I wonder if the BBC thinks that supporting the government position on the EU referendum will make the government look kindly upon the BBC when the Charter Renewal is finally decided?  Has Lord Hall Hall got an agreement with Cameron?

No, of course not, the independent and impartial BBC would never stoop so low.

The BBC may interview some who support Brexit but it is becoming more and more obvious that the weight of the BBC coverage is favouring the pro-EU side.

There is little attempt from what I have heard to balance out the debate and provide voices from both sides on certain issues.

When Gove said the ECJ could override the agreement Cameron signed up to the BBC misquoted what he said claiming that he said the agreement was not legally binding at any time….but that wasn’t what he said…this is…

“The facts are that the European court of justice is not bound by this agreement until treaties are changed and we don’t know when that will be. I do think it’s important that people also realise that the European court of justice stands above every nation state, and ultimately it will decide on the basis of the treaties and this deal is not yet in the treaties.”

Not binding until the treaties are changed to incorporate it.   And of course the ECJ is a political body that serves the European Union and makes its judgements with that in mind…in the interests of the European Union.

The BBC on the Today programme brought in Dominic Grieve to give us his legal opinon…but he is, as he admitted,  an ardent supporter of the EU and in fact was a loud voice urging Cameron to sign up to the agreement he that did.  Hardly the voice of impartiality that was needed.

Today I just heard Pienaar give us his opinion on whether the referendum debate is civil or not….apparently it is all Boris Johnson’s fault for calling the PM’s claims ‘Balderdash’…no mention of Cameron’s attacks on the Brexiteers or his rigging of the referendum by trying to gag them and with-hold information from them.

Then we had a clip of the Norwegian PM telling us how awful life was outside the EU…she really wanted to join because you know what, Norway just didn’t have any sovereignty.

The BBC is now playing that clip on the news as if it is a truthful and impartial voice in the debate.  What the BBC doesn’t tell us is that the Norwegian politicians have been constantly trying to sign up Norway to more and more EU legislation by the backdoor behind the population’s back…..do we trust Cameron and Co not to do exactly the same?

Why doesn’t the BBC quote other voices from Norway when the vast majority of the Norwegian population are against further integration?…

Trouble is we’ve been here before with the BBC and its less than honest protrayal of the Norwegian position.Let’s just remind ourselves, and the BBC, what the Norwegian position really is….it co-operates closely with the EU and has a great deal of say in its workings….

Norway and the EU

Norway and the EU enjoy good and close relations, although Norway is not a member of the European Union. The Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) is the mainstay of our cooperation, and it ensures that Norway takes part in the EU internal market. We are also part of the Schengen Agreement and cooperate with the EU on foreign and security policy issues.

Through the EEA Agreement, the three EFTA states Norway, Iceland and Liechten-stein are equal partners in the EU internal market, on the same terms as the EU member states. Moreover, the Agreement also covers cooperation in other important areas such as research and development, education, social policy, the environment, consumer protection, tourism and culture. It also enables the three EEA EFTA states to participate in various EU programmes.  Norway also participates in the activities of a number of EU agencies through provisions in the EEA Agreement or on the basis of bilateral agreements.

Let’s look at what they have opted out of.…all the politics of the EU including the human rights…note the rules for the single market are 90% global and would be followed anyway, in or out of the EU…..

I think the BBC has given up any real pretence of impartiality and its journalists are now slipping in the pro stuff because it comes so naturally to them, they just can’t help themselves, they don’t even notice it.

When it’s not being used to spread Project Fear, BBC Radio 4 likes to relax by continually expressing its disgust at the success of Donald Trump and this morning was no exception. The BBC just cannot understand how a man like Trump – with his “awful” views – has had such a successful SuperTuesday! I can’t wait for him to become President, just as the UK exist the EU. It will bring on the collective collapse of the rancid BBC.

Here you go, a new Open Thread to welcome the middle of the week! Detail the bias here please!

Always amusing how much effort the BBC puts into avoiding mentioning or downplaying immigration and its effects.

Just why did the BBC decide to frame Macedonia’s actions in protecting itself against the attempt by mostly young, male Muslims to invade Macedonia using brute force as something Macedonia had to ‘defend’….Macedonia doesn’t have to ‘defend’ its actions, it has to defend its, and Europe’s, borders against vast numbers of people who have no intention of integrating and who will in the course of time demand that their families be let in and that they be allowed to practice their religion as they see fit.

Back in Blighty yesterday the world was looking at the shortage of school places.

