Want to stop BBC bias? Cut the licence fee

I am not surprised that No 10 was angry about the BBC’s bias in its reporting of the Budget, as you revealed last week.

What does surprise me is that it has taken the team there so long to realise that the BBC is so unbalanced in its views.

Don’t they listen to the daily programmes that drip-feed Left-wing thinking?

I think it is time to hit the BBC where it hurts most – in the pocket. Not having all that licencefee money might knock them into a more neutral place. Mick Ferrie, Mawnan Smith, Cornwall I’m regularly reduced to switching off Question Time and similar BBC programmes with their predominantly Left-wing guest panellists heckling a lone Conservative MP, and audiences packed with socialists and public-sector employees.

There’s nothing wrong with newspapers and TV channels pandering to their customers, but not a national broadcaster funded by a compulsory licence-fee ‘tax’.

Roy Daniels, Luton I think the BBC’s Budget coverage was fair and accurate. The quality of its journalism surpasses any other news outlet. Imagine if all channels were like ITV. V. de Bheal, London So the Government is at last aware that the BBC is extremely biased, with most of its reporters leaning strongly to the Left.

One particular topic subject to unbalanced reporting by the BBC concerns Israel.

Time and time again we are led to believe that Israel is the aggressor and guilty of human rights abuses.

Quick mentions that hostilities were actually instigated by Hamas or Hezbollah only come at the end of these reports. Tessa Wood, Great Barford, Bedfordshire Radio 4 Today programme presenters openly sneer at ideas they do not support to the point that all balance is lost. These presenters are very well paid by the public, which makes their bias even more unacceptable. Chaka Artwell, Oxford Theresa May was furious at BBC bias over the Budget. I stopped watching BBC News many months ago, as has a friend of mine. We are both sick of its bias – particularly on Brexit – and we are also appalled by the obscene salaries that it pays its ‘celebrities’. James Slater, Malvern, Worcestershire With women at the BBC now asking – quite rightly – for equal pay as their male counterparts, surely this is an opportunity to rewrite the contracts of all BBC employees to ensure none are paid more than the Prime Minister.

Our nurses, teachers, police and firefighters work in far more difficult jobs for far less money.

It’s time to put an end to this greed. Michael Callow, Shropshire