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BBC Caught Pushing Extreme Open Borders Propaganda To Kids

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by Tyler Durden
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Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity,

The BBC has been forced to strip large sections of its Bitesize education website after an investigation revealed it was feeding extreme left-wing views on mass migration and Net Zero to 1.7 million schoolchildren every week.

The platform, recommended by nearly every state school in the UK and used by almost half of all children aged four to 16, treated open borders as a high-scoring policy choice and labelled concerns that migrants take jobs from locals as "prejudice."

Material began disappearing early last week after senior bosses ordered a review, replaced by a bland message that the content was "currently under review" to stay "up to date and in line with the curriculum."

A page that praised progressive political icons including climate activist Greta Thunberg was also removed. Shadow Education Secretary Laura Trott wrote to BBC director-general Matt Brittin demanding the removal or suspension of any material that failed the corporation's own impartiality standards.

The core problem was a geography game called Increasing Immigration, aimed at 11-to-14-year-olds as part of a wider "Planet Planners" series. It opened with the claim that Britain does not have enough working-age people to keep society running and should attract migrant workers.

Pupils who chose open borders gained three economy points and two public-health points. Those who granted amnesty to "a few" people living without visas received two points in each category and were told "this will make them very happy."

Choosing deportation cost points and triggered the warning that it "can be potentially dangerous for them. Don't expect this to be unchallenged!" Rejecting open borders as "too radical" scored nothing.

Trott said the BBC had "crossed a line" by using learning tools "as a vehicle to push a Left-wing political agenda onto young children." She added that "advocating open borders encourages illegal small boat crossings" and that such "toxic resources dressed up as education" should be "nowhere near the classroom."

In her letter she wrote that materials which "appear to reward children for adopting political positions on contested issues" cannot be reconciled with the BBC's impartiality obligation, and that the game "allows children to think it is acceptable for vile illegal boat crossings to take place."

Other Bitesize material claimed migrants contribute more in tax than they use in services and pump a "staggering amount of money" into the economy.

Concerns about pressure on jobs were dismissed as likely to stem from prejudice. Pupils were encouraged to join leftist causes such as Amnesty International and campaign for Net Zero, described as an "important goal," with suggestions they petition local government and consider flying less or eating less meat.

This is the same pattern we've documented for months. Earlier exposés showed Soros-linked campaigners given direct access to shape a BBC children's show so it would "tap into children's media and directly impact framing of migration," and activist groups steering other BBC programming toward sympathetic migrant storylines.

The same machinery operates inside schools themselves. We have covered materials that train pupils to treat critics of mass migration as Nazis, government video games that warn children they are terrorists for questioning it, books that insist there is "plenty of room" for small-boat arrivals, and Green Party plans to push similar lines into the curriculum.

Former BBC television controller Danny Cohen called the Bitesize breaches "blatant" and said it was "no surprise the BBC has removed this material, even more so given it was targeted at children."

He demanded a transparent explanation to licence-fee payers of why it was allowed and what will stop it being repeated, describing it as "further evidence of ongoing failures of impartiality at the BBC where leaders continue to bury their heads in the sand."

Former Education Secretary Gavin Williamson described the episode as the mask slipping on the BBC's "rampant Left-wing political agenda" and compared the homework game to "something from a North Korean re-education camp."

Shadow Cabinet Office Secretary Alex Burghart noted that the BBC was set up "to inform, educate and entertain - not misinform, re-educate and brainwash."

A BBC spokesman said the corporation recognises the trust parents and teachers place in Bitesize, that all content must comply with editorial guidelines, and that the examples are under review. The corporation has insisted points were also available for training local people or closing borders, but that defence has not stopped the material being pulled.

This is not an isolated classroom resource. It is the educational arm of a broader effort that has already reshaped children's television and school materials. Licence-fee payers are funding the production of content that scores children for supporting policies their parents oppose at the ballot box, then quietly removes the evidence once it is exposed.

The review now under way will mean little unless the same scrutiny is applied to every other game, guide and programme that treats contested political positions as settled fact for the next generation.

Parents who want their children taught facts rather than scored for political compliance now have another clear example of why the corporation's impartiality claims collapse the moment they are tested against the material it actually puts in front of pupils.

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