The BBC serves Labour’s political bedfellows perfectly… why would Keir Starmer jeopardise that?
End telly tax
EVEN now BBC bosses seem not to understand that the very principle of the licence fee has had its day.
The objection is not that it is not “progressive” because the poorest pay the same as the richest.
It is that in this age of subscription-based streaming no one should be forced to fund the corporation’s content via a mandatory tax at all.
Especially when its output has become so contemptuous of much of the viewing public and so blatantly politically biased.
The idea hinted at by Director General Tim Davie of demanding the better-off pay yet more would be the last straw.
Many would just bin their BBC services instantly. What then for the £4billion a year the broadcaster pretends it needs?
We are not sure, though, why Mr Davie is bothering with the pantomime of consulting the public on the Beeb’s funding.
If Labour win power, as polls predict, they will leave the licence well alone.
The BBC serves its political bedfellows perfectly. Why would Keir Starmer jeopardise that?
War on woke
CLINCHING evidence of the backlash against wokery.
The vast majority of us oppose statues of controversial historic figures being toppled. Two-thirds in the same poll believe free speech is in peril.
And 57 per cent reject the term “white privilege” as divisive, as it unarguably is. Visit any working-class area, tell the white population they are privileged and see how it goes.
These are concepts on which the Left’s grievance-based politics thrive.
Social justice warriors denigrate all evidence that Britain is MORE tolerant than almost anywhere else and NOT “institutionally racist”, as the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities found in its major report in 2021.
The majority of Brits are liberal on race and sexuality. But they have also had their fill of ten years of divisive, corrosive, hectoring wokery which has mushroomed under successive Tory regimes too cowed to push back.
If a future Labour Government encourages it — and one shadow minister wants “white privilege” taught in schools — the revolt will not be crushed.
It will be ignited.
Idle riches
THE idleness which pandemic lockdowns entrenched in the public sector is scandalous and costing a mind-boggling fortune.
We would be £20billion a year better off if home-working civil servants returned to the office and put in the same shift they did pre-Covid, Rishi Sunak says.
Think what that sum could do. It is vastly greater than any of Labour’s tax-raising plans would generate. But what will this Government do to solve it?
Asking the staff nicely isn’t working . . . any more than they are.