I usually am excluded from any discussion of the impact of Brexit on the BBC. I was given a rare interview on Friday on Radio 5. It did not of course turn out to be the promised interview to put the case for Brexit. It began with questions about whether I had lost friends over my views on Brexit, not something put to the Remain interviewees about their views. It went on by asking me to say what I thought was good about Remain. As soon as I started to correct the many egregious Remain errors about the post Brexit performance of the UK economy and trade I faced a tirade of the usual misleading and wrong Remain arguments from one of their more articulate performers put up to interrupt me.
The BBC cannot claim balance by giving so little time to well informed Brexit commentators and then treating us in such an absurd partisan way. Why do they want to suppress the official figures about our growth rate, faster than Germany’, Italy and France, and the increase in our trade since Brexit? Why do they refuse to examine why the EU has fallen to just half the US level of GDP per head and has only grown half as fast as the US over the entire last 25 years?
Why do they not use the ONS and EU official figures which show the UK has grown faster than Germany, France and Italy since 2016 and since our exit, showing no negative Brexit effect? Why do they ignore the huge success of our service exports, 56% of our total exports, especially to non EU places?
January 4, 2026
I don’t know why Remainers are so impervious to facts. I suspect it is long term psychological damage, an effect like PTSD. They lost a referendum they were 200% confident of winning not through superior forces or arguments of people even more clever and better informed than themselves but by the lower orders of betas, gammas (etc), the deplorables exposing their hubris, sophistry and lies. The intelligentsia was beaten by the thickos. This is traumatic.
Such disbelief and persistence in self deception is surprisingly common. The problems in the EU are always believed to be soluble by more EU. Likewise socialists believe that the perpetual and repeated disasters of socialism are caused by people not accepting it and not behaving in accordance with doctrine so next time compliance with doctrine will be more thoroughly enforced.
It isn’t a case of insanity by which they expect a different outcome from repeating the same actions, because the fault lies with others who won’t behave. They do learn from their past mistakes. Next time correct behaviour will be properly enforced and dissent silenced. Then it will work. You’ll see.
January 4, 2026
We haven’t really had Brexit, more Brino. The tories in power from Cameron down were convinced they were right. We even had the government funded propaganda leaflet basically telling us the world would end if we voted no.
79% voted in the referendum, the majority for out. This is something the vast majority of politicians, msm, civil Serpents and the great and good cannot forgive.
One only has to watch the farmers spraying the EU building with manure to get a feel of things or the Hungarian and Polish defence of their borders to understand things.
The majority of the world is moving to the right whilst the ruling parties continue to drift to the left despite their policies being wrong and detrimental to the populous.
The BBC is a major cheer leader forvalk things EU and is the reason I cancelled my TV tax after the referendum.
January 4, 2026
Indeed the BBC is a propaganda outfit especially on the EU, on climate alarmism, on a big state and magic money tree economics, on the evil hugely damaging “equality” laws and DEI, on being Anti-Trump, anti-landlord, anti-business, anti-car, woke… In many ways they are anti-science too. Almost no one front of camera has much understanding of science, engineering or real economics.
Melvin Bragg has just retired from In Our Time which often covers science topics. I rather like Bragg but he had no real grasp of most science topics he covered even if he had mugged up a little! He is replaced by the even less impressive Misha Glenny (Drama and German at the Bristol) who will doubtless continue the no grasp of science tradition.
January 4, 2026
Radio 5 is the Siberia of the BBC Empire. It’s not ‘The Today Programme’ or even the dreadful ‘World at One’.
So, if I was John Redwood, I would not worry about it.
I tried googling for more details, but not much emerged apart from one daft chap who said he had been waiting thirty years to debate Brexit. I don’t know if he featured. He was exercising outside in the snow. He seemed a bit simple. Might be completely unrelated.
January 4, 2026
Meanwhile Trump gets worse. Even his most enthusiastic and abrasive supporters are asking questions. Marjorie Taylor Greene :-
Greene shared a screenshot of the post and added, “An Israeli cybersecurity billionaire demanding to take away Americans guaranteed First Amendment Free Speech and President Trump threatening war and sending in troops to Iran is everything we voted against in ‘24.” Greene’s post included a short clip of Israeli entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer on CNBC+ calling for the government to step in and regulate social media, particularly fake accounts and bots operated by foreign governments.
“Trump voters spent the week threatening a tax revolt because they are so furious about the never ending waste, fraud, and abuse of their hard earned money going to foreigners and foreign wars,” Greene continued, concluding:
The focus should be on tax dollars here at home and defending our God given freedoms and rights.
We know a war with Iran will come shortly.
Trump gets elected on one thing and does the opposite.
He uses some of the paleoconservative themes (that Lifelogic has belatedly picked up on)
Israel was the huge exception. Trump is a deal maker and he is not going to alienate his donors.
