Extraordinary row breaks out within the BBC over debate ‘debacle’ as senior on-screen staff brand Corporation bosses ‘idiots in chinos’
- TV debate caused uproar when it emerged BBC failed to properly vet an Imam
- Senior management figures at the Corporation have been blamed for ‘poisoning relations’ between the BBC’s flagship political team and the Conservative Party
- One said: ‘Chino w*****s who don’t know the first thing about politics all got involved’
An extraordinary row has broken out in the wake of the BBC’s disastrous Tory leadership debate last week, with senior on-screen staff branding Corporation bosses ‘the chino w*****s’.
The televised debate sparked uproar when it emerged that the BBC had failed to properly vet a controversial imam accused of sharing anti-Semitic tweets and allowed him to grill the potential next Prime Minister.
And another audience member was later exposed as a Labour apparatchik.
The televised debate sparked uproar when it emerged that the BBC had failed to properly vet a controversial imam accused of sharing anti-Semitic tweets and allowed him to grill the potential next Prime Minister
Now, the involvement of Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson in a planned BBC head-to-head debate has been plunged into doubt.
Senior management figures at the Corporation have been blamed for ‘poisoning relations’ between the BBC’s flagship political team and the Conservative Party.
Accusations that responsibility for the debate had been ‘wrestled from the frontline staff’ have left a bitter blame game engulfing the organisation.
A senior BBC source told The Mail on Sunday: ‘The chino w*****s who don’t know the first thing about politics all got involved and tried to run the whole thing by committee and predictably it was a disaster.’
The source added: ‘Now we are all left to pick up the pieces and try to mend fences, while they try to work out who to promote instead of fire.’