England desperately needs regime change.

THIS is what they watch over there, on their government-owned and controlled propaganda service, the BBC.
Come on American neo-cons, England has valuable resources, like oil, gold, lithium, and every other natural commodity you can name. They need "democracy". Invade, and liberate their people from Two-Tier Keir and his Starmtroopers.

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So glad I no longer live there. What an absolute horror show!

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SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

The BBC is publicly funded (through the licence fee) but has an governance structure that is more transparent and independent than practically any other media organisation in the UK. The only direct involvement that government has in the BBC is controlling what can be charged to the licence fee and renewing the Royal Charter. Its output is so far from "government propaganda" that most Tory Culture Secretaries over the past 14 years have advocated (unsuccessfully) for its abolition.

Btw, this person's haircut appears to be AI generated and operating independently of the rest of his face 🤔

Bel6EQUJ5

@SunshineGirl And yet the BBC consistently pushes a particular narrative, an extremely left-wing one. They don't even try to conceal their bias anymore.
Here in Australia we have an equivalent to the BBC; the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), and they're the same.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@Bel6EQUJ5 You said it's a government controlled propaganda service. We have had right of centre to firmly right wing governments for the past 14 years, so clearly it is not controlled very effectively.

In the UK, most of the mainstream TV and printed media is conservative in outlook. The BBC may seem left wing by comparison, but that says more about the general state of the market than any particular bias. It has a charter and a public service ethos. People may think it is "woke" to highlight minority issues, but that is what it exists for . . to fairly reoresent everyone.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

@SunshineGirl That is where the logic falls apart. So true.

Entwistle · 56-60, M

@Bel6EQUJ5 The BBC is 90% a right wing propaganda machine. Hardly left wing at all.

ArtieKat · M

@Entwistle Where do you get that nugget of objectivity from?

Entwistle · 56-60, M

@ArtieKat Experience and understanding.

ArtieKat · M

@Entwistle Excuse me while I snort at your unbelievable (and unempirical) arrogance.

Bel6EQUJ5

@SunshineGirl

We have had right of centre to firmly right wing governments for the past 14 years, so clearly it is not controlled very effectively.

Firmly right-wing? Even Nigel Farage I wouldn't describe as being "firmly right-wing". Rishi Sunak? Going back even further, Margaret Thatcher? Winston Churchill?
I can't recall the last time England had a truly right-wing government. Or a government that actually represented the interests of the people over the large companies that control them. Or a government that was even aware of the major problems that Britain now faces.
Perhaps calling the BBC "left-wing" is a mistake; they're not necessarily left-wing, but establishment, setting people against each other while the corrupt, rich oligarchs laugh at our stupidity.

Entwistle · 56-60, M

@Bel6EQUJ5 Sunak, Churchill,Thatcher,Johnson,May were all right wing Prime Ministers.
Farage is right wing too.

Entwistle · 56-60, M

@Bel6EQUJ5 Setting people against each other whilst the rich watch on laughing. What do you think Brexit was about? Lol.
Exactly that and tax avoidance for the mega wealthy.

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Entwistle · 56-60, M

@Bel6EQUJ5 Their policies were right wing.

Bel6EQUJ5

@Entwistle

Their policies were right wing.

Not even close. If that's "right-wing", then what lies to the left of that? Outright Stalinism? What they have in North Korea right now?

Entwistle · 56-60, M

@Bel6EQUJ5 Name me a left wing policy of those people i mentioned or the Parties they represent?

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@Bel6EQUJ5 (1) Please give a specific example of when the BBC has set "people against each other".
(2) Please give an example of what you consider a "truly right wing government".
(3) If the BBC was consistently undermined and threatened with dissolution by Conservative governments for the past 14 years, it is by definition not "establishment" (or else that term has utterly no meaning).