There is a mystery about the media coverage of the Newark by-election result. The most interesting thing about it was the abysmal failure of the official opposition, just one year ahead of a general election. The New Labour percentage vote actually dropped, and even just taking the New Labour v Tory vote, the New Labour swing from Tory was only 2 per cent. That is an almost unprecedentedly poor performance by an opposition in a by-election at this stage in a parliament, and a very, very plain indication of what was already obvious – that Miliband is not going to be entering the door of No. 10.
Yet Sky News, the BBC and the Guardian have virtually nothing to say about New Labour’s disastrous result. Both Sky and the BBC this morning managed to give their analysis on the by-election without even mentioning New Labour at all. What can be the cause of this reticence? Is it that they are not anxious to point out to Scots that their choice is independence or more Tory government?
Acanchi/Esler was obviously NBG so they have moved on to Saatchis.
Scottish referendum: M&C Saatchi tackles ‘no’ ad campaign
The advertising gurus behind the controversial “Labour Isn’t Working” adverts have been recruited to construct a campaign to help keep Scotland in the union.
M&C Saatchi are expected to unveil a number of new marketing approaches for the no campaign on Monday, one includes the slogan “No thanks”.
Despite maintaining a lead in the polls, the Better Together group has been under pressure to change the tone of its campaigning as the yes vote has grown in recent months.
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http://www.channel4.com/news/scottish-referendum-m-c-saatchi-tackles-no-ad-campaign
HQ New York now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saatchi_%26_Saatchi
Desperation is really setting in when they steal like this.
Treasury ‘Buzzfeed’ drops Lego shots
Toy maker Lego forces the UK government to stop using its characters to illustrate a campaign against Scottish independence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-27746619
Was that Danny’s idea? Perhaps he still plays with his Lego.
The west is supporting fascist forces in Ukraine, as for the stacked ballot returns, the election should be invalidated for that reason alone.
‘The Crimea will be forever Ukraine’? is a declaration of war and strife, he is there to wind up Putin until he snaps.
“I would like to see Poreshenko bare chested on a horse, that is if he could actually mount one.”
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Says Mary, all a-flutter.
What is it about blokes on hosses, I wonder…..?
Not ‘all a flutter’. Silly man. The t— would have to see it in those terms of course as is his wont.
Not at the Derby then with all the wide boys and rich Middle Eastern despots?
I admire Putin for withstanding the demonization that he has been subjected to the West. I heard no mention in the news commentary last night of the millions of Russians who died in WWII. Would the Third Reich have taken Europe over without the Russians’ sacrifice?
Resident Dissident 7 Jun, 2014 – 10:22 am
Delighted to oblige. Bravo, RT for airing these topics which the Western MSM ignores.
Your link shows M Le Pen make the following points:
I personally agree with every one of those points, and since I rarely hear such opinions expressed in ‘our’ media, I thank you for bringing this RT interview to my attention.
” I heard no mention in the news commentary last night of the millions of Russians who died in WWII.”
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Possibly because what was being remembered were the Normandy landings (=Western front)?
NB – no reference to the Normandy landings during the annual Victory Day commemoration in Moscow either (=Eastern front).
Silly b—–!
“Putin is a just a few inches shorter than the chocolate billionaire not many as the BBC implied.”
As many as RT implied I think you mean – they used the same photo. LOL
R2D2 I was awoken by the storm. Very dramatic here. What was it like where you live or are in another country?
No just another county – slept like the innocent I am.
A node – but you rather forget the rest of the FN agenda – or perhaps you don’t. The televised interview hasn’t happened yet – this is just the build up.
Resident Dissident 7 Jun, 2014 – 4:26 pm
I addressed the points rather than attack the messenger, something you should try yourself.
You can tell that Mary is absolutely desperate to find some way to undermine the D-Day commemorations. She just can’t stand the idea that there might have been something that this country did that was right.
It was a sideshow, sold to the punters as a big deal, after the event. Old wartime propaganda never dies, it just gets embellished and regurgitated. Eventually a feedback loop develops where the masses swallow the propaganda, then become transmitters of those same rumours to others, soon some report invented first hand descriptions of that same propaganda tale, which gets back to the source and serves to reinforce the bigger lies.
June 1945 only marks the resumption by all of the ongoing long-spun attempt to conquer the heartland, the inner continent. I think the closing paragraph of Mackinder’s ‘Geographical Pivot of History (1904)’ unwittingly gave the far from great game away, which is still in play: “[…] would add an oceanic frontage to the resources of the great continent, an advantage as yet denied to the Russian tenant of the Pivot Region.”
Whole populations are just tenants to the would be masters of the world, the Iraqis were sitting on ‘our’ oilfields and the Russians are squatting yet on that long coveted ground.
R2D2. No it was not the same photo. Get it right.
Troll Not leafy prosperous Surrey. Food banks keep opening. Shops closing. Permanent ‘sales’.
Anon See my post honouring the brave men of D Day @2.33pm yesterday on the Deep State thread.
