[House]

Very rude. Totally unfair to those who were working hard for a year (while some were being paid to stay at home)

I took it to be a somewhat tongue-in-cheek remark to reflect that there are some relatively young and previously-inexperienced presenters who have been thrust into bigger roles as a result of the BBC’s poor handling of the presenter situation, such as relatively junior reporters presenting key UK hours when previously it would have been a seasoned ‘chief’ presenter. That isn’t to criticise those individuals, but rather the BBC’s reliance on them.

But there certainly have also been very many presenters (freelance or employees) who have the experience and ability, they’re just (somewhat) new faces to UK news channel audiences. I’m thinking people like Tanya Beckett, Lucy Gray, Nicky S, Samantha Simmonds, Sarah Campbell, Lauren Taylor, Tanya Beckett and Kylie Pentalow, not to mention those who I assume are full-time presenter-correspondents, such as Lewis Vaughn-Jones and Rajini Vaidyanathan.