PresenterGate

This thread is put up as an ‘anchor ‘ for the unknown BBC presenter saga ..no names please …..but don’t forget to cancel your TV licence . Update – 12 July – Huw Edwards named as the ‘presenter ‘…

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  1. MarkyMark says:

    2012

    BBC ignored my Jimmy Savile complaint, claims former director
    This article is more than 10 years old
    TV veteran who worked on Jim’ll Fix It and Top of the Pops tells Sun ‘everyone would have known’ about alleged abuse

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/12/bbc-jimmy-savile-complaint

    …..

    NHS and Department of Health investigations into Jimmy Savile
    Reports from the NHS investigations into Jimmy Savile.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/nhs-and-department-of-health-investigations-into-jimmy-savile

    NHS investigation reports February 2015
    Stoke Mandeville Hospital (Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHST)

    Rampton Hospital (Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHST)

    Springfield University Hospital (SW London and St George’s Mental Health NHST) This relates to the activites of Johnny Savile

    Crawley Hospital (Sussex Community NHST)

    Leeds General Infirmary (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHST)

    Birch Hill Hospital Rochdale (Pennine Acute NHST)

    Scott House Hospital Rochdale (Calderstones NHS FT)

    Bethlem Royal Hospital (South London and Maudsley NHS FT)

    Shenley Hospital (Central and NW London NHST)

    West Yorkshire Ambulance Service (Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHST)

    St Martin’s Hospital Canterbury (Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust)

    Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead (Gateshead Health NHS FT)

    Royal Victoria Infirmary (Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT)

    Meanwood Park Hospital (Leeds and York Partnership NHS FT)

    Calderdale Royal Hospital (Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS FT)

    Lessons learned
    Kate Lampard has also written a lessons learned report on the findings from all published investigations and emerging themes. The report includes 14 recommendations for the NHS, the Department of Health and wider government.

    ……………

    immy Savile NHS investigations: lessons learned
    Recommendations for the NHS and government following the investigations into the activities of Jimmy Savile relating to the NHS.

    From:
    Department of Health and Social Care
    Published
    26 February 2015

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/jimmy-savile-nhs-investigations-lessons-learned

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  2. MarkyMark says:

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    • Guest Who says:

      A luvvie from Ch4 starting with ‘I don’t know about you’ is delicious irony, if honest.

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  3. MarkyMark says:

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  4. Guest Who says:

    Quick update on this thread, starting withDr. Rosena.

    BBC QT panel and audience once they come out?

    That why you ‘left’, James?

    Narinder seems to have a different ‘take’ to many colleagues… Vile, etc.

    But she has to tweet. Hence the name.

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    • G says:

      “”This is Tory Britain, where we examine patients in cupboards.””

      Not in Bradford as I understand it. To deal with the NHS from Primary Care upward is Britain 30 years ago. Why the difference? Ummmmmm……………….

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      “Labour’s plans to fix the NHS”? She should start with Labour-controlled NHS Wales where my local health board has been in “special measures” for years.

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  5. G says:

    I see Toenails was broadcasting from Italy earlier. He interviews some EU character who believes that the secret of stopping the millions moving north from Africa is to make their homeland a better place so they would wish to stay. Steady Toenails, that’s verging on the solution being ‘Colonialism’. They can’t manage/control themselves but, put a colonial power in place and, ‘hey presto’. Toenails, in true BBC fashion, cannot join the dots. But no more Mao Mao as in the ‘fifties. I see that the Chinese have worked that one out and are spreading their version of ‘Communism with a hint of, Colonialism’ around Africa. Their gain, our loss.

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    • tomo says:

      iirc – after New Labour’s intervention in Sierra Leone – there was an embarrassing (for some) movement in that country to have the gubbermint / state run from London.

      Some wanted Tony Blair to become President for Life – dang it – what happened?

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  7. tomo says:

    Are the paparazzi pack camped out on the pavement outside The Balance’s London facility?

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  8. MarkyMark says:

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    order-order.com

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    China’s size, ambition and capability have enabled it to successfully penetrate every sector of the UK’s economy… The government has been so keen to take Chinese money that it has not been watching China’s sleight of hand whilst it overtly penetrated the UK’s energy and industry sectors… the government has no strategy on China, let alone an effective one, and that it was singularly failing to deploy a ‘whole-of-government’ approach – a damning appraisal indeed.”

    With more UK departments involved, UK bilateral aid to China began increasing again from 2014. In 2019, officially reported levels of bilateral grant ODA to China reached £68.4 million, their highest recorded level in real terms (see Figure 2).

    Why is Britain still sending foreign aid to China?
    26 November 2022, 12:47pm

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-britain-still-sending-foreign-aid-to-china/

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  10. Guest Who says:

    Luckily Mad Al is very much keen to stay on the QT roster, despite knowing very little, so…

    Luckily #CCBGB in bringing him up to speed.

    He also appears to have been busy feeding lines to Surkeer’s front bench, who on twitter sound like a load of parrots.

    But at least JO’Bsworth is doing his best in repetitive support to the cheap seats.

