There's been quite a lot of water under the bridge since the odious Dorries was culture secretary and allowed allowed to throw this kind of red meat to the rabid right. The pushback followed immediately as it was exactly the kind of stupidity I mean. Do things like this and the Tories are finished.

The Tories are very unlikely to be in power in 2027 and should they pull off a miracle it won't be because they have adopted hard right politics again. Those days are over, hopefully for ever.

You make this sound so simple.

Free speech is to be supported at all costs.

Free speech for celebrities, particularly working for the BBC, is another matter. That has to be limited.

Free speech cannot be and has never been unlimited for anyone. You have made this very argument yourself.

When it comes to illegal immigration. The idea that we can just continue as things are now is insanity.

The majority of people support halting illegal immigration.

The Tories are going hard on this firstly because it is essential, and second because it is a vote winner. This is when democracy actually works.

Meanwhile, the BBC is funded by all of us and cannot be seen to be Left bias, as it surely is.
We can now see who really runs the BBC, and In the light of this, it cannot continue to be law that one has to pay for a service that pushes ideals that they consider to be fundamentally wrong.

If the BBC wants to be funded by law, then it has to get its house in order.

You were doing so well with the highlighted comments. Until the last one!

Free speech cannot be unlimited, and I have said so myself. Using hate speech publicly is rightly illegal. However it must be balanced, and finding the right balance is what is currently under review.

We certainly cannot allow the current level, and methods, of illegal immigration to continue. It is senseless for everyone, except the criminal gangs.

I support the government efforts.

The BBC is funded by all of us by taxation and it's users via the licence. There is though no "left" bias in the BBC. It's position is, and always has been, strictly impartial. What people like you seem to get confused and wound up about is that journalists, as a group, tend to come from a background which has an interest in social justice. They have enquiring minds and a skill with words., so they probe and report.

When a government has been in power for so long it's easy to assume that because they are on the "right" that means that those who observe and question them must be on the "left". The fact though is they will observe and question who-ever is in government. The last Labour government was given a hard time too by the BBC and many on the left complained bitterly about alleged bias. Corbyn too was ridiculed by the BBC at times.

I suggest you wait another 5 years to see how the next Labour government are treated. You might revise your opinion, though somehow I doubt it.

With the BBC board's make-up as it is, with a tory donor chairman under investigation, a prospective tory MP and right leaning members, it makes it easy for the conservative party to bully and cajole them, credit to Lineker & co for making principled and successful stand.

A lax creeping authoritarian right wing system is spreading across the UK in my view.

Is the BBC promoting fascism, a poll of 1024 members of the public 94% say yes.

With the BBC board's make-up as it is, with a tory donor chairman under investigation, a prospective tory MP and right leaning members, it makes it easy for the conservative party to bully and cajole them, credit to Lineker & co for making principled and successful stand.

A lax creeping authoritarian right wing system is spreading across the UK in my view.

Is the BBC promoting fascism, a poll of 1024 members of the public 94% say yes.