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Why does the BBC hate Margaret Thatcher so?

The questions might seem ridiculously naive.

Of course, the BBC hates Lady Thatcher because many of its senior employees are unreconstructed lefties who loathe everything they think she stands for.

A Blue Peter presenter has sparked fury by sharing a "Tory-bashing" platform with London Mayor Ken Livingstone.

The BBC was forced to issue yet another apology after Konnie Huq attended the launch of a campaign hosted by Mr Livingstone, who is accused of using the event to "rant" against his opponents.

Miss Huq's presence has been seen by critics as an inappropriate display of impartiality and support for the Labour politician.

After an official complaint from furious Tories the BBC was forced to issue a humiliating apology - and then insisted the corporation was not to blame.

Instead they claimed Miss Huq, 31, defied executives who ruled her attendance - for which she is understood to have been paid around £1,000 - would be inappropriate.

The BBC has warned Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq about political bias after she took part in a press conference with London mayor Ken Livingstone.

She appeared at an event to promote cycling despite the corporation telling her agent she should not take part.

Conservative London Assembly member Brian Coleman said the Labour mayor had turned the event into a "political rant", breaking BBC impartiality rules.

But Ms Huq's agent, Jonathan Shalit, said she had attended "with goodwill".

Your right But , some of the rule were becoming a joke like a only one person could touch that switch: if you thourgh Health and safety was bad back then with them it was out of this world!

This Goes Very well into here: BBC and Blue peter: Its all about bike but one some one has monad at the bbc for help surprise it old blue

More Here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6947857.stm

The BBC apologised to senior Tory John Redwood last night for screening a 14-year-old film clip of him struggling to sing the Welsh national anthem.

The footage was used to accompany coverage of his announcement of Tory plans to slash red tape, to which it bore no relevance.

Faced with accusations of anti-Tory bias and gratuitously trying to make the former Cabinet minister look foolish, the corporation's director of news Helen Boaden admitted it was "wrong" to use the clip.

As head of the Conservative Party's economic competitiveness policy group, Mr Redwood announced at the weekend a raft of proposals to cut bureaucracy for businesses by £14billion.

A string of BBC bulletins illustrated the story with images of a notorious gaffe he made shortly after becoming Welsh Secretary in 1993.

The film showed a public event where Mr Redwood tried - and failed - to sing the Welsh national anthem.

The camera focused on him miming badly and making it obvious he did not know the words.

Following a string of complaints from furious Tory activists, Miss Boaden conceded the corporation was wrong to dig out the clip.

"In retrospect we weren't right to use the footage again, which came from a long time ago," she said.

She rejected criticism that the corporation had focused too strongly on Labour rebuttals of Mr Redwood's tax-cutting plans.

"There can be a temptation sometimes to present stories as merely matters of party politics, but we believe that we gave good consideration to the substance of the proposals," she said.

Mr Redwood, who will today unveil plans to introduce road-charging for lorries to fund £10billion of highway improvements, said he was "very pleased" with the climbdown.

"The intention was to ridicule me and the policy by the use of outdated and irrelevant film.

"I hope the BBC does not do it again. Nobody else gets that kind of treatment.

"It was intended to prejudice people's responses against very sensible proposals."

The charging plan for heavy goods vehicles, drafted by the same economic competitiveness group under Mr Redwood, will be formally unveiled today.

It will recommend that hauliers are charged for every mile they drive.

Money clawed in will make up a £10billion fund to pay for road improvement schemes, including flyovers in cities and traffic sensors, to keep vehicles moving and reduce gridlock.

But British hauliers would be compensated because the duty on diesel would be reduced dramatically.

This, say the Tories, would iron out the "competitive disadvantage" British truckers face because hauliers in Europe currently pay only half as much for their diesel.

Yeah! I believe you, BBC. Thousands wouldn't but then, I am naive. It is a pity I have to pay a licence fee even though I vary rarely watch BBC because of not just its left-wing bias but also its Celtic bias.