Here we have evidence of the stitch up by Labour and the BBC and how they have controlled the information we are allowed to hear.
The effect of the presentation of news by the BBC is now so awesome that it now completely dominates the outcomes of elections.
To pretend that the BBC does not have a political effect is ludicrous.
Labour supporters have been at the very heart of the BBC holding key political roles. These people have been open and declared political party activists before, after and even during their BBC service.
For the last 15 years or so, the BBC has had a declared Labour supporter/donor as either Chairman or Director General - or both.
The two key people in charge of the BBC's strategic direction in the run up to Labour's 1997 election victory have had VERY close links with Brown and Blair.
Ed Richards worked for Gordon Brown and was later to become BBC Controller of Corporate Strategy, and is now
boss of OFCOM
Bill Bush was Head of Political Research and Analysis at the BBC. He then became “Head of Research” for Tony Blair. He later took a position as Special Adviser to New Labour culture minister Tessa Jowell. As Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, Jowell and Bush were responsible for Government policy towards the BBC including renegotiating the licence fee.
Access to news presented in an accurate and truthful way is akin to a human right.
When supporters of a political party control the monopoly BBC monster, then there will be twisting, brainwashing and corruption. And there has been twisting, brainwashing and corruption. Every hour of every day of the damn week there is twisting, brainwashing and corruption. Such a situation is completely unacceptable in a mature information-based democracy.
It has been proved over the last 13 years that for electoral success all you really need is to be able to control the minds of the electorate by the drip, drip, drip of political indoctrination and propaganda through a controlled monopoly news broadcaster.
As long as you have that, you can do all the damage you want to that electorate - they still vote for you in millions and millions.
For an examination of the techniques used by the left to corrupt broadcast news and the constitutional outrage that this causes -
see here
For a discussion on the mind-bending and politically toxic effect of TV and the stupidifying of the Brits -
see here and
here
Here are some of the links between Labour and the BBC - and these are just the ones we know about.
Remember each one of these people. These are the people who enabled Labour to contaminate, degrade and wreck our society - enabled Labour to take our country away from us and give it into the hands of others (even Hitler did not succeed in doing that).
This is an ongoing project so if anyone can add any more (or point out any errors - we don't do Labour lies and smears here), please get in touch and they will be added to the list, or the correction made.
John Birt
BBC Director General 1992 - 2000
At the time of his appointment he was a paid up member of the Labour party.
According to fellow broadcaster Peter Bazalgette writing in the Observer :- "
....his streak of ruthlessness helped turn the BBC ....into the most powerful political lobby in Britain."
He reportedly left with a payout of £784,000 and an annual pension of £130,000.
He is reported to have been a friend of Peter Mandelson since they worked together at LWT - they have been on Tuscan walking holidays together and Mandelson was Birt's guest at the 1997 FA Cup Final. Former "Crime Czar", later became an adviser on transport in the Cabinet Office Forward Strategy Unit. He was appointed "Personal Strategic Adviser to Tony Blair".
Greg Dyke
BBC Director General 2000-2004
He had been a Labour donor and lifelong Labour activist.
In 1977 he stood as a Labour candidate for the Greater London Council.
In the run up to the 1997 election he reportedly donated over £50,000 to the Labour party.
When he was appointed, according to the Guardian, a Number 10 insider said "
We loved Greg. We loved the idea of Greg."
This is the person who thought that there should be a BBC man in news programmes to tell us what to think and who
boasted about the BBC news programmes for
"the rich mix of news, and insight delivered by the network's news programmes. They are a focal point for national discussion and debate and a crucial public service."
He wanted even more informed analysis and comment in news programmes. This is one of the most corrupting aspects of news programmes, the mind-controlling Robinson effect and the main way that Labour's message always contaminates the news.
Gavin Davies
BBC Chairman 2001 - 2004
He had been a lifelong Labour party member and financial supporter.
From 1974 to 1979 he worked as an adviser to two Labour governments.
From 1992 to 1997 he was an adviser to the Chancellor Gordon Brown. Gavin Davies is a close personal friend of Brown and his wife, Sue Nye, is Brown's private secretary.
Sir Michael Lyons
Current BBC Chairman
Sir Michael Lyons was chosen in 2007 by the Labour Government to be chairman of the new BBC Trust - supposedly set up to represent the interests of licence fee payers.
Before that he had been paid around £500,000 by the Government to carry out three studies for Chancellor Gordon Brown.
Prior to that he was a Labour local politician, sitting as a Labour councillor in several authorities and as Chief Executive of Birmingham City Council.
Ben Bradshaw
Labour MP
Former Environment minister
Is a former
BBC Radio 4 reporter.
Chris Bryant
Labour MP for Rhondda.
He first joined the Labour Party in 1966 and became a Party Agent in 1991.
