Trust good old 'Auntie Beeb' to pick the left wing angle on any piece of political news.
Today a mish-mash of unions, charities and 'self-help' organisations have issued a report trying to pick holes in the Government's planned Universal Credit. The 'Beeb', true to its usual form, chose to cover this item on its lunchtime news as if it was obvious that the plan was flawed. Rather than take an unbiased approach they decided to interview a man who claimed to be on incapacity benefit of £60 a week and complained that this wasn't enough; what this had to do with what will happen under the Universal Credit was unclear. What wasn't stated in this interview was that, presumably, the interviewee was also having his rent and council tax paid and we were told nothing else about him, making any sort of proper assessment impossible.
Although the item was prefaced with a comment to the effect that this was not intended to be a scientific survey, it was nonetheless presented as being a foray into the 'real world'. In truth it was nothing of the sort, merely being a piece of left wing propaganda broadcast by the supposedly neutral state broadcaster.
I know nothing of the pros and cons of the new Credit but this was hardly a fair and unbiased report. The BBC should be roundly censured for it though, of course, they won't be; there is no one with the appropriate authority who has either the desire or the balls to do it.
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