Is It By Sheer Coincidence That The Bbc Are Airing Sitting In Limbo Tonight ?

[Bobbisox1]

A drama about Windrush when feelings are running high right now, I realise it needs to be shown but now?

[KARL]

The converse might be asked: Why not now ?

[jno]

sounds like the best possible time.

[Gromit]

What does Windrush have to do with the protests about George Floyd killing ?

[andy-hughes]

The difficulty is, the sort of mind that thinks random destruction is the way to address the issues of history is not the sort of mind that is interested in information and context.

The people who would actually gain from information and context will not be sitting in front of their televisions, they will be out on the streets, looking at what else they can destroy that doesn't sit with their naïve impressions of how society operates.

[woofgang]

oh Gromit, do keep up!

[Bobbisox1]

It could very well inflame an already volatile situation
@KARL

[AuntPollyGrey]

I think its by unfortunate co-incidence that the programme was slotted for tonight. I think they should replace it with something less inflammatory until this bend the knee nonsense is over.

[Spicerack]

Doubt it.
'37 policemen injured tonight in a mainly peaceful demonstration'
'the policewoman fell of her horse but was rescued by BLM supporters'

[AuntPollyGrey]

The policewoman fell of her horse because it bolted when BLM supporters threw a bottle at it!

[Peter Pedant]

// The converse might be asked: Why not now ?//
a shorter one might be

schedules are decided weeks before

[which AB einstein quips : - - - end of !]

[Spicerack]

Yes, everyone knows that, APG. (except people who get their news from the BBC)

[woofgang]

APG a rioter threw the bottle. Do you KNOW they are a BLM supporter.

[Peter Pedant]

// The policewoman fell of her horse because it bolted when BLM supporters threw a bottle at it!//

no she tried to drive it into a traffic light - which was on RED ! haw haw haw
horses are trained to have bottles thrown at them - fireworks tossed, dustbin lids banged
this is not above an equine pay grade ( miss )

have another shart of morphine or I will

[Ellipsis]

Here's the BBC report:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-52954899

People can make their own minds up how biased it is.

[fiction-factory]

"But Asia Ahmed, an activist who attended several of the protests, said "these situations don't come from nowhere".
She told the BBC she had seen the police "acting very aggressively" towards protesters.
Ms Ahmed, who was not at Downing Street during the disturbance, said a "lot of people" she spoke to "feared for their lives when they saw police horses"."

Is this Asia Ahmed some respected person who is worth quoting?Were no other people available to give their account? I thought the BBC had reporters there to report on things

[Spicerack]

I seriously hope a few more people have had their eyes opened to the disgracefully biased BBC reporting over the last few days.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Woofgang, //APG a rioter threw the bottle. Do you KNOW they are a BLM supporter.//

It was either a Black Lives Matter supporter or a Policeman who threw the missile at the horse. I'll leave you to cogitate on that one.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Spicerack The BBC are a disgrace. That's why I no longer pay my TV licence.

[retrocop]

//schedules are decided weeks before

[which AB einstein quips : - - - end of !] //

It doesn't take Einstein to know that TV channels can pull a programme out of a schedule, until another time, at the drop of a hat.
The usual announcement from a non biased channel are words to the effect, 'programmes have now been altered from our advertised schedule as now is deemed inappropriate to air it'.
Simples PP. End Of.
Sorry mustn't use PP.......... Peter Pedant

[anneasquith]

Maybe we will be educated by the programme ?