Auntie's Old Habits Die Hard

The BBC might have gone over to Cameron as the candidate of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, but it is still ignoring Labour divisions as it has always done, primarily over the EU (it never mentioned the three times as many Labour MPs as Tories who voted against Maastricht, it never mentioned the forty-odd Labour MPs who defied the Whip to vote against the European Finance Bill when a tiny handful of Tories had the Whip withdrawn for abstaining, it did not interview a single Labour Eurosceptic during more than one thousand hours of coverage of the last European Elections, and so on), but also over other matters.

Yesterday's rally by the Police Federation did indeed give its Chairman, Jan Berry, a standing ovation, as reported by the BBC. It also gave one to Keith Vaz, but not to David Davis or Nick Clegg, well-received though both those speeches were. The Beeb played extracts from Davis's and Clegg's speeches. But it did not even mention that Vaz had been present. Nor, indeed, that Ken Livingstone had also attended.