Kamal Ahmed: Thanks Molly. Headline has been changed. It was not meant to be taken as literal, but as an historic reference that was out of date.Kamal Ahmed: It’s been pretty torrid on here since @Andrew_Adonis raised the issue. The headline has been changed and I have deleted the original tweet. Journalism has to be read in context – headline and article. I felt meaning was clear. I hope we can keep the debate civil.
UK no longer shackled to a corpse
14 February 2018After many false dawns, at last some sunlight has fallen on Europe’s strongest economies.
Growth across the European Union is at levels not seen since 2007.
And the continent’s powerhouse countries – Germany and France – are seeing growth at levels not experienced since the financial crisis bounce-back of 2010.
Remain’s very own stormtrooping ‘Momentum’ thought-police, Dementum, didn’t want you to see that headline…so they bullied the BBC into changing it to something that promotes the EU…..
EU joins global growth bandwagon
The report was of course entirely pro-EU in any case….you might think the original headline was put there like a honey-trap, designed to bring in Leave voters who then find they are being assailed with pro-EU propaganda…the British economy bounced back long before the EU’s and the EU is merely playng catch-up rather than leaping ahead as Ahmed’s report suggests. Ahmed has long been a pro-EU advocate…his ‘reality checks’ damned Brexiteer claims whilst downplaying criticism of Remain’s apocalyptic claims.
Is Ahmed trying to lure in Leave voters to read his pro-EU propaganda? The Remainers certainly think he might be…..
Perhaps it’s symptomatic of how some journos are squirming at the BBC and that the only way they can get any pro-EU info out there is under cover of bad-mouthing the Union. It’s how artists and writers operate under totalitarian regimes, by watching their backs.
— (((mia))) ❄️???????? #FBPE (@eurobrit35) February 15, 2018
No, it doesn't. But look on the bright side – it will probably be shared by lots of Brexity-Trumpkin bots who haven't figured out that it's all about the success of the EU.
— Lucy #FBPE (@lucening) February 14, 2018
Ahmed is in fact just regurgitating Cameron’s pro-EU propaganda from the day before the referendum…
Speaking to the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, he said: “We are not shackled to a corpse. You can see the European economy’s recovery. It’s the largest single market in the world.
“The idea you have to choose between being a success in the European single market of 500 million and campaigning to have jobs and wealth created by trading with other economies – you don’t have to choose, you should do both.”
Interesting when the bbc clears the decks in short order to respond as the result of an expression of concern from some… Dementum, Lord Adonis, Sir Lenny… but if anyone not on bbc speed dial has an issue it needs to be fed into the bbc complaints mincer for months.