Category Archives: BBC bias

BBC Newsnight last evening was a 15 minute broadcast on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign. You can watch it here if you missed it. By way of analysis of the blessed Hillary we had someone from the Huffington Post (pro Clinton) and someone from the New York Times (which last endorsed a Republican Presidential candidate in 1956!!!) Yes, that’s how BBC Newsnight rolls – presstitution care of your license tax. The BBC is just an echo chamber for these left wing bores to agree with themselves and congratulate each other on their group think.

Laugh….not so long ago the Remain partisans [or is that ‘Quislings’ as Nigel Farage might say?] were outing Theresa May as a secret Brexiteer who betrayed poor old Cameron…now, that line having sunk without trace in all reasoned commentary [still on the BBC tho’…where we are still reminded that she may have been ‘lily-livered’ according to Remain snipers] the Left are revealing that she is in fact a double agent bluffing us all as it can be revealed that she is in fact a secret Remainer.  Yes.  You heard it here first….after it was of course leaked to the Guardian who are making a huge song and dance about it [Why Theresa May’s secret speech really does matter] …or what they think ‘it’ is….They don’t provide a link to the whole recording nor a full transcript….

Exclusive: what Theresa May really thinks about Brexit shown in leaked recording

Theresa May privately warned that companies would leave the UK if the country voted for Brexit during a secret audience with investment bankers a month before the EU referendum.

A recording of her remarks to Goldman Sachs, leaked to the Guardian, reveals she had numerous concerns about Britain leaving the EU. It contrasts with her nuanced public speeches, which dismayed remain campaigners before the vote in June.

The crucial passage reads: “I think being part of a 500-million trading bloc is significant for us. I think, as I was saying to you a little earlier, that one of the issues is that a lot of people will invest here in the UK because it is the UK in Europe.

“If we were not in Europe, I think there would be firms and companies who would be looking to say: do they need to develop a mainland presence rather than a UK presence? So I think there are definite benefits for us in economic terms.”

Trouble is…that’s all so much b******s…it’s nothing she hasn’t said before, about the economy and security, as in this ‘secret’ speech in April….some abridged quotes that illustrate perfectly that she set out clearly her belief that staying in the EU was the way to go……I quote at length on trade to show that it wasn’t just a quick one off ‘political’ statement but a thought through argument in favour of the EU….

Remaining inside the European Union does make us more secure, it does make us more prosperous and it does make us more influential beyond our shores. 

So my judgement, as Home Secretary, is that remaining a member of the European Union means we will be more secure from crime and terrorism. 

On Trade…

There would be a very real danger that the EU heads in a protectionist direction, which would damage wider international trade and affect for the worse Britain’s future trade with the EU.

So, if we do vote to leave the European Union, we risk bringing the development of the single market to a halt, we risk a loss of investors and businesses to remaining EU member states driven by discriminatory EU policies, and we risk going backwards when it comes to international trade. 

So the single market accounts for a huge volume of our trade, but if it is completed – so there are genuinely open markets for all services, the digital economy, energy and finance – we would see a dramatic increase in economic growth, for Britain and the rest of Europe….

As Britain is the leading country in Europe when it comes to the digital economy, that is an enormous opportunity for us all. 

These changes will mean greater economic growth in Britain, higher wages in Britain and lower prices for consumers – in Britain.  But they will not happen spontaneously and they require British leadership.  And that is a crucial point in this referendum: if we leave the EU it is not just that we might not have access to these parts of the single market – these parts of the single market might never be created at all. 

The economic case for remaining inside the European Union isn’t therefore just about risk, but about opportunity.

When the European Central Bank said clearing houses dealing in large volumes of euros had to be located in the Eurozone, it could have forced LCH.Clearnet to move its euro business out of London, probably to Paris.  That was struck down by the EU’s General Court, but the threat was clear.

If we were not in the European Union, however, no such deal could have been agreed.  There would be little we could do to stop discriminatory policies being introduced, and London’s position as the world’s leading financial centre would be in danger.  The banks may be unpopular, but this is no small risk: financial services account for more than seven per cent of our economic output, thirteen per cent of our exports, a trade surplus of almost £60 billion – and more than one million British jobs.

