Ed Davey calls for BBC chair to resign
Comments from three senior Liberal Democrats on the Gary Lineker affair:
And on, ahem, the BBC:
Pressure is growing on BBC chairman Richard Sharp to resign amid the Gary Lineker impartiality row.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said the presenter’s suspension “has shown failure at the top”.
Mr Sharp’s appointment is being investigated over his relationship with Boris Johnson. He denies wrongdoing.
But ex-BBC head Greg Dyke said the Sharp allegations had “helped fuel the perception” the corporation bowed to government pressure on Lineker.
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The Home Secretary does not know her history of the 20th century Europe; nor doews the Director General of the BBC it seems. Linekar was talking of the thirties, not the forties. Britain did not consider Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria to be in mortal danger at any point in the 1930s. Not that it is anything to be proud of. In hindsight.
… “From May 1938 on visas were required for all travellers from Germany and all areas occupied by Germany, i.e. Austria, the Sudetenland etc. The test was supposed to be whether or not the applicant was likely to be an asset to the UK. If, however, the holder of a permit for domestic service appeared unsuitable, a visa could be withheld. The pre-selection of refugees was the task of the British embassies and consulates. As the Vienna embassy was turned into a consulate with fewer employees after the take-over of the Nazis in March 1938, there was a bottleneck in handling visa applications. Even after the international Evian conference on the refugee crisis Britain rejected any interference from abroad concerning its handling of the refugee problem.” …
from and article on Jewish women in emigration (http://centraleuropeaneconomicandsocialhistory.com/maid-servants-in-england-austrian-jewish-women-in-emigration-193839). Do read it whole please.