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Laura Kuenssberg told us that the issue of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s detention was highly sensitive and political which is why the BBC has been stomping around in its size 12’s adding to the kicking Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is getting.

The BBC led the chorus against Boris and his comment [briefed to him by who? and why?] and are now targeting Gove for his innocuous comments.

Sarah Montague this morning [08:10] told us that Gove had ‘waded into this’ with his comments and yet it was Marr that raised the subject asking what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing in Iran….shouldn’t Marr just have said ‘Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was on holiday so why do you think the Iranians are holding her and what can we do to get her released?’  Of course he wouldn’t like to ask that because the answer leads directly to the BBC’s door.  Peter Allen yesterday also asked what she was doing in Iran…so again raising doubts about her activities.

Then Montague, trying to attack Gove in a somewhat poisonous piece, went down a similar avenue as she quoted Gove’s reply to Marr...

Asked on Sunday by Mr Marr what she had been doing in Iran, Mr Gove replied: “I don’t know” adding there was “no reason Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe should be in prison in Iran so far as any of us know”.

She went on to ask the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ‘He says ‘So far as any of us know’….Do you think he doubts it?’  That is, what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says she was doing…ie on holiday.

As said that was supposed to be an attack on Gove but that extraordinary piece of interpretation of a normal turn of phrase in fact merely gives added ammunition to the Iranians who can now say ‘The BBC thinks a second British government minister has doubts about the truth of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s claims to be merely on holiday.’

The BBC can’t have it both ways….attacking Boris and Gove [Gove having been asked to comment by the BBC] for jeopardising Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s position and then at least three times themselves casting doubt on her story and broadcasting it to the world.

I guess deposing two big Brexit supporting ministers is more important to the BBC than the life of one dual-national woman who got caught up in international politics.

 

The Iranian government has opened a criminal investigation into 152 current and former BBC Persian journalists on charges of “conspiracy against national security”.

October 25 2017

Where is the total outrage from the BBC, from Labour, from all those ‘inside the Tory party against Boris’ [Sarah Montague not mentioning they are pro-EU Tories] about these 152 BBC employees?  There came  none.  Only one ex-BBC employee gets their interest…one whom they think can be exploited to topple Boris…and now Gove.  Funny that.

The BBC tells us that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was merely a small, insignificant admin cog in its Media Action machine…..who can doubt that?

But Iran says it has arrested her for her employment by the BBC’s Media Action and its role in trying to subvert and topple the Iranian regime and links to the BBC’s Persian Service.

The BBC makes no mention of these charges in any of its news bulletins or programmes.

“IT’S THE PICTURES, STUPID.”
Iran’s Reign of Terror can seem a long way away. And sometimes not. There are plenty of Iranians here. They’ll all talk. But nobody wants to go on the record. The fear is manifest. BBC Persian TV and Voice of America carry regular reports of rape, torture and murder against opponents of the regime. Neda was just the start.
So, what happened to change everything?
“It’s the pictures, stupid. The impact of TV news lies in the pictures. Doesn’t matter if it’s Iran, or wherever. Same story.”

Here’s what Media Action tells you about its role in a recruitment advert, here for an accountant….

Job Introduction

BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international development charity, which uses media and communications to help reduce poverty and support people to understand their rights. We do this through partnering with civil society, media and others to produce creative programmes and other outputs which inform and engage audiences on key development issues. We also strengthen the media sector through building professional capacity and infrastructure. We focus on health, governance and rights, and resilience and humanitarian response. 

Sounds rather innocuous but those fine sounding words conceal a somewhat more dangerous objective….to subvert and undermine regimes that don’t match the liberal, democratic standards that the BBC and others want them to by broadcasting into countries such as Iran information the regimes don’t want the population to have…and of course doing this by using Iranian exile journalists.

Here’s an ex-BBC senior journalist telling you how effective the BBC was at encouraging revolt and uprising especially in 2009….the time when Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was supposedly involved with BBC Media Action…

The Power of TV News: An Insider’s Perspective on the Launch of BBC Persian TV in the Year of the Iranian Uprising

We were in Tehran to help prepare the launch of a new BBC Persian TV channel. Naturally enough Mr. Kallur said “no,” without actually ever saying “no” to our newsgathering presence in Tehran. All very Iranian.

“Well, of course you’re from MI6. You’re a spy.” … “Pass the pomegranate juice, please.”

