Said it before but it never ceases to astound me just how hollow all the 'sovereignty, national pride, take back control' rhetoric turned out to be shorn of its partisan dimension

Because it is clearly being used as an opportune moment to destabilise the UK. The BBC is something standing in the way of US and right wing interests. You can reform the BBC in isolation of these events, should you agree it needs to be done. A mistake such as this does not warrant its destruction.

As with the EHRC, I think there has been a deliberate wrecking strategy, where there first stage (now pretty much complete in both cases) is to corrupt the organisation to the extent that the people who would defended it the hardest instead see it as irretrievably broken.

In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.

What is this 'good' it supposedly does?

I think the combination of the dominance by the BBC of news, together with the levels of trust it enjoys, gives it a degree of influence which is unhealthy for it and for democracy. And it uses them to perpetuate a status quo-ism which is demonstrably failing the nation.

Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.

Damned unBritish of Farage and Rees-Mogg to demand our constant capitulation to every whim of the US (especially when they claimed the very opposite for the EU).