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Postby Workingman » 01 Jul 2016, 14:59

Austria's highest court has annulled the result of the Presidential election citing suspicion of postal vote rigging.

This has upset the luvvies in the BBC. It cannot help itself in calling the original losing Austrian Freedom Party a far-right party, which it is not and never has been. It is a right-wing party, with some far-right members, but its main political stance is International Liberalism.

It main claim to fame is as a "populist" party, and the BBC does not like populism. Any chance it gets it tags right-wing populist parties and individuals as far-right. It is far-right this, and far-right that, especially if the parties are in an EU member state. It is clear that the BBC's agenda is to scare us witless over right wing politics, even if they are only a smidge to the right of centre.

It is noticeable that parties to the left of centre are left well alone, even those that are quite a bit further to the left than the centre. They are not Marxist or Communist, just socialist with a very small S.

Given the chance I would close BBC news down.
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Re: I know, let's frighten everyone.

Postby Workingman » 01 Jul 2016, 21:24

I see the BBC is at it again with this headline: A third of voters think Brexit won't happen - poll

But when you get into the figures it is only 16%. What the Beeb has done is added the 22% of don't knows to the 16% and, voila!, we have 'more than a third'.

It could equally have added the 22% to the 62% who think Brexit will happen, but that would never do, would it? 'More than four fifths of voters think Brexit will happen', as a headline, does not fit its agenda.
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Re: I know, let's frighten everyone.

Postby Aggers » 01 Jul 2016, 21:54

I think someone should give the BBC a good talking to.
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Re: I know, let's frighten everyone.

Postby Suff » 02 Jul 2016, 12:57

Aggers wrote:I think someone should give the BBC a good talking to.


In the biblical sense....
There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those who understand Binary and those who do not.
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