MOTD will probably get record viewings this evening (not because of the absence of the fatty-foods crisps promoter $$$$$ and his Qatar WC supporting rich chums), but out of curiousity.

Some very good things could come out of this hissy-fit, as it is again exposes to the general public how the BBC is a tax payers' funded platform for champagne-socialists and other virtue-signallers, whose views are unlikely to be reflective of the general public's views, certainly outside of the 'Oxbridge M25 bubble'. Another spur to reform the Beeb hopefully.

As Andrew Marr admitted back in 2006, when talking about alleged bias at the BBC, he said: "The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities, and gay people. It has a liberal bias, not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias." However, in today's turbulent culture wars that cultural bias does now translate, as evident by Comrade General Lineker himself, into party politics.