BBC Horror Story

It seems the BBC is even more opaque than I thought. A Tory MP Karl McCartney has found out that the BBC has been receiving a grant and a loan from the EU and the Telegraph has an article on this subject here. The BBC of course state that this has in no way affected their journalistic independence but can we believe that when the Global Britain think tank found that in the last 6 years only 0.04% of all EU content on the Today programme covered the benefits of withdrawal from the EU. I don't believe in their impartiality as we all know that the BBC breaches its impartiality obligation on a daily basis and not only on issues like the EU but on the NHS, global warming, Palestine, the Democrats, Bummer Obama and other causes beloved of the left. Everyone knows the BBC is left leaning and they do not even bother to deny it with any great effort. They have gone past caring about balance. Another area of conflict that the BBC is involved in has been pointed out to me this afternoon. This story broke first of all as far as I can see in the Daily Express of 1 February 2010 with a follow up article in the Sunday Express of 7 February 2010. The chairman of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change is Peter Dunscombe who is also head of the BBC pension investments worth something like £8bn. How can the BBC possibly allow this save on the basis there is one rule for them and one for the rest of us? Again I ask the question how can all taxpayers be forced to pay for the BBC when a good number of them disagree with the BBC's line? This story has thrown up another interesting point. Why can't the BBC live off its licence fee?  Any other funding should not be allowed and is another example of its anti competitive behaviour. Until I read the Telegraph article I did not know that BBC Worldwide is a commercial venture. If it wants to act in the commercial world the BBC should be split with each bit sold to the highest bidder. I think the licence fee should be dropped and the BBC pushed into the commercial world anyway. The impartiality obligation should then be dropped so that the owner of each bit can then choose the political line it wishes to take. Impartiality will  naturally be achieved through this kind of diversity as in the USA. One has not been able to trust the BBC for years and it is long past time something was done about it.