The opposite night time I popped the telly on for the Commonwealth Video games Opening Ceremony.
I made myself comfy and eagerly awaited what was certain to be a celebration of Britain and this membership of countries that work collectively to advance commerce and democracy. As an alternative, people; I needed to endure yet one more BBC left-wing drama faculty manufacturing that is mad on id politics.
You see, to permit Britain to overlook that the Commonwealth is, which textual content is taken from the BBC’s web site, nothing greater than a “post-colonial membership” and one with “little affect within the trendy world”. Auntie Beeb couldn’t allow us to benefit from the spectacle of celebrations from elite athletes, musical acts, and a celebration of all Birmingham has to supply. How might it once we wanted our every day food regimen of race, colonialism, gender research and the ever-expanding LGBT alphabet soup?
After we wanted a cheering up after enduring depressing lockdowns, the BBC’s New 12 months’s Eve celebrations introduced us a Black Lives Matter fist and the colors of the EU, the membership we’d simply left. Now, as we might do with a little bit of cheering up as we stare down the barrel of generation-defining inflation and a price of dwelling squeeze, the BBC determined we would have liked a sermon from the gospel of woke.
“Let’s study what the Commonwealth Video games symbolize; what does the Commonwealth imply in trendy society?” mentioned Claire Balding, introducing the poet Casey Bailey. “Some will look again in nostalgia”, the poet mentioned, with footage of galleries and palaces with stolen trinkets to focus on the wrongdoing of the Empire, there was even B-roll footage of a Nationwide Entrance ‘preserve Britain white’ banner and a celebration of the grime star Stormzy, glossing over his historic use of anti-gay slurs.
In what ought to have been a completely apolitical second to have a good time the 56 separate nations, united behind the objectives of democracy, equality and freedom, introduced collectively in Birmingham by the facility of sport. We as a substitute had Joe Lycett, one of many BBC’s comedic darlings, who, dressed like a flammable chubby flamingo, launched the following spherical of athletes by saying: "I’m going to do one thing now that the British authorities doesn’t at all times do, and welcome some foreigners."
It is an odd line of assault on condition that greater than half a MILLION individuals migrated into the UK final yr in line with Authorities figures. If the UK is a closed store to the world, it isn’t as a lot because the BBC and consensus comedians like Lycett recommend…
After which Tom Daley appeared carrying the newest iteration within the ever-evolving delight flag; the flag now seems to be like a Jackson Pollock art work, a drug and alcohol addict whose frenzied work are trippier than Alice in Wonderland. The flag, in fact, not represents the fitting of homosexual women and men to be as boring as all of you straight individuals on the market. It finds an ever-increasing variety of causes to keep up the mantle of victimhood. It now even seeks to make allies of repugnant misogyny. Why couldn’t Daley have carried the Union Jack? A flag that genuinely represents equality in legislation and wider society for all.
For the love of God, is it an excessive amount of for our state broadcaster to maintain the sporting occasions and trophy-giving, however cease with the political hectoring and divisive id politics?
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