Appalled to see that the national anthem was not typed at the beginning of the report. Yet more blatant anti-British behaviour from the BBC.
#DefundTheBBC
Sorry but it is this type of attitude and the attitude of the presenters towards that minister's flag which embodies the disconnect between Auntie and much of the general public.
I love Auntie and it's this sort of Emily Thornberry(?) sneering which endangers it.
It is also not a very funny joke.
If you are going to come across to TVLF, would you mind making these puerile digs on Twitter instead of the rest of us having to put up with it?
Thanks in advance.
I'll pretend to know who Emily Thornbury is and decline the offer to even bother acknowledging the existence of twitter but on a more serious note apologise for my post if it has caused frustration..
cmthwtv, I'm sorry if what I said came across harshly. I regret my tone and I apologise to you.
There are tens of millions of us of all races, backgrounds, and histories on this little island who love Britain and respect the flag. We, and I include myself in this, love the BBC and will forgive it virtually anything.
There are also tens of millions who love Britain and who don't think of themselves as racist, misogynistic gammon who hate the BBC because, rightly or wrongly (and I believe wrongly), it feels to them that the BBC is ashamed of being British and that people who work for the BBC think that the flag only belongs to the BNP and it is something to be embarrassed about.
The problem is that the second group is getting bigger, louder, and more influential. To get them on our side, we need to feel that the BBC caters for them and respects them too because they certainly don't at the moment.
The flag thing on BBC Breakfast was a skirmish in the so-called culture war we are apparently in but the more we give the anti-BBC lobby ammunition, they more they'll use it.
You might strongly dislike what the other people stand for but it's their BBC just as much as it's yours and they need to fall in love with Auntie again.
Sneering at them for loving the country they live in and the flag of that country might win a transitory argument on Twitter but it feeds the anti-Auntie monster.
And with that stunning hypocrisy for bringing politics into a thread, I apologise to all and I'll get my coat.
