Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The biased and intolerant BBC producers and editors

SURELY THE DAYS of the television licence fee are ending. This multi-billion pound tax-funded corporation cannot continue with such a harvesting of the peoples taxes. The corporation is politically biased and it no longer pretends not to be - the evidence is now overwhelming. It has an inbuilt liberal bias at all levels and in all of its corridors. Those working and running the BBC ignore the fact that over half the country does not share its liberal bias, which is a London phenomenon among engaged upon by the capitals political elites and commentariet which of course includes the BBC.
                    
             Nevertheless, those of us social conservatives, are still made to pay the licence fee and because we are law abiding we do so… if under protest. Last Thursday in my home town of Great Yarmouth, Ukip returned ten councillors and garnered 6,835 votes in the process: if  (and it is a big if) each paid the licence fee, it would bring £994,492 per year to the BBC -  A large part of Jeremy Paxman's salary, in fact.
            
             Yet, during the local election campaign several BBC producers and editors took to their twitter accounts to attack Ukip. First up is Mimi Kempton-Stewart, Political Editor for the Today programme, and one time Guardian student media digital journalist of the year, who tweeted the following comments:
"UKIP are awful, really terrible, I can't wait until this darned election is over so we can all be rid of them on our screens/airwaves!—" 

"Honestly, if every UKIP voter were just to disappear forever or die, the world would be a happier place. That's my view, anyway.— "

"To me the word "UKIP" sounds like a dog being sick. Like their policies! Anyway, I'm off back to work, at my job at the BBC.— 
Mimi Kempton-Stewa"

 "and I didn't say they *should* die, I just said it'd be nice if they did, working for the BBC doesn't mean I can't have views— "

