Thread by @shaunjlawson

Here's an example of BBC bias. I'm actually quite stunned by it.

bbc.com/news/blogs-tre…

Skip through the stuff about Swinson's husband - that's not what I'm referring to here.

Scroll down to the section headed 'Not just Swinson'.

"'Monster Crash' is a joke video with a serious message - it implies that Boris Johnson and the Conservative cabinet member Jacob Rees-Mogg stand to profit by engineering a financial crash brought on by a no-deal Brexit".

"The video indirectly references a story which went viral in anti-Brexit circles, again at the beginning of October... At the heart of [it] were allegations that financial speculators who help fund the Conservative Party are pushing the UK towards a no-deal Brexit".

"However, last month the prime minister renegotiated a deal with the EU, which Mr Rees-Mogg voted for. This would seem to pour cold water on the conspiracy theory that they are working to trigger a no-deal Brexit 'monster crash' for financial gain".

This is a supposedly fact checking article on the BBC which repeats the myth that Johnson has a 'deal' - it's merely stage 1, the withdrawal agreement - and uses that myth to assume that no deal Brexit can't happen WHEN IT VERY MUCH CAN AND PROBABLY WILL.

That is absolutely bloody staggering. Notice Johnson already amending the Brexit legislation? The timetable makes the UK moving to WTO terms from the start of 2021 onwards a horribly live possibility.

How in the world is the electorate supposed to be informed about something so momentous when the BBC, in fact-checking articles for God's sake, just repeats Tory bullshit?

Frightening. cc @OborneTweets