The BBC Denounced

By Max Musson:

The ‘Jeremy Clarkson affair’ has rumbled on for some time now and following complaints about his behaviour from various quarters his very lucrative relationship with the BBC has finally come to an end.

Clarkson has been an object of fascination for the media, as various pundits have struggled to understand and fully describe the source of his great public popularity and it is as a result of this that he has been elevated to the level of ‘hero of the common man’ and as his career with the BBC hung in the balance more than a million people signed the petition calling for him to be reinstated as a Top Gear presenter.

Jeremy Clarkson at his best is a very entertaining TV presenter and much of the irritation between him and the BBC hierarchy stems from his penchant for making inflammatory remarks that are decidedly un-PC. We would however be wrong to assume that his career has any great significance for us as nationalists, nor as a symbol of rebellion against the regime of cultural Marxism imposed upon us from above. He is a man from fairly humble beginnings (his father was a tea cosy salesman) who has made good largely through pragmatic self-promotion and from understanding his target audience better than his BBC masters have. He is apparently, along with David Cameron a member of the ‘Chipping Norton set’, a personal friend of many establishment insiders and politicians and his social life takes him to many of the exclusive parties of our capital’s ‘metropolitan elite’ where he rubs shoulders with the likes of socialite heiress Jemima Goldsmith; chef Heston Blumenthal, broadcaster Tim Samuels; and music executive Josh Berger.

My interest in writing about the Clarkson affair stems not from any particular admiration for the man himself, but from the revelations contained within the blistering attack directed at the BBC in his defence by one-time BBC insider Janet Street-Porter.

Street-Porter states on the Daily Mail website today: “Proof that the people who run the BBC live in a precious world of their own was supplied this week when Alan Yentob — whose title at the corporation is ‘creative director’ — told Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis that ‘there are quite a lot of programmes which reach out to audiences which are C2s, DEs, which aren’t the metropolitan elite’.

“In other words, he seemed to be saying that Jeremy Clarkson may have been sacked by the BBC ‘but common people will still find something to watch’.

“How simply outrageous! And how very, very kind of the BBC to make a few programmes ‘reaching out’ to the non-metropolitan elite (as if they live on Mars) — those downmarket low-earners who live in places outside London and the South-East.

“Anyone listening might have thought Yentob was talking about a vanishing tribe or a special needs group, instead of those millions of ordinary people who (unlike him and his pals, with their trendy artworks and minimalist designer sofas) live in normal homes and want to watch decent TV programmes.

“People who live in small houses and flats, who don’t drink Terroir Series Malbec wine from Argentina and eat tapas.

“People who don’t holiday in Tuscany or rent nice houses in Devon and Cornwall. But people who manage to be happy, despite living outside sought-after Islington and Notting Hill postcodes, where most of our political leaders, media chiefs and the chattering classes seem to reside.”

In Alan Yentob’s mind of course he probably does think he is talking about a ‘vanishing tribe’ when he discusses the needs of White working class Britain. Clearly the broadcasting policy of the BBC is in line with the policies of successive governments in their promotion of multiracialism and multiculturalism, policies that are contrived to result in our displacement, race replacement and eventual extinction, and unless Yentob is an idiot he must be fully aware of this.

Street-Porter goes on: “Having spent nearly a decade working as a top executive at the BBC, I can vouch that it’s run by a bunch of smug, self-satisfied, over-educated types (nearly all graduates of the same universities) who communicate in an opaque language and conform to a very limited set of beliefs … … Is there any other billion-pound business with such a narrow gene pool at the top?”

Such a ‘narrow gene pool’ at the top? Whatever can Janet be referring to, we might ask?

Of course she isn’t directly or even indirectly referring to the ethnic identity of the people involved, although heaven knows she ought, but this ‘unfortunate’ choice of words does perhaps reflect some degree of recognition on her part, at a subconscious level, that those with their ‘hands on the tiller’ at the BBC and the ‘metropolitan elite’ of which she speaks, are comprised of individuals who overlap disproportionately with a certain hereditary masonic community.

Janet Street-Porter continues: “The tragedy is that it is not only BBC top brass who live in this out-of-touch bubble. The same applies to our political leaders.”  “What’s more, there is an unhealthy nexus between politicians and influential figures at the BBC and in other parts of the media.

“For example, there was Ed Richards, a quintessential New Labour man who was an adviser to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown before becoming, for 11 years, the head of the media watchdog Ofcom.

“Let’s not forget former Labour minister James Purnell, the BBC’s so-called head of strategy who was alleged to have been behind an odious smear against Clarkson in which he was compared to serial paedophile Jimmy Savile. Purnell strenuously denied being involved.

“Then there is Ian Katz, who left The Guardian to run Newsnight. Not far away in Islington lives Tom Baldwin (married to an heiress, living in a very posh house), who quit The Times to work for Ed Miliband as his spin doctor.

“They are typical of the metropolitan crew who claim to know about social deprivation and the working class but don’t have a clue how real people live.

“The BBC should reflect the diversity and richness of British culture — not just the tastes of those who read The Guardian, drive eco-friendly cars, despise Clarkson and make their own sourdough bread.”

All of this is very true and it would be wonderful if Miss Street-Porter was doing more on this occasion than simply demonstrating class solidarity with fellow working class Clarkson, or venting in revenge for some past wrong she perhaps suffered at the hands of the BBC ‘inner mafia’, but she is a long standing supporter of the Labour Party and therefore by definition supports the aims of our political elite, and in crafting the above closing sentence of her Daily Mail article, it is interesting that she is careful to include the all important references to ‘diversity’ and the ‘richness of British culture’ without actually defining what she means here, but leaving the door open just wide enough for her to slip back to the bosom that once fed her, should she feel the need.

By Max Musson © 2015

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