January 4, 2026
@IAN WRAGG – Indeed, and we still have to live with a traitorous Parliament, that fight everyday the notion that they should be managing the UK and not some foreign remote unaccountable cabal.
Another and the main reason that we need democracy and the electorate put in charge of who gets to represent them in a democratic parliament. The Gang Leader choosing who you candidate is in not democracy.
January 4, 2026
….and according to our PM, we’ll be fully back in the customs union soon, and the next step the EU ….they’re now very open about their plans; a plan that wasn’t in their manifesto
January 4, 2026
Last year in conversation with another charity volunteer I “admitted” that I voted leave – her words of challenge, not mine. This person is an academic married to a person from another EU country and could not conceive why I would have done such a thing considering I was not a knuckle dragger – I had just got the network router and one of the printers working again.
No amount of explanation that for me it was an issue of sovereignty and democracy had any bearing. My real world experience of the actual “benefits of the common market” were not countered with facts but with passionate opinion that is was all myth and right wing propaganda.
You predict their startegy correctly in your last paragraph, no need to counter embarasing facts and arguments if they are silenced.
January 4, 2026
@dixie – to many remainers, don’t believe or understand democracy. To many try to change it as a dislike of people in foreign lands, far from it it is never the dislike of the people themselves, but the power’s that control them. They twist democracy to achieve power they twist laws to protect themselves personally – the them and us is inherited and writ large.
January 4, 2026
For some reason, reading of your experience, i was minded of a 4-day train trip across Canada in 2019.
Many of the other passengers were Americans and from a range of backgrounds & states. We spent most of our days up in the observation lounge, often with the same travellers for company. One couple were from Detroit and Mike had worked on the shop floor all his working life. Another couple were both retired West Coast University Lecturers and ardent Democrats. I discovered that Mike was a Trump supporter and I had quite an interesting chat with him about why (Cost of living, loss of “Made in America” etc).
The next day (being a trifle bored and not a little wicked) I asked the Academics why a “shop worker” was voting Republican when (surely) he should be a hard core Democrat?
Instead of trying to explain this anomally, there was an immediate outpouring of disgust that anyone could even consider voting for Trump (who was a corrupt moron – as were his supporters). At this point, my machinist friend (who had been listening to this conversation from across the gangway) erupted! He demanded to know what these two “teachers” could possibly know about “a real days work” (or the people who actually did it). I’m slightly ashamed that I very much enjoyed the heated debate that then ensued. In my defence, we were half way across Alberta at this point and the view was extremely flat and somewhat featureless…
I see the same attitudes here with Brexit. Many Remainers simply do not understand why anyone would vote to leave the EU, when clearly it made skiing holidays and second homes in France so much simpler. But they haven’t had their wages suppressed (because of imported cheap labour), their children unable to leave home (increased housing demand) or their traditional work places destroyed (fishing, agriculture, manufacturing etc).
January 4, 2026
I don’t know why Remainers are so impervious to facts. Well like climate alarmism, magic money tree economics and all the woke and trans lunacy they are dealing with religions. Facts, truth and logic are inconvenient to them.
January 4, 2026
@Lifelogic – agreed
January 4, 2026
So you do know why Remainers are so impervious to facts. ):
As you say, the real issue is how to prevent them silencing dissent and winning next time.
January 4, 2026
Rod Liddle : BBC exec told me: “these people (pro Brexit people) are mad”.
Rod these people are mad and that is the BBC view and that that was the view all the way through and it’s been the view ever since. See YouTube spectator video.
They talk the same view of climate realists, people against net harm Covid “vaccines”, the net harm lock downs and people who want less state sector and lower taxes to grow the economy. They together with the Blob, the BoE and Sunak were hugely against Liz Truss too! Posh school, second rate, soft left, humanities, languages and art graduates in the main. Others need not apply!
January 4, 2026
During the referendum debate the BBC ran endless reports beginning “Fears of Brexit …”. I don’t remember a single one beginning “Hopes of Brexit …”.
January 4, 2026
Indeed plus programmes like Any Questions and Question Time tended to have one (at most) who was pro-brexit, pro Trump, or climate realist who was then endlessly interupted by the other five or six often including the chair person who also would be some daftish humanities or languages graduate.
January 4, 2026
The BBC are in effect running a scam. They use you and others to suggest, to whom it may concern, that they run balanced political opinion. Looking below the surface, you are only invited for numerical interest, your opinions and analysis is only there to be abused.
A useful New Years Resolution, stop listening to them or contributing to their guardianista output. The corrupt treatment of Donald Trump should confirm all you need to know about the BBC.
GBNews is the place to be heard. In pursuit of balance you might have to enter the fray with the Rasputins on any subject, but you will be fairly heard by an ever increasing audience.
