Getting rid of the top brass will not save the BBC. I'm afraid it's time to move to Defcon 5 - Carole Malone

What’s been even more shocking is that it's been a week since the splicing of the Trump video came to light along with revelations about the Beeb’s one sided coverage of the Gaza/ Palestine conflict, the fact it airs unchecked rubbish from Hamas, that it feeds antisemitism here in the UK and that it has a unit of LGBTQ+ reporters who refuse to run gender critical stories, yet it took until Monday lunchtime until the BBC’s chairman Samir Shah bias at the BBC when millions in this country knowing there was no systemic bias at the BBC when millions in this country know damn well there is.

But his denial means he has to go too because he’s part of the problem. He can’t help fix what he says doesn’t exist.

This stuffed shirt also said he was “considering” an apology to Donald Trump. Why would he just “consider” an apology to the leader of the free world who has been maliciously and deliberately misrepresented by his corporation? He should be crawling on his belly to apologise.

But no, his arrogance is towering!!!

And never mind just an apology to Trump, what about an apology to the British people because the BBC lied to us too!!!

And why did Shah’s deluded statement take seven days?

According to the BBC’s own correspondents, there have been meetings every day since last week with executives and board members trying to decide what they should say, but no one could agree.

Could the silence have been because they couldn’t get their story straight? Or was it because there is literally no justification for what’s been happening? Or is it because the BBC is at war with itself on how it should present the news?

Then on Radio 4’s Today programme on Monday morning, its execrable host, Nick Robinson, tried – and failed - to provide an unbiased analysis of the week’s events. He then brought in a whole slew of guests to say, despite its “mistake”, the BBC is still the most trusted news outlet in the world.

First, what the Panorama team did was not a mistake. It deliberately spliced together bits of Trump’s speech to make it look like he was inciting violence on Capitol Hill when he wasn’t. It was gutter reporting at its worst.

Second, the top brass still isn’t getting it - the BBC is not now the most trusted news organisation in the world. That ship has sailed thanks to years of reporters and bosses imposing their own liberal Left view onto almost every story.

But if today’s offering wasn’t enough, Robinson at the weekend had the gall to say the furore over the Trump film was part of a political campaign to destroy the Corporation.

No, it isn’t. It’s about the state broadcaster putting out fake news - like Russia does, like China does. How doesn’t he get that? I’ll tell you why it’s because Robinson and his ilk are part of the bias problem.

His ludicrous remarks were immediately backed up by the terminally pompous John Simpson, who is the personification of the Corporation’s bias.

This is the bloke who was recently lambasted for sharing disputed data on journalist deaths in Gaza; he’s been accused of being anti-Israel, and he proclaimed himself to be pro-Serb during the Yugoslav war.

Then, just to confirm how the Beeb has totally lost the plot, there was the debacle over presenter Martine Croxall, who quite rightly refused to read out the phrase “pregnant people” and instead said pregnant women. And because 20 people complained (all trans activists, no doubt), the BBC’s own complaints unit upheld the complaints against her.

The unit ludicrously said her facial expression “gave a strong impression of expressing a personal view on a controversial matter”.

No, her facial expression gave the strong impression that she thought whoever had written the auto cue script was a half-witted wokie.

Hell, biased BBC staff even tried to block an interview with JK Rowling because of her stance on women’s rights. Apparently, supporting women’s rights is “problematic” for the BBC these days.

Now we see Chairman Shah is no better. He’s also pushing the lie that the BBC isn’t biased when anyone with half a brain can see that it is.

What he said will do nothing to restore public trust. In fact, it’ll do the polar opposite because he’s basically telling the British people we’re fools for seeing something that isn’t there.

For months, the BBC’s top brass has known about the Trump speech and Michael Prescot’s “bias dossier”, yet they have done nothing. Why? Because they didn’t think anyone had done anything wrong.

Why don’t Shah and the other top brass at the Beeb get how bloody furious the British people are at what they’ve done to this once great organisation? Why don’t they see we’re sickened by their arrogance, their lack of honesty, their twisted belief that only the views of the liberal Left count?

Just who the hell do they think they are? We pay their extortionate wages. They’re not working for a private company, they're working for the state broadcaster, i.e. the British people, and they’re answerable to us.

So, it’s enough now. Shah’s deluded and cowardly statement was a cop out and will change nothing. Neither will the resignations of Davie and Turness because the BBC culture and its reporting standards will remain toxic as long as its executives refuse to admit bias exists.

Which is why the sooner the BBC is defunded, the better! Let it push its leftwing propaganda however much it likes - but we shouldn’t have to pay for it!