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2007-08-19 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 The drama staff were overruled because of concerns that the story would perpetuate stereotypes of young Muslims in Britain.

I would be much more worried that a third of their audience would be rooting for the bombers.

Posted by regular joe 2007-08-19 09:50|| 2007-08-19 09:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Not 30% - nowhere near Joe.

Datapoint: the piece of filth (a Doctor!) that tried to detonate the Jeep at Glasgow and got burned to a crisp for his trouble was at a hospital near where I work. Lotsa cops, some tooled-up, helicopter etc.

Some responses I heard: "dunno why we're spending money on him", "I'd pour salt/bleach/etc into the wounds", "the doctors should keep him alive, but in a lot of pain". This from a lot of people from a very wide cross-section of society (Profs to cleaners). Only one person tried to "see things his way"...

I know we're not going to be fortunate all the time, and so I expect to see more 7/7 type events. My mind was made up way back in early 2002 through 2003 - seems the British people are getting that way too.

ps the BBC is very out of touch with the general populace.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-08-19 10:45|| 2007-08-19 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Tony -- what's the asian population in Red Ken's London?

Posted by regular joe 2007-08-19 10:51|| 2007-08-19 10:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Dunno for sure - London has a high %age of all ethnic 'minorities'. Some figures say about 30% of London is ethnic, which now includes Poles, East Europeans and a lot more than just the Asians - Pakistanis/Bangladeshis mostly.

As for that PoS Livingstone, I remember him from the GLC days and his feting of IRA sympathisers. Swine.

London isn't Britain, in the same way that the East and West coast intelligentsia is not the US (and lets not consider the loony-bin that's Washington). And I've already mentioned the hive of villainy that is the BBC (unrepresentative and biased).

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-08-19 11:08|| 2007-08-19 11:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Tony(UK)

I hope you don't pay the TV-Tax!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-08-19 11:55|| 2007-08-19 11:55|| Front Page Top

#6 the corporation's editorial and ethical standards

Hunh, hunh, he said ethical standards.
/Beavis voice

Posted by SteveS 2007-08-19 13:20|| 2007-08-19 13:20|| Front Page Top

#7 this is SOOOO not surprising.

Yet, if it were a Jew who perpetrated terror, I'd bet they'd accept it.

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2007-08-19 13:36|| 2007-08-19 13:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Why write a new script at all. They can just steal the plot from "24" where skinheads are the terrorists and muslims the good guys.

Posted by ed 2007-08-19 16:12|| 2007-08-19 16:12|| Front Page Top

Posted by doc 2007-08-19 16:19|| 2007-08-19 16:19|| Front Page Top

#10 London isn't Britain, in the same way that the East and West coast intelligentsia is not the US
Hear, hear!

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-08-19 16:22|| 2007-08-19 16:22|| Front Page Top

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