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When will the BBC be held accountable for their lack of patriotism

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longfingernails · 01/12/2010 22:59

Why does this far-left propoganda group continually try to do Britain down?

Why can't they have more presenters who think like the majority of Brits - people who believe that Britain is truly great - indeed, the best country in the world.

People who believe in our institutions, who love the monarchy, who revere the military, who speak in hushed awe about the majesty of our traditions. Presenters who are over-awed by the silent beauty of our countryside, and the glory of our heritage and history. Why do they always use their sneering, supercilious, Guardianista attitude - this constant insinuation that Britain should always be taking the blame and apologising. Coincidentally, it seems to stem from the same sort of sneering middle-classery that is prevalent on MN...

The most recent, shameful episode is the Beeb trying their best to spoil the England 2018 bid. Now I have no time at all for football - I can't stand it - but I fully recognise how important it is for our economy, and also for our national psyche.

The sooner the BBC withers and dies the better. Sadly, it has gotten away with a miniscule 16% cut in the TV tax over 6 years. They will continue their ramblings for the foreseeable future.

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TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 02/12/2010 17:42

cosnervative and right wing are not synonyms either.

TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 02/12/2010 17:41

I am neither left or right wing.

claig · 02/12/2010 17:40

I don't think that any conservatives would think that "patriotism is sick and wrong". Views like that could only come from the left, but not all of the left.

sarah293 · 02/12/2010 17:38

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UnquietDad · 02/12/2010 17:37

I don't think "patriotism" is necessarily an absolute value which is right or wrong. It should be examined who is being "patriotic", and why and what they mean by it.

claig · 02/12/2010 17:33

'Patriotism is sick and wrong.'

Are you left wing?

UnquietDad · 02/12/2010 17:31

If the BBC were to unquestioningly, uncritically

"believe in our institutions... love the monarchy... revere the military...speak in hushed awe about the majesty of our traditions"

and be "over-awed by the silent beauty of our countryside, and the glory of our heritage and history"

then I'd feel it was wasting my licence fee.

It can enjoy and appreciate all of these things - one can cite numerous documentaries and current affairs programmes which do all of the above - but criticise them too. As it should.

TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 02/12/2010 17:28

Patriotism is sick and wrong.

sarah293 · 02/12/2010 17:27

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sarah293 · 02/12/2010 17:24

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claig · 02/12/2010 17:22

agree about the Scottish public. Yes I should have said the English public, but then English people make up the majority of British people.

SaorAlba · 02/12/2010 17:17
Biscuit

DP laughed out loud at the OP. He goes on all the time about all of these things being overdone by the beeb.

And Lmao at 'the British public being right wing by inclination'. I think you'll find that the English public may be, the Scottish public are certainly not or there'd be more than one Tory MP north of the border.

claig · 02/12/2010 17:05

But patriotism isn't always thinking your country is the best and always in the right.
It is just love of your own country, Patriotism is natural and healthy. Being unpatriotic is strange.

TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 02/12/2010 16:50

You have - you get to live in the same country as me.

Love for ones homeland - as in a sentimental attachment to a geography, landscape and culture - fine.

Patriotism - Believing that your country is the 'best' and always in the right - for cunts.

EdgarAllenSnow · 02/12/2010 16:03

thecoalition althouth patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, love for ones homelaand and the people that inhabit is no more irrational than any other kind of love.

I love the UK.

there are many things about it it that are preferable to how things are in other countries - truly i have won the lottery of life!

EdgarAllenSnow · 02/12/2010 16:01

the vast amount of debt the UK is in is Browns (and blairs) responsibility.

TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 02/12/2010 09:16

" Patriots love their country, full stop. There does not need to be reason or justification "

Like I said - idiots.

claig · 02/12/2010 01:40

I think Big Society is bullshit, but I may be wrong. I don't think anyone knew what it was and therefore it was irrelevant to voters.

Brown wasn't to blame for the worldwide recession, but even he admitted that he got it wrong and didn't understand what the banks were doing and wished that he had regulated them better.

LoremIpsum · 02/12/2010 01:39

LFN you are running an active campaign against the BBC on mumsnet. Are you paid by News as part of their ongoing campaign to destroy the BBC?

lowrib · 02/12/2010 01:37

OP are you for real?!

TechLovingDad · 02/12/2010 01:33

Is Brown seriously to blame for the worst world wide recession since the war?

TechLovingDad · 02/12/2010 01:32

Slightly off topic but what's all this "Big Society" rubbish about? Isn't that what the government were voted in for? If we start running our own schools and such, will government start chopping minister's jobs? They won't be needing so many, after all.

claig · 02/12/2010 01:31

Yes, but it was no longer in sole charge, due to Brown's regulatory regime.

TechLovingDad · 02/12/2010 01:30

Is the same Bank of England that sat and fiddled while the City burned?

claig · 02/12/2010 01:28

Osborne wanted the Bank of England to be in charge, he wanted to abolish Labour's tripartite system of bank regulation

www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/5780154/Tories-pledge-to-abolish-tripartite-model-of-City-regulation.html