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I'm an Etonian and the School has said no apparently. Mainly because it's too political.

Also, the Fourth of June is the School's holiday celebrating George III, who funded the school during his reign.

I just want to let all the Labour infiltrators at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ like you that have joined in with Brown's base tactic of reopening a class war, while at the same time ignoring your masters' pathetic underachievement in actually making the poor poorer in relation to the rich than before the New Labour aberration came to power,aware that many licence payers are sick of you and invite you all to resign before you are sacked.

All day I have heard senior commentators at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ expressing scorn and scepticism and casting all manner of aspersions on the new coalition. Efan Davies even said 'Wait till it all falls apart' on the Today programme this morning. Have none of you the capacity to be objective about the massive failure of the Labour government across the board, especially in respect to the illegal invasion of Iraq that cost over half a million lives and left the country more unstable and more riddled with extremists than before?

I truly pity your jaded, prejudiced and knee-jerk Tory-phobic views. And continuing Brown's class war by starting tonight's programme with the inevitable reminder that that both Clegg and Cameron are public schoolboys was predictably pathetic.

You all make me sick. Why can't you have a bit of magnanimity and some spirit of optimism regarding what the coalition could achieve. Your master has gone now. You are officially allowed to be rational, balanced, and not inverted snobbery driven hypocrites from now on.

Don't worry this is only a prelude to a campaign to reveal the lack of political impartiality at the publicly funded Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ. Hopefully this is only the start, but please feel free to consider your positions in advance. Citizen Smith was a comedy and we laughed. You guys aren't even funny!

The usual childishly boring anti-Tory posting from Michael Crick. Pathetic.

Trout.

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's pro-Labour bias, just like their anti-Israel bias , is so deep-rooted it is in their DNA. Unfortunatly, if David Cameron had any plans to abolish the licence fee, the Lib Dems would probably stop him.
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's behaviour throughout the election campagn and since is a national disgrace.
I resent having to pay a TV tax to finance people at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, like Michael Crick, whose political views I abhor.

I quite agree Trout Mask Replica. Its clear that the staff who work in Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ News and Current Affairs are angry and deeply depressed by the result of the election so they have embarked on a relentless campaign to sully the new government. The concept of a new beginning and the hope of better things to come which usually accompanies the election of a new government has been denied in favour of an endless stream of criticism and forecasts of gloom, despair and failure. This is what is must be like to live in a disfunctional family - non-stop arguments, spite, exaggeration, bullying and a complete absence of optimism, happiness or decency.

I apologise if my initial post was more than somewhat over the top. Anger will do that for you. All I'm saying is that given the precarious position our country has been left in, the coalition is now our only chance of avoiding disaster. To many in the UK, including the vast majority of informed individuals capable of thinking rationally for themselves, that is reason enough to give the coalition every encouragement and support.

It is thus exceedingly hard not to consider those who disagree as traitors. The time for criticism and negativity will be when we're not grappling with each other on the edge of a bottomless abyss!

trout mask thingy wants to see the demise of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ as do his masters the Bullingdon boys, that is their agenda, nulify the beeb and let Rupert run riot, not one of them will appear on NN......s...t scared I say...

Hi again Citizen Smith. If the Conservatives don't want to go on Newsnight it rather proves my point doesn't it. The fact that we all know what happens is that Paxman, Wark, and co. try with rude and intimidating interruptions to stop them finishing a single sentence while letting the Labour guests (especially Mandy) burble on in the background, making it impossible for us to be informed, which I always thought in my naivety was what the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ get all that money to do.

I am sure other MSM are equally complicit, but as a stakeholder and co-funder in our national broadcaster I reserve more interest for their 'professional' activities.

And it seems to me, having over-hired of late, there are a surfeit of lads and lasses who would presume to call themselves 'political' 'reporters'.

Now, in the more mundane aftermath of the election, they are scrabbling to find much to talk about of substance, especially to fill the demands of a 24/7 news cycle.

So they seem to be running around like manic ferrets trying to see or hear anything, and I mean anything, that might count as 'news'. No matter how trivial.

Air time devoted to people going in doors, or out of them. And that is the substantial fare.

What's worse is when they are really stumped and, in the absence of any journalistic ability, or integrity, try and blow up a stirring (and not in the nice meaning of the word) press release from a hostile entity (usually accorded the undeserved heft of a 'source') into something of their own making that they can then run with.

It. IS. Pathetic.

This morning on Breakfast Ne... Views some munchkin in a blue trench coat standing outside a building got to allude excitedly to 'talk' of 'splits' in the new cabinet already, based on... er.. whispers in the wind.

And this is the same entity that got its knickers in a twist not so long ago on those 'talking down' the country?

It's almost as if they are willing every and any aspect of this coalition to fail. Maybe it will, who knows?

But doing their darndest to make it happen, and proactively, using nothing but smoke and mirrors, at this stage, seems hardly their remit.

How funny that the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ were in favour of coalition government when they thought it would be Lab/Lib Dem and are now against it ! Blatant political bias !

trout mask thingy...how can you defend the state of Israel with it's policy of killing women and children...IN THEIR THOUSANDS, reducing their homes and communities TO RUBBLE, have a fit if anyones DARES to criticise them and thank God for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ and NN who has made sure the Gaza massacre was shown to all in glorious TECHNICOLOUR!

Stevie. I have to ask what any of this has to do with the state of Israel. Also, at what point have I even mentioned Israel?

Funnily enough the likes of Crick have often used Israel and it's PR system that effectively has to appease a minority of extreme Zionist parties in order to survive, which in turn has led to 'disproportionate' military responses (aka carnage), as why PR is undesirable in practice. Of course that only applies to a coalition that does not include their beloved Labour party. I know it's laughable.

I've been reminiscing about all Labour's tragic errors. Now they're gone I would enjoy it were it not that the buffoons have left us in such a terrible state. One of my favourites is when Brown attempted to defend his government's failure to implement transitional arrangements for migrant workers from the accession states, as did the French and Germans (which currently has left us with 250,000 Brits working outside our borders in the EU while 1,500,000 EU people now work in Britain) by saying the CBI said they wanted them to come! I bet they did! You couldn't make it up! LOL

Maybe we need an influx political correspondents coming in from Eastern Europe prepared to work flat out for the minimum wage!