The accusation was made to the director of the BBC’s World Service, Nigel Chapman. He and I and the BBC’s senior Persian analyst, Sadegh Saba, were sitting in the headquarters of the Iranian President, Mahmud Ahmadinejad. His head of communications and senior advisor, Mehdi Kallur, didn’t beat about the bush.

“The West has meddled for decades. We just don’t trust what you’re up to.”

And yet, there were signs of hope. A sea of satellite TV dishes dotted the rooftops. And in nearly every home I went into family and friends were watching the U.S. Voice of America TV, avidly. The chest‐beating chanting of “Death to America,” I also discovered, was nonsense — a carefully choreographed clique drummed up for special occasions. Virtually every Iranian I spoke to really liked America — even loved it. They might not trust it, but they love the culture: California, coast and cars, and what they see in the movies.

On the face of it, though, as Brits, and therefore junior players in this saga, the BBC was seemingly up the Persian Gulf without a paddle. It was the end of 2007. No staff, no reporters in Tehran, and seemingly no audience.

Roll forward 18 months to the uprising of June 2009. “I went to bed in one country, and woke up in another.” The memorable words of (UK) Channel 4 News reporter, Lindsey Hillsum. Hundreds of thousands were out on the streets in Tehran and cities across Iran, disputing the “stolen election.” Joe Klein, reporting the Iranian election in Tehran for Time magazine and CNN, describes it like this: “Anarchy, total chaos, and everyone watching the BBC.”

“The shooting of Neda Soltan and the killings and beatings that followed changed everything” according to Karim Sadjadpour at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace.  “Those picutres were seen by everyone in Iran, mostly on the BBC,, but also on Voice of America or CNN. And make no mistake, the very existence of BBC TV was a critical factor.”

Read the full article here.

You can judge the BBC’s interest in Iran from this site…even though the BBC is banned in Iran it still seeks to influence events there with its broadcasting….you can see the various strategies used by the media to influence politics in Iran and other countries…..and how effective it is….

The Role of New Media in the 2009 Iranian Elections

Robert Faris told participants that new media played a significant role, and international broadcasting services played a more important role. New media tools offer faster information access, but lack accuracy and credibility of traditional forms of media. Censorship is a challenge to use of social media tools, but due to the decentralised nature of tools such as Twitter and mobile phone short message service (SMS), they present challenges to government controls and they can reduce costs and increase efficiency for social movements. In Iran, they united a movement and disseminated information both inside and outside the country.

The Role of the Media as Watch-dogs, Agenda-setters and Gatekeepers in Arab States

“Before the advent of Arab satellite television, the idea that media might drive public opinion in a direction other than that dictated by government was essentially unthinkable, much less that media would have an agenda-setting effect independent from that of those in power.” The author describes a “seminal moment for the media” when a cellphone video of police abuse of power drew intense media interest and brought about the conviction of policemen. With the advent of satellite television and the broadcast of the channel Al-Jazeera, governments temporarily lost control of the broadcast media. Electronic media then took a role in opinion formation.”

Inspiring Political Participation

Iran’s Twitter Revolution

Poetic Engagement with Afghanistan, Caucasus and Iran: An Unexplored Strategic Opportunity?

Against All Odds: The Building of a Women’s Movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran

 

In 2011 the BBC World Service received a grant from the government…why?

International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell called the media “one of our most powerful tools”: “We want to give people knowledge and a voice.”

BBC Media Action may have laudable chairtable aims by ensuring important information on issues such as health are disseminated to those who need it to improve their lives but there is a more political side to Media Action’s work….the BBC is not admitting this in its attacks on Boris and Gove, the BBC is at the centre of this political drama but erases its own presence at every turn not admitting it has a large role in it, blaming Boris and Gove when it should be taking the blame itself.

The BBC wants hate speech legislation in order to silence those who criticise Islam…it had better be careful what it wishes for as the legislation will make the BBC itself fair game one day…..

Spain has laws banning "hate speech." They're now being used to prosecute 8 Catalan teachers for the "crime" of criticizing police violence by Madrid. https://t.co/6VAw5syrJQ

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 12, 2017

The BBC constantly goes on about Russian interference in US Democracy…and yet has nothing to say as the EU tries to annex Northern Ireland and has flooded the UK with an EU citizen ‘army’ that is meant to undermine ‘Britishness’, the British identity and loyalty to Britain.  Others have noted the hypocrisy of those who attack Russia….

