Here’s a blog-post by Tory PPC that is sure to annoy the grassroots (via LeftFoot Forward).
Zac Goldsmith writes In Praise of the BBC

In theory, the idea of a vast state-controlled news service does grate. But the anti-BBC campaign isn’t an ethical one; it is largely driven by commercial interests whose agenda is not to confine the BBC to its core competencies but to undermine its very existence.

The end of the BBC would be a disaster. If anyone is in any doubt, I urge them to tune out for a month and rely entirely on commercial papers and broadcasters for their news and analysis. That’s more or less what I did during the US Presidential election, and that experience led me to believe, absolutely, that the BBC is worth taking to the streets to defend.

Oh dear. ‘Commercial interests’ like that of Rupert Murdoch perhaps? Maybe Andy Coulson needs to have a word with Zac Goldsmith and keep him in line: this sort of talk is surely stepping out of the line?

Of course, what Goldsmith is echoing is the traditional ‘One Nation’ Tory line that a few years ago would have been completely uncontroversial.

Now however, with the libertarian nuts and anti-BBC Taliban swelling the ranks, this sort of talk is unlikely to go down well at News International or at CCHQ.