b'But it is not just the lopsided number of speakers. Another favourite ploy of the BBC is that their pro-Brexit guests - the ones who get invited - are either not credible or ill- informed or both.Ex Borough Councillor Ms Suzanne Evans has been a consistent pro Brexit invitee on BBC programmes. Ms. Evans was the pro Brexit voice in a Newsnight discussion with the ex-Foreign Secretary of Poland, who is also an Oxford Graduate. The BBC were so keen to have Ms Evans, the lady was beamed in from Edinburgh. More telling, after theIt is all too clear, BBC West wereCourt of Appeal ruling the BBC fielded manipulating the invitations for this keyQC and former Attorney-General Dominic programme before the referendum. This wasGrieve MP on one sideand yes Ms Evans to stack the odds so that the Remain sideon the other. would win the debate The BBC consistently invite pro-Brexit After the referendum, the result of thespeakers who can be relied to be very weak. referendum changed nothing for the BBC. It was as if nothing had happened.When there was opinion in favour of leaving the EU featured, editorial leaned heavily In the week the UKs Article 50 letter wastowards characterising opposition to the EU filed (March 29April 4 2017), BBC Radioas xenophobic. 4s Today programme broadcast six editions which contained almost five hours of materialThere has been a tendency to present pro- about the Article 50 letter and its aftermath -withdrawal views almost entirely through the almost half of the available feature airtime.prism of Tory splits. The important stand of left-wing euro scepticism, of which the lateCoverage was strongly biased againstTony Benn, the mentor of Jeremy Corbyn, Brexit and made special efforts to illustratewas an example, is mostly ignored. In 274 the extent to which leaving the EU couldhours of monitored BBC coverage of EU have catastrophic consequences for theissues between 2002 and 2017, only 14 UK.speakers (0.2 per cent of the total) were left-There was, by contrast, only minimal effortwing advocates of leaving the EU. These 14 to examine the potential benefits.contributorsdelivered 1,680 words, addingOne key measure of this overwhelmingup to a derisory 12 minutes. This was out of 274 hours or 16,440 minutes of airtime. negativity was that only eight (6.5%) of the 124 speakers who appeared over the six editions were given the space to make aDespite frequent requests to the BBCs substantive argument that the future for theDirector General and Chairman from a UK outside the EU would yield significantcross-partygroup of MPs worried about benefits.BBC bias on Brexit, the BBC has not broadcast a single programme examining the opportunities of Brexit. Not one.149'