Here is an antidote to some of the propaganda the government is issuing to the effect that Gordon Brown has led the world out of recession and handled the banking crisis beautfully and generally is the sort of superb manager of the economy you would want in a crisis.

The BBC, unfortunately, continues to buy into a lot of the government's line. Yesterday John Pienaar on Radio 5 Live was quite outrageous in suggesting that after Gordon Brown leaves office he will at least be remembered for dealing well with the banking crisis. This was outright BBC bias. It showed either that John Pienaar is unaware of the many economists who regard Gordon Brown's changes to banking regulations as one of the causes of the crisis and those who think the government failed to deal with the crisis - as it should have done - effectively behind closed doors as previous governments had done. This meant the crisis was far more public causing the runs on the banks.

Either John Pienaar is unaware of these viewpoints - which would be negligent - or else he just allows his pro-Labour bias free rein, which is in breach of the rules governing the BBC.

Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Politics

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