Much of the U.K. media has been Remain and many are keen to back Labour views that we need to cosy up to the EU more. So why do they tell us so little about the politics and economics of the main EU countries? Why do some Remainers think now we are out we should not even talk about EU matters, whilst talking themselves a lot about the US? Why did they show little willingness to discuss other EU country policies and economies when we were in the EU and were governed by a Council of EU countries?
Where are the headlines about Euro 60 bn of budget cuts and tax rises in France? Where the story of the French left voting through massive tax rises, with the government saying they will simply ignore those amendments to the budget.? Why no interest in the possible use of a constitutional power for the government to ignore votes in Parliament?
Where are the daily stories about when the broken German government will have to hold an early election, and no attacks on the AFD who are polling well but do not get the Trump treatment? Where are the criticisms of Von Der Leyen, Scholz and Macron refusing to go to COP 29 or to offer more green transition cash to emerging market countries, a cause the mainstream media pursues incessantly? Why little discussion of the border fences around the EU and recent closing of internal borders whilst endless focus on President Trump’s Mexican fence and wall?
The main countries for Western Europe are stuck with little or no growth, way below the GDP per head and real personal incomes of the US. So we have had daily blasts against Trump and about US politics for the last two months, but are kept in the dark about the political dramas and economic failures of our near neighbours.
November 14, 2024
Good morning.
I can answer your question, Sir John. It is called, ‘lying by omission’.
November 14, 2024
The majority of the UK media are pro EU so don’t want to highlight its many failures.
Of more interest is why are the channel paddlers in Altrincham being given access to private health care. This again shows the contempt our government has for the voters.
Europe like America is turning sharp right and we are as usual an outlier. Starmergeddon realises this and is intent on inflicting maximum damage before the sheeples cotton on to what is happening.
Luckily our farmers may wake the general public up when they start spraying London with excrement and hopefully they’ll take more notice of what’s happening.
Of course 2TK will label them all far right and use the kangaroo courts to jail them. Good luck with that.
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November 14, 2024
“why are the channel paddlers in Altrincham being given access to private health care”
Rather odd since Two Tier Starmer said he would rather let his relatives die than let them have private health care but it is fine for we tax payers to pay for private healthcare for illegal migrants. When they cannot even get to see a doctor themselves.
November 14, 2024
So has Lammy gone yet? “Trump team hostile to Chagos deal, claims Farage” I assume the deal can still be wound back, but it will be hard to so without some serious and costly political a d other fall out.
November 14, 2024
The simplest answer is usually correct.
Our MSM, presumably reflecting the interests of their viewers, are more interested in footballers and their wives, pop singers with personal problems, TV shows of strangers doing odd things in sunny climes with pretty smiles.
Only when there’s fights or fires on our streets or other social breakdown issues does the MSM show any political interests.
This is why we have GB News and a plethora of ‘intelligent’ conversation blogs and videos.
This is why the BBC must not receive funding by threat.
November 14, 2024
The idea that we have to pay a licence fee to the BBC in order for them to pump blatant propaganda at is and to provide unfair completion the the private sector is profoundly wrong. But two Tier Kier likes his state propaganda outfit.
November 14, 2024
Re. Proposed Pension reform, allowing investment in state infrastructure projects, imagine having your pension fund invested in HS2….
November 14, 2024
It is also called “being economical with the truth” Mark. Great commentary today Sir John. Bang on!
November 14, 2024
Lying by omission is a favourite BBC activity. Currently they are obsessed by Cameron promising to “decarbonise” the country in an act of economic and environmental suicide that will do far more harm than good (in-fact it will do no good at all and cost billions). It is not even possible to achieve.
November 14, 2024
I can answer this one fr you Sir John.
When the truth does not support the preferred narrative of the left wing media which is the vast majority of the MSM then they bury that truth and cover any story but that inconvenient factual truth.
The recent Spanish flooding was covered by the media, claiming it was an example of climate change induced unique weather. The truth is, the protective dams needed to hold back the torrential rains that Spain experiences have been removed as instructed by EU policy, or considered but not built, again by EU policy. Spain has biblical rainfall on occasions and has experienced many events before the recent deluge that impacted Barcelona. Those past events were greater than the recent deluge, They all happened long before the so called man made climate change excuse was even a thing.
