All in the name of progressive politics

THE PLAYWRIGHT, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti,  has had her work censored by the BBC’s liberalarte. Ms Bhatti wrote a play for the BBC’s Afternoon Drama slot. The play depicts the story of a 16-year-old Asian girl who died as  the victim of  an honour killing. The BBC took exception to the following lines from one of the play’s characters “There is so much pressure in our community, to look right and to behave right.” Harmless enough one would think; but not if you are part of the diversity police, who are oversensitive to the needs of minorities.

            A Radio Four spokesperson is quoted as saying; “This is a hard-hitting drama about the realities of honour killing in Britain.

“A single line in the script could be taken to infer that the pressure and motivation to commit such a crime in a family comes from the wider Muslim community, potentially misrepresenting majority British Muslim attitudes to honour killing.

“Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti was asked to amend this line in the normal editorial process of script development.”

            One would like to feel enraged by such an act of censorship, but the only emotional response is that of pity; pity for the frightened and timid liberal faculty at the BBC. They fear to be ill-thought of by any minority community in their multicultural Utopia, which, by the way, 90% of the indigenous population outside of London, have little time for.

BROUGHT UP ON tales of the vileness that was the British Empire; these liberalarte are like cringing apologists; who will go to any length to keep the minority communities happy. Ms Bhatti’s play causes the Heap-like expurgators at the BBC to feel themselves treading on eggshells (to their way of thinking) by including the brief reference to the “ … pressure in our community”.

            Some may think Ms Bhatti’s response to what they consider this minor “flaw”, as the BBC no doubt sees it, is an overreaction. But it is not and Ms Bhatti is right to bring the BBC to account. Where are the gilded leftist playwrights like  Trevor Griffiths and David Hare, or (for a while the Left’s favourite) Ben Elton? Why are they not rallying to Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s defence as true believers in the freedom of the written word? A contribution from either Trevor Griffiths or David Hare would cause a rethink among their leftist brethren at the BBC.

            The liberals want to be loved by Britains colonial citizens and will forsake all of their principles to be appreciated. They will go to whatever lengths to appease all minorities; but especially those who were what they consider to have been the “victims” of British colonialism. It is a sad reflection upon this country’s present state that it feels the need to apologise to what was once the  Empire for what we were supposed to have done to them; like building railways and cultivating a workable civil service in India; as well as creating the colonial architecture that even today in India, attracts the snobbish Indian ruling class…and this same imperial methodology applies to all parts of the British Empire.

 GURPREET KAUR BHATTI  is a playwright who challenges aspects of the culture from which she came. She is a liberal herself who sees what is happening within her own culture within the UK, as something not to be tolerated. If, after all, she can express herself, then why not make sure that all Asian women can do the same without having to kow-tow to the medieval aspects of their own culture, which the BBC seems all to prepared to do.

            This is the reprehensible nature of the BBC’s stance. The BBC is in a state of frozen fear when it comes to upsetting any of this countries minorities. They behave like Soviet censors protecting the true faith, which was communism, and to the BBC, multiculturalism.

            No doubt Ms Bhatti was given the green light by the BBC to write her drama. She no doubt exemplified, but latter disappointed the BBC’s approach to minority drama. She never followed the BBC rule book on multiculturalism and diversity.

            The BBC is financed by the “licence fee”. A “licence fee” that is to all intent and purposes a tax. It is obligatory and is paid on threat of imprisonment. Those who administrate this organisation as well as those who produce and direct its entertainment are liberalarte to the very marrow. Does this not sound more like a totalitarian institution than what is supposed to be, a liberal one?

PERHAPS MS BHATTI,  being a liberal herself, felt that her work would be welcomed. But the British liberal is sensitive to its country’s imperial past. A past which they feel brought only exploitation, cruelty and suffering to the colonial peoples. So Ms Bhatti’s play became a minor sacrifice in the great liberal scheme of things.

            I find it almost abhorrent that the BBC should be acting like the Soviet KGB; not to protect communism but multiculturalism. Multiculturalism has impregnated, virus like, the BBC, and it governs all programming, but especially drama: and Ms Bhatti is paying the price. The BBC thought they were on to a good thing when they commissioned Ms Bhatti. She fitted their own multicultural cv. But, apparently, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti had overstepped the mark once before and which, it seems, had led to the BBC’s latest censorship.

The overstepping occurred earlier when Ms Bhatti wrote a play performed at a Birmingham theatre which faced protests from the Sikh community. This proved enough to cause the BBC to shudder yet again and retreat once more into their multicultural shell.

The BBC will always take the safest root when it comes to upsetting minorities; despite the majority of its income coming from the indigenous population; the vast majority of  whom take a rather dim view of multiculturalism…but hey! The BBC liberal community has £3 billion to spend each year; so what does it matter if two thirds of this is paid to them by people who resent their liberal agenda. Us “bigots” may be the great unwashed, but they still take our money.