January 4, 2026
They are indeed running a scam. You are forced to buy a licence to watch live TV then they use your money to try to indoctrinate you with endless one soded bias and lies! The government do the same as does Khan in London! You are taxed and your own money used to lie and mislead you!
Still lies are better than being injected by net harm mRNA vaccines I suppose!
January 4, 2026
Sir John is on GBNews quite regularly! He is treated with respect and listened to!
January 4, 2026
And Talk TV.
January 4, 2026
GB news have loads of lefty dopes on taking total nonsense and even the lefty dope Nigel Nelson is the Senior Political Commentator for GB News. They also do not have a sound line on the mNRA “vaccine” scandal, climate alarmism, equality laws… I assume OFCOM force this on them.
January 4, 2026
Yes, OFCOM requires “balance” on GB News, whilst completely ignoring the lack of balance on the BBC. Personally, with a few exceptions like Maurice Glasman, I think GB News has done a marvellous job of finding the most idiotic, blinkered and unconvincing socialists to provide the “balance” OFCOM requires.
January 4, 2026
Indeed OFCOM during Covid forced or heavily encouraged broadcasters to push blatant lies on Covid lockdowns, useless masks, the Covid “vaccines” that we know did such vast damage net harm (the Japan stats. the government is still hiding the UK stats. Are they being investigated for this damaging mis-information that killed and injured so many. Why do OFCOM think they know about these things they have no medical expertise. They were just taking the government, Handcock, Neil Obrian and big pharma lies and forcing all broadcasters to push this evil damaging drivel.
January 4, 2026
LL.
It is not the duty of any national broadcaster to have a difinitive line on any subject except perhaps the law of the land.
As a matter of evolution, aspects of this get debated. Broadcasters are there to facilitate balanced debate and GBNews gets closest to achieving this.
The most outragious propaganda comes on You Tube. I watched the most libelous podcast on Starmer last night involving a ficticios speach by Nigel Farage in the Commons when I suspect Parliament was on holiday. If equalled the BBC on Trump.
January 4, 2026
Well plenty of criticism of the laws of the land is often richly deserved. Such as the appalling sentence of Lucy Connolly for 31 months (a small fine at most was justified) and Lucy Letby, unable to get an appeal against her obviously unsound 15 convictions (twice denied by six appeal court judges) – where do they get these appalling dopes or worse from?
You certainly do not need to Libel two tier Starmer and Labour as they have done so many appalling things you have plenty of true but hugely damning material!
January 4, 2026
As the majority lusten to the BBC it is important that opposing views appear on the stations and channels however maligened they are.
To disappear would suggest to the viewers that the “matter/science is settled”
January 4, 2026
Good Morning,
By now you should know what to expect from the BBC Sir J. so you should go prepared. For example, you could make the point that if the BBC don’t have more balanced debates then they’re going to lose even more TV licence payers. Then, do the forever effective Blair interview technique, ignore the question and say ‘the important question is….’ , then answer your own question!
January 4, 2026
Correct, but the BBC will then selectively edit it so that it says the opposite of the original. So any interviews must be done live.
January 4, 2026
Live indeed but still asked safe leading questions and usually interrupted endlessly. And they can still be clipped.
Gove said we have had enough of experts from organisation with acronyms names who keep getting it wrong – clipped to “we have had enough of experts”.
January 4, 2026
Sebastian Gorka didn’t miss the chance to excoriate the BBC for its clear and active bias against common sense and honesty.
He didn’t allow the ‘gotcha’ seeking apology for an interviewer to override his message when she repeatedly sought entrapment rather than insight.
He refused to accept the BBC terms of discussion and called them out.
January 4, 2026
After the ‘trump’ debacle, I’d never trust the BBC again, the brand is tainted
January 4, 2026
Why, because they assume they know best and cannot, and will not understand any views which may compromise those inbred thoughts.
They are theorists, they do not have a clue about real business and commercial workings and decisions.
How many of the BBC staff have actually started and run their own business using their own finances.
How many people have they employed and paid for out of their own pockets.
How many have actually searched and generated new business from scratch.
How many have rented or purchased business property and paid business tax.
How many are actually aware of all of the rules regulation tax and insurance costs of running a business.
The answer is none, because if they were any good at the above, they would be running their own business and not working for the BBC.
So why are you surprised that they do not understand why the EU and our Government is failing.
January 4, 2026
The areas I know a bit about (maths, physics, electronic engineering, taxation and business, aircraft design, property are a total area of ignorance to nearly all BBC types and indeed nearly all MPs and most journalists.
Google Gell Mann’s amnesia!
January 4, 2026
Modesty as always…ha ha. But this site would be less amusing, informative and worth a scan and sometimes indepth read.
January 4, 2026
I did say “a bit” about!
