I'm not sure, but I think it's the tories' bizarre fixation with making the BBC terrible in order to prove that state funded things are worse than their private

I'm not sure, but I think it's the tories' bizarre fixation with making the BBC terrible in order to prove that state funded things are worse than their private sector counterparts. You see it every now and again when they want to apply even more rules to prevent the BBC making programmes they think might be successful/popular[1] [1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/11/john-whittingdale-bbc-white-paper https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/11/john-whittingd... (the best example I could find: government "forced to deny" what I suspect. Something something yes minister.)