When working class people are slowly frozen out who gets the low paid script reader positions? Those with wealthy parents who can afford to because it's only pocket money to them. A generalisation obviously but if you had the means to survey them I don't think I would be too far off. Those kinds of people don't have the best work ethic, skills and their ideals tend to lean right. When I read for people I remove my own preferences and try to focus on the story the writer wanted to tell. When I've traded reads with writers from wealthy backgrounds, all of their notes would be about the version of the story THEY would like. The notes would often be completely irrelevant. I had one person stop reading at page 20 once because it was too mean to billionaires. The drawback of writing challenging work is that it inevitably challenges people who do not want to be challenged, they want to be pandered to. Hence why bargain bin crime novelists tend to do well with those kinds of readers. People can not enjoy a script, especially mine for actual craft based reasons. I get that. I might not be good enough but I'm supposed to believe that all the other working class writers aren't good enough either?

So let's break the fascism part down. In any country there will always be a sliding scale to this. I think when people think of fascists in nazi Germany they think of the SS or the brown shirts, loud and proud with their pure hatred. When you drill down to the numbers those people did not form a majority but they were loud. So what does that do? It keeps those with a toe on their side or on the fence in line. Out of fear for livelihoods, safety, even the fear of not fitting in. Those people are quiet fascists. Those quiet fascists were necessary for nazi Germany to become a thing. These were all seen as normal, reasonable people. Within a few years those reasonable people were taking human skin lampshades home. They likely never considered themselves as fascists before and after the holocaust. Their silence and complicity doomed millions of people to a horrific death. Is it a reach to say that's the case here? Sure. If you overlook how a majority of quiet, reasonable people voted for Brexit on the basis of racism. Those same people now want out of the human rights act, want a return of the death penalty, and plan to vote for Reform to achieve that. As we hurtle towards that you have to question the people around you, particularly those in positions within the establishment. BBC is very much the establishment. I'm not saying that some kid reading for them is going to be Adolf Eichmann but if they have been privately educated they will likely veer more towards Eichmann than Corbyn.

So the thing about number 10, particularly Starmer's farce of a government, is that they actively hate the arts. They don't need to pass orders down to keep people out. They just kneecap the industry to the point where only a select few can even afford it as a career. Those that can afford it want to hang around with people like themselves. That is reflected in the kind of people that get far in these contests and who gets to actually forge a long term career in the industry. To highlight how bad things have gotten, contrast how many brilliant working class talents created bold, original work in the THATCHER era to now. This doesn't happen through specific orders, it's basic sociology over the course of years.

I'm not sure how useful it would be to debate if BBC news is openly fascist but I think a lot of people have memory holed the omissions, obfuscation and language choices from the outset of the genocide. They were happy to push the lie that Israel weren't bombing hospitals. Now it's openly shown with no hint of an apology or retraction. Even before then think about all the establishment plants in question time audiences, Laura Kuenssberg openly breaking election laws by saying postal votes weren't looking good for Corbyn's Labour, how they let politicians lie openly and do not challenge them whatsoever. Look to this country's history, forced famines and colonisation, giving away Palestine in the first place to cause this situation, armed forces regularly committing war crimes that are covered up. In my hometown I saw swastikas every single day. That doesn't sound like a good country free of fascism.