Thread by @redalphababe

For some years now we have had to put up with platform after platform being given across BBC output to racists and climate change deniers and muppets talking absolute tripe. #emilymaitlis #newsnight

We have had random talking heads saying ignorant baseless things about - well anything - as if they are facts and beamed across the nation into peoples homes again and again.

We have seen absolutely unqualified humanities and fashion graduates and randoms from far right thinktanks asked to talk on issues of science and pitted against real experts as if equal weight should be given to the muppets.

We have listened to the likes of Farage again and again saying the most horrible things about citizens of the EU, EU officials and European leaders. Low paid workers have been talked about as if they are not human by politicians on news programmes with no challenge.

We complain and nothing happens, These people go unchallenged and unchecked time and again. Yet twice now @BBC journalists have been punished for pointing out the facts as they are, for telling it as it is. Last year it was @bbcnaga. Today it is the turn of @maitlis

Without a doubt @maitlis is the best @BBCNewsnight presenter we have had in years. Everything she said last night was spot on. What a disgusting and shameful decision to remove her.

#newsnight #emilymaitlis #bbc