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As for the BBC, it is just laughable to describe its political stance as "left wing drumbeat"
For goodness sake, the once independent BBC has been the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation since 2015.
I keep reading on social media sites comments about this current "leftie" government...
I think it has something to do with the furlough scheme during the pandemic, and more recently increasing benefit payments because, obviously, everyone in receipt of a benefit is a lazy scrounger who's "never done a day's work in their life". Oh, and help-for-households because if you can't make ends meet on your current wages you should take on multiple ZH contract jobs until you can... and if you have to juggle that with childcare, then you should of (sic) thought about that when you decided to have kids - or the more popular "if you can't afford kids, don't have them".
I don't know why, but I'm still shocked at the level of vitriol that some on the Right spew towards anyone who doesn't hold their world-view. And that's not a criticism of the traditional Conservative voter - I have many such as friends and acquaintances and none of them appear to think like that. It's the 'new' Right - hard-nosed, rancorous, and very often male. The '30p-Lee-Brigade' my partner calls them.
As for the BBC, well it ain't what it used to be, but having said that I've been enjoying the Reith Lectures on R4 and there are still some worthwhile programmes However it's had its wisdom teeth pulled a bit. But, look at the way it's been restructured, and who by and why.