I am involved quite extensively in the making of what I believe to be a valuable independent documentary. It is based on George Ponsonby’s excellent book London Calling, and has the working title How the BBC Stole the Referendum. We have already done a few hours filming of my contribution.
The film is being directed by Alan Knight. It still requires some finance, having raised over £12,000 so far from crowd sourcing. If any readers of this blog can make a contribution, it would be gratefully received. I vouch for the good faith and commitment of the production team, though I am not in any sense connected with the management or finances.
I should like to ask for a couple of other bits of help as well. Can anybody find the BBC footage of the appalling Gavin Esler puff piece for the “Vote No Borders” PR campaign. The BBC broadcast it repeatedly on every TV news programme on 2 May 2014, but seem to have managed to erase all trace of it from the internet. It might also be useful if somebody could take a little video footage of the company nameplate of Acanchi Ltd at 24 Chiswell Street, London, EC2Y 4YX. Footage of the nameplate, the street sign and a little of the surroundings, just to visually establish it is in London. The technical quality of that little bit of video is not terrifically important.
UPDATE
See Gill R’s comment below. The company may be at Unit 311 Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, London N1 0QH. If anyone can easily get to either address and see what they can film it would still be helpful.
Eyes wide shut. I’m really reluctant to engage anymore. If you want to see my views look under the previous pontification ‘artical’..”Lack of humanity”…The irony.
Macky, exellent post @3:39, clear succinct, little more to be said.
Craig, the latest piece from Media Lens does relate to your post here…
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2015/807-manufacturing-consensus.html
By contrast to gavin esler, Jon Snow gave a robust defence of Channel 4 news a few weeks ago. The channel is profitable, but by the time a new layer of management was placed over the existing ones the profit would be drained off and of course so would the intelligent questioning. Nothing to me i don’t have a TV but sometimes listen to several hours of utter drivel to get some news in someone else’s home.
Probably already known, but anyway…VNB got:
£50,000 by Malcolm Offord, Kenny Greig and Alan McFarlane. Two gave £20,000 and the third £10.000
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/scotland/referendum/article4194146.ece
Presumably this Kenny Greig:
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=27988794&privcapId=11609132
this Alan Macfarlane:
http://www.ftadviser.com/2013/04/02/investments/global/mcfarlane-marks-industry-return-with-debut-retail-fund-o86j6hT0a8MmeDyvrNYR4N/article.html
and certainly this Malcolm Offord:
http://athousandflowers.net/2014/05/02/weekly-wanker-028-malcolm-offord/
(also Acanchi, in equally uncomplimentary terms)
Note the strong interest in flogging other peoples’ money at a profit….
Darling Alistair. A socialist to his, er, no, he’s scraped it off now…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35046961
Tony_Opmoc at 4.15
In my opinion the YouTube video you have linked is deliberate misinformation, poisoning the pool, created and released within hours of the referendum vote to discredit later better documented claims of voting fraud.
Here is a far more convincing bit of evidence :
http://tartanarmyboard.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=3893
Read all three posts by “brant grebner” A bunch of people did their own painstaking research in the SE of Scotland and compiled this ‘Dunoon Unit Report’ It’s hard to argue with their conclusions, although I fully expect Kempe to arrive shortly and do so.
Node, note that Dunoon is not in the South East of Scotland.
I did attend the unveiling of the ‘Dunoon report’ presented in Glasgow which made passing reference to BBC bias and it was very persuasive.
“In my opinion the YouTube video you have linked is deliberate misinformation, poisoning the pool, created and released within hours of the referendum vote to discredit later better documented claims of voting fraud.”
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Some people would swear the earth is flat if they thought it would help their case.
See the above.
A video comes out soon after the referendum vote claiming that the vote was rigged (predictably, of course, because the result did not please the losers).
It subsequently emerges that the video in question was a crock of shit.
Do the “the vote was rigged-believers” then give up and accept that the moment was simply not theirs?
Of course not. Instead, they post stuff as above, from our friend “Node”, claiming that the first, bow discredited video was deliberately put out to “poison the well”.
Then the “Nodes” of this world come out with another video – this one, of course, the real thing.
And so it goes on….and on…and on. 🙂
“It’s hard to argue with their conclusions, although I fully expect Kempe to arrive shortly and do so.”
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I hope he will because he’s one of the few people on here whose shit-filter is in good working order.
Held down witness testimony exists that would prove the Scottish independence ballot was ‘arranged’ and ‘buttoned up’ using propaganda and lack of safeguards within the ballot system – no doubt – and I point my finger at an intelligence services proxy ministration.
