BBC Apologises for Calling Reform “Far-Right” in News Report
The BBC has apologised to Reform U.K. after calling it “far-Right” in a news report. The Telegraph has more.
The broadcaster made the claim during a report about the Liberal Democrat spring conference in which it referred to Reform surging ahead of Sir Ed Davey’s party in the opinion polls.
Although Reform is to the Right of the Conservative Party on issues including legal and illegal immigration and the tax burden, it has previously said its political aims are not motivated by political ideology.
In a statement on Monday, the BBC said: “In an article about the Liberal Democrats’ spring conference, we wrongly described the political party Reform U.K. as far-Right when referring to polling.
“This sentence was subsequently removed from the article as it fell short of our usual editorial standards. While the original wording was based on news agency copy, we take full responsibility and apologise for the error.”
Richard Tice, the leader of Reform, told the Telegraph that while he was “pleased” the BBC had apologised, the error “shouldn’t have happened in the first place”.
“This is a tactic that certain news organisations are going to try, which is to smear and label not only the party but by direct implication myself and other senior figures,” he said. …
On Tuesday, the PA news agency ran an update to one of its stories from the Liberal Democrat conference, removing the reference to Reform as “far-Right”.
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Lol, they will be more careful next time.
“Apology” not accepted – I will take your first answer only!
It’s not hard to be to the right of the Conservative party.
Nor far right, neither.
Nor far wrong.
How far to the right of Jeremy Corbyn does one have to stand to count as far right?
Blair? Mandelson? Saddyq Khan? Keir Stammer?
President Putin is to the right of the Conservative Party!
Yeah, well the Tories are really wet, f’rinstance they don’t assassinate their opponents.
[Well not yet, anyway.]
No matter how big your frustration may be for the lack of a genuinely conservative political formation, I’d urge you not to for intelligence services outfits.
Assume you’ve missed a word out there? Maybe ‘vote’ between ‘to’ and ‘for’?
“This sentence was subsequently removed from the article as it fell short of our usual editorial standards.”
This sentence was subsequently removed from the article as it exceeded our already appalling usual editorial standards.
That’smore accurate.
Removed because they got caught!
But it cannot be removed from the minds of those who read it.
Well, good, on two counts: first it reminds people that the Biased Bollox Corpse is so stupid and untrustworthy as not to be worthy of receiving any money at all from government (ie taxpayers), or the TV tax erroneously named as the ‘licence fee’ (aka screwing the public) that should have been abolished years ago. More people may stop paying it.
Second, although Reform is not ‘far right’ except in the warped minds of leftard lunatics, it might encourage voters to vote for them in the hope of getting something better than the socialist Uniparty currently ruining the UK.
They apologised for the “error”? ——-Name calling isn’t an error. Maybe if they had called Corbyn “far left” in the past at least their name calling would have extended in both directions, but it seldom does. Everything Liberal Progressive and Leftist is good and everything to the right is bad. But the brainwashers need to be called out every time for their bias because license payers are not all Liberal progressives. Far from it
It was certainly an error but not in the way they pretend to mean it. They absolutely think Reform are far right and want to smear them as much as they can get away with. In this case they miscalculated the reaction.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/polish-farmers-ongoing-fight-their-existence/5852443
Polish farmers battling for survival.
The EU is allowing free trade food imports from Ukraine which are effectively undercutting Polish farmers. So much for EU rules and regulations. The game plan is obvious – destroy Polish farming and then manufacture a crisis in Ukraine which effectively ends their exports, result – starvation in Poland.
Did I read this correctly? Isn’t Ukraine supposed to be in some kind of crisis? Billions of pounds of our taxpayer money is being deposited into Zelensky and his Israeli chums’ bank accounts, never to be seen again, while the Zelensky/Blackrock-owned farmland is flooding the market with illegal grain, potentially destroying large swathes of EU agriculture.
One of the biggest scams of the century; corruption on a gigantic scale. Remind me again: why aren’t we allowed to criticise Judaism?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/uk-lawmaker-stuns-parliament-call-members-covid-cabal-face-death-penalty/5852521
This went under the radar. Andrew Bridgen calling for the death penalty for the covid cabal.
The Mord her usual sneering, rude and disgraceful self.
Crikey, even if you weren’t a Thatcher fan back in the day, is it fair to put her alongside Bin Laden and Hitler in a museum exhibition? Is this the Leftards doing once again? ”Recently, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum sparked controversy over an exhibit that places former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the same light as Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden This display is part of an exhibition called Laughing Matters: The State of the Empire, which looks at the role of humor relating to ‘identity, empire, and power over the last two hundred years.’ The exhibit attempted to depict how villains in the Punch and Judy caricatures have evolved over the last century. Punch and Judy is a British puppet show about a couple whose name features in the title. The caption read: “Over the years, the evil character in this seaside puppet show has shifted from the Devil to unpopular public figures including Adolf Hitler, Margaret Thatcher, and Osama bin Laden, to offer contemporary villains.” To bracket Britain’s first female prime minister with mass murderers is staggeringly offensive and shockingly unfair. So what do we make of this? This once again proves how the left has managed to hijack… Read more »
I no longer have any notion what ‘far right’ means, but we all know the way they use it implies evil people who are irretrievably corrupted by wrong-think.
Richard Tice should not accept the excuse of a simple editorial error. He should double down, complain to Ofcom and insist the Beeb clearly define the phrase and explain why they applied it to Reform.
Then the Beeb should be made to publicly and prominently apologise, promising never to say it unless they specifically intend to equate the subject of the slur with the goose-stepping brown shirts in those 1930s newsreels.
Yeah, right; wishful thinking.
I’m sure OFCOM will be censuring the BBC for its “error” and lack of impartiality. 🙂
The BBC will now be utterly terrified of Tice after his scathing response.