January 4, 2026
Many of them have run their own business, as a service company for tax purposes.
January 4, 2026
NS
Not quite the same, that is a paperwork exercise for personal financial gain and possible tax advantage.
January 4, 2026
Thats not a normal business, its merely tax efficient. Where are the IR35 services or products available widely on payment?
January 4, 2026
same reason there is even less coverage of the impact of the Indian outsourcing movement in the BBC and mainstream media, and even fewer politicians prepared to make the case for the views of the majority of the public. the fashion amongst the chattering classes is to hide and avoid all mention of the facts or sensible views countering the blobs default narrative.
January 4, 2026
there are plenty of other issues where the main stream media and political fashions hide and stifle debate, the classic being health care in the UK. behind closed doors in private many people now want a copy of the Australian or new Zealand health care system to completely replace the NHS. few in politics or the media are prepared to say this in public, or allow proper facts and debate.
January 4, 2026
Indeed another rigged market where Indian workers get tax breaks over UK workers to encourage companies to take the former! This on top of rigged energy markets, heating markets, transport trains huge subsidies car and road huge taxes, car purchase markets, school and university markets, banking markets, housing markets, planning, DEI recruitment over merit recruitment…
January 4, 2026
Why? Because they are blind to the truth and prefer to stick to their false views. They have championed the Left and find it impossible to engage with any argument that shows the Left to have been wrong on anything, Brexit is just one area. Try getting them to engage with Climate Change and Net Zero.
Keep up the good work, the BBC will hate you for it. Being right and being popular with the Left is an oxymoron.
January 4, 2026
The U.S. consumes roughly 20 million barrels of petroleum daily, primarily for transportation (40%), but also for industrial feedstock (plastics, chemicals) and heating, with consumption rising post-pandemic but facing long-term shifts due to renewables penetration of the market
The U.S. oil industry is the world’s largest producer, recently exceeding 13.7 million barrels per day, setting new records, driven by shale oil extraction from unconventional reservoirs. Which means that America needs to import oil
As the rest of the world moves away from fossil fuels to renewables, Trump has decided that America needs to invade other countries and steal their oil. This is a very dangerous strategy. If the Venezuelans (or the Columbians) decide to resist, they will move into the rainforest and start guerrilla operations – Trump will be involved in another televised Vietnam type jungle war – doubtless with massive casualties
January 4, 2026
The rest of the world isn’t “moving away from “fossil fuels” to renewables: only the economy-wrecking Eco Nutters who infest the EU and UK.
January 4, 2026
@Donna
You really are a sad and bitter person are you not, prone to posting provocative bullshit about whatever is challenging your pre-conceived views when you get up.
This morning our wind and solar installations – organised by our econutters – are generating 16.5 GW, this represents ~60% of electricity demand. We are exporting 5% of this renewable electricity to France, the Netherlands, Ireland, Norway and Belgium using the interconnectors, earning income for the Treasury.
Last year renewables generated over 50% of our electricity needs, saving us from having to import 35 tankerloads of expensive LNG in 2025. Why don’t you try and establish the facts before you post your usual crap?
January 4, 2026
S G. We are a net importers of electricity to the tune of £3,5 billion which equates to 14% of demand and NESO expects this to rise to 18% by 2030. Yes today on a quiet Sunday we are exporting a small amount of power at a ridiculous price of £47 per mwh after importing yesterday at £107 per mwh.
Some research would be welcome from you.
January 4, 2026
Not in the least bit sad and bitter. Perhaps you’d like to ponder on the following:
“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher
January 4, 2026
Well said Donna.
SG’s comments were very rude and unecessary.
I wonder of SG talks like that to people face to face.
Somehow I doubt it.
January 4, 2026
OK, SG – let’s do some facts then…
Right now (17.30) there is no Solar (as it’s dark outside and most people have turned thier lights on etc. We are currently consuming 48.833 GW of electricity – of which 29.5% is Wind (14 GW).
Gas is generating 44.3% at 21.2 GW. We are importing (not exporting) 3.7% (1.3 GW) – at whatever the ‘spot’ price is at night – so the Trasury will not be quite as enriched as you expect…
My home is curently being heated by a Gas boiler (not a Heat Pump) as are 62% of homes in the UK (which does not include Oil & Wood fired boilers at another 7% of UK homes). My car also uses just petrol – not electricty. So both my Home & my transport are not using very much electricity at the moment at (even our hob is gas-fired). Just imagine if I and everyone else did switch to full electric mode – where would all that power come from?
Certainly not from Renewables on still, cold Winter Nights – that’s for damn sure.
