Now magazine invades the BBC

I wake up this morning to the BBC reporting, as a matter of national emergency, that the Tamil Tigers were protesting at the houses of parliament against the civil war. I sit up immediately expecting suicide bombers and AK47's being fought off by civil servants with ties on heads Rambo style.......until i looked up from my bowl of cornflakes to see a couple of hundred people having a picnic surrounded by 1000 police.

What really bothered me about this was the slanted bias the BBC seem to have towards their reporting. This was not a newsworthy item in itself. It did however fit the recent trend following the G20 protests debarcle and therefore according to the keyholder of our national 'independent' conscience, was reportable.

It smacks of the same unimaginative reporting that saw us being bombarded with images of Jade Goody while famine, war and pestilence continue un the wider world unabated. Infact the good people in Ireland respectively crying out against the resurgence in violence could be drowned out by the cute cat up a tree or John Sergeant in shock Stricly vote.

While i accept the tabloid dumbing down of ITV I will not accept that the BBC, a world renowned newshound, should now be ruled by the lowest common denominator and follow the pack. If I wanted to be catered for as an idiot I would subscribe to Bella.

Secondly, why is it considered either valid or correct that I should be listening to the views of other morons. I quote "...and still the bridge at Westminster is blocked. You can email or text us what you think about this". OH. MY. GOD. Do I even care what Mrs Giddings from Dorchester thinks about this ?? Why is it now acceptable that, not only do the BBC report a slanted version of every story, but they ask the mass uneducated to join in.

If you remember the comedy error when the BBC interviewed Guy the taxi driver by mistake as an IT expert. This resulted in widespread ridicule and embaressment for the bigwigs.

Well how come now they are inviting him to pass comment along with the great unwashed? My news is now delivered by housewives and pensioners. Now if that isnt a slanted viewpoint I dont know what is. We might aswell trot out a card each morning with the words "Nobody appreciates me" and "it was better in my day" in place of the news.

One small giggle to prove my point. The disjointed G20 protests that got as much newsreel as the actual summit itself (mind you that said nothing aswell) had approximately 150 causes some of conflicting viewpoints. The BBC covered this almost exclusively (while important necessary protest was taking place in Northern Ireland). And this my dear reader would sum up the intelligence behind those protests and therefore the intelligence the BBC has shown in putting them at the top of the reporting agenda:




BRING BACK PROPER REPORTING ON THINGS THAT MATTER

And another thing...

I am both dissappointed and bemused that upon creating this blog I am apparently unable to be English. Why should I have to choose to associate my genetic soup with that of the Welsh and the Scots and them other ones which noone remembers... is it Guernsey?

I am English, I support England and have an Englishmans house. I will not die of heart disease, do not have alcoholic tendencies, I will buy a round when its my turn, I do not have a chip on my shoulder, am unlikely to bomb fellow countrymen, have never and will never fawnicate with any member of the ovis aries family and have managed to move more than 10 miles away from my village.

Grrrrrr.....

Whereupon HedgeTrimmer realises the error of a nations actions

It occurs to me today that there is something a little perverse about the way in which i have constructed my work ethic over the years.

You see I have always been the first to anally follow the regimented rules and regulations of working life and lunch hours, only to on a daily basis, invade the sanctuary of my private life by working well beyond the boundaries my paymasters impinge........ for free.

Now that, you may say, is simply the British way and I should be commended for upholding the culture we all cling on to so dearly and deperately. Put me up there with Winston Churchill and the Unknown Soldier.

But why on this green earth do i then feel guilty (having quit my job) for leaving work on time despite having had nothing to do all day. My only current purpose is to serve as a human comfort blanket to my peers who are deliriously happy to pay my over inflated wage demands in order for me to read the entire internet and stare out of the window.

It would make more sense to pay me to do volunteer work for a week and be on the end of a mobile phone. This is the equivalent of being neutered. Thats it!!! I have been neutered by my employer in order to somehow feed the company ego and the notion that it owns me. Meanwhile I am still perspiring over the concept of an early finish despite that fact that for months I have worked the equivalent of a 6 day week over 5 days.

Is it perverse of me to wonder how this country can breed a workforce with the same moral dilemma as myself in general, while at the same time breeding the plethora of scum sucking work dodgers who are paid to live next door to me and have barbeques while i sweat for the greater good?

The solution?? to take a more continental stance (a la Sweden and Switzerland).....all leave work on time and admit that actually the 3million unemployed in this country do have a job its just..... shock horror I am doing it and not just for free.... I am paying the government for the pleasure

In writing this I have just worked out how to fill the void of the next work idle days... I am going to write the manifesto for my new state and work out how I go about annexing the Isle of Mull