TREVOR KAVANAGH Skewsflash! BBC is STILL Brexit bashing, despite our growing economy and jobs boomTO the regret and dismay of gloomy Remainers, the British economy is powering ahead on all fronts.
Every single indicator has been flashing gold since the June 23 referendum.
The UK is the fastest-growing economy in the Western world — ahead of Germany and even America.
We are enjoying a jobs miracle which is the envy of Europe, with unemployment below five per cent — less than half the EU average. Even can-do America is asking how we did it.
Exports are booming after a welcome fall in Sterling, trimming state borrowing and easing the burden on taxpayers. We might even begin paying off our huge national debt.
By any standards, this is a remarkable picture worth headlines on our biggest news network.
But have you seen a BBC programme showing Brexit in a positive light — or suggesting there might be an upside to leaving Europe?
Perhaps more to the point, have you seen ANY programmes at all about the downsides of EU membership — or the economic chaos inflicted by its blunders?
Even the Pope has condemned Brussels for treating its 450million citizens with contempt. Yet our public
service broadcaster — funded to the tune of £3.7BILLION by licence payers — remains mute.
The Beeb will not tell you that, while Britain is a success story, most of the EU is wallowing in debt and stagnation.
Or that tens of millions of young people under 25 are on the jobs scrapheap while any work that does
come up is taken by migrants on low wages.
Indeed, it is because so many EU jobless are flocking to find work here that our own immigration figures are so high. If the number of French people living in London moved to France, they could form
that nation’s sixth largest city!
You won’t see that on Newsnight. Indeed, the BBC seems to believe the hopes and dreams of our own young people have been trashed by Brexit.
The BBC rarely mentions the EU sovereign debt which will impoverish today’s children as they reach middle age. Nor will you hear from them about Italy’s teetering banks or France’s unaffordable welfare bill or the violence involving migrants who can’t or won’t integrate.
The BBC categorically denies pro-Brussels bias, while at the same time acting as an echo chamber for the most outrageous claims of Europe’s leading lights at home and abroad.
For the Beeb, it is the Brexiteers who lied and cheated their way to victory by promising to transfer our EU contributions to the NHS.