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Sonia Poulton dropped from BBC Big Questions

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MrsSnippyPants · 02/03/2019 10:11

twitter.com/SoniaPoulton/status/1101781947108524033

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MrsSnippyPants · 02/03/2019 10:15

For those that don't Twit;

"Just been dropped from @bbcbigquestions tomorrow. Booked to talk about intolerance & how 'hate' is used to silence people. Now I'm silenced. Producer 'didn't know why' but I told her. BBC remove gender critical voices from debate upon request. My court tweets worked against me."

My eyes have rolled so far back I can see my arse.

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MillytantForceit · 02/03/2019 10:16

Those that do Twit please get onto BBC Newswatch

twitter.com/newswatchbbc

Samira Ahmed is good.

Datun · 02/03/2019 10:16

Difficult to believe. Especially after they've just done it to Nic.

youllhavehadyourtea · 02/03/2019 10:17

'producer didn't know why' - so it wasn't the producer's decision?

so who's was it?

Beamur · 02/03/2019 10:22

The irony.
Speaker silenced by hate. BBC colludes.

Redshoeblueshoe · 02/03/2019 10:27

FFS

thatdamnwoman · 02/03/2019 10:46

Calling Janice Turner, Andrew Gilligan and James Kirkup: here's a story for you. There's now, surely, enough evidence that the BBC has been promoting a pro-trans agenda and silencing GC voices for you to call them on it?

OldCrone · 02/03/2019 10:51

Another tweet from Sonia:

"I had already told the researcher that this would happen and she confirmed that 'Yes the BBC do remove GC voices if other guest refuses to appear with them'. I say remove the other guest not the one who is willing to talk."

Katvonfelttipeyebrows · 02/03/2019 10:52

Wow. Just wow.

What the actual fuck!

userschmoozer · 02/03/2019 10:54

I'm going to cancel my TV licence on March the 8th over this issue.

EweSurname · 02/03/2019 10:57

Sonia Poulton
@SoniaPoulton
No problem. Feel more fired up than ever now. Good job I already did a piece to camera earlier in the week, which can be date validated, in which I said 'the BBC will not allow this in the end'. It will go in my documentary now

DoctoressPlague · 02/03/2019 10:58

I hope Sonia recorded the conversation.
Who is policing free speech at BBC, is it their blanket policy now to exclude GC voices, or is this coming from within Mentorn Media?

Datun · 02/03/2019 11:00

Good job I already did a piece to camera earlier in the week, which can be date validated, in which I said 'the BBC will not allow this in the end'. It will go in my documentary now

The BBC are fools.

thatdamnwoman · 02/03/2019 11:08

Actually, refusing to pay your TV licence and using the opportunity to argue in court that you're not paying because your mainstream views (was it 82% of people surveyed by Pink News weren't aboard the trans train?) are not represented might be a good idea.

HamiltonCork · 02/03/2019 11:10

I’m getting ever closer to cancelling my license. Why am I paying for this kind of shit?

Katvonfelttipeyebrows · 02/03/2019 11:41

Oh WHAT fools

This is like the adult human female advertising board. Outrageous censorship in a democracy tends to blow up in people's faces.... now if they'd just let it happen, I think it would have had much less impact. So foolish.

Nephilim1964 · 02/03/2019 11:55

I'm on Twitter EweSurname asking people to tweet the Beeb and let them know how disgusted we are. Do you know who requested your removal?

EweSurname · 02/03/2019 11:59

I'm not Sonia Nephilim, was just posting what she tweeted! Sorry if I was unclear

Nephilim1964 · 02/03/2019 12:16

No probs. I'm so bloody disgusted with the Beeb right now though. Glad I cancelled my licence.

NotTerfNorCis · 02/03/2019 12:25

I had already told the researcher that this would happen and she confirmed that 'Yes the BBC do remove GC voices if other guest refuses to appear with them'. I say remove the other guest not the one who is willing to talk

Yes remove the other guest. They are the problem. If everyone operated that way there'd be no debate.

MillytantForceit · 02/03/2019 12:36

"The Big Questions" is a Religious Dept. commission, so they must be used to potential guests who refuse to debate with the Other Lot, the followers of Satan, etc.

beagadorsrock · 02/03/2019 12:37

Especially as 'remove the complainer, not the troublemaker' seems to be the standard 'advice' in those Allsorts pseudo-guidance thingies.

This is so infuriating. One of the responses identifies the executive producer for BBC Big Question as someone (Nicolai Gentchev) who is quite high up in Mentorn media and seems to have had a long bit of career in Scotland. Is anything connected to Scotland now completely kool-aided?
www.mentorn.tv/about/
Interesting that there is no email to complain to them - I am quite busy at the moment with work and children, but if I find the time I might write to them an old-fashioned letter...

BoreOfWhabylon · 02/03/2019 13:05

So are the BBC not covering the topic at all, or are they running it with someone who has refused to appear with Sonia?

redredrobins · 02/03/2019 13:09

There seem to be a lot of LGBTalphabet spaghetti guests still appearing so I guess the topic hasn't changed. I wonder which one objected to Sonia.

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