The BBC have been up to similar tricks

JAMES DELINGPOLE: So will the BBC and Channel 4 screen pre-election dramas mocking the Left? In your dreams!

Viewers could easily have confused it for a Labour Party political broadcast. Indeed, what I found myself watching on television on Sunday night seemed to fit the bill perfectly.

At first sight, it was the glossiest, starriest and most expensive party commercial in British campaigning history.

The storyline was written by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling; the all-star cast included Sir Michael Gambon and Keeley Hawes; the budget was in excess of £5 million.

But, in fact, it wasn’t produced by the Labour Party.

It was BBC TV’s adaptation of Labour-supporting Rowling’s first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy — a tub-thumpingly political drama featuring well-heeled Conservative-voting types behaving selfishly and badly in an idyllic Cotswold town very similar to Witney, whose MP is . . . David Cameron.

To those of us of a cynical disposition, it seemed as if someone at the BBC had deliberately decided to screen this farrago of Left-wing propaganda just three months before the General Election in order to mock the Tories.


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