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15 Jan, 10 tweets, 5 min read
The BBC boat is not about to be rocked by its newly appointed Chairman; but the blame for which lies with a blustering, but backsliding & bottling Boris Johnson.
My latest for @TheConWom:
conservativewoman.co.uk/backsliding-jo…
"The BBC needs a chairman committed to demolishing its institutional groupthink. . . . . . .it isn't going to get one, thanks solely to the timidity & duplicity of Johnson and his flaccid government"
As pretty much confirmed by @Madz_Grant's perceptive sketch of the new BBC chairman's not so much grilling as gentle warming by an unthreatening DCMS Select Ctte.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/1…
"He fluently deployed trendy corporate jargon and phrases like 'matrix of diversity'. The licence fee, he added, was the 'least-worst' model, although 'when we next get a chance to review ... it may be worth reassessing'."
Doesn't exactly suggest a radical reformer, does it?
Already clear from Maitlis' continued blatant editorialising, despite new #BBC CEO's instruction to curb it, that Davie's executive writ barely runs to his own office door.
Sadly, BBC's new chairman looks unlikely to change that.
#DefundTheBBC
New BBC chair to DCMS Select Ctte: "Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers".
No 'seemed' about it. News-Watch survey established it was skewed 2:1 or more pro-Remain.
Oh, but it was still "incredibly balanced", apparently.
Judging by his first Commons 'grilling' (gentle thawing, more like) the new #BBC Chairman sees no reason to change anything in an organisation in dire need of reform:
ex-BBC journo and trenchant critic Robin Aitken.
telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/01/14/…
Ex-BBC journo Robin Aitken knows whereof he speaks.
Anyone who hasn't read his "The Noble Liar: How and Why the BBC Distorts the News to Promote a Liberal Agenda" needs to, pronto.
#DefundTheBBC
goodreads.com/book/show/4289…
‘In choosing Mr Sharp, a walking caricature of the Establishment, the Johnson government is signalling that it’s opting for a quiet life rather than conflict with the BBC.’
Spot-on, Robin Aitken at @spectator.
spectator.co.uk/article/richar…>
Precisely. Blame for this is Johnson's alone
Have to wonder about @Telegraph leader writers.
On #BBC loss of trust & audience it says: 'papered over by the generosity of the licence fee payer'.
'Generosity'? FFS, it's an illiberal, regressive tax, levied by coercion on pain of fine or imprisonment.
telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/0…

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President-for-Life Dr A Libertarian Rebel OBE #KBF Profile picture
26 Dec 20
Moore is correct in his reminder of the logic of Brexit.
Less so, however in his a-little-too-fulsome praise of Johnson, whose current shine may start to dull quite quickly when the fine details of his deal start to emerge.
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Already being reported that, as price of an ongoing deal with the #EU on security, UK has had to agree to remain bound by the ECHR, this ruling out any re-write or alteration for domestic purposes of human rights legislation.
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22 Dec 20
Can't help feeling the 'could lead to a new, harsher, debt system' argument is just Johnson's excuse to break his promise.
The really simple answer would be to announce the definite abolition of the 'licence-fee' as part of the 2022 mid-period review of the current Charter.
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So let me get this straight. In desperation to appease Napoleon Macron, Johnson will use British taxpayers' money to Covid-test non-British, especially French, drivers on British soil, so that they can return to France?
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/…>
Clearly a master negotiator!
Talking of master negotiators.....
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FFS, take his phone away!
Current EU fishing catch from UK waters ~82% of total.
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And still the #EU rejected it.
Withdraw his latest offer, and walk away. Now.
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20 Dec 20
All part of plan.
1/ Ignore deadlines, spin EU talks out to last minute.
2/ Cancel Xmas for Tier 4 lockdown, b/c 'lethal' Covid mutation.
3/ Thereby provoke EU states to block travel/borders.
4/ Use Covid-caused 'import chaos' as excuse to cancel Brexit.
We're being played
#COBRA
"EU-wide travel ban in wake of Covid mutation........ferries, trains and freight lorries have been banned"
telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/2…>
Which will of course seriously affect imports.
Despite so close to exit from Brexit Transition, the timing is of course pure coincidence, isn't it?
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So Comrade Commissar Drakeford, Leader of the Welsh-Labour Politburo, won't pledge to get all kids back into full-time education, even by end-September.
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He's a disgrace and should resign.
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thetimes.co.uk/article/pupils…
"Scientists are yet to find a single confirmed case of a teacher catching coronavirus from a pupil anywhere in the world"
thetimes.co.uk/article/school…
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This is just madness. @DCBMEP would have been ideal for NW Norfolk.
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#GE2019
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newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
This feels orchestrated, & it's beginning to smell.
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