Can’t take biased Beeb lying down

WHEN I was campaigning for Brexit up and down the country in 2019, I lost count of the number of times I pointed out that controlling our borders was not the same as closing them.As long as we were in the EU we could not limit the numbers of foreign workers who wanted to work and live here, could not impose any conditions on their right of entry nor on the length of their stay, could not specify any qualifications and could not bar access to certain benefits.

If we left, however, we could do all those things and that is exactly what Boris Johnson is now doing by issuing a specified number of visas for workers with particular skills or experience for a specified length of time. It is one of the huge benefits of Brexit.

Yet the BBC calls this “rowing back on Brexit” and states it as fact in its news bulletins. The Blatantly Biased Corporation appears to be too thick to be able to distinguish between fact and commentary but now seems to be descending to an outright lie by stating (not even just suggesting) that the issue of visas is contrary to Brexit. If that is not deliberate lying then it can only be born of an ignorance incompatible with the role of a public news service.

SO WHICH is it, Tim Davie? And, given the fuss you made about impartiality when you took over, what are you intending to do about it? Don’t hold your breath waiting for an answer to that one. Meanwhile, such is its attachment to melodrama, the same BBC continues to omit the words “for any reason” from the numbers of people dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, despite those of us able to see the screen being able to discern those words beneath the official graph. Those who are not able to read them are just misled.

The problem is nobody at the BBC seems any longer to know what a fact is. Perhaps they should all go back to school.