From 1993 to 1998 he served as a Labour councillor in Hackney.
In 1997 he stood unsuccessfully as a Labour candidate for Wycombe and then joined the BBC in 1998 as
Head of European Affairs.
In 2000 he was selected for the Rhondda seat and finally became an MP.
Celia Barlow
Labour MP for Hove and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Climate Change.
Celia joined the Labour Party and her first trade union when she was 16.
Between 1983 and 1995 she was a
BBC Westminster reporter and finally
BBC Home News Editor.
While she was at the BBC she was Secretary of Chelsea Constituency Labour Party, and later she became Chair.
Phil Woolas
Labour MP for Oldham and Saddleworth
Minister for the Environment.
He first joined the Labour Party at the age of 16 and was active in student politics, becoming President of the National Union of Students.
From 1988 - 1990 he was a
producer on the BBC Newsnight Programme.
He was then a trade union official before standing for Parliament in 1997.
James Purnell
Labour MP
Was Work and Pensions Minister.
He was
BBC Head of Corporate Planning before he became a Downing Street adviser in 1997.
Prior to that he worked for the the Institute of Public Policy Research, the left wing think tank.
While still a student, prior to the 1992 election, he worked as a researcher for Tony Blair.
Denis MacShane
Worked for the BBC from 1969 to 1977, including as a
newsreader and reporter.
Has been Labour Member of Parliament for Rotherham since 1994. Labour Minister of State for Europe from 2002 to 2005.
Ed Richards
Ex
BBC Controller of Corporate Strategy
Ed Richards was Controller of Corporate Strategy at the BBC until 1999. Before that he was an adviser to Gordon Brown.
He left the BBC in 1999 to become Tony Blair's senior policy adviser on media, telecoms, internet and e-government.
As a policy researcher at No 10 ahead of the 2002 general election, he was responsible for drawing up a key political strategy outlining a "vision of what Britain should be like at the end of a second Labour term".
According to the Guardian, he is a
quintessential New Labour man.
While at Downing Street, he helped draft the act which established the broadcasting regulator OFCOM.
In 2006 he became
chief executive of OFCOM, at a salary reported to be
some £392,056 (including benefits and pension entitlement). OFCOM is responsible for adjudicating complaints against the BBC.
Ed Richards has dismissed accusations of New Labour cronyism as "tittle tattle"
Tom Kelly
Ex
BBC NI Head of News
Tom Kelly spent 16 years at the BBC in London and Northern Ireland.
He was a political editor and later head of news at BBC Northern Ireland before crossing the divide between those who report the news and those who help to shape the government's message, becoming director of communications at the Northern Ireland Office shortly after New Labour came to power.
In 2001 he became one of Tony Blair's official spokesmen.
Bill Bush
Ex
BBC Head of Political Research and Analysis
Bill Bush was "Red" Ken Livingston's Chief of Staff and right hand man at the old "loony left" GLC.
In 1990 he became Head of Political Research and Analysis at the BBC.
He then became "
Head of Research" for Tony Blair, and later took a position as Special Adviser to New Labour culture minister Tessa Jowell.
As Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, Jowell and Bush were responsible for Government policy towards the BBC including renegotiating the licence fee.
The
Guardian said:- “
Bill Bush, the head of the BBC's political research department, left to join the research unit at Number 10. This was a man who had access to the most sensitive information the BBC has on MPs, their parties and the government. His value to the Labour party can hardly be over-estimated"
Catherine Rimmer
Ex
BBC Political Research
Catherine Rimmer was Bill Bush's assistant at BBC Political Research.
A former Bush colleague, who has also travelled the short distance from the BBC's Millbank offices, which coordinates all political coverage, to Downing Street.
She left with him to join the Downing Street research group.
The
Spectator is reported to have said :-... (Bush)
is also taking with him the deputy head of the BBC's political research unit, one Catherine Rimmer. In fact, you could say that the BBC's political research unit has turned out to be an invisible branch of the Labour party".
Geoff Mulgan
BBC Reporter
According to
John Harris in the Guardian
"
When someone finally gets round to making the definitive New Labour movie - and you can imagine it: Our Friends In The North meets Primary Colors, with the inevitable Britpop soundtrack - they will have to base at least one character on Geoff Mulgan. The PR at his publisher emails his CV to me the day before we meet, and it is so packed with the stuff of recent history that you wonder how he has found time to fit it all in. From the top, then: "Between 1997 and 2004, Geoff had various roles in government including director of the government's strategy unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's Office . . . Before that, he was founder and director of Demos, described by the Economist as the UK's most influential thinktank . . . chief adviser to Gordon Brown . . . [and] a reporter for the BBC."
Catriona Renton
Reporter for the BBC Politics Show and BBC Presenter.
