Category Archives: pro-EU bias

It’s a tricky one. The Slovakian Parliament has dared reject the will of the Eurocrats and so the whole Bail-Out is thrown into even further chaos. What approach will the BBC take? Cue interview with two Europhiles in the form of Sir Howard Davies and Lib-Dem MEP Sharon Bowles. Howard wants to see a central European Treasury imposed so that future major financial decisions do not require anything as irritating to the great and the good as the pesky will of the individual Nations States, and Bowles howled that what we need to deal with Europe’s problem is…erm…more Europe! Nicely balanced interview there

I see that the BBC’s strange version of political ‘balance’ was in evidence again in this week’s edition of R4’s Any Questions? It was time for an appearance by UKIP (Marta Andreason, the former chief accountant of the EU,now an MEP for UKIP), so who is lined up against her? The ridiculous (but fanatic europhile) Charlie Faulkner, Shirley Williams (ditto) and from the Tories, one of the last remaining europhile MPs Kenneth Clark. Not only that, they chose an audience from Cambridge University that, judging from its reactions, was also madly pro-EU. Predictably, the three panellists had a joint love-in about how wonderful the EU was, while Andrea – though giving as good an account of herself as possible in the circumstances – was pushed to the margins. According to my sums, parties with eurosceptic policies amassed almost 60% of the vote at the June elections, not 25%.