I refer also to Craig’s powerful message here:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/04/fear-the-banana-republic-postal-ballot/
and with ceaseless reiteration I strive constantly to make you peeps think about our democratic dictatorship.
Node, note that Dunoon is not in the South East of Scotland
Not yet …..
….. tectonic plates, say no more …..
“Some people would swear the earth is flat if they thought it would help their case”
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The Chinese thought the earth was flat, up the 17th century, maybe it was all that opium they were smoking.
As late as 1595, an early Jesuit missionary to China, Matteo Ricci, recorded that the Chinese say: “The earth is flat and square, and the sky is a round canopy; they did not succeed in conceiving the possibility of the antipodes.
The universal belief in a flat Earth is confirmed by a contemporary Chinese encyclopedia from 1609 illustrating a flat Earth extending over the horizontal diametral plane of a spherical heaven.
In the 17th century, the idea of a spherical Earth spread in China due to the influence of the Jesuits, who held high positions as astronomers at the imperial court.
“Not yet …..
….. tectonic plates, say no more …..”
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Node, Pangea Ultima, may take wee will yet in forming, around the 250 million year mark, still that does give you plenty of time to brush up on your geography.
Habbabkuk (combat the dingbats),
The entire issue of whether or not The Scottish Referendum vote was honest or not is of little concern to me, but the subsequent General Election with a massive pro SNP vote is further evidence of Fraud.
Scottish National Party Seats 56. Gain 50
Labour 1 Seat. Loss 40
Liberal Democrat 1 Seat. Loss 10
Maybe Scotland suddenly changed its mind due to the awesome charm of that Scottish – Fishy Woman…Salmon or Sturgeon??? I forget…
The entire thing was daft anyway. Scotland couldn’t be really Independent whilst wanting to keep The British Pound – and being determined to stay in the EU was as daft as The Irish escaping control of us British in 1916 – 1922 and then joining and getting impoverished and totally stitched over by the EU in 2008. They would have been far better off staying in the UK. Most of them move here anyway – and I really like their Irish charm.
Which Monster do you want to control you? Ultimately it will still end up being an American Neocon…and all you are really voting for is to change the puppet strings…
Re My Earlier Post about Pantomime…I have actually met a Friend of a Friend – I forget his name…but he did come back to our house for a party. A little bloke – very nice. I think he archived The Old Grey Whistle Test too. I of course did not ask him the question…it wasn’t you who leaked it was it??? “More than me jobsworth mate”
Jane Standley Starring (Obviously Quite Innocently) – “It’s Behind You”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltP2t9nq9fI
Tony
The result of the general election has no bearing on the referendum IMO. People obviously voted in their masses for the SNP, however it doesn’t mean they wanted out of the UK.
“The entire issue of whether or not The Scottish Referendum vote was honest or not is of little concern to me, but the subsequent General Election with a massive pro SNP vote is further evidence of Fraud.”
Of course the referendum vote wasn’t honest.
We were well and truly lied to.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/salmond-scotland-s-oil-boom-to-bring-billions-1-2829902
RobG
10 Dec, 2015 – 4:45 pm
Great article “Manufacturing Consensus” by DE of Media Lens – who I assume is Dave Edwards who started Media Lens up with David Cromwell.
Dave Edward’s conclusion “The British corporate media are no longer merely channelling distorted news and views to democracy; they are openly working to undermine democracy.”
I have read David Crowmwell’s book “Why Are We The Good Guys?: Reclaiming Your Mind From The Delusions Of Propaganda”. It is a very accessible soft introduction to the entire subject – written by a very honest and courageous man as if an innocent, gradually discovering the awful truth, but not being really sure, as he goes even deeper into the rabbit hole…”No this cannot be happening…this cannot be true”…they can’t possibly be “THAT” Evil…yet knowing that they are – yet taking Responsibility for It – its our culture “Why Are We The Good Guys?”
It’s a Lot Worse That That.
Tony
Reading the MediaLens article, I sense a re-writing of the role in the Iraq disaster of the hidden mass of the British state.
With the visible front-end – parliament, cabinet, number 10 and the BBC, all justifiably damned and virtually swinging from the jibbet – Whitehall, the civil service, GCHQ, CofE, the military, the Buzby Club – they and others are all trying, softly, slowly to shuffle away. It’s imperceptible, you look, look away, look back, there’s something different, not sure what. After enough looks away and back, you know there’s definitely something funny going on, now they’re scrambling over each other for the exits pleading ‘it wasn’t us mate we were just doing what we were told, following orders’.
When they were all heart, soul, minds, reputations and wallets fully on-board willing zealous accomplices and co-conspirators. With few, very few notable exceptions.
