The BBC has apologised to Reform U.K. after calling it “far-Right” in a news report. The Telegraph has more.
The broadcaster made the claim during a report about the Liberal Democrat spring conference in which it referred to Reform surging ahead of Sir Ed Davey’s party in the opinion polls.
Although Reform is to the Right of the Conservative Party on issues including legal and illegal immigration and the tax burden, it has previously said its political aims are not motivated by political ideology.
In a statement on Monday, the BBC said: “In an article about the Liberal Democrats’ spring conference, we wrongly described the political party Reform U.K. as far-Right when referring to polling.
“This sentence was subsequently removed from the article as it fell short of our usual editorial standards. While the original wording was based on news agency copy, we take full responsibility and apologise for the error.”
Richard Tice, the leader of Reform, told the Telegraph that while he was “pleased” the BBC had apologised, the error “shouldn’t have happened in the first place”.
“This is a tactic that certain news organisations are going to try, which is to smear and label not only the party but by direct implication myself and other senior figures,” he said. …
On Tuesday, the PA news agency ran an update to one of its stories from the Liberal Democrat conference, removing the reference to Reform as “far-Right”.
Worth reading in full.
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No wish to be overly critical, but the same Dr Lomborg who only two weeks ago was reported in the Daily Sceptic as preaching “green innovation”.
Do us all a favour please, and publicly condemn the “climate emergency” for the voodoo pseudoscience and economic con-trick it blatantly is.
Lomberg is a moderate i think. He does not buy into a lot of the lunacy and stupidity because it is unrealistic technology and makes the point that we need to keep countries rich. He also makes the point we should spend money on sea defences to combat sea level rises (which has been happening to some degree for well over a century). But he makes more of an economic argument and not scientific argument. he his perhaps not a very good climate scientist. So not all bad I think.
Understood – in effect, fighting on ground of Enemy’s choosing.
Where have the sea levels been rising? All the coastline I am familiar with is exactly there where plenty of photographic evidence says it was 100 years ago.
I am aware coastlines change. Pangaea, after all. But there seems to be plenty of evidence that when coastlines change, it is because the crust rises and falls, or because of localised erosion owing to wave action.
good question, and very hard to measure as land can rise and sink. Anyway i think it is lower than in medieval times eg Beaumaris in North Wales. Also Harlech, but mostly silting from the estuary. but has risen since the mid 19th century. but it complicated by places like the uk where Scotland is rising and England is sinking.
Precisely. What does “sea level” even mean? Is there a “correct sea level”?
The sea level on one end of the Panama Canal is very different from that at the other end.
The land around the northern extent of the Baltic Sea is also rising now that the ice sheets have melted.
I think the contributor mistakes rising sea levels for the geological change that many countries with a coastline experience. This is a two fold experience, firstly the land is still shifting due to heave after the withdrawal of the ice age glacier fields. This unequal movement mostly sees land masses rise, but as one part rises, like a seesaw, the other side lowers, so for the British Isles the North is rising while the South is falling, causing sea levels to appear to rise, when of course they are not, it’s the land moving. Incredibly, this is exacerbated by the growth of towns with ever weightier buildings pressing down on the land. The other cause is plate tectonics, which can cause ocean floors to rise and land masses to fall, again giving the perception of sea levels changing
I explain that in the previous comment.
Cley next the Sea.
There are two large churches just 607 metres apart across a shallow valley. St Margaret’s in Newgate and St Mary the Virgin in Wiverton. The valley used to be a large sea inlet and the churches were many hours journey apart – now just a pleasant stroll. The sea coast is now 2.7km away.
Land level rising or land reclamation and silting up of harbours in one place is offset by erosion and inundation in others.
A pleasant place for a holiday. I recommend the Wiverton Bell and the Three Swallows (Newgate) pubs/restaurants.
Yes. Netherlands, too. So many people I know think that the Netherlands are being slowly flooded because of man-made climate change. These days I just laugh.
I would agree with you on this M A k. So called rising sea level is largely bluster.
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“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
There is no point being “moderate” when the policy errors are so destructive.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-ghost-of-maurice-strong-haunts-canada-with-mark-carney-technocracy
I read this article earlier today which concentrates on Mark Carnage Carney. It certainly provides useful background information on the very destructive impact this POS has had over many years. The climate crap is central to all that is happening.
Worth a read. Courtesy of UK Column. Author Matthew Ehret.
“The Green Bankers Climate Compact which Carney pioneered would ensure that companies that are considered ‘dirty’ would never receive loans from banks, and any insurance they received would come at impossibly high premiums as punishment for their climate-offending ways. As a shining role model for ‘good green behaviour’, Carney has cited that his former employer Goldman Sachs has already ruled out any future financing for oil drilling, thermal coal projects, or Arctic development.
In his paper “EU Taxonomy Is Binary – We Need 50 Shades of Green”, Carney stated that all dirty (brown) companies with poor climate grades will either not receive loans or receive loans at such high levels of interest that they will be artificially bankrupted (taxing polluters to death).
As Carney said in September 2019, ‘Firms that anticipate these developments will be rewarded handsomely. Those that don’t will cease to exist’ [emphasis added].”
I wonder why the article was led with a photograph of steam from cooling towers at a hydrocarbon powered generating station.
It doesn’t matter the money has already starting shifting it started a year ago and has accelerated. Doesn’t matter what this or that person thinks there is no going against the market.Disnivestment on a mass scale can only mean one thing. Governments will remain aligned through sheer inertia but the inertia is quickly broken when it needs to be. This really is a case of sit by the river long enough and you will see the heads of your enemies come floating by.