Robinson – “I Must Try Harder”
When the Political Editor of the BBC is writing public memos to himself suggesting that he he “must try harder” because he managed to miss the fact the coalition was coming, things aren’t exactly going well. Just like he missed the leadership coups when his sources’s Blackberries were vibrating right under his nose.
Robinson took a month making a documentary about the coalition negotiations before seeing the light, Guido was outlining the contours of the coming coalition before election day. It became blindingly obvious the Tories were not going to get a majority. Is better-late-than-never-Robinson really the best talent that the BBC’s vast news budget can buy?
The race to take over from Robinson is well under-way, this mea culpa should help those vying for the job.
Just give more air time to Andrew Neil……………….. the beeb doesn’t really need many other political journalists.
Brillo has a way of getting under the skin of all politicians……….. more please……
Don’t forget Paxman
but yes, Brillo vs Ms Perfect Mum round2 please
I agree Andrew Neil would be a good choice. Nick Robinscum has been a bias Liebour supporter throughout so I suspect he only saw/wanted one outcome- Mc Doom and Co. Alternatively. could Laura whats her name do both jobs as they both speak bias rubbish. I vote for severe cuts at the BBC and a severe reduction in the licence fee. Its scope has gone way beyond its remit and the BBC needs to be reduced in what it does, unless of course it is privatised and privately funded. It certainly does not comply with its independent broadcasting remit. The Complaint Department needs to be severely cut. As Guido highlighted the staff there get bored with complaints and prefer to be campaigning for Liebour. Furthermore with nearly two hundred executives on salaries above the prime minister the number could be cut by about 80%. The BBC tax needs to be severely cut. Come Dave give us a tax break and cut the imposed licence fee.
The BBC needs to completely change their business model. They could theoretically be self-funding if they sold their high rating shows (like Jonathan Woss) to the commercial networks and used the proceeds to develop new content, of which maybe 5% may become valuable in the future. They have no advertisements and don’t care about ratings so why are they paying ridiculous amounts of money to “keep their talent” at our expense?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Comedy brilliance.
I remember all those articles you wrote saying it was blindingly obvious there would be a hung parliament
NOT.
However, some of us were saying it would be a hung parliament long, LONG before mid April or May 5th
You did a couple of CCHQ what if’s and never conceded that a hung parliament was “blindingly obvious” in them or any other article for what we can only assume was your own strange reasons.
Because CCHQ could read the polls even if most here couldn’t. They were spinning to prepare the way for a Lib pact via bloggers & newspapers.
But you know this, just as you know that it’s going to be revealed in the TV programme tonight that CCHQ had the strategy and negotiations for a hung parliament well in place before the election.
BTW Whatever happened to the fuckwits who were predicting a 100 majority for the Conservatives ? They were hilarious.
Well they would have had a huge majority if they had the same size constituences are Nuliebore.
there’s one of the fuckwits now
Everyone could see a hung parliament was on the way, long before the election. Many voters interviewed on the telly said that was their preference, for it would mean a Tory Government without a majority and that would prevent it from attacking the NHS, Schools, Police, Welfare, VAT etc. BUT this was not what we got.
If a coalition was to emerge, most thought it would be a Lab/Lib.Dem. coalition, not many saw a Condem emerging.
Although I really do not like Nick Robinson, if he failed to see the Condems governing the country he can be forgiven for that.
Paxman is as bad as Humphries, all bark no bite
Humphries is biased, Paxo is turning into a pussy cat and Brillo has been and continues to be the king of the political interrogators. His grasp of policies is second to none and he listens to the squirming answers of politicians to hold them to account. Humphries and Paxo have to follow a script and do not think on their feet. From Major’s woeful government through the appalling liebor governments to the current coalition Brillo has outshone them.
Is that why he was so shit against the Militwats, Balls and Burnham ?
Brillo knows the answer to the question. Most of the other dopes don’t – so they simply accept the bull they’ve been given as the ‘truth’.
A good journalist does his/her homework. The problem the entire media class has is that they think they don’t have to – they’re too clever, by half.
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Exactly – and which fuckwit ‘interviewer’ or researcher bothered to look at the National Debt figures which doubled 2002/7 and bearded the blatant lies of the likes of Mrs Cooper-Bollox (the supposedly female of the pair) and McDoom himself about having ‘repaid debt’?
Total overpaid fucking incompetents the lot of them!
No Humphries turns nasty every time he interviews (or rather shouts down) a front bench Labour politician.
Paxman has a healthy sneer for everyone.
Neil would urge Genghis Khan to move further to the right.
Neil and Humphries should go.
