The BBC: A Tory Propaganda Mouthpiece That Is No Longer Fit For Purpose

Cards on the table. I know very little about football. 

I know England won the World Cup in 1966, I met Kenny Dalglish in Portugal, and I have spent countless Sunday afternoons looking for something else to do because so-and-so United are playing something-or-another Rovers on the TV. 

But I’m allowed an opinion about football. 

Riddle me this. Why are the BBC okay with Gary Lineker criticising the shameful human rights record of the Qatari government but not so okay with Gary Lineker criticising the shameful human rights record of the British government? 

For many years the argument has raged on as to where the BBC places itself on the Overton window. 

The right-wing insist the BBC is “scum media” - run by the lefty liberal wokerati elite - but if you ask someone on the left how they feel about the BBC they will tell you how the state broadcaster has been sympathetic to Toryism for as long as they can remember. 

So let’s look at the evidence. 

I ask you, why isn’t the Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker allowed to have a view of the Conservative government when the Chairman of the BBC - the former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp - is allowed to donate more than £400,000 to the Conservative Party? 

Mr Sharp has also been a director at the Centre for Policy Studies - a right-wing think tank that accuses the BBC of having a left-wing bias - for the last 22 years. 

The BBC’s sacrificing of Gary Lineker on the issue of political impartiality must surely pave the way for the departure of chairman Sharp, or should we just forget how he facilitated an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson, just before Downing Street appointed him chairman? 

But the revolving door between Conservative party headquarters and the BBC doesn't just begin and end with Richard Sharp. 

The current Director General of the BBC is a man named Tim Davie. 

Davie stood as a councillor for the Conservative Party in Hammersmith in 1993 and 1994 and he was deputy chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative party during the 1990s. 

So why is it acceptable for the Director General of the BBC - a man that began his lucrative job on a mission to tackle “left-wing” BBC comedy for being too one-sided - to have this blatantly blue Tory blood running through his veins, but not so acceptable for the crisp salesman to tweet his views on the current government? 

The hypocrisy of the Conservative party propaganda mouthpiece is utterly staggering. Why is the BBC’s rule of impartiality only relevant when the mistreatment of humans is up for discussion? 

Will I wake up on Monday morning to find the BBC telling the testicle-faced Alan Sugar, “you’re fired”, following his attacks on Jeremy Corbyn and RMT Secretary General Mick Lynch? Of course not, because he is a gnarly right-wing Brillo bonce with the charm of an ingrown toenail. 

My only concern with the furore surrounding Gary Lineker is the distraction it causes from the issue in hand, and that is the criminal lack of safe routes available for refugees attempting to cross the English Channel. 

Should the main news be about a tweet from a TV presenter or Suella Braverman’s vomit-inducing plans? 

But, at least for now, it would appear Lineker’s celebrity status away from the political bubble has only served to highlight the Tory government’s shamefully inflammatory and divisive language towards refugees. 

I haven’t ranted my way through this with the intention of defending the multi-millionaire Lineker. I agree with his comments, I don’t believe he said anything factually incorrect.

I have defended Mr Lineker in the past when the toxic S*n tabloid went for him, and I have publicly disagreed with Lineker in the past following his ill-informed “Bin Corbyn” comments. 

But on this particular issue we are as one, because humanity comes before Mr Lineker’s opinion of Mr Corbyn, and certainly comes before Lineker being publicly harassed to undo a retweet of one of my tweets by some z-list actress that is mates with the Countdown smearer bint, which I still find ridiculous and hilarious to this day. 

The Jewish Chronicle even managed to squeeze a news article out of it on what must have been a very slow news day at the barely-read JC. 

The BBC will always support the government of the day, and we haven’t seen a genuinely left-wing government for as long as I have been alive, so however you look at it, the BBC supports a right-wing agenda to the benefit of the status quo. 

What more do people need to see before they realise the BBC will beat the drum of Conservatism because the Corporation is literally headed up by hand-picked Conservatives? 

Take this business with the BBC pulling an episode of David Attenborough’s new series on British wildlife.

The BBC have cancelled David Attenborough because of fears the theme of the show - the destruction of nature - would trigger a load of angry Tory MPs and spark a huge backlash from the billionaire-owned right-wing media. 

Seriously, who gives a fuck what these angry red-faced, climate change denying, wildlife murdering Tory shitehawks that live in the deep pockets of the global polluters have to say about David Attenborough’s new series? 

How dare the BBC tell you, their funders, that you cannot watch a nature programme because the Tories might get hurty feelings. Just how far down the rabbit hole are you willing to go before you realise we are heading towards Pyongyang standards of impartiality?

All the BBC has achieved with its catastrophic handling of the Lineker situation and the Attenborough show is to highlight how the state broadcaster is merely a propaganda mouthpiece for one of the most unpopular Conservative governments in living memory. 

I didn’t watch the 20 minute Match Of The Day last night, I think the last time I saw it would’ve been in the 1980’s when we had another divisive and hateful Tory government. 

But I would like to thank the BBC for baring their backside to the masses and confirming what so many of us already knew. 

The BBC is a mouthpiece for right-wing propaganda, and it is no longer fit for purpose. 

The opportunity to reform the Corporation to the benefit of its viewers and listeners has been and gone, and whatever happens in the coming years they will remain a key part of propagating the establishment narrative. 

Find your news elsewhere. 

Until next time, 

Rachael 

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