Here is the excruciating moment Tim Davie walked out of only his second interview as acting Director General:
Well done to the BBC for choosing yet another leader with such wonderful media and people skills.
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Nigel Farage hits the nail on the head:
“This olive oil ban was virgin on the ridiculous.”
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
What a fucking ‘tard…..!
Davie had to go and wipe the manure running down the back of his legs
Unbelievable, totally unbelivable
Rank amateur.
Looks like another biddable time-server.
I heard that Basil Brush was being lined up to do the job.
He couldn’t be any worse…
Emu would keep everyone on their toes.
So how many millions will this tard be paid off with in a couple of weeks?
Basil is, on the face of it, an ideal candidate (in comparison to the others). However, he did let slip his anti-traveller Racism a few years back and is therefore totally ruled out. Forever.
B. Brush and C.Thatcher are both opposite of white listed.
I’ve been in the job half a day and I’ve already earned £200,000. Result!
Obviously the wrong side of the camera for him. He needs a minder.
As a marketing executive he represented the product. He stands behind the product. As DG is the front man of the BBC. It was like watching a rabbit caught in the headlights.
He did have a minder. There’s footage of a reflection in the window behind Davie of his media handler directing his replies to Murnaghan.
now that was funny
An arrogant ‘tard too. Couldn’t believe it when he just bogged off. He’s typical BBC material – hope he does well in his temporary position (not) and also hope that Helen Boden (or whatever her name is) gets what’s coming to her, but I doubt it. She’s fire-proof by the looks of it!
But the BBC is the most loved most respected etc. etc.
It must be because we say so!
You can tell he’s a twat by the way he waves his hands about in that ‘I am from the BBC and I have been on the management-approved hand-waving course’ sort of way.
Shifty, evasive, and conceited to boot. The personification of the BBC.
I think he is right.
He has a job to do and not ponce about at studios giving bad impressions after two days in place. Let Lord Patten do that and cover for him while he cleans up the mess.
He obviously does not have many fans on this website, BUT consider how many enemies he has in the BBC that he is trying to sort out.
He will need a hit team and someone to cover his back from Patten et al.
Donal Moinahan who has taken Cameron’s mate Murdochs fifty pieces of silver.
Suck this Donal, and stick your repeated show Eggheads being constantly repeated on the beeb, at six o’clock each weekday, on beeb two, right up your jacksie, you two faced prize bellend.
EDIT – so Dermot whatever is his name – so I haven’t got a fucking Sky Murdoch to editor me legally, but I hope you got my gist, between the lines,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermot_Murnaghan
You seem to be as accurate with your facts as the BBC and the BIJ.
What the **ck are you on about, are you drunk already.
Not wearing a tie is the socialist equivalent of a mason,s funny handshake
And patten is playing “my turn next” with regard to the pay off
You couldnt make it up, what a crying shame that these muppets are dragging the BBC down like this. Is he really the only person at the beeb who could step in ? if so, its even more worrying.
I blame Murdoch, it’s all his fault.
All Thatcher fault
It started in America.
Fatchers milk snatching surely? Or Ashcroft
I wasn’t aware I was doing an interview. It never occurred to me to ask.
George gave me this as he left. He never got round to reading it apparently.
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He doesn’t seem to think that giving interviews, so that the paying plebs might be enlightened, is part of his job. And he sounds like an East End barrow boy; do they still exist or has the enriching of our country made them extinct?
It was the Olympic parking restrictions that did for the barrow.
You mean he sounds like an Islington Mockney on a six figure salary
gercha cow son
now git off me barra
I couldnt believe it when i heard him speak, it wasnt just the (contrived ) accent, he sounds a bit thick.
BBC, killed by its own bias!
Ah, the quality of senior management these days.
The quality of management these days is definitely (not) strained; it droppeth as the gentle…
Oh why bother?
CIM in their last report stated that 60% of British management are ineffective.
Strange that they missed the irony that this surely also reflects upon themselves and their policy some 15 years ago move from private sector to concentrate more on the public and NGO sectors.
I also disagree with them. My experience shows a 75% decline of which 30% is terminal.
