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1/ Sunday Times: SCOOP by Harry Yorke and Gabriel Pogrun
The BBC chairman, the prime minister and the ÂŁ800,000 loan guarantee
Bloody hell. So the BBC in the form of its chairman, Sharp, has been sitting on this story FOR YEARS @Ofcom
Impartialityâď¸ Not even lip service.
The BBC chairman - Sharp- , a Tory donor, helped to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to ÂŁ800,000 for Boris Johnson weeks before the then prime minister recommended him for the role.
2/
Richard Sharp was involved in talks about financing Johnsonâs Downing Street lifestyle in November and December 2020.
âSharp, 66, a former banker at Goldman Sachs, had already submitted his application to become chairman of the public service broadcaster & had reached the final stages of the recruitment process.â
âThe BBC chairman helped to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to ÂŁ800,000 for Boris Johnson weeks before the then prime minister recommended him for the roleâ
FFS.
3/ It doesnât take a rocket scientist to work out that a PM that needs a ÂŁ800k credit line is a security risk
And an ethics risk.
Stunned to discover that the CABINET OFFICE and SIMON CAVE knew about this.
How the f*** did Sharp get appointed?
Have they all lost their minds?
Iâm trying to get my head around this.
The BBC is PACKED with people who are supposed to be journalists.
4/ Did they have enough journalistic nous to find out this story but were forbidden from publishing it because it would embarrass both the Chairman and the Government @Ofcom ?
In which case how is that remotely in keeping with its duty of impartiality in its Charter @Ofcom ?
Or did this organisation packed full of journalists paid for out of the public purse not know about this storyâď¸
It just passed them by to be scooped by the Sunday Timesâď¸
5/.
Iâm guessing the former.
Which is really very very shocking.
And shameful.
Making a monkey out of BBC journalists along the way.
Remember Sunak was managed by Sharp at Goldman Sachs. What did he know?
The BBC has a long history of appointing politically connected people. However, there is no known precedent of a prime minister selecting an individual who was simultaneously helping them with their personal finances.
6/ I missed this:
âBBC job application says: "You cannot be considered for a public appointment if you fail to declare any conflict of interest"
Candidates must disclose anything which could later undermine confidence in appointment
Sharp didn't tell panel. MPs on pre-hearing did not know â
So who were the MPs and other people on the panel ?
What did the know or suspect?
She might not be a former banker but people consider Brexit and Tory propagandists like Laura Kuenssberg a "journalist".
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