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Clarkson Mocks the Idea That the BBC Is Tory

by Nick Dixon
19 March 2023 3:00 PM

Jeremy Clarkson has poured scorn, as only he can, on the ridiculous idea that the BBC is a Tory stronghold. Here’s an excerpt from his piece in the Sunday Times.

Many angry, red-faced people have pointed out that the present Chairman of the BBC is a Tory party donor and that Tim Davie, the Director-General, once stood as a Conservative candidate in the local council elections in Hammersmith & Fulham. The message, then, is clear. At the very top, the Beeb is a festering maggot pit run by the bastard love children of Margaret Thatcher and Gordon Gekko.

That’s why Gary Lineker was temporarily stood down — not because he’d broken some weird impartiality clause in his contract but because he’d dared to challenge this Government’s tireless resolve to treat immigration as if it’s basically a big game of snakes and ladders, and bounce everyone who lands on a beach in Kent straight off to Rwanda. “You can’t work for the BBC with views like that, Big Ears, so bugger off.”

Then there was Fiona Bruce. When someone on Question Time suggested that Stanley Johnson was a wife-beater, she interrupted to say that his friends had said he’d only done it once. Now, we all know she did this because she was legally required to do so. But, according to the mob, the ghost of Keith Joseph was transmitting his thoughts into her earpiece from the BBC’s throne room.

The mob, however, is wrong. Yes, at this precise moment of history it’s possible that the two people at the top of the BBC might at some point in their past have voted Conservative, but what about everyone else? All the other 22,000 people involved in running this broadcasting giant? The army that creates and writes and presents all the shows it produces? Well, I worked at the BBC for more than 25 years, and I can tell you that almost everyone I met was redder than the end of a dog’s lipstick.

I was once told when visiting the Simon Mayo show that I would have to leave my copy of the Spectator outside as “extremist material” was not allowed in the Radio 5 Live offices. And then, while I was waiting to go on The One Show, a producer said that I had to agree with the public sector strikes that were happening that day or it would be “awkward”.

I know someone who was told to take down his Union Jack because it was “offensive”, and I was asked to remove my poster of Mrs Thatcher because it was upsetting people who walked past. I did, and replaced it with a picture of Kate and Wills, which somehow made them even angrier.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: BBCConservative PartyGary LinekerJeremy ClarksonLeft-wingLicence Fee

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Monro
Monro
2 years ago

The key problem with the BBC is that most of its programmes are something beginning with S.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

I don’t know what to say. Is this piece really worthy of occupying space on DS?

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Yep, it’s a slow news day in the DS house. Nick Dixon doing more and more articles I’m noticing, including the Round-Up. Toby and Will writing less. Perhaps it’s Nick who doesn’t feel writing an article on Andrew Bridgen is worthwhile but superficial kack about Clarkson and misogynist-inspired greetings cards tick all the boxes…? Oh well, something for everyone. 😮

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Steven Robinson
Steven Robinson
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Nick Dixon is on duty over the weekend, shortly to be replaced by someone yet to be appointed. I agree Andrew Bridgen deserves coverage. He spoke in Parliament on the vaccines last Friday. A few hours later YouTube took the video of his speech down, but after protest it was reinstated. As soon as he got up to speak, several MPs walked out, leaving the chamber as empty as when he spoke last year – only 5 stopped to listen to him.

Last edited 2 years ago by Steven Robinson
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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Steven Robinson

Yep, I know. I believe I was the first to break the story on here that very evening, under the Oxfam article. We’re ahead of you lot on here on that one. 🙂

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Smudger
Smudger
2 years ago
Reply to  Steven Robinson

Wasn’t it the Tory MP Andrew Mitchell (West Berks) who was seen chivvying both Tory and Labour MPs to leave?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

This is much more worthy as a news item:

https://www.technocracy.news/climate-change-flip-flop-bank-of-england-drops-it-biden-drills-for-big-oil/

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

And also….so this is the white haired rat, encouraging others to slink off in Parliament as AB started his speech. Interesting…

https://twitter.com/JohnMappin/status/1637216977159593984

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I used to have a touch of sympathy for Mitchell. Used to. He’s now just a bog standard traitor.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Just in case anyone is wondering what on Earth his new role as ‘polio eradication gender champion’ entails, perhaps this word salad may help.

“…The Gender Champion for Polio Eradication is a concrete effort to build off of the current movement by high-level, national and international gender champions and to highlight the role of gender in achieving polio eradication, by committing to the GPEI Gender Equality Strategy and supporting its full implementation.”

One could – mistakenly – assume he was a very health-conscious person, very much concerned about the health of the nation. However, seeing him not only walking out of the Chamber but encouraging spineless other MPs to do so, to avoid listening to AB speech, seems to belie that notion.

https://polioeradication.org/gender-and-polio/polio-gender-champions/

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Smudger
Smudger
2 years ago
Reply to  ellie-em

Does his mate Gates fund polio eradication?
Follow the money as always.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

Tory, Labour – what’s the difference? All left wing, like the BBC.

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RW
RW
2 years ago

The BBC isn’t being beaten up about this because anybody in his right mind seriously believes it wouldn’t stand on what like to call itself the right side of history (a Marxist core concept, by the way) but because it hasn’t been fighting the good fight rabidly enough. Reportedly, they had a hearing about this. And that’s clearly not impartial enough as it created the impression that it might be ok to believe that the present UK government isn’t being run by card-carrying Nazis and it absolutely isn’t.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

Speaking of superficiality, here’s a bit more, just this time with a dose of humour. Actually it was the classic ( and oh so topical ) Monty Python sketch that did it for me! 🙂

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/sunday-strip-symbolic-of-his-struggle

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Brilliant. Thanks Mogs.

Monty Python sadly prophetic.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Between the Goons, the Pythons and Douglas Adams there is precious little that has not turned out exactly as they prophesied.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

Not forgetting Ronnie Barkers sketch, the Ministry of Sexual Equality.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

😂 😂 Love Monty Python.

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varmint
varmint
2 years ago

Trump is BAD but Obama is GOOD. Israel is BAD but Palestine is GOOD. ——Can any Daily Sceptic reader think of any other organisation in the UK where everyone of it’s employees is an EU supporter, a Trump Hater (like Lineker) and are immersed in the cult of “diversity”? —-In most places of work you will find some people vote Tory, some vote Labour or SNP, some don’t vote at all. Some think global warming is a load of old cobblers and some think the end of the world is nigh. Some want to be in the EU and some don’t.———– In no place of work will you find the groupthink that exists at the BBC. Yet all of us, no matter our world view are having to fund this Cultural Marxist propaganda machine.

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