Reminds me of George Bush. Did he then walk into a cleaning cupboard?
No, that was McMental.
Not obvious from this clip but he spent the whole interview glancing at a PR ‘minder’ whose reflection was visible in the glass behind him. Woeful.
Notice how the minder makes a pointing gesture (as if to say “enough! get off!” shortly before the hapless Davie stumbles. He then proceeds for follow his handler off the set.
Presumably the minder meant he should change the subject, or like Ed Milliband give the same answer no matter what the question was. (ok he would have looked stupid ) but to walk off, ffs. do you think he will last the week ?
Unbelievable!
Like a rabbit caught in the headlights.
How much are we paying this arrogant fuckwit?
£450,000, this time next week.
Do you think he’ll survive that long?
WEll, presumably if he doesn’t he’ll still pick up £450k. Just like gormless George. …actually. maybe he isn’t so gormless.
call newsnight nightnews problem solved
Night Nurse.
Should be renamed “News Nightsoil” and rescheduled to early morning.
Hang on, hang on – does no one see what he is doing there?
he is *literally* “stepping aside”!
Why is Gareth Gates the new DG of the BBC?
Listening to Entwistle being slaughtered by Humphreys was joyous. Every other answer he gave was “I didn’t know, I didn’t ask, I wasn’t told, I didn’t hear”. This cock was Director General and, if he’s telling the truth, he never thought to ask anyone anything about what was going on at the BBC! Funniest moment was when he said something was brought to his attention, and Humphreys said “Brought to your attention? Didn’t you want to find out yourself?” “No, John, I didn’t”. Priceless.
Erm, Humphreys is part of the problem.
I liked the bit where he was asked whether he watched the output and he said no.
You can’t blame him for that. Everyone knows the BBC is crap. Why shouldn’t he go and eat a bag of chips at a bus stop somewhere. Its much more interesting, especially if its raining.
Very good! Pictures with words….
Strange, as that approach always worked for me.
As Director General of the BBC, I would like to make it clear that I do not watch the BBC, I do not listen to BBC radio, nor I do not contact the BBC. Ever.
As such, anything that happens at the BBC cannot possibly be my responsibility.
If the BBC wishes to contact me, they know my telephone number (or they did – I’ve recently changed it and gone ex-directory).
That’ll be £450k, please.
Who on earth thought George Enwistle was DG material ? surely he must have had more about him in his previous role ? its actually almost unbelievable, how things are panning out. We must be a laughing stock abroad.
As noted on previous thread…..completely full of his own self importance…sanctimonious…
…prick
Standard Beeboid issue.
It’s come to my attention that I’m the acting DG of the BBC. I was unaware and it didn’t occur to me to find out.
They don’t like it up em Mr Mannering..
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I think I will run an editorial on how despite this she was not nice to her previous boyfriends
+LOL++
Entwhistle wasn’t so lucky
So how many millions will it cost to resign this stand in?
So, I take it Patten appointed this mong too?
From a long line-up of other unsuitable applicants.
perhaps he had a luncheon appointment – one must have priorities
Maybe he was off to write his resignation speech ?
Typifies the arrogance of the BBC. They really don’t think that Sky et al has any business disecting them by interview.
Entwistle arrogantly refused to appear on Sky yesterday.
the sky is the limit,
sadly everyone is limited,
hence our liabilities are limited too, so no bad thing
Didn’t Patten agree, then change his mind, then reluctantly deigned to lower himself to appear on Sky News whilst holding his nose?
pattonbatton is the pillar that needs shaking.
Yes, and Patten also tried to bail out of his interview with Anna Jones in a similar manner.
No- he said he was going and he left- he’s got a lot of work to do so let him get on with it. Those Sky guys just need to worry about how poor Rebekkah Brooks is going to survive on her settlement.
Oh, expert bit of distraction there.
This whole affair is an ever-expanding unmitigated disaster for the BBC, and everyone knows it. The new acting Director General has just had an interview carried out with all the media know-how of the average vole.
Wandering slightly off camera, pausing, saying thank you, and leaving. Just awful, awful, awful.
