Fiona Bruce

Typical Tory apology. "It's not my fault but I'm sorry if anyone was offended" 🙄

I'm not buying the legally obliged defence one bit. She might be obliged to point out he was never charged with it. Can't see how she could possibly be "legally obliged" to say his friends said it was a one off (as if that makes it ok anyway). She must think people are stupid.

Can't possibly accept responsibility for anything can they?
 
If anyone thought to actually read about this, she was required to read that statement by the BBC. She was not reading her own words and the charity has acknowledged this.
She has helped raise awareness and money for lots of charities but don't let facts interfere with a bit of celeb hounding.
 
Blf said:
If anyone thought to actually read about this, she was required to read that statement by the BBC. She was not reading her own words and the charity has acknowledged this.
She has helped raise awareness and money for lots of charities but don't let facts interfere with a bit of celeb hounding.
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Celeb hounding? Did you watch QT?
 
Blf said:
If anyone thought to actually read about this, she was required to read that statement by the BBC. She was not reading her own words and the charity has acknowledged this.
She has helped raise awareness and money for lots of charities but don't let facts interfere with a bit of celeb hounding.
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Are you a fan of Antiques Roadshow ?
 
Blf said:
If anyone thought to actually read about this, she was required to read that statement by the BBC. She was not reading her own words and the charity has acknowledged this.
She has helped raise awareness and money for lots of charities but don't let facts interfere with a bit of celeb hounding.
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So for a broadcast tv programme with unscripted audience participation you're saying she already had a pre-prepared statement to read out just in case anyone brought up Stanley Johnson breaking his wife's nose?
 
I didn't even know SJ was a wife beater before this, and I bet many others didn't. I bet he wishes Boris had just nominated someone else for a knighthood now!
 
I think it was the way she almost broke her neck in her desperation to get the statement out and the emphasis she put on it that has caused the issue here. A statement could easily have been slipped in at the end of the conversation but she more or less shouted others down to get the point across.
 
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Blf said:
If anyone thought to actually read about this, she was required to read that statement by the BBC. She was not reading her own words and the charity has acknowledged this.
She has helped raise awareness and money for lots of charities but don't let facts interfere with a bit of celeb hounding.
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So the officiall BBC statement contained the line about friends saying Johnson only did it the once? Seems a bit weird but I haven't read anything in detail about this.
 
Teesste said:
I think it was the way she almost broke her neck in her desperation to get the statement out and the emphasis she put on it that has caused the issue here. A ststaement could easily have been slipped in at the end of the conversation but she more or less shouted others down to get the point across.
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I agree though it’s worth adding that Johnson’s ex-wife said he beat her numerous times, and this has been accepted as the truth. Quite why Bruce was so keen to get her disclaimer in is a great insight into just what has been happening at the BBC since 2010. It has always been an arm of the state but the shift to the right over the past few years is alarming. Bruce’s husband’s advertising firm didn’t receive over £3m from the Conservatives for nothing.

And, not to bang on about this all over again, but there are some of us who’ve been saying this for years and years and been laughed out of town.

This pack of Tories are hell-bent on bringing down the BBC and anything else that can be asset-stripped and passed to their mates. The news and opinion media in this country have more then played their part in all of this.
 
Blf said:
If anyone thought to actually read about this, she was required to read that statement by the BBC. She was not reading her own words and the charity has acknowledged this.
She has helped raise awareness and money for lots of charities but don't let facts interfere with a bit of celeb hounding.
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If she was required to read a statement saying "his friends said it was a one off" then that raises even more worrying questions doesn't it? As per my previous post I can't see how that particular part of her statement (and it's the bit that's particularly controversial) addresses any legal risk.

I mean if that is the case then it sounds pretty much like a BBC mandated defence of a high profile figure very closely linked to the Tory party. You could argue a politically motivated statement. But that can't be right given the extraordinary lengths the BBC goes to to remain impartial. Surely 🤔🧐

"I need to point out for legal reasons he was never charged with that offence" would have been clearer, avoided any controversy and sufficed to mitigate any legal risk wouldn't it?
 
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