What about trade with the rest of the world?  It is not realistic to think we could just replace European trade with these new markets.  We should be aiming to increase our trade with these markets in addition to the business we win in Europe.  Given that British exports in goods and services to countries outside the EU are rising, one can hardly argue that the EU prevents this from happening.  Leaving the EU, on the other hand, might make it considerably harder. 

That speech disproves both the Remainer’s attacks…that she was a silent, reluctant Remainer and that this new ‘leak’ shows some devastating new information about her….it doesn’t, it merely confirms what she said elsewhere in public.  Her ‘secret’ speech doen’t matter one jot…it reveals nothing that we didn’t know already.

The Guardian though is doubling up on its efforts and tells us that it thinks…

The Goldman Sachs tape shows May is not leading on Brexit, but following

Really?  May is in fact doing what she was mandated to do by the referendum result as she herself tells us…

To those who claim he was mistaken in calling the referendum, we know there is no finer accolade than to say David Cameron put his trust in the British people.

And trust the people we will. Because Britain is going to leave the European Union.

‘Trusting the people’ eh?  She must be having a laugh….Can’t have the great unwashed, ignorant and uneducated plebs having a f******g say can we Tristram and Seumas?

May is following the will of the people and leading by example…whatever her personal thoughts she is going to execute Brexit…others should learn from that honourable stance.

The BBC love to write off Donald Trump’s presidential bid and are openly hostile to everything he says and does. They are entirely in the Clinton back pocket and I find their bias “deplorable” as it means that many who use the BBC as a primary news source here in the UK simply do not realise the depth of the scandals that Hillary is mired in. Instead we get this sort of crap…

Trump faithful undeterred by polls and scandals

Ah bless their redneck hearts, eh BBC? If only they had your metrosexual liberal sophistication and …oh yes…moral bypass.

Listen, the whole Wikileaks exposure of Clinton’s profound corruption is of no interest to the State Broadcaster. It’s all about what some Clinton encouraged woman says Trump said or did to her without any evidence to the contrary some years ago. Meanwhile the Rapist enabling war mongering muslim appeasing Clinton gets a free pass.

Time for a new one of these! Detail that bias here.

All day long the BBC has been to the fore in explaining why the Government decision to proceed with the plan to create a new runway at Heathrow Airport is a bad idea. I wonder were they quite this vociferous when Labour suggested the same in 2009? Also, it’s as if the BBC would prefer no more runways were built anywhere. The environmentalist lobby to which the BBC is in thrall don’t want to see the UK modernise and upgrade its airport facilities for the second part of this century.

Oh no. The “Calais Jungle” is being cleared and the UK isn’t taking enough “kids”. Just another morning of the BBC pushing endless pro illegal immigrant propaganda. Here’s a NEW open thread, use it wisely.

One of the myths being spread by the Remain pro-EU partisans is that the Leave campaign was scaremongering about the likelihood of Turkey joining the EU and with that the possibility, likely possibility, of a massive influx of Turks into Europe.

This letter from the Leave camp to No 10 sets out the case for their concerns….and illustrates how both the EU and Cameron were keen to fast forward Turkey’s accession despite claiming the opposite…..

Letter to the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary – Getting the facts clear on Turkey

June 16, 2016

Dear Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary,
We all agree that it is vital that everyone is clear about the facts in the European Union referendum. With a week to go before the public cast their votes on 23^rd June, it is essential that voters are fully informed about Turkish accession to the EU.

The IN campaign maintains that there is no prospect of Turkey joining the EU. Some IN campaigners have claimed that Turkish accession will not happen ‘until the year 3000’. Others have asserted that Turkish accession is not ‘on the cards’. These claims are in conflict with official Government policy and that of the European Union. 

It is Government policy that Turkey should join the European Union and ‘to pave the road from Ankara to Brussels.’ It is Government policy that the United Kingdom is the ‘strongest possible advocate of Turkish accession’ and that Turkish accession will make the UK ‘more secure’ and ‘richer’, the same argument the Government makes for why the UK must remain in the European Union. That Government policy on Turkey remains the same was confirmed by the Minister for Europe to the House of Commons during the referendum campaign.

