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Mike Knowles of the CEP exposes the BBC

The BBC’s bias against England exposed by its own coverage of the Olympics
Wednesday, 20 Aug 2008 08:47

In its CEEFAX August 19th bulletin,’ stated Michael Knowles, head of the CEP media unit in his weekly message to the Campaign membership, ‘the BBC described Chris Hoy the triple gold medalist as ‘the Scot’. On one occasion as ‘the flying Scotsman’.However, it described Victoria Pendleton the triumphant women’s sprint cyclist Olympic champion from Bedfordshire and Christine Ohuruogo the 400 metre gold medalist from London as ‘Britons’, not once as English. In the first week of the Games both BBC reporters and BBC CEEFAX described Nicole Cook who took the first gold medal for the British team as Welsh, even as ‘the Welsh Princess’ but Rebecca Adlington who achieved two gold medals in swimming only as ‘British’, never English.’
What we are witnessing, and consistently witnessing,’ stated Mr Knowles ‘is BBC bias against England and the English people.The BBC will do all it can not to bring attention to the national identity of English people. The BBC is acting very politically. Its refusal to have a BBC England and substituting nine regional broadcasting units for England is political. It regards acknowledgement of England’s distinct identity as a threat to the existence of the United Kingdom. It is not a threat. And the BBC has no right within its charter to act in such a pronounced political manner.
The BBC has organised itself as a broadcaster into ‘nations and regions’. The ‘nations’ are Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the distinct national identity of which it recognises and promotes. It refuses to recognises England as a nation. It treats England as nine regions. It will not recognise our distinct English identity. All this is political.'’The BBC should not discriminate against England. It should not act politically. It should report impartially and fairly. If in reporting on TeamGB it makes mention of the specific national identity of Welsh and Scottish athletes, it should make mention likewise of the English identity of English athletes.


michael-knowles@tiscali.co.uk

Northumbrian

It's correct what he says, but as long as there is a British olympic team as opposed to an English one, then all we'll be doing is scrutinising every broadcaster's comments and adding up the discrepancies, which is not a satisfactory state of affairs.

cassie

I agree with you Northumbrian, but it is worse than that, the double standards of the BBC and other broadcasters have [yet again] been exposed.

It is all unnecessary and quite simple really if - and this is a big 'if' - those in authority truly believed in Britain was a union of separate nations. In the context of the Olympics there should be only one kind of competitor for so called 'Team GB' and references to 'the Brit from Edinburgh' (or London etc) would be quite sufficient and consistent, but oh no, we must never forget that there are Scots, Welsh and Irish because the vast majority of British competitors come from England, even though some of them regard themselves as British muslims etc! The Little Scotlander mindset rules here also!


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Gregory Lauder-Frost

The BBC is controlled by the Broad Left. It is pro-Eu, pro-Multiculturalism, (and so therefore anti-nation state) and against just about everything else remotely traditional in our society and nation.

the Monday Club for decades highlighted 'charge sheets' against the incredible bias of the BBC. Other MPs have also complained. The fact is that the non-Conservative Party never moved against this bastion of Leftism and now a whole generation is brainwashed.

ANGLO-STAFFS

May I just say well done to Roger Federer for last nights win.

cassie

You may!


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alfred the great

Why is it when you are asked to fill in a form from this shower.you can be ,scottish,welsh .or white british.There is a multitude of other choices,but not english.This country most of us live in is england,and we all are supposed to speak english.Is this not the case that this scottish mafia in whitehall,are trying to cleanse us.BTW i am white english, i hope no one is offended.

Jeff

Just write "ENGLISH"in the space marked "OTHER",If there isn't one,make one..

cassie

One has only to recall the 2001 Census in which the only group prevented from recording its ethnic origins was the English. Of course, if your true agenda is the elimination of England and the English as a nation, you ensure as much as possible that there are no records.

To those who, from time to time, accuse concerned English patriots of being anti-Scottish merely because of what we say, I point to all the anti-English things they've done!



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Baron von Lotsov

Well you know why that is. It's basically conditioning us to accept EU regions.

I hate the BBC. All I ever use it for is to work out what the left wing traitors are planning next.

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