Off me head, son
THE BBC’s chairman admitted what working class viewers have known for years.
That it has been failing to listen to them or make their voices heard.
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Rightly condemning the rampant metropolitan liberal bias behind mistakes in the recent Gaza documentary, Samir Shah says BBC News is still not addressing licence-fee payers’ concerns about immigration.
Shah also wants to create a Line of Duty-style internal affairs unit to tackle the serial problem of powerful male stars like Huw Edwards from abusing their position.
So far, so good.
But the Chairman’s idea of showing LESS football on Match of the Day in favour of more “analysis” is a classic example of the Beeb missing the basic point of what punters want.
And in his solution to how Auntie should be funded in the future, Shah is also missing a sitter.
He dismisses the obvious idea of subscription insisting only a state-backed BBC can invest in screening things of minority or niche interest.
But that’s a myth.
Streamers are now leading the way in drama.
Sky pioneered women’s football when BBC coverage was virtually nil — and turned darts into a multi-million pound industry as BBC support for it collapsed.
Still wedded to a licence fee, Shah wants it collected via your Council Tax claiming it’s fairer and asking: “Why should the poor pay the same for the BBC as people in wealthy homes?”
Which raises this question.
Why should everyone be forced to pay for it at all?
Wave of terror
IT’S hard to think of a more chilling example of why Labour must grip the worsening small boats crisis.
A fanatical Hamas terrorist supporter from Gaza filming himself celebrating after arriving by dinghy.
Gun-toting Abu Wadei has made a mockery of Britain’s wide-open borders.
As the Home Office refuses to comment we must presume he is freely roaming our streets.
Of the 150,000 illegal migrants who have arrived by small boat since 2018, how many others were terrorist sympathisers?
The Government doesn’t have a clue.
Make it work
BRITAIN’S commitment to work was shredded by Covid and replaced instead by a widespread belief that the State should pay for everything.
In her welfare reforms, Rachel Reeves must reverse this and make handouts less attractive than a job.
People who DO work cannot afford to featherbed those that refuse to do so.
That’s not cruel. It’s only right and fair.
