IT APPEARS THAT the BBC has joined our puritanical government in supporting the work ethic. They are currently hunting for Britain’s Hardest Worker for a new game show designed to weed out the lazy and shiftless.

The patronising show, which attempts to glorify factory work, should really be called Britain’s Best Slave.

Says the blurb:

“Britain’s Hardest Worker (working title) is a new series for the BBC which sets out to explore the British workforce and its work ethic, discovering what makes a hard worker in modern Britain today. To do this, we are aiming to recruit 25 workers from across the country who all believe they could be Britain’s Hardest Worker.

“Our exciting new format will be putting them to the test in a series of challenges and tasks in each episode, it could be anything ranging from factory and warehouse shifts to agricultural, retail and semi-skilled work.”

Erm, no, that’s not exciting. That’s really, really boring. Everyone except for the deluded middle classes at the BBC knows that most of us work for the money and find our jobs deadly dull. Who will want to watch a bunch of lickspittle jobsworths competing for this ignoble title?

“At the end of each episode those who have produced the least will be eliminated and by the end of the process, just one worker will remain. This programme is commissioned by the current affairs department at the BBC and will look at themes around factory work and manufacturing.”

The BBC is about two hundred years behind on this one. Surely the days of glorifying work in the mills are over?

ENDS