The Great British Sewing Bee's Patrick Grant fumes 'government are cultural imbeciles'

express.co.uk:

Netflix, while insisting that Channel 4 - soon to be taken out of the government's hands and privatised - provides better shows.The TV star announced his views to more than 70,000 Twitter followers, many of whom agreed."The thing about Netflix is most of its shows are actually REALLY bad," he candidly claimed."Whereas loads of Channel 4's shows are really flippin' good.

And Amazon? It's dogs**t."He added in no uncertain terms: "This government are cultural imbeciles."Twitter fans reciprocated by sharing their own, sometimes scathing views about the current quality of programming.@MissMorgzy was as enthusiastic as Patrick about denouncing the government, quipping: "Have you seen our Culture Secretary?

Honestly, there is higher quality culture in yoghurt."@JilloHalloran1 chimed in: "Netflix would kill to have Channel 4’s track record.

It’s complete insanity."@DavidCW28 concurred: "Settling down for the evening. Have both Netflix and Amazon. Nothing I want to watch.