Has Ukraine given Nadine Dorries a ‘road to Damascus’ moment about the BBC?
Dorries v the BBC: only last month she was evading reasonable questions from the BBC’s Charlie Stait about then-beleaguered prime minister Boris Johnson.
Have a look (and listen) at this potentially Oscar-winning performance from Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary ‘Mad Nad’ Dorries, discussing the brilliance of (among others) BBC reporters in Ukraine:
And the Oscar goes to…
Nadine Dorries, for getting all choked up about the bravery of impartial BBC journalists, just now in the Commons. Last month she was complaining of their bias and wanted to obliterate their funding. ~AA pic.twitter.com/aOyhY7Rxzt
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) March 3, 2022
It’s a far cry from what she was saying, only a few months ago!
See/hear for yourself:
'Andrew Marr would say "well, I am an impartial interviewer".'@NadineDorries: 'And I would argue otherwise.'
'The BBC has become an organisation that is guilty of a groupthink' according to Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries.@IainDale pic.twitter.com/7ukaqfT1Ok
— LBC (@LBC) October 4, 2021
Back then, she was pushing the lie of BBC bias – which isn’t that it isn’t unbiased, of course (it is), but is that it is biased against her Tory Party and its politics. In fact, the BBC has bent over backwards to appease Tories like the inconsistent Nadine – all for nothing.
She has frozen the licence fee for two years and has demanded that the BBC must find a different way of funding itself in the very near future.
So, to return to the question posed in the headline: has Nadine Dorries really had a Damascene transformation?
No.
If she had, she would be putting her own war on the BBC into reverse. She isn’t.
It’s just another Tory hypocrisy that has been revealed by the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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