Radio 4's PM has just started a brand-new, spanking-new, long-term series monitoring the effects of the Leave vote on a single street in the North Yorkshire town of Thornaby-on-Tees (3 miles from Stockton-on-Tees, 4 miles from Middlesbrough) - a Leave-voting area.
This focus on the inhabitants of a single street will apparently continue over many months.
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As several commenters have noted on Sue's characteristically out-of-this-world latest post, BBC reporter Emma Jane Kirby's reports comes from a street that isn't typical of Leave-voting streets across the country - or even the area.
Yesterday's report, for example, featured 4 vox pops. Only one of them was in paid employment.
And today's report featured 5 vox pops. Only one of them (the same guy from the previous night) was in paid employment.
The rest were either unemployed, on the sick, in voluntary work, or (in one case) retired.
The area, as official stats show, has a combined 7.8% total for the unemployed and those on sickness benefit. It most certainly isn't anywhere near 75% (as yesterday's report might suggest - and even today's report might suggest).
Hardly representative then.
Why's that then?
Why's that then?
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Yes, we've been getting to hear from some Leave voters and hearing their reasons for leaving - alongside hearing from Remain voters - but...
...I've been watching the Twitter reaction and seeing all the abuse flying in the direction of PM's selected Leave supporters. The Twitter Brigade are calling them all deluded, low-IQ, racist morons.
Did Emma Jane Kirby see that coming?
If so, is that the answer to the above question, "Why's that then?"?
If so, is that the answer to the above question, "Why's that then?"?
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On today's report. moreover, Emma Jane was certainly pushing the point that the area has received huge pots of money from the EU for regional development.
(Naturally she didn't mention that this 'EU money' was pretty much 'our money' coming back to us under EU guidance).
Her commentary pointed that out, and some of questions to her Brexit Street vox pops also pointed that out - and both did so repeatedly, as if she was trying to make a point.
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Also (though we're only two reports in), I note that both reports moved towards criticism of post-Brexit racism and that tonight's report was left hanging on that very point.
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This bears all the hallmarks of a highly manipulative piece of long-term (anti-Brexit) BBC reporting.
