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WATCH: BBC facing 'global humiliation' over Donald Trump scandal, says Lizzie Cundy
Nov 8, 2025
The BBC is facing "fiasco after fiasco" following the Donald Trump doctoring scandal and Britons "do not want" to pay to fund the broadcaster, it has been claimed.In a blistering GB News takedown, commentator Lizzie Cundy declared that the people "want choice and want freedom", not pay to "be lied to".FULL STORY HERE.
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So what you're asking is, should we privatise the BBC
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Which is what that means. And that, regardless of the BBC clearly doctoring this clip
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clearly wrong, shouldn't have happened. And I am not remotely surprised. I spent five years doing basically daily battle with the BBC
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and all other broadcasters over bias, misusing of clips, misrepresentation of policies, misrepresentation of people
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So I'm not remotely surprised. And I'm not defending that particular very dodgy piece of editing
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But when you say should the BBC fund itself, what you mean is should we privatise it
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And let's look at how badly privatisation has done to all of our utilities
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things that we have invested lots of money and lots of time in as a country
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So rather than just selling it off, I think actually we should look at what is it that we want
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We want to have a media organisation that is free from government control and corporate influence
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And right now we've got a kind of halfway house that has, if it has a political bias
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It's a status quo bias. It's not a bias in favour of the left by any means. Let me tell you from having spent a lot of time arguing..
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Let me tell you from having spent a lot of time arguing... Don't need to tell me I was in it. I wasn't there
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It was a very left-wing bias. It's got a status quo bias. Which is left-wing
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Well, it's not. It's status quo. So I'm left-wing. I'm trying to change the status quo
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You could say your... Let's, for example, Brexit was an attempt to change the status quo
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So the BBC, I would say, was structurally anti-Brexit. Black Lives Matter. Anyway look are you saying Which are you saying is the status quo They were completely pro for Black Lives Matter But anyway so I think what we should do is we should democratise the BBC
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which means, for example, the government shouldn't be able to appoint the chief executive
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and appoint people onto the board. I think that we should have..
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Great to say you were earlier in your discussion talking about local radio and community-owned news
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I think you're completely right, and I think you should be able to say that through some democratic means
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in the BBC to address funding going in this way rather than that way
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So I think we should democratise, save, preserve the BBC and prevent it being able to be controlled by governments
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or influenced by governments or by corporate interests. If we just privatise it..
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That was the point of it, though. That was the point of it, you see
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So it was meant to be a neutral, impartial broadcaster. You'll notice I didn't say the words neutral and impartial
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I don't quite accept this fake idea of, you know, one side says it's raining, the other side says it's not raining
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and the BBC says, you know, they say it's raining, they say it's not raining. The thing is you should poke your head outside
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and see whether it is raining. But that's the only way that you'd get the public to fund it
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if it represented an array of opinions and the broadcasters who were neutral and unbiased
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or did not show a bias to things. Unfortunately, that's not really working out for them
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because people want to have opinions. But I don't have... People do have opinions in the BBC
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I don really have a problem with people having opinions in the BBC I think actually sometimes it more honest that we know what they actually think and then you able to make assessments on that basis Look people want choice people want freedom and people certainly don want to be misled
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and lied to, especially when they're having forced to pay £174.50. Is the BBC worth this
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People don't want it. Let me tell you, £300,000 are failing to pay. We've got 50,000 prosecutions
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going on. People don't want this anymore, Nenna. We've had fiasco after fiasco after fiasco
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Look, as we've said, what's happening with Trump at the minute. That is humiliating globally
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for the BBC. It's so damaging to be doing that and fake news. We've had all of the Gaza
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documentary, you know, in Panorama, where it was the son of a Hamas minister was the narrator
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I mean, how many more mistakes? And don't forget all their presenters that are being paid astronomical fees
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We've had, you know, all of that with the Saville case, Gary Lineker
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Bashir. You know, yes, Bashir. I mean, the list goes on and on and on
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Rolf Harris. I mean, but Gary Lineker, there's one who time and time again was, you know, they let him get away with, you know, sprouting all his left wing
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What did he do wrong? He's a football player. What did he do wrong? Let me just explain what he did wrong
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So I worked for the BBC and I was doing radio local radio and the sort of contract I had was a little bit like his apart from without the money But when I say that the kind of the onus and the kind of thing I had to represent
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so I couldn't really have my opinion, da-da-da-da, all the kind of things he would have to adhere
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to, too. I wasn't in news news, as it were. So, you know, you have a slightly more entertainment
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so you've got a looser, apparently, movement. Then they moved things and said it doesn't matter where you are on the BBC, it doesn't matter what you do, you must remain impartial
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I think that's a mistake. But Gary Lineker, even despite that, was able to have his opinion
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I lost jobs because I said... But it's supposed to be impartial. What I'm saying is, and that is a mistake
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I think Gary Lineker expressing his opinion, whether I agree with it or not, whether you agree with it or not
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is not a problem, whereas Jimmy Savile is a problem. No, it's supposed to be impartial, though
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As a presenter, one of the things that you signed was their guidelines
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and in their guidelines, you were not to express an opinion. And even if you went outside of the BBC and went on somewhere else
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you were seen as a representative of the BBC. So I went outside somewhere and said something on Channel 5
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They didn't like it. Then I said something else. Then I had two shows taken away from me. Nothing happened to Gary Lineker
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Now, I have no problem with Gary Lineker having an opinion now. He doesn't work for them and isn't their highest paid presenter
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He can spout all he likes. But guess what? He's gone really quiet. Yes, he has gone quiet
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But I don't think he's lost his job either. But you see, James, the BBC are supposed to be impartial
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That was what they dined out of, the highly respected, telling us the truth
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And it's being shown so blatantly, so many mistakes they're making. And we, the people, have had enough of that
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