I’ve discovered who’s secretly controlling us... EastEnders!

IF YOU want to change someone’s mind, don’t bother arguing with him. Get control of a major TV or radio soap opera and you are halfway there. I would love to infiltrate the scriptwriters of Coronation Street and insert a storyline about a bright young teenager who starts smoking cannabis and ends up hopelessly mentally ill, stuck on a locked ward as his weeping parents wonder why nobody did anything to enforce the drug laws.

Or EastEnders might feature the misery and disappointment of a bright child from a poor home, who was bullied and neglected in a vast state comprehensive and so had her hopes ruined by egalitarian dogma.

Or the BBC Radio 4 series, The Archers, might tell the story of an innocent couple targeted by social workers claiming falsely that they had abused their child, and snatching that child away forever in secret and deeply unfair court hearings.

All these things happen in real life. But, of course, the broadcasting organisations, being in the hands of the Left, would not do this.

They are too busy re-educating us into right-on citizenship of our new people’s republic, with lesbian kisses to approve of, incest to be understanding about, a maleto-female transsexual (played by a real woman) and other heroes and heroines of Left-wing mythology to admire.

ONE recent drama, for instance, managed to make a sympathetic heroine out of an asylum seeker who broke the laws against taking paid work. The Archers is currently harrowing its listeners with a heavy-handed melodrama about a bullied woman who eventually stabs her overbearing husband. I am not a regular listener, but as far as I could see she could have avoided the whole episode by leaving home before he got back from work. Yet the scriptwriters plainly want us to sympathise with the stabber.

It’s no use saying it’s just fiction. These dramas have a huge influence on national thought. Thousands of people actually mix up their own schooldays with the plots of the ill-disciplined fictional comprehensive school Grange Hill, whose pupils were saturated in modern progressive thought. Back in 1998, when a non-existent Deirdre Rachid was sent to a non-existent prison in Coronation Street, the real Prime Minister and the real Leader of the Opposition vied with each other to call for her release.

If I had managed to work my way into the world of TV or radio soap opera, I might actually have got somewhere with all the causes I have failed to advance in years of public debate. How is it that this amazingly influential sector of broadcasting is not in any way covered by the rules on impartiality? Isn’t it time we took it as seriously as it deserves to be taken?