The BBC is a publicly funded left wing agitprop lobby group that is working overtime to eliminate the Coalition. It is in dissaray and beside itself in fury that Labour is not in power until the end of time. It rarely interviews members of this government and is obsessed with the saddo Labour kiddy wonks hoping to become leader.
The BBC interrogates the government and interviews it’s friends.
The BBC went downhill when it ceased using independent expert opinion and draws upon in-house “experts” – all on-message lefties with the right diverse, PC credentials. None are truly independent thinkers but are operators loyal to the company credo like the hideous Robinson, the execrable Marr, the sinister Bowen and the unpleasant Naughtie.
Robinson misses the facts and the trends because he is a BBC company man and is as blinkered as the rest of them. I suspect the friendly briefings, lunches on public money and jolly little get togethers are over. What they will do when the Coalition ceases to advertise in The Guardian and this nasty little mean minded tree killing rag goes into meltdown is going to be fascinating to watch……
Spot on HW
Thirded. Don’t mean to be rude but, yawn. Bit of a mea culpa myself, but I quite like the BBC but i don’t really give a shit about it. I’ll substitute quite easily. I quite like the Guarndian crossword too and I fucking love Polly Toynbee & George Moonbat. I shit you not but the lad did an essay on bringing back air baloons! Fuck ‘em; if they’re worth owt then people will buy it.
what do you expect from a former young conservative ?
I see that the moderators on Toenials’ blog are blotting out any criticism of their ‘Political Editor’!
No change there then!!
Just heard a Radio 4 interview with a diplomat who was supporting Cameron’s straight talking. The Beeb interviewer admitted that they had asked four other ex-diplomats, who had all agreed with a bit of outspokeness.
You could sense the Beeb’s frustration, phoning round, hoping for a critic. All Beeb news now seems to begin, “The Coalition’s policies on ……. have been criticised as dangerous by….”
They are shameful.
Fourthed HW. A very nicely put summary of that rather unpleasent organisation the BBC. More please.
Neil is the best by a mile …. he does research for a start…
At least Robinson shows a bit of humility…it wouldn’t go amiss on this website!
There will be charges? Whatever happened about that?
Why? What’s humility got to do with ability and accuracy?
“we were ‘junior partner’ to Americans in 1940″ – David Camoron
Humility…he is a lightweight..
Humility…I must remember that excuse..
that’s call me Dave’s excuse
scrap the BBC , Unless it can be independent of the state , And toenails should stay uplabours arse .
Jeremy Vine just said ‘if you’ve been to a bullfight, we’d love to hear from and know….(pause)…..Why?”
Err…coz I were in Spain and locals were off to a bullfight, numbnuts! What a tosser.
Hi , My names Tim Lovejoy and i am a legend .
You’re not wrong’ from the Guardian
‘ this was when Lovejoy was just about bearable, or perhaps in some way even necessary, an idiot-mascot for the boom years.’
Hi, my name’s John Thomas and I don’t give a toss
I frequently give a toss.
Listening to the Labour ‘leadership’ ‘hopefuls’ on 5Live. What a shower of sh1t. Not one of them electable (thank God) outside the tribal belts.
They showed a bit on the news channel , they looked like total twats
They looked like total twats becare they are total twats…..
But I studied politics at university. Citizens will respect me, accord me my due deference and then thank me when I modernise their lives and enrich our culture with more immigrant labour voters. I am not geeky, gormless or annoying unlike what the tabloids say – but I do like bananas and having people treat me like a king.
The Militwunts look as though they belong to some other species.
Yes, Fuckwits
of course the Militwats are fuckwits
Blair clones are by definition fuckwits
ask Nick and Dave
I liked that tony blair
because you’re a fuckwit too dear
They do – they’re Semites.
We are preserving the system where Labour gets more seats for fewer votes because the Conservative and Liberals’ plans would be gerrymandering.
I can’t explain why so I’ll just say again GERRYMANDERING
I do not recognize that characterization of events.
He lost all credibility as a kournalist when he admitted that he did not & could not report anything regarding Damian McBride because he would “lose his lobby pass” – & presumably one source of tax payer subsidised food & drink.
The man is a joke – just like all of the other lobby journalists – they are not fit for purpose.
They’re there to report on what’s happening, not to suck up to evil, bloated pieces of sh*t like McBride.
