Does the BBC think northerners starved under the Tories?

Why does almost every BBC programme have to turn into lefty propaganda? For the past few Tuesday nights, there has been a reality TV show on BBC2 called Back in Time for Tea, featuring a Bradford family whose house is transformed into a time capsule – they have ate, slept, worked and entertained themselves one decade of the 20th century at a time. It was a rather good programme for the first few episodes, showing them grappling with old technology and having to eat period food which, in one or two cases, left them bewildered as to how anyone could possible consume such stuff. It was also rather educational – it didn’t occur to me that the refrigerator, something which I always took for granted, only reached 50 per cent penetration of British homes in 1967, the year after I was born.

But then, yesterday, came the episode relating to the 1980s.