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To: Tim Davie, Director General of the BBC

Revoke the BBC's new political impartiality rules

Revoke the new rules implemented on political impartiality, and not impinge on people's rights to a private life.

Why is this important?

The BBC, nor any organisation, cannot and should not dictate what legal activities their employees engage in outside of work, as they have a right to respect for private and family life as set out in Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998. Furthermore, supporting equality and demanding fundamental human rights for disadvantaged and minority groups across the race and gender spectrums, amongst others, is not a political partial act, as the Human Rights Act 1998 and Equality Act 2010 clearly set out the obligations of the government and society they represent; merely asking for these obligations to be met is not a political action and Tim Davie and the BBC should acknowledge this, or be guilty of the very partiality they claim to be trying to avoid.

How it will be delivered

The petition will be delivered directly to Tim Davie's email address, and also publicised through as many online platforms as possible.

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Updates

2020-11-03 17:16:10 +0000

50 signatures reached

2020-10-30 14:09:33 +0000

BBC Director General Tim Davie has 'clarified' the editorial rules published yesterday - here is a link via Twitter to the email issued to all BBC staff - https://twitter.com/scottygb/status/1322133678684839936?s=20

This does not resolve any of the concerns which people rightly have with this change, in their right to their private and family life and shows just how tone deaf Tim Davie is on the matter. Given that he was the Deputy Chairman of Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative Party in the 1990s, it's obvious that the impartiality in question is his, and not the BBC's.

2020-10-30 12:59:04 +0000

25 signatures reached

2020-10-30 09:23:39 +0000

10 signatures reached