Is Noam Chomsky on the payroll of the Kremlin or just a secret supporter of alt-right ideology? https://t.co/uh256Z7Bhu pic.twitter.com/sbCZynPblY

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) November 12, 2017

Worth a closer look I suppose….

I'm tempted to change my name to GA Ponsonski.
Incidentally, I don't claim anyone at the BBC is involved in a *conspiracy*, I argue that there is evidence of institutional corruption. If Leask wants to challenge this evidence then he is free to do so. pic.twitter.com/zkaLruFjyC

— GAPonsonby (@GAPonsonby) November 12, 2017

Ah…of course…how the BBC stole the Scottish independence referendum…the BBC…a British unionist instituiton…lol…the BBC wants nothing more than to break up the UK and serve it up in pieces to the EU superstate as ‘regions 1, 2, 3, 4’……it hates ‘Britain’.

I know RT is institutionally corrupt. It has to be. I also know the BBC is institutionally corrupt. It has to be. Scotland's democracy suffers because the BBC dominates. There is no counter to its British Nationalist viewpoint. That's the real problem here, not Salmond's RT show.

— GAPonsonby (@GAPonsonby) November 11, 2017

The man is delusional….the SNP are rampantly successful in Scotland….how is that ‘Scotland’s democracy suffering’?  Oh…maybe he’s right for the wrong reason.

How can the BBC report this with a straight face?…

Mr Corbyn told the Observer Mr Johnson should be sacked as foreign secretary for “undermining our country” and “putting our citizens at risk”.

Jeremy Corbyn, the man who wants to dismantle NATO, who wants to scrap our nuclear deterrent and mothball the Army, the man who wants to put our intelligence service out to pasture, the man who has voted against just about every piece of anti-terror legislation, a man who supports Islamist terrorists, a man who supports Irish terrorists [no doubt cheering those who placed a bomb at a memorial service today], a man who has close ties to Russia and Iran, a man whose economic policies would impoverish Britain and whose fanatical followers would make it a far, far nastier place, and a man who has conducted secret negotiations with the EU in order to try and stop Brexit.

You have to ask who is it that is really undermining our country and putting our citizens at risk?

The once head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, said:

It seems that the BBC are so intent on getting rid of a Brexit supporting minister that they are prepared to spread Iranian propaganda to do so.

We now hear that Boris is ‘under mounting pressure’…why?…because Corbyn has demanded he be sacked.   That’s not pressure is it?  That’s just the usual Labour politicking by a man who knows he has the BBC in his pocket and whom he can rely upon to broadcast his views as the most important views in the country…never mind he is closely linked to the Iranian regime….so you have to ask what he is doing to help Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe….not a lot from what I can see….just playing politics and using Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a pawn in his game.

Then we have this from the BBC…

Michael Gove has come under fire for saying he didn’t know what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing in Iran when she was arrested in 2016.

Mr Gove told Andrew Marr he would “take her husband’s assurance” that the British-Iranian citizen was on holiday.

So Gove is under attack because he says he didn’t know what the woman was doing in Iran but he understands she was on holiday….a perfectly normal statement but the BBC et al have jumped on him.

Funny then that I have just listened to Peter Allen ask Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s sister-in-law what was she doing in Iran and was she on holiday? Surely there is no doubt at all, why ask the question?   Should Peter Allen now resign?  Will he be vilified by the Left-wing vultures out to ‘defend’ Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe for his “cavalier approach to international diplomacy”?

Ahhh…just seen this from Guest Who….maybe James O’Brien will tear into Allen as he seems to have done to Marr… awkward times ahead in the BBC canteen…

Isn’t the question itself irresponsible? Her family, the FO & her employer concur that she was on holiday. Only the Iranian regime disagreed until Johnson & Gove opened their mouths. Marr must have known this. https://t.co/xnBgMBCqiY

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) November 12, 2017

That was in response to this…the Sun also stirring things…And the response from a Scots Nat [no doubt trying to deflect from Salmond’s love-in with Press TV]

Why did Marr ask this? Is he part of the save Bojo plot or just another natural BBC Tory hack at heart?

— Cailean Donnchadh (@CokieDee62) November 12, 2017

Like rats in a sack.

The BBC keeps saying that Boris said he thought she was teaching in Iran at the time…he did not…he made no mention of a time or a location for her activities he merely said…

“When I look at what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing, she was simply teaching people journalism as I understand it,” he said.

He added: “Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, nor her family, has been informed about what crime she has actually committed. And that I find extraordinary, incredible.”

She was arrested for activities she had supposedly engaged in whilst in the UK working for the BBC….and I note the sister-in-law said she had no idea why she was arrested and yet the family know perfectly well why…as they made clear previously….

British-Iranian aid worker sentenced to jail for ‘cooperation with BBC’ – family

The family of British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been sentenced to five years in jail in Iran on undisclosed charges, said she has been accused by a Revolutionary Court of acting against national security by cooperating with the BBC.

The family said that at the appeal hearing two new accusations have been raised against her: being the head of recruitment for the BBC Persian service, and knowingly being married to a British spy.

Speaking in response to Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s jail sentence, Francesca Unsworth, director of the BBC World Service Group, said on Monday:

“Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has never worked for BBC Persian. She worked briefly [err… 18months] for BBC Media Action, our international development charity, in a junior administrative capacity.”

Funny how the BBC always, always avoids mentioning that.

The BBC is headlining with the amazing news that a ‘Labour’ politician wants Boris to resign for his comments about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.  Of course they don’t tell us that he is Labour…just that he is the Mayor of London….the same mayor of London that told Muslims that to cooperate with the police on anti-terror issues would  make them ‘Uncle Toms’. Maybe he should resign…..maybe the BBC should ask him about his comments [lol] or that he campaigned ‘as a Muslim’ for the Mayorship whilst declaring that Zac Goldsmith was a racist dogwhistler for raising the issue of Islamic extremism and Khan’s close relationship with some extremist speakers….never mind that Goldsmith never mentioned that Khan was a Muslim, just that he kept unsavoury company…it was Khan, as said, who campaigned on the Muslim ticket.

Of course Boris was probably accurate about what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been doing, when she worked for the BBC’s Media Action…he had of course been briefed that this was the case by his staff.  He probably should not have said what he did as the result could have been foreseen.  Note though that the Independent reported his comments without putting any significance on them at all and in fact praised Boris…..until the anti-Boris lobby started to ramp up the rhetoric…..absolutely no flicker of recognition from the Independent that Boris had said anything untoward…..

Boris Johnson has finally condemned Iran’s detention of British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and offered to visit her in prison.  Speaking to a committee of MPs, Mr Johnson attacked both Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s conviction for spying as a mockery of justice and her treatment by the authorities in Tehran.

“When I look at what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing, she was simply teaching people journalism as I understand it,” he said.

He added: “Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, nor her family, has been informed about what crime she has actually committed. And that I find extraordinary, incredible.”

Mr Johnson was told that an MP had been informed she could visit the dual British-Iranian national if she wished and asked if he would make the trip, replying: “Of course.”

Note that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was already facing an increased sentence which the BBC etc fail to mention when they tell us Boris’ words will condemn her to a life behind bars for years more….

Last month, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was told she could face 16 more years behind bars after the Iranian courts reopened her case and added three charges.

Look at the husband’s reaction then…

Responding to Mr Johnson’s comments, Mr Ratcliffe said: “I warmly welcome the Foreign Secretary’s condemnation of Nazanin’s treatment by the Iranian authorities to date. He is right – her case is a mockery of justice, and an abuse of Iranian and international law.

“I thank him for his offer to visit Nazanin and check that she is OK.”

Mr Ratcliffe also clarified that at the time of her arrest his wife had simply been on holiday with Gabriella, visiting her parents and other family members in Iran.

Mr Ratcliffe explained that Mr Johnson’s comment about his wife having taught journalism was a in fact a reference to her first graduate job eight years ago when she was an assistant at BBC Media Action, the corporation’s international development charity.

He said that his wife had never actually taught journalists but instead had simply made travel arrangements for tutors on an international journalism course.

No outrage, but an admittal that she was part of the system that taught journalists, the BBC’s Media Action [a soft power organisation designed to undermine and subvert undemocratic or authoritarian regimes like Iran’s]…the Iranians unlikely to make a distinction between teachers and those who facilitate their job.

Dimbleby on Any Questions presided over the usual BBC biased audience who repsonded with  great cheering when asked if Boris should be sacked.

Just  shame that genuine, contextualised, nuanced journalism is beyond the BBC these days and a baying mob of left-wing Corbynistas is running the show now.  They don’t give a damn about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, they just want to politicise and weaponise her imprisonment in order to ‘get Boris’.  The more they attack Boris the more the iranians will tak ethe opportunity to dmaage him as well by ‘sabre-rattling’ about how they will treat Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe….the anti-Boris mob are doing the Iranian’s work for them…..they would love to see their politiciking end in the fall of Boris….a famous victory.  The BBC et al are helping in that, doing Iran’s work for it.

