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15 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Quite compelling viewing, this. Three #BBC D-Gs being grilled in succession.
Doesn't always happen, but this particular one is HoC scrutiny working as it should. Irrespective of political affiliation, all @CommonsDCMS members rightly excoriating their studied evasiveness.
Summary (in effect) Lords Hall & Birt:
"We re-hired the guy whom we knew/suspected was a liar with previous form in faking docs, & who'd been sacked for wrongdoing in US media, & who we knew was moonlighting for ITV while working for us.
But neither of us is in any way to blame"
DCMS Chair Knight: "Well, I've heard victim-blaming before, but this is quite something!"
DCMS Chair Knight (entirely justifiably) gets angry with Birt. Practically accuses him of outright lying about #BBC's treatment (firing and blacklisting) of the Bashir whistleblower Matt Wiessler.
Birt says he expected his (then) colleagues may have had a perfectly satisfactory explanation as to why they thought Bashir was lying, but didn't tell him.
You couldn't make it up.
#DCMSSelectCtte
#DefundTheBBC

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President-for-Life Dr A Libertarian Rebel OBE #KBF Profile picture
15 Jun
Chair of Commons DCMS Select Ctte giving ex #BBC D-G Lord Hall-Hall a serious grilling on the re-hiring of Bashir.
Haw-Haw being evasive, in effect blaming subordinates.
Obviously no sign on 𝘩𝘪𝘴 desk saying "The buck stops here" to go with his salary.
Chair: How was this known liar (Bashir) being paid"
Haw-Haw denies knowledge of, or involvement in, Bashir's pay arrangements, on grounds he was trying to run the whole of the #BBC.
"Nothing to do with me, Guv".
Lord Hall-Hall insists no knowledge of how Bashir came to be allowed to, in effect, moonlight at ITV while being paid by the #BBC.
Taking 'hands-off' management to a whole new level, presumably.
#DCMSSelectCtte
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President-for-Life Dr A Libertarian Rebel OBE #KBF Profile picture
14 Feb
This is arrant nonsense. A handful of Tory MPs might, but Johnson's government has no intention of actually fighting against the Woke agenda - only an intention of 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 like it's fighting against the Woke agenda.
telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/0…
Does anyone really think the dedicated Woke-Left culture warriors who now run 'the UK's biggest heritage bodies and charities' will be deterred in their mission by bleating entreaties to 'defend our culture' from 'Culture' Sec'y Oliver Dowden?
Pathetic.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
As if the Woke-Left #BBC will take any notice of a 'warning' from same timid PM & govt who not only ran away from decriminalising non-payment of - never mind scrapping - it's iniquitous 'licence'fee', but even allowed it to rise.
All theatre & pretence.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
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President-for-Life Dr A Libertarian Rebel OBE #KBF Profile picture
10 Feb
Same way all the vocal, intolerant, Woke 'minorities' have become so powerful.
Years spent infiltrating, then taking over the near-State, quango & 'charity' sectors, & waiting for the signal/excuse to launch culture war.
Floyd/#BLM/#Antifa riots last summer provided both.
These people, though malign, aren't stupid.
They spotted, early on, how craven, popularity-obsessed but blame-averse, politicos & governments of every stripe were increasingly outsourcing decision-making, upwards to supranational orgs, & sideways to autonomous agencies & quangos.
They realised how such near-State &/or quasi-State institutions would become the new centres of political authority & influence, whose capture by a relatively small cultural-marxist elite would enable them to wield power out of all proportion to the numbers who share their views.
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President-for-Life Dr A Libertarian Rebel OBE #KBF Profile picture
6 Feb
In its current condition of being in dire need of major structural reform, the Hand Of Hancock should finally seal its fate.
His interventionist but incompetent micro-management will merely increase producer interest capture, but decrease patient outcomes.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/0…
Fluoride in water, health warnings on sausages, & 'orders to prevent obesity'.
thetimes.co.uk/article/minist…
With #lockdown-fanatic control-freak Hancock in direct charge, the #NHS will become the vehicle for authoritarian behavioural 'nudge'-Govt.
#NannyState
Whatever its ostensible healthcare rationale, also cynical political move leftwards by Tories.
Obviously calculating that with voters softened up, by success of Covid-scaremongering, for greater State role in public life, they can reap electoral benefit by taking direct control.
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President-for-Life Dr A Libertarian Rebel OBE #KBF Profile picture
5 Feb
Clear derogatory inference towards Britain intended by @vonderleyen's 'speedboat vs tanker' analogy in her desperate, self-serving attempt at self-defence.
Ocean greyhound vs rusty tramp steamer, more like.
theguardian.com/society/2021/f…
Responsibility for Europe’s vaccine debacle lies indisputably with the European Commission president herself.
politico.eu/article/blame-…
Coming from a source which usually is fairly well-disposed towards the #EU, that's pretty damning.
Only 10 days old, but this hubristic assessment to #Davos-Man from @vonderleyen, viewed in the wake of her responsibility for the #EU vaccines debacle, isn't exactly ageing well, is it?
Pot. Kettle. Black.
forbes.com/sites/siladity…
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President-for-Life Dr A Libertarian Rebel OBE #KBF Profile picture
3 Feb
Rightly trenchant condemnation by Gary Oliver for @TheConWom of the #BBC for continuing to give a platform to the malevolent left-wing hack who traduced Scruton by blatant misrepresentation and mendacity.
conservativewoman.co.uk/bbc-gives-scru…
#DefundTheBBC
Though Oliver, also rightly, doesn't spare from (wholly justified) criticism fake-'Conservative' MPs like Brokenshire & Mercer who couldn't wait to condemn Scruton & sack him from a quango on the strength of a lie, just to curry favour with the censorious, intolerant Woke-Left.
Neither can the #BBC, as a public corporation reliant for its funding on a State-approved regressive tax, use the excuse trotted out by Big-Tech social media, namely that it's a private corporation which can air or not air who it likes.
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