BBC, time to shoot Aunty?
The time has finally come to sell off the BBC. Aunty is not required anymore.
How long must the British taxpayer keep this old mare alive? Its incompetence over the last few years beggars belief. By law everybody who owns a television set (or radio) needs a TV license…why?
The poor standards to which this subsidised monstrosity has dropped to, with the aid of the so-called Trustees (surely that’s a misnomer) calls for Aunty to be sold off to someone who knows how to run a broadcasting company and stop wasting the taxpayers money.
The BBC is subsidised to the tune of £3b per year and they have managed to have a £2b shortfall!
Reports earlier this month spelled out how overspending on management, building refurbishments and outside broadcasts of major events saw the BBC spending money it doesn’t have.
This weekend’s revelation that Alan Yentob’s film about a reclusive 1960’s pop star, Scott Walker, was actually work by Stephen Kijak, a US film maker. This ’shameful deception’ left the viewer with the impression that Yentob had actually done the interview. The BBC insist that Yentob, who said there can be ‘artifice without deception’, has done nothing wrong and used standard industry practice by editing Kijak out of his own film. Standard industry practice means jack then? BTW the series is called ‘Imagine’, should it be renamed to ‘Imagine this isn’t Plagiarised’?
Shows will be cut, more repeats (I already pay for UKGold) and now the BBC is now deciding on cuts of more that 2,000 jobs to save money.
So let me get this right. Every TV license payer gives the BBC £135.50 (colour) or £45.50 (black and white). The Trustees allow the BBC controller, Mark Thompson is waste this money and overspend by £2b, giving people like Jonathon Ross £18m (over three years…thank God for that?) and now to try and balance the books looks like making 2,000 people redundant. So the British taxpayer sees their money wasted, then our money is used to pay for these redundancies and finally the British taxpayer pays again in social benefits to these unemployed. Nice work if you can get it!
The BBC is also reported to be moving out of London and selling off Broadcasting House. Unfortunately Broadcasting House belongs to the British public; we paid for it…so keep your mits off. It might be worth looking at who stands to gain from this sale, because it isn’t the poor license fee payer, maybe the Trustees might be worth looking at?
Surely it’s time to put a bullet in Auntie’s head, along with the Trustees!
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I pay over £60 to Sky…..why should I pay a license fee to the BBC when they haven’t got a clue how to manage it?