More propaganda from BBC East Midlands

Thursday - went to a recording of my favourite TV programme at Southwell Minster - the BBC's Antiques Road Show. Could anything be better, be more British? The Minster in its beautiful grounds, the trees in blossom, a quintessentially British town like Southwell, a well behaved, well heeled crowd clutching symbols of their traditional past - their antiques - no white chavs, no so called 'BAME representatives' - except just ONE, a black person amongst the thousands of others; that's all. Even the police were in a good mood, sociable and chatty, and the pay and display machines in the town's car parks were covered over with bin bags - it was heaven. The great Henry Sandon waddled along the queue of visitors chatting, signing autographs, shaking hands with all and sundry.

Inside the Minster, our favourite experts were to be seen wandering about, advising the public on their treasures, and local BBC reporter Quentin Davis was cosying up to Fiona Bruce - it was wonderfully surreal.

I left hours later thinking "this IS the best country in the world".

The evening's East Midlands Today coverage at 6.30 on BBC 1 however showed a different story - out of five short on camera interviews at the start of the piece, there were four white people featured and the one black person I mentioned earlier. Then, after the Fiona Bruce interview, five separate shots were shown of people inside, having their antiques discussed and valued - and, yes, four of them where white and one black, giving an impression of a multiracial programme!

Anyone not there could reasonably assume that 20 or 25% of the attendees at the Southwell edition of the Antiques Road Show were from ethnic minorities, a totally false impression given by the politically correct, state funded BBC who should be brought to account for using an individual to promote the Marxist ideology of their paymasters in this way. This was divisive, manipulative propaganda on their part.

Incidently, talking about propaganda: I noticed a memorial in the Minster commemorating the 14,500 Polish officers murdered at Katyn in 1940. That reminded me of one of my uncles - a Polish veteran of the 1944 Arnhem campaign (who married one of my aunts after the War), who told me that he had understood the Germans were responsible for the Katyn massacre. It was only years later - after the fall of the Berlin wall - that the truth came out: the Russians, not the Germans, were responsible for this terrible crime. But it doesn't say so on the Southwell memorial - could it be that political correctness decrees that the false impression be maintained that Germany and "the nartsis" were to blame?