At one point Neil Young pulled out of the Glastonbury festival, citing interference from the BBC.

We don’t know exactly how big a role the BBC plays in organising Glastonbury, nor how many thousands (millions?) of pounds it throws at the Eavis family each year.

We do know that as the BBC has become more involved Glastonbury has become less alternative and more mainstream, with much of the line-up being the living embodiment of the Radio 1 playlist.

For their part, the Eavis family who own the festival have in recent years had something of a love affair with far left politician Jeremy Corbyn, who has spent his entire career sniffing around terrorists’ backsides like a love-sick dog and whose hatred of Israel makes Gary Lineker look like Sir Nicholas Winton. Inevitably this has led to Glastonbury becoming more rabid in its politics, culminating in this year’s appalling anti-Semitic hate fest, broadcast extensively on the BBC.

It was never just Kneecap and their promotion of the neo-Nazi terrorist organisations Hamas and Hezbollah. The Eavis’s, if they acted alone in choosing the line-up, have signalled their intention for months by booking speakers Owen Jones, Gary “the rat” Lineker, Zarah Sultana, Caroline Lucas, Clive Lewis, Anita Rani and Zadie Smith, among others, all of whom have either indulged in Holocaust inversion by accusing Israel of genocide, and/or called for Israel to give up on deposing Hamas. To my knowledge none of them have called on Hamas to end the war by surrendering.

Apparently the guy from Hope Not Hate is speaking there too. That’s the one who somehow avoided prison despite spreading fake news during the Southport riots about an acid attack on a Muslim woman, with the result that Muslims took to the streets with machetes. Lucy Connolly has been snatched from her family for nearly three years for a quickly-deleted post that was far less dangerous than his.

Musically the line-up is a Who’s Who of artists who have gleefully joined the New Wave of Global Anti-Semitism. The bill might easily have been chosen by plucking names from a showbiz anti-Israel petition. The BBC simply cannot have failed to notice this theme, but continued to fund and help organise the hate fest as it took shape.

The horrific scenes witnessed by viewers this weekend – rants about ‘Zionists’ (the omnipresent codeword for Jews), chants for death and ethnic cleansing against Israel and the IDF, including the genocidal “From the river to the sea”. Endless pro-Palestine rhetoric and a sea of Palestine flags – the modern equivalent of the Nazi Swastika. Oddly, these artists seem uninterested in the many conflicts around the world which do not involve Jews.

Many had been openly attacking Israel in the run-up to the hate fest. Rod Stewart went so far as to say “What Netanyahu is doing to the Palestinians is exactly what happened to the Jews.“ Hitler was, of course, famous for spending weeks on end shepherding people from one place to another so he could bomb military targets without hitting innocent civilians.

Given Stewart’s previous good form regarding Israel we can perhaps put his Holocaust outburst down to rock star ignorance rather than habitual anti-Semitism.

Bob Vylan, whose crap pun name seems to be calling the most famously Jewish singer on the planet a villain, grinned from ear to ear while inciting the largely middle-class, middle-aged crowd into a hate frenzy. The fields of Glastonbury have become a Third Reich version of the Good Life. The Bob Vylan set was perhaps the peak of the hate fest (one can only hope it does not get even worse), as the singer complained about once having to work for a “Zionist cunt”, led chants of “Death to the IDF” and, naturally, “From the River to the Sea”.

It is bad enough that we are living through a Red Fascist renaissance in the West, but here’s the worst part – you’re paying for it. The BBC is taking your hard-earned cash and giving it to Herr Eavis. Your licence fee is helping Glastonbury pay the likes of Kneecap and Bob Vylan.

This would be bad enough as an isolated event. But it comes after more than ten years of ramped-up political extremism from the BBC. Yes, the BBC has always been politically charged, but the last 10-15 years have seen it mutate into sheer lunacy. The overgrown student politics went up a notch when radicalising the Goods and Leadbetters with UKIP-bashing, rising further with the referendum hysteria and the following push to void the result (“We’re doomed! We’re doomed! Repent!”). The tedious obsessions with Boris and Trump, as if all previous Prime Ministers and Presidents had been some kind of living saints. Ever more ways to bash Britain and deify the EU. The relentless tsunami of identity politics, be they about race, sexuality, or the strange infatuation with drag queens - all of which does far more harm than good by winding up a public which had hitherto been remarkably tolerant. The yawnsome bleating about Tories seems to have been around forever. The demonisation of JK Rowling for her entirely reasonable and well-worded views is extraordinary (JKR was also one of those targeted at Glastonbury, in coordination with pinhead ponces Led By Donkeys). The romanticisation of the IRA is despicable. Then there is the butchering of the English language in the name of the trans cult and the incessant worship of the alphabet religion. Entertainment value has collapsed as politics has become the only priority – the best example being Doctor Who. The BBC characterises the British public as racist for being understandably concerned by an immigration level of over a million per year with little-to-no vetting, and not unreasonably frustrated with the failure to deport foreign criminals and extremists. Most recently the BBC has spent a great deal of time and money fuelling the New Wave of anti-Semitism which was unleashed by the rape and murder of over a thousand Jews during the Oct 7 pogrom. The routinely dishonest reporting of the conflict has been downright criminal, and the BBC is the trendsetter when it comes to news broadcasting. Make no mistake, the BBC has played a pivotal role in shifting the Overton window so far to the left that huge crowds now feel able to scream for the blood of ‘Zionists’.

The sheer, barmy one-sidedness of the BBC’s political prejudices in the first quarter of the 21st century will be studied with a mixture of fascination and repulsion by future generations.

Some of the smarter people on the Left like to protect the BBC with spurious accusations of right wing bias, which enable the BBC and Ofcom to ‘both sides’ the topic. (The many less smart people on the Left have actually come to believe the pretence, but that is useful idiocy for you.)

The general public, and the working class in particular, is smarter than all of them. It always falls to the common people to be that little boy who points and laughs at the naked emperor. Why should the good men and women of Britain be forced to keep paying for an increasingly deranged BBC and its ugly fellow travellers in places like Glastonbury?

I have never felt more strongly that I want to cancel my licence fee as I do during this televised hate fest, but I don’t want to stop watching all the other channels.

How can the government justify forcing viewers to pay for an increasingly deranged and extreme BBC? Most of us don’t want the BBC’s politics. We don’t want to fund hate. The smiling malice of the Bob Vylan set must be the turning point for the licence fee.

Paying the licence fee must no longer be a condition for watching non-BBC channels. Those of us who do not want to fund the BBC’s anti-Semitism and Foucauldian obsessions should no longer be forced to choose between giving up all live channels or handing the BBC money.

Sign the petition to exempt non-BBC channels from the licence fee.