Boris was esentially right you just wouldn’t know it from listening to the BBC…who also must owe a duty of care to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as she is in prison for working for them.  Maybe Lord Hall Hall should resign?

There is hardly a day that goes by when the BBC isn’t running an ‘NHS in crisis’ story usually as a result of ‘a BBC exclusive investigation’…so you know they have gone out looking for these stories, which aren’t hard to find of course.  The NHS is massive, over 1.5 million employees and in England alone deals with over 1 million patients every 36 hours.  Any wonder you will find stories of some sort of failure…add to that the population is growing rapidly due to immigration and the resultant added pressure on the NHS is endless and relentless.

The BBC just likes to dig out the negative stories which they like to present as ‘worthy’ news but are in fact mostly moral showboating that fills up the airtime and has the happy side-effect of damaging the Tories…they hope.  This morning on 5Live we were warned of a crisis in palliative care…not enough funds, ruthless bean-counters who don’t care about the patients and nowhere near enough care available.  The unfortunate woman who was wheeled in as an example of that failure had a husband and a daughter who both needed palliative care…when the husband died the NHS withdrew some of the funds the wife received to look after him and then when the daughter also died she lost more funding and her motability car that was to provide transport for the daughter.  The wife lost some of my sympathy when she seemed to expect this funding and provison of a car to continue…she said she felt she just couldn’t work anymore…..undoubtedly there are always wrinkles in the NHS funding system that means people don’t get everything they need but when the reason for that provision is no longer there they can’t expect to keep receiving the money….other patients will need it.

Why does the BBC keep on insisting in ramping up these small personal problems into massive signs of the NHS in crisis?

Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph suggests a reason……

‘I once used to dabble in “investigatve journalism”, so I know how soul destroying it can be to spend months beavering away at some supposed great scandal in public life only to find that the more you look into it, the less it turns out to be.  The temptation to ramp it up into something it’s not is hard to resist.  I therefore have some sympathy with the BBC Panorama team and their work on the exotically named ” Paradise Papers”.  We were promised a series of revelations that would blow the lid on supposedly rampant international tax avoidance; what we got actually didn’t add up to a hill of beans.

Try as it did the BBC failed to demonstrate anything significantly untoward and yet it left the impression of shameful misuse by multinationals of offshore havens to avoid paying their share.  You can see why commerce prefers to keep its affairs private when subjected to this kind of knocking and substantially ignorant, anti-business treatment.’

A pretty accurate summation of how the BBC goes about its business..basically mud-slinging…it repeatedly protrayed the use of tax havens as ‘secret’ operations, secret investments, highly secret documents of the rich and powerful….no…they were just private….as you and I like to think our own bank accounts and financial affairs are.  ‘Secret’ is a perjorative word carefully chosen to build a narative of something being hidden…and if it’s ‘hidden’ that must be because it is illegal or immoral…and thus they have something to hide.  The BBC inventing a story where there is none…or none of any significance.

Just the BBC trying to create a narrative that we are being robbed by the ‘rich and powerful’ using ‘secret’ investments that no one knows about….except they are all entirely legal and everyone knows about off-shore bankng and investment…the BBC indulges in a bit of it itself.  Ireland is a tax haven, indeed the UK is a tax haven with relatively low corporate tax rates.  The BBC has just chosen to target those it thinks would seem to help Jeremy Corbyn and his anti-capitalist drive in the same way it targets the NHS and presents it as in crisis all the time.

The BBC…Corbyn’s useful idiots on tap.

In the last few weeks the Remainders have really stepped up their campaign to stop Brexit in its tracks with daily apocalyptic alarms warning us of the catastrophic consequences if we continue down the Brexit road to Hell….planes will fall out of the sky the day we leave, everyone will get cancer…and as the NHS collapses you’ll have nowhere to get treatment, criminals and terrorists will lay waste to Britain and you will be driving cars made by a ressurrected British Leyland and Red Robbo’s descendants….don’t buy one made on a Friday…or any day in fact.  Some days it’s a constant diet of small pro-EU stories, such as this morning when Ed Stourton was talking about Pope Francis…he levered in a question about what the Catholic Church thinks abut Brexit, as you would…apparently they are dead set against it…after all the EU was a Catholic project [hmmm…so the Islamic State isn’t Islamic but the EU is a Catholic State?  Just one more reason to leave] and then we get the big hitters, like Carney, or Brown, or the head of the NHS coming up at strategic times to paint a terrifying picture of post-Brexit armageddon.

