BBC faces ‘more pressure' following airing of ‘repulsive' Glastonbury festival
'This is hilarious because it's the same playbook that the ABC uses here,' Mr Dean told Sky News host James Macpherson.
'They deny, first of all, there's no problem, then they sort of deflect, then they come up with other excuses.
'That character, that repulsive Bob Vylan … what an insult to the great name of Bob Dylan, that this creep tries to co-opt his name.
'This will put pressure, more pressure on people saying, we've had enough of this, we do not want to be paying our BBC license.'
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