THE SNP’s Joanna Cherry has hit out at the BBC’s coverage of the European Court of Justice's ruling on Article 50.
She took aim specifically at the composition of the panel as a whole before turning her attention to Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns.
Shame #politicslive didn’t invite any of the #ScottishCase petitioners or even someone with rudimentary legal knowledge on to correct Andrea Jenkin’s misinformed nonsense but #bbc shown curious lack of interest or understanding of this case #Brexit #art50 https://t.co/Z4b1igGMPz
— Joanna Cherry QC MP (@joannaccherry) December 11, 2018
“Shame #politicslive didn’t invite any of the #ScottishCase petitioners or even someone with rudimentary legal knowledge on to correct Andrea Jenkin’s [sic] misinformed nonsense but #bbc shown curious lack of interest or understanding of this case #Brexit #art50,” tweeted Cherry.
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A clip of Jenkyns was uploaded via the BBC’s Twitter feed.
In it, the MP MP for Morley and Outwood said: “I want to see the backstop binned, I want to see no more political meddling of the ECJ,
"I mean their behaviour yesterday regarding Article 50 was appalling really – they can take months if not years to pass through legislation, so it shows that they’re political meddling. And I want to, you know, not give them the £39 billion, we should have used that as a bargaining chip.
“And I completely agree with [journalist] Quentin [Letts], this vote should have gone through yesterday because if anything it would have given the EU a bloody nose and showed them that we will not accept this deal – this is a deal on EU terms, it’s not a deal on Britain’s terms."
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