January 4, 2026
A bit more tax and we’ll have the whole net-zero thingy fixed
January 4, 2026
SG:
The weighted (by installed capacity) CfD for offshore wind is £149/MWhr. The average price for electricity over the last year or more, determined by the price of gas generated electricity because the last generation capacity to be added to the system must be dispatchable, is £70-£80/MWhr and in the case of gas includes a carbon tax of around £20/MWhr. According to Professor Gordon Hughes of the Renewable Energy Foundation renewables are currently costing us £26bn/year in subsidies etc. And NESO’s 2030 Clean Energy plan has been costed by NESO as “over £40bn annually”. In addition, NESO’s report makes it very clear that imported electricity will be far more expensive than exported electricity which is currently often at negative prices.
January 4, 2026
SG the world isn’t moving away from fossil fuels. Anyway oil and gas are not fossil fuels but a naturally occurring phenomenon. Practically everything you own or touch is a result of hydrocarbons. Renewables are and will remain a niche scam designed to umpiverush the poor and enrich the wealthy.
January 4, 2026
He has a great excuse in Venezeula, ie drug exportation. In Ukraine he has hoped to get access to minerals and avoid China et al holding the majority stocks. So he has hung in there helping to get a ‘peace’ deal where USA gets paid back like they do in every military involvement. Best friends need paying.
January 4, 2026
I am not surprised. The BBC is a propaganda organisation not a news organisation. Everything is structured and edited to promote the propaganda.
January 4, 2026
Correct.
January 4, 2026
The BBC is beyond attitude adjustment. We do not have the time and money to be so generous to such an arrogant and abusive crew that have sucked at the public teat for far too long.
Remove the TV tax and disband the organisation, all material should become part of a public archive for UK citizens and the rest can be processed through administration with all returns going to the exchequer.
The staff should all be made redundant under statutory terms as normal with such winding up, no golden goodbyes.
January 4, 2026
Clearly, the BBC has demonstrated impartially and a wish to air both sides of the Brexit issue. As such the tenor of the interview is irrelevant; SJR was given an opportunity to put across his views.
The R5 interviewer and his colleague obviously wished to put both sides of the argument. It’s good that the BBC invited him on to defend his support of Brexit. It’s past time the BBC invites him on to “Question Time” to replace the dreadful Nigel Farage
For as long as I can remember, John Redwood has attacked the BBC – usually on issues of “bias”, demanding that it be broken up – the effect of which will be to allow American media giants to dominate British cultural broadcasting. I expect the BBC interviewers were aware of his strong views
Reply The poor performance of the BBC and reliance on a shrinking licence fee base is allowing US media dominance. My proposals would change that.
January 4, 2026
To reply:- It is the crutch of of the licence fee tax that means the BBC do not have to listen to their viewers. They have the money already so end up being run for the benefit of senior employees. Rather like the NHS the non paying (at the time of use that is patients) are (to the NHS) a cost so best deterred by delays, waiting lists and a poor inconvenient service. So that is what we get!
January 4, 2026
The BBC is the mouthpiece of the Far Left, EU loving, woke Marxist society the loves Islam and illegal migrants, but hates the heritage population of these islands. But you know that…………….
January 4, 2026
Why? Because the EU (and our membership of it) is a long-term political project of the Establishment.
It has nothing to do with economics; it was all about creating a United States of Europe but economics was the original justification given to the British people for taking us into the EEC/EU and they cannot now roll back from it without admitting that almost the entire post-WW2 Establishment has been involved in a deliberate deception from the outset.
They are not interested in facts. It is an article of faith and you are a heretic.
The disgrace is not just that the BBC refuses to properly debate the issue; provide a balanced discussion and remain impartial. The REAL disgrace is that the Establishment’s “Parties of Government”
in our supposed Democracy do not enforce the BBC’s Charter and MAKE them abide by it.
Good to see GB News highlighting the facts:
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/brexit-news-four-charts-explode-rejoiner-myth?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=22562_MEMBO&pnespid=AqMn6ERc6ywAm0aJ5oHMF09JpRA3zuwp8gxXQKcfIozK1vFcnia1mnVFEChui4yGYBts81GAJA
Reply I worked with facts4eu to set out those charts to show the growth in GDP and trade since Brexit
January 4, 2026
I know. I read the Facts4EU report 🙂
I, and I expect many Brexiteers are very appreciative of your diligence.
January 4, 2026
It was sold as a Common Market, controlled by the French and Germans who have remained at the head ever since. Davos and the Fabian’s are the ones in control now, they want a Europe of no nationality whatsoever, that’s why nationalism is being destroyed in Britain today with the continued influx of immigrants being given priority over ‘Brit’s’ in every aspect of living. These people are out to destroy our history, our democracy and our culture, they just want everyone controlled. No better than China, Iran and Russia.
January 4, 2026
not just about ‘United States of Europe’ but the EU is dismantling future wealth of its participants.
The dream of WEF is constant….like China they play the long game.
January 4, 2026
More superfluous ‘why’ questions from our host. Why? We know why.
