Has the BBC used Countryfile to bash Brexit?

I HAD to turn off the last edition of Countryfile. Sadly, the BBC, once at the forefront of unbiased, level-headed reporting, has decided to politicise what should be a relaxing family programme. BBC journalists and management appear to be unable to come to terms with the principle of a democratic majority vote and instead prefer to promote their own views. Is this really the job of a publicly funded broadcaster?

G. R. SMITH, Malvern, Worcs. It’S said that Countryfile is biased, but to me it has been dealing with a subject that’s legitimate to air on such a programme. We demand cheap food, which means you have to find cheap labour. How is our food to be produced once we leave the eU and it becomes harder to recruit such labour?

TED SHEPHERD, Windsor, Berks.

I NEVER thought the BBC would stoop so low as to use Countryfile as a propaganda tool against Brexit. But there was the storyteller, Tom Heap, sitting by a roaring fire reading what appeared to be a ‘once upon a time’ story. He pontificated that the £3 billion Brussels so magnanimously gives to the UK agricultural industry will no longer be the pot of gold our farmers have come to rely on. Where did he get that tosh from? The £3 billion he refers to is part of the net contribution we British taxpayers hand over to the greedy Brussels Commission. Our Government has pledged to support industries such as agriculture in making the transition from an over-reliance on hand-outs from Brussels.

ALLAN MULHOLLAND, Balby, Yorks. I See the BBC was continuing its anti-Brexit campaign through last Sunday’s Countryfile programme. GRAHAM WATSON, Upminster, Essex.