Fury as BBC launches 'condescending' pro-EU propaganda video for Millennials
THE BBC has sparked fury after launching what has been described as a “condescending” pro-Brussels propaganda video explaining why the UK must pay into the European Union budget.
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The video, posted by BBC Politics Twitter account earlier this evening, seems to try to appeal to a millennial audience with an over-the-top metaphor comparing Brexit to moving out of a house share.
The narrator says: “So imagine I live in a house with a few other people until recently I’ve decided I want to move out.
“I don’t hate my housemates or anything, I just want an independent sovereign place to myself.
“The thing is I recently said I’d pay towards fixing the boiling and that dodgy leak in the ceiling.
“Do I really have to pay?”
Scores of Twitter users reacted with anger to the post, with many slamming the “typical one sided view” from the BBC.
One said: “The EU doesn't fund anything, us taxpayers fund everything, leaving means that our elected representatives get to decide what's done with our money in our country.”
Another said: “The EU funds nothing. It is our money in the first place.”
The video was posted by BBC Politics Twitter account earlier this evening,
The video was described as a “condescending” pro-Brussels propaganda
One user replied: “The BBC should not be in the business of EU propaganda. How about this: I have lived in a a house where for many years I have been paying more rent than than most of the other occupants.
“The other occupants have also been telling me what to do in my own room, sometimes they decide to come into my room for long periods and demand I make them cups of tea and feed them biscuits.
“Sometimes they take those biscuits back to their own rooms. We have a dodgy boiler but I am expected to pay more than my fair share to get it fixed.”
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Another person said: “IMPARTIAL BBC doing the EU's political lobbying with our licence fee…”
And one added: “Utter utter utter nincompoopery of the dullest order…”
The BBC said in a statement; "“This is an impartial issue explainer. We continue to report on Brexit developments in an impartial way.”