TV licence thread

[Car Boot 10]

48 minutes ago, ECCOnoob said:

......of course you had access to every single CV supplied and observed every single interview and was recording every aspect of the shortlisting and of course applied your skills of mind reading to know exactly the reasoning for the decision made.....

 

Maybe you should have applied yourself since you know it all.

 

 

Are you really trying to tell us that in the entire history of the BBC no woman or black and ethnic minority person has ever been as good a candidate for Director General as a white, male, public school educated member of the establishment?

 

That notion is as out of date as the 'do as we say, not as we do' BBC.

[Car Boot 10]

In 100 years the BBC has NEVER had a female, or black and minority ethnic, person as it's Director General. 

 

Not once.

 

It's also never had a Director General from a working class background. 

 

[Arnold_Lane 0]

6 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

In 100 years the BBC has NEVER had a female, or black and minority ethnic, person as it's Director General. 

 

Not once.

 

It's also never had a Director General from a working class background. 

 

Davie was Acting Director General before Tony Hall so he knows the role.  Hall had been at the BBC since 1973 so would you agree he worked his way to the top?

 

A quick look on Wiki says Davie won a scholarship to attend a fee paying school and was the first in his family to attend university.

 

How many black leaders has the Labour Party had?  How many women? 

Edited June 5, 2020 by Arnold_Lane

[Car Boot 10]

12 hours ago, Arnold_Lane said:

 

12 hours ago, Arnold_Lane said:

Davie was Acting Director General before Tony Hall so he knows the role.  Hall had been at the BBC since 1973 so would you agree he worked his way to the top?

 

A quick look on Wiki says Davie won a scholarship to attend a fee paying school and was the first in his family to attend university.

 

How many black leaders has the Labour Party had?  How many women? 

Davie was privately educated at Whitgift school in South Croydon, which costs from £20,000 a year for day students to £40,000 for full boarding.

 

In the last three years ITV and Channel 4 have appointed female chief executives, Carolyn McCall and Alex Mahon. But the BBC refuses to embrace the equality and diversity it preaches. 

 

“It would have been right to have a woman now. It is disappointing" - Carrie Gracie, the BBC’s former China editor who resigned over gender discrimination at the BBC.

 

Davie was Deputy Chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Tory party in the 1990s.

Edited June 6, 2020 by Car Boot

[Car Boot 10]

How can Tim Davie, a very wealthy and privileged white male, defend BBC TV licence fee prosecutions against very low income women, who make up nearly 75 per cent of all TV licence fee prosecutions in the UK?

 

Your BBC - discriminating against women from the very top of the BBC to the bottom.

 

Justice for women. Sack Tim Davie. No more BBC jobs for the boys.

Edited June 6, 2020 by Car Boot

[Thorpist 72]

If you put up an argument for a candidate with the right skill set rather than abuse someone because he is wealthy and educated you may get more people onside.

[Magilla 510]

5 hours ago, Thorpist said:

If you put up an argument for a candidate with the right skill set rather than abuse someone because he is wealthy and educated you may get more people onside.

...but then Car Boot would be up in arms about discrimination against white people, and Tim Davie would suddenly have been a champion of the underprivileged, left behind white male

 

Ask Car Boot about initiatives *they'd* implement to combat racism/sexism, not just at the BBC (which is well ahead of the curve compared to most), but also in society/business in general...

 

...silence!

 

Edited June 6, 2020 by Magilla

[Footy 4 All 0]

The BBC is still holding the noose over pensioners heads, delaying it until August will not be making anyone feel any better.

Its a shame that the BBC cannot find a way to fund itself without resorting to stealing from pensioners who have paid for their licences for over 50 years.

[altus 540]

18 minutes ago, Footy 4 All said:

The BBC is still holding the noose over pensioners heads, delaying it until August will not be making anyone feel any better.

Its a shame that the BBC cannot find a way to fund itself without resorting to stealing from pensioners who have paid for their licences for over 50 years.

Put the blame where it lies. The only reason that happened is the government stopped funding TV licences for over 75s leaving a huge shortfall in the BBC's budget. It deliberately did it this way so they the blame for any changes would be attached to the BBC rather than the government who made the cuts.

[Footy 4 All 0]

1 hour ago, altus said:

Put the blame where it lies. The only reason that happened is the government stopped funding TV licences for over 75s leaving a huge shortfall in the BBC's budget. It deliberately did it this way so they the blame for any changes would be attached to the BBC rather than the government who made the cuts.

You could view this another way, why were the BBC always charging pensioners over 75? 

It rightly shouldn't be up to the government to foot the bill.

The BBC bosses need to earn their keep by coming up with money making solutions that don't include ripping off pensioners

[andyofborg 11]

11 hours ago, Footy 4 All said:

You could view this another way, why were the BBC always charging pensioners over 75? 

It rightly shouldn't be up to the government to foot the bill.

The BBC bosses need to earn their keep by coming up with money making solutions that don't include ripping off pensioners

it's the government who decides these thing, it was only gordon brown trying to gain votes from oaps who changed the situation, and why shouldn't over 75s pay? most a reasonably well off

[Car Boot 10]

The BBC Board of Directors has 13 members.

 

8 are men.

5 are women.

1 director is black and minority ethnic.

 

The white male who got the job of Director General was already on the board.

 

The shortlist of candidates for the job were 3 white men and 1 woman. 

 

The BBC passionately believes in equality and diversity for everyone EXCEPT it's senior management. 

 

Time to break up this dinosaur organisation which treats women and black and ethnic minority people as if the year is still 1970, not 2020.

Edited June 7, 2020 by Car Boot