The Joke of Dizzy Rascal On News Night

The night when the world celebrated the landslide victory of President- Elect Barack Obama, the BBC decided to make a joke of what this win meant to people of Britiain by choosing rapper Dizzy Racal as the voice of black people.

On BBC 2, the popular political commentary show News Night featured an interview with Baroness Amos, the former leader of the House of Lords and Dizzy Rascal, commenting about their feelings on whether Britain could have a black Prime Minister.

I, like many others was ashamed of how Dizzy Rascal came across in the show. Fair enough he was just being himself, and no one ever told him he was going to have to become a political commentator.

It is true that if he was to have been any different, people would have been wondering what was wrong. However to me the blame lies completely with the BBC.

Voice of Young Britain

If they wanted to have a commentary from young Britain, there is no way they could say that he was the perfect choice for the voice of young people.

He was not taking it seriously and Jeremy Paxman definitely was not taking it seriously. Even Baroness Amos was embarrassed.

If this is what the BBC call hard news, they should be ashamed of themselves. Usually the BBC can be depended on to be a perfect representation of what news should be, but on that occassion they were seriously lacking.

Increase in child poverty

A government report has revealed that child poverty has risen again, for the second year running, threatening the governments pledge to half child poverty by 2010.

The number of children living in poverty rose by 100,00 in 2006, and pensioner poverty rose by 300,000 since 1998.

The number of children and pensioners living in poverty increases, once living expenses such as rent and mortgages are deducted.

The government described the rise as 'disappointing,' while a spokesperson from Help The Aged told the BBC, 'This is a disgrace. We are watching more and more pensioners fall further and further below the poverty line.'

What is so difficult to believe and hard to accept is the idea that people have to live in these conditions when they live in one of the richest and affluent countries in the world.

Why is it that Britian likes to cast judgement and interfere in other countries problems, when its own people are suffering.

When is Britain going to stop thinking about its rich and concentrate more on its poor.