£35,000-00

[Greavseywolf]

Thats what the BBC spends "every" week on taxi
fares , for it's staff, celebrity guests etc.
Like any left wing organisation it is completely
overstaffed with grossly overpaid people,some who are paid over a million , and many who are paid well over £500,000.
i sincerