Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Labour urges probe of claim BBC chair ‘helped Johnson arrange guarantee on loan’" video.

  1. I am so furious about this! We’re all meant to say, “Oh, it’s not corrupt at all,” even though this is a PERSONAL FRIEND of his who is now the Chair of BBC???!!! How many of you people out there have friends round the house on a regular basis who will link you up to someone willing to lend you £800,000??? Such a GOOD FRIEND that s/he will PAY that £800,000 FOR YOU, if you can’t afford to pay it back yourself!!!? Is this the same BBC that Boris has threatened with the loss of its license fee? The same BBC that Boris has accused of bias against him personally? Now being chaired by THAT GUY??? This same Richard Sharp was not, “sharp,” enough to remember to put ANY MENTION of this down on his application for the job of Chair, under the bit where you’re supposed to declare any interests!? Why was THAT do we think? And the Tories are SO ENTITLED AND TONE DEAF that they think they can just say, “Oh, this is not unusual. You wouldn’t know about this, being a mere pleb, but this is how we do things all the time,” and we’re meant to tug our forelocks and say, “Oh, well, sorry for asking then.”???!!! Do they think it’s the 1950’s!?!?!? This is UNACCEPTABLE! Period!
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  2. It’s SICK isn’t it? He gets to act out his Winston Churchill fantasy, at tax payer expense, while his constituents are busy being totally ignored. But now we’re learning that he has managed to get a personal friend appointed to the Chair of the BBC and we’re all meant to accept their excuses that, “Oh, you wouldn’t know about this stuff, because you’re all plebs, but this is how we do things all the time, so it’s fine really,” and we’re meant to tug our forelocks and say, “Oh well, sorry we bothered you then,” like it’s the 19 fricken’ 50’s or something!? The current CHAIR of the same BBC that Boris has accused in (IN PARLIAMENT!) of being biased against him personally and has threatened with the loss of its license fee, is now being chaired by the same regular dinner guest at his house who has promised the bank that HE will pay the entire £800,000 pounds should Boris decide not to pay it back! I don’t know about you, but I don’t have ANY friends or family close enough to be willing to take a million dollar risk on me, do you? And that fact that this guy, Richard Sharp, didn’t declare it on his application under interests tells us all we need to know! The more Boris tells us that they’re not such good buddies, the more TRANSACTIONAL this looks! Not all corruption is illegal, but that doesn’t stop it from being immoral. How are we meant to trust the BBC while they have one of Boris financial backers chairing the organisation??? This country has gotten SO BROKEN we need a do-over! “Business as usual,” my arse, Mr Chancellor.
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