BBC Verify’s main ‘fact-checking’ article on Reeves’ new farm tax this month deployed typical balance by quoting “independent tax expert” and senior Labour activist Dan Neidle to cast aspersions on claims the tax will be highly damaging to a high number of family farms. Turns out the Verify team can’t even get the very basics of farming right…
Verify has been forced to update its fact-check after it confused hectares for acres. One acre is 0.4 hectares, as anyone with any countryside experience would know…
By calculating with hectares and not acres the BBC Verify would be wildly inaccurate with its statistics. 63 people with combined salary costs of a whopping £3.2 million…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”
