The BBC coverage of the Speaker Martin sleaze story

BBC Radio 5Live are reporting the Speaker Martin story almost entirely in terms of the Labour MPs insinuating that the whole thing is a got up story. Even the BBC website can't cope:

"Labour's Mrs Beckett said: "What I don't understand is why there have been a whole string of nasty little stories about Mr Martin. Somebody is out to get him."

Former home secretary David Blunkett told Sky News the Speaker had done a "pretty reasonable job" and described stories about him as a "witch-hunt". He called for MPs agitating for a resignation to "stand up and be counted".

Someone was quoted as saying something along the lines that it was all the fault of a witch hunt by the London press who couldn't forgive a working class man from Glasgow for becoming Speaker. Just as Ken Livingstone's default defence against any attacks on Lee Jasper is to cry "racism", so the Left love to blame any criticism of their people on "right wing snobbery". It is so easy for the Left isn't it? They are always in the right and anyone who criticises them must be guilty of a hatred.