ON WESTMINSTER A BBC outrage

IF YOU weren’t convinced that the BBC had abandoned all pretence of being “impartial” before last week’s UK broadcast of Have I Got News For You, then you surely would be afterwards.

I would expect the likes of Jack Dee, Paul Merton and Ian Hislop to indulge in smirking, self-satisfied “satire” — that’s what the show is about, but what happened was anything but.

Joined by Janet Street Porter and Phil Wang (who?), were they lashing out at the politics of the week, spreading their clever-clogs, mutual appreciation wit evenly between the political creeds? Forget it chum. No chance.

This was a programme devoted entirely to the character assassination of retiring PM, Boris Johnson. Any politician in the public eye should expect to be made fun of, but devoting a whole programme to the vicious ridiculing of one individual is unprecedented.

Since when has calling a Prime

Minister a “c**t” (a word I believe is abusive in any circumstance) been classified as “humour”? It can’t.

This whole outrage drove a cart and horses through the broadcasting guidelines of the BBC Charter. It was a disgrace. Now tell me, what have the likes of Dee, Merton and Hislop ever contributed to the advancement of society, beyond ridiculing those who devote their lives to that cause, whatever their politics? Answer? Absolutely nothing!

They are nothing but a bunch of cynical, negative vibe nobodies, who haven’t got a positive thought in their heads. Could they have got UK through Brexit and the Covid pandemic? Not a chance in hell!

If you were lucky enough not to have witnessed this exercise in pure hatred, consider yourself blessed. I still cannot believe it happened. I despair, I really do.