BBC BLASTED for 'ignoring' far-left extremism and painting working class as 'far-right'

BBC BLASTED for 'ignoring' far-left extremism and painting working class as 'far-right'

Winston Marshall says the BBC are 'ignoring' far-left extremism

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Ben Chapman

By Ben Chapman


Published: 21/03/2024

- 16:32

Updated: 21/03/2024

- 17:31

Ex-Mumford and Sons member Winston Marshall joined Patrick Christys on GB News

The BBC is under fire for ‘ignoring’ far-left extremism and painting the working class as ‘far-right’.

Former Mumford and Sons member Winston Marshall joined Patrick Christys on GB News to discuss the broadcaster’s grovelling apology for branding Reform UK ‘far-right’.


He said ‘far-left’ groups have been taking over the streets of London ‘every week’ since the Hamas terror attack in Israel on October 7.

“Not only that, you will remember in March 2021 when various far-left groups in Bristol attacked a police station and tried to burn it down”, he added.

BBC and WInston Marshall

Winston Marshall has hit out at the BBC

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“A police officer had a lung punctured and several bones broken, that story doesn’t get reported.

“It’s completely ignored. I actually went to one of Posie Parker’s speaking events, a woman who is constantly slandered and libelled as far-right.

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“I saw the counter-protesters, they were holding signs, quite literally, with Lenin on their placards.

“Lenin who, as Robert Conquest, the historian noted, killed about 12 million people and began the Great Terror of the Soviet Union.

“He even started the gulags. Far-left extremists are given a complete pass in the UK. It’s ignored.”

Marshall acknowledged the BBC’s Reform mishap could be a ‘lone wolf’ scenario, but this does not detract from what he perceives to be a biased media landscape in Britain.

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Richard Tice's party were branded 'far-right'

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Patrick Christys and Winston Marshall

Winston Marshall joined Patrick Christys on GB News

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Apologising for the labelling of Reform, the BBC said in a statement: “In an article about the Liberal Democrats’ spring conference we wrongly described the political party Reform UK as far right when referring to polling.

“This sentence was subsequently removed from the article as it fell short of our usual editorial standards.

“Reform describes itself on its website as “a national political party offering commonsense policies on immigration, the cost of living, energy & national sovereignty”.

Marshall went on to criticise other media organisations such as the Guardian over their coverage of protests outside of asylum seeker hotels.

“Those protests did get out of hand”, he acknowledged.

“But they were protesting something that everyone can agree was not good.

“The assault of a minor. If you remember in Liverpool in February 2023, an asylum seeker assaulted a 15-year-old girl.

“How did the media report on this? The Guardian called them far-right.

“Working class people are doomed if they do and doomed if they don’t.”

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