Bit harsh? It’s a gig and some mug’s gotta do it. They’re not paid by the scoop. It’s a bit of a noble trade sometimes and just because the lad fucked up McBride ain’t really that big news. John Presott at Chilcott could be funny but as Stanislav said:
Chilcott, (verb), to dust down softly
My ‘ull friend went to’t Chilcoot. Saw all kinds of animals and outdoor things. It were a long bloody trek by all accounts, in the final dialysis. Type 2 diabetes, as I said to Pauline when she laughed at me cocktail sausage. When I were slaving in’t gallery the little fella was covered in sweet ‘n’ sour an it took all them cleaning lasses to lick it off. Coulda sworn it were’t boat that were moving. Had to fight ‘em off wit pan scrubber. Ashcroft. Ho’ level’s as far as I climbed – know what I mean? Didn’t have time for any of that book learning. My greasy pole came up short. Middle class. Thatcher. Too busy introducing the little fireman to all them trumpets down Holderness Road. Working class. That Brillo bloke, he gets on my goatee. Waiter! Bring me half a dozen of them spring rollers and then I’ll have every main dish on’t list. Can I ‘ave a discount? Go on, Won Ton. Go on, lad.
O/T Did anyone see Glen Beck last night ? Fucking scary , talking abut the weather underground , Reminded me of Labour
Linky??
http://www.foxnews.com/glennbeck/index.html
GFM thanks for the breadcrumbs
RVM I think this is just a taster
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4296088/beck-inside-a-radical-manifesto
Fuckin scary init ?
he’s not called the mong frightener for nothing
No i didn’t see Glen Beck last night – i’d like to leave my IQ in three figures.
-999?
“journalist” – apologies all round
Go and sit in the corner with the dunce hat on
And those nice pvc thigh length boots…
“this mea culpa should help those vying for the job”.
So who’s vying for the job?
Will they be balanced and impartial?
Will they look like a spazzy 6th former?
Watch out for Will Straw, independent blogger and savant extraordinaire.
Remember – you heard it here first!
Didnt he deal drugs or something ?
I have no problem with anyone who wants to shift a bit of pot, i don’t hold that against Straw junior.
What i will hold against him is the fact that he’s a stupid c*nt. It’s made worse because of who his father is, i shouldn’t hate Will because of Jack, but i do.
It seems a c*nt begets a c*nt.
Yep, the apple does not fall very far from the tree.
Whatever that might mean, Grasshopper.
Don’t forget Peston’s dad is in the House of Lords as a (surprise! surprise!) Labour peer.
Peston’s been way off kilter on this BP thing; he err…swallowed it hook, line and drill bit. I think, if anything, lessons learned from this disaster are that it’s proper brilliant drilling miles off-shore. Result.
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It doesn’t matter how impartial the reporter is, the BBC editorial team will ensure bias is maintained.
BBC News late last night for example – the UK’s Prime Minister is on an important official visit to India, big business deals being pushed through, etc etc. What does the BBC lead with? An 11 minute article about changes to immigration law – in Arizona. Followed by the Pakistan air crash, the heatwave in Moscow and various other stories. It was 17 minutes in before Dave got a mention.
Gerrymandering!! The words “pot” and “kettle” come to mind. OK if Labour befefit but not if its a fair division of constituants! Listening to the 5 “hopefuls” n 5 live, absolutely abysmal.
Translation please.
I think the comment is to do with washing-up and doing the weekly shop.
Get back in the kitchen !
When you lie in pigshit and filth you acclimatise and no longer feel defiled.
Clearly Robbo has been in the shit for far too long, got far too pally with the scum and lost his nose for a story.
Hubris for him, schadenfreude for us.
Ed Balls just let the cat out of the bag by admitting the leadership contest had been going on since October!
What a bunch of utter Hunts..
I’m sure the BBC would give as much airtime to a Tory leadership battle
Lol Strauss dropped by Akmal after good start by england 22-0
Will they be balanced and impartial ?
In your dreams, Pump. The bbc has fine tuned selecting left leaning journos , down to a fine art.
Someone must know how many labour mps or exmps have worked for the BBC ?
I’ve been doing some training for my new job as a carer this week.
Bowel Management was a load of shit and there is a test at the end of Bladder Management tomorrow but I should piss all over that.
If you need help with that Bowel Management module, I’m your man!
I think it is testament to the quality of the FCS and the YC that 2 of its main protagonist’s c1985-87 are now leading lights in the media. I suspect you enjoy your battles with Mr Robinson now as much as you did then.
I wouldnt read to much into Robinsons daliancies in the Young Conservatives after all I believe a Certain Ed Balls was also briefly connected with the Conservative party whilst at University.
He gets a bit snarky and has had a quarter century sense of humour failure.
He’s a fucking pantomime dame – without the witticisms.
a typical young conservative then
Rather like the preening White Queen of the Guardian.
“Mind the windows Tino “
A Flintoff, England v West Indies, summer 2004. Remember it fondly. Some good sledging there by Fred!
