At the request of Rahere I have taken his concern as stated on his blog and posted it on RPs blog at 21.30 pm todat as below.
lets see if it gets through.
Never mind the Lloyds board
WILL ROBERT PESTON RESIGN?
or at least expalain himsels following the revelations by BBC Radio 5 live?
Article 6 of the BBC’s Royal Charter states:
6. The independence of the BBC
(1) The BBC shall be independent in all matters concerning the content of its output, the times and manner in which this is supplied, and in the management of its affairs.(2) Paragraph (1) is subject to any provision made by or under this Charter or any Framework Agreement or otherwise by law.
Robert Peston is a member of the ‘Common Purpose’ organisation as reported by Ruth Alexander on the Jonathan Maitland show on BBC 5 live.
As its rather curious choice of name seems to court, controversy never seems to be far away from this organisation.
Dont take my word for it read the article published on the net (follow the clues above I dont know how to post links) and make your own judgement.
Dear moderators, this post can not possibly break the rules, it is on topic (see the opening sentence) and merely quotes the BBC’s own policy and the BBC’s own journalists.
As a test I have copied it elsewhere also.
Is there a ‘common purpose’ in Roberts continual stream of amazing scoops?
Contact your local elected officials - for free
by Alexander Curzon
09 Mar 2009 at 13:45
MMMMMMMM NOT GOOD!!
THE BEEB BLOG SEEMS TO BE ABOUT TO COLLAPSE ASWELL?
MODERATION? HA HA HA!!
by Jericoa
10 Mar 2009 at 10:59
I put Another very similar post today, I managed to get in at no.4 but it was removed and I have not been given any reason why..
Must be quite ashock for the BBC to realise the integrity of one of its front line reporters has been undermined by…another BBC reporter.
The common purpose org as well as RP may be completely innocent or the BBC article just wrong, but you would at least expect someone to say so.
I am coming to the conclusion that the biggest threat this country actually faces is apathy and indifference.
Only when cheap alcohol, broadbband and SKy Tv go down will people take to the streets in any coherent numbers.
by the way …wherte is everybody?
Coral bloom,
John,
Gold Top,
Kooltidings.
etc..all too busy buying up freezedried food and a plot oif land in brazil no doubt!!!
Dont forget the Tamiflu..
by John Bray
10 Mar 2009 at 11:24
Glorious weather here so we have been harvesting olives and pruning for next year’s firewood. Latest info kind of explains why RP is so well informed. Probably a Mason too.
by Anonymous
10 Mar 2009 at 13:22
if you link up secret societies
with the black list reports
and internet blogs with
their ulterior motives
by the same people
you’ll hit brick walls
just raise the issues
and keep moving on
looking for evidence
by Anonymous
10 Mar 2009 at 15:14
if there is any truth to these
common purpose secret societies
sort of rumours there must be
hundreds more around just
waiting to be leaked from inside
this blog should be called…
… “Not the BBC News” …
by Jericoa
10 Mar 2009 at 15:18
Brick walls yes, one after another. i still do not have any response from the BBC as to why my post No.4 was removed. It only refers to their own charter and their own journalists posts.
Hard to understand at this point.
by Jericoa
10 Mar 2009 at 15:34
Enjoy the weather John, it does all rather tie together, as do the governing elite, tentacles everywhere, you think you are onto something and it just gets suffocated of the oxygen of publicity.
I am trying to think what else I can do.
It can be no coincidence that the consensus of posters here and on the BBC blogs get it right in terms of the financial crises, the attendant politics and manifistation in the real world far more than the incumbent governing classes.
Yet the only people given genuine air time are the incumbents or their pet think tanks.
Maybe the trade unions need a prod to ditch labour and support the lib dems for example?
I dont know..clearly I am clutching at straws here. A plot of land in Brazil with a stock of freeze dried food and Tamiflu looks like a better option every day.
Anybody else fancy ditching this merry -go round and leaving them all to it?
by Goldtop
11 Mar 2009 at 04:57
“by the way …wherte is everybody?”
Just moved house, internet only plumbed in today so hoping to resume service ASAP.
by John Bray
11 Mar 2009 at 10:45
Hi GoldTop and welcome back. Maybe the consensus here is that nothing can be done to stop the UK going down the pan – so people are concentrating on their own way of getting by.
Jericoa: having decided to get of the “merry-go-round” six years ago (and having implemented that decision within six months of that decision) I can thoroughly recommend it.
by Jambo
11 Mar 2009 at 10:48
Been working my ass off for Lib Dem campaigning. :s
It does feel slightly pointless given the wider context of possible social collapse. But what the hell can we do?
by Jericoa
11 Mar 2009 at 13:14
Nice to know you are still all out there.
John,
It would be a nice choice if I was in a position to make it… I may be in the olive picking market soon, the company I work for is now in serious trouble, share price is now 9p 12 months ago it was £4.65.
