How do you eat yours?

The impartiality of the BBC is a tendentious concept and while it is tempting to write off all of the obloquy the Beeb receives at the hands of right-wing pundits as fundamentalist scree, cracks do appear in the façade.  Covering the story of molestation accusations against the late Labour and Liberal politician Sir Cyril Smith, they carried a soundbite from the current Rochdale MP, Simon Danczuk, a Labour politician, excoriating the Liberal Democrats for their handling of the issue.  The very next clip, seemingly designed to undermine Danczuk's righteous anger, had Smith wearing a big, red Labour rosette.  Making sure Labour can't ignore the sting of the allegations might be described as aggressive impartiality.
On other cases, Auntie does show the (soft) left-wing side that her media assailants assert is her beating heart.  The benefit cut to public housing that the government labels the removal of the spare room subsidy may be said to have been characterised successfully by Labour as 'the bedroom tax'.  The Beeb can still claim impartiality because it can refer not just to the policy's critics who use the term, but also, surprisingly, to a housing association that deploys the phrase.  This allows the Corporation to write the headline "Bridgend tenants' anger at Creme Egg 'bedroom tax gift'" which sails very close to the wind of implicitly opposing this policy.  Very naughtily, near the bottom of its online article, the BBC sneaks 'bedroom tax' into square brackets - punctuation which is a wholly independent editorial device.
The story as such concerns a housing association (Valleys to Coast or V2C) in Bridgend that thanked residents for paying the hike in their taxes by 'rewarding' each household with a free Cadbury's Creme Egg.  Avoiding the danger of goo escaping from broken eggs that fell through letterboxes, V2C said residents could pop into its office during the month of April to collect this 'small thank you'.  Some found the V2C letter insulting and can you blame them?  Why not also give the residents coloured beads and shiny bells that came out of last Christmas' crackers?  The spirit of the Iberian colonisation of the Americas lives on.  I would like to think that if residents could get the covering foil off without tearing it they could get a rebate on their rent.  Such careful unwrapping is a time-honoured activity after all and to get money back from doing that no less ridiculous.