How liberal is the BBC?

Sam Coates over at Conservative Home has done some great number crunching on how BBC employees identify themselves politically on Facebook. Of the 10,580 BBC workers on the site, 1, 340 say they are liberal while only 120 label themselves as conservative: so there are ten times more out self-identified liberals than conservatives at the corporation. Now, as Sam points out this isn’t a scientific survey—but it does give you a rough guide to political sentiment at the BBC. It is also revealing how comfortable BBC employees feel revealing their ideological standpoint. 

My other observation would be to say that you can be a liberal and still vote Conservative. Ideological labels haven’t tracked perfectly with British politics for a while.