I have a little willy
So did Maggie.
Just watched a clip on 5 live with the 5 hopeful liebour leaders with that Victoria Derbyshire.
What a bunch of muppets,all of them in a state of utter denial,studio audience was fairly critical and just when it was hotting up BBC news decided to move off it.
Is this the same Victoria of whom the corridors of the BBC etc etc etc yeah thought so. No surprises there then
Champagne? Empty bottles? No, that was Jane Garvey, Adrian Childs’ ex Mrs.
Both Childs and JG were the Blairs’ guests at Chequers I seem to recall.
Childs look like he is missing a chromosome. Golly.
Adrian Chiles is cro-magnon man, look at the forehead.
The record will show that when scandal and controversy came to light concerning the Labour Government, Robinson frequently went missing. His blog remained silent on some of the most explosive stories. This speaks volumes as to his impartiality.
cook out 42-1
The Mili Bros say they are guided by the principles they grew up with, would those be Marxist principles?
And Atheism. I wonder how that goes down with constituents in certain, shall we say, unforgiving religions.
Even if God does not exist it serves us well to believe he does rather than accord such authority to the State.
its coz they iz commienazis innits !? ! dey iz like dat adolf stalin bloke so dey iz! !!! !
fuud goes in mowth ?!? ?! ?
No – the anti-defamation league.
“Shalom,you goys.”
Nick Robinson is just a tory twat… nuff said
Nick Robinson – Former president of the Oxford University Conservative Association and National Chairman of the Young Conservatives
Bercow? Another former Tory. Leopards can change their spots, old boy. Particularly in politics.
What is Toenails’ top priority? Telling the truth or continuning earning a six figure salary, full expense account, little or no in-house criticism and a massive final salary pension at the end of it?
I’ll give you just the one guess.
once a twat always a twat old bean
Brillo can not only get under the skins of politicians he also gets up quite a few skirts. Very adept @handling c unts is our brillo
Fair play Beast. Every man needs to have a hobby.
he was shit against the Labour Leadership twats though
only Abbot got a grilling
…your point being…?
So will Ed win it ?
Can i have his job?
Its a lot more pleasant around here since that gobshite JGM2 disappeared up his own arse.
Nick Robinson is merely a symptom of the general degenerative disease of old pal’s and good old boy’s that infest the BBC
Auntie’s opinions and interpretation of the facts of news stories as they choose to broadcast them it is where the rot sets in.
Robinson is just the parrot that squawks the opinionated brief he is given, a BBC mouth piece, nothing more.
Don’t you mean ringpiece?
A High Court judge has re-ignited the donations scandal that ended Wendy Alexander’s leadership of Scottish Labour.
The English judge has ordered a court hearing to decide whether the full facts of “Wendygate” should be put into the public domain for the first time, The Herald can reveal.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/bid-to-reveal-wendygate-facts-1.1044428
The smell lingers longer with Labour.
The BBC seems to go in for a particular suburban middle-class ‘chap’ type for this job – Marr, then Robinson. Neil would be fantastic, though he’s too sensible to get bogged down in the absurdity of it. My preference is someone who isn’t in the running – Katie Razzall, but that’s only so I could se a lot more of her.
Gordon Brown would the ideal candidate for BBC impartiality…
I love her magazine
..can I load her magazine?
Go Balls !
Robinson’s talent is far far eclipsed by his immense ego and sense of self importance, almost to politician levels in fact.
He isn’t even close
Anyone who can see the wood from the trees is rarely popular with others. Also-rans get the best jobs because they don’t threaten the egos of those who appoint them.
Ability is rarely promoted.
Politicians especially are jealous of anyone who can actually make a good decision. Petraeus, for example, should have been appointed to run Afghanistan a long time ago, but Obama preferred Petraeus not to be given the chance.
Stalin was jealous of Zhukov. Hitler too thought he knew best. Only when the shit hits the fan do the capable get turned to out of desperation (except by total nutters like Hitler). Once the crisis is past, they are got rid of again smartish.
Robinson was chosen as someone who would not outshine Gordon Brown, or Blair. You have to say he has been a success. If politicians haven’t got a clue, they prefer media folk who are equally clueless reporting on their actions. Anyone who understood what lemons they were dealing with, would be got rid of in seconds.
Channel 4 has taken the art of mediocrity to another level, by drowning out anything resembling intelligent comment. With their own intellects challenged beyond breaking point, they have no choice but to crush the free flow of information. Media front men like Robinson, Jon Snow etc are low lifes desperately worried they will be found out. Their whole existence is orientated around disguising their genetic inferiority, and in turn they know they are protecting the incompetence of the powerful from exposure. It’s a case of ‘you hide mine. I’ll hide yours.’ Robinson is the best.