See Matt Ridley’s recent piece in the Spectator for details.
Basically, when the truth hurts the EU, it is ignored by the MSM.
November 14, 2024
+1
November 14, 2024
UK media publishes what its owners want and stories consumers are interested and will pay for.
You might as well ask why are there so many online articles on America in the Daily Mail, but no articles about the tax paid in this country by its owner ?
If you want detail on Europe you will need to search further than papers that concentrate on celebrity gossip.
You might as well ask why so many articles on America but nothing on the complete capture of US politics by the Israel Lobby.
Widespread coverage on a few football hooligans in Amsterdam – but little detail about the carnage and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
November 14, 2024
What is your take on the Free Palestine marches that take over the streets of central London every week, Peter? Do you see them as a few ‘football hooligans’?
November 14, 2024
We also hear plenty about the sale of arms to Israel. How about the sale of arms from Iran to Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis? Does that not contravene international law? Yet there is no mention about this.
Is that because everyone knows Iran is bad, so they don’t feel a need to mention it? With Israel on the other hand, not everyone seems to have got their message, so they need to repeat it constantly.
November 14, 2024
I think we get a great deal of coverage of the “carnage” in Gaza Peter. What is missing are answers to questions such as – Where are the civilian air raid shelters? – How many of those killed were Hamas fighters? – Why won’t any of the Arab nations take Palestinian refugees? – How can you have a Two State solution, when one party has sworn to obliterate the other?”
Iran provoked this conflict, probably to stall the Abraham Accords. The Mullahs don’t care about their own people, let alone anyone in Gaza or Lebanon. God forbid they get nuclear weapons. Stop hating the Israelis and start fearing the fanatics.
November 14, 2024
What do we expect ?
Remainers are firmly in charge of almost our entire media, especially TV and Radio, with the exception of GB news, which they and their friends at Offcom and the BBC are trying to close down. It is only a matter of time before 2TK brings in new parliamentary rules designed specifically to remove Nigel Farage’s interesting programme from our TV screens.
November 14, 2024
At least they can’t close down JR-M and his distinguished Wednesday evening guest, as neither are any longer MPs
GB News certainly gives Jacob more influence than he enjoyed when he was a backbench MP.
November 14, 2024
Because our own government produces sufficient idiocy to keep our media fully occupied. Not so many of us are fluent in german or french to read their media first hand. What happens in the USA, our largest customer I believe, both commercially and politically is much more important.
The USA has gained a president intent on boosting internal use of its own energy resources, destroying woke, stopping illegal migration, boosting the GDP of every citizen, and punishing those on the left who have done the opposite for the last four years. Much more interesting and relevant to us in the UK than the machinations of EU politics, unless you are inclined to rejoin their circus. We were present until 2016, it did us untold damage which we need to clean up, like their rules of operating. Rules that hamper increases in their personal GDP, as they did ours. The light of the future shines from the USA. The EU experiment is over, though they may not yet realise it.
November 14, 2024
Also interesting, Trump has given responsibility to people with detailed and proven knowledge for some tasks.
A green beret, and a special forces soldier, for military and security matters.
A very successful Commercial Business man, to improve Government spending and efficiency.
These people fully aware of excuses, so the wool will not be pulled over their eyes easily.
Time will tell if this is a successful plan, but certainly something desperately needed in most Governments, including our own, where weak management, and who you know not what you know, appears to be more important and the order of the day, rather than proven ability.
November 14, 2024
Interesting interview with Lord Howard last night on GBN. I hope Kemi Badenoch was watching it.
November 14, 2024
We are really kept in the dark about Germany. The attacks on freedom there are astonishing. The Eugyppius column reports them extremely well, but only the Daily Sceptic here picks it up.
The authorities in Germany use lawfare against their opponents on a scale that would put the current US administration to shame. The domestic spy agency admits it targets the AfD, there are a number of laws available for oppression (eg. One that makes it illegal to poke fun at Ministers is being used to threaten someone who re-tweeted a mild comic put-down of a Minister with up to 2 years in prison), standing politicians regularly call on the need to ban the opposition “in order to defend democracy”.
Also Germany is no longer the economic powerhouse that it was 5 years ago. Their self-destruction by net zero-driven de-industrislisation is ahead of the curve and a harbinger of what is happening to us.
