Posted on 12/15/2014 9:55:10 AM PST by Mount Athos
One of the BBC’s top presenters has admitted that the corporation ignored mass immigration because it feared critics would say it was racist.
Radio 4’s Today interviewer John Humphrys accused his employer of being ‘soft’, ‘complacent’ and ‘institutionally nervous’ when it came to tackling the story or questioning multiculturalism.
And he said that BBC employees are unable to understand the concerns of ordinary people because they typically lead ‘sheltered’ middle-class lives and are overwhelmingly ‘liberal Oxbridge males’.
The criticism, which is the latest in a string of admissions of Left-wing bias by senior BBC figures, comes weeks after the Government accused the Today programme of misrepresenting its spending cuts.
The veteran presenter admitted that the last Labour government’s controversial immigration policy was not sufficiently ‘interrogated’ by the BBC, saying: ‘The Labour government underestimated by a factor of ten the number of people who were going to move from Poland.’
He said the BBC was ‘frightened of appearing racist’, adding: ‘We were too institutionally nervous of saying, isn’t immigration getting a little bit out of hand? And can we be critical of multiculturalism?
‘We didn’t interrogate immigration rigorously enough. We failed to look at what our job was.’
Humphrys claimed he was partly responsible for the BBC’s ‘complacent’ approach towards immigration, because he failed to challenge Labour’s decision to allow migrants from Poland and Hungary to work in Britain from 2004, and the flawed prediction that only 13,000 would arrive.
After more than a million Eastern European immigrants moved to the UK, senior Labour figures eventually admitted the policy had been a huge mistake.
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Polish immigrants aren’t the problem.
It’s the only group they can get upset about because they’re white Europeans.
All the others are off limits.
And considering how Polish Pilots saved their bacon during The Battle of Britain, and how they were betrayed after the war, it’s the least they could do.
Hilarious.
Well, maybe pretending to oppose more 'eastern europeans' will provide cover to prevent more of the really problematic immigration.
Fearing to do the right thing because you’re worried about what others will think or say is one of the worst forms of cowardice. It’s how whole societies commit suicide.
Thanks Mount Athos.
Poles are the best immigrants that England has had. And they’re white. And they’re Catholic. And they’re civilized. So naturally the BBC picks on them.
I wish the US had an eastern immigrant problem compared to the muslim/Mexican invasion that we now have.
Poles? That is what the Brits are worried about. Got it.
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