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Monday 14 November 2011

So where is the BBC's faux outrage

When news broke about the relaxation of UK border controls since the 2010 general election the BBC were all over the story and gave plenty of publicity to the calls for Teresa May's resignation. The outrage was fake of course, as the BBC seem to support unfettered immigration, but any excuse to attack the Conservative government. This morning I note that the BBC news website has still yet to report the claims in The Telegraph over the weekend that:
'All but the most cursory checks were abandoned on passengers on British-registered coaches as they arrived at Dover, Britain's biggest port.

Instead of passports being scanned electronically, border guards checked that the picture matched the holder. 
It means they were not cross-checked to a computer database to establish if the holder was a wanted terrorist, criminal or immigration offender.

The policy was in place for four years after being introduced when Labour was in power, but never disclosed to Parliament.

It was implemented because the French complained about congestion in Calais caused by backlogs at passport control.
Ministers discovered the scheme earlier this month and ended it ten days ago when the Border Agency official in charge of the southern ports was suspended, along with Brodie Clark, the director of the UK Border Force, who was accused of relaxing passport checks at airports on non-European Union citizens without ministers' permission.'
So for the BBC a brief period of relaxed controls at UK airports under a Conservative lead coalition government (but without the agreement of the government) is major news but the revelation that Labour relaxed controls for four years at far less secure anyway channel ports  is not even worthy of a mention. It is almost as though the BBC were trying to attack the Conservatives and protect their Labour  party friends.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Er so when they do cover something it is 'faux outrage', when they don't cover something it is bias - seems the BBC can't win!

Not a sheep said...

Please tell me that was a joke, nobody could be that stupid... could they?

Alex said...

The Brussels Brainwashing Commisariat has a different spin on the ports story - it only happened this year:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15728513