An illiberal consensus

The Islamic fanatics who are such a nuisance in the West wouldn't be half the problem they are without the complicity of the multi-culti metropolitan middle class left who are all too eager to curtail free speech and to suppress inconvenient ideas by misrepresenting them as bigotry and racism. Here in Britain we've known for some time that the BBC's reputation for impartial news reporting has been pretty much destroyed by this kind of political correctness. The truth is no longer sacred to the BBC. It's now seen as a problem to be navigated around with euphemism, as in the case of Islamic terrorism, or simply dismissed with crude slanders like 'far-right' when it comes to political views the BBC disapproves of. Recently, for example, Geert Wilders was acquitted by a court in Amsterdam, by not, it seems, by the BBC, who I notice still insist on referring to him as a far-right politician, which is such an outrageous slur it ought to be actionable. Nazis and racists are far-right. Anyone would think they were talking about Hitler. You really have to wonder how some of these people have the nerve to call themselves journalists. Millions of people trust the BBC as a source of impartiality and truth, yet, according to the BBC website, the Dutch people have elected somebody on a par with a Nazi to help govern them. The words 'far-right' appear in the very first sentence of the report, telling the reader straight away: "This is somebody we disapprove of, "and we suggest that you disapprove of them as well. "and you know you can trust us; we're the BBC." Except that we can't trust the BBC. Those days have gone. We can't trust the BBC to look at a thing impartially and tell the simple truth, because the truth is the BBC is no longer an impartial organisation. It now has a cultural and political agenda because it's full to the rafters with multi-culti metropolitan middle class left-wing pricks, or what we in Britain call 'Guardianistas', people who see their mirror image in the Guardian newspaper which lives and breathes multiculturalism, diversity, and all things middle class left-wing prick, and where the BBC advertises for its multi-culti middle class left-wing staff. The Guardian is such a biased multi-culti middle class left-wing rag it could be Swedish, and in newspaper terms it doesn't get any more damning than that. As well as being an open platform for Hamas propaganda, the Guardian is the natural home of the terminally tolerant. It's characterised by a smug and patronising political correctness that, by default, blames western society, and especially America, for everything that's wrong with this world. It's the paper of choice for relativist whackos like feminists who defend female genital mutilation on cultural grounds, or who endorse the Islamic veil as a symbol of female empowerment. It's for people who know some perfectly normal decent Muslims, and therefore Islam can't possibly be a threat to anybody, and anyone who says it is is being unhelpful and should be silenced. It's for people who are passionate about diversity, even though they all went to the same universities, read the same books, and have the same dopey opinions about everything, and it's for people who just love the Palestinians because it gives them the chance to be anti-Semitic at dinner parties without offending left-wing Jews. The Guardian and the BBC are both pillars of a kind of British metropolitan multi-culti middle class left-wing prick-ocracy whose days are numbered. People are getting tired of being made to feel like criminals for holding the wrong opinion, and there's a massive backlash coming against political correctness, especially when all those young people who are having it rammed down their throats by middle class left-wing pricks in universities all over the western world finally grow up and start thinking for themselves. It will be like getting rid of lead poisoning. Meanwhile, the Guardian's politics are its own business. It's a private company, and nobody is forced to buy the wretched thing. But the BBC is a publicly funded national broadcaster. Funded, moreover, by an indiscriminate poll tax that hits the poorest hardest. It has a duty to reflect the views and the values of everyone it purports to serve, and not just the views and values of the multi-culti middle class left-wing pricks who happen to work there. It also has a duty to the public to tell the simple truth unvarnished with bias and spin. We can get that anywhere else, thank you very much. We pay for the BBC, and we deserve better. We also deserve a better democracy, as it happens, and, on a lighter note, I might as well tell you about another example we had here recently of the patronising and condescending nature of the whole middle class left-wing prick mentality. A couple of months ago we had a referendum here in Britain to decide whether we should change the voting system. The proposed new system, although by no means perfect, would have been more proportional, it drew support from a fairly wide political spectrum, and some very effective speakers from all shades of opinion could have been used to front the campaign and help it connect with people. Unfortunately, the campaign was organised by a bunch of middle class left-wing pricks who arrogantly declined to draw on that support because they disapproved of some of the viewpoints, and, as a result, they blew the whole gig for everyone. The people they did choose to front the campaign were all middle class left-wing pricks like themselves; actors and other personalities in the media and the arts - people who inhabit a self-regarding bubble of advanced middle class left-wing prickery, and have no idea how despised their opinions really are. Well, they found out. We all found out. A few places known for their heavy concentration of middle class left-wing pricks voted for the change, and everybody else, outside the bubble, voted against. So now we're stuck with the old system permanently, because the chances of getting another referendum are about as likely as finding fur on a fish, or getting unbiased news from the middle class left-wing pricks at the Guardian or the BBC. Peace, and all that middle class jazz.