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The BBC has been accused of allowing its Comic Relief TV appeal to become ‘an advert for Jeremy Corbyn’.
Tory MPs reacted with FURY at this year’s Red Nose Day broadcast, lambasting BBC bosses for peddling ‘socialist nonsense’ and making ‘absurd’ claims about the scale of poverty in Britain.
During the six-hour broadcast on Friday night, celebrities painted a bleak picture of hunger, deprivation and homelessness in the UK, which MPs say amounted to a political attack on Theresa May’s Government.
Under its Royal Charter, the BBC has a strict obligation to remain politically neutral, but in a series of controversies that rocked its flagship charity appeal:
TWO top SNP figures have accused the BBC of deliberately demoting the status of the third party at Westminster.
A joint letter sent to the BBC by SNP depute leader Keith Brown and Westminster leader Ian Blackford raises “two formal complaints” against the broadcaster.
First, the SNP say their status as the third biggest party at Westminster is being actively downplayed by BBC editors and managers because they only represent Scotland.
Second, they say the broadcaster is failing to serve all audiences equally by continually under-representing them on flagship shows like Politics Live and Newsnight.
After key Brexit votes were held in the House of Commons this week, the BBC on two occasions broadcast both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn’s responses, but cut away as the SNP’s Westminster leader began speaking. They also cut away from the Commons just as Blackford was standing up to give his opening remarks in the original debate over May’s deal on Tuesday.
The SNP are the third largest party at Westminster and the party of government in Scotland.
The letter from Brown and Blackford argues that the BBC’s news and current affairs programming is falling below the standards of its editorial guidelines.
The pair also say the BBC is “in breach of its mission and responsibility” to serve licence fee payers across every UK country, erasing the SNP from its coverage by “consistent and deliberate editorial decisions”.
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