            Can this woman hold onto any position in an institution that professes to be unbiased? And what of those she hoped would like to see us "disappear forever or die"? Are we still expected to have to buy a television licence after such nasty and bias remarks from such biased broadcasting outlet?
            Meanwhile, Jasmine Lawrence, editor of BBC's rolling news, attempted to ambush Ukip's #WhyImVotingUkip on twitter to say she was voting Ukip because the  party stood up for "White, middle class, middle aged men with sexist/racist views[who are] totally underrepresented in politics today." Ms Lawrence, living as she does in the London political bubble, cannot appreciate the irony of her comment "…totally underrepresented in politics today". Her political horizon is very limited indeed; as today's European election results will show. She is also profoundly ignorant in the targeting of her abuse. I am indeed white (which is, it appears, only a problem in parts of multicultural London); I am also a man (yet another fault apparently) and Ms Lawrence's misandry only serves to identify her as the source of much of Ukip's advances in the country.
            I am not middle class, and have no sexist or racist views. Although I would no doubt not fail to meet Ms Lawrence's exacting standards with regard to being either sexist or racist… the imprint of the puritan zealot has always demanded more exacting standards after all.
            Then we have Radio 4's Rosemary Baker tweeting "I am SO sick of hearing Nigel Farage & associated UKIP lunatics on BBCr4today. Absolutely done to death & feels like skewing ed pol" - May 21, 2014. Now it appears I and the many thousands of other Ukip voters are "lunatics". If there is any truth in that, then it would not be because of our views, but because we continue to pay a licence tax and do not refuse to do so.
            Is there any significance in the fact that these troll-like twitters are all written by women? Their behaviour undermines the central tenet of liberalism which is tolerance. Something us Ukip voters are accused daily of lacking. These women live and work in the liberal comfort zones of the BBC and among the London Metropolitan elite.
            Ukip has dared challenge and undermine their liberal certainties among which are the EU, multiculturalism; and the three party liberal axis that operates our national parliament and governs our country. The BBC and the Houses of Parliament are the Two Towers of liberalism radiating their certainties (including their intolerance) throughout the nation - I will not take the analogy any further and describe London as Mordor because it would not be true. It is only in such London areas as Primrose Hill, Notting Hill, Islington, and Hampstead, where the liberal tea party operate; that diminishes a fine city.
            It is not racist to deliver a fact. London is a multicultural city where the indigenous white population have dug up their roots and left. In the first instance to the new towns in Essex constructed from the 1960s onward; and the migration has continued ever since, until the white indigenous London population will, in the coming decade, themselves become an ethnic minority.
            It has always been the case that immigrants have been, from their first arrival in the 1950s, and right through the following generations; have, in the main, always supported the Labour Party; and this support continues, and the influx has replaced the white working class as their main focus of support.
            Tony Blair understood this, which is why he ignored the seven-year breathing space provided by the Schengen Agreement, and allowed Polish migration to begin prematurely in 2008 - although it has been said that he was pussy-whipped by his wife into allowing it because she was a Catholic, as are the majority of Poles; and would therefore increase the Catholic population to the advantage of Rome and disadvantage of the of the Anglican Church[1] - but who any longer cares about that pitiful institution?
THESE BBC personages who use the etiquette and language of trolls in their tweets, have done those of us who have long believed in the reality of political bias at the BBC, a great service in strengthening our position - although it did not need it.
            The licence fee should be abandoned. If this wretched broadcaster is as popular as it professes and it believes itself to be doubly so internationally; then they will have no problem surviving with their own devices in the broadcasting market place. No broadcaster should be dependent on the taxpayer (e.g. the state) for its survival. The state in a democracy has no role to play as far as broadcasting is concerned; it is only a player in a state controlled society, like the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and today in such places as Cuba and throughout many parts of the Muslim world.
IT IS TIME FOR THE BBC to depart, and be weaned from their dependence on the taxpayer; like an addict off cocaine. If they are so convinced by their self-importance that they believe themselves superior to Murdock's Sky and Fox; and see themselves as broadcasting royalty, as it appears they have always done: then the BBC should have no trouble surviving alone in the market place.
            One thing is for sure, this broadcasting institution cannot continue as a publicly financed body. That affectionate and comforting BBC pseudonym "Auntie" that saw the broadcaster, through the 1970s and 80's; was then, and still is, a loveable pastiche. But the love in whatever form, is sinking away. The BBC today is as it has always been ever since Lord Reith began the corporations ascendancy - deeply biased. In Reith's time the establishment bias was Conservative; and the public approved, as in the main they were all small 'c' conservatives, including Labour working class supporters; and believed in traditional values. The same values Reith brought to the BBC were therefore supported by the vast majority of the population.
             The advance since the 1960s of the London centred liberal hegemony, has spelt the ruination of the BBC as far as taxation for its upkeep is concerned. Those of us small 'c' conservatives are no longer supportive of the BBC. We do not subscribe to its liberal agenda and should be given the opportunity to watch television without the need to finance opinions we do not agree with - does this sound like democracy?
            The BBC must go it alone in the free market and find its own niche; thus saving the taxpayer over £3 billion a year. Those who wish to subscribe will be free to do so. But let the rest of us still be allowed to watch a television set without fear of prosecution. To this extent the BBC are no better in their methods than Putin in his.
            The BBC are tax collectors who can send people to prison if they refuse payment. It is true that the government are seeking to disband the ultimate penalty of prison for none payment replacing it with a fine. But what happens if the fine goes unpaid? Does prison still remain an option? If not, what is the purpose of any such penalty?
            It is a cruel irony that such a modern liberal construct as the BBC should rely upon imprisonment as a penalty for the none payment of the licence tax. In fact it contradicts its whole liberal ethos of tolerance. Yet the corporation illiberally pursues those who stop payment of the license fee. You can murder someone and receive 15 years and be paroled after seven or less years; but the none payment of the licence fee can be measured as some kind of a liberal equivalent to the use of the word Nigger as far as the BBC are concerned.
THE BBC is no longer the broad small 'c' conservative church it once was. Its social liberal values are out of step with much of the country; and it is an egregious affront to the majority of us who are forced to pay for its services.
            We are still a small 'c' conservative nation and long may we remain so - but as an institution the BBC is not and has never been since the 1960's; yet they demand, like the fabled Sheriff of Nottingham, their blanket tribute from the people on penalty of imprisonment or the sequestration of private property - which, after all, the Left have never been bothered about.
            It is time for a campaign of none-payment of the licence fee to begin. Many of those who support the BBC believe it cannot continue in its current form. It recruits almost wholly from the pages of Guardian, at almost every level; and serves its agenda. Which would be fine if it operated in the free market. But the BBC has lost its emotional bond with more and more of the British people. It is time for dear old Auntie to euthanised and reincarnated into a privately funded broadcaster.   







[1] Let me say that I have been an atheist for the greater part of my life; so I have no axe to grind. 

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