Here’s a favourite Tory joke. Question: What does ‘BBC’ stand for? Answer: Buggers Broadcasting Communism.
David Cameron seemed tempted to try this gag at PMQs today. He mentioned the Beeb four times in sardonic asides. ‘Let’s praise the BBC for once,’ he said, bitingly. He woke this morning, he said, to a BBC report stating that public satisfaction with council services had risen despite the cuts.
‘I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.’
He berated Ed Miliband for wanting to introduce new decarbonisation targets. ‘Even the BBC doesn’t agree with that.’ And he attacked Milband’s promise to freeze energy bills as evidence that ‘he’d like to live in a Marxist universe.’ Evidently the Beeb has joined the axis of evil along with Len McCluskey and the sage of Highgate.
Ed Miliband was in a strange mood today. The glumness has gone. And he’s ditched this statuesque air of sorrowing tetchiness.
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