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Good moaning to all. I greet you well.
Well, I never thought I'd have a good word to say about otherwise fully paid-up liberal Martine Croxall, who spends her afternoons reading what passes for "news" at the BBC these days.
I still don't, really. When Martine could have whipped out her feminist credentials to express a little sympathy for all those working-class girls who suffered at the hands of the Pakistani rape gangs, all her energies - and those of her fellow female presenters - were focussed on getting women presenters' salaries, which were already at eye-watering levels, up to the same levels as the better known and more accomplished men. On the rape gangs - and similar happenings in Germany - Martine had only her abject silence to offer.
So while Martine's correction to a woke script may earn her a few brownie points, they don't amount to anywhere near enough to wipe out past sins.
She's still as woke as they come, no national heroine.
If Martine's script correction and facial gesture made her Beeb bosses reach for the smelling salts, over on the equally woke ITV this morning the performance of 102 year-old Royal Navy veteran Alec Penstone induced an outbreak of apoplexy.
Alec, who watched several of his friends die during the war, refused to stick to the "don't we live in such a wonderful multi-cultural country?" script on this morning's edition of ITV's flagship Good Morning Britain programme.
Presented by the unremittingly left-wing Adil Ray and the decidedly liberal Kate Garraway, I think Alec quietly saw the pair of them as part and parcel of all that is wrong with this country.
Adil Ray, the son of Asian immigrants-made-good, is an almost perfect example of DEI. Bangs on and on about "racism" here, there, and everywhere, holding black and brown people back - he might care to look at his own career, and how well his own parents did in this racist land. But he never does, of course.
And when he's not on ITV, he hops over to the Beeb, where he can sneer away at Donald Trump and racist Britain to his heart's content.
Ray and Garroway were visibly taken aback when their old soldier guest refused to go along with the "isn't everything great" narrative:
"My message is, I can see in my mind's eye those rows and rows of white stones and all the hundreds of my friends who gave their lives, for what? The country of today? No, I'm sorry - but the sacrifice wasn't worth the result of what it is now."
Alec Penstone said what most of us are thinking.
Good on yer, Alec.
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