The Daily Mail has slammed the BBC with a long list of biased, pro-Labour broadcasting…it could add a lot more this morning.
For a start there is absolutely no mention that Corbyn, extremely uncomforatble under questioning about his non-policy on nuclear weapons, refused to make any reply to an audience member’s statement….can’t imagine the BBC letting May get away with that…a stubborn refusal to comment on a serious issue in what is a showcase for their policies and for them to explain themselves. The Today show had a long piece on Corbyn’s nuclear quizzing and yet failed to mention his clamming up?!!! Not mentioned elsewhere either. A small but telling summing up of QT last night by the BBC….May was robustly questioned by the audience…Corbyn was heckled. So Corbyn wasn’t properly and robustly taken to task on his nuclear policies and insistently questioned as he tried to evade the answer then? No, he was ‘heckled’ by an angry mob of irrational and abusive Right-wingers [I open out and realise for you the BBC’s intended narrative of grizzled old glumbucket Corbyn under unwarranted attack].
And check this BBC selective reporting as they decide what is important and what isn’t [no guesses needed]…..Michael Fallon has said there is no plan to raise taxes…the BBC has taken this as him saying there will be no tax rises and that this is a change to the manifesto…despite reporting: ‘Income tax: Conservatives have ‘no plans’ to raise tax’
Senior Conservatives have said there are “no plans” to raise income tax if the party wins the general election, in an apparent change of policy.
In what way is that a change of policy? It just means right now there is no plan to raise taxes…that may change. You may have ‘no plan’ to change job or move house but…that may change.
The BBC is trying to keep up the narrative of a ‘weak and wobbly’ May…indeed John Humphrys agreeing with Ed Miliband as he trotted out the phrase this morning. Isn’t May in fact showing strength as she changed her care policy and refused to take part, whilst being pilloried by the BBC, again Humphrys this morning, in a staged ‘debate’ for the benefit, it might be said, mostly of the broadcasters who want a circus and a stream of out of context soundbites to mock the politicians with.
Curious that the BBC is so keen to ascribe a change in policy when there clearly is none and yet when the Labour Party propose a land tax, a ‘garden tax’, in its manifesto the BBC completely ignores it…and indeed if the subject is raised, dismisses it out of hand…Humphrys this morning dismissed IDS’s comment about a garden tax by saying Labour had proposed no such thing…and yet they have.
Labour’s suggestion of a land tax is a huge issue, it is supposed to replace the council tax…which of course was a replacement for the hated Poll Tax which had fatal consequences for Mrs Thatcher. Replacing council tax is a massive issue which will be highly controversial and raise all sorts of problems and resentments…and yet the BBC is totally ignoring what is a bit of a bombshell tucked away in the back of the Labour manifesto….however, mention you have ‘no plans’ to raise tax and it is frontpage news and the BBC invents a wholely fake narrative around it. This was similar to the BBC invention of a ‘split’ in the Tory party over Brexit and immigration…May said she was ‘aiming’ to reach a certain figure, David Davis on QT said it was a target to get to a certain figure...’we’d like to get it down in this next parliament’.…apparently this is a controversial and damaging split in the Party on a major policy issue….you heard it on the BBC first.
That narrative is a complete nonsense from the BBC…it even admits there is no time frame in the manifesto and yet bases their whole narrative of a ‘controversy’ on there being one…fake news…where is the confusion?…..
The Conservatives have denied there is any confusion in their immigration policy after Theresa May signalled she wanted to cut numbers to less than 100,000 a year by 2022.
The target, which is in the party’s manifesto but without a timeframe, has not been met since it was set in 2009.
Brexit Secretary David Davis said the Tories would “aim” to hit the target in five years – but could not promise.
As for the glories of ‘debate’…you just had to listen to IDS and Ed Miliband on the Today show…Humphrys started by making a ‘clever’ comment about May’s failure to make the necessary obeisance to her media masters, but following this Today ‘debate’ between IDS and Miliband there were all sort of groans and comments about how bad it was and how pointless as you had pre-planned soundbites, disruptive interruptions, shouty grandstanding and a distinct unwillingness to listen and actually debate. We learned nothing other than ‘debates’ are useless unless rigorously policed and directed…in which case why have one as you may as well have a face to face, one to one, as per C4 along with audience questions?
Humphrys was definitely more onside for Miliband…and why does the BBC keep picking IDS to talk for the Tories…because he’s not a good brawler…even up against nerdy Miliband he struggled. Miliband kept talking over IDS and lobbing in one of those ‘clever’ soundbites…in this case that ‘people are fed up with austerity’ [and thus want a free spender like Corbyn]…the easy answer to that is that people are grown ups with the ability to think for themselves and can spot a fraud and a ruinous economic policy a mile off..hence Miliband didn’t get elected at the last election. The too nice IDS couldn’t silence Miliband though and Humphrys was more inclined to silence IDS. Any wonder the BBC’s first choice is probably IDS?
