Facts4eu have taken up my arguments over GDP growth rates last year and this:
Facts4EU Article: https://facts4eu.org/news/2023_apr_bbc_fake_news
Facts4EU Twitter: https://twitter.com/Facts4euOrg/status/1647473668295991296?s=20
Facts4EU Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Facts4EU/posts/pfbid02TDEFy4yzNrLAdCGoQN98ibMyqzmyRRsknKWiw2iTvSvLauDk1Kg6V8vWrjrVG56Zl
April 16, 2023
Yes, I’m sure that “Facts”4EU have done exactly that.
In other news some someone handing out ÂŁ50 notes on a street corner has attracted quite a lot of interest too.
April 16, 2023
Is that the best you can come up with? Did you read the facts reported? Are you able to rebut any of them? No?
April 16, 2023
The BBC’s use of selective data is one of their main tools for their activism. But the BBC stray far beyond mere selectivity when it comes to reporting on CAGW and Net Zero.
The BBC know they’ve been rumbled which is why they’ve needed to create the “Trusted News Initiative” organisation to give them some cloak of respectability.
The BBC doesn’t represent the views of the country, but then neither does Parliament, which is why Parliament is so keen for the BBC to continue with their activism.
I would far rather the BBC was honest and dropped its pretence that it was impartial and allowed all staff, particularly those who work in news and current affairs, to report and comment freely and not leave it to the sports presenters to inform us of its views.
April 16, 2023
The BBC is just Guardian Think – TV wrong headed on almost every issue especially climate alarmism.
Another insanity of yet more expensive red tape! Building regulation now insist that any new heating system being fitted uses over the large radiators or under floor heating suitable for tepid heat pumps. This even if you are using a far more sensible, efficient cheaper to buy and to run gas boiler. Thus putting up the cost of the even gas systems by something like ÂŁ5000 and probably making it far more ugly/intrusive and more expensive to fit & maintain. Forcing people to piss money down the drain for no sensible reason. Great for inflation though.
April 16, 2023
The BBC is not a fan of the UK outside of the EU and constantly seeks to avoid reporting positive UK news and enjoys exaggerating potentially negative UK news. It has been the same for years, nothing new or surprising there except how do they get away with it? Like The Treasury, The Governor of the Bank of England, the OBR, blaming Liz Truss for the effects of buying bonds on margin then selling bonds at a loss and incurring huge margin calls. How do they get away with it?
April 16, 2023
Well what mechanism is there for voters and the payers of the licence to stop them?
Just stop paying doesn’t just stop the BBC News, it stops all the channels, everything you can watch on your tv our main form of entertainment when we are locked up not only through covid, but the price of fuel, cars, public transport being on strike all the time.
April 16, 2023
Keith Jones : “….nothing new or surprising there except how do they [the BBC] get away with it?”
Becuse a majority of MPs of all parties agree with the BBC’s views even if they may pretend otherwise to their constituents at election times.
Neither the BBC, nor Parliament represent the views of the country. We need Swiss style refendums on big issues such as Net Zero and immigration.
April 16, 2023
The headline is hardly a surprise is it, they have been using selective information for years.
I often wonder why so many people want to come here given we are supposed to be so bad when compared to other developed Countries.
Why oh why do they always promote self harm news to our Country, why not simply just report all of the facts, rather than just the worst forecasts.
April 16, 2023
Alan, are people who contribute still coming though, or just people that want to take?
What % of the people we attract to work here are totally self-supporting and paying more than ÂŁ3000 in tax and ni per annum per person in their family?
April 16, 2023
a tracy
To answer your question, I have absolutely no idea, and I do not think the government have either, one thing is certain, all those being held subject to status cheque/check (i think over 150,000) simply are not allowed to work until approved, and are thus all being kept at the taxpayers expense.
Likewise how many of the 400,000 plus per year of legal entrants are of working age, I do not have a clue, the government probably has some sort of idea, I guess because they have completed some form of legal documentation, but many could be children, or aged parents, or extended family members, again assume counted, but would not put my house on it. !
All in all a fiasco which the Government still has zero control over, perhaps this is another net zero policy ?
April 16, 2023
The BBC, is this the same BBC that tried to knock Elon Musk and got tied into knots…?
The BBC accused Twitter of allowing ‘hate’ speech, then couldn’t name one instance. Yet the BBC hates Brexit, and fill its news daily with total tosh about nothing and never gets challenged by the Politicians that administer it. The BBC hates the UK People with a vengence
April 16, 2023
+1
April 16, 2023
No the BBC only dislikes and wants to silence half the population of the UK.
April 16, 2023
I suspect the reporter was struggling when he realised that the most obvious recent example of hate speech on Twitter concerned the public thoughts of Gary Lineker.
