In the same week that the Tories aired their ideas for not increasing benefits in line with inflation the BBC "Panorama" programme, by sheer coincidence, decided to concentrate on benefit cheats. "We did consider making a programme about corporate tax avoidance and unearned bonuses but decided against it when the government ordered us not to," a BBC spokesperson told us. "We all know that benefit theft pales into insignificance when compared to corporate theft, just as we know that benefit cheats with yachts and properties in France are vastly outnumbered by the number of corporate thieves who own similar assets. But corporate greed is considered to be a good thing - especially by those who indulge in it - and they tend to have more political clout simply because there's more of them and they have more money to buy programmes like this one. Here at the BBC we strongly support democratic principles - at least all the ones that can be bought and sold - and reject any propanda that we can't sell for a fortune."
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