The word is being put around that Emily Thornberry could not name a single country where Jeremy Corbyn's policies had worked, when asked to do so by a plant in the Question Time audience. But in fact, underneath the organised howling that would have greeted any answer on her part, she correctly pointed out that Labour's programme was mainstream social democracy of the kind that was taken as a given even in Angela Merkel's Germany.
Like This Week, The Daily Politics, The Sunday Politics, and Laura Kuenssberg, Question Time has become the standing contradiction of the claim by bellowing lower-middle-class failures, who are used to being able to drown out everyone else or simply cause them all to leave the pub by their own entering it, that the BBC is somehow left-wing.
Although the BBC does trade on that complaint when addressing a different audience. Hence its tetchiness about RT, which has the temerity to allow the real Left some airtime. In turn, the people who depend on feeding the Auntie-haters are also put out at the rise of the station that they have spent at least 35 years accusing the BBC of being when it never has been.
Although the BBC does trade on that complaint when addressing a different audience. Hence its tetchiness about RT, which has the temerity to allow the real Left some airtime. In turn, the people who depend on feeding the Auntie-haters are also put out at the rise of the station that they have spent at least 35 years accusing the BBC of being when it never has been.
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