OF BEATIFICATION, MASSACRE of the INNOCENTS, and
the BEEB
It cannot have escaped the attention of even the
most casual listener to BBC Radio 2, in the course of the last 24 hours, that a
process of beatification is well under way for Pudsey’s primary accomplice. Of
course the way has to be carefully prepared for subsequent canonisation of the
noble knight.
Every news bulletin reader, continuity announcer
and programme presenter was contractually obliged to “Go Tel(l) it on the
Mountain” that Terry’s woes have gone.
Each pre-recorded programme, broadcast yesterday, was
preceded by a pre-emptive apology that their presenter, and production team, lacked
foreknowledge of Sir Terry’s passing before the shows’ due transmission date.
Meanwhile, the slaughter of innocents (some of
which is ejaculatorily supported by our own dear government ministers)
continues unabated around the globe whilst, at home, the Tories persecution of
society’s most vulnerable old, young, poor, sick and/or disabled, alongside their
dismantling of the NHS, continues apace, only to pass unacknowledged by the
Beeb’s department of navel-gazing news and current affairs.
RIP Sir Terry. RIP the welfare state’s compassion
and humanitarian concern. RIP decency at the heart of Government.
