Why do they bother?

Why are the BBC pressing on and publicising the Caroline Spelman case? It is, after all, under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner. Surely he has the resources and skill to determine guilt, if any?

The BBC have yet to give any coverage, or even mention, the current case rather than 11 years old, of the husband and wife labour MPs who have been paying £800 a year on insurance premiums at our expense.

It does seem strange to concetrate on something eleven years old, and ignore something currently happening.

But the words "Conservative" and "Labour" explain. That there is a bias at the BBC, and certainly in the case of the journalist involved - he was the one who dragged Ian Duncan Smith through investigation, goes without saying. But they have an added motivation now - the Conservatives have recently announced the possibility of requiring the BBC to forgo some of its public funds so that they may be devoted to competitors, especially Channel Four.

I wish that the Conservatives would subsidise competitive radio broadcasters. The Toady programme in the mornings, for instance, is very partisan at times in what they omit, in what they include and in the way they say things.

So I suppose the Conservatives should have been ready for something like the Spelman case. This is smearing at a very high level, and even if she is exonerated some of the muck will have stuck!