Lucy Brown - image, Tommy Robinson, youtube
The BBC is producing a Panorama documentary on Tommy Robinson and are looking for material which they can use to discredit him. They have recruited far left organisation Hope Not Hate as advisers, to help them with interviews and get them the information they need. Tommy Robinson's former aide, Lucy Brown was contacted by Hope Not Hate and offered £5000 for what they called a front page story on Tommy Robinson.
Here is what the BBC says about its Editorial Values:
The first 12 minutes show former aide, Lucy Brown, talking to Tommy Robinson. She relates how she received an email from BBC Panorama presenter John Sweeney asking her to have a drink with him. She suspected he wanted to dig up some dirt on Tommy for his forthcoming Panorama program. She agreed to meet him at an upmarket pub in Cambridge.
Here is what the BBC says about its Editorial Values:
Trust is the foundation of the BBC: we are independent, impartial and honest. We are committed to achieving the highest standards of due accuracy and impartiality and strive to avoid knowingly and materially misleading our audiences.In the video below, Tommy Robinson supporters are seen watching what Tommy calls Panodrama, an exposé of the BBC program Panorama. It was shown Saturday 23 February on a 50 foot TV screen outside the BBC Headquarters in Salford.
The first 12 minutes show former aide, Lucy Brown, talking to Tommy Robinson. She relates how she received an email from BBC Panorama presenter John Sweeney asking her to have a drink with him. She suspected he wanted to dig up some dirt on Tommy for his forthcoming Panorama program. She agreed to meet him at an upmarket pub in Cambridge.
She tells Tommy Robinson that people like John Sweeney approach you when they think you're vulnerable, ply you with drink and try and get you to say things you wouldn't normally say.
In the video, Tommy Robinson is seen fitting Lucy Brown with a hidden camera so that she can record what is said at the meeting. The bill came to £220, paid for by John Sweeney on expenses. It appears to have been an attempt by him to get Lucy Brown drunk so she would open up about Tommy. In the conversation, John Sweeney says one of his political heroes is the late Martin McGuinness, who was a member of the IRA.
After she fell out with Tommy Robinson, she says she was approached by a journalist from a mainstream newspaper who wanted to run a story that she was sexually abused by Tommy. She told the journalist it wasn't true but had to start legal proceedings against the newspaper to stop them from printing it.
