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The Great European Disaster Movie
Camp Freddie
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There was a very interesting programme on BBC 4 last night entitled " The Great European Disaster Movie". It was a fictional dramatisation, based on the way the EU is heading and, unlike the recent Channel 4 offering about a UKIP government, gives a frightening view of what could happen, should the EU collapse. It`s a cautionary tale and well worth watching.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b054v0v2/storyville-20142015-17-the-great-european-disaster-movie
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b054v0v2/storyville-20142015-17-the-great-european-disaster-movie
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"In this 90-minute authored documentary, a fanatically Europhile former editor of the Ecommunist, Bill Emmott, was given space to fantasise about the horrors which would ensue were the glorious and bounteous European Union ever to collapse.
Among the EU’s magnificent achievements cited in the programme were the moment when a bearded man wearing a dress – Conchita Wurst – won the Eurovision Song Contest...."
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/03/02/bbc-bias-is-beyond-a-joke-and-unfortunately-its-here-to-stay/
well at least the comments underneath were entertaining: what a collection of fruit loops.
This whole rotten Empire will collapse under its own weight of central dictatorship. Much like the previous three in Europe.
Propaganda, that's all it is.
I thought it was funded by the licence fee
More correctly , the EU steals money from the British Taxpayer, part of which is used to fund pro EU propaganda telling everyone the EU is great
The BBC has been given, on estimate, £22 million by the EU over the past few years.
Obviously the EU is not the main source of funding for the BBC, but they have received EU funds: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/culturehousedaily/2014/02/the-millions-in-eu-funding-the-bbc-tried-to-hide/
I didn't say it was the main source of funding.
I know, it was just a pre-emptive mention in case anyone tried to dismiss your point.
Oh right. Thanks.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/02/bbc-denies-ukip-eu-money_n_6782366.html
" Eurosceptics implied the corporation used the money to make The Great European Disaster Movie, which aired on BBC 4 on Sunday night. It showed Prime Minister Nigel Farage deporting recent immigrants from "Greater England" as Spain isolates itself and Islamic State (IS) marches on Vienna after the collapse of the EU."
"No EU money was used in the making of the programme being aired on the BBC."
Perhaps the Brussels Broadcasting Corporation wants to go on record and state exactly "what" it spends the EU bungs on ?
Good one
Fair point though they have only said what it wasn't used for not what it was used for, someone needs to ask them.
Did the EU give us Eurovision as well - how come half the participants aren't even EU members?:D
Perhaps the EU want to take over Australia now too as they are in this years contest.
I'm surprised they didn't have farage driving around in a beetle giving Nazi salutes.
Seems to be a lot of anti Farage spoofs going on at the moment. I think the establishment are worried
I think the EU people are worried too.
Anyway. The Telegraph gives this 1 star and calls it 'patronising':
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/11444406/The-Great-European-Disaster-Movie-BBC-Four-review.html
It would make sense for the EU, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand to link up have a treaty and form one common market.
I thought it was an excellent documentary, bar the fictional airplane sh*te and the last 5-10 minutes which became a party political broadcast for the EU. Other than that it came some negative EU views, many unbiased historic and current points that cant be argued (e.g. the rise of the Far Left in Spain and the anti-EU now coming from many countries. But yes it was mainly pro-EU but often presented as opinions that you could argue against immediately. Unfortunately as i recorded it cut off before the debate immediately after in which Reckless was one of the 3 guests.
Storyville is generally bought in documentaries, although this programme BBC was one of four Exec Producers so they definitely partly funded it. But from what i can tell it the BBC didnt make it and its the journalist and previous editor of The Economist Bill Emmot's personal project and viewpoint, made by his Springshot Productions company:
http://springshotproductions.com/
I don't have an issue with BBC4 showing this, i'm more enlightened and slightly more anti-EU than before i watched it, yet with a bit more knowledge of the subject