More BBC Pravda moments on the new trains

Rejoice, rejoice a British lead consortium is to build the new trains !! Or so the patriotic announcer of the BBC's World at One announced.

But wait - all the high value work is being done in Japan. The Engineering design and manufacture, just some assembly to be done - at a yet undisclosed marginal constituency location, probably to be announced just before a general election.

So this is the rebalancing of the economy Brown, Balls and co bullshit about.

The British based Engineering firm ( but again foreign owned ) lost out.

Still let me add my congratulations to the Japanese on another manufacturing contract. Selling trains back to the UK, the country that invented them.

The BBC must investigate why it allows such abject political bias to be broadcast. Surely its time some editors were sacked for political bias.

Further This has bothered Iain Dale also, who has posted twice on this here and here and points to the post of LobbyDog who shows that the headline job numbers are highly suspect and the usual Labour spin, the new jobs really being measured in hundreds.

Again we all have to kick ourselves if we believe a single word uttered by the Labour spin and disinformation machine. Don't believe me -see the row about Dolly's CV here ( if you've missed it then you really should have a look ).

Update Looks like the BBC has finally woken up, but of course Labour have had the headlines they wanted.

Also Bob Laxton, Labour MP for Derby North "This is a crass decision which gives the Japanese an opportunity of getting into the UK market. I don't believe for one moment the figure of 12,500 jobs because work will be brought into the United Kingdom from overseas."