Piers Morgan complained there were too many women on the BBC and Alastair Campbell had the perfect last word
With presumably nothing else to tweet about for a moment or so, Piers Morgan took aim at the people chosen by the BBC to do the newspapers review on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show.
Specifically, the number of women (compared to the number of men, obviously).
This is how it began.
So, Andrew Marr's had 58 paper reviewers this year… and 43 have been women.
Methinks the BBC still doesn't quite grasp the principle of gender equality….https://t.co/OUWS5d3lJD— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 23, 2019
The editor of the BBC’s live political programmes responded.
Breaking: there are other people apart from newspaper reviewers on the Andrew Marr Show, if you want to count up numbers of men and women on the show best to include all the guests in your total otherwise it looks like you’re twisting statistics. https://t.co/DsW63rE3gR
— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) June 23, 2019
And it rather escalated from there.
Hi Rob, I love #Marr, as you know. Just noticed a weird gender imbalance on the paper reviews this year & after yet another all-female panel today, I checked & discovered a 43-15 split in favour of the ladies for 2019. Obviously deliberate, just curious as to why? https://t.co/6oduPMe5Jk
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 23, 2019
The BBC is publicly committed to achieving 50:50 representation of men and women on our shows. It’s a great initiative and makes programmes better. With political shows it’s tough as men dominate. So we can address that by booking excellent women in the paper review. Simple! https://t.co/mfL0OsLlDk
— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) June 23, 2019
Isn’t that because the rest of the show is packed with men, because there’s some serious gender inequality at the top of politics? https://t.co/eLR9zAmkcb
— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) June 23, 2019
What an absolutely great line up for the newspaper review on #Marr this morning. Great diversity of opinion plus rare regional press slot. Go @wizbates for @yorkshirepost! pic.twitter.com/0AsARtEZRU
— Kate Proctor (@KateProctorES) June 23, 2019
Great to see the BBC responding to its historic male bias by now displaying overt female bias.
Gender imbalance equality! https://t.co/UUI2gem42f— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 23, 2019
Calm down, snowflake. https://t.co/Eh6yXpfapR
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) June 23, 2019
Prime Minister: Female
First Minister, Scotland: Female
Green Party leader: Female
Tory leader, Scotland: Female
Head of Met Police: Female
Head of London Fire: Female
Monarch: Female https://t.co/aQG8z8GcDY— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 23, 2019
Which is when Alastair Campbell intervened.
Best presenter on @gmb : Female https://t.co/lg03N44qoZ
— Alastair PEOPLE’S VOTE Campbell (@campbellclaret) June 23, 2019
No coming back from that.
