The BBC should recruit more Tories? I don't think so!

The shadow culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said today that the BBC should recruit more Tories to its news division in order to counter an "innate liberal bias".

Hunt, speaking at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch today, said the BBC had acknowledged that those who wanted to work there had centre-left views and quoted its former political editor, Andrew Marr, who in 2007 described the corporation as having an "innate liberal bias".

Now I do think that the BBC has a liberal left bias and I do think that this bias is totally wrong and slants the way that the news is presented, often by what is not reported rather than by what is.
However this should not be countered by recruiting more Tories but rather by removing the leftist bias and moving to a more neutral position. The last thing the BBC needs is more politicisation when all it needs is balance.
Part of the problem the BBC has of course is that it sees itself as "balanced" that the liberal left vision is the middle ground, when any experience in the real world and the people of the UK outside Westminster village would tell them that it's anything but. This is one of the reasons why independent bloggers often have a go at the bias because more often than not they do have real world lives and I suspect they have just as much suspicion of a Tory slanted view as they do of the current Labour slanted vision the BBC presents.

Now if we are to keep the BBC (and long term political policy appears to favour this state of affairs) then what is needed is the complete removal of all politicisation of the Corporation and an established political neutrality set up whereby just the facts are established, rather than the current wishy washy red tinted liberal view.
A return to honesty within the BBC when depicting the differences between England and Britain with regard to government policy would be most welcome too.

But, the very last thing the BBC needs are more political Quislings trying to tell the UK public what to believe! Lets just get rid of the ones in place without going down the path of balancing them out.

On the other hand we could just scrap the BBC.........................