‘Not ‘against their country’ you duplicitous twister. Against the politicians, the gangsters in charge, the war mongers who make their hypocritical gestures of pretending to care for the fallen when they have waged recent wars on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Mali and so on who posed no threat of invading us. Of course I am deeply proud of those brave people and grateful for those who gave their lives for us. Yet we now have secret trials in our ‘freedom’.’
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Any other problems you pathetic little poodles or any other inventions you can devise? You are like children.
Anyway, what was the Kiev coup president doing at the D-Day gig.
I’m sure the Ukrainians were fighting on the same side as the Nazi fascists, murdering Poles, Jews, Russians etc to an extent shocking to even their SS bosses.
At least Merkel has apologised.
As everyone knows the Ukrainians are unapologetic murderous fascists to this very day.
I didn’t notice anyone asking Poroshenko to reflect on the contribution his countrymen made to the Nazi war effort.
Seems a bit insulting to the dead being commemorated.
Just out of interest, how do those people who claim that the BBC isn’t a government propaganda machine explain the airtime that they’re giving to the D-Day anniversary? Are we to believe that the majority of licence payers want to watch hours and hours and hours of this stuff?
R2D2. No it was not the same photo. Get it right.
The photo you linked to here
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/75366000/jpg/_75366182_75366177.jpg
Is exactly the same as the second one on the RT page I linked to here
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/75366000/jpg/_75366182_75366177.jpg
If you cannot see that this is the case then you really should see an optician – he may be able to fix your eyes but I doubt he can deal with your other failings.
What a pointless post. I agree that the BBC link is the one I posted. ie the two of them facing the camera.
You seem to have fouled up by duplicating the link!
Your links were as follows on the other thread
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=d+day+poroshenko&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=P8SSU8DQJIjm7AahmIDoCQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1461&bih=765 ((a conglomeration)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2000/mar/23/20000323-011028-2791r/?page=all
(an article without a photo)
http://rt.com/news/164236-putin-poroshenko-ukraine-bloodshed/ (Includes a photo taken from behind Putin and Poreschenko)
For goodness sake, dry up. I want no more of your rubbish. Off to a concert anyway.
“I’m sure the Ukrainians were fighting on the same side as the Nazi fascists, murdering Poles, Jews, Russians etc to an extent shocking to even their SS bosses.”
You really are beneath contempt – just because some Ukrainians fought on the German side, just as some Russians and Belorussians did as well, it doesn’t mean that the whole nation or even a majority of that nation did.
A greater proportion of Ukrainians died in WW2 than in any of the Soviet Republics apart from Belarus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union#Estimated_losses_of_each_Soviet_Republic
4.5m Ukrainians fought in the Red Army far more than who collaborated with the Nazis. Most ordinary Russians are more than aware of this mixed history of both Ukrainians and Russians in WW2 – but it is only scum like yourself and others trying to justify their own unjustifiable actions who seek to make such a cheap propaganda point.
I want no more of your rubbish.
Who on earth do you think you are – does your arrogance know no bounds. You cannot even admit that RT used exactly the same photo as the one you criticised the BBC for using. A decent person would apologise.
Also by-elections don’t really show anything about what will happen in General elections. Labour’s poor showing in the council and Euro elections is a bit more worrying for them, but, again, people usually vote differently in General elections than in European and council elections. The latter don’t matter as much so people feel free to vote for whoever either because they’d prefer them or as a protest vote.
I totally agree that it’s not worth it for Scots to stay in the UK in the hope that there might be a Labour government though. There might be or we might get 5 more years of the Tories – and even if Labour win their leadership have moved right so fast from Kinnock on that they’ll be mostly just like having the Tories in slow motion.
Anon red poppy man/woman
General MacCrystall was sacked for not playing the Iraq War dirty enough. General Petraus knew how to sort out the what you call dark-skinned people which gaves your game away for a start.
You get Mossad, only a border away, to plant bombs to blow up Shi’a and blame it onto the Sunni and vice versa. The sectarian divide was created by the coward Petraus, until the UK and US troops were unable to ” buy one sandwich ” downtown in the wreckage of the country he had made.
US troops in particular suffered irrepairable Vietnam-style psychological damage just witnessing the sectarian violence let alone perpetrating their own General’s violence.
All of this was predictable because of what had been done previously in Afghanistan. That’s why millions of people protested, because of the facts of US and UK dirty politics and violence, and because of some idealistic dreams.
There was also a principled Islamic opposition, which is now in Syria as well, whose aim was to prevent neo-colonialism benefiting USUKIS as it had done for centuries before. At the root of this movement is the killing of any Muslims who show the remotest signs of prefering the status quo of the established colonial order, the CIA Saddam or CIA Assad order.
The principles behind that violence, to root out the gravitational pull towards colonial domination, was not created by itself. It was the product of George Bush and Tony Blair getting together and working out how to get their hands on the resources of the Muslim countries.
Tough for you that the dark-skinned people didn’t oblige this time round. They didn’t do it because they saw the result of doing it before : centuries of oppression under violent, madmen like Saddam and Assad and Gaddaffi.
