Just back from the UK and ROI, with pretty-much universal hatred of our President. I know there are some reasons, but one must remember that the Beeb is their major news source:
Andrew Sullivan points out a blogpost on normblog: "Greg Dyke and Tony Blair"
Last July, even before David Kelly committed suicide, as Alastair Campbell continued to bombard the BBC with complaints about its war coverage and alleged anti-Government bias, Dyke snapped. In rage and frustration with his former friend Blair, he told other friends that he wanted to put a substantial part of his own private fortune into helping the formation of a new Labour Party that would end Blair's run as leader.Makes you almost respect Rather/Jennings/Brokaw oligarchy.. Posted by jk at April 15, 2004 09:32 AM
In a state of considerable anger, described by one witness as "a rant", Dyke, editorial chief of the most powerful and trusted news organisation in the world, gave vent to his fury.
He told friends he had had enough of Campbell's bullying of BBC news, that Blair was almost certainly behind these attacks, and that he was personally prepared actively to help engineer the removal of Blair by promoting a new political party to which he would donate three million pounds of his own private fortune.