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Liar, liar pants on fire!

It should not be a headline at all. Talk about it on Monday and frame it accurately as “cuts” not savings.

I remember filling in the same application form as my brother-in-law, for a job at BBC News*. I was quite surprised at their priorities on several news stories...but thought about it and found their "policy" to be sound. Now it's just shite. *I did it out of interest, in 1993

It’s August though

It's not "rookie" stuff. It's sophisticated political manipulation by a corporation led entirely by Right Wing people. The people working on the website are doing what the bosses want. Where is the useless Nandy?

Absolutely outrageous from a so called public corporation…

To be fair to Reform, they are not the only party to imagine that more welfare cuts will do anything other than multiply the cost to the state of not doing basic stuff to prevent needs from escalating. They are simply the most wishful of the thinkers. But agree 💯 no journalist should indulge it.

Absolutely agree. I was gobsmacked to see this headline this morning. Trying to recall when the BBC last made a proposed Lib Dems or Green policy their lead story...

Cuts, not (completely fictional) “savings”.

It's leading the 6music news currently

FYI - Here is my complaint as submitted. A bit off the cuff but ...

Thanks - they have definitely improved it ... and added to the byline too.

Oddly cuts to the licence fee seem to be cuts but cuts to disabled people seem to be savings BBC.

And obviously purely coincidental that it was announced *after* the by-election...?

I'm not sure why everyone is pretending that BBC News is independent. They've been Farage cheerleaders since the start and he wouldn't have a career without them.

And yet Reform hates the BBC, Looks like the bullying is working.

Difficult balancing acts? 🤨 Tell any MPs from Lib Dems or the Green Party about that… BBC News is finished. It cannot conduct “balancing acts” if the senior positions mainly represent right wing elements.

Where do you get your GIFs? That's a peach

They haven’t been balanced in over a decade.

It’s not a mistake it’s intentional. They are biased in favour of Reform. It used to be the Tories but they have swapped horses. The BBC have not been honest for ages.

Amateur? Or just deliberate.

“Are we respecting our audience?” is such an easy test. The BBC fails it all too often. It’s as simple as answering that question every time.

Just means that Reform supporters don't believe that the money they receive from the government themselves, i.e. their pension, is the welfare budget...

The BBC has slightly moderated their lead: The headline now has the postscript "were they to come to power".

Still cos playing "government in waiting" I see. Remind Farage he has more important issues to address.

How many people in Clacton receive PIP? If only we had some medium to communicate this kind of stuff. I mean, imagine if there were some national broadcaster serving the public interest, impartial, with a mission to inform... I know, pipe dream, but, just a thought.

It seems weird to me that the BBC is showboating a party that claims that the BBC is part of the establishment and that it is seeking to destroy them and yet RefUK uses them as another arm of GBNews.

Sir Robbie Gibb will be fuming at this naked promoting of a political organization (not even a proper party).

What a nasty shit paper the Telegraph is, hounded Jason Arday to death and now doing the same to the sick and disabled with stress

Oh beeb highlighting absolute bollx yet again from refukshire 🙄🥱🤬

Gibb and take?

It has been clear for some time where the BBC's political loyalties now lie.

This may be true, but those savings would result in the government being defenestrated and castrated, so it’s quite a risky move, I’d say.

There are wars in Ukraine, Sudan & Iran/Gaza/ Hormuz Climate change, wildfires in urban areas in UK, USA is doing what USA does in Trump-World & there is a UK government doing actual governing in UK Still, a made up number from Reform, without any foundation or evidence, is “front page” for the BBC

But it’s exactly what we’ve all come to expect in the last 10 plus years.

Maybe @laurakuenssberg will have them on to "analyse"?!

And then they repeat it on Radio 4 at 6 and 7. First item on the news. There are far more important things going on.

If this appears on your news feeds report it as inaccurate and biassed.

And the comical thing is that uneducated Yanks think the BBC are heroes for standing up to trump, not caring to find out the disgusting harm that organization does to people here.

I am disabled and I have to say this headline made me feel absolutely desperate.

Well given Reform will never hold power given their abstract incompetence when they do get a little, think it’s safe to say the BBC are just platforming nonsense as per usual

Why didn't they wait until tomorrow when they can question Jenrick on the proposal, rather than just parroting a release from Reform.

The BBC is still working for Reform then. Can't say I'm surprised.

People need to see their policies front and centre. These headlines are essential for voters to recognise them as the neo-Thatcherite-on-steroids that they are

It's fallen to third place on the app, pushed down by drone strikes in Kyviv. It's outrageous it's still front page news.

It's the leading headline on the news site too. Complaint made.

Exactly- no doubt for being ‘biased’ .. 🙄

My god..they get more and more like their American lovers every day! Jeesh!

BBC News output is awful. It made a huge contribution to creating Reform. Labour hasn’t acted on this. Why?

Good old BBC, their love for Reform knows no bounds.

It's awful, almost beyond belief that they would present this absolute nonsense as fact.

A combination of partiality and entertainment value = Farage (or increasingly Yusuf these days) everywhere.

Faaarrrr too many!

'Him'-partiality?

Thirty eight times, the same number as Michael Heseltine whose political career is roughly three times longer. Meanwhile Zia Yusuf has been on seven times since his first appearance just two years ago. Richard Tice nine times.

And changed again

It’s crazy, the BBC bigging up a party that would abolish it if they got into power.

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They would lose support if the #bbc bothered its arse to explain to the public just how many people would be plunged into poverty under these reforms. It’s just another public schoolboy jape to them.

Jesus, that's the institutional knowledge loss on show after all those department relocations.

can't understand why the 4th biggest party in parliament gets so much attention. The BBC shouldn't do headlines like this- a policy announcement by Reform is not news

And we pay for it !!!

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Still standing …

Want to point me to one of those stories? Because I get this accusation a lot and usually people don't follow up with specifics. Where's the recent story that fits that?

I mean, for example, you are making a big deal about what amateurs posted this pro Reform propaganda on the BBC like you honestly believe its an accident, a fluke, a flaw, but you know its not- when do you call it out?

How does that headline not conclude with “ according to Reform uk, no sources cited”. It’s just the we talk shit for a job party