BBC has to ditch its Leftie dogma
IF BBC chairman Samir Shah thinks this has been a bad week then, in the words of the old saying, he ain’t seen nothing yet.
Donald Trump made it clear in a TV interview that he intends to turn the screw on the Corporation with a lawsuit seeking damages of up to $5billion.
The fake news editing of his speech led to the resignation of Director General Tim Davie and news boss Deborah Turness. But ominously, the US President suggested his litigation would try to establish if the BBC had ever doctored other political broadcasts.
Whatever the merits of the legal case, this scandal will tarnish Britain’s national broadcaster for years to come.
Mr Trump says it has already caused acute embarrassment for PM Sir Keir Starmer.
And it raises the prospect of licence payers forking out for the corporation’s incompetence.
Far from acknowledging this, those close to the BBC still cling to their absurd mantra that this deceitful editing was exposed as part of some right-wing plot.
Yesterday Tim Davie’s predecessor as Director General, Lord Hall, said it was vital to stop political appointments to the BBC board — a pop at former Tory Sir Robbie Gibb.
If he is against political appointments why didn’t Lord Hall do anything to stop the liberal groupthink that infected the entire corporation?
For years left-wing staff have championed a slavish devotion to diversity which has distorted BBC News. It led to twisted reports on everything from trans rights and Gaza to immigration and Brexit.
Until this is grasped by those in government and at the top of the BBC the corporation will never move on from one of its most shameful episodes.
What about workers?
SPARE a thought for hard-working Caroline and Lee Jones and millions of couples like them.
They are parents to four-year-old Henry and would like another child.
But even though Caroline juggles three jobs and Lee is an accounts manager, under Labour’s high-tax economy they simply can’t afford it.
Now Rachel Reeves will put up their taxes again so people on welfare who already have two kids can have more.
The barmy decision to scrap the two-child benefit cap will cost £3.5billion and taxpayers struggling to feed their own families will pick up the bill.
Nobody wants child poverty.
But we already spend £300billion a year on welfare.
If that splurge can’t solve it something is going very wrong indeed.
