Sexist BBC - Priti Patel COVID briefings

[Gettinggrumpier]

I'm not keen on the woman at all.

However, why are COVID briefings given by the male government ministers shown on BBC 1, but today's briefing and the last one done by Priti Patel is only being shown on the BBC news channel?

Maybe she shouldn't be in the job, but that could be said of her other male colleagues. So why is she being treated differently.

Signs of sexism, racism or what? What do you think the BBC powers that be are up to? Whatever it is, it is shameful of the BBC.

I find Gavin Williamson even more unlikeable than PP, and thats saying something

The most senior person at BBC News is a woman. And the most senior person in charge of BBC One is also a woman.

So yep, either two women are working together to keep women off prime time, or....

... it's because the announcement wasn't significant enough.

Yanbu it is odd. Sure no major announcements were made but it still had more significance than some of the nonsense we had to listen to from Gavin Williamson.

She’s so patronizing. I had the misfortune to hear her briefing today online. She never says “this virus” or “COVID-19”, it’s always “this deadly, deadly virus” with a patronizing shake of the head, especially when a member of the public has asked when people can start thinking about life after lockdown again, which is a perfectly reasonable question.

Was she a kindergarten teacher in the past? She certainly speaks like she’s talking to a roomful of small children.