#fionabruce

6 months ago

(Yes, it is that Simply Red)
You see the ridiculous lengths the British Establishment will go to protect their mistakes, even so far as broadcasting this show in the name of 'Balance'
This is the same infamous balance that has the BBC both siding Russian Propaganda and America Nazis.
#BBCQT #Tories #UKPOL #FionaBruce

@Simp1yRedHQ 3h
Simply Red
lack of objectivity. Well, #rhaps not. It is after all, as many
people allege, BBC Tory mouthpiece Fiona Bruce.
# ToriesCorruptToTheCore
Best for Britain
@BestForBritain • 21h
To mark the anniversary of the referendum, #BBCQT has an all-
Brexiter audience, for a 'S#cial'.
I don't know how special it is to ignore Remain voters, people who
didn't vote, or young people and EU citizens who couldn't vote. Pretty
much what BBC has done for seven years. —AA

6 months ago

@TJ1001

Pretty sure #fionaBruce is a Tory

What kind of progressive would host the Antiques Road Show? Dimbleby did a much better job - and he was hardly a Corbynite

Sydenham News & Views

RT from Crystal Palace Park Trust (@CPParkTrust)

Excited to announce @BBC_ARoadshow is filming at #CrystalPalacePark this Summer with #FionaBruce and the #AntiquesRoadshow team. For more info and to apply for tickets to the event & have your prized possessions valued visit https://buff.ly/3n3W7OX

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/CPParkTrust/status/1637782293321220096

hesgen

#FionaBruce #GaryLineker #SarahVine

Sarah Vain is at it again, I see.

the trouble with mia :baner:

Well, I just got back from London and I'm knackered but more than that, I'm absolutely fucking furious. Hey, #FionaBruce, go and ask them whether it was a one off. 🤬
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/14/more-than-1500-uk-police-officers-accused-of-violence-against-women-in-six-months
#MetPolice #FuckTheTories #UKPolitics #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

Classic Posho 'non-apology'
"I'm sorry you (silly woke people) got offended"
#FionaBruce #BBC
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/13/fiona-bruce-to-step-down-as-refuge-ambassador-over-stanley-johnson-comments

In a statement, Bruce said she was sorry that survivors of domestic abuse
had been distressed by her comments, which she said she had been legally
obliged to make, and said they had been "mischaracterised" on social media.

SubtleBlade ⚔️

#FionaBruce to step down as #Refuge ambassador over Stanley #Johnson comments - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/13/fiona-bruce-to-step-down-as-refuge-ambassador-over-stanley-johnson-comments
#BBCCorruption #ToryCorruption
#DomesticViolence

Jon Reed

#BBCbalance #BBCimpartiality #QuestionTime #BBCQT #FionaBruce #BBC

“The fact that the BBC felt the need to take an ‘impartial’ stance between a man who broke his wife’s nose and the woman whose nose was broken, tells you everything you need to know about how warped and ludicrous this notion is.”

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/03/12/the-bbcs-pursuit-of-bogus-impartiality-finally-crashes-and-burns/

Robert Martin

Rubbish! #FionaBruce did NOT provide a "legal" clarification of comments made re #StanleyJohnson. She just said that his friends called it a "one off". It wasn't. And she should not have quoted the wife-beater's friends! #DomesticViolence #BBCQT

BBC News: Fiona Bruce to step back from Refuge after 'storm' over Stanley Johnson remark on Question Time BBC News - Fiona Bruce to step back from Refuge after 'storm' over Stanley Johnson remark on Question Time
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64942726

hesgen

I'd like to see #FionaBruce step back from #BBCQT, but doubt that will happen. Within the BBC and wider English nomenklatura, Bruce is untouchable, and she knows it!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64942726

"the guy has been accused of that, but if he did it, he only did it once."
Nice try #FionaBruce, but you said what you said....

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/13/fiona-bruce-to-step-down-as-refuge-ambassador-over-stanley-johnson-comments?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #fionabruce #stanleyjohnson This is woke culture gone mad. All the lovely Fiona did was simply point out that soon-to-be-knighted Stanley Johnson only broke his wife's nose and hospitalised her once. I simply don't see what the fuss is about. I suppose Gary Lineker or Gary Neville or some ex-footballing Gary will be hosting Question Time next.

Elizabeth 🦉

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/13/fiona-bruce-to-step-down-as-refuge-ambassador-over-stanley-johnson-comments?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

If you're "legally obliged" to make a flippant, dangerous statement as #FionaBruce did last week, perhaps it's time to have a word with your employer... Or resign.