There is clearly an orchestrated drive to fill the airwaves and Papers with this scaremongering and the BBC has been incredibly helpful with its almost entirely uncritical, and hugely dishonest coverage.  It has a particular trick up its sleeve.  When the Leave campaign hyped the idea of £350 million a week going to the EU [which it does, more in fact…with the obvious qualifications] the BBC attacked them relentlessly in an attempt to discredit that figure.  But over the last year you may have noticed a change of tack…the BBC has now embraces that figure and when a Leave voice comes into their studios they then present the £350 million as if it was the actual amount we do send to Brussels and which will be an actual £350 million extra to spend as we like…the BBC deliberately completely ignoring the qualifications [such as the rebate].  Why?  Because they want to make the Public think they were ‘promised’ £350 million a week by the Leave campaign and when that, as it clearly won’t, materialise in real life they will be able to say the Leave voter has been conned and betrayed by the Leave campaign…thus the referendum was illegitimate.  And yet this is in fact the BBC conning and fooling the voter.

This came to a head last week with the head of the NHS, Steven Simons, hitting the anti-Brexit campaign trail with demands for that ‘£350 million per week to be spent on the NHS’….We want our Brexit cash boost – NHS boss

The health service should get the cash boost it was promised during the EU referendum, NHS England’s boss says.

Simon Stevens used controversial claims used by Vote Leave – that the NHS could benefit by £350m a week – to put the case for more money in a major speech.

Note that word ‘promised’…and frequently ‘pledged’…..the Leave campaign made no such promise…they were in no position to do so…they were not the government…..just another little white lie from the Remainders and the BBC….note how Stevesn couches his argument in terms of a democracy betrayed if we don’t get that £350 million…..which confirms that the BBC’s new slant is shaped to portray that narrative as well.

‘Oddly’ the BBC didn’t immediately cut him off at the knees and say he was talking rubbish….that there is no £350 million per week as they did with the Leave campaign. Instead the BBC gave him massive publicity for what is a blatant lie….in fact two lies because the famous Battle Bus didn’t actually say we’d give £350 million a week to the NHS….it merely said money would be bettter spent on the NHS.

This demonstrates quite clearly how Stevens and the BBC, are being massively dishonest….before the referendum he told us…

Mr Stevens rejected the idea, suggested by Leave campaigners, that exiting the EU would free up money that currently goes to Brussels. At best, this would fund the NHS for 19 days a year, he argued.

So he said there would be no money from the a Brexit for the NHS…and at best, he told us, it would last 19 days a year…..he was lying then, as clearly leaving the EU would free up large amounts of money, and he’s lying now, first because he seems to have forgotten what he said in 2016 and because the Leave campaign didn’t ‘promise’ £350 million for the NHS.

What the BBC also didn’t tell us was that Stevens is a veteran anti-brexit campaigner who before the referendum told us on Marr that EU referendum: Brexit ‘could damage NHS’, health boss warns….

Leaving the EU could damage the health service, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has warned.

He said he took warnings of possible recession in the event of Brexit “very seriously”, adding that would be “very dangerous” for the service.

Here’s a blatant lie…

Mr Stevens also said the NHS had “benefited enormously” from having doctors, nurses and care workers from the EU working within the health service.

There would be an impact if any of those 130,000 staff chose to leave the NHS because of uncertainty over work visas if the UK left the EU, he added.

There are 60,000 EU staff in the NHS not 130,000.

Stevens had clearly coordinated his attack as part of ‘Project Fear’ with Cameron who appeared on ITV at the same time to praise Stevens….

The prime minister said it was right for “experts” such as Stevens to make their case in what was a critical referendum.

David Cameron told ITV’s Peston on Sunday that Stevens was careful about the way he had made his argument. Cameron said: “All the experts seem to be saying – the IMF, the ECB, the Bank of England, the Treasury, the Office of Budget Responsibility are all saying – the economy would suffer if we left the European Union and single market, and that is quite a consensus. And if that were to happen it would have a bad effect on the NHS.”

Project Fear is alive and well and coming to a BBC screen near you….daily, hourly, by the minute.