Further to my post on BBC institutional bias yesterday, I'd be glad of your help in drawing up a list of 'right wing questions' for interviewers. BBC, Channel 4 and other journalists seem programmed to ask 'red corner' questions. Why aren't you passing a law to outlaw X? Hasn't this problem occured because of inadequate funding? Even when interviewers are giving Labour politicians a hard time it is usually from the Left. Just think of the way the BBC took on Blair over the Iraq war.
In my article for yesterday's Mail I suggested a few of right wing questions...
- Minister, how much of this extra spending will go directly to patients, and how much will be gobbled up by an even fatter NHS bureaucracy?
- Why don't you cut taxation on small businesses in order to create more jobs for poor communities?
- Wouldn't violent crime be brought under control if we imprisoned more repeat offenders?
- Given the ineffectiveness of the welfare state, shouldn't faith-based organisations receive a bigger share of poverty-fighting budgets?
- How can you support a benefits system that penalises couples who marry?
- Why, Mr EU Bureaucrat, do you get paid twice as much as our Prime Minister?
