Damn, my secret's been rumbled.

(Actually I don't work for them, honest, although if I were to change career and start working for the press it would probably be my paper of choice).

I saw that one of the comments on that article mentions Murdoch giving UKIP money. I don't know about that but I did read that Richard Desmond, (Express owner and former Channel 5 owner) gave them a £1m recently. Pure coincidence I'm sure...

Blah blah blah

Personally I just hope that I never have to watch first run Doctor Who with commercial breaks in it.

Well, it wouldn't take much research to see that Doctor Who, Strictly and Top Gear are the BBC's big international successes.

Also, "The Indrprndent"? Are you working for The Grauniad?

I think there are lots of things the UKIP would rather kill off than Doctor Who.

David Tennant was doing voice overs for the Scottish Labour Party at the time as well.

Can't see UKIP winning more than 2 seats anyway

What about "Call the Midwife?" Watched in 200 territories!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/26296924

Made me chuckle...

I think it's referring to the international commercial success, along with the Natural Planet brand. They make up the top of that list. Call the Midwife is much further down (ie: it doesn't bring in anywhere near the revenue for BBC Worldwide).

This is the kind of thing that really frustrates me about this particular brand of right wing politics. They claim to be patriotic but clearly have no pride in state owned, British institutions that are an international success and envied throughout the world.

What Farage is proposing is that the BBC becomes like PBS is in America. Guess what happens there? The right wing nutters with no BBC type broadcaster to focus on claim all the news media apart from Fox news is liberal and biased against them!

Careful, now! As moderate, unbiased people we're supposed to let facts speak for themselves and not push our agendas! We're not supposed to have agendas!

To be honest I think that Doctor Who or the BBC is not going to even be on the agenda of any of the political parties at the moment.

DW is not, but the method of funding the BBC is. It's indirect (or at least unintended) at best (nobody in politics is "out to get DW") but don't you see a connection?

As an illegal alien no doubt Mr Farage would ask him leave

Surely Farage wouldn't be that bothered about The Doctor as long as he didn't use the NHS or get AIDS-ey blood all over the TARDIS console?

Seriously, the casual racism I can deal with. He's just a caricature of this big evil monster people seem to paint him as. But hating on Doctor Who? Officially worse than Hitler.

I think the method of funding the BBC will be up for some debate regardless of who gets in because the Royal Charter comes up for renewal at the end of 2016. Unfortunately none of the parties seem to view it particularly favorably but as far as I know UKIP are the ones who want to chuck the whole lot out with the kitchen sink.

Ha! Ha! Nice one!

I can see what you did there.

What about this then?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61hzuGGJX0

This sums up the Doctor very well!

Edit - this is performed by Genesis, which means 'birth', or 'beginning'. The Doctor stole the Tardis and became an 'illegal alien' at the start of his travels.

Yeah. It made me laugh when I saw him "answering" the question about the BBC's future funding.

"Fifty quid sounds about right" He made it sound like he'd just plucked the number out of thin air!

A lot of their policies are plucked out of the smoke filled air of the pub smoking rooms they wish to bring back.

We wouldn't need Doctor Who. UKIP would stop our open door policy to Daleks, Cybermen and any other alien invaders who fancied coming here.

But what happens when the UKIP Silurians vote to send all us apes back to Africa?

They get outvoted by the other 648 elected MPs?

UKIP are essentially leftover Thatcherites. Like Thatcher, they would be a disaster for culture.