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…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”