Plus, he needs to put on a tie; it is not 1AM at Stringfellows. He is supposedly trying to rebuild the ‘reputation’ of an organisation which thinks it has the right to extract £3 billion a year from the population, with menaces.
turning up looking like a typical soho leftie and not bothering to dress properly. As someone i knew well said that if you are being interviewed, at least put on a tie and look smart, you are not down the pub with your mates.
Also try to give a straight answer about events and what you are going to do about it, not say you are busy etc. this is what done for tony hayward at BP by stating that it ruined his holiday when he forgot to put the people that died first and the livelyhood of others first.
It was entirely his own fault for agreeing to have an interview in the first place – especially with his main competitor! Stupid stupid stupid. he should have just told Sky to get lost.
The BBC news correspondent is interviewing the BBC news correspondent who in turn interviews the BBC political correspondent about the interview given by the BBC director general, on the crises at the BBC. Unbiased reporting at its best.
But who is standing up for BBC while that is going on?
Embarrassing. I love the BBC and think they need someone who can fight back and push the focus back onto the real scandal rather than cede to the anti-BBC mob having a field day.
‘push the focus back onto the real scandal’
I presume you mean the BBC enabling child abuse for thirty years plus, despite knowledge that something nasty was going on?
Or did you mean Thatcher and Ashcroft. So hard to tell.
I think he probably meant Tony Blair and Carol Caplin, but i cant be sure.
The BBC is the real scandal, and has been for 20 years. They’ve finally been hoisted by their own hubris and are paying the price of living in their lefty dream worlds. Cammo now has the Beeb’s balls on a trowel, but that wet wonder will miss the opportunity to cleanse the Beeb of institutionalised Lefty bias.
Yes very sadly thats likely to happen. He could get rid of the Bercows as well now and romp the next election if he had the wits about him.
Yes, I ‘love’ the Beeb too and in an ideal world I’d have a BBC which survived and was the acme of impartiality and lived up to its charter every single day.
Such a restoration (?) is not going to happen, though, without a policy of reform which is more than a mere amputation, or a change of blood. This needs to reach to the very DNA of the moribund, corporeal centre of the corruption.
One feature of the pathology, is that las in much of socialist thinking (as Orwell elucidated), is that the organisation at the centre of this debacle lives in a quasi-reality with the news depts having little to distinguish from their light entertainment depts. Amongst the joyful consequences we are treated to in consequence, is the conviction that comment on serious issues on serious news progs by card-carrying, establishment-lefty comedians is valid.
Satire is dead.
wow! i like it!
#40 WastedJoker – it is possible to deplore the incompetence of the current (and recent past) management without joining Rupert’s ‘anti-BBC mob’. To save the institution and render it worthy of support it needs root-and-branch institutional reform.
Vis one can’t even speak proper.
Well he was only working in the mail room day before yesterday, they’re running out of people. Give him a break.
Tim Davie, previously Director, Audio & Music
Total remuneration: £349,000
The cash speaks for itself.
audio and music…wasnt that where Jimmy Savile worked?
Ian Brady is a safe pair of hands in BBC speak.
Audio AND Music.
I don’t know about you, but I listen to music using my auditory appendages, which are called ears.
Audio also includes speaking words an’ that – not just listening in to Strier Dates on the iPod.
Then why not call it Speech and Music?
Or what it really is… ‘Radio’.
Cor, luv a ducks, you’re right.
Audio and Music?
Surely someone with a decent news background is needed.
They are running out of hideous white men.
“You’re keeping me from the vital work of maintaining the BBC as a robust institution which contributes immeasurably to our societal well-being,” or some equivalent rot, was what he was probably thinking to say, but something must have got in the way between brain and mouth.
I mean, that IS the sort of standard BS they deliver over there, innit?
Funny, I remember Davie primarily for launching the “not at all political decision” to close the extremely well patronised BBC Radio 6 Music and the BBC Asian Network when he got whiff there may be a few cuts to their seemingly bottomless BBC trough inciting some real bile towards the people who wanted them to reign it in from a passionate instant army of vociferous listeners in the process.
