Labour and the BBC

The BBC love Labour. They can’t get enough of them. Jeremy Paxman. Andrew Marr. Adrian Chiles. All socialists. Nick Robinson political analyst. Loves Labour. You watch any political news story on the BBC. Despite the fact that Labour are in power, the story almost immediately descends into anti-Tory conjecture. Watch Paxman getting all chummy with Ken Livingston whilst scorning and ridiculing Boris Johnson or Teresa May. In short, there is nothing they wouldn’t do to promote the merits of Gordon Brown and thre Labour party whilst undermining every essence of the opposition parties.

Why? It has little to do with politics or a lack of impartiality. It is because they afraid. They are VERY afraid.

There are two things that could happen if the Conservatives get into power. Thing one, is that the central apex of power will be pulled back into Westminster and we could see the first stages in a move to break up the act of union. The United Kingdom as we know it could eventually be broken up to leave an independent England, Scotland and Ireland (Wales is currently a principality, not a country). The very idea of the British Broadcasting Corporation is something that could be redundant within the next decade if things continue to unfold as they have been. Thing two is that the Conservative party would undoubtedly cut the television licence – possibly even scrapping it once and for all. Margaret Thatcher was keen to do this back in the eighties and got as far as to appoint close allies to the BBC Board of Governors, but this fizzled out as her tenure came to a close. They see the licence fee as a bloated, unnecessary item, undemocratic in principle and alien to the concept of fair competition.

But then, Labour have never understood competition, because they do not understand business. I have never understood why, in a modern age where many organisations, large and small, are fighting against costs of entry in order to educate, inform and entertain (precisely the BBC’s mission statement – ha ha ha, don’t make me laugh), that this extremely high fee should go to the BBC. I have been told when I have pushed this point, that it doesn’t simply cover the costs of television, but also the BBC World service and BBC research throughout the globe? Why the hell should it? Do other countries pay us for this? No they don’t, so why should we?

What we have currently is a symbiotic relationship between New Labour and the BBC with the reds happy for the BBC to carry on their pro-Labour message and the BBC happy for their benefactors to remain in power and therefore keep the golden tap of prosperity running. And for what? To rip us all off? To provide crap television? To fail miserably to bid for any worthwhile sporting events, thus allowing a power monopoly to be held by SKY television? Everyone else has to pay their way via advertising – why the hell should the BBC be exempt? If we should pay a licence fee, it should be equally apportioned between all the channels.

It should certainly not be an exclusive, unchallenged subsidy for a left wing, biased division of Gordon Brown’s Spin Machine.

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