Lost all their #MOTD presenters after @GaryLineker wouldn’t apologise for criticising the government (read that again!😱)
And while that was obviously the big story, their bad day didn’t end there….
1/7
They announced they’d wouldn’t be airing the final episode of the latest #Attenborough series on TV for fear of a “Right Wing backlash”
WTF?
It will go out on iPlayer where the poor snowflakes won’t see it….
2/7
Then we had the statement about why #FionaBruce felt the need to clarify it was a “one off” when #stanleyjohnson put his wife in hospital😱
Yes, she was quoting one of their friends and not expressing her own opinion, but of all the things to ensure they clarified..?
3/7
Finally, an apology for NOT clarifying on air that Nadine Dorries was making unfounded, absurd claims when she was interviewed about #SueGray.
They were happy to let those accusations go unchallenged, but needed to add “balance” by pointing out SJ only beat his wife once!
4/7
I really want to support the BBC
Even more so because the government are so keen to shut it down (God knows why!)
I do hate the inherent right wing bias under the cover of “impartiality” but I try and give them the benefit of the doubt
5/7
But oh my God do they make that hard when they:
❌Silence govt critics
❌Refuse to air a show that might offend Right wing watchers (an Attenborough nature program FGS!)
❌Defend a Tory wife beater
❌Fail to correct spurious accusations made by a Tory MP
6/7
I really hope there are some serious emergency meetings taking place today after the shocking day they had yesterday
But given all the high level posts are held by well known Tories and Tory donors, I won’t hold my breath
Please, please #BBC, do better for all our sakes.😢
7/7
I’m being accused of lying with this thread. As far as I can tell the issue is with the Attenborough tweet.
The Guardian report what senior BBC sources have said.
The BBC are denying that’s the reason. Although they don’t really give a reason why they couldn’t broadcast it.
I don’t know which is “the truth”. Only the BBC and those senior sources do.
It was a 5 part series with a 6th part made by the same people but not commissioned by the BBC. However the BBC acquired it and chose to put it on iPlayer.
But I hope this clarifies things.
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This is less of a “debunk” and more an explainer to dampen down the pearl clutching and lower the temperature of the rhetoric against asylum seekers.
NONE of this is on them!
2/25
So, the claim itself relates to details in this court case suggesting that PTS-247 provided taxi services to asylum seekers under a contract from Clearsprings but haven’t been paid.
The papers show there were 6000 journeys per month totaling ~ £350K
Following Farage’s announcement that he plans to make “serious cuts to the welfare budgets” if he wins the next election, I’ve seen this claim being repeated from last year’s headlines again.
So let’s take a look at the the reality rather than the weaponised version
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1/20
The stat comes from an ONS report published last December, which found that:
“The proportion of people living in households receiving more in benefits than they paid in taxes decreased from 53.6% to 52.6%”
Cool. Job done 👍🏼
The headlines are correct, right?
Not exactly…
2/20
In this case you need to dig even deeper than the ONS statement and look at what they classed as a benefit.
Because I can guarantee that what people reading those headlines conjure in their minds and what the ONS meant won’t be the same!
Headline: Rayner’s family home was valued at almost twice the amount of other recently sold properties on her street.
Article: Behind a paywall so most people will take that insinuation at face value
The reality?
🧵1/10
The house was valued in 2023, by a third party, independent, professional valuer who would have visited the house, taken in all the information and gone away and found local comparables.
It was valued at £650,000.
So is it only actually worth £325K as the headline suggests?! 😱
2/10
Nope.
They bought the house for £375K nine years ago and then built and extension on it.
To suggest it’s now worth £50K LESS than what they paid for it is ridiculous.
And funny enough, despite the headline, the article DOESN’T actually suggest that🙄
The desperation by those on the Right to smear Angela Rayner is wearing thin🙄
And no - don’t bother replying UNTIL you’ve read the thread!
I’ve trawled through multiple versions of this “story” in the Telegraph and Daily Mail to try and piece together what’s going on!
🧵1/17
So let’s lay out the facts.
It is complicated, which is why the Right Wing media can have such a field day throwing around claims and insinuations to make you believe something dodgy has gone on.
To be clear - there is no suggestion she has broken any laws or failed to pay what she needed to pay - and they know that!
2/17
Ok, let’s look at her property “empire”👍🏼
Rayner owned a home in Ashton-Under-Lyme (her constituency) with her ex-husband until a few months ago, when she removed her name from the deeds.