Harrabin Forced To Retract Latest BBC Lie

August 13, 2018

By Paul Homewood

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/mps-criticise-government-clean-energy-policies/

Readers may recall this BBC report from Roger Harrabin in May, which falsely stated that there was a ban on new onshore wind farms.

This is an outright lie, promulgated by the renewable lobby and often repeated by the likes of Jillian Ambrose.

I filed an official complaint with the BBC, along with one of our regular readers. Weeks went by without a response, other than a “sorry for the delay” message. Eventually they fobbed me off with an amendment of the article to read “effective ban”, at which stage I lost the will to live!

Fortunately the other complainant refused to accept this and pressed for a full retraction. He has now received this reply:

The article now contains this Correction:

Of course, we still have the same old problem – nobody will now read this correction, so the misleading message will have gained traction.

Nevertheless this ought to be a matter of great embarrassment to Harrabin, who at least won’t publish the same lie again.

Which leaves the question, why did he make the claim in the first place. Surely he knew the true facts all along?