Comments on: The National Bullying Helpline story is looking flakier and flakier

By: dolly hedges

dolly hedges — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:03:39 +0000

If this is a political setip by the Conservatives then this becomes something that is unimaginable:-

A main political party uses the issue of workplace abuse (bullying), to smear the PM deliberatly: Whilst having no regard for consequences of their actions towards vulnerable victims of abuse in the workplace.

Consider that victims often have severe pscological damage and need a helpline. Victims of real bullying suffer from such conditions as Post Traumatic Stress, Anxiety Disorders, and can even lead to suicides.

A party indulging in that for political smearing deserves not only rejecting at the ballot box but dissolution and a full inquiry.

It is just too much to actually accept as possible. But is it?

By: Terrible reporting by the BBC on the National Bullying Helpline « Alex Ross

Terrible reporting by the BBC on the National Bullying Helpline « Alex Ross — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:46:28 +0000

[...] list of the links, which you can read here. On Lord Toby Harris’ blog a commentator also points out that the NBH base is next door to the local Conservative association, and this morning the local MP [...]

By: Quietzapple

Quietzapple — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:25:11 +0000

Notable this lunchtime’s BBC News included an attack on Lord Mandelson – whose statement today is not identical to his statement yesterday before the ToryBBC Pratt allegations – by a journalist who was asked a question by the presenter to which that was no answer at all.

He said the story was phoned to a local part of the BBC and then to the national office. He did not admit that they failed to check adequately, nor that they broadcast the lie that Mrs Pratt was saying Gordon Brown had been bullying.

Truly is the ToryBBC a propaganda organisation since Gilligan. Time to cleanse the Augean stables in may. Let’s hope Brown knows a Hercules.

By: SOCIALIST UNITY » "NATIONAL BULLYING HELPLINE" REPORTED TO CHARITIES COMMISSION

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:01:03 +0000

[...] See also Lord Toby Harris [...]

By: Ron Broxted

Ron Broxted — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:31:11 +0000

What is all this about Brown beating up his bodyguard? P.C Plod getting a dose of his own…no…too easy a target for satire. Servus!

By: Malcolm Trahearn

Malcolm Trahearn — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:15:26 +0000

Re- Tory connections, nobody is mentioning that the “NBH” operates from an address in Swindon which seems to be next door to the local Conservative Association, 15 and 17, Dorcan Business Village respectively.

By: Quietzapple

Quietzapple — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:19:43 +0000

All quite true.
However the ToryBBC didn’t run this until it looked like Rawnsley’s typically unsubstantiated tosh was running out of legs on its news bulletins.

It truly looks like an attempt to co-ordinate anti Labour pro-Tory propaganda.

The Breakfast presenter Charlie State was particularly anti Labour on that show and I tweeted to that effect at the time, I wonder what he had heard in the canteen or corridors that morning?

This was doubly well timed because of the poll which showed a further narrowing of the Tory – labour gap to 6% and Gordon’s launch of the new slogan – A fair future for all, and because the Rawnsley story in the Tory Guardian Observer re-launch was dying.

I gather most people don’t care much anyway, as bullying is so often divers and it seems most likely that this tory media bullying of Gordon Brown will likely further improve his long term personal standing, in which he may overtake Chameleon by May.

Plus ca #ToryFail c’est la meme #ToryFail as we tweet.