Meet the BBC’s New Brexit-Hating, Plaid Cymru-Loving Radio Wales Editor
It didn’t take lengthy for the BBC to drop Matthew Stadlen as a brand new 5 Stay presenter after Guido revealed a string of pro-Labour, Tory-hating tweets – together with him mulling standing as a Labour candidate on the subsequent election – although by the look of issues they haven’t learnt any classes about vetting new hires after the row. It’s now come to Guido’s consideration that their newest rent over at BBC Wales could not gel with DCMS’ new impartiality drive…
Earlier this week Carolyn Hitt introduced she was leaving the Western Mail and WalesOnline after 30 years to take up a brand new position because the editor of BBC Radio Wales and Sport. Welcoming the appointment, the director of BBC Cymru Wales stated she’ll convey “a wealth of expertise and creativity to this important position”. She additionally brings a swathe of Tory and Brexit-hatred…
Given Guido doesn’t wish to be accused of a Hitt job, he additionally took time to browse a few of Carolyn’s op-eds from her time at Wales On-line. She was clearly shocked and disillusioned that her Welsh countrymen dared to vote out within the EU referendum, penning a chunk entitled “EU Referendum: We don’t actually hold a welcome within the hillsides anymore, can we? Wales’ sense of self has been shaken to the core by voting overwhelmingly to depart the EU”, wherein she admonished the Welsh individuals for not voting the identical manner as Northern Eire and Scotland however with “center England”.
In September 2019 she got here out backing Welsh independence, writing “Boris, Brexit, the attainable breakaway of Scotland and rising assist for a united Eire ought to shock us out of Cymric complacency and get us considering what can be left for Wales within the shake-down of a break-up of the union.”
In 2017 she opined that she had been unsuitable about Jeremy Corbyn, who in the long run “came to visit as an honest bloke who caught to his ideas and engaged with and listened to the general public“, occurring to explain The Solar, The Day by day Mail and the Day by day Specific as “far-right rags” that “reached new ranges of poisonous propaganda”. Good luck with the brand new job Carolyn…