#BBCQT presenter #fionaBruce will step back from her role as an ambassador for the charity Refuge, following a comment she made on air about Stanley Johnson, accused of trivialising domestic violence during last week's show after stepping in when Johnson was described as a "wife-beater"

"Just so everyone knows, Stanley Johnson's wife ...said he had broken her nose & she'd ended up in hospital as a result.

Friends of Stanley Johnson have said - it was a one-off"

Not suspended by BBC, mind!

Robert Martin

Now that #FionaBruce has stepped down from honorary role at #DomesticViolence charity over remarks she made re #StanleyJohnson on #BBCQT, surely it's time for her to quit the show, too?!

SubtleBlade ⚔️

#FionaBruce "...it was only once..."
'The wife of ‘Sir Stanley’ couldn’t tolerate his abuse and nor should the rest of us - 'https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/12/wife-of-sir-stanley-couldnt-tolerate-his-abuse-neither-should-rest-of-us #BorisJohnson #StanleyJohnson #DV #DomesticViolence #ToryCorruption #Tory #BBC #BBCCorruption

@Taliesen

I do find it funny that #tories always think they themselves are politically "neutral" - when the rest of us can spot them a mile away.

#fionaBruce is hopeless as a political panel show chair - she needs replacing

#fionaBruce may be able to engender a persistent bias to the right on #bbcQt (aka the #fionaBruceShow ) without comment - but were she to make repeated social media posts on how to dive in the penalty box whilst playing #football and get away with it I doubt either #bbc bosses or the licence payers would care much ......

#imWithGary #lineker

Lydia Conwell :mastodon:

https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/03/11/bbc-besieged-over-support-for-tories/

#VoxPolitical

Here's a short article about the hypocrisies of the #BBC for making #GaryLineker step down from Match of the Day.

#Media #Propaganda #FionaBruce #AlanSugar #DavidAttenborough #Tories

When you value celebrity over decency.....
#Refuge #BBC #FionaBruce #StanleyJohnson #DV

@RachelLe_HuLme
15%
Domestic Violence charity failing to condemn Fiona Bruce's comments is
maybe the most upsetting thing I've seen today as a DV survivor
@RefugeCharity • 22h
Our full statement following last night's @bbcquestiontime exchange on
domestic abuse: refuge.org.uk/news/refuge-re.„

#BBC #FionaBruce #GaryLineker
They must know how bad this all looks and have made a decision to not care, pleasing Tory bigwigs in a display of fealty is more important than the reputation of a 100 year old institution.

O @LiamThorpECHO 16h
Liam Thorp
Lineker removed from his job for his views on an horrific approach to
asylum seekers while Fiona Bruce's defence of Stanley Johnson breaking
his wife's nose gets a fulsome backing
Many of us cherish the BBC and what it has always been but this is all
beyond the pale
BBC STATEMENT ON LAST NIGHT'S QUESTION TIME
Following comments about an exchange referencing domestic abuse
on Question Time, the BBC says:
"Domestic abuse is abhorrent, and we would never wish to suggest
otherwise. When serious allegations are made on air against people or
organisations. it is the job of BBC presenters to ensure that the
context of those allegations - and any right of reply from the person
or organisation — is given to the audience, and this is what Fiona Bruce
was doing last night. She was not expressing any personal opinion
about the situation."

"#FionaBruce is deeply sorry about what she said......." said a Woman's Refuge charity who values celebrity above decency....
https://refuge.org.uk/news/refuge-responds-to-bbc-question-time-comments/

HiCoo 💙🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

https://refuge.org.uk/news/refuge-responds-to-bbc-question-time-comments/

Such a very disappointing reaction from #RefugeCharity regarding #FionaBruce minimising the #DomesticViolence carried out by #StanleyJohnson putting his wife in hospital. We all know that "one off" doesn't exist when it comes to spousal assault.
#BBC apology for "limited sports" is nothing as more and more are supporting #GaryLinekker and his comparison of #ToryCriminals as #ToryFascists

Scrumples

Emeritus Prof Christopher May

#FionaBruce minimising #DomesticAbuse on #BBCQT & giving only the 'context' that #StanleyJohnson said breaking his wife's nose was a one off incident....

No mention that his wife Charlotte said he beat her many times over many years - effectively silencing a victim of domestic violence.

Why has #Refuge not sacked Bruce?

Obviously the #BBC won't - despite censoring #GaryLineker for telling the truth about the #ToryFascistDictatorship using 1930's #Germany's political tactics & rhetoric.

#GTTO

I will not be the only person pausing to compare the treatment of so-called bias (lack of impartiality) by #GaryLineker and the lack of impartiality expressed & practiced by #FionaBruce each week on #QuestionTime... seems you can be impartial as long as you tack to the right...

