Biased BBC at it again pro-Bremain

[NotOnTheBench]

OK just turned on the news. Intro - report on latest appeal to accept her (PM's) deal...and we'll be going to York, which voted remain, for their opinions... and we also go to ... who voted leave

er, no, they aren't going to anywhere to discuss leave.

Ho hum unbiased reporting? Nope.

The bbc have been an absolute disgrace. They’ve been about as balanced as bin laden would have been discussing whether Christianity should be the the official religion of Pakistan

Typical BBC reporting then!

There's no upside to the shitshow that trying to leave has created.

When are all the numpties finally going to see that??

Probably when they are queuing for bread.

Hmm, I have found them completely biased in the opposite direction. I had to give up listening to the Today programme on Radio 4 as John Humphries gave Bojo/Farage and co such an easy ride while hauling anyone who expressed the faintest whiff of scepticism over the coals.

To be honest, the only thing I want to hear from the leave supporters is them admitting they hadn’t got a bloody clue what they were voting for.

And agreeing we can quietly cancel this shower of shite that has prevented any progression in British politics for the last 2 years.

When are all the numpties finally going to see that??

Here we go, mindless name-calling already!

How many times was Farage on Question Time?

It's not mindless name-calling. If you can't see by now that Brexit is divisive and is irreparably damaging our economy then a numpty you must be.

Well the BBC were just talking to leave voters (and only leave voters) in Stoke on the Today programme this morning. But why let facts spoil a good bias bias....

And while we are on the subject, does anyone think the good old Times is objective, or the Independent

Meanwhile. we've just had delivered as an advertising mailshot "Wetherspoon News" - containing several unashamedly pro-Brexit articles.

I have never in the last two years come across a forum as biased to Remain. Any foreigner reading this would have no idea how many leavers there are

TM went to Stoke on Trent today as reported on the BBC and they were a leave majority.

They didn't say what factory she was visiting in case there was a backlash.

The BBC has given endless airtime to leavers, and in the run up to the referendum Farage - who has nothing to say of any interest - was permanently on the TV.

Oh Banjo, you have a long wait coming. I believed in Leave and for the last two years I have become more and more convinced we need out of the EU. Why is that you think that leavers might be the only ones who didn't have the whole picture? Most of the Remainers I have talked to were pretty ill informed. Right is not your banner

Fairly hilarious that the BBc famous for left wing bias is now accused of Leave bias. Hmm. TRight wing fascist racists are we?

@confusedbeetle

I’ve yet to speak to a leave voter in person who had more than the shakiest grasp of the way British and European politics were intertwined - and as such had an even shakier grasp on the impact of the vote they were making.

Whereas the remainers I know all voted that way because the current political debacle was completely predictable.

No one should have voted if they didn’t know what they were voting for. The facts were available for anyone who had the inclination to research and find out - I don’t think it’s acceptable for anyone on either side to say we didn’t have the whole picture when we voted - unless you are the sort of person who takes anything written on the side of a bus at face value...

Probably because there is no benefit to most of this Country's population of Brexit, certainly not a no-deal one.
The only people who will benefit, especially in the short & medium term , are the fat-cat millionaires who have already moved their money off-shore because they know it would cost them to keep their money in the UK post the Brexit that they are pushing for.

@Confusedbeetle

I’d also be genuinely interested to know what it is about the last two years that has meant you have become more and more convinced we need to leave the EU?

At the moment I can’t think of anything worse than our current collection idiots being the only people in charge!

All the idiots who voted to leave are the ones who will suffer the most.
I remember the day after the results breakfast news interviewed English expats in Spain who voted to leave EU who were then worried they might have to leave the “Costa del ignorant” as they wouldn’t get their pensions!
Most of those who voted leave are outside of London and actually have no idea of the amount of revenue that EU citizens bring to UK.
It’s like Trump and his “Wall” racist and prejudiced idiots end up hurting themselves🤷🏽‍♀️

@BanjoStarz

I have to disagree about having the whole picture when people voted. For one, Brexit wasn't defined, everything from Norway + to only WTO was talked about as an option. This was very clever marketing of Leave imo, people could vote based on whatever Brexit they wanted rather than what was actually on offer. Also, in terms of the amount of research needed to have a good clear idea of what EU membership actually meant, how WTO works, Irish history and politics, even knowing that the ECHR is nothing to do with the EU and everything else would require far more time and effort than is reasonable to expect from the average voter. It is hundreds of hour reading.

I had a discussion with a poster on here a while ago about a second referendum with three options on the ballot paper that voters list in order of preference. Other poster said this was too complicated and people would be able to understand. And yet the same poster didn't think the complexities of leaving the EU were beyond the understanding and knowledge base of voters.

As for the BBC being biased, I believe they get equal number of complaints about being biased from Leavers and Remainers. I think the BBC actually get it wrong by trying to be too balanced. For example climate change, the vast majority of the world's climate scientists say global warming is happening and is caused by human activity, for 'balence' they'll find somebody, anybody, to dispute this, giving the viewer the impression opinion is 50/50 split. On Brexit, they would get a Nobel prize winning economist saying Brexit is bad for the economy (as 90% do) and a back bencher MP for Leave saying 'project fear' and not much else.

Banjo democracy doesn't mean voters make the right decisions at the ballot box.

democracy doesn't mean voters make the right decisions at the ballot box

What a bizarre statement. Who’s to say whether their decisions are the right ones or not? People are perfectly free to make the ‘wrong’ ones if they so chose - it is their right to do so.

Wasnt Hitler elected? I don't think that was a very good decision of voters.

"TM went to Stoke on Trent today as reported on the BBC and they were a leave majority.

They didn't say what factory she was visiting in case there was a backlash."

They didn't report which factory because it turns out it was one that has recently been the recipient of a large EU grant (as have many other areas of Stoke being regenerated) which will dry up when we leave. TM would have looked like a right chump if asked to explain how losing that kind of support from the area is going to help anyone.