While we were all distracted by the #RichardSharp scandal at the #BBC, #GBNews have been playing fast and loose with #OFCOM impartiality rules by allowing #NeilOliver to carry on like a contemporary Lord Haw Haw
https://mastodon.world/@DarthPutinKGB/110292382688959377

The #BBC chairman scandal- @adambienkov on the blatant corruption of #RichardSharp and Boris #Johnson (and we still don't know who lent Johnson £800,000 during his premiership)
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-richard-sharp-scandal-exposes

Sharp failed to disclose
Conflicts of interest seen
BBC accepts his leave

#bbc #richardsharp #borisjohnson #conflictofinterest #haiku #poetry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-65338490

“while the Tory party had been hurt by repeated allegations of sleaze, especially during the Johnson years, voters were not yet as angry about the scandals as they had been in the late 1990s”

Perhaps because we’ve become inured to Tory sleaze; maybe that was their plan all along. Just keep behaving that way, and the plebs will start to see it as normal...

#RichardSharp #Tories #Sleaze

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/28/richard-sharp-resignation-bbc-chair-problem-and-opportunity-rishi-sunak

Resign or stay put?
Sharp's fate in Chancellor's hands
Choice not easy made

#richardsharp #bbc #rishisunak #haiku #poetry

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/richard-sharp-bbc-boris-johnson-loan-report-b2328680.html

Think what you like about cronyism & the old boys’ network but yet again someone else takes the blame for Boris Johnson’s corruption while he faces no consequences whatever. #TorySleaze #RichardSharp #BBC
Richard Sharp: BBC chairman resigns over report into appointment https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65323077

You know, every time I see video of #RichardSharp I'm just waiting for a prehensile tongue to lash out and snare a passing fly.. 🦎

Martin Rowson on #RichardSharp’s exit – cartoon - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/apr/28/martin-rowson-on-richard-sharps-exit-cartoon #ToryCorruption

How about Gary Lineker for BBC Chairperson?

#BBC #UKPolitics #RichardSharp #GaryLineker

#BBC boss #RichardSharp quits over #BorisJohnson loan. "Everything Conservative politicians touch turns into a mess. They are not fit to govern our great country" -Ed Davey #UK #Conservatives

https://www.rawstory.com/bbc-boss-quits-over-boris-johnson-loan/

“Richard Sharp is out at the BBC: now can we think about how we hold other miscreants to account?”

Indeed. And there are so many to choose from…

#BBC #RichardSharp #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/28/richard-sharp-bbc-resigned-hold-miscreants-to-account

Who is #RichardSharp and why is he quitting the BBC? -
How a £800k loan to #BorisJohnson led to the downfall of the #BBC chair https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/28/who-is-richard-sharp-why-quitting-bbc-boris-johnson #ToryCorruption #WhoPaidThePiper

'#RichardSharp resigns as #BBC chair after failing to declare link to #BorisJohnson loan

Investigation says Sharp broke rules on public appointments, creating ‘potential perceived #ConflictOfInterest’ '
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/28/richard-sharp-resigns-as-bbc-chair-after-months-of-mounting-pressure
#ToryCorruption #WhoPaidThePiper

Disgraced #BBC chairman #RichardSharp was no friend of public service broadcasting. His right wing friends in #TuftonStreet will be delighted with the damage he's done. #TuftyClub
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/03/31/watchdog-examining-bbc-chairmans-charity-over-donations-to-right-wing-political-groups/

So. #RichardSharp has finally resigned. Another one marking that we've transitioned from people honourably taking responsibility for their actions to a time when you can behave as you like and if caught only resign when you've exhausted all possibility of weathering the storm.

#UK #culture minister Lucy Frazer writes to disgraced #BBC chairman #RichardSharp after his resignation:
"I know that you are held in high regard by the BBC Board".
Well, every organisation has its sycophants...

"NUJ welcomes resignation of BBC chair Richard Sharp"

#RichardSharp #BBC #NUJ

https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj-welcomes-resignation-of-bbc-chair-richard-sharp.html

Apparently at first #RichardSharp Pooh-poohed the calls for him to resign.
#GeneralMelchett #Blackadder

Tees by Sillytees http://bit.ly/3ASl40N

Good that #RichardSharp has resigned, but the government will just appoint another Tory stooge to replace him.

For an notionally independent organization like the BBC why does the government appoint the chairperson directly?

Amazingly, allowing the government to appoint the leader of an independent media corporation turned out to be a bad idea. Who could have foreseen such a shambles?

#RichardSharp