Jez

Worrying about CPFC

[Amphitryon @anti_ideologist]

@DNIGabbard Never forget: COVID came from the lab!

[Lee Patriot Hood @Mofoman360]

Raise your hand if you think Jeremy Clarkson is a absolute legend

Get better soon Jezza ❤️❤️❤️❤️

@ClarksonsFarm1 @JeremyClarkson

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The BBC Has Ruled. Brexit Damaged The Economy. No Further Debate Required.

The BBC's editorial complaints unit has decided that the negative economic impact of Brexit is now a settled fact. Not a contested judgement. Not one side of a live debate. A fact, in the same category as man-made climate change, requiring no balancing view.

The ruling followed a Radio 4 Today programme segment featuring Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, alongside Liam Byrne and Sir John Gieve, both long-standing advocates of closer EU alignment. All three agreed Brexit had damaged growth. The presenter, Katya Adler, did not challenge the premise or introduce a dissenting voice. A complaint followed.

The ECU's response is the revealing part. It acknowledged the segment failed to "acknowledge the alternative case" for pursuing opportunities outside the EU rather than realignment with it. That part of the complaint was upheld. But the central complaint, that three pro-EU voices agreeing with each other on air is not balance, was dismissed. The reasoning given was that this reflected "the consensus among economists" and there was no "significant body of economic opinion" on the other side.

This is worth pausing on. The BBC is not claiming it found balance. It is claiming balance was unnecessary because one side of the argument does not meaningfully exist. The institution that is legally required to be impartial has ruled itself the arbiter of which questions are still open and which are closed, and Brexit has just been moved into the closed file.

The economics itself does not support the certainty on display. The headline figure driving much of this narrative, an 8 per cent hit to GDP since 2016, comes from an NBER paper built on a "synthetic control" model that constructs a hypothetical non-Brexit Britain from a basket of comparator countries. The largest weighting in that basket, over 60 per cent, is the United States, a country currently riding an AI investment boom and a separate fiscal stimulus. The model also weights Estonia and Greece more heavily than France or Germany. On a straightforward per capita basis against France and Germany, the actual comparators, Britain's performance since 2016 sits roughly in line with both. An 8 per cent gap simply isn't visible. This is a model producing a number that then gets reported as "the consensus," which the BBC then cites as the reason no alternative view is required.

That loop, model produces number, number becomes consensus, consensus becomes fact, fact requires no balance, is the mechanism. It does not require a conspiracy. It requires an institution that has decided which conclusions are respectable and which are not, and which then treats its own prior decision as evidence.

The same posture has been on display all week. A government department can decide its diversity targets are lawful without seeking legal advice to check. A police force can decide a book about dismantling "inner white supremacy" is leadership training. A broadcaster can decide an economic question is closed and that deciding so does not breach its own impartiality rules. In each case, the institution marks its own homework, and the mark is always a pass.

None of this requires Brexit to have been a triumph. Britain's economy has genuine problems, most of them unrelated to single market membership. But a state broadcaster, funded by compulsory licence fee under threat of prosecution, has now formally placed one of the most consequential political decisions in modern British history beyond the reach of its own impartiality obligations. Reform's Lee Anderson called it being "blinkered by groupthink." The more precise description is an institution that has stopped being able to tell the difference between its own assumptions and the facts.

"The BBC is not claiming it found balance. It is claiming balance was unnecessary because one side of the argument does not meaningfully exist."

[Crystal Palace F.C. @CPFC]

A moment written into Palace history 🏆

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Well the pattern is now set:

Atrocity
Condemn in weakest terms possible
Calls for calm
Angry scenes
Family of victim used
Full force of the law
New laws limiting everyone's freedom
Ignore problem that caused atrocity

[ALAN 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @GatesheadLad23]

We remember them all ❤️D DAY ❤️#DDAY

[La Marca del Este @LaMarcadelEste]

Quien habla en este fragmento de la mítica serie Hermanos de Sangre no es otro que Richard Winters, que sirviera en la Easy Company, 2nd Battalion del 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,  101st Airborne Division, "Screaming Eagles". Una de las más laureadas unidades militares que combatiera en la Segunda Guerra Mundial contra la tiranía nazi. Al mando de un pelotón, Winters fue lanzado sobre Normandía el 6 de junio de 1944, el día de los días, el Día-D. Conmemorando tal efeméride, que tendrá lugar este fin de semana, mañana mismo, aquí tienen este conmovedor instante. Currahee!!!!

[Jez @eaglejez]

@NFFCLMA @EvilSashPioneer QED. 😄

[Jez @eaglejez]

@NFFCLMA @EvilSashPioneer We know you’re jealous 👍

[Jez @eaglejez]

@NFFCLMA @EvilSashPioneer No one cares about old crap football 😄

[Jez @eaglejez]

@NFFCLMA @EvilSashPioneer Come back when your team can win a trophy 👍

[Jez @eaglejez]

@CPFCHQ Leeds won the league the year before football started tbf 😎

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

British humor, that laugh 😂

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Thinking George Floyd was an issue for UK politics.
Thinking men can have a cervix.
Thinking that you cure a cold by placing the nation under house arrest.
Thinking leaving the EU caused GDP to be 8% lower than it would otherwise be.
Thinking it is British to be diverse.
Thinking windmills can power the country.

People wonder why the country is fucked, but elected cunts who think this is all true.

[Jez @eaglejez]

@NFFCLMA @EvilSashPioneer Ah bless. I think we know that’s not true 😂

[Jez @eaglejez]

@Mark_CPFC @CycloneStormz @Nffc_bailey To be fair we had our first colour tv the year they won the European cup.

[Jez @eaglejez]

@NFFCLMA @EvilSashPioneer You won those trophies decades ago. Bolton fans don’t keep harping on about trophies. The fact is we are ‘similar sized’ non big 6 teams except we’ve had absolute total glory in the last 12m that non of us ever expected and clubs like yours dream of 👍

[UEFA Conference League @Conf_League]

One week ago today, Crystal Palace lifted the UEFA Conference League 🏆

#UECL | @CPFC

[Crystal Palace F.C. @CPFC]

A week ago today we lifted a European trophy 🤩

[Crystal Palace F.C. @CPFC]

Thank you for everything, Oliver Glasner ❤️💙