"The BBC do not invite me on to put the case for a referendum. Maybe because I have given a seminar series in Oxford University on the Constitution, and have written three books providing a British critique of political integration, I know too much for them to allow me on. If they did, they would doubtless introduce me as a “right winger”, whose right wing view was proven by my Euroscepticism. They would then probably spend most of the interview discussing whether this showed the Conservatives had lurched to the right."
I have noticed that the BBC would rather interview someone who has strong views with little to back them up or someone who is inarticulate about the subject, rather than someone who knows the subject and is articulate about it. This policy makes it easier to write off supporters of a policy that offends their delicate liberal sympathies as "odd" or "right wing" or "out of touch".
"They did not attempt to claim that Ian Davidson (backed by up to 40 other Labour MPs) was lurching to the right because he shares our view that we need a referendum. Instead they dismissed his position as a “challenge to the authority of the Prime Minister”! All Mr Davidson was doing was speaking up for the 80% of the British public, including many Labour voters, who want the PM to honour his pledge to give us a referendum on this most important of matters. Mr Davidson very honourably reminded us all that all Labour MPs were elected on the promise of such a referendum."
The BBC "narrative" is that Gordon Brown is the new Prime Minister and has started from scratch, he cannot be held responsible for the policies of Tony Blair's government and he should not be held responsible for any of the last manifestos, even though his courtiers always made a big point of telling the media and public how Gordon Brown
was in charge of the election campaign.
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