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Thursday, December 04, 2008 David Vance # NOT DROWNING, JUST SAVING. In all the BBC's extensive coverage of what should prove to be another cut in UK interest rates today, why is the impact this has on those people who SAVE never mentioned? It strikes me that media focus is relentlessly on the plight of those who borrow - often beyond their means - whilst those people who wisely make provision for their future by saving their money are all but forgotten. It's as of saving is a sin whilst borrowing is de rigeur. I'd like to see much more attention paid by the BBC to the plight of savers...but then again, maybe they aren't the right sort of people? Comments: 9 (unread) - Biased BBC Home David Vance # RELATIVELY BIASED. I know we have covered this before but since the government and the BBC keep banging on about "eradicating child poverty" in the UK, when we all know that there is NO child poverty in the UK, it seems appropriate to question why the BBC nevers allow a discussion on the precise nature of "relative poverty" which is a leftist scam. I caught a discussion on the Today programme early this morning on this and whilst the BBC interviewer did explain that in fact what we were discussing is relative poverty, there was no voice to point out the stunning stupidity of the concept in the first place! Gordon Brown may be moving to enshrine the removal of "child poverty"by 2020 in law, this is in fact fantasy politics. My point is that so often the BBC chooses to accept what are left-wing shibboleths as in relative child poverty and then debates around them, rather than allowing debate on their validity in the first place. That's how nonsense such as child poverty becomes part of the political agenda and stays part of it. That's how the child poverty industry prospers.