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Quite a lengthy report about the UKIP leadership contest on tonight, mainly based on Okehampton Show (much like radio report 2 or 3 weeks ago).

Fair coverage, but very much suggesting that UKIP is in a bad way. Interviews with the public that they selected suggest lack of public support/interest.

StGeorge

The women that kept saying no in that daft tone made me suspicious, what was all the flag waving about. Clueless reporter.

Britannist

Surprisingly the lengthy BBC News 24 Television report about UKIP (filmed in Devon) was shown in full on the BBC 1 Television News bulletin between 7.30 pm and 8 pm (actually at about 7.40 pm).

It does not change my view that the BBC is pro-EU and anti-UKIP (although I have not yet seen a report on the UKIP leadership contest on ITV or Sky Television News).

The BBC has put this report (about UKIP) out on this evening's BBC 1 Television News in a week when several million British people are still on holiday (after the long Bank Holiday weekend) and at the same time as a mass-viewing programme such as Coronation Street is going out at the same time (on ITV 1).

I've got the BBC 1 Television 10 pm new bulletin on - they've just gone on to do the sports reporting which means that they will not be showing the report on UKIP. That would be too dangerous for the BBC - too many people watch this late Sunday evening new bulletin on BBC 1 and might get to hear about anti-EU UKIP.

By the way, the reporter, Robin Brand said UKIP has to get Conservative votes (in Devon) if it is to win a parliamentary seat in the county (which he said was where there was alot of UKIP support). This is not entirely correct - UKIP can win by getting votes from the europhile Liberal 'Democrats' (LD). But the BBC wouldn't say that because they are pro-LD.

Britannist

She was probably a supporter of the europhile Liberal 'Democrats'. She certainly looked like one.

Britannist

I don't think it was entirely fair coverage. Sorry to disagree - but UKIP was portrayed as as party on the doldrums. Not true - the UKIP vote has gone up in the last two General Elections and the last two 'European' Elections.

Why did this man Robin Brand (the BBC reporter) not mention the interesting and politically-important fact that UKIP pushed Blair's Lie-bour Party into fourth place in the Bromley-Chislehurst By-Election at the end of June?

Indeed, had Brand done his homework and looked at the lastest local By-Election results, he would have found that UKIP did better than the europhile Liberal Dims at last week's local by-election in Uttoxeter (East Staffordshire/Burton).

Independent UKIP

I saw the 7.30pm broadcast. I think it was very welcome publicity for UKIP and think it relates to the fact that there is only a few days left for ballots to be received; it's not as if they would get in trouble for not making the report in the first place. With the **** in Afghanistan they could very easily not have reported it on BBC1. With that in mind my tv listing says that the 10pm news was 15 minutes and the 7.30pm news was 30 minutes. It was not realistic for that lengthy report to appear in a 15 minute broadcast in my opinion.

Interesting that they think/know that Farage is favourite and Richard S. main challenger. I didn't think it was a very negative report for a biased organisation who don't usually report UKIP. It was only natural for them to mention RKS because whilst we have all moved on from that RKS may still be associated with UKIP in the minds of many voters. And not mentioning Bromley might be because the candidate there was Farage - I can't pretend to know the real reason.

Where I fully agree with Britannist is the reporter wrongly implying that UKIP needs/should seek to attract the tories in order to get greater strength & MPs. There are millions of potential and previous UKIP voters who vote Labour, Lib Dems and other. But I guess the BBC cannot conceive that millions of Labour and Lib Dem voters might really be much closer to UKIP than their current parties.

Anthony Butcher

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm
I think that this pretty much confirms the fact that it is a two horse race. The BBC ignored Noakes and DCB and concentrated on Richard and Nigel.

Hartlepool

So,Anthony Butcher actually believes that if the BBC says something,then it must be true.

You're coming over as one of those Labour sheeple now AB.

An English thoroughbred and a half Welsh pit pony means no competition in your two horse race,anyway.

Good luck tho. :wink:

Bluemerle

For those who missed it last night.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/u...rm_5310730.stm

Anthony Butcher

:roll:

You may recall that some of us on here have been saying it all along. The BBC, it would appear, have also come to the same conclusion, thus adding some more evidence.