Matthew Bain Challenges Channel 4
“In the wake of Channel 4 broadcasting Martin Durkin’s hour-long tribute to Nigel Farage (‘Nigel Farage: Who Do You Think You Are?’) which the Daily Telegraph described as “so cloying even UKIP fans would find it sickly”, I hope that Channel 4 will now consider making a documentary tribute to Caroline Lucas.
Unlike Farage, Lucas is an elected MP who has been voted into Parliament, not just the creation of a media hype storm. Unlike Farage, Caroline Lucas represents a real breakthrough in British politics, bringing the Green point of view into the mainstream, not just representing a retrograde group of little Englanders. Unlike Farage, the Green agenda that Caroline Lucas pursues is of utmost importance to the wellbeing and survival of our species, not a series of parochial and petty whinges. Unlike Farage, Lucas’ Green approach seeks to unite people across Europe and the world in defence of a common enemy - climate change - not divide people and set them against the poor and downtrodden.
Moreover, Caroline Lucas is willing to put herself on the line and get arrested in defence of what she believes in — out there on the front line, not in the snug bar like Farage. And Caroline Lucas is a woman who has come up from the grassroots of politics through her own hard work and intelligence, though Channel 4 probably don’t care about that as you clearly prefer to give free party-political broadcasts to Farage, an ex-merchant banker who consorts with Murdoch and is funded by the same dodgy money as our other useless politicians. I sincerely look forward to watching an hour-long Channel 4 film on Caroline Lucas, who in my opinion is the finest politician operating in this country today, but I won’t hold my breath.
Yours faithfully,
Matthew Bain
Not much chance I fear. Channel 4 doesn’t have a good reputation for supporting Green stuff. Martin Durkin even less so! He made the film, “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, which repeatedly asserted that man-made global warming is “a lie” - broadcast by Channel 4 of course.
Durkin was also responsible for Against Nature, another Channel 4 gem that completely misrepresented and misquoted environmentalists. In the end Channel 4 were shamed into broadcasting a discussion between Durkin, George Monbiot and other environmental campaigners - the nearest they got to an apology.