My values are not those of the BBC. Every day, I am served a reminder of that and the anger of the 99% of us living outside the metropolitan liberal elite thought bubble is clearly mounting. We the people feel increasingly angry. Take the headline below, commenting on the news that the useless Bristol Police force has finally released pictures of 14 people who engaged in criminal damage in pulling down the statue of Edward Colston and chucking it into the harbour.
This is not a debate about the rights and wrongs of Colston. What we can surely all agree on is that this was a criminal act. Surveys show that only 1 in 7 of us think that, in any circumstances, a statue can be pulled down and destroyed by a mob. I am pretty horrified that it is that many but the overwhelming majority view is that the statue topplers are wrong to do so and, in the eyes of the law, they are very clearly vandals and criminals. But for the BBC they are merely protestors.
The BBC News service can have whatever twisted values it wants but why on earth should I be forced to pay for it?
