Split Thread BBC news reporting

[Carrot Flower King]

I think you mean abolished rather than imposed? And is this the right thread?

Corrected, thank you.

Yeah, I meant it to be here, as it struck me as an example of slanted Beeb reporting, as it pretty much always has been on this topic. Although it could also go in UK politics.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Corrected, thank you.

Yeah, I meant it to be here, as it struck me as an example of slanted Beeb reporting, as it pretty much always has been on this topic. Although it could also go in UK politics.

TBH it's true of almost any outlet in the UK..

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Following on from teh gubbmint's climbdown on IHT for farmers, I've just heard the most soft soap interview of a farmer by Evan Davies on PM: wouldn't pin the bod down on exactly how much, if at all, the family would be affected; wouldn't pin them down on why they have not already taken the obvious steps; let the bod trot out all the "guardians of the countryside" BS, even though the farm's land is mostly within a town; let the bod imply they were long-standing "forever farmers", even though the bod's parents bought the farm as a lifestyle choice in the '80s, i.e. around the time Thatcher's mob abolished IHT on farm land.

FFS, it was straight out of the NFU play book, rather than any attempt at a balanced, factual interview.

Anybody who knows anything about British farming knows that no actual farmers will be affected by the inheritance tax rules at either the higher or lower levels as they're all tenants.

It's only the greedy landlords who would have had to pay anything at the lower level, and frankly that kind of land owner should be paying masses of all kinds of taxes with an income (not profits, gross) threshold of £0.

 

[smartcooky]

Posting this here and in the "A Revolution Could Soon Be Under Way in Iran" thread as its relevant to both.


Someone will be along soon to tell us all that this is GB News so the former BBC presenter being interviewed is a lying far-right extremist thug

 

[Mojo]

Posting this here and in the "A Revolution Could Soon Be Under Way in Iran" thread as its relevant to both.


Someone will be along soon to tell us all that this is GB News so the former BBC presenter being interviewed is a lying far-right extremist thug

I think I'll tell you that it's currently the top story on the BBC news website.

 

[Andy_Ross]

I think I'll tell you that it's currently the top story on the BBC news website.

It has been too story for days and featured every day since it started.

 

[steenkh]

Someone will be along soon to tell us all that this is GB News so the former BBC presenter being interviewed is a lying far-right extremist thug

Pity there is no transcript.
But I am surprised if the "left" should have a particularly fond view about the Iranian dictatorship.