I find it hysterical to see the BBC in so much tail chasing after their amateur dramatics, but not so hysterical to see them appoint someone so quickly who clearly loves playing a bit of the old politics.
One has to conclude from this, they either don’t care or don’t know how this will be percieved in public or simply don’t have the ‘talent’ to fill the role with someone level headed enough to cut the bullshit and just run the place how it was meant to be run, from this, one has to further conclude it’s just more weight for them to be knocked on the head because they just.don’t.get.it.
Anyone capable has been tainted by the whole thing.
Also part-way would be more accurate than mid-way.
Tim Davie…profile.
“Appointed UK Marketing Manager for PepsiCo in 1993, Davie was subsequently promoted to Vice President, Marketing, Europe and Sub-Sahara Africa, holding several similar appointments, including in the United States, before taking up the Vice President for Marketing and Franchise post.”
“Davie joined the BBC in April 2005, Mark Thompson’s first senior external appointment as Director General of the BBC, as Director of Marketing, Communications and Audiences”
Says it all really….why did the BBC need a fucking marketing man?
More to the point, did Pepsi kick him out and if so, why?
More to the point, if thats his CV why is he behaving like an incompetant work experience boy ?
Oh well, I’m sure Mr Davie gives good power point.
I didn’t catch his name:
Was it Pepsi Max?
When you think that it cannot get any worse for the BBC along comes Tim Davie
Maybe Entwistle could give him a loan to buy a tie, I hear he’s quite flush.
Not wearing a tie is the socialist equivalent of a mason,s funny handshake
It immediately singles you out as a fool, in this sort of situation. Im gobsmacked to read his CV above. I take it Pepsi arent too choosy then.
When can I start tweeting my twaddle to my millions of admirers again ? #lowprifile#shittingmyself
Might as well shut the Beeb down for a rest. No point in them carrying on like this.
A rest ?? Twenty years suffice ?
Anyone caught saying “at the end of the day” on camera is clearly not fit for a career in any kind of broadcasting.
In fact the whole of that clip is just so full of cliches and plattitudes.
It seems fairly obvious he is nothing more than a marketing jobsworth who has been promoted way too far beyond his abilities.
Agreed. At least he reads the Guardian.
Who does he keep looking at off camera?
Some lackey frantically trying to mime what he should say, a’ la The Thick of it?
I’ve never seen anyone look so uncomfortable on camera, only Devine trying to explain away his thieving comes close.
Or the footage of Brown in a radio station being asked about Gillian Duffy.
To be fair, The Fife fuck-up didn’t even know that camera was there.
Doesn’t stop it being a delight to watch though.
In the Thick of It.
Yep, the Beeb has become the clusterfuck as parodied in that prog.
Looking at his CV, you would think he would at least be able to do an interview on camera without making a fool of himself, obviously not !
Maybe he thought he was being told his hash browns were ready !
Anyone caught saying “at the end of the day” on camera is clearly not fit for a career in any kind of broadcasting.
I agree but what is worse is when they say “at this moment in time”
… along with: going forward, getting down to the nitty-gritty, thinking out of the box, a level playing field etc etc.
Jargon Rules OK!
Well, it avoids thinking, dunnit?
Not a brilliant start, if that is the quality of their top men then is is fairly obvious that Patton is a complete buffoon with flashes of imbecile woven in, how can one idiot make so many ridiculously incompetent decisions on personnel.
That is a woefully inadequate response by the night-watchman, and possibly is not the auspicious start to a good cunning plan in reviving the trust of the viewers.
So we now know it would be prudent to cross his name off the short list and bin the CV….Next!
I think it’s safe to say a brief stint as ‘acting’ DG will be the apex of his career.
Crikey, what a pleb! Somebody give that man a fucking tie. Please.
Somebody give him a P45. That is, if he is actually on the payroll and not billing the license payers through an offshore service company.
+LOL++
Fuck the tie what about some humility, understanding and a modicum of intelligence regarding the failings of his company.
