Eh? There's been plenty of BBC coverage about Yemen. 19 articles on their website in the past month, for example - not exactly a news blackout.

Again , you take it that I believe the article or i have used the article to confirm anything

I think the BBC operate on a budget of £4.5billion, or near enough. You seem to be suggesting that the entire organisation can be bought for a couple of million?

It does seem strange that UKIP accepts money money from the EU, i never understood it myself, apart from maybe they think they will get as much as they can out of the E.U.

Nothing about the BBC surprises me anymore and i think they would go down that route.
Just like our politicians with their cash for questions.

I do not remember saying i have not read it, I said I do not read the newspaper or any other newspaper apart from our local one.

Which ever suits them

The usual beeb supporters are active here as well,

When the accusations are baseless nonsense there will be supporters.

So why would a relatively small grant for R&D purposes affect how the BBC reports things? It's not as if they are likely to be funding a joint R&D project solely for their own ends.

Perhaps their EU-sponsored drones are going to be programmed to seek out licence evaders, and in return, Nigel Farage gets ridiculed on HIGNFY...

Yes, it does. From Yvette "I'll take in migrants" Cooper to Diane "Divide and rule" Abbott.

Care to count up how many reports there were of immigrants boating to Europe in the 3 months leading up to June 23rd last year on the BBC? That tells you everything.


They allow Farage and the like plenty of airtime in the hope they'll say something stupid or outrageous. Trouble is, they talk sense.


BIB1 - Yes it is. You may not like the Express but that in itself doesn't make it untrue.

BIB2 - see my point above about immigrants boating in to Europe. Why would the BBC shut down all coverage of the immigrants entering Europe as we head for a referendum?

But they are both Labour MPs. What about all the other voices from other parties? Such as Farage, who you mentioned in the very same post!


Does it? What exactly does it tell you?


I can't imagine that they did any such thing. It sounds extremely unlikely.

How it sounds to you and how it actually played out is clearly very different.

Do you have any proof of what you are saying?

That's what I was wondering. It's not something I've ever heard mentioned before.

Not that I can point to. All I can draw on (unless I go out of my way to lodge a FOI request) is how all reports of migrants entering Europe seemed to completely cease almost immediately after the referendum campaigns kicked off about a year ago. Until then, it was on the BBC news almost every day, multiple times. Even my Romanian immigrant wife noticed and commented on it.

Selecto-vision working well for you?


It's a non-story. Simple research grants, as awarded to many other bodies throughout the land. But the useless Daily Express hack has made it into an ersatz story by finding some bloviating buffoons to quote telling us it's a scandal, when it very clearly isn't.


You've made that up in your head.

Nope. Perhaps if you had both eyes open you'd see it too.

So it's your perception rather than fact? Did other news outlets continue with the stories?

I'd probably need to borrow your special truther glasses, that apparently filter out anything contrary to your world view.

Have a look for yourself - this is what Google says are BBC's news stories about migrants, published between 23 March and 23 June.

From the first page of hits:

4 April: Migrant crisis: Greece starts deportations to Turkey

8 April: Migrant crisis: Deportations resume from Greece to Turkey

23 May: Migrant crisis: Libya intercepts boats carrying 850 people

29 May: European migrant crisis: Shipwrecks 'kill up to 700 migrants'

3 June: Migrant crisis: Hundreds rescued from boat off Crete

And many more pages of results. Bit of a rubbish "shutdown", eh?

You might have to take off your BBC faux impartiality glasses before you do that.

Just a weeks viewing across their entire output will tell you otherwise. From game/satire shows choc full of anti UKIP/Brexit stuff to dramas and soaps like Holby City & Silent Witness with their politically and socially slanted agendas.

All in your imagination it would seem. Anti-UKIP game shows? Never heard such nonsense!

How does Holby City have an agenda?

I wouldn't expect you actually absorb, analyse and critique anything the BBC throw out. After all it's controlled by people like you.