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Old 02-01-2017, 11:33   #3618
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Re: Post-Brexit Thread

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THE people of Hull had the very good sense to vote Brexit by a whopping 70 per cent to 30 per cent. No surprise there. It’s the kind of city that Trump identified. Too many LBs (the Left Behinds) with massive youth unemployment, rundown housing and poor opportunities. Remain had done bugger all for Hull.

People in Hull had the good sense to vote Brexit – and that should be cause for celebration rather than for leftie Beeb staffers to tear them down

But 2017 looks a lot different. It’s the City of Culture this year, which will pump £1.5billion into the area, plus the German manufacturing giant Siemens last year built a windfarm plant to serve the North Sea and employed 1,000 people.

So you would have thought that when the Siemens project director, Finbarr Dowling, came on the Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday it would be all upbeat and cheery. Not a word of it. Instead, the poorly prepped presenter, Mishal Husain, spent the majority of the interview trying desperately to catch out Mr Dowling with various questions about the city voting one way and Siemens going the other.

She was desperate to trick Siemens programme director Finbarr Dowling into saying something controversial, though he was having none of it – and it was embarrassing. Having seen the transcript, I reckon well over 70 per cent of the interview was given over to attempting to trap Mr Dowling into saying something controversial about the diversity.

He was a good sight cleverer than Ms Husain (not that difficult) as she tried to make the point that the Hull workforce might have a different view on the EU from the management. Mr Dowling knocked it straight back by saying: “That’s the great thing about democracy.”

Then she asked the ill- researched question on how exports might be affected, only to be told that the 28-tonne turbines were for the UK only.
Dowling is managing a Siemens project which will build wind turbines for the UK – and which could actually create British jobs, contrary to Ms Husain’s line of questioning. Finally she fell flat on her face when she suggested Siemens might not invest further in the UK and Mr Dowling was able to reply that, were they to win orders for train rolling stock, they would build new factories in the UK.

One question on Brexit I can understand, but turning over the whole interview was so wrong and indicates the private voting choice of Ms Husain, her editors or the BBC itself.
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I heard this interview and the shocking bias it revealed. Truely aweful. The BBC should apologise to Mr Dowling and the good people of Hull.
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