Jeremy Hunt, the shadow culture secretary, has said that the BBC should recruit more conservative newsreaders.
Of course, the Tories think they will win the next election purely because they deserve to. I can’t see any policies, just the Tories (and other parties), meddling with devolution, and the independence of the BBC.
Ironically, Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw described it as “unacceptable political interference”. That’ll be the same Ben Bradshaw who less than ten days ago was meddling with the BBC himself by campaigning to scrap the BBC Trust, Ben also wants to take your license fee and give it to ITV’s shareholders, and earlier he got involved in the mass media panic over Arlene Philips leaving Strictly Come Dancing.
Neither party can be trusted. even the Liberals have waded into the political attacks of the BBC over the last few years.
Only when the BBC has gone, and we’re watching repeats of good programmes on UK Gold, or new fly-on-the-wall Katie Price ‘documentaries’ on ITV, will we understand how much the UK, and the world, cherish the BBC.
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