“Their whole existence is orientated around disguising their genetic inferiority,”
You sir, are a fucking nutter.
Are you sure it wasn’t you I saw standing next to Hitler in that picture in the Reichstag?
Little cock Robinson is now like a dog without a friendly arse to lick or sniff
I hope that he gets cancer
Call me old fashioned
Call me irresponsible – call me unreliable
Throw in undependable too
Do my foolish alibis bore you
Well I’m not too clever – I just adore you
David Starkey is a likely candidate, he is about a century behind everyone else. Perfect candidate for BBC journalism.
Hello
I am a bellend in my own lunchtime
3 minutes to go
What’s needed is another good old Etonian to keep dave cosy! You really couldn’t make it up.
James Landale by any chance?
Robinson also should have tried a bit harder at reporting reality when he was spending all his time equating Gordon Brown with Churchill and trying to tell people that Gordon Brown single-handedly saved the whole planet and that the debt was nothing to worry about.
He also should have mentioned the total debt (ie running into trillions) instead of trying to pass-off a single-year’s debt as if it was the total debt.
He also should have disputed the fact that a cut in the budget specifically means that nurses, teachers, and police, will all be sacked, and that a cut of, say, £20k would directlly/always lead to the instant sacking of a teacher who’s on 20k, instead of the fact that the budget cut could be used to make them more efficent with less admin staff and less quangos and non-jobs. I mean, “cheerleading development officers” – for fuck’s sake.
He’s a useless little shit.
‘I mean, “cheerleading development officers” – for fuck’s sake.
He’s a useless little shit.’
No he’s not, he’s an officially appointed ‘cheerleading development officer’. They all are.
The present co-alition government see the BBC as the prime leader in media discourse. They obviously see a role for them in the continued propaganda the dole out. Despite Jeremy Hunt’s desire to ‘reduce’ the licence fee, what’s the betting nothing happens and they continue in the present form. This will mean that Mark Byford can keep his £400,000 per year pension
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/7897113/BBC-Deputy-DG-Mark-Byford-in-line-for-400000-pension.html
Public service MY ARSE
Its particularly pleasing as he was trying to take a swipe at the blogosphere!
Brillo asks hard questions without coming across as a Hunt like Humphries or Paxman, he’s a class above.
Brillo is superb. I used to think he was a tosser but then I’d been reading Private Eye too much. The Eye has gone right down the shitter in the last decade or so.
I agree. The only thing I can’t understand is why a man of his intellect worries so much about his hair (or lack of it). He’s dresses well, he’s entertaining, who cares if he’s a bit thin on top? I certainly don’t! It’s the weave and hair colour that makes me giggle at times.
Brillo aside the BBC’ political elite really are a bunch of fucking retards
Toenails
Laura deformed jaw Huntburger
Jug Ears Marr (who happily acts as the official Liebour spokesman telling us no election)
Labout shit eater Essler
Rat face Wark
Sheena Easton (I believe everything the Liebour Government tells me)
Robert Pissant (Yeeeeeessssssss beeeeeee peeeeeee haaavvee…..)
Richard Baconhead
Victoria Pollard at Radio 5
John Pinhead
All of Radio 4 Toady show
Did I miss anyone out?
Yes. All the boxticking ‘managers’ you don’t see behind the scenes filling their boots whilst commissioning utter piffle. Comedy show stuffed with lefty millionaires (did you say ‘gollywog’ you c’unt?), childish and patronising programmes about this and that, zero credible science content anywhere, global warming propaganda, shilling for vacuous and oppressive statism. It’s grim and only brainwashed collectivists think otherwise, and best of all, that YOU should pay for their viewing.
The Learned Elders Of Zion, perhaps?
You forgot Kirsty Wark.
No I didn’t, she’s on the list
When the mad one eyed deformed jawed jock bummer was in power the BBC ‘bigged him up’ as the most important man in the world and what a great statesman he was (even though Barry Obama didn’t want to be seen anywhere near him) yet the BBC said of David Cameron in India, “Why would India take note of the leader of a small island off the coast of Europe”
So what changed BBC bummers?
………….because that small island off the coast of Europe once ruled a large part of the Globe – and ruled it well.
Only when the indigenous natives got to run the parts of what once was the glorious British Empire, did their horrible shitty countries go to the dogs.
Robinson is hardly mensa material and has an unfortunate chrome dome. Brillo is pretty sharp, but a figure of fun. The least said about Marr the better.
Crick is by far the best man.
Toenails should have stuck to his role as Dangermouse’s side kick