Quizzing Quislings

  We’ve already looked at the BBC’s decision to put on a huge EU referendum debate just two days before the actual vote, concluding that it was likely that the BBC believed that such a circus would benefit the pro-EU campaign persuading, nudging, the ‘don’t knows’ into voting ‘stay’. David Dimbleby front’s the BBC’s EU coverage and will lead a debate to be held at Wembley Arena just two days … Continue reading

COULD HAVE SHOULD HAVE WOULD HAVE

It’s quite amazing to read the starry-eyed treatment the BBC affords the latest claims from Chairman Mao fan John McDonnell. Labour insisted that the new rule was not a commitment to spend more money than the present government. Chancellor George Osborne has put in place rules saying that the government will create an overall budget surplus “in normal times”. Labour voted against the rule in Parliament, and Mr McDonnell said any future … Continue reading

WHEN THE STORY IS UNHELPFUL…

An eagle eyed reader sent me this! “Less than 12 hours after first publishing what I would think is a pretty major story, it has now been burried on the bbc news site: ECB stimulus surprise sends stock markets sliding The telgraph are leading with it in their business section: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/ and the Times: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/ The BBC will bury any story that shows the EU as anything less than an … Continue reading

Mind your PMQs

    David Cameron in PMQs condemned the fact that Labour had allowed back into its ranks one Gerry Downing….. “I was completely appalled to see yesterday that the Labour Party have readmitted someone to their party who says that the 9/11 suicide bombers, and I quote, “must never be condemned”, and belongs to an organisation that says “we defend the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq”. These are appalling … Continue reading

Question Time Live Chat

David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Dundee. On the panel: leader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth Davidson MSP, deputy first minister of Scotland John Swinney MSP, Shadow cabinet secretary for Health & Wellbeing Jenny Marra MSP, Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie MSP, Scottish Greens MSP Patrick Harvie and Daily Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley. An enthralling prospect, I’m sure you’ll agree. Kick off tonight (Thursday) at 22.50 Chat here, register … Continue reading

BBC COMPLAINTS

Wanting to draw your attention to a new site that will be monitoring the BBC on an unprecedented basis during the build-up to the June 23 Referendum. The site is called www.bbccomplaints.com (sister to News-watch) Please make sure you bookmark it!  

SAVE DAVE, GET BORIS!

The BBC ran this story with some enthusiasm today; Boris Johnson says an email telling his senior staff to back him over the EU referendum has been withdrawn. The London mayor, who is campaigning to leave the EU, said the memo to deputy mayors and senior advisers was “a cock-up, and not something I agree with”.It told them to “either advocate the mayor’s position or otherwise not openly contradict it” when … Continue reading

The Wild Business West

    The BCC’s John Longworth was forced to resign for his comments on Brexit and the BBC has been repeatedly playing a clip of Phil Smith, the managing director of ‘Business West’ and BCC member, making a very aggressive attack on Longworth on the BBC’s PM programme on saturday.(11 mins).  Perhaps this clip should come with a health warning. Smith is in no way impartial and has already set … Continue reading