How the BBC gaslights us yet again and again and again ……

Tuesday-Wednesday blog

Hopefully you’ll have noticed that on virtually every BBC News report about events in Britain, the BBC always ensures that, when supposedly interviewing the general public, they feature people from different ethnicities. The aim is, of course, to brainwash us into believing that we are a diverse, multi-ethnic country.

But yesterday, the BBC seems to have made an exception to their ‘always include people from ethnic minorities’ rule. Why was that? In a report about the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap, the BBC only interviewed a White British woman with three White British children. Was that because the BBC couldn’t find anyone from an ethnic minority who had more than two children? Or was that because the BBC didn’t want to give the impression that families with more than two children mostly came from ethnic minority communities?

Tough question?

Here’s a table of fertility rates (TFR) by ethnicity in the UK:

As you’ll see, the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities have much higher fertility rates than White British. In fact, although White British still make up 79% of the UK population, since 1997, when New Labour seriously weakened a number of key immigration controls, the share of live births to non-UK born mothers has doubled from about 13% to 29%. In London, a majority of births (just under 60%) are now to non-UK born mothers, and such births now approach 80% in the London boroughs of Brent and Newham.

Moreover, although ethnic minorities (soon to be majorities) only account for 21% of the UK population, children from ethnic minorities make up around 40% of all children in primary and secondary schools.

The fertility rate of White British has now fallen to around 1.3 children per female, while the fertility rate of ethnic minorities (soon to be ethnic majorities) remains comfortably above two children per female.

So you can see why Starmer’s UK-loathing government was so keen to scrap the two-child benefits cap. And you can see why the BBC was desperate to avoid interviewing anyone from an ethnic minority (soon to be majority) group in its report. The BBC didn’t want us worthless, ignorant plebs to get the impression that it was mostly ethnic minorities (soon to be majorities) who would benefit from the scrapping of the two-child cap and how quickly White British were becoming a minority in their own country.

I realise this is far from being the most important story at the moment. But I thought it might be worth mentioning because sometimes the BBC’s gaslighting can be quite subtle as I don’t think anyone else has noticed what the BBC did yesterday.