Wasn’t it an unwelcome surprise to see Gordon Brown return to the BBC after some of us had hoped that the electorate had driven a stake through his heart that would see him banished in perpetuity ? A Biased BBC reader informs
“For two days the BBC treated us to Gordon Brown’s rants about the Sun reporting his son’s illness…reported as if every word revealed a sacred truth distilled from the great mind of this economic genius, the moral titan that bestrides British politics, a fallen hero cruelly treated by a world that he saved from economic ruin.
Except that most commentators believed not only was the angry Brown wrong in his assertions but that his intervention destroyed a developing bipartisan relationship across the parties to deal with the developing media crisis. Finally today someone managed to slip in an off message note of outrage at his hijacking of the occasion.
Anna Soubry, a Conservative, talking here on ‘Week in Westminster’ stated that many people in the Commons were extremely angry over Brown’s rant and that it was a setback to the cross party atmosphere developing. She addes that Brown’s speech was merely the settling of old scores, a rewriting of history and a very, very dark moment. Strangely the BBC didn’t seem to pick that up at all. I wonder why?
” the moral tit that bestrides British politics”
There, fixed that for you. 🙂
Charles Moore seems to think that it was Cameron who actually turned the tide.
The most remarkable thing David Cameron did in his press conference yesterday was to be the first leader to admit that the political parties, including his own, “turn a blind eye” to press wrongdoing because they are desperate for electoral endorsement. By saying what he did, he has broken the spell.
And the BBC is instead using this as a cudgel with which to beat him. Funny, that. If Moore is on the Right, then the opposite must be the Left. The BBC is taking the opposite position, so the BBC is on the Left.