Brexit the economy and house prices part 7: Brexit Harder

Takedap

SouthLondonUser wrote: »

What is duff about an investigation, by the journalist who revealed the Cambridge Analytica scandal, on how social media distorts politics and on how it allows political advertising to target specific segments of the electorate in violation to our laws?
I do not get what is duff about that. If you could maybe explain, I'd be most grateful.

Erm...it's a duff link in the fact that when you click on it, it doesn't work!

Takedap

Zero_Sum wrote: »

How is their equivalent of Port Talbot or Hartlepool doing?

How do the recent political histories of Port Talbot & Hartlepool compare with those of other member states?


While most remember the fall of communism in places like Poland & the former Yugoslavia, it's easy to forget that even places like Spain & Greece have been military dictatorships in the relatively recent past.


We have had the benefit of stable government for centuries. You are not comparing like with like.

Takedap

buglawton wrote: »

Marr to Farage:
"You said you admired Putin"
Farage: "I said I admired the way he operated, and that I didn't admire him as a human being".

Marr had a stupid 'I've been caught out' grin on his face for quite some seconds.

Did he name any particular political assassination that stood out as being especially admirable in his mind?

Takedap

Theophile wrote: »

Not surprising with the wall to wall coverage the brexit party is getting on the brexit broadcasting corporation.


Thursday, QT: Farage
Today, Andrew Marr: Farage

Rinoa wrote: »

Remainer interviewer employed by remainer organization attempts to discredit Brexit supporter.

That's the great thing about the BBC. It's so fair that it gets accused of bias by both sides.

Arklight

Rinoa wrote: »

Remainer interviewer employed by remainer organization attempts to discredit Brexit supporter.

Nigel Farage discredits Nigel Farage.

There's almost nothing he's said about Brexit or his opinion on Britain's relationship with the rest of the world that doesn't portray him for being exactly what he is.

As a Brexit supporter maybe you should reflect on that. Political movements based on decency don't generally need to spend quite as much time hiding and apologising for all the things their leaders have said and done when building them.

Zuzel

Takedap wrote: »

That's the great thing about the BBC. It's so fair that it gets accused of bias by both sides.

I'll just leave this here which demonstrates the BBC's bias long before the referendum became a "thing" and ask you to remember that the BBC still receives millions in funding from the EU.

BBC guilty of pro Europe bias, its own inquiry finds

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-guilty-of-pro-europe-bias-its-own-inquiry-finds-rk8c2z0gxsr

Zero_Gravitas

Zuzel wrote: »

I'll just leave this here which demonstrates the BBC's bias long before the referendum became a "thing" and ask you to remember that the BBC still receives millions in funding from the EU.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-guilty-of-pro-europe-bias-its-own-inquiry-finds-rk8c2z0gxsr

However, somewhat less than a decade and a half ago, there is this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36149789

“BBC public service news programmes are not allowed to take any external funding, including from the EU”.

So that’s yet more leaver fake news...

Fran_Klee

Zero_Gravitas wrote: »

However, somewhat less than a decade and a half ago, there is this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36149789

“BBC public service news programmes are not allowed to take any external funding, including from the EU”.

So that’s yet more leaver fake news...

Sorry but no, the "fake news" is somebody trying to deny what's been widely known for years.

BBC faces Brexit bias accusations over £4m in EU funding

says The Telegraph on 6th February this year.
That's "somewhat less than a decade and a half ago".

I could give more compelling evidence, like that of MEP Stuart Agnew who published a report in 2017 detailing "‘EU payment details’ are set out below, totalling €34,068,706 between 2007 and 2015" and the Spectator "The millions in EU funding the BBC tried to hide" from 2014 which says

Licence fee payers might assume that the Corporation would have been compelled to disclose the source of this money in its annual reports, but they bear no trace of it specifically. In the latest set of accounts, for example, these funds are simply referred to as ‘other grant income’.

Instead of making an open declaration, the BBC’s successful lobbying for this money had to be prised out of it using a Freedom of Information (FoI) request lodged for The Spectator, proving that there was never any danger of the state broadcaster’s bosses volunteering it willingly.

Herzlos

Tromking wrote: »

Remain arrogance writ large.

Am I incorrect or do you just not like my answer?

How do you propose interacting with people who still trot out lies after multiple debunkings? I guess the correct answer is that you don't.

Herzlos

Rinoa wrote: »

Remainer interviewer employed by remainer organization attempts to discredit Brexit supporter.

By quoting the words that came out of Brexit supporters mouth.