real quirky political anchors, not false ones.

Newsnight Thriller

Zombies take over Newsnight and do a dance.

After Paxman's beard and now this I expect Gavin Esler fly off in a sleigh pulled by reindeer on the last Newsnight before Christmas. 

#YesOliver

Yesterday Colonel Cooper appeared on BBC Three's Free Speech, the youth (and worse) version of Question Time. The CF Chairman in my opinion did very well, much better than Chairman Hao who said people should get over the deaths of thousands of people in 9/11. Cooper was very good on education and proved very well why we should keep zero contract hours. But what did you think? Here is the Twitter account of #YesOliver.

There was lots of support for #YesOliver, some perhaps too keen.

Sadly there were also some other socialist oppressors of the masses appearing too. Laurie Penny is everything wrong with the oppressive Left, Julian Muppet (as he is well known as in Cambridgeshire) signed up to a lot of  Laurie's ideas and Katie Hopkins was right often but as mad as usual.

Overall Oliver did very well because, as he says, he was very SOUND.





It is thus fair to say Oliver's performance was well liked, but not just for his #sound ideas.



Before we kick off however we must mention that BBC Free Speech gave others a chance to shine.



The first of the debate was on zero-contract hours and Oliver did fairly well I showing that these should be kept because only 16% of people think they don't get enough hours. They are a good way for people to work.

Next was the education debate. Oliver spoke well against communist poster girl Laurie Penny who was doing down Michael Gove the saviour of children up and down the country.



















Next was drugs. The Colonel is famous for being a libertarian but what would he say on drug policy? Wisely Cooper doesn't talk about stupid things about drugs policy because in reality no one really cares that much. There are more important areas to reform.





And so with all the debates over the results from a poll of who preformed best was released, don't ask me how this is measured it seemed pretty arbitrary at some points.

 Some people however disagreed.

I think Oliver was very good for Conservative Future let's hope our 18,000 strong group continues to grow.



But let's not rose tint things Oliver did get some stick from those who said #NoOliver.



Never would have thought Colonel Cooper would be called a hack and accused of following Dave completely.



 It's not that arbitrary considering how all benefits revolve around the age of 25.



Work for the Dole in Australia and America led to a drop of over half in the unemployment rating. Compassionate Conservatives are helping young people get the experience to get jobs.



Very odd concept of privatisation when schools are free and use state money. Sounds nationalised to me. Also I do hate incoherent Leftie attack lines, at least get the bare minimum of facts right.



Another classic Leftie line, "it's Thatcher's fault". Why don't we talk about dumbing down of GCSE's over a 13 year long Labour government which was pointed out as being to the determent of children recently by the OECD.

 

The hard core libertarians also got restless with Oliver Cooper.

So there you are. Oliver did very well and thus I am saying #YesOliver.

Top Manufacturing

The BBC is biased against the Right. Time after time it reviews itself and surprise, surprise finds bias on the issues of immigration, Europe, economic news and much more. But there is one programme that seems to be bucking the trend. Top Gear as about the only programme that doesn't have this bias with its news section promoting freedom on the roads, visits Spain to show what happens when you mess up the economy and now shows something a 'little bit special'.

UK manufacturing has been on the rise since the Coalition took power and the fastest growing area in British industry is with cars. Today it was announced that every single area of industry in the UK is growing, the first time this has happened since 1992. Top Gear shows quite well what is going on with the car industry since 2010.