It is also the policy of the European Union that Turkey should join the EU. In March, the Heads of Government unanimously agreed that the EU should ‘re-energise the accession process’ and that Turkish acceleration should be ‘accelerated’. The European Commission has confirmed that this is its policy on several occasions since, most recently on 15 June. The new building in which the European Council will sit is specifically designed to accommodate more members of the European Union. There are enough translation booths to accommodate the five current candidate countries, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey. Official designs show that the European Council table itself will have a seat for the President of Turkey.

It is also a fact that both the European Union and the United Kingdom are paying billions to Turkey in order to facilitate its accession. The EU is paying €17.7 billion to Albania, Serbia, Turkey, Macedonia and Montenegro to join the EU. The UK is paying almost £1.8 billion to these five countries to join.

On Sunday it was revealed that the Government is actively considering granting approximately 1 million Turkish citizens visa-free travel to the UK. The Government admitted this was ‘a risk’. The Government also described the possibility of visa-free access for ‘1.8 million Kosovars’ to be ‘a drop in that larger ocean’ and noted the Commission was planning to ‘slipstream’ Kosovo ‘behind Turkey’.

Just this week, the United Kingdom Government dropped its objections to the opening of another chapter, on financial and budgetary issues. It is expected that formal talks could begin as early as 24 June 2016, the day after the public will vote on whether to remain in the European Union or to take back control. On 15 June, the Commission confirmed the accuracy of this report, stating talks could begin ‘by end of June’.

Despite the rapidly accelerating pace of accession negotiations, IN campaigners maintain that Turkey ‘is not an issue in this referendum and it shouldn’t be.’ Others assert that the UK has ‘a veto’ on Turkish accession. This claim is obviously artificial given the Government’s commitment to Turkish accession at the earliest possible opportunity. They also insist that this is the public’s last opportunity to have a say on Europe in our lifetimes.

In light of the above, voters will want to know the answer to two questions:

Is it Government policy 1) to veto the accession of Turkey to the European Union and the continuation of accession talks, and 2) to stop the extension of visa-free travel to Turkey, planned for this year?

If the Government cannot give this guarantee, the public will draw the reasonable conclusion that the only way to avoid having common borders with Turkey is to Vote Leave and take back control on 23 June.

Finally can you confirm whether it is Government policy not to seek any further reforms of EU ‘free movement’ laws and regulations?

Yours sincerely,

Michael Gove MP

Boris Johnson MP

Gisela Stuart MP

No single market access for UK after Brexit, Wolfgang Schäuble says

Headline news June 10

Let’s be blunt…Nick Clegg led his party to ruination, a good deal of that was due to his lies about tuition fees…he seems to have learnt nothing as he slithers out from under his stone along with Miliband and Osborne to try and spread some poison about Brexit claiming as he does that the voters had no realisation, being so stupid, ignorant and ill-informed, that Brexit would mean leaving the Single Market.

The Daily Politics has, as you might expect, done due diligence and cut him off at the knees….showing him up for the lying charlattan he is…

The Daily Politics is of course somewhat an outlier at the BBC…it will be interesting to see just how far across the BBC this attitude goes and if they continue to challenge Clegg’s narrative and show it up for the lie that it is.

Let’s also remind ourselves that Clegg appeared previously on the Daily Politics pre the vote [April] discussing this very subject…so I fail to see how he can suggest it wasn’t a very high profile issue at the time..

Clegg also spoke in Parliament on the same subject…

I waited with bated breath for a cogent, coherent and practical economic analysis of why Britain’s economy would thrive out of the single market.

Interesting to see the real reason Clegg thinks we should stay in the EU..our massive debts….for which we should somehow seek protection from with the EU…

We now have a current account deficit which, at 7% of GDP, is historically and internationally very high and, in my view, unsustainable by historical standards in the long run. As the Governor of the Bank of England has said, if a country runs such a huge, unprecedented current deficit, it has to rely, as he put it, on the “kindness of strangers”.

So cap in hand to the EU?  Clegg, ever the lackey.