I assume our media won’t tell us about all this, because the German example stark would turn our population against the authoritarianism and net zero which is being pushed by our establishment.
November 14, 2024
A majority here is already dead against Starmer, Davie, and Sunaks’ attempts to impoverish us at the altar of net zero
November 14, 2024
Yes, Audi profits down by 90%, so it’s not just VW getting hit. I worry that it will take more than the lights going out in peoples homes, to make the lights start going on in their heads.
November 14, 2024
A government brought down by its obsession with damaging Russia, even at the cost of wrecking the economy and alienating public support – what political agenda would media editors see in that? I don’t see how that would be turned into the kind of message that they want to influence the British public with. It might suggest that stoking up war abroad rather than spending money on improving life for ordinary people here is a bad idea. Likewise in the other case you mention, Sir John, of a government ignoring a vote by representatives of the electorate: what message would media manipulators seek to put across here? That governments should do what people want? Such ideas would be far too dangerous! Media influencers have other agendas to follow.
November 14, 2024
An oil slick of Socialism has spread throughout the Millennials and Generation Z which, in turn, has undermined the impartiality of the British media but has also impacted the education system, civil service and many MPs too.
Why Generation X (ie their parents) presided over this without objection is a separate question.
The contemporary Socialists can only sustain themselves by denial and stubbornness as they are factually wrong almost every time. For example, they will disparage the successful Trump administrations and the accurate Brexiteers to avoid the scrutiny of their own economic deficiency. It is a truly dishonourable way to behave.
It needs to be countered though and just like President Trump we need another Margaret Thatcher in the UK to change the narrative and combat Socialism. This then changes the national culture and puts Socialism back in its box.
November 14, 2024
@Paul Freedman +1
If only
November 14, 2024
I would defend media concentration on the U.S.A. rather than European countries though not the prejudiced and partisan reporting against Trump and the Republican Party.
America has the biggest economy in the world (roughly similar in size to the E.U.combined) and is technologically and scientifically the most advanced country in the world which usually other countries must eventually follow. Unlike any European country the U.S.A. is a political superpower.
America is unlike European countries English speaking which enables Britons to follow what is happening there more closely.
Finally political changes in Europe usually occur at a snail’s pace because they generally have Proportional Representation for their Parliaments which usually makes them very resistant to change and tends to keep centrist parties in their governments for practically ever (the Liberal Democrats’ dream over here).
November 14, 2024
It is sometimes reported that there is a widespread feeling of “buyers remorse” and if the Brexit vote was held again, it might not succeed. This is not a view I hold – we’re well out of it. The best chance for remainers is for another vote while this dreadful government is in power; after that, the window probably closes. The remainer press, especially the BBC, thus want to downplay any negative news from Europe. If we were properly informed about the true state of politics and economics in the EU, it would be obvious it’s not a club we want to rejoin. Has it struck you how little real news is broadcast by the BBC these days?
November 14, 2024
Indeed John, and our clown of a leader wants our Country to get closer to Europe, and the way they do things over there..
Eventually the truth of what is happening in Europe will come out that the EU is failing, thank goodness we are not now tied to them financially, although I fear Starmer may have other ideas about that.
November 14, 2024
You can add to your list the treatment of migrants at France’s eastern border. Human rights groups are intimidated by the local authorities from investigating what goes on.
Why does the MSM turn a blind eye to it all? That’s because the EU is their Shangri-La. They defend it with religious zeal and their ears are blocked to criticism.
November 14, 2024
I agree. Why no coverage on these topics on the BBC News?
November 14, 2024
Underplay and overplay depending on Brexit opinions.You set us y to answer so.You should have been a solicitor.
November 14, 2024
The media do not wish to report on anything negative happening in the EU – they’d prefer we didn’t know.
Yet, this is how they operate generally – they only provide us with their sanitised version of news, what they want us to know.
If we had an open and honest press so many things that happen would be reported, but we don’t, and in any case the MSM is heavily left leaning and supports any socialist efforts.
We shouldn’t be surprised – we’ve seen it before covid, how warped misinformation has been pushed down our throats, while honest reporting of events that matter is a thing of the past.
Just like the political establishment, our media has fallen into the clutches of the left.