For the benefit of akenaton, another Beeb-basher who never checks his facts, I repeat part of a post of mine in this thread from 20 October.


"Ah yes, Nigel. As soon as the going gets tough, have a bash at the good old Beeb. I'm sure that Barnier and Juncker hang on Laura K's every word. Perhaps you would like her replaced by a Tory sycophant. Pity you can't have Jezza Paxo back. All those years at the helm, then we find out that he was a Tory all along. Tsk. Or you could try Andrew Neil, who worked for the Conservatives in his youth and was once the chairman of the Federation of Conservative students, not to speak of his dalliances with those raving Marxists, Murdoch and the Barclay brothers - or how about Nick Robinson, once chairman of the Young Conservatives, or even his former editor Robbie Gibb who used to work for Francis Maude as his chief of staff. Or how about that nice Tory Chris Patten, former chairman of the BBC trust. Or the charming Kamal Ahmed, filched from his post as executive business editor of those rabid leftie papers the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. Flippin' reds under the beds everywhere at the Beeb, eh!"