Red-Robbo

I thought you were a Hamas man, D?

I run a consulting company, Grassy. Radio 4 - via BBC Worldwide, the commercial, non-taxpayer funded organisation - contracted my firm to do some work on a project which started in late January and comes to an end in a fortnight. I went to New Broadcasting House a few times in January to set things up and have had one of my coders working on the project - and being driven mad by the bureaucracy! Prior to that I was in a protracted commercial dispute with the Beeb over work I'd done for them in 2011/12. I hold no brief for the BBC or any of the other clients I work for [i'm currently doing stuff for the Financial Times Group] and indeed, contact with some of the suits in the BBC corporate strata confirms my belief that it is a top-heavy and inefficient organisation. Bollock dropped, SX? It's amazing the amount of gnashing of teeth that has come from me writing that a Tory friend of mine thinks Nigel Farage is a Little Englander. One might think he'd articulated an unspeakable truth.

Which BBC man Screech. Do tell? Of course if you mean me - someone who doesn't work for the BBC as you'd have seen had you read various posts pointing this out - you would seem to have misread what I wrote. I reported what a friend (who is also not a BBC man) said about Mr F's surname. I've not posted on this thread about Skip policies and had you read anything by me on the subject you'd know that I don't approve of an open Door immigration policy either. Fingers in ears or hands over eyes?

I'll miss you, me babber. Don't agree on much, but at least it's a polite, informed and occasionally jocular banter with you! The Farage's came over here (stealing our jobs!) in the 18th century not the Norman Conquest, Marshy. Or so that Daily Mail link I posted suggests...

Yes mate. I don't know about you, but I do have friends and this one made that observation on the pronounciation of Nige's surname. I'm not sure what that has to do with the BBC, Nick Clegg, or indeed the price of eggs, but there you go. Someone else's opinion on NF and the observation that Farridge would be a more Anglicised way of referring to himself. I think it's probably a class thing to go with the original, French pronounciation. You Ukip chaps seem a bit touchy about any inferred criticism of your hero.

What we need to know is "Was he in Common Purpose"?

Why is my post anything to do with the BBC? I gave the opinion of a guy I know from the pub who is a retired publisher, living off his family's money and although he doesn't vote, expresses the sort of kneejerk Tory views often espoused here. Anyway, Gobbers I'd knock off the continual WWII references. You might upset Nigel's wife. And as for his great-grandad... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0

How does a guy I know's opinion on how Farage should pronounce his name have anything to do with the finer points of Ukip policy? And why has the f-ing BBC have to be trotted out in every bloody thread? Can I once again point out that I work for Red Robbo Global Enterprises and have done for many years. Right now, I'm working to set up a project for a magazine that circulates to extremely wealthy private investors. "Non-lefty" enough for you?

A friend of mine opines that surely as a keen Little Englander he should pronounce his own name Farr-adge (to rhyme with Garage) rather than the French Fa-raj. It's all a mystery...

I wonder if it'll touch on these facts - both of which might be a crushing blow for RG... http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/396897/Great-grandfather-of-Ukip-leader-Nigel-Farage-was-born-to-German-immigrants http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257811/UKIP-Belgian-baiter-leader-Nigel-Farage-family-links--Belgium.html

Hoxton is not on the Tube.

A sensibly argued post. I think ultimately diplomacy might come to a conclusion about Crimea whereby it becomes a Russian oblast but special rights and guarantees are offered to the non-Russian inhabitants. The 40% who almost certainly didn't vote in the joke "referendum". I thought I've read that Tymoshenko had ruled out running again, but you cannot always believe what politicians say I suppose!

Right now Auntie Beeb isn't in my good books as it is nearly giving one of my staff a breakdown with incessant faffing and bureaucracy, but for what it's worth, here's what that famously left-wing cultural Marxist magazine The Spectator had to say about bias recently. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/03/yes-of-course-the-bbc-is-biased-against-you/

I don't have a view. And what does the BBC have to do with it? And every f-ing thing you post here, for that matter. I didn't watch the debate as I was doing something more pleasurable at the time, but I read SX225's opinion of it and he seems to think neither man landed a decisive oratorical blow. YouGov gave Nige a victory, but I suspect that is because the cause he espouses is electorally popular, rather than as an assessment of how powerful his debating style was. TBH I'd rather read unbiased facts about the EU and make my mind up than listen to head-to-head debates like last night's. Politicos in debate shows are all about style over substance.

That's how referendums work, matey. You don't have new votes every year to allow for the fact that a new crop of 18 year olds have become available! Of course, you could well argue that once Maastricht Treaty was signed, we should've had a follow up as a different framework was being constructed - but that doesn't mean there was no mandate. One had quite clearly been won. I'm not sure what Paxo's views on the EU are - and neither are you. He published a book on Englishness, didn't he - that should appeal to you. Still, if you will slavishly follow a "public school toff" with a French surname, who spent his working life representing French and American firms and then married a German and started to work in Belgium, you probably aren't very impartial...

Other than that referendum in 1974 you mean, Gobbers.

Mass suicide?

Shame Still, holding the leader leaders away to a draw is still very commendable.

El Brassico, more like

That's true, but my Pompey mate seems to think the club is imploding.

Sadly I think Pompey and Torquay have their names on that particular ticket. Why can't it be 4 down!!!

I see Yeovil are out the relegation zone. Well done Gary!