The BBC's Cosy Relationship With The Tories
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
One of the big controversies enveloping the Tories - I know, you've probably lost count! - focuses on allegations that the man who became BBC Chair helped secure a loan for Boris Johnson. But this just underlines a much bigger problem - the cosy relationship between the Conservatives and Auntie Beeb.
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| 0:00.0 | It's just another day for you, you and me in paradise. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi. |
| 0:07.0 | Just my little theme tune there for Tory Britain. |
| 0:10.0 | And the BBC, and the Tories. |
| 0:13.0 | Let's have a little chat about that, shall we? |
| 0:15.0 | So, there's multiple scandals involving the Conservative government going on at the moment. |
| 0:20.0 | Not so much as a government as just one revolving scandal, just scandals go put. |
| 0:25.0 | You know at the beginning of gravity, the film where a disaster happens in space |
| 0:29.0 | and everything starts flying around manically. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, that's the British government at the moment. |
| 0:33.0 | Anyway, this particular scandal to keep up involves the appointment of the chair of the BBC, |
| 0:41.0 | which is Richard Sharp. |
| 0:43.0 | And it turned out Richard Sharp helps secure, well, it's said, |
| 0:48.0 | a loan of up to £800,000 for Boris Johnson. |
| 0:52.0 | He done appointed in BBC chair. |
| 0:56.0 | You might as well laugh, might as well just let it all show the you. |
| 0:59.0 | What's the point? |
| 1:00.0 | Could just get angry about this all the time. |
| 1:02.0 | But frankly, it'll shave off years off the life expectancy. |
| 1:05.0 | What's the point? |
| 1:06.0 | Let it all show the you. |
| 1:07.0 | I would have checked about the BBC and the Tories more generally. |
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