January 4, 2026
Who is we Bill?
And the we know why…this sounds very mysterious.
It definately needs an explanation
January 4, 2026
Sadly I have lost friends over Brexit, one in particular, a close friend I’ve known since school days who became angry with me for campaigning for Leave. I recall him out of the blue suddenly asking what EU laws I disliked. He was surprised when I reeled off 4 or 5 that I could see he’d never heard of. Also he didn’t want to hear about my experience of actually working with the European Commission in the energy sector.
EU supporters simply do not want to hear anything which contradicts their unsceptical confirmation bias gained from the BBC and Guardian. BBC editorial policy and interviewers will continue to seek to undermine you Mr Redwood as the Rejoin bandwagon gathers pace.
January 4, 2026
The BBC insists shows perform the invite, lie, put fingers in ears and drown out any balance of views that might worry the brains of listeners/watchers. A very propaganda approach to politics and leftie extremist attitudes running furiously through the veins of staff, accept or don’t progress your career.
January 4, 2026
Because it is a feature of left wing ideology to ignore facts and evidence that do not meet the preconceived ideas. This applies not just to Brexit but to climate change, Muslim grooming gangs, puberty blockers, high taxes and welfare spending. If the evidence doesn’t fit the model, then the evidence is wrong, not the model.
January 4, 2026
Perhaps next time just say to them, why are you going over this again and again? We won, you lost, get over it.
I don’t know whether you would have lost any friends over Brexit, as your opposition to the EU has been running for decades. I’m sure you have no shortage of friends on this site, those who support and value you.
January 4, 2026
It is not about Sir John’s friends, he continues to air, and to allow differing views not just consent.
Of course many of us think BRINO is operating, not what we sought in the campaign.
Previous PMs did their part in ensuring a weak move away from EU will not sever the umbilical, one day they hope it will be adopted.
January 4, 2026
We shouldn’t expect less of the biased BBC – they know what they’re opinion is, they are stuck with it, as regards most subjects, but are determined to keep on spreading their word. That they do it with so much ferocity just shows they know they are wrong, yet fear admitting this loss of face.
If I were you, sir John, I’d insist on having a minimum of 5 minutes, without interruptions, to put my case before agreeing to go on any more biased shows.
January 4, 2026
Which would get him excluded from the debate. Sir John has posted several times that he has been approached for a segment, researched by the producers and discarded because what he wanted to say did not fit the narrative.
Getting any airtime for articulate pro UK politicians is difficult
January 4, 2026
An impartial news & current affairs/views service or State/Socialist proper gander machine?
The taxpayer(the licence fee is tax as it covers the use of all TV channels, it is just the BBC get all the money) shouldn’t be forced into paying for one sided electioneering.
Remove the licence fee and they can take up the views they want to promote.
January 4, 2026
A new authoratative government should shake up and prune the BBC to remove the bad and biased truth deniers. Until then, a viewing boycott or avoiding paying the BBC licence fee tax would help resist the nonsense they pump out.
January 4, 2026
If we get a Reform government, being the trajectory we seem to be on, they will likely cancel the TV licence and the BBC will have to move to a subscription service and sink or swim in the competitive market. Perhaps it could have tax breaks for remaining ad free.
January 4, 2026
Remainers/rejoiners think the EU is democratic because it has elected MEPs. I’ve never met one who understands that MEPs cannot propose legislation, amend or repeal it. I live in Spain for 6 months of the year, and many of the ex-pats think they are superior because they have Spanish residency, yet they continue to bleed the UK by using the NHS and claiming benefits. As soon as they fall on hard times, they run back to the UK and expect a council house or nursing care. Advocates for rejoining the EU are mainly ignorant of what it is and believe the lies put out by the media.
January 4, 2026
I liken to migratory birds, the sunshine, lower cost of living etc but when the more welcoming society is needed they expect to be back to use the facilities available to the world.
January 4, 2026
You make the point about BBC bias very clearly, and the rest of the MSM shares it. It is a refusal to give loser’s consent and move on. The Establishment, including the BBC, won’t listen to or accept the facts if they tell them what they don’t want to know. It is exactly the same with GW/CC and Net Zero. The facts are clear that GW/CC are a natural phenomenon which has been happening for thousands of years. However, the BBC, the rest of the MSM and a majority of our MPs, simply will not research or accept the facts. We have a dishonest media, MPs and the Establishment who think we are too ignorant to know they are lying.
Here is a simple example. Smart meters are sold as a way to control your energy costs. But the real reason for selling them is to enable the Government and/or power companies to charge different prices for energy at various times of the day. Once you start lying about minor things, it is easy to lie about bigger things! That is why people don’t trust MPs, the Establishment and the media, especially the BBC.
