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BBC Complaints

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jgw1 · 11/03/2023 08:48

AIBU to share the link to BBC complaints?

www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint

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Stomacharmeleon · 11/03/2023 14:04

I like MOTD, I support Gary Lineker and will be both emailing the bbc and withdrawing my viewing tonight.

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jgw1 · 11/03/2023 14:05

BashirWithTheGoodBeard · 11/03/2023 14:01

Yes, particularly as this is the second time in as many weeks that an argument the Tories created has overshadowed a deal that Sunak has negotiated and wants to be seen as an achievement. They could've been selling him to the electorate as a practical bloke getting things done, the grown up in the room etc. Instead they chose, well, this.

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Well that will be because the narrative that Sunak is weak has to keep being fed. We know that Sue Gray is a Labour plant, what perhaps we are learning this week is that Suella Braverman is as well. Certainly we were assured that Boris was excellent at watering the .... (I'll stop there, bad images were starting).

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jgw1 · 11/03/2023 14:06

User1396390 · 11/03/2023 13:46

I have, I was complaining avidly upthread about having to buy a whole year whereas with the other streamers I can pay for just the bits I want so yes it does matter that on two consecutive evenings BBC showed football matches and cancelled other programmes as I can't pick and choose with their licence

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Right. sorry, I was confused. I thought when you said you didn't have a TV licence you meant you didn't have one. Not that in 9 months time you might not have one. Easy mistake to make.

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User1396390 · 11/03/2023 14:09

jgw1 · 11/03/2023 14:06

Right. sorry, I was confused. I thought when you said you didn't have a TV licence you meant you didn't have one. Not that in 9 months time you might not have one. Easy mistake to make.

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Which post was that, I believe I said I may even be willing to pay more if I could pick and choose.

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jgw1 · 11/03/2023 14:10

User1396390 · 11/03/2023 14:09

Which post was that, I believe I said I may even be willing to pay more if I could pick and choose.

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The one after you said people had to pay the licence fee.

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SerendipityJane · 11/03/2023 14:11

I would sell my house and all it's belongings to help the BBC

Rosula · 11/03/2023 14:11

FlameGrilledSquirrel · 11/03/2023 09:22

This seems to be something that most of are missing.

You work for the BBC you have to follow guidelines. He didn't and this is where we are.

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Not sure that that's correct. From what I've read, the guidelines say, broadly, that it's OK to express a political opinion if politics is not your job, and they specifically given the example of a sports broadcaster being OK to comment on a political issue.

Rosula · 11/03/2023 14:15

smellyflowers · 11/03/2023 09:28

Fiona Bruce was just covering the BBCs ass legally? She wasn't saying ahhh it was just a one off. She was explaining the accusation and the response to the accusation?

But she said that the allegation was only about one incident, when Mrs Johnson made it clear that Stanley repeatedly hit her.

Rosula · 11/03/2023 14:21

Clavinova · 11/03/2023 11:11

Greg Dyke, former director general of the BBC, disagrees with you

Although Greg Dyke was a Labour Party donor -
2003
Former BBC executive Will Wyatt has admitted he was the insider who nearly scuppered Greg Dyke's campaign to become director general by leaking details of his Labour party donations to the Times.

The stories, printed four years ago, sparked a political row and a war of words in the broadsheet between pro and anti-Dyke supporters. However, it did not stop Mr Dyke taking the top job at the corporation

www.theguardian.com/business/2003/jun/12/bbc.thetimes

You've had to go back 20 years for that? That really is an admission of defeat on your part.

Hobnobswantshernameback · 11/03/2023 14:24

Dear God the stupid is strong

VintageThoughts · 11/03/2023 14:25

I don't think GL should have said that on his Twitter page while he's employed by the BBC. It was a breach of his contract.

I don't really agree with what he said.

I don't think the BBC are remotely impartial.

I'll be annoyed if the BBC bow to pressure and let GL back.

I think Shearer and co were silly to do what they did and I hope the BBC gets rid of them all.

I can't believe GL gets paid that much money for 95% of people to watch it on catch up and fast forward through everything he says.

I wouldn't know what to complain about? Some of it? All of it??

SerendipityJane · 11/03/2023 14:26

Rosula · 11/03/2023 14:21

You've had to go back 20 years for that? That really is an admission of defeat on your part.

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They never tire. They never stop. They press on and on relentlessly until you submit.

Now is that a quote from a survivor of the Gestapo, something from a Judge Dredd strip, or what Cato warned the Senate about before the third punic war ?

Not sure why I posted it really.

User1396390 · 11/03/2023 14:26

Isn't cancelling the licence and hitting them where it hurts better than complaining if you don't like the BBC, maybe everyone should do that, I couldn't really give a damn though about GL twitter but just complaining seems a bit weak if you really object one way or the other

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jgw1 · 11/03/2023 14:26

Rosula · 11/03/2023 14:21

You've had to go back 20 years for that? That really is an admission of defeat on your part.

