[Timocrat]

Maybe the BBC was too left wing for the former Commies.

[Stoat]

Maybe the BBC was too left wing for the former Commies.

Very possibly, and also far too corrupt even for Commies:

BBC admits fake winners on charity appeals (staffers posed as winning callers on air)

BBC BOSS TAKES A BITE (Director General of the BBC bit colleague on the arm 17 years ago)

BBC in row over doctored TV footage with Gordon Brown (....made him look like a thug)

BBC may be prosecuted for offering £40,000 to 'child-smugglers' (story faked)

Craven at the BBC (Islam treated with fawning reverence, Christianity with near-disdain)

[mc5cents]

Maybe the BBC was too left wing for the former Commies.

Former? When did the "epiphany" take place. News to me.