If it survives I will too becuase I am fee earning and in head office / still profitable in my own team but it is starting to look tenuous now, our only protection as a company is that the banks are into us for 90M but we only have assests of maybe £25M. They may as well ‘go long’ with us and keep it running than take a £65M hit..
The best protection seems to be poor management nowadays! I am nothing to do with the overall finance or direction of the business I hasten to add.
Janbo,
I think the best thing the Lib dems could do is to lobby the trade unions to switch alegiance. They are more in line with the unions than labour now and un-tarnished by labour getting into bed with high finance in the 90′s…only to now find they have causght something very very nasty….
I really think that could be a winning startegy for the lib dems, they dont have a high profile enough leader though to win it, but if they get the backing of some big unions it may shake everything up abit at least.
Goldtop..
Totally understandable
All
Support Paul Mason’s blog when you can, he posted himself today and clearly he reads the comments ..he says as much in his blog.
I really like Paul Mason, a real person in the midst of a sea of bulls***. He may even turn out to be a useful ally at some point.
Where are you Coral Bloom?
Good guys are hard to find in those positions it seems they need all the help and moral support they can get.
Jericoa
by Jambo
11 Mar 2009 at 15:07
Yeah, I had a post on Paul Masons blog when the whole whistle blower thing kicked off and his coverage of it was decent whilst RP was clearly white washing.
What I’d posted could be construed as a personal attack on RP so was not at all surprised at the deletion. Still I found the comparison in the coverage quite shocking.
I think the problem with the Unions may be that they are not very democratic, one of the leaders was elected on about 5.4% of the vote (most people simply didn’t vote)
Jericoa good luck on the job front mate, this will I suspect get alot worse before it gets better so might be worth stocking up on the freeze dryed food even if you can’t buy that land in Brazil (and seriously guys, moving somewhere you’ll be a well prepared socially unconnected ethnic minority? Probably not the best plan).
by Jericoa
11 Mar 2009 at 15:34
Jambo,
Appreciate the democracy dilemma with the unions and the lib dems but somebody has to shake the tree somehow to shatter the status quo and some of that is bound to be unconventional and inconvenient.
The unions still have a lot of power and a strong network and a disillusioned membership crying out for a tangible and acceptable political outlet. Would you rather they vote for the BNP or the Tories?
Give them a viable option to buy into, court them.
My wife is from Brazil and I speak portuguese and ethnic minorities are not such a big deal in Brazil, they are very mixed in terms of heritage.
Hopefully I would fit in, at least they are not over populated and are self suufficient in all of lifes basic needs. Some great beaches too.
Doesant sound too bad does it?
by John Bray
11 Mar 2009 at 23:33
Not all communities treat their ethnic minorities as badly as in the UK. We feel much more like part of the community here in a very rural part of Spain (NOT the Costas!) than we ever did living in a town in the UK.
by CoralBloom
12 Mar 2009 at 14:50
Sorry all – face like a melon – I’ve a dental abcess that is giving me a nightmare time. Had surgery yestarday.
by Jericoa
13 Mar 2009 at 11:24
hope you feel better soon
jericoa
by kooltidings
15 Mar 2009 at 02:59
Am spending all the time I have looking for a job, this is the only priority I can give 100% of my time at the moment.
I have been reading the BBC blogs of late and I am become more and more puzzled about them. I am sure some of the posters are there just to incite unrest, in the same way that some posters must be from some areas of the BBC, some parties and may be some union. I would not be surprised in the least if some info was fed onto those blogs on purpose. I also have no doubt that they track some blogglers.
I am unconvinced about those reports on food stocking up for when it all collapses. I am finding it difficult to accept it all is going to collapse in this way. May be I am wrong.
There seem to me to be a huge gap between what is said and what is happening that it is a complete switch off. When you watch the news they might as well be in another language.
I think this all episode/recession may be the end of the political parties and it is true that at the moment, it appears that what they are trying to do, injecting money etc is actually re-build what broke in the first place. I think it is because it is the only model we know. The promise of it being re-built in an ethical way if probably just a front, they are after all politicians and they will say anything to get elected.
I have looked at all the banking issues. The co-op still seems to me to be the most (only?) ethical way. There are some reports/doubts about Post Office savings and their links to the Bank of Ireland. We also have a credit union where I live and this will be getting my savings as soon as I can spare some, when things get back afloat for me. In an ideal world the small building society where my mortgage is will start doing current account one day and will then get my business.
A lot of you seem to be to be extremely connected in a way that I could not even dream of, Alexander you can create a bank, rahere well you obviously have great connection and insights.
Me I am a nobody, a nothing, I try to live my life as ethically as possible on my scale and encourage people I know to live in the same way with values, respect and hope, I have no potential great impact just a minimal scale one and I use it at every opportunity. I hope there are many of me around.
May be I have not enough to offer you