Maybe before they set up the all singing all dancing circuses of the various inquiries for this that and the other they should be given compulsory instruction on how to handle the press and public.
Stupid questions are one thing but given the seriously dropped bollix of the NN debacle it was not unreasonable in the circumstances to surely to ask that question, all he has to say was it was under review and such action might or might not be applicable or indeed appropriate.
Flouncing out with a look of constipation is not a winning move!
Saw him walking into work this morning with a cup in his hand – having watched that interview, we now know he is the tea boy….
You do have to wonder, do they not have any tea or coffee making facilities in that £1.5 billion building?
Yes, why do people do that ? they look such tools. FFS wait until you get in and get a hot drink there.
What a dead loss he is. Who does he think he is.
Unbefuckinglievable.
What an utterly appalling start.
A marketing man who can’t even market himself properly.
No-one seems to have commented that Dermot Murnaghan was extremely rude and constantly interrupted the Acting DG’s answers. I think he was entirely right to walk out since he was not being allowed to answer questions properly.
Yes, that would never happen to a Conservative being interviewed on the BBC, particularly BBC Radio 5 Labour.
ye gods is that not the nature of so called interviewers these days?
Murnaghan is a cretin but if the Beeb think they are going to get a yes sir thank ee’ kindly & please they have another thought coming!
These are folk running a company that were the masters of journalism and integrity…shows that they don’t give the legacy a stuff in a mattress!…absolutely amateur and a serious clue as to the ‘talent’ at the top they boast of!
I don’t hold any particular brief for the Beeb but Sky could at least have let the guy answer the questions that were put to him.
Your argument might have held water had the Acting D-G even tried to answer the questions properly. Murnaghan was, quite properly but unsuccessfully, trying to get him to do that.
Diddums ! as soon as you walk out you are toast, the fool is now finished. I think for £349,000 a year he could at least answer a few rudely put questions!
Have Sky ever knowingly employed a competent interviewer?
Does anyone at the BBC understand the libel laws?
Do the lawyers?
It’s amusing that the BBC claim to be ‘balanced’ and ‘impartial’. It is very simple to disprove that premise, by the simple observation that lefties defend the BBC so rigorously.
They know damn well the BBC is of them, for them, by them. Knowing this, and thinking they have got away with it, makes them feel very, very clever.
Having this stone suddenly lifted makes them panic and scuttle out the sunlight, as in this interview.
I have never been able to work out why Ed x2 Hatttie, Yvette, Burnham (to a lesser extent) etc are an almost permanent fixture on BBC radio news bulletins.You know the thing, PM says something, or a “crisis ” occurs.Newsreader tells us, the usual suspects come on to rant about it. 99 times out of a 100, no Conservative gives their side, why hant this been stopped, its so blatent.
My mother told me when I was a kitten “never leave the room until you have finished licking your balls”
I wish I had a pair of those
With this too the BBC is toast
They don’t like it up ‘em, Sir, they don’t like it up ‘em!
Captain Mannering would have been far better than either EntHunt or Davieprick
Mainwaring.
Davie’s on the road again…
On the basis… of… [looks left]… per..[looks right]…ormance… guessing what, about a week before we have to stump up for his retirement chateau too.
You forgot…… Ken Livingstone.
Has all the correct left wing credentials, has run one of the biggest cities in the world. Huge experience. An outsider. Has media experience via his LBC radio show. Very popular.
All this shows the BBC to be a totally introverted and dysfunctional organisation.
Dimbleby this morning couldn’t understand why the DG resigned. That David is a prime example of why the BBC Culture is a problem. There is no culture of responsibility or control or accountability. Looking at the goldfish bowl from outside the rest of us were thinking ‘this man is incompetent and has no control’. That’s why he had to go, nice chap or not. We dont need a nice chap to sort out this mess. We need a competent person who is a bit of a bastard when he / she has to be.
Why would Dimbleby broadcast a Newsnight exposing a pedophile at the BBC? Look at all the ones who have sat beside him on QT without being challenged.
Here is the sword Fatty Pang. Kindly commit hara-kiri now, otherwise you will be found floating in the Thames tonight.
