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Boris Johnson writing about the BBC in the Telegraph

“The corporation is a cultural and political anachronism, locked in a pre-1997 mindset. It is also, of course, rather wonderful. The reason that it is so immensely politically powerful is that its Leftist message is subconsciously legitimated by association with things that we love and cherish and make us proud to be British: the Archers, the Shipping Forecast, “Lillibulero”, Doctor Who, the Proms - the list is endless. How could anyone possibly attack such a thing? BBC political bias is like the arms dump once hidden in the Parthenon. You could blow it up, but it would be an act of cultural vandalism for which future generations might not forgive you.
So what is the alternative?

All I can say is that BBC hierarchs had better accept that one day, sooner rather than later, there will be a Tory government, and that they can no longer afford to treat the 8,100,000 people in England who voted Tory (as opposed to the 8,045,000 who voted Labour) as halfwits or nutcases, or to introduce any Tory spokesman or idea with their habitual smile of supercilious condescension.”

I await in hope that the Tories will take on board the leftist message coming from the BBC and realise that no matter how much they creep around these BBC types, they are never going to treat the Conservative party with any fairness, to realise that this situation is so ingrained in the BBC hierarchy that there is nothing to be done except to announce a clear policy to privatise when the Tories gain power again. As much as the sneerers at the BBC may dream, that day will come, and if it also presaged the end of this monolithic left, liberal, anti-American, anti-Israeli, pro-EU, organisation, the better for all of us.