Maybe the BBC will become truly neutral

SO WELSH tenor Wynne Evans has been reprimanded for singing at an event – gasp, horror - staged by the Conservative Party and attended by the Prime Minister.

The BBC is quoted as being worried about its neutrality being tarnished because Mr Evans hosts a Radio Wales show. I ask – what neutrality? Every week on the News Quiz, the Now Show and other comedy shows, BBC-funded entertainers regularly lambast the Conservative Party and Boris Johnson in particular. But that’s called political satire, so it’s OK.

I think that it is utterly hypocritical of the BBC and Labour MP’s like Chris Bryant to criticise a professional entertainer for accepting an engagement to sing at an event organised, not by some farright group of loonies and fruitcakes, as David Cameron might have said, but by a legitimate political party for which millions of people voted only last December.

We still have freedom of speech and freedom of thought in this country, despite the best efforts of the “woke” brigade and those who would strangle all discussion and debate in the name of political correctness – as long as it’s the sort of political correctness they agree with.

Where is Voltaire when you need him? His view that he would defend to the death the right of other people to express their opinions even if he disagreed with them personally seems to have been banished to the dustbin of history.

I trust that the BBC, as part of its newfound wish to be perceived as politically neutral, will then follow same rules when it deals with the plethora of left-wing entertainers who regularly turn up at events to support the Labour Party and other left-wing causes.

Jayne Isaac Maesteg