Phil ‘..its a surprise that not one person saw anything like you’ve described though isn’t it. Take the Oldham By-Election. UKIP (apparently) saw fraudulent postal votes and wiped up a storm. Do you not think maybe someone somewhere would have seen something.’
I’m not talking about fraudulent postal votes when, for example, bogus people have a vote. This should be discovered during the checking process. I’m talking about the time AFTER all the votes have been checked and the ballot slips are put in plastic bags waiting to be merged later with the polling station votes. I’m saying it’s at this stage when the votes are in danger left overnight a few days before the vote. Do you really think an intelligence agency would mess up a simple job of swapping the bags of voting slips in empty council offices overnight by letting someone see them?
Isn’t it a bit of a cliché to show a name plate to evidence that the company is real. It doesn’t really make it real although it might perhaps form part of a door stopping scene.
I see that there appears to have been something of a spat last night. I have no observations on blog moderation bias but some questions:
The other day I finally succeeded in getting a post held up for moderation and could then see that my post was marked as awaiting moderation, but are some posts just deleted without an awaiting moderation message and are some retrospectively deleted?
Are there two or more moderators with different degrees of tolerance and forbearing?
Republic of Scotland: It was not really until the C17 that the Scottish traders imported much opium into China and earlier usage was more medicinal and rather than recreational.
The only solution would seem to be for unused postal votes to be physically recovered, this information, very names and addresses is already extractable. I know a small proportion would be genuinely irretrievable, but if it’s made plain to those being given the courtesy, convenience, in most cases I hope necessity of a postal vote, that they are accountable for it, near total recovery would be possible. Then if unused votes and votes cast sum to more than 100% of postal votes, we have a problem, actual duplicates or completely bogus additional postal votes must have entered the system.
Disingenuous Phil: The principle aim, the very raison d’être detre of the Scottish National Party, is Scotland’s Independence. People know what the SNP stand for, know what they voted for, they insisted upon – Independence, without further delay.
Not really though, you can decide that the SNP would be better to represent scotland without wanting to leave the UK.
Chicken and egg situation, if there are bogus votes, in the place of unused votes, then you don’t have a correct list of unused votes, only unused votes which were neither used by the registered voter or duplicated and introduced by some third party. So rather than go out and seek only the postal votes known to be unused, working from a list, a sort of appeal to return all unused votes, after the election, for up to a month or more, by post, as if submitting them as originally intended. It will certainly have been the case that a number of postal votes were received after closing of submission of them, scrutiny of these, against actual votes cast again might result in duplicates or discrepancy. Add to these almost 97% postal vote turnouts, any votes returned late and we might already be dangerously close to 100% turnout. Where are they and how many too-late postal votes were received, per council area?
Goodbye Phil.
“Not really though, you can decide that the SNP would be better to represent scotland without wanting to leave the UK.”
It’s irrelevant anyway.
The SNP might have got the majority of the seats but they only got 50% of the votes, not exactly a mandate.
It was an election not a referendum, had it been known that the Nationalists would try to turn it into a referendum after the event I think we would have seen a larger turnout and a result more in line with that of the actual referendum.
It’s likely then a complete duplicate set of postal vote ballot papers were printed, in the style of each council responsible, their IT services long ago contracted out and printing done out-sourced rather than in-house.
The solution is not to do away with postal voting completely, and disenfranchise older people and the disabled for whom understanding the issues and using their vote consistent with their beliefs and desires is the easy part, but for whom voting in person is physically impossible or so gruelling, such a huge undertaking, out of their normal routine, likely to make them ill and suffer for it, for days, that they’d more likely not vote than put themselves through that, without house-door-to-polling station transportation.
In a certain council the complete run of postal votes issued, sent out were voided due to a misprint which was of absolutely no significance, and a second set of postal ballots issued.
It’s a Lot Worse Than That. – It is Tony_0pmoc – and we have signed the neocon apotheosis for at least a century; how dumb mortals are… how psychopathic… this day is the atonement bereft whatever remorse:
http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/aug/19/syria-refugee-crisis-education-teaching-lost-generation-children
Think I may have mentioned this some time ago, but Acanchi (using its trademark ‘Country Brand Capital Development’) has interesting clients:
http://www.prwatch.org/spin/2008/10/7828/another-attempt-change-brand-israel
Also Rwanda. Though this is not apparent from the profile here:
http://www.trademarkia.co.uk/uk/country-brand-capital-development-378769.htm
Acanchi also owns ‘Kamal’s’ – on the face of it, it’s into groceries…god knows what it gets up to. Food aid diversion perhaps?
http://www.trademarkia.co.uk/uk/kamals-380635.htm
(Marks and Clark simply file trademarks for a living.)