Following the resignation of Tim Davie from the BBC, Bectu has written to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and Chair of the BBC Board Samir Shah, demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board.
Many BBC staff are concerned that Gibb is a direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence.
“The Culture Secretary has been very clear in her support for the BBC and its independence. It is time for her to demonstrate that by acting now to ensure the most impartial board possible for the organisation – that means Robbie Gibb has to go.
As long as Robbie Gibb is there, the BBC will never regain any of the trust it has lost over the past decade. The guy would never have been allowed near the board by a government with any shred of propriety, but unfortunately for us the Tories inserted him onto it like Palatine putting Anakin Skywalker onto the Jedi Council.
