They’re not exactly hiding it at the BBC any more. This is, after all, the organisation that for decades covered up for one of the UK’s most prolific paedophiles and does its best to not report on the horrific, decades-long reign of terror by Muslim child-rape gangs.
And has now spent half a million pounds of taxpayer’s money to protect a disturbing statue by a notorious paedophile.
A controversial statue carved by the sculptor Eric Gill has been restored and has been unveiled outside the BBC’s London headquarters.
The Grade II*-listed statue was damaged in 2022 and 2023, when it was attacked by a member of the public with a hammer.
Now, why was the statue attacked?
Gill was among the most prominent sculptors of the 20th Century. But after his death in 1940, his diaries revealed he had sexually abused his daughters.
A BBC spokeswoman said on Wednesday the corporation “in no way condones Gill’s abusive behaviour” but that it “draws a line between the actions of Gill, and the status of these artworks”.
Which would be all well and good – except that the statue depicts an adult male grappling with a naked child. There’s not a lot to distinguish between art and artist, there.
The BBC are certainly determined to keep their paedo statue and keep it from harm.
The BBC said the estimated total costs of the restoration and protective work was £529,715. It’s understood the cost has been covered by the BBC rather than claimed on insurance.
A BBC spokeswoman said: “When the building was subject to serious criminal damage, on two occasions, there were no easy options for addressing the destruction caused.”
Which is odd, given the context of a wave of statue-toppling by race-baiting leftists in recent years: wanton destruction that the BBC approvingly reported as ‘mostly peaceful’. The BBC praised destructive BLM troglodytes for “shed[ding] a light on cities’ colonial or slave-owning history”.
So, why don’t the BBC want anyone shedding a light on the broadcaster’s paedophile-enabling history?
As YouTuber Mark ‘Count Dankula’ Meechan points out, “So [Gill] was a nonce… and the BBC are dead set on keeping this statue.”
I mean, we know what the man did, and he’s made a statue like that, portraying that kind of thing and the BBC are dead set on keeping it. To the point where they even paid half a million out of their own pocket, [when] they could have very easily claimed it on insurance. But they decided to pay half a million out their own pocket to keep the statue.
A BBC spokeswoman also let slip that, like Jimmy Savile, the broadcaster knew for decades about Gill’s paedophilia.
“We recognize that since details of Gill’s abusive behaviors came to light in the late 1980s” – so they’ve known this for like 40 years.
As Meechan says, if that statue was on his building and he found out it was made by a notorious paedophile, he’d take it down himself and leave it in the street for anyone to come along with their hammers and chisels.
In fact, right here in Tasmania, when it emerged that a public sculpture featured the name of a convicted paedophile, the offending plaque was removed.
Isn’t it really, really strange where our state’s priorities lie […] we all know why they’re keeping it.
Indeed we do. Just ask John Lydon about where the BBC’s priorities lie.
