Positions for the BBC & indeed the entire state sector seem to be advertised almost exclusively in the Guardian. B&Q may advertise in both the Sun & Times but not it & since most newspapers depend more on advertising than purchasers I doubt if the Grauniad would survive if it were not the civil service house organ. I do not think the BBC has a left wing bias so much as a statist bias, which is inevitable if it is considered part of the civil service. There is a considerable cross over between statism & leftism but in subjects such as dealing with non-Nato foreigners there is a clear divergence & the BBC consistently support the statist line.

John Redwood is my MP here in Wokingham and he does appear to me, to be a target for the BBC's anti Conservative message. Recently on the BBC's Daily Politics programme, the host would not allow Mr Redwood to answer the questions he put, he constantly interrupted and heckled Mr Redwood whilst he allowed the Pro Government guest to put any rhetoric and spin he wanted unchallenged. When ever the state broadcaster mentions Mr Redwood, they always show the clip of him when he was in government as the Welsh Secretary and was unable to sing the Welsh anthem in Welsh….This happened atleast fifteen years ago!!

I don't mind an editorial political slant from journalists when we have a choice as to whether to buy and thus fund their organisation, but with the BBC, we are forced to fund their left wing propaganda with out any right of balance or withdrawing of our funding for it.

There does seem to me to be a culture within the BBC, that encourages those with leftwing leanings and politically correct thoughts, to apply for and get accepted for, positions within the BBC.

If that is true, then it just underlines the uselessness of the BBC! SKY is what you get when you are exposed to what your customers want, is that wrong?

My fear is that the Tories think they can reform the BBC, Cameron not being a Tory nor a Classical Liberal loves the idea of having the BBC as the arm of State propaganda. If they try to reform the BBC, the Tories will fail, if Cameron tries to buy favor with the BBC , that too will fail.

Adam: "As a kid my view of John Redwood was programmed into me by BBC brainwashing."

You know the saying: "If you aren't a socialist when you are a child, you have no heart, if by the time you are an adult you haven't become a Conservative, you have no brain."

Guilty secret, I once voted Liberal.

Besides that, there is no appetite in the UK for the licence fee and people would be happy to see it disappear. The proud history of programme making is gone to be replaced by endless cookery and reality TV shows, and most programmes are made by private companies anyway.

Will Cameron and the Tories have the cojones to do the right thing and scrap the licence fee? No chance because they live in, faint, hope of turning the whole thing to their own agenda. I have not had a single rational argument for keeping the licence fee apart from it would cost jobs. Get rid Cameron and win by an even bigger landslide, and Rupert Murdoch might come onside too as you'll enhance his channels. The people of this country by a large margin want rid, so why not do it? In 1997 after the general election the corridors of the BBC main HQ was filled with empty champagne bottles, now do we think it was because they had had a particularly successful ngith as broadcasters?

I would like to know why the Tories won't get rid, do you know John?

We're a democracy not a TV channel. If that channel manage to get Labour back in, that will change. Yes D Miliband politics is one of the many things that is now broken, and it was you and your mates on the PS gravy trains what done it.

the bbc doesnt do anything the private sector couldnt do better these days, get rid of it, its a waste of public money

The sad truth if we can't have a democracy with the BBC dominating the broadcasting media, they have to go.