Cycling UK Forum

roubaixtuesday wrote:

Cunobelin wrote:

Yep - the big flaw in CC's case. All of these programmes are e available from the BBC, it is simply not broadcasting them to the current audience.

Well, that and the fact that it's perfectly reasonable for the BBC to make editorial decisions about what to make available.

They're not obliged to make their entire back catalogue available any more than Ford are obliged to sell Anglias.

Bonefishblues wrote:

the snail wrote:

carpetcleaner wrote:
If that was on the BBC then it should still be available to view.

The state broadcaster should not be allowed to censor its back catalogue to fit in with the prevailing attitudes, prejudices and ideologies of its staff.

We paid for it and it should be available.

The BBC is whitewashing its past by this kind of behaviour, and that is very Orwellian.

It IS available (on Netflix)

That's presumably because it has been sold to them by the BBC.

Mick F wrote:Yep.
Beer drinkers don't wear face coverings.

[XAP]Bob wrote:

Cunobelin wrote:

carpetcleaner wrote:The state should not do it.

The BBC is not the "State" as you have had explained on multiple times, are you really advocating thatthe BBC should be showing re-runs of Jimmy Saville and "Jim'll Fix it?

Great programmes.

Or are you unable to enjoy the good works done by people who also did bad things?

carpetcleaner wrote:

Cunobelin wrote:

carpetcleaner wrote:

You mean she apologised?

Absoultuely, unlike Johnson for his racism

She makes racist comments, she apologises and so you think it is OK for Kier Starmer to give her a responsible job for community cohesion?

That sounds about as sensible as giving a thief a job as a bank cashier just because he's said sorry.

Only a naive and gullible bank manager would do that.

carpetcleaner wrote:The state should not do it.

carpetcleaner wrote:

Bonefishblues wrote:Yes, and where's Love thy Neighbour too, eh?

If that was on the BBC then it should still be available to view.

The state broadcaster should not be allowed to censor its back catalogue to fit in with the prevailing attitudes, prejudices and ideologies of its staff.

We paid for it and it should be available.

The BBC is whitewashing its past by this kind of behaviour, and that is very Orwellian.

carpetcleaner wrote:

Cyril Haearn wrote:Naz Shah learned from her mistakes/ignorance

You mean she apologised?

"I have made mistakes and I wholeheartedly apologise to this House for the words I used before I became a Member. I accept and understand that the words I used caused upset and hurt to the Jewish community and I deeply regret that.

“Antisemitism is racism, full stop. As an MP, I will do everything in my power to build relations between Muslims, Jews, and people of different faiths and none. I am grateful and very thankful for the support and advice I have received from many Jewish friends and colleagues – advice I intend to act upon.

“I truly regret what I did and I hope – I sincerely hope – that this House will accept my profound apology.”

pwa wrote:

merseymouth wrote:
*PWA, I do object to a great many of the bits on display in our lives, but I do make my displeasure know in the right way and at the right time!
By all means use these silly memorials as an exemplar of the wrong phases the people have gone through.Learn yes, but shouting abuse achieves nothing. But above all else don't perpetuate the wrongs.

I feel we are close to agreement, but perhaps unlike me you have not been aware of the long and difficult campaign to get this outrageously offensive statue removed, and the way it has been frustrated by people who see this memorial to a slave trader as our heritage. Anger about that statue has been around for a long time. So when it went I was relieved. And it won't be coming back. Not in a million years. The statue was in a public area where people have to see it as they go about their daily activity. I imagine it will now make its way to a museum, where it will serve a much better purpose.

carpetcleaner wrote:The Floyd demos have attracted the usual bunch of mainly white middle class young people who turn up to protest about everything and don't mind indulging in hooliganism.

They've been mollycoddled by parents and teachers and have an inflated sense of their own importance.

“I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.”

“He is, in fact, pretty idle about it all ... Boris has something of a tendency to assume that success and honours will drop into his lap: not so, he must work for them.”

nigelnightmare wrote:You can fit Schwalbe Big Apple's which are 50-406 or 2".
I believe you can go bigger if you remove the mudguards.
HTH

mercalia wrote:one down more to follow?

I wait to see them topple Nelsons Column

In fact remove all the statues of Britains glorious past in London, incl Buck Palace and the queen and her kids and titles as she represents past oppression.

https://news.sky.com/story/edward-colston-why-toppled-statue-was-hated-by-many-and-other-controversial-uk-monuments-12002819

as long as Thatcher goes also? She commiited crimes against her own people