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6 Jan, 6 tweets, 4 min read
New @BBC Chair Richard Sharpe:

Multi-millionaire🤔

Rishi Sunak’s ex-boss😳

Given hundreds of thousands of pounds to the @Conservatives🤭

Former investment banker - eight years at JP Morgan before moving to Goldman Sachs🤬

Can you see what it is yet?

theguardian.com/media/2021/jan…
Given the @BBC is getting a former investment banker & Tory Party donor as Chair, I wonder what will happen to @BBCNews', @BBCPolitics', & perhaps especially @bbcquestiontime's *legendary* obligation to be "politically neutral", "balanced", & "impartial"?

More (extremely concerning) detail on new @BBC Chair Richard Sharpe from @ta_mills:

And now it's reported that Andrew Neil's new project 'GB News' is funded by "the Legatum Institute" - a very rich think-tank registered in Cayman Islands who sponsored The Road to Brexit (foreword by IDS).

Their 'business style' is disaster capitalism.

Without question, British democracy hangs by a thread.

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