Balance, Brexit and the BBC

 

Lord Hall Hall complained to his dinner party set that the BBC’s ‘balanced’ coverage of the referendum had lost the referendum for Remain because it gave too much credibility to the Leave campaign.  Now anyone who has seriously consumed the BBC’s coverage of the referendum will know that their coverage was nothing if not biased heavily in favour of Remain.  Makes you wonder just what sort of coverage Lord Hall Hall would have liked.  Then again, wonder no more because after Nick Robinson coincidentally then came out and said the BBC needn’t bother with ‘balance’ any more when reporting on Brexit that’s precisely what happened….’balance’ went out the window and instead we get a torrent of pro-EU, pro-Remain propaganda that is so blatant that even the blindest, deafest, dumbest member of Ofcom should be able to discern it…don’t hold your breath as the inbred Ofcom keeps up its all too close relationship with its BBC family.

When Zac Goldsmith lost Richmond [a Remain stronghold] to a LibDem the BBC excitedly told us this was a sign that Brexit was over, the tide had turned and opinion was moving away from leaving the EU.  Curiously we have heard hardly a peep about Goldsmith winning the seat back at the recent election [in which, contrary to BBC intimation, May won more votes than the Tories did in 2015].  The BBC also told us that the election meant we must have a new direction on Brexit…the voters have spoken apparently and they want to Remain in the EU, or so the BBC told us, a ‘sign from the country’…never mind the election wasn’t decided on Brexit at all and that 80% or more voted for parties that say they suport leaving the EU now.  This was the BBC campaigning for the Remain side….

‘You are a minority government but you’re reading of the public mood is to push on with the same plans for Brexit that you always had…you know that the whole direction of Brexit is now up in the air…you know that!…you didn’t get the Brexit vote you wanted and you didn’t get a huge majority…this was a sign from the country that they were questioning it [your plans for Brexit].’

Never mind a Tory being elected back into a Remain stronghold.

Robinson told us that the BBC has no need to be impartial becaue there is only one side now as Brexit moves forward…

“The referendum is over. The duty we broadcasters had to ‘broadly balance’ the views of the two sides is at an end. Why? Because there are no longer two sides, two campaigns, two rival sets of spokespeople reading out those focus-grouped slogans.”

Quite clearly, and from the instant the result was known, that has not been true…it is quite apparent that there are two sides and that the Remain side have continued to make their arguments as if the referendum is ongoing…and the BBC has given them huge amounts of airtime to make their case.  The BBC has not only allowed them to make their case but has actually come down on their side even more openly as it also argues for a ‘soft Brexit’…the use of ‘Soft’ and ‘hard’ Brexit is in itself an indicator of bias as there are no such things…a ‘Soft’ Brexit is in fact no Brexit at all.

So Robinson is wrong, there are two sides, and the BBC has chosen to promote and defend the Remain side rather than report accurately, fairly and honestly what is going on.  When have you heard the BBC ever make a positive statement about Brexit?  Their coverage has been entirely negative peddling the Remain ‘apocalypse’ scenario despite it being proven wrong again and again.

Here’s a recent Panorama scare story about food prices…

“[Shoppers will face] higher prices, less choice and poorer quality. Brexit, almost in whatever version it is, will introduce barriers. That makes it less efficient which means all three of those benefits – prices, quality and choice – go backwards.”

Brexit was not about economics, it was about sovereignty, control and immigration.  The BBC ignores that and prefers instead to paint a picture of economic doom in a continuation of ‘Project Fear’…never mind that the ONA has released a report telling us that Osborne’s Treasury report that told us that there would be an immediate and dire impact should we vote to leave was wrong and based upon erroneous assumptions.

Hear about that on the BBC?   No, and yet when the Treasury ‘analysis’ came out during the referendum the BBC put it up in headlights….’proof’ that to leave the EU would be a disaster…they of course didn’t mention that the Treasury was at the beck and call of its master, Osborne.  The same BBC that reported with glee the Evening Standard frontpages attacking May…and yet again failing to mention that the new editor of the Evening Standard was someone who would love to see May deposed even if it meant the Tories being shoved out of Office as this meant Brexit would suffer a huge setback….Osborne again.

Funnily enough the Evening Standard had a frontpage suggesting Brexit would cause us cancer.…this is Osborne continuing a theme started by the BBC which has carefully plotted a campaign with the Remain side to attack May on the ECJ…the BBC organised an interview with arch Remainer James Chapman and ran a relentless stream of news stories and programmes based upon it that exaggerated problems, lied about membership of the EU being crucial to staying part of EURATOM and insisted we would need to remain in the ECJ if we wanted to be in EURATOM.

The BBC is working in concert with the Remain camp to stop Brexit.

There is an endless flow of Remain supporters being given a lot of airtime on the BBC and who are welcomed with open arms rather than with rigorous questions and challenges to their claims.  Last weekend we had Vince Cable on to tell us Brexit would never happen as the people realised how terrible it all would be…no challenge from anyone.  Naturally Ken Clarke and Chris Patten and Heseltine have been allowed to peddle their pro-EU misinformation but it doesn’t stop with the usual suspects as the old BBC trick of inviting on artists, writers and film-makers for an interview on their latest project but actually wanting to know their views on the latest issue the BBC is concerned with…at one time it was George Bush and the BBC knew they could reliably ask all these artistes for a negative comment and in the same way they can be relied upon for an anti-Brexit rant or a pro-EU puff as when they had Lord Brown[ex BP] on and he waxed lyrical about the wonders of diversity and Europe [which of course we will not be able to go to once Brexit happens].

Then there are those carefully crafted hatchet jobs, the little films made by people invited onto the BBC to give their opinion…as during the election when Newsnight’s Corbyn’s film was wide-eyed glorification and May’s a sly stab in the back from Matthew Parris.

Here’s the most recent…a film by Remain psycho [so it would seem from the film] Julian Glover who tells May to just lie back and think of Britain as the EU ‘f***s’ us…he tells us the EU will not compromise so we must…a bad deal is better than no deal…what a snivelling little coward……as one of the comments to the video says…’more BBC shite. The sooner we rise up and get rid of the TV licence tax, the better.’…

 

Probably one of the nastiest and utruthful films you will see, hopefully.

Our country looks deranged, stupid, diminished, flaky, bringing on self-harm, something no-one voted for, a lab rat experiment by the crazies on the rest of us.  No deal would mean busted, broken borders, bankrupt factories, no right for planes to fly, no right for trucks to move…we’d be a poorer, sadder, nastier place, an absurdity sniggered at by the world.  A bad deal may be the best we can get…so compromise and accept it.

Note the BBC is pushing the same line on PM as Is the BBC Biased? notes….

So no deal would be a sudden dramatic rupture. 

Would we recover? In time yes. Probably trade can’t grind to a halt forever. 

And there are those who think it’s worth it. Ukip put out a statement just today saying it’s time to call it quits and walk away. 

But many people in politics and especially in business think no deal would be a disaster for our economy and for our standing in the world. 

 

The BBC’s Brexit coverage has been atrocious, highly partisan and biased, it is so far from the truth, so far from responsible, measure, accurate journalism that it is beyond a joke.  Lord Hall Hall should be sacked as he is so clearly incapable of not using the BBC as his own personal messaging service pumping out pro-EU propaganda at a relentless rate in order not to ruin his digestion.

Sack him or jail him.  A good case for either as he corrupts the BBC and poisons the public mind.