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Mar 10 • 24 tweets • 10 min read
F*** the BBC Board.

Weak.

Unprincipled.
Especially taken together with this.

NOT IMPARTIAL @Ofcom

NOT in keeping with its charter @Ofcom

You really are not living up to your rôle at all.

OK for highly Tory political appointments like Sharp, Gibbs or Davie… but nothing remotely fair.
Good for @GaryLineker

He did not agree to step back. He did not agree to withdraw his ACCURATE social media post.
And bloody brilliant @IanWright0

💪🦾💪🏽💪🦾💪🏽
You can rely on @mattgreencomedy to pull a sketch out of the hat.
Now every single presenter the BBC puts forward is going to have their entire history turned over to see what flavour of presenter IS acceptable to the BBC Board.

Yes. And exactly what changed between yesterday & today.

And who changed it?

Under pressure from whom?

@Ofcom
And so this
And this
I wonder what @GaryLineker will line up now?
Imagine.

Just imagine.
Let’s get #ImWithGary trending
I imagine this is resonating especially with @maitlis but also with @lewis_goodall and @jonsopel who all I suspect had their wings clipped.
They have different tougher standards for news and current affairs/ factual journalist than for other journalists.

Lineker is not a news/ current affairs journalist. He is a very part time sports commentator

bbc.co.uk/editorialguide…
Alan Shearer also refusing to present MOTD in solidarity with #ImWithGary
Here he is
Listen to this from 2021.

@GaryLineker speaking with @BBCRosAtkins in 2021.

What has it come to when footballers are standing up for the vulnerable and the politicians are doing them so much harm?
And this. Clarkson.
Another MOTD presenter saying “No”

What a pig’s ear the @BBC Board have made of this.

It has revealed rather gloriously what double standards it has.

Now we can all see why Tory donors/Spads Sharp, Davie and Gibbs (to name but three) were appointed.

And why they should go.
💥💥💥Pow💥💥💥from @campbellclaret

Brilliant.
Giggle 👏👏👏 @bmay
Time to re-up this touching BBC documentary of @GaryLineker ‘s search for his Grandad’s wartime history in Italy

My near neighbour who lost his leg in WW2 as a very young man in Italy was delighted with this documentary

And another MOTD presenter
And ANOTHER!
Mmmm.

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Mar 12
As I suspected
If this is true:-

No breach of contract

No breach of guidance

Going to have to pay out on the contract

Why?
Given they decided no action one day and suspension the next what went on in between?

Who phoned/wrote/ met who and in what terms to effect that change?
Did ANYONE in the political establishment contact anyone in the BBC? How many people?

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What was said?

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Gibbs?

Davie had not felt inclined to intervene in earlier statement from Lineker re refugees, so what changed?

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What is undoubtedly true is that under Sharp and Davie’s stewardship they have dragged the BBC’s reputation through the mire ..so the BBC is the focus of the news…not informing the public impartially of U.K. and world affairs.

And this was utterly foreseeable. AND WAS FORETOLD
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