More Budget Reaction and the BBC

Andrew Lilico's review of the budget is the best one I've read so far. Here it is if you haven't already read it. The Taxpayers' Alliance comments on the old age allowance is also worth reading here. Osborne may not have presented his case well but I suspect that when the flak dies down and calmer counsels prevail he will be seen not to have done too badly after all and it is that which will remain in the minds of the voters even those of us who will be disadvantaged by his cap on the age allowance. Of more importance though is the way the BBC reports anything done by the Tories. The tone of every programme I have listened to today has been less shrill than the fake blatherings of the two Eds but not by much. They have been about as accurate with their reporting as Paxman's programme on Gordon and the Sudan. It is becoming increasingly more urgent that the BBC is either put back in its box and forced to become impartial or is broken up and sold off. How is it that the three candidates to replace Mark Thompson are all left of centre? It is not only the breach of the impartiality rule on political issues on virtually every programme you either listen to or see but on climate change and religion. The BBC should not be allowed to get away with denigrating Israel and extolling the Muslims in the way that they do. Why is there no reporting on the demand of the Mufti of Saudi Arabia to destroy all churches in the region? Why are attacks on Christians not reported, of which there are sadly many instances in the Middle East, Africa and Asia? Why does the BBC try to excuse the murders carried out by Mohammed Merah in Toulouse by saying he was acting to avenge Palestinian children and to protest against French military intervention overseas? There is no excuse for murdering people and the BBC should make that very clear. Would the BBC make a big thing of the reason given by the suspect of murdering a few of their left leaning journalists that he was acting to protest against BBC bias? Of course not. They'd say that such a person was undoubtedly from the extreme right as they did before it became apparent that the Toulouse killer was a Muslim.