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[Car Boot]

Tim Davie - a white, male, public school educated oxbridge graduate is the next Director General of the BBC. 

 

So much for the very talented women who could have done the job. Or the many black and minority ethnic people who would have  performed an outstanding service to broadcasting.

 

Your BBC - once again showing how deeply out of touch it is with diversity and equality.

 

Your BBC - blacks and women need not apply.

Edited June 5, 2020 by Car Boot

[ECCOnoob]

17 minutes ago, Car Boot said:

Tim Davie - a white, male, public school educated oxbridge graduate is the next Director General of the BBC. 

 

So much for the very talented women who could have done the job. Or the many black and minority ethnic people who would have  performed an outstanding service to broadcasting.

 

Your BBC - once again showing how deeply out of touch it is with diversity and equality.

 

Your BBC - blacks and women need not apply.

......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.

 

 

Edited June 5, 2020 by ECCOnoob

[Car Boot]

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That notion is as out of date as the 'do as we say, not as we do' BBC.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

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.