January 4, 2026
@Keith from Leeds – I always think there is a serious case of fraud to be answered for on how smart meters were sold. There is nothing about them that can ‘save money’. Any one interested in their usage could do that by reading their own meter, even the sum to convert that reading to cash value is open source and readily available
There was a case for the meter companies economy of scale for them to read usage remotely and that was it. there isn’t a case as now for them to be able to collect and sell personal data as it is now.
Its another Government fraud perpetuated too, in act control of the people (the fight)
January 4, 2026
They weren’t sold. They were given to you free of charge. Of course, free of charge doesn’t mean cost-free but very few questioned WHY they were free of charge let alone bothered to find out. The answer was provided a very long time ago, not long after the roll-out began: it’s so that the energy companies/Government had CONTROL over your energy usage.
So there was no real fraud involved; just misinformation and propaganda which the sheeple didn’t bother to question.
January 4, 2026
indeed and EVs and heatpumps rarely save any or much CO2 either when fully accounted for. Keep you old car we have no spare low CO2 electricity free anyway! EV use load of energy to build!
January 4, 2026
@Keith from Leeds – the case you make for the BBC’s misrepresentative on things similar to GW/CC and Net Zero
I am surprised goes unchallenged by the likes of ASA & Ofcom for the false narrative the are pushing. But then again these so-called Quangos are also without democratic control while taking the taxpayers ‘shilling’
January 4, 2026
And don’t forget also turn individuals off by remote control…
January 4, 2026
KfL : “Smart meters are sold as a way to control your energy costs.”
The purpose of smart meters is for them to control your electricity use. There is insufficient electricity generation and insufficient capacity in the local grids to support all the evs and heat pumps they need to achieve their net zero targets. So smart meters will be used to control rolling rationing/blackouts as well as to control errant behaviour. NESO’s Clean Power 20230 plan even requires rolling blackouts, called euphemistically, Demand Side Response (DSR), at times of peak demand and when electricity over the interconnectors is not available or insufficient.
January 4, 2026
In my opinion, the BBC is unworthy of the title public service broadcaster. It has an agenda and promotes propaganda to support its own views. As the late Peter Sissona warned us in the Daily Mail back in January 2011 “In my view, ‘bias’ is too blunt a word to describe the subtleties of the pervading culture. The better word is a ‘mindset’. At the core of the BBC, in its very DNA, is a way of thinking that is firmly of the Left.”
January 4, 2026
If I were you I would feel conned, used as a political patsy/pawn for those that hate you as much as they hate the Country.
It was never about trade and its cost, it was whether a Nation should stand on its own two democratic feet, with its people making the decisions, the democratic decisions required to manage the Country. There is an innate distaste amongst free-people for the concept that people should be marshalled in to boxes by the unelected unaccountable technocratic bureaucrats that are immune from society. That’s why 2TK, the BBC and its ilk love the EU they sincerely believe they will be awarded with a position of power, that showers them with gifts for life without ever having to lift a finger. Its the Socialist dream of power, without responsibility, their power over the others, the minions. Nicolás Maduro had the same attitude to the people of his Country, as does Putin and all the other despots in the World – Starmer wants this for himself and the BBC is his mouth piece
January 4, 2026
Why? Because the dreadful BBC are an agitprop organisation and its obvious biases not only give the world an incorrect view of the UK but make it a disgrace in the eyes of the world’s democracies. Just look at the way Panorama edited Trump’s Jan 6th speech. But at least you had an opportunity to speak which is not given at all to those who do not believe we have a climate crisis caused by burning hydrocarbons. At an ES&NZ Select Committee oral evidence session on 03/09/2025 on the subject “Building Support for the Energy Transition” Dr. Harrabin (Cambridge, English), a former energy and environment analyst for the BBC, told the Committee: “Things changed when Fran Unsworth, who was then head of [BBC] news [in 2018], made a declaration with a rather odd phrase which was, “The referee has blown his whistle, and the game is over, and we no longer have to have an oppositional voice on climate change.”” Since the BBC are funded by the general public it should reflect all views on any subject and stop the pretence that it is impartial given that Marianna Spring, the BBC’s disinformation specialist, worked in Russia contributing news articles to The Moscow Times.
January 4, 2026
They don’t give you a chance to tell the truth because after nearly 10 years they are still banging on about how wonderful the EU is and like children in the playground fighting they have dug their heels in so deep that if they admit the truth they will be shown up for the fools they are.
January 4, 2026
In an interview with Ukraine Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi on 30Dec2025:- (reported by euromaidanpress.com)
Syrskyi confirmed that Britain’s Defence Chief and France’s General Staff chief have both requested Ukrainian assistance in training their forces in the new drone warfare. “The vector has changed,” Syrskyi said. “They are interested in us giving our instructors, our officers in order to provide assistance in the training of their armed forces.”