Not while its raining. There would be a flood.It would flood the embankment.
Why are these BBC exec interviews called ‘car crashes’? They’re two trains full of orphans hitting each other at 100 mph.
At least he turned up, where are all the professional communicators from the DJ community since the crap hit the fan?
Duck n’ weave.
I bet he’s on a fat cat pay packet too but he’s to haughty to speak to Sky.
He’s just a twat. Still. He’s got the 10 minutes of fame now he was always dreaming of.
Tory puppet alert!
Theyhave had their eye for a Goebbels since May 2010.
…furthermore, why does some blog threads here not allow me to comment? Or have I answered it in my previous post?
AH-HA – answered my own question…. flipping Etonians.
Impressive. He has all the gravitas and intellectual rigour of a Richard Bacon.
Islamophobe!
Richard Bacon? What is your problem with him? Best Blue Peter presenter they ever had, the most honest about his, unlike other beeb kiddies tv, about his lifestyle. And at least he didn’t die in a bath, or hang himself….
Best Blue Peter presenter ever? One hopes you jest for if not your soul will surely rot in hell. Even the transgender tortoise Fred(a) was way better than Bacon.
Tell the kiddies real life, I always say, not fart about. Bacon is a genius for what he did, break and shatter the whitch’s mirror.
Biddy who? you are going off topic now…. : )
Which department of the BBC do you work in, Ehtch?
All i can say is, is that you Richard ? it cant be anyone else !
With a. name like. Bacon is he perchance. Back gammon player ??
No he’s a Hunt, like you
I think this is the man who gave the Bacon his “fantastic” show on BBC Radio Five Live.
Listening figures soon to drop below 6m, apparently…
What an arse!
Pretty sure that was just the tea boy. He had about as much media training as this fella…
This joke is beginning to become a sick one.
Is this creature really, I mean really the present Director General of the British Broadcasting Corporation? Is this the best they can do?
Merciful Heavens! This poor old country must be going to hell in a handcart.
The only possible solution: close the BBC down and start again from scratch. Anything else would be pointless. The cancer is too widespread and is now terminal.
The BBC take on it is that it foreign handcart because Thatcher closed all the Britsh handcart factories. The fact that it is being pushed by a Pole and not a Brit is nothing to do with Blair.
What is it with this Islington Mockney glottal-stop form of address? Send the man to a speech therapist.
All those wishing to see the BBC finally disappear up its own fundament, must surely be cheering Chris Patten’s brilliant strategy …. just keep appointing cloned beeboid manager muppets until it finally self-implodes. My money says he’s secretly on the Murdoch payroll.
If it wasn’t a crisis before IT certainly is NOW…the gouy was absolutely terrible…Patten has actually achieved what people thought was impossible…he’s appointed someone who appears even worse at handling the media than “Incurious George”…..Tim’s performance is hardly likely to inspire the troops to walk towards the gunfire rather to jump in the nearest foxhole until the “All Clear” is sounded. Tin Hats anyone ?
THAT was the DG? Please tell me it’s April 1st. It can hardly talk.
It probably ticks all the necessary boxes though.
Left wing, trendy open collared shirt, knows all the green AGW buzzwords, pro-Europe, anti-English, preaches diversity while living in Lily white area, pro-comprehensive while kiddies are at exclusive private schools and so on.
Perfect. Who cares if he is grossly incompetent in any objective sense? Only people who don’t matter, like the compliant little peons who pay the license fee.
Public school and Selwyn College Cambridge, not sure where the silly voice comes from.
But no doubt intensely embarrassed at the fact – and has spent his entire adult life trying make amends for his sins at having had such a “silver spooned” upbringing!
Plus the return of the national anthem at the end of broadcast.
I particularly like the first few lines of our national anthem.
YES – NATIONAL ANTHEM BACK.
Also, the ubiquitous red colour that the BBC currently use – this should be replaced wit a more balanced colour – purple perhaps ?
Article 13199 of the Pan European constitution: ‘No person shall be prejudiced from employment in any capacity at any level by reason of age, race, creed, or incompitence’ (sic)
What a wanker, can’t even tie a tie.