April 16, 2023
The BBC has its own guardianista agenda. Like anyone selling corn flakes it will use any argument that increases sales. The crime of government is that we have to pay a tax to sustain the BBC propaganda machine. It is , as is almost anything connected with your governmsnt, unfinished business, do something about it.
April 16, 2023
Agricola, ++++++++++
April 16, 2023
Excellent – keep up the pressure
April 16, 2023
Other figure like the current excess deaths running at 206 deaths a day (circa three times the appalling Grenville Tower death toll each day) is never mentioned at all on the BBC.
Or perhaps I missed it?
An absurd discussion on the dire NHS and the strikes on Any Questions BBC radio 4 on Friday – entirely one sided as usual (also the wrong headed side) as with nearly all BBC discussions. Certainly all those discussions to do with Climate Change, Energy, the NHS, Schools, transport, the size of taxes and government, the economy, illegal economic migrants, Brexit…
April 16, 2023
Babe, +++++++++, and, this very morning we had Anna Soubry commenting on some issue. Needless to say, my fingers switched off the radio before my brain had time to react to the announcement that she was going to be on. . . . .
April 16, 2023
Gabe, sorry, my predictive text altered your name and I didn’t notice.
April 16, 2023
The BBC sells TV licences as their main business. Producing and selling defective news is an offence.
The Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations Act (2008) came into law to protect us from those who sell such shoddy output.
The BBC should receive a substantive fine for every such offence.
Each BBC programme at fault should display an embedded ‘Risk from Fake’ warning logo on the screen throughout the following year.
Presenters accepting the reading of misleading news could be blacklisted on a Govt website.
April 16, 2023
They do not really “sell” them they just demand the money with menaces. Give me the cash or go to jail with a criminal record.
April 16, 2023
Sir John, while I completely agree that the BBC is biased, so too is the IMF, the OECD, and even, let’s be honest, those on our own side. Statistics can be used, or rather *abused* to show whatever you want. The well-known saying about lies and statistics comes to mind. Change the starting point in comparisons, and that changes everything. Or change the system of measurement. And even those seeking to be as honest and objective as possible come up against literally insurmountable obstacles when trying to compare national economies, as GDP is measured differently in each country, and in any case GDP itself is *fatally* flawed, as crime (for instance) *increases* GDP, and this is hardly a good thing! And how can any sane person really believe that non-productive government activity, such as civil service office work or school lessons, be in itself a contributor to GDP?
So I have come up with a completely new way of comparing the ACTUAL wealth of the people of different countries. Because this is the only thing that really matters – how people’s standards of living compare. I call it the SOLI: Standard Of Living Index. It works by looking at the average MEDIAN salary in each country (the median average being much more relevant than the mean average) and linking this to how many Big Macs they can buy with that in their own country. This removes all external distortions. It just compares how much purchasing power people really have – in other words what standard of living they have. They higher the number, the better. So here are just three results:
UK: 769
Japan: 1,482
Ireland: 658
So there we have it. The average Japanese has a standard of living TWICE that of ours! While, despite all the negative Remainer hysteria over Brexit, the average Brit is still better off than the average Irishman. I haven’t done any other calculations yet, but if you agree that my SOLI is the best way of comparing living standards you are welcome to use it!
April 16, 2023
British Patriot
Is this a twist on the how many Mars Bars are needed to purchase a house, car, or anything else, over the years.
Problem with that ratio being that the volume/size of a Mars Bar has shrunk many times over the years, so a true comparison not really possible any more
April 17, 2023
yes I think the Mars bar version was the first in the public domain of a reference measure.
April 17, 2023
British Patriot:
How much work someone does divided by how much it buys shows value. However, deciding a Standard of Living by what the price of a single product happens to be is raw in the extreme. Further than that, many folk would happily pay a fee to keep greasy fast food burgers and consequential rubbish away from places we cherish.
April 16, 2023
The BBC is biased, but what are our MPs doing about it? We have no control, and we have to pay our license fee. But it is astonishing that a conservative government with a substantial majority has done nothing about it. Equally, they have backed off from selling Channel 4, & why would the government want to own a TV channel that seems mainly concerned with producing trash programmes aimed at the lowest common denominator?
On another issue, let’s hope every MP, on all sides of the house, reject the idea that must be subservient to WHO on ant health issue. But don’t hold your breath!
April 16, 2023
Elon Musk knows how to deal with the BBC. He reduced them to stuttering drivel instead of assertive drivel.
Apropos your last tweet regarding energy and the farcical situation where the energy-poor Germans have just switched off their last 3 nuclear power plants – my neighbours new annual energy bill is now touching ÂŁ30,000 pa. I’m thinking this will reduce the value of his house substantially.
How long can this go on before people lose their rag?
April 17, 2023
How long before people lose their rag, Lynn? As long as the news is managed by ‘trusted sources’, I’d say. There are even people commenting on this blog site still getting their daily dose of BBC news groupthink. As long as that goes on, the BBC will not be defunded.