tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post4769684292631946147..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Did Duncan Weldon misspeak on 'Newsnight'?Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-58804827153359988992014-11-29T17:08:02.755+00:002014-11-29T17:08:02.755+00:00Agreed, Craig. Weldon absolutely conflated the two...Agreed, Craig. Weldon absolutely conflated the two to score an ideological point. They do this at the BBC on a regular basis, though, so probably nobody gave it a second thought. I didn't think Newsnight could possibly find an economics correspondent as biased and far-Left as Paul Mason, but I was wrong.<br /><br />The BBC has been pushing this narrative for years. Remember the White Series? It was the exact same message. They don't stop, no matter how many times people complain, because they're ultimately unaccountable. Only a purge can solve this.David Preisernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-4371651472382853432014-11-29T13:49:32.064+00:002014-11-29T13:49:32.064+00:00The EU funded unit within UCL that produced that a...The EU funded unit within UCL that produced that absurd report uses biased methods. <br /><br />For instance, many low income immigrants access social housing through housing associations. See this link below: <br /><br />https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/362527/ahp_2015-18_allocations_by_provider.csv/preview<br /><br />The housing associations received £800 million public funds in three years, so about £270 million per annum. I don't know what proportion goes towards housing immigrants or recent immigrants but I suspect it's high. If it's around half, that would be £135m per annum. <br /><br />The total budget of the publicly funded HCA is a whopping £3.7 billion. So potentially the total being spent on immigrants might be far, far higher than £135 million. Remember, the only reason we need all these housing infrastructure and help to buy schemes is because of mass immigration and the resultant huge population rise (about 400,000 per annum) meaning we have to find the money to fund the hugely expensive housing infrastructure. <br /><br />https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/330867/corp_plan_14-18_full.pdf<br /><br />I very much doubt these figures feature at all in the published analyses from so called researchers like UCL, just as the costs of publicly funded additional tuition for immigrant children, FGM clinics, new primary school places, extra prison and probation placements don't figure. <br /><br />The truth is no one has ever done a really thorough cost-benefit analysis. <br /><br />Dan Read <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com