He also reported that Russia’s 410,000 losses in 2025 year exceeded its entire recruitment drive. Russian forces in Ukraine have plateaued at 710,000-711,000 for the past six months, unable to grow – despite continuous recruitment
Daily Russian casualties now average 1,000-1,100 personnel, with kill ratios reaching six-to-one or higher in some sectors.
Contrary to Russian claims, Ukraine retains control of roughly half of Pokrovsk. “All the approaches to the city are under our control, under the control of the actions of our drones,” Syrskyi said.
At Kupiansk — which Putin claimed to have captured three times — Ukrainian forces have cleared the city and established a bridgehead north of the Oskol River.
Someone is telling the war criminal Putin porkies about the performance of Russian forces fighting Ukraine. The Russian FSB has a well developed propaganda machine geared to seeding bullshit about the war into western media – particularly Reuters – (“Ukraine has attempted to bomb Putin’s favourite dacha” etc)
January 4, 2026
I’m sure you are relishing the approaching battle you are going to have with the enormous Remainder majority in the House of Lords. Your battles with the BBC will be as nothing compared with what you are going to face in the Other Place !
January 4, 2026
only when they turn up, or wake up !
January 4, 2026
I heard the interview. The other chap was very angry. Had all sorts of facts and figures at his finger tips, well prepared and given the chance to put his case.
Every point he made about the difficulties business is now facing havibg left the EU (which was his big thrust) could have been made about operating under this Labour government, particularly once its new Labour laws are enacted
January 4, 2026
Why? Quite simply because the BBC is just a Labour Party Satellite. It pushes their ideology constantly, it adopts the same interviewing techniques whether on radio or screen. Question Time is a great example, studio audience levels skewed heavily to the left as are the panelists’, with little time given to those on the right to comment due to constant interruptions. The public have to finance this behemoth but have no say, let alone control over its management or its lack of impartiality. Long past its sell by date and forget about it being the envy of the world, it is on a par with the other outdated money pit, the NHS.
January 4, 2026
Why.
Because the BBC are not objective, they’re bigoted from top to bottom and like all bigots don’t want their made up minds confused by the facts
January 4, 2026
one phrase
British Baize Corporation
January 4, 2026
British Baize Corporation.
Wouldn’t be surprised if when we were in they got EU money. I would suspect they would benefit from being in the EU s-d the rest of us. How easy they forget there attempt to divert the covid vaccine if we been in EU I believe there would be a lot more deaths. Government at the time made mistakes but as we all know why did we have to make lawyers fatter by a public inquiry . O I forgot its the fashion these days .
January 4, 2026
Quintessential BBC, complete absence of balance whilst fiercely maintaining they are committed to ensuring impartiality? Time and again they invite contributors with same or very similar perspectives, denying meaningful debate thus allowing the listener or viewer to decide for themselves. Small wonder viewing and listener numbers are falling.
January 4, 2026
Michael Goves interview with Dom Cummings on The Spectator channel has some interesting thoughts on this subject…
January 4, 2026
Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK should move towards closer alignment with EU markets “if it’s in our national interest”. The prime minister told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg it would be “better looking to the single market rather than the customs union for our further alignment”, in order to protect trade deals with India and the US.
But he ruled out revisiting manifesto promises not to rejoin the EU single market or customs union, or to end freedom of movement.
The comments are the clearest indication yet that Sir Keir wants to pursue a closer relationship with Europe in a broader number of areas.
The Conservatives said the PM was using Brexit as an excuse for the UK’s economic struggles.
The UK is already lining up with Brussels on some rules around food and agriculture to allow access to the economic European trading zone known as the single market. Sir Keir told Laura Kuenssberg: “I think we should get closer, and if it’s in our national interest to have even closer alignment with the single market, then we should consider that, we should go that far. “I think it’s in our national interest to go further.”
He added: “I actually think that now we’ve done deals with the US, which are in our national interest, now we’ve done deals with India which are in our national interest, we are better looking to the single market rather than the customs union for our further alignment. And it wouldn’t be in our interest now to give up.”
So now you have it – he wants to join the list of PMs, lying, cheating, breaking promises, kicking the National Referendum can down the street.
January 4, 2026
I believe that you made a genuine mistake believing that the BBC had invited you to explore your insight & knownledge of ‘brexit’ ….oh no, they invited you to mock ‘brexit’ and gain a tick-in-box for including all opinions
January 4, 2026
I see the polls are telling us 61% of the population are predicting massive riots this year, in response to immigration being out of control etc. My warnings about civil war are not so far off the mark then, as everyone else seems to be predicting the same. Meanwhile the government keeps printing visas and passports like confetti, and putting up dinghy arrivals in hotels, and standing by while they rape the local children.
Come on John you are still senior in a major party, they have got to stop sitting on their hands and made a much bigger fuss.