BBC director general urged to hire Brexiteers by Deacon

A leading activist for the Defund The BBC campaign has urged the BBC’s new director-general to hire people “who voted for Brexit” or risk destroying the broadcaster. Liam Deacon ripped into the BBC’s Tim Davie for focusing on tweets instead of “the root of the problem”. Earlier this year, the BBC director-general said he would be prepared to sack presenters who make major breaches of impartiality guidelines on social media.

Speaking to talkRADIO, Defund The BBC campaigner Liam Deacon delivered a scathing rant explaining why he had no faith in the BBC’s new director-general.

He said: “He got up and said he was going to give people a ticking off for saying things on Twitter, but he didn’t really look to the root of the problem.

“He is going to tackle the symptoms, not the cause.

“He is not going to tackle the root of the problem, that there is one type of person who works at the BBC.”

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He urged the BBC to hire people with a spectrum of political views, amid growing controversy over the broadcaster’s “wokeness”.

Mr Deacon explained: “The reason why some of them say batty left-wing things on social media sometimes is because that’s what they all think.

“If you’re going to change that, you want to get to the root of that.

“They need to start hiring working-class people who didn’t go to private school.

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“People who voted for Brexit, people who voted for Boris Johnson, but they’re not going to do that.

“He wants to hide the problem, that’s his only solution – deleting tweets.

“I have no faith in this guy, he has been at the BBC for decades.”

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The BBC recently revealed plans to increase staff diversity and improve the portrayal of under-represented groups on screen.

As part of this objective, which Tim Davie called “mission-critical,” staff will be given a language guide to help them avoid offending viewers and listeners.

Earlier this year, the BBC sparked a furore over an attempt to remove Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory from the Last Night of the Proms.

The BBC has found itself embroiled in controversy in recent years, with many critical of the high salaries paid to the corporation’s top stars and outspoken political views including Match of the Day host Gary Lineker.

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