The BBC’s report tells us what the problem is…

With a population bulge about to hit secondary schools, councils want powers to open new maintained schools and to compel academies to expand.  

The population bulge which has put primary schools under pressure will start hitting secondary schools this year, according to official figures.

And that’s it…no talk of immigration or anything connected to it just that euphemistic ‘population bulge’.

The BBC in a What the Papers Say article report the Sun saying…

“One in six schools are full”, is the headline in the Sun, which says the “classroom crisis” is set to worsen because of “Britain’s immigration-fuelled population boom”. In its leader column, the paper says “overcrowded classrooms and the challenges of accommodating myriad different languages will nobble attempts to drive up standards”.

And the Mail saying…

The Daily Mail agrees, saying the number of children who are “non-native speakers soared by nearly 400% from 51,955 to 190,506 in seven years, stretching teachers’ time”.

Rather selective choice of Mail quote as the Mail’s main headline was…

British children ‘neglected’ as migrant pupil numbers soar with 1.2 million children in school whose first language is not English

Then scroll down to the video of Author Matthew Green and Jenni Russell of the Times reviewing the front pages and you will get an EU love-in where they find the arguments for the EU ‘quite convincing’.

What’s also remarkable is that the BBC, other than to show the page itself, doesn’t discuss the Mail’s front page which looks at Blair and the Iraq War …a very sore subject with the BBC…we’ve mentioned this a few days ago when the Mail had Blair’s secret plot to import millions of immigrants on its front page and the BBC ignored that…..I’m guessing the BBC ignore this because it would link to the story on immigration…and then they would have to explain why they didn’t expose Blair at the time of his plot and when Andrew Neather blew the doors off it all and revealed everything….

Conman Blair’s cynical conspiracy to deceive the British people and let in 2million migrants against the rules: Explosive new biography lays ex-PM’s betrayal bare

Look at the selected quotes the BBC plucked from the Mail yesterday….

The Daily Mail agrees, saying the number of children who are “non-native speakers soared by nearly 400% from 51,955 to 190,506 in seven years, stretching teachers’ time”.

The Daily Mail says it has been a “disastrous year for some charities”, with interventions from the prime minister and a committee of MPs, the latter warning charities “are now looking at their ‘last chance’ to put their own house in order”.

The Daily Mail adds a disclaimer to what might otherwise appear to be a good-news story, that while people were “significantly happier at 69”, this was “despite most of them developing chronic diseases such as arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure”.

Daily Mail – Back to uni on helicopters, private jets and in flash cars: Rich Kids of London show off their favourite transport as they ‘sneer at peasants outside Primark’ and clean their shoes with £50 notes

The Daily Mail reports the hedgehog population was thought to be about 36 million strong in the 1950s, but has declined to less than a million since 2003.

And what about this….

‘Eye-catching headlines’

What would be that ‘eye-catching headline’?…..one about the BBC…

Now the good news: we’re all in the BBC survivors’ club – the Daily Mail reports on how seasoned BBC hacks Frank Gardner, Andrew Marr, Nick Robinson and George Alagiah formed the Survivors’ Club, having been through serious illness or injury.

Incredible that the actual headline story plastered across the frontpage of the Mail is not even mentioned….not a peep about Iraq.     It’s almost as if the BBC doesn’t want you to read the book on Blair and his betrayal of the British people….which the BBC silently consented to.

After all the years Paul Mason worked for the BBC has the Tory Party just woken up to the fact he is somewhat left of left?  Just why did the ‘impartial’ BBC employ him when he was so obviously way off any norm?

Via Guido…

“The fact that the Labour Party is now getting its advice from Yanis Varoufakis and the revolutionary Marxist broadcaster Paul Mason does not suggest to me that they’ve got an answer to economic security. Presumably they chose those two because Chairman Mao was dead and Mickey Mouse was busy.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipLFZ41xtm8

Business Insider have unearthed a 1987 ITN clip of a dashing Paul Mason handing out the Workers’ Power newspaper and talking about “building revolutionary politics within the Labour Party”. Workers’ Power were a militant Trotskyist entryist group which infiltrated Labour in the eighties when Mason was working as a music teacher – his economics is all self-taught. The same year Mason was distributing their material, they published a pamphlet commemorating the Russian revolution and praising Lenin. It has taken nearly thirty years to achieve his entryist ambitions, now finally Labour’s Shadow Chancellor has signed him up to help with Labour’s economic policy…