BBC Interviewing Barnsley people about Brexit on Radio 4

This all day long!

 

I voted out and haven't read the DM in years. Was it thought control ? It probably was seeing as everyone who voted out did it for the same reasons apparently. Without exception. Silly me.

 

Never mind the ********, here's Newsnight...

[video=youtube;WwsQ_5Wm4oo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwsQ_5Wm4oo[/video]

 

How did that get past the swear filter?

 

Maybe I've watched too much of Spooks or Yes Minister etc., but I wouldn't be surprised if this woman legally challenging Brexit is a government stooge trying to get them out of a mess. The plan is for the govt to say that we want to go forward unequivocally with the decision of the British people but unfortunately our hands are tied by the law, blah, blah. All to cover up Cameron's error of agreeing a referendum on such a complex issue in the first place.

 

I do have a bit of a feeling that they will go ahead with the appeal etc. to purposefully stall and gain more time.

 

Total numpty of the first degree.

 

God the people from Barnsley sounded thick as mince. Sigh.

 

i thought the same,then wondered how many had actually been interviewed and what the criteria was for whether it got aired or not.

 

I think generally speaking the only criteria used Is ditch those who can't be edited or who are too dull. I might be wrong.

 

i think the criteria is broadcast those who sound thick to bolster the argument that those who voted brexit knew **** all about what they were doing and are generally a bit slack set up who are just after their country back(which would in itself be laughable given that some on here believe this to be the case)

 

It's difficult to say without knowing who was spoken to. I think most people when approached 'off the cuff' struggle to boil complicated ideas down to a 30 second sound bite.

 

BBC bias and lies "people didn't know what they were voting for", "people are regretting voting for Brexit", total ******** from a desperate elite.

 

"More infuriating still was the amount of air time given to claims from the leave campaign that were either grotesque distortions or flagrant lies – the fiction that EU membership cost £350m per week; the pretence that Turkey was close to EU membership and the denial that the UK had a veto on that point.

In reality, the pro-EU arguments were supported by an overwhelming majority of economists, thinktanks, business leaders, diplomats and other professional bodies. This had been an instrumental part of the Stronger In strategy devised the previous summer. “The focus groups were telling us that people wanted the facts, but didn’t trust politicians to give them the facts,” said Straw. “But they did trust ‘experts’. So rather than smash facts over people’s heads, we thought it would be much better to use experts as conduits.”

In response, the leave side pursued a strategy of undermining the very idea of independent authority. Anyone who expressed a view on the hazards of leaving the EU was painted as the hostage of a corrupt Brussels-worshipping establishment. Gove encapsulated this ethos with his claim in a television interview on 3 June that “people in this country have had enough of experts”.

Again, the remain side was taken aback by the effectiveness of this scorched-earth approach to evidence-based argument and by the media’s complicity – deliberate in the case of many newspapers, unwitting on the part of the BBC which was bound by impartiality rules to present the claims of both sides as equally valid. As one Cameron aide puts it: “If anyone on the left had ever said the Bank of England was corrupt and shouldn’t have a view, they would be incinerated, but the BBC gave a free ride to the rubbishing of institutions.”



http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/05/how-remain-failed-inside-story-doomed-campaign?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

 

Both sides lied through their teeth fuelled by selfish gains either way. The "experts" on both sides also spoke out with a view to either keeping all the honey or pinching it back. How anyone can trust these people absolutely blows my tiny mind.