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20 years is about average. When we get back to quotes of Michael Foot (I kid you not) then the bottom of the barrel may be being reached.

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jgw1 · 11/03/2023 14:28

User1396390 · 11/03/2023 14:26

Isn't cancelling the licence and hitting them where it hurts better than complaining if you don't like the BBC, maybe everyone should do that, I couldn't really give a damn though about GL twitter but just complaining seems a bit weak if you really object one way or the other

When are you going to cancel yours and stop watching?

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Rosula · 11/03/2023 14:29

FlameGrilledSquirrel · 11/03/2023 09:22

This seems to be something that most of are missing.

You work for the BBC you have to follow guidelines. He didn't and this is where we are.

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Lineker is clear that his contract does not incorporate the social media guidelines. He probably knows more about that than anyone on here.

Endofthelineforus · 11/03/2023 14:30

Thank you OP, it's my first complaint to the BBC.

User1396390 · 11/03/2023 14:30

I didn't start a thread with a link to complaining, I'm just giving my views on the BBC in reply to thread about BBC

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jgw1 · 11/03/2023 14:32

User1396390 · 11/03/2023 14:30

I didn't start a thread with a link to complaining, I'm just giving my views on the BBC in reply to thread about BBC

Why don't you start one?

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MandyMotherOfBrian · 11/03/2023 14:33

Do you think theft should be decriminalised? Weird
Gosh, yes, that’s definitely exactly what was written. For those whose reading and comprehension skills are lacking, I believe there are educational programs available on the BBC. You’d need to buy a licence to watch them though, obviously.

Zonder · 11/03/2023 14:34

VintageThoughts · 11/03/2023 14:25

I don't think GL should have said that on his Twitter page while he's employed by the BBC. It was a breach of his contract.

I don't really agree with what he said.

I don't think the BBC are remotely impartial.

I'll be annoyed if the BBC bow to pressure and let GL back.

I think Shearer and co were silly to do what they did and I hope the BBC gets rid of them all.

I can't believe GL gets paid that much money for 95% of people to watch it on catch up and fast forward through everything he says.

I wouldn't know what to complain about? Some of it? All of it??

Do you feel the same about tweets and public comments of a political, pro right nature made by Alan Sugar, Andrew Neil, Prue Leith, Fiona Bruce... The list goes on.

Do you think the BBC should have suspended them too?

MavisMcMinty · 11/03/2023 14:36

I complained, but having complained about things in the past, I KNOW I’ll get a reply saying “we’re right, you’re wrong, ner ner ner ner ner”. It’s more about the number of complaints they get, rather than the complaint itself, which is why I do it. Told them they panic and cravenly capitulate every time a Tory frowns, which is the truth. If you stuff the BBC board with Tory donors, you’re not going to get impartial coverage, so the fucking HYPOCRISY is what I object to.

Soapyspuds · 11/03/2023 14:36

Thanks op.

I have suggested that BBC sack the lot of them. Even if they wanted to return I doubt their big heads would fit through the door.

IClaudine · 11/03/2023 14:43

VintageThoughts · 11/03/2023 14:25

I don't think GL should have said that on his Twitter page while he's employed by the BBC. It was a breach of his contract.

I don't really agree with what he said.

I don't think the BBC are remotely impartial.

I'll be annoyed if the BBC bow to pressure and let GL back.

I think Shearer and co were silly to do what they did and I hope the BBC gets rid of them all.

I can't believe GL gets paid that much money for 95% of people to watch it on catch up and fast forward through everything he says.

I wouldn't know what to complain about? Some of it? All of it??

Could you share a copy of GL's contract with us, please @VintageThoughts ?

VivX · 11/03/2023 14:48

Quveas · 11/03/2023 10:58

It really isn't what you are paying for. Don't be ridiculous. I am not in the least interested in football, and have never watched MOTD in my life (65 years). But nobody has the right remove the right to speak out on subjects that they are concerned about unless it directly impacts adversely on their employment (and Gary Linekar is freelance and not employed by the BBC anyway). A news presenter yes, maybe. But even that is dubious in all circumstances - war correspondents, for example, often comment on what they do and see. But this is a guy who is not employed by the BBC, whose "job" is to comment on football - if he wants to comment in his private life on any other matter that should be his right.

And the BBC won't win this one. They will either have to back down and look stupid. Or he will go to any one of the other channels showing football who are no doubt beating down his door right now, and the BBC will look stupid.

Whether you agree with him or not, silencing or attempting to silence people without outstanding reasons is never a good look. And if there hadn't been all this fuss, if Braverman hadn't reacted, if the BBC weren't involved in trying to silence him, half the country wouldn't have had a clue what he said anyway! Prior to this I only knew he was a past footballer who sold crisps. It's only thanks to the fuss that I now know anything else!

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All of ^this... I don't watch football either, nor am I fan of GL.

But you can't have a situation where GL isn't allowed to give his view on immigration and yet allow Sugar to literally publicly back Johnson.
That is not impartiality.

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