Catriona Renton is a former Glasgow Labour Councillor, who represented Kelvindale before losing her seat to the LibDems in 2003. She was “Glasgow’s Youth Tsar”.
This product of Balliol College, Oxford went on to represent Labour in both the 2003 Holyrood elections and the 2004 European elections.
She was apparently recruited by BBC Scotland's parliamentary unit in 2006, where John Boothman, husband of Labour MSP and ex-Health Minister Susan Deacon, was a senior producer.
Her personal facebook has listed the following as friends:
Jackie Baille Labour MSP
Yousuf Hamid Labour Activist
Tom Harris Labour MP
Mike Dailly Labour Activist
David Martin Labour MEP
Frank McAvetty Labour MSP
John Robertson Labour MP
John Park Labour MSP
Steven Purcell Labour Glasgow Leader
Dave Watson Vice-chair of the Scottish Labour Party
(Hat tip Our Scotland.)
She was apparently the centre of a bias storm after an item broadcast on Sunday 18 October 2009 attributed views to senior SNP MSP Alex Neil that he had not expressed. When filming at the SNP conference in Inverness, Catriona Renton had claimed on BBC Scotland’s Politics Show that Alex Neil had confirmed the SNP’s desire to see David Cameron become the Prime Minister at the next general election. The recorded interview with Mr Neil that followed Ms Renton’s claim contained no such confirmation. The BBC were forced to issue a personal apology to Alex Neil.
(Hat tip Newsnet Scotland.)
Lance Price
BBC Journalist 1981 - 1998
Lance Price joined the BBC as a trainee journalist and worked there for 17 years.
He left in 1998 to work as Alistair Campbell's assistant in Downing Street.
In 2000 he became the Labour Party's Director of Communications.
Now he is a freelance journalist writing mainly for the Guardian and broadcasting for the BBC - again
Tim Luckhurst
Scottish News Editor
Previously a Labour spin doctor
Sue Nye
Wife of Gavyn Davies, and has acted as Gordon Brown's political secretary.
Sarah Hunter
Held the broadcasting brief at No 10. She formerly worked in the
BBC Policy Directorate and is also a veteran of the Channel 4 Policy Department. God-daughter of former Lord Chancellor Derry Irvine.
Katie Kay
Lord Birt's former diary secretary, worked for Mr Blair.
Charlie Whelan
Was for years a key Labour activist and news manager and spinner for Gordon Brown. He acted as a commentator and
political journalist for Radio Five, and reported on the Conservative Spring Conference 2003 for Radio Five Live.
Andrew Marr
Has his
own politics show on BBC TV and
radio programme.
Is a former editor and chief political commentator of the Independent. His wife is Jackie Ashley, the Guardian political columnist, former BBC employee and cheerleader for Gordon Brown.
Student Labour organiser.
Michael Crick
Newsnight Political Editor
Labour activist and Labour prospective parliamentary candidate.
Martin Sixsmith
BBC Foreign Correspondent 1980 - 1997
Martin Sixsmith joined the BBC in 1980 and worked as a a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Geneva, Moscow and Washington.
Following the 1997 election he left the BBC to work for the Labour government as Director of Communications.
He described his enthusiasm for his new job, when he later told the Independent :- "
It was May 1997, it was a new start after 18 years of Tory misrule.....".
He was later Press Secretary to Labour Ministers Harriet Harman and Alistair Darling.
After a brief period in the private sector, he returned to the government in 2001 as Director of Communications for the Department of Transport
He is now once more a regular broadcaster for the BBC.
Joy Johnson
BBC Political News Editor 1992 - 1995
Joy Johnson was a BBC political journalist and became Political News Editor in 1992 at the Millbank centre.
In 1995 she was recruited by Gordon Brown to join New Labour as Campaigns Director, responsible for winning Labour's 80 target seats.
Left in 1996 and then became chief spin doctor for "Red Ken" Livingstone at the GLA.
Sam Jaffa
BBC North America Correspondent.
Husband of Celia Barlow MP
He stood as Labour candidate for Eastleigh in 2001.
Don Brind
Political reporter for the BBC in the south-east of England
According to the
Guardian became a Labour party press officer.
Peter Hyman
BBC producer
Strategic Communications Unit.
Former Labour Party press officer,
BBC producer and Sky News journalist. He became the Policy Directorate's media analyst. He worked as a researcher for Donald Dewar and John Smith.
Sarah Hunter
BBC Policy Directorate
Part of the team that travelled with Tony Blair on his 2001 election campaign bus, and worked for the Labour Party in Opposition. In the past she has worked for Peter Mandelson.
Hat tip to BBC Pioneers. Marcellus is very grateful to BBC Pioneers for much of the research and information upon which this article is based. The information needed a continued airing.