Ironic - George Orwell is 'too Left-wing’ for a statue, BBC tells Joan Bakewell

He told us what we were about to receive.
The ex-socialist who hated the liberal-fascism of the totalitarian collective state that mushrooms around us. And the irony is BBC is an enabler that mostly supports the liberal-fascist state!

George Orwell is 'too Left-wing’ for a statue, BBC tells Joan Bakewell - Telegraph

When the George Orwell Memorial Trust proposed a statue of the writer for outside the BBC’s new headquarters it expected an enthusiastic response.

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However, not everyone appeared enamoured of the plan.

According to Baroness Bakewell, who is backing the campaign, Mark Thompson, the Corporation’s outgoing director general, said the statue could not be erected on BBC premises because Orwell was “too Left-wing”.

Orwell worked as a BBC journalist, producing radio programmes at Broadcasting House during the Second World War before leaving to publish Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Mr Thompson’s remark will surprise critics of the BBC, who have long accused the corporation of liberal bias.

Lady Bakewell said the exchange took place earlier this year.

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