BBC Chairman Richard Sharp resigns

[SirGalahad]

Behold! Yet another tories-are-evil-but-labour-will-solve-all-our-problems thread.

Well there is a start - we have problems created by the Tories.

Tories policies on the economy are absolutely sh ite.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I was labour until JC ruined the party. I’d rather vote for green peace now.

It doesn't matter to me who you vote for, or why.

But this BBC issue is not a political thing directly. It's about ethics. Voting labour, conservative or green won't matter

 

[fillyboy]

But this BBC issue is not a political thing directly.

Other than historically, the Beeb Chairman has tended to be 'selected' by the Govt in power at the time.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Other than historically, the Beeb Chairman has tended to be 'selected' by the Govt in power at the time.

As I said. Directly

 

[Justin Passing]

From the report...

1. "2.1 Mr Sharp informed the former Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. Boris Johnson MP) that he wished to apply to be Chair of the BBC Board, before he made his application in November 2020.
   2.2Mr Sharp also informed the former Prime Minister, before he was interviewed, that he was going to meet the Cabinet Secretary so as to attempt to introduce to him a person who had made a suggestion that he might assist the former Prime Minister with his personal finances."

This won't satisfy you, because your mind seems made up.

If you'd read what I wrote you probably wouldn't have been able to come to that conclusion. I was asking for info, yes?

If the guy had put those quoted sentences together to the cabinet secretary, as he claims, (I think), he would have been OK maybe , then, it seems.
If he'd declared them to whoever else it was he was supposed to, he would deffo have been OK? The (lack of) the latter seems to be his downfall, though there's no real "facilitation" which everyone seems to want to claim.

So we're being fed bullshít, as normal.
Yes he should have made it clear at the interview as well as well as to the cabinet minister (who's "forgotten", iirc so it may never have happened).
Would that have been enough for him not to get the job? Probably not.
Was it that big an error of judgment? OK strictly yes, not by much.

Because of the baying mob problem, I agree the "perceived potential conflict of interest" is enough for him to have to go, but now we're in an epoch where all that matters is that someone has to announce that "lessons will be learned", the effin lesson is "change the rancid system".
Old boys' networks like this have to go. I hope that Starmer, if he gets in next, has the guts, and freedom from impediments from the CS and elsewhere, to get the jobs like that done. No chance Rishi would.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

This payment is being referred to as a "loan". I wonder what the repayment terms and interest rate were?

I suspect that it was a "loan" (nudge-wink) that would never be paid back, i.e. a gift or better known as a bribe, and this may have been entirely connected with landing a very well paid job at the beeb, which was required to be approved by the then PM himself.

There's probably a lot more stink beneath this story than is being made public. Perhaps Boris should be required to produce the loan agreeement. More likely it will all just be swept under the rug and forgotten about as is usual for those in the ruling elites.