Just another slug emerging from the Beeboid Slugheap.
Davie seems like a right wassock. He should be sacked ASAP and replaced with David Dimbleby.
Fat boy Patton should go and be sent back to Hong Kong. His only redeeming feature is that he had a pair of lovely Norfolk Terriers.
I bet Rupert is pissing himself.
Where do they find these BBClowns?
Er, in the BBC?
The television licence is counted as a tax by the National Audit Office and the BBC’s acting DG should not run from a television interview when the taxpaying public might like to hear some answers.
Flip he was good. It was like watching the wicked witch of the west having water thrown on her.
What arrogance! How can anyone take responsibility for something without taking the blame when things go wrong?
This is so typical of the BBC – and of the British public sector in general. Public sector management and employees believe they are superior to ordinary folk. They never accept the blame for anything because they think they can do no wrong. And as they do no wrong they don’t see why they should be made accountable to anyone. And just to make sure they can’t be criticised, they make all of the big decisions by committee so that no individual can be identified as responsible.
This all-pervasive attitude in British public sector organisations makes the public sector one of the most corrupt in the world.
The problem is that most politicians are also tarred with the same brush….
We need a revolution in this country!
A revolution is a terrifying prospect. Once launched, it can take unexpected turns. What this country needs, IMHO, is a political class that recognises the urgency that you articulate, 176 Winston Smith, and makes the changes needed to avoid a revolution.
In the absence of such leadership a revolution does seem the only way. Does CallMeDave know this? No. So heaven help us.
I fear for my grandchildren’s future.
What a complete tosser; it’s the most amusing piece of comedy I’ve seen in ages…can’t wait for the next episode!
Clarkson for DG?
“” I’ve gorra lorra do …”" : priceless – give him his 450k and let’s try another one …
Why did the BBC hire a Pepsi salesman for sub Saharan Africa ? A story there perhaps. lads ?
My God, you should have seen the queque at the bank to cancel the television licence direct debit.
Got a cunning plan, to get at the front of the line.
Off with my sarnies and a flask and a sleeping bag tonight.
That should get the job done.
Mind you, last time the middle classes spoke up and demonstrated, Plod attacked them with batons outside the Houses of Parliament.
Maybe a tin helmet might come in handy.
I didn’t think Patten should resign until Davie opened his mouth. Now I think they should both quit immediately.
Estuarine, glottal-stopping, apparatchik twat.
Reith must be doing 15,000 rpm-plus in his grave.
Fact: He was a staunch young conservative who spoke at one of Maggie’s conferences back in the day. Hugely ambitious. A great fit for Patten and Cameron I’m sure in amongst the left of center beeb. What deals are being made.
The BBC must be dismantled.
ONLY 2 television channels
5 radio stations
An end to 24hour news
This will save loads of money
And the fucking comintern agents that seep out of the BBC’s fabric can all fuck off back to CHERNOBYL.
Plus the return of the national anthem at the end of broadcast.
I particularly like the first few lines of our national anthem.
YES – NATIONAL ANTHEM BACK.
Also, the ubiquitous red colour that the BBC currently use – this should be replaced wit a more balanced colour – purple perhaps ?
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Has anyone else noticed the vague “David Millband” look about this bloke – or is it just the amount of port i’ve drunk ?
What’s SKY?
This has got me thinking of the BBCs endless gloating of the parachuting-in of China’s new leaders lately. Talk about pompous overblown bullshit.
The statist BBC want governments to run along the Chinese model – impose totalitarian socialist one-world dictatorships, destroy freedoms, manipulate and spy on people, install collectivism and basically consolidate control of society in order to bankrupt it.
Why oh why am I being modded?
This has got me thinking of the BBCs endless gloating of the parachuting-in of China’s new leaders lately. Talk about pompous overblown bollocks.
The statist BBC want governments to run along the Chinese model – impose totalitarian socialist one-world dictatorships, destroy freedoms, manipulate and spy on people, install a shallow dumbed-down population and basically consolidate control of society in order to bankrupt it.