Oh….and just to confirm every household was informed of the ‘risk’ that we might have to leave the Single Market here’s a reminder that the government sent a leaflet to every house telling them just that…

A stronger economy
The EU is by far the UK’s biggest trading partner.
EU countries buy 44% of everything we sell abroad, from cars to insurance. Remaining inside the EU guarantees our full access to its Single Market. By contrast, leaving creates uncertainty and risk.
The EU’s Single Market has over 500 million customers and an economy over five times bigger than the UK’s. The Single Market makes it easier and cheaper for UK companies to sell their products outside the UK, creating jobs as a result.
Being inside the EU also makes it more attractive for companies to invest in the UK, meaning more jobs. Over the last decade, foreign companies have invested £540 billion in the UK, equivalent to £148 million every day.

What happens if we leave?
Voting to leave the EU would create years of uncertainty and potential economic disruption. This would reduce investment and cost jobs.
The Government judges it could result in 10 years or more of uncertainty as the UK unpicks our relationship with the EU and renegotiates new arrangements with the EU and over 50 other countries around the world.
Some argue that we could strike a good deal quickly with the EU because they want to keep access to our market.
But the Government’s judgement is that it would be much harder than that – less than 8% of EU exports come to the UK while 44% of UK exports go to the EU.
No other country has managed to secure significant access to the Single Market, without having to:
• follow EU rules over which they have no real say
• pay into the EU
• accept EU citizens living and working in their country

A more limited trade deal with the EU would give the UK less access to the Single Market than we have now – including for services, which make up almost 80% of the UK economy. For example, Canada’s deal with the EU will give limited access for services, it has so far been seven years in the making and is still not in force.

Can’t see any link to Clegg’s Single market comments on the BBC website at present….maybe they’ve realised he’s blowing smoke up our backsides and doing so blatantly, too blatantly to get away with it.  So applause to the Daily Politics….let’s see if the real journalism continues or will Clegg be allowed to resurface to peddle his lies?

Just been watching the latest Minions film and somehow the Remainers just came into mind….

All hope seemed lost but they found sanctuary, the Minions were safe, they truly made a life for themselves, they forged their own civilisation but something wasn’t quite right.  They felt empty inside, without a master they had no purpose, they became aimless and depressed.  If this continued any longer the Minions would perish.

But all was not lost for one Minion had a plan…he would leave the cave and go out into the world and not return until he had found his tribe the biggest, baddest villain to serve…The EU Superstate.

Lickspittle remainers unable to cope with the world on their own without the comforting embrace of their EU masters.

Sounds about right….and here’s the latest recruits ready to serve……the EU storm troopers heading for the frontline to destroy Brexit….

The ever more remarkable dishonesty and ‘management’ of the news by the BBC is astonishing and so blatant I’m unsure why the whole shebang isn’t just closed down.

The BBC has been shilling for the anti-English racists of the SNP, promoting the breakup of the UK and the idea that this is legitimate because ‘Scotland’ voted to stay in the EU [Despite the vote not being a party, regional nor national vote].  Even today we have a splendid piece of SNP propaganda masquerading as BBC journalism…Tartan blood and Scottish independence….compare the idolising of Scottish nationalism in that story with how the BBC treated UKIP [Nazis], or indeed how the BBC pandered to IRA terrorists whilst vilifying Unionists, and you can clearly see that the BBC has a pro-Scottish agenda….pro-Scottish independence, pro-the break up of Britian, pro-subservience to the EU.

The BBC has relentlessly pointed out that ‘Scotland’ voted to stay in the EU despite that being an irrelevance…

The majority of Scots voted to remain in the European Union, in contrast to the UK vote to leave.

Oddly the BBC is less keen to tell us that Wales voted for Brexit in the latest report that informs us that

UK must keep EU free movement, says Plaid’s Leanne Wood

You might think, considering how the BBC cannot but help mention the way the Scots voted, that when Wood says this...“Plaid Cymru will never sign off or endorse something that is bad for Wales. We cannot accept that a majority of people in this country would have wanted to do that.”  the BBC might mention this in the same breath…

EU referendum: Welsh voters back Brexit

Guess it’s one rule for those who want to stay in the EU and another for the Brexiteers.  The BBC not giving the Brexiteers the same respect it gives Remainers.

Oh yeah…you’ve got to laugh…or cry…Ms Woods speaks…..

“I consider myself to be a Welsh European but I am also a global citizen.”

Planet Earth calling Ms Woods…….