Aibu to think the BBC boss shouldn't be a Tory?

[MonkeyToesOfDoom]

Aren't the BBC supposed to be unbiased? Yet Tim Davie, who's getting over £500k year, is a Tory and was deputy chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative party in the 1990s.

Or does his political affiliations not matter too much?

Should the BBC boss also explicitly be "not Labour"?

I think the boss of the unbiased BBC should have no links to any party.

The1990’s? Is no one allowed to move on

@MonkeyToesOfDoom

Aren't the BBC supposed to be unbiased? Yet Tim Davie, who's getting over £500k year, is a Tory and was deputy chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative party in the 1990s.

Or does his political affiliations not matter too much?

You are having a laugh! The BBC is unashamedly left wing in everything it does. A right wing manager would be in the minority and go a tiny way to providing some much needed balance.

@MonkeyToesOfDoom

I think the boss of the unbiased BBC should have no links to any party.

That would be some pretty illegal discrimination and open the door for all sorts.

At 500k though you expect the person can put aside all personal feelings and act according to their position. Oversight communities and the public eye does the rest

He was deputy chairman. He's not now.
He's allowed a political opinion. Everyone has one except my neighbour who can't see the point of voting. Even the queen.
He's not allowed to allow his opinion to influence his schedule choices, or how the BBC portrays the news etc.

It should be pointed out too that he was the boss of BBC studios, the commercial arm of the BBC, and brought them to a £1.4billion profit last year. So he likely knows what he's doing.

It’ll make a nice change from the leftie echo chamber that the BBC is.

There are many roles within public administration/government where you are expected to be a-political in a professional capacity. It’s standard, and ensures no political bias when making decisions or recommendations. Doesn’t mean you can’t have a political opinion out of work.

There are also some politically restrictive posts whereby you must declare any membership to political parties and ensure you do not represent a political party (like run for election) but This doesn’t mean you can’t vote or have a political opinion.

So even you think yabu op

Tbf, no one should be a Tory.

@sst1234

It’ll make a nice change from the leftie echo chamber that the BBC is.

That's true I guess. He's already on about silencing the presenters on social media.

Ideally, the Director General would be apolitical, I agree.

But in the real world we all have our political views, prejudices and biases. I’m a liberal, centrist Remainer, and I wouldn’t expect this to be a disqualification from doing a particular job.

Having a (former) Tory DG could be a smart move by the BBC to restore balance. You don’t have to be a right-wing headbanger to think the Beeb’s obsession with ‘woke’ identity politics has gone too far and that its uncritical, unquestioning promotion of the hard-left BLM agenda is a travesty of impartiality.

Well he can balance out former Labour MP James Purnell who is head of strategy or some such.

There are plenty of Blairites (former ministers or advisors) in senior positions and running influential programmes such as Newsnight.

The BBC have managed to alienate a lot of people with the latest bout of wokery. If the Corporation is to survive, it must change.

Who appoints them? (I know I should know this and I could google it, but just interested!!)

Answered it myself 😂 - for anybody interested it’s the BBC Board, which itself is appointed partly by a group comprising mainly politicians and partly by the other members of the BBC Board.

Good luck finding someone suitable with no political opinions or affiliations! They all lean one way or the other, or worse, bend whichever way the wind blows!