Post by Teddy Bear on Apr 15, 2014 20:46:53 GMT
Raheem Kassam at Breibart London noted a vigorous attempt by Radio4 Today's Justin Webb to attack Nigel Farage for his supposed expense fiddling, which is quite baseless. He attributed Webb's stance to the fact that he also works for The Times, the newspaper that first launched the anti-Farage attack. While that may well have played a part in it, as we all know, the BBC is always ready to stand by the EU, which means vilifying Farage and the threat of UKIP.
BBC AND THE TIMES TAG TEAM UKIP IN 'BASELESS' EXPENSES HIT JOB
by RAHEEM KASSAM
The Times of London today led with a 'story' about the expenses claims of UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP. The paper displayed it's lack of understanding of European Parliamentary expenses by claiming that Farage has overcharged for a property.
The whole thing was no doubt a stitch up by Farage's usual detractors. Likely culprits are Tory HQ, or perhaps even the long-aggrieved Nicki Sinclaire MEP, who has recently used parliamentary privilege to make baseless claims about Farage's private life.
But what is also interesting is that Justin Webb, who grilled Farage on the BBC's Today Programme this morning is also a regular contributor for The Times, who first kicked off on the subject.
Webb went about probing Farage on the issue without declaring his interest in receiving payments from the daily newspaper, and all the while pushing its attack stories on the publicly-funded BBC.
If The Times and the BBC are really as concerned about transparency as they claim over the expenses issue, then perhaps some declaration should have been, and still should be made as to Justin Webb's loyalties, and indeed his financial remuneration from both outlets.
In the meantime, I'll just go ahead and dump this story on the mainstream garbage scrapheap.
by RAHEEM KASSAM
The Times of London today led with a 'story' about the expenses claims of UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP. The paper displayed it's lack of understanding of European Parliamentary expenses by claiming that Farage has overcharged for a property.
The whole thing was no doubt a stitch up by Farage's usual detractors. Likely culprits are Tory HQ, or perhaps even the long-aggrieved Nicki Sinclaire MEP, who has recently used parliamentary privilege to make baseless claims about Farage's private life.
But what is also interesting is that Justin Webb, who grilled Farage on the BBC's Today Programme this morning is also a regular contributor for The Times, who first kicked off on the subject.
Webb went about probing Farage on the issue without declaring his interest in receiving payments from the daily newspaper, and all the while pushing its attack stories on the publicly-funded BBC.
If The Times and the BBC are really as concerned about transparency as they claim over the expenses issue, then perhaps some declaration should have been, and still should be made as to Justin Webb's loyalties, and indeed his financial remuneration from both outlets.
In the meantime, I'll just go ahead and dump this story on the mainstream garbage scrapheap.