BBC is forced to withdraw ‘biased’ immigration video
by Steve Doughty, Mailonline:
The BBC has withdrawn an educational film about immigration following complaints that it was biased.
The film, aimed at GCSE pupils, contained claims that Britain was ‘multicultural long before curry and carnival’ and that debate over immigration had fuelled a ‘huge rise’ in support for far-Right politics.
It was pulled from circulation and removed from YouTube after complaints that it broke impartiality rules.
Among other assertions by contributors to the film, part of a series called Don’t Hate the Debate, was: ‘Multiculturalism is a powerful tool for survival and possibly the only way to survive, so let’s embrace it.’
[…] The new film drew a scathing complaint from the Migration Watch UK think-tank, which said it failed to treat its subject with care and objectivity.
Lord Green of Deddington, founding chairman of Migration Watch, added that the discussion between young people in the film was ‘shallow, unbalanced and unrepresentative’.
And he wrote to BBC chairman Sir David Clementi saying: ‘Most people in the UK are not opposed to immigration per se, but they are concerned, we think rightly, about its present scale.
‘Yet the overall impression of the video is that anyone who questions its current scale is unreasonable and prejudiced … the video seems designed not to inform and stimulate discussion but to promote a particular opinion.’
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