Beeb’s mess
WHAT a sorry mess the BBC has now got itself into.
Nothing sums up its self-inflicted plight more than deciding to last night broadcast MasterChef featuring Gregg Wallace and John Torode.
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After some frantic editing, they stripped the show of all “jokes” — but still managed to put two stars who were sacked in disgrace just two weeks ago on screen 100 times.
Little wonder Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy refused to watch.
Meanwhile, as we report today, the probe into allegations of a toxic culture at BBC Breakfast is set to be widened.
And the furore over the Corporation’s broadcasting of an antisemitic rant by the rapper Bob Vylan continues.
It’s deeply disturbing that Beeb bosses have been unable to convince Ms Nandy the scandal could not be repeated.
From Strictly to Huw Edwards, Auntie lurches from one fiasco to another — with angry viewers fobbed off with that tired old excuse about “lessons being learned”.
This matters because licence-fee payers are forced by law to fund the Corporation — and so have little option but to suck up the mayhem and mismanagement.
For the BBC to survive, it must radically change its culture….from top to bottom.
Sinking plans
LABOUR has unveiled a raft of policies this week aimed at stopping the boats.
Each shallow gimmick has already quickly unravelled.
How can ministers catch the people-smugglers “illegally” advertising crossings on social media given they mostly operate from abroad?
How will prosecutors identify those committing a “criminal offence” by causing overcrowding on the dinghies?
Is it the first person on the boat . . . or should it be the last?
Labour’s one-in-one-out deal with France also looks doomed already as migrants can use human rights laws to fight deportation — while the French have power of veto over any swap.
Certainly, the migrants — who arrived by the boatload again yesterday — aren’t taking any notice.
Kinnock knock
DESPERATE patients trapped on endless NHS lists are increasingly turning to private healthcare to get treatment.
Many are not rich but use hard-earned savings to do so.
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock — on a massive EU pension and no stranger to paying privately himself — now says they should cough up VAT, too.
Why serial loser Kinnock thinks that driving people back on to NHS waiting lists will help a collapsing health system is anybody’s guess.
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