The West’s response to failure has been to pick on softer targets in Africa and Malaysia. We can pluck your aircraft from sight, and reduce your counties to brutal civil war. No matey, The neo-colonial West, the Cameron Thatcher neo-colonial machine, is finding it harder to find low-hanging fruit to steal.
New Labour is not in problem because of the recession which was created by the Tory Zio-bankers who were more powerful than Gordon Brown. It is in a problem because of the ruthless determination of Islamic jihad which gave the West a bloody nose for the first time.
Mits off our lands mates from now on.
Res Diss
I think you’ll find that Ukraine is something of a divided entity. Always has been.
I think you’ll further find that the Nazi Ukrainians are mostly concentrated in the eastern regions, precisely the rump area that chocolate boy represents.
Only a buffoon like yourself would deny the truth of that, to hide the fact that someone who represents the Nazi part of Ukraine is not called to reflect upon his area’s history in that war.
Most sensible people would think it a curious ommission.
You of course have your own current reasons for wishing to hide the truth, as do your puppet masters who continually inflict violence and unending mayhem upon any who dare to challenge their hegemony.
Without Russias decisive battles around Kursk, defeating the Germans and actually winning WW2, the war would not have turned so fast and D- day, which was a gamble that cost many young lifes, just as Stalingrad, would not have happened as it did.
So lets be thankfull to all who died, including the Russian allies who pressured Hitler something rotten.
Whatever history mongers presume here, it will not change the facts as they exist, not that it would necessarrily stop any of the private schools to put their own slant on it. You know those who find nothing wrong to send their children on subsidised lottery funded excursions to the continent keeping the thoughts of evbil Nazi’s alive, but who can’t help themselves suckering on the bottom lip of these royal oafs, Nazi sympathising scum.
And what a great swanky party they had, I bet Harry would love to be there now wearing his uniform.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=princess+sophie+marries+Nazi&qpvt=princess+sophie+marries+Nazi&FORM=IGRE
“Are we to believe that the majority of licence payers want to watch hours and hours and hours of this stuff?”
Since when has the test been that all broadcasting by the BBC has to appeal to a majority of the population?
Some of us are quite happy to commemorate the brave men and women who helped to liberate Europe from the Nazis – while others who wish to praise the leader of the FN, a party with deep links to the Vichy collaborators do not. Quite frankly there are times when even handedness by the BBC is just not appropriate.
“Troll Not leafy prosperous Surrey. Food banks keep opening. Shops closing. Permanent ‘sales’.”
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Bitch Very well-off Surrey compared to lots of other counties. Chelsea tractors all over the places. Expensive gastro-pubs everywhere. Conspicuous consumption.
Where does the bitch fit in in those two contrasted pictures?
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I’d rather live in Surrey than in the Rhondda with a hey nonny-no and a hey nonny-no(refrain)
I guess the media believe that Milliband will be the next PM, and therefore see no point in provoking him to take away freedom of the press further, or reduce what freedom the BBC has.
Guano 6:32 pm
I don’t think I’ve ever read so much bollocks in my entire life, so thanks for the effort. Your parents must be really proud to have invested so much in your education only for you to turn out as some whacky “revert” conspiraloon talking about “our lands”. Really laughable mate, get your head fixed.
“Without Russias decisive battles around Kursk, defeating the Germans and actually winning WW2, the war would not have turned so fast and D- day, which was a gamble that cost many young lifes, just as Stalingrad, would not have happened as it did.
So lets be thankfull to all who died, including the Russian allies who pressured Hitler something rotten.”
I don’t disagree – and if you bothered to attend the main D Day museum in Caen (hopefully on a Lottery funded excursion) you would see that they give full credit to the role played by the Russian people (and no glorification of the UK monarchy either) – and that is the view of my Russian wife whose own grandfather died in Poland with the tank battalion that he commanded. Only those with limited historical knowledge and poor taste would try and make claims that any one of the allies was solely responsible for winning the War – remember who fought it for nearly two years when the ruling regime were collaborating with Hitler, remember the supplies that came to Russia by the Artic convoys (my father in law certainly does), remember the hundreds of thousands of Indian soldiers, remember those in North Africa who denied the Germans the oil they needed etc.etc.
Res Diss
“Some of us are quite happy to commemorate the brave men and women who helped to liberate Europe from the Nazis”
What a dimwit.
I’ve already pointed out that you don’t do that by inviting a representative of the Nazi part of Ukraine without asking him to reflect upon their part in that war.
Nor do you do it by inviting Nazis to form the inner core of the Washington killing machine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
But then, as an avid watcher of and defender of Auntie you’re not exactly best placed to know what’s been going on outside the fairy tales you inhabit.
You’re no more than a useful idiot.
Herbie’s “contribution” to the debate
“As everyone knows the Ukrainians are unapologetic murderous fascists to this very day.”
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As ever, thoughtful, well-reasoned, balanced.
With friends like this, do the Eminences’ favorite causes need enemies? 🙂
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“Life had become better, life had become merrier!” (J. Stalin, ca. 1934)