Lost all their #MOTD presenters after @GaryLineker wouldn’t apologise for criticising the government (read that again!😱)
And while that was obviously the big story, their bad day didn’t end there….
1/7
They announced they’d wouldn’t be airing the final episode of the latest #Attenborough series on TV for fear of a “Right Wing backlash”
WTF?
It will go out on iPlayer where the poor snowflakes won’t see it….
2/7
Then we had the statement about why #FionaBruce felt the need to clarify it was a “one off” when #stanleyjohnson put his wife in hospital😱
Yes, she was quoting one of their friends and not expressing her own opinion, but of all the things to ensure they clarified..?
3/7
Finally, an apology for NOT clarifying on air that Nadine Dorries was making unfounded, absurd claims when she was interviewed about #SueGray.
They were happy to let those accusations go unchallenged, but needed to add “balance” by pointing out SJ only beat his wife once!
4/7
I really want to support the BBC
Even more so because the government are so keen to shut it down (God knows why!)
I do hate the inherent right wing bias under the cover of “impartiality” but I try and give them the benefit of the doubt
5/7
But oh my God do they make that hard when they:
❌Silence govt critics
❌Refuse to air a show that might offend Right wing watchers (an Attenborough nature program FGS!)
❌Defend a Tory wife beater
❌Fail to correct spurious accusations made by a Tory MP
6/7
I really hope there are some serious emergency meetings taking place today after the shocking day they had yesterday
But given all the high level posts are held by well known Tories and Tory donors, I won’t hold my breath
Please, please #BBC, do better for all our sakes.😢
7/7
I’m being accused of lying with this thread. As far as I can tell the issue is with the Attenborough tweet.
The Guardian report what senior BBC sources have said.
The BBC are denying that’s the reason. Although they don’t really give a reason why they couldn’t broadcast it.
I don’t know which is “the truth”. Only the BBC and those senior sources do.
It was a 5 part series with a 6th part made by the same people but not commissioned by the BBC. However the BBC acquired it and chose to put it on iPlayer.
But I hope this clarifies things.
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Firstly - ULEZ.
ULEZ was expanded to cover this area on August 29th 2023 - 6 months ago.
Do we really buy that a wedding dress shop - a business which by its nature tends to be for one off purchases - actually saw a 70% fall in sales overnight?
2/12
BEFORE the ULEZ expansion over 90% of cars in that area were already ULEZ compliant
After the expansion 96.4% of cars in that area were ULEZ compliant
So, at most, that’s 6% fewer cars - some of which will have been upgraded, and some of which may well no be used as often
Hampshire Country Council have opened a consultation on what areas they should cut their services to 1.4 million residents, to ensure they meet their £132 million shortfall by April 2025 - following years of austerity cuts.
The options are pretty grim😢
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1 - Adult social care charges
Rather than getting people to pay 95% of their care and support, we just go the full whack and charge them 100%
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2 - Withdraw funding from grant programs that support voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations.
Given how much we now rely on volunteers to run things, making that EVEN harder doesn’t sound good