Vicky Flind, the wife of news reader Huw Edwards, has named him as the BBC presenter facing allegations over payments for sexually explicit images in a statement issued on his behalf.
Jesus Christ, this has been a fucking shambles. And all because Murdoch wants to bring down the BBC.
The sooner The Sun disappears, the better off this country will be.
This whole thing is fascinating not for the whole Huw Edwards bit, but for the all the editorial decisions in The Sun. I mean, what were they thinking?
It makes more sense when you view it through the lens of Rupert Murdoch absolutely despising the very notion of publicly funded state media, because media is how he wields power and public broadcasters can’t (in theory) be bought.
Through that perspective you begin to see that the majority of anti-BBC stories that turn up in the privately owned news outlets are almost always bollocks wrapped around a tiny kernel of truth. And there’s an awful lot of those stories rustling up dissent against the BBC. How many Sun readers think the licence fee is nothing more than an unjust tax, that they never watch or listen to the BBC, so shouldn’t have to pay it? They’ve sown that disgruntlement for decades, which has inevitably led to successive governments freezing the fee, or minimising how much it can be increased, which has the knock on effect of making the BBC’s output less high quality than the country deserves.
That’s been Murdoch’s modus operandi for as long as he’s had a presence in the UK. The existence of (supposedly) impartial BBC News is a high benchmark that cripples his ability to peddle whatever the fuck it is Fox does over in the US.
The only real surprising thing in all this debacle is just how far The Sun over-reached. They’re a nest of vipers, but they’re not normally this stupid. Which suggests they thought they had a far stronger story than it turned out. Trouble is, literally all that will happen is that they’ll stick their fingers in their ears for a week, wait for everyone to forget about it, then they’ll return to business as usual.
This comes days after Starmer reportedly met with Murdoch, the Sun’s owner. Huw Edwards announced the death of the Queen and was the voice of the funeral and subsequent coronation. We all know Labour hates the monarchy and wants to exile them in order to turn the country into a communal camping venue, that’s what my mate said anyway. So Starmer asked Rupert to knock Huw down a peg or two and bring the BBC down. Wake up sheeple! 🐑. The sooner things I don’t like disappear the better off this country will be!
Weird way for it to come out. Why his wife’s statement on his behalf?
Seems like this whole drama has hospitalised him on mental health grounds. I’m guessing she wants the circus to stop.
If you read the article you’d see why
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The article, nor her full statement, doesn’t explain why it’s her at all.
Depends on whether you consider admission to hospital on mental health grounds sufficient explanation for someone not issuing a statement personally. I’d say it does, but, hey, you do you.
me do me
Because as his wife she can make the announcement. The BBC can’t due to duty of care to him as an employee and confidentiality issues
