BBC - Labour's mouthpiece again

The Conservative party announced their plans for cutting red tape on business over the weekend. I missed the TV and radio news over the weekend, attending the Prince event at the O2 on Friday left me a bit befuddled, so here are what I have read of the coverage on Iain Dale this morning...

"How the BBC Does Labour's Dirty Work

I don't know how this is being covered on other networks, but the BBC are starting all their news bulletins about John Redwood's Competitiveness Commission reports with the words...

The Labour Party has today criticised...
This has happened many times before. Instead of concentrating on the substance of a Tory policy announcement the BBC seem to revel in giving Labour Ministers the microphone to explain how whatever the policy happens to be is making the Tories more right wing than Michael Howard. It is a disgrace. This morning they wheeled out John Hutton to slag off Redwood's report, without even carrying any information about the report itself or indeed any comment from John Redwood or any other Tory.

A commenter called Tone Made Me Do it makes the point well.

The Conservatives today launched their new deregulation policy.How has the BBC
addressed this?By giving the microphone to the labour party who then denounce the Conservative party as being more "right wing" than they were under William Hague.No discussion about the policies of business and trade at all - just an "oh my god look how right wing the Tories are now (it will be the cattle trucks next)" cry from the Labour party and their friends at the BBC. This is precisely the sort of bias that the BBC is guilty of. Its a "when are you going to stop beating your wife" slur.
I'd love to see how this kind of news judgement is justified by a BBC news producer. BJ, where are you?!"

Typical BBC, a Conservative proposal immediately begats a Labour response which becomes the lead news rather than the original proposal. The BBC bias is hardly even disguised these days, it's blatant and will become more so leading up to the General Election as the BBC fear a Conservative revival. Gordon Brown will be portrayed in an almost entirely positive light, except if he keeps the troops
in Iraq, whilst David Cameron will be portrayed as lightweight - it's the narrative...

This deregulation policy has been proposed by John Redwood's policy group; cue the BBC describing John Redwood as "one of the most senior figures on the Tory right" and a reprise of the footage of John Redwood failing to sing Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau - see here for my earlier article on this matter (last paragraph) - I wonder if the BBC will ever show this video of our heroic leader in action?