The Linksland Times

#FionaBruce #GaryLineker #ScottishIndependence

Have to laugh at those who think the BBC was once impartial. It has never in all its days been impartial. Indeed, it is the finest and by far the most potent propaganda machine ever created. Just as Reith promised it would be. And as indisputedly proven by those still thinking it used to be impartial. Go figure!

Seb

#Lineker #Attenborough Appropriately, given what #FionaBruce said, the #BBC is behaving like an abuse victim: trying to appease the Tories so they don’t defund it. It’s going to backfire though because censoring popular culture figures is exactly the excuse the Tories need to attack the BBC. The more unpopular it gets, the easier it is for them.

(Calling it now, #FionaBruce will present #MOTD)
"HOW BENT IS THE #BBC DID YOU SAY? VERY BENT, VERY!"
#GaryLineker #RichardSharp #TimDavie

CliffordK O
@hoLte
Gary Lineker to step back from presenting MOTD for standing up for
those less fortunate
Fiona Bruce last night on #bbcqt defending Stanley Johnson breaking a
woman's nose as it "happened only once"
#1StandWithGary
Former Goldman Sachs Banker.
Close with Rishi Sunak at Goldman.
A major Tory party donor
Board member of the right-wing think
tank, the Centre for Policy Studies.
Former donor to controversial
Forrner PepsiCo Exec
Davie stcxxi as a councillor for the
Conservative Party in Hammersmith.
Former Deputy Chairman of the
Hammersmith and Fulham
Conservative Party in the 1990s.
Quilliam Foundation.
4:49 Mar 10, 2023
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So now that #IanWright has declined #MOTD in Solidarity with #GaryLineker, what scab will they get?
#FionaBruce?
#BBC

TrevorN

When did the #BBC, still pretending to be the world's leading public service broadcaster, turn into such pusillanimous failures, mere sockpuppets for Tory Central Office?
#Attenborough
#Lineker
#StanleyJohnson
#FionaBruce
#DomesticAbuse

You won't find the Labour Front Bench sticking up for #GaryLineker or calling out #FionaBruce and I think we can stop pretending it's by accident now.
Our single Green MP is free to speak her mind, and the minds of most people in the country
#BBC #MOTD

Gary #Lineker to step back from presenting MOTD

So - the #BBC nobble him but leave #fionaBruce in charge of their flagship political debate show?

Odd.......until you remember #richardSharp is a #toriesOut

"A lack of education" says this pundit.
#GaryLineker
Can we say that about #FionaBruce and her minimising of #DomestiveViolence?
Oh, but you won't be talking about that on Jeremy Vine, will you?
#BBC

Jeremy Vine On 5 0 @JeremyVineOn5 • 5h
"If an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor can make the analogy, why all this
pearl-clutching and faux outrage from the right?"
@mehdirhasan doesn't see the issue with Gary Lineker's comparison.
@adepsteinl says his standpoint is down to a "lack of education."
*JeremyVine
5

fucking sick of the double standard, this land is LIES 😡
#FionaBruce #GaryLineker #BBC #Britain

The Ayrshire Separatist. @DanielJMath1 • 2h
Fiona Bruce. "Stanley Johnson broke his wife's nose only once, it was a
one off.'
Read that again.
But yeah, Gary Lineker.
The BBC needs fucking burnt down.

Ambigram Art

#brexit #BrexitReailty #BrexitBritain #BrexitDisaster #gtto #NIProtocol #fionabruce

‘David Cameron made the referendum policy because he didn’t want to risk losing 10 or 15 seats to UKIP and look where it has got us’
This 16-year-old says the Conservative Party are responsible for Brexit. #bbcqt

This is from 2019 but is still so relevant.

16 year old member of the BBC Question Time audience

rob

And we're live in... 3... 2... 1... Jesus, Fiona!!!
#AntiquesRoadshow #FionaBruce #BBC

A screenshot from an episode of Antiques Roadshow showing Fiona Bruce seemingly snorting something off the back of her hand, closing one nostril with her finger.

Irena

#BBCQT #FionaBruce #BBCR4Today #BBCBias

@YorksBylines This letter expresses what many have felt about BBC bias. Tory press gaslights us into thinking BBC is a hotbed of woke lefties, when all evidence shows this is untrue.

Irena

#BBCQT #FionaBruce #BBCR4Today #BBCBias

@YorksBylines This letter expresses what many have felt about BBC bias. Tory press gaslights us into thinking BBC is a hotbed of woke lefties, when all evidence shows this is untrue.

Emeritus Prof Christopher May