Victoria Derbyshire show axed

[JessicaLangoustine]

I read today that the Victoria Derbyshire programme is to be cancelled.

I should probably lament the demise of a current affairs programme that puts a female journalist front and centre. However, VD's one sided pushing of the trans agenda, treatment of GC women (on the rare occasions they have been allowed to appear), and general woke BBC manner leaves me with complete shadenfreude.

Apparently, one of the reasons Director General, Tony Hall, axed the show is because viewers are "more male and older than you might think." VD tweeted "This COMPLETELY ignores the rest of our figures - last month interviews/stories from our TV prog were viewed 20 MILLION TIMES online - stories & ints that wouldn’t have been commissioned without our on-air programme. On our FB page three quarters of our viewers are women."

I'm not sure of the truth of either of those statements. However, VD if you're reading this, it's terrible when someone only tells one side of the story, isn't it? It's terrible to be no platformed. Terrible to lose your job in unfair circumstances.

Part of me secretly hopes a load of GC women responded to a viewers' survey identifying as men!

Go woke, go broke. People aren't putting up with it anymore.

I have no sympathy.

Head tilt - aw that’s a shame.

On our FB page three quarters of our viewers are women."

Hmmm, VD, define "woman".

Shedding no tears.

'Every key management group in the BBC to have two 'diversity advisors' added it to by the end of this month'

It's going to ITV I heard.

May she “go well”

Hmmm, VD, define "woman

Yup

Victoria, I just want you to know that, despite my uterus, I always identified as a man when I watched your programme. I would only go back to being a woman when The Daily Politics came on.

Yes I’m glad but those diversity advisers

We know exactly who they are going to be. Posh white men who think they are not. Blue haired students. And Stonewall lackeys.

Let’s do a sweepstake on the number of pissed off menopausal women they include in this list. I bags 0-5 and I win.

It doesn't seem to be a case of "go woke, go broke"; more like a case of not woke enough. Hoist by your own petard there, Victoria.