There was an interesting article over at the Guido Fawkes site recently about how a group of Tory MP’s, mostly from the new 2019 intake, have written a letter to the new BBC Director General expressing their displeasure at the increasing anti-British and left wing bias of the BBC. I have little problem with the text of the letter, which can be read in full on Guido’s site, as it merely outlines many of the problems with the BBC that have been expressed by myself and others elsewhere. The BBC has indeed become increasingly ‘woketarded’ in recent years and it has strayed into areas that are not classifiable as honest reporting but instead as propaganda.
Today brought me another example of the BBC pushing propaganda disguised as discussion in the form of a Radio Five piece decrying the low price of food. The BBC was giving free reign to left wing / Green extremist activists to call for higher food prices as a means of ‘protecting the environment’. I don’t know about you but I see lower food prices as an advantage not a disadvantage. The only people who could possibly think that higher food prices are a good thing are those whose income is secure and significant and can afford to pay high prices for food.
As I said I have no problem with the content of the letter sent by MP’s to the BBC. Where I do have an issue is how the BBC will respond. Whilst I am glad to see MP’s doing their job and standing up for the public against the metro-left monolith that the BBC has become, I doubt very much that it will achieve anything. The BBC has become so self confident that it sees itself as being indestructible and no amount of criticism from the public or from groups opposed to the BBC’s left wing agenda seem to have any effect.
I fear that this letter, good as it is, will be tossed into the round floor mounted filing cabinet along with all the other valid criticisms of the BBC. The only way to properly tackle the BBC and its bias is for the central government to do it. Sadly, I have little confidence that Boris Johnson’s weak and vacillating administration, overly influenced by left wingers already, will take the necessary big steps to turn the BBC from the socialist proselytiser that it has become, into a genuinely impartial and fair national broadcaster. There are private members bills being proposed in Parliament that would remove the criminal element of refusing to buy a TV licence but they could suffer the fate of other private members bills and either run out of time or die from lack of governing party support.
The letter along with the private members bills are a good start in the fight to get the BBC to be honest and fair and provide a genuine public service but there is much much more to do to bring this about. The time has come for BBC reform. Never until now have I encountered so many ordinary people willing to moan about the appalling bias of the BBC and the organisation’s failure to represent all Britons and it is up to the Government to make this reform happen. If the Government does not support BBC reform and a removal of the woke culture that dominates the BBC, then it will be yet another failure to add to the list of this government’s failures come the next general election.
