Channel 4’s sanctimonious moralising is the last gasp of the old, pro-migration regime The broadcaster’s latest reality show sells a woke morality tale the public are no longer willing to buy
There’s no nuance, no measured discussion of the issue. We suspected Channel 4 had an agenda going in: its head of documentaries said that to “be able to challenge – and wrestle with – these views, we need to be able to air them... Otherwise... we end up with combustible events like last summer’s race riots.” It must have been awkward when it emerged the “anti-racist” participant Bushra Shaikh once posted that European Jews are a “bunch of lying scumbags” and claimed “nobody is born gay. It’s a choice”. And the inconsistencies don’t end there: Shaikh believes a large proportion of people in Britain are “thick as s---” and “greedy”. Her fellow pro-migrant confesses she is “ashamed to be British”. Yet both insist that the world’s refugees should come here. The UK is a racist hell-hole – and must be open to all.
