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By johnredwood on January 4, 2026

I usually am excluded from any discussion of the impact of Brexit on the BBC. I was given a rare interview on Friday on Radio 5. It did not of course turn out to be the promised interview to put the case for Brexit. It began with questions about whether I had lost friends over my views on Brexit, not something put to the Remain interviewees about their views. It went on by asking me to say what I thought was good about Remain. As soon as I started to correct the many egregious Remain errors about the post Brexit performance of the UK economy and trade I faced a tirade of the usual misleading and wrong Remain arguments from one of their more articulate performers put up to interrupt me.

The BBC cannot claim balance by giving so little time to well informed Brexit commentators and then treating us in such an absurd partisan way. Why do they want to suppress the official figures about our growth rate, faster than Germany’, Italy and France, and the increase in our trade since Brexit? Why do they refuse to examine why the EU has fallen to just half the US level of GDP per head and has only grown half as fast as the US over the entire last 25 years?

Why do they not use the ONS and EU official figures which show the UK has grown faster than Germany, France and Italy since 2016 and since our exit, showing no negative Brexit effect? Why do they ignore the huge success of our service exports, 56% of our total exports, especially to non EU places?