BBC won't broadcast episode over fear of rightwing backlash

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Argh! The mind boggles

Erm, why? Are they all Farage fans? I hope not! But it would explain a lot about the current state of the UK if they were

Gosh I hope you are right, although it's the FPTP voting system that got the Tories into government in the first place...

We need Proportional Representation like most European countries

Well, not all of the UK members.

I'm glad there aren't any Nigel Farage supporters in this thread.

It's scary to think anyone supports that Farage person isn't it. Ugh. If the Tory government falling leads to a direct choice between rightwing Farage and leftwing Starmer, I hope we don't get that 52:48 divide again.

I don't think they would be that wound up about it but I never take captain air miles aka David, seriously anyway.

He's got the carbon footprint of a small nation and moans about everyone's carbon footprint.

No, the opposite, I'm guessing there are no NF fans and will take their ire out on Cyberdad for calling it.

Well there's no accounting for the criminally insane

There's a graphic novel called "Livestock" by Hannah Berry from about six years ago. It imagines Britain as a one-party state where the Government controls celebrities in order to micromanage the news cycle, even to the extent of making them kill each other when they really need a distraction. This feels less like science fiction by the minute. I also start to wonder if that's why certain murder or missing person cases blow up into a huge media circus, while dozens if not hundreds of similar cases every year are just completely ignored by the media.

That claim in that Guardian article that the BBC cancelled a David Attenborough programme through fears of a right-wing backlash is so obviously complete nonsense.

As the article itself admits towards the end, the series that the BBC commissioned from Silverback Films was always only intended to be a five-part series. Two charities then later commissioned Silverback Films to make a separate film, which is now available on BBC iPlayer.

The idea that there would even be much of a right-wing backlash over a documentary about a topic as relatively uncontroversial as rewilding is ridiculous, let alone the idea that the BBC would let fear of such a thing dictate whether or not they decided to show it.

There are lots of conservatives who support rewilding. One of the most prominent supporters of rewilding in the UK is the Tory MP Zac Goldsmith, who is the current Minister of State for Asia, Energy, Climate and Environment. Most other conservatives and right-wingers are probably apathetic about the issue. So where are these right-wing pressure groups the BBC is running in fear from? What are these right-wingers going to do that the BBC is so scared of?

The Guardian desperately wants its readers to believe there's some right-wing boogeyman out there cancelling leftists, so they've taken one anodyne article by the Telegraph (raising questions over the BBC's funding) and some unnamed sources (how convenient) and ran with a story that is complete BS.

Unlike some on the right, I am generally in favour of fighting fire with fire, and getting leftists 'cancelled'. But that's not what's happened here.

Come on, get real.

It’s even worse in America. I’ve been fired from jobs for exposing an issue, then proposing a solution. In short, you’re a dumb contractor employee who knows nothing, and the employer is the expert who provides you with a weekly paycheck. Just keep your mouth shut and give a sh!t-eating grin…

Farage thinks he has a mandate after Brexit

WTF I cannot believe the BBC would choose right wingers over David Attenborough, what a freaking slap in the face.

Unbelievable.

I'm a lifelong Labour voter who voted for Corbyn and also voted to remain, I wouldn't be voting that way now. As things stand I intend to sit the next election out. The last two and a half years have been a real wake up call as to how nasty and disingenuous the left actually are, basically using weaponised compassion to deliver some impossible puppy dogs and rainbows dream cooked up in a student with daddy issue's bedsit with no thought given to consequences.

The right do not care about the poor but the hatred and disdain from the left for the working class is now palpable.

That's not to say there are not serious issues and challenges ahead related to climate and the environment, but we're on a much darker path now that will render green issues a mere sideshow. Some people will only learn the hard way and sadly they will take everyone else down with them to eventually learn the lesson when it's too late.