    This telling media what they should be reporting lark… not going too well.

    Unless they are ‘sound’.

    https://unherd.com/2023/07/how-the-mob-turned-on-huw-edwards/?

    “I was at the BBC on Wednesday afternoon when the news broke…”

    Of course you were Giles.

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  11. Guest Who says:

    He was never a player, and left the BBc ages ago.

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  12. harry142857 says:

    Lefty woman at work said to me, “It’s a shame about Huw Edwards, isn’t it?”.

    I replied, “You mean the pervert newsreader”.

    Her reply, “But he gets depression”.

    “OK, so he’s a moody pervert, then”.

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  13. Beltane says:

    News that Victoria Derbyshire was working on an internal investigation of Huw Edwards’ behaviour BEFORE the Sun article was published might have an adverse effect on the value, probity and veracity of mouthings by Sopel, Vine, Campbell, O’Brian and others.

    Was Bashir consulted do you think?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Will be good to see Sopel bite his tongue – and if it is true that the parents have been offered substantial fees for an interview ( with Talk TV ) that keeps this story going nicely ….

      … maybe the BBC will offer the victim (s)( no crime ) a big fee to be quiet – or get ‘the one show ‘ treatment …..

      Run story Run

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      • Foscari says:

        I just watched the ” One Show” or should it be
        called the ” The Drag Show.” I have always wondered
        how Huw Edwards was the last of the pale,stale old males
        on BBC News Presentation. We all know now it was
        because he ticked one of the most important BBC boxes.
        Maybe before we see Huh on the One Show.

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  14. Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

    Is anyone else reminded of the strange case of another Welshman, Ron Davies, around a quarter of a century ago?

    Here’s a cut-and-paste from Wiki:

    “… … He stood down citing “an error of judgement” in agreeing to go for what he said was a meal with a man he had met while walking on Clapham Common in London, which is a well-known gay meeting place. He was mugged at knifepoint. The full details of the incident (which he infamously called a “moment of madness” at the urging of Tony Blair’s Press Secretary Alastair Campbell) have never emerged.[3] He later acknowledged that he is bisexual, and was receiving treatment for a personality disorder which led him to seek out risky situations.[4] ”

    What strikes me is that we are – once again – asked to sympathize with some mental problem only AFTER tabloid revelations have made it impossible for the pretence to continue.

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  15. Guest Who says:

    https://dailysceptic.org/2023/07/13/imagine-the-reaction-of-the-liberal-left-if-huw-edwards-had-been-a-gb-news-presenter/

    Top comment with 300 (two objected):

    “This has been a masterclass in what expensive lawyers and a top class PR firm can acheive.

    He was bang to rights a pervert with likely criminal activities on Sunday, and by Thursday he’s now the innocent victim of a nasty right-wing smear campaign. All they need to do now is pin some blame on GB News and they will have achieved the perfect result.”

    Jolyon is in there.

    That Venn diagram again?

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    • Guest Who says:

      One more:

      “Imagine the reaction if…

      I often think this about news stories. A recent one was imagine the reaction if cocaine had been found in Trump’s White House. That story went quiet, didn’t it, as did the news that classified documents were found in Biden’s garage.

      As for the BBC, it’s disgusting that presenters are paid salaries high enough to be able to spend what is an annual salary for many people on this sort of thing. Don’t pay people so much if that’s how it gets spent.”

      BBC TNI puts Winston Wolfe to shame. Eh, Sopes?

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  16. Guest Who says:

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-bbc-and-a-21st-century-media-madness/?

    “a frightened BBC which says it may have ‘some learnings’ [whatever happened to the word ‘lessons’?]”

    But, yes, Chas; they have indeed ‘moved on’.

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    WE ARE ALL EQUAL … COST OF LIVING WILL HIT US ALL….

    These were: Ed Miliband, Louise Haigh, Alex Sobel, Kevin Brennan, Darren Jones, Clive Lewis and Mark Tami. All registered their donations across days in the working week and man of the people Clive Lewis was the only name on the list not to take up hospitality tickets. Ed Davey also had a good month, in addition to getting two all-inclusive Glasto tickets worth £2,462, he also registered £36,500 in donations.Will that be made out to his personal services company?

    Whilst Labour MPs lived it up in Glasto, cricket appeared to be the preferred summer pass time for Conservatives. James Daly, James Morris, Bob Blackman and Michael Tomlinson all took a trip to the Netherlands with the APPG for cricket, worth a combined £5,000, whilst Claire Coutinho, Ruth Edwards and Andrew Griffith raked in £1,200 in Ashes hospitality tickets. It wouldn’t be a register of interests update without yet more Prime Ministerial plane bills. This time, Rishi’s donor-funded jet-setting amounted to a measly £55,000.
    order-order.com

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  18. Loobyloo says:

    Someone on the DT comments section posted a link to an injunction document concerning a high profile BBC employee. It said that he had been arrested (previously) and criminal investigations ongoing regarding a serious sexual offence – allegations made by women in the news team. This injunction was taken out at the end of June.
    The plot thickens, hopefully with the BBC digging it’s own grave.

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