We can appreciate a mature man.
Especially when he’s handing out £35k.

Yes, that is alot of Cocaine

what the Huw supporters are trying to do is normalise older men going on dating apps and paying large quantities of cash to satisfy their sexual urges with young teens. Anyone that thinks that is ok needs a swift kicking

Its Stinking BBC

BBC Values

TRUST is the foundation of the BBC - we’re independent, impartial and truthful

We RESPECT each other - we’re kind, and we champion inclusivity

https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/governance/mission

does not make good reading..

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/230511...ear-injustice/

Every parent's nightmare.

The child would have got the money from drugs from somewhere but having it so easily provided made the slide into full blown addiction easier. It probably would have been evident from their appearance exactly what they were spending these payments on.

the problem is that dodgy money can be earned in 1000 different ways. It drifts into the area of exploitation if the person paying the cash knows what is happening, but that is very difficult to prove

People don’t actually care care about the well being of the alleged ‘victims’ the right wing media, especially the Murdoch owned organisations, have used a persons complicated private life to take a very obvious shot at the bbc to try and garner support to get rid of it, which is the ultimate goal for Murdoch and his cronies, that’s what all this is about, being able to put someone and destroy their life in the process is probably just seen as a nice little cherry on top for a rag that has had that hobby for decades, it’s a political hit job with major collateral damage.

But I think think they’ve gone too far this time and I have a feeling that the average person can see this whole episode exactly for what it is

It's always exploitation. This is where we start to come up against the legality=/=morality issue... the idea that because it's not [X] by legal definition, then it must be fine and people should be able to get on with it.

It's very difficult to prove that it's exploitation on a criminal sense i.e. that your various tricks/johns/punters/onlyfand subscribers should actually go to jail, but that has little to nothing to do with whether people can individually consider it to be exploitative behaviour. Paying a drug-addled teenager for pics to get off over is 100% exploitation I think fairly unambiguously. For me personally, all sex work is exploitative, no matter how many people try to naively argue that it's "empowering". That part is more up for debate.

But yeah. I don't think a 60 year old bloke paying a young boy (whether he be 17 or 19) for sex pictures can be viewed as anything but exploitation. And just gross.

I think yall just disgusted that a married man would be so careless about his sexuality, how dare he thinks he can get away with using grindr for hookups. He must be punished.

that's what i was saying earlier and his friends are all beavering away trying to normalise it, which i find absolutely shocking. There seems to be no level of behaviour these days that should result in the person being ashamed of themselves

The media doesn't care about people full stop. This is neither new nor partisan right/left. The spread and influence of the mainstream media now pales in comparison to social media (statistically verifiable) so really it's just ... ... ... people.

The rest? It's not like he's innocent, his life is ruined because he got caught with his hands down his pants. He was trotting along quite merrily doing what he was doing until people found out about it, and now his "mental health is in tatters". Why? He has plenty of money, he's 60, he can retire and disappear - maybe his family won't forgive him but that's their business, not a reason for them to not to have found out what he was doing.

So what's the problem? The problem is that he can't carry on his prestigious career and his image and reputation are destroyed. If it was because of complete fictions that would be awful. But it's not... it's because he did the sort of gross, exploitative cummy nonsense that he will have known fine well would ruin his reputation if it ever came out. His mental health is only "in tatters" because it came out. For him as an individual it's easy to have sympathy and if he wanted to simply apologise, disappear and live his life in peace then he should be allowed to do that. But what he's in turmoil over, again, is losing his career and reputation. That **** is at no one's feet but his own.

He doesn't even need to be ashamed of himself that's entirely down to his own conscience, he just needs to accept that other people don't "have to" find it acceptable, and bugger off out of the public eye.

It's the "Oh nooo I am destroyed how could I have known this would happen :bawling:" that really irks me. This is a very successful career-driven chap, he knew fine well every single time he did it what would happen if anyone found out. It was probably part of the buzz. He just didn't think it would actually happen, and it turns out it's not much fun after all.

its grim, all the empathy is for Huw, not a word about the persons life he is destroying by feeding their addition, he is no better than a pimp

the idea that a father could do that to someone elses child and break family bonds is unforgiveable

yes we can, seedy and immoral and probably a criminal act covered up yet again because of how high profile he is and the endless embarrassment it could cause if he were charged

If the BBC had done its job and investigated and agreed with Huw to stop the payments and contact with the young man then the papers would not have been involved..

Poor Huw is very vulnerable....

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...cc384f786&ei=8

I mean that might wash if it was a few times with one person, but this has been going on for years, and with multiple TEENs

Slick Liam

The young fit male BBC workers
do not want to be near this Older Closet Gay Huw

Please tell me you can understand that

I agree with that - the idea that it was some "moment of madness" brought on by poor mental health is completely undermined by the fact that it was an ongoing situation for years and he's been successfully working in a very visible role throughout that time. He clearly has not been in a permanent state of acute mental health crisis.

No Way
Sopel and his LBC mates
are not in that building now
they do not know the real Dirty Bugger Huw

https://liveblog.digitalimages.sky/l...7f9bbdf65f.png

Bring him back I miss him so much. There a massive hole left open now.

No, you must respect
young male BBC workers rights
in that building

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[BBC CEO Time Davie is sent
a 'red-flag list' twice a week,
largely about programmes that might cause
the BBC some harm]

They should be ashamed of themselves

i bet they would have done the same with Saville if it had come out when he was alive