The BBC has become a mouthpiece for Reform and will help win them the next election

Have any of you who claim the BBC has a strong left bias ever watched Fiona Bruce on Question Time? Or Laura K on Sunday morning? Or Chris Mason on any news slot?

Nobody can watch them without noticing their right slant.

There is a long thread in active about what is Nigel Farage up to this weekend that the obsessives are on.

The BBC has a liberal-left bias. BBC staff are nearly all privately educated arts and humanities graduates, globalists who believe in multiculturalism and porous borders.

There is NO WAY they support Reform and Farage.

Yes, I have noticed that posters are absolutely obsessed with Reform and NF, thread after thread about them.

They are not alone people on here are obsessed with Reform and Nigel Farage , every day there’s someone starting a thread . Anyone would thinks it’s socialist bots running scared .

Why is it mainly Labour supporters that want to keep the BBC

Strong disagree here. The current affairs are so rooted in the recent past.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

I would say the opposite from what I've seen, really (not that I watch/read their articles all the time). I do see both "sides" saying that the BBC supports the other point of view.

You should maybe watch Camilla Tominey on GBNews. She rips them to shreds for their previous party's actions and she's no kinder to Reform either, though she generally only has the parties with serious numbers of MPs on her grill program. Philp was squirming about Tory defence spending today. But oh my goodness I'll bet Hamish Falconer plays a mean game of poker, I've never seen anyone handle Camilla so proficiently!

Oh I agree with you.

I should have been clearer that I was referring to a post by a different person suggesting that Reform shouldn’t be platform.

the easiest way to undermine a movement is to let it speak freely. Only when people actually listen do they see how problematic it is.

Ironically, refusing to platform them can give them even more appeal.

Those on they're right think the BBC is left wing biased, those on the left think it's right wing biased. They've probably got it about right while that remains the case 😆

Completely agree, since the Times Editor took over BBC news it's been...The Times really.

Are they? Reform etc say what they like and are not challenged or quizzed in the slightest.

I don't know why those on the right don't like their politicians to be challenged by the BBC, Trevor Phillips manages it on Sky.

I was moved to complain to the BBC for the first time in my over 50 year life this morning, after witnessing Laura Kuenssberg’s chummy chat with Jenrick. I am an enormous supporter of the BBC but this is now beyond a joke. We never hear from the LibDems despite them having 10 times the MPs Reform do. At this point in a party’s term we shouldn’t be giving airtime to parties according to general election voting intentions as it’s three years before that will become a factor. Instead we should be hearing in proportion from government and opposition parties with sitting MPs who are actually involved in making legislation - ie making decisions which actually affect us, rather than promoting unwritten manifestos by fringe parties with a handful of reps in the House of Commons. It’s madness to see the disparity in the way that Reform are treated as opposed to all other parties - their lies are never challenged outright at the point of broadcast, only afterwards, through BBC Verify, which is about as effective as the sort of ridiculous apology print news used to make, where a splashy headline was disproven but seen by millions, and a tiny 3-line apology and retraction was shoved away on page 23 days or weeks later.

They are quizzed.

The complaint was about how hard they are quizzed, and that can be perfectly well explained by the fact that they are not in power, not the fact that the BBC likes Reform.

Fair to question what the Governing should do etc, they, as you say, have the power BUT the opposition are criticising and should be quizzed on their ideas too.
Otherwise we have years of one sided argument, followed by a few weeks of more equally interviews.

@thecatsgotyourtongue @Imdunfer is correct. Guests are invited according to polling. The current government will always be questioned more deeply because they have the power right now. No one else does. This is why most parties not in power never say what their policies will be until much nearer a GE. The people actually making the decisions are rightly questioned. Nearer the election it will even up. I’m sure Yvette Cooper can handle it! She’s been around long enough!

They get more time than some other opposition parties, not more scrutiny, and of course it's right that parties that people are more interested in voting for get more time, otherwise we'd see equal time given to the Monster Raving Loony Party, Restore Britain and Your Party.

I don't see how anyone thinks that a party which has currently got no power to do anything and isn't currently doing anything can possibly be grilled as hard as a party actually currently making the rules.

I've listened to BBC Newcast for 3 or 4 years where Chris mason Laura k and Adam Fleming are key contributors and I've recently lost all respect for it as can see their platforming of reform and lack of balanced reporting

I don't find the Today program particularly biased, some days it is, some times it isn't and i do get that Govt ministers should be challenged but LK in particular is very poor at her job, didn't she give Boris Johnson the questions she was going to ask him in advance?

Interview cancelled but only when it came to light what had happened....

@Imdunfer I do not agree it is the BBC's job to give scrutiny based on 'polling, thats utterly ridiculous.
Should the Tories have received less scrutiny because they were behind in the 'polls 2 years ago?

Scrutiny should be applied to ALL MPs equally whenever on air.

He not in government now and the past isn't what I want a current affairs program to focus on.

What you're seeing is absolutely normal and it will be a different party getting the grilling when a different party is in power. And a different party getting air time when a diffeent party is topping the middle term polls.