The BBC: A cauldron of hate for Margaret Thatcher

Just what you'd expect from a far left wing media organization.

"The defence entered by the programme makers is pathetic.

According to the production company, Great Meadow, the film is 'a personal interpretation of how she might have been, not a factual presentation of how she was'.

What rot! Lady Thatcher is an historical figure.

She is still alive.

Presumably The Long Walk To Finchley has some pretensions to verisimilitude.

The implication of what the spokesman is saying is that it is permissible to falsify facts about Lady Thatcher's life in order to sex up the drama in the hope of attracting viewers.

It is a defence as lame as it is disreputable.

The BBC's response is, if anything, even more laughable.

According to a spokesman: 'So little is known about Margaret Thatcher as a young woman straight out of Oxford that no one can say if this is right or wrong.

It is a dramatic interpretation taken from the bare bones of the facts.'

In fact, a great deal is known about the young Margaret Thatcher.

Biographies have been written about her. Journalists, sympathetic and unsympathetic, have combed through her early years.

There are people still alive who knew her then. "

Before you rush to the BBC's defense with the notion that the BBC is merely airing a drama produced by an "independent" production company, Great Meadow, you might be interested in who runs Great Meadow.

Kate Triggs

"In 1994 Kate moved to the drama department of BBC Northern Ireland..."

Robert Cooper

"Stage Manager of Victoria Theatre Stoke in mid 70's, then BBC's radio drama producer in Belfast..."

You may recall the "independent" production company at the heart of the fake Queen video, was also run by ex BBC employees. You may also recall the BBC's "independent" investigation into that fake video is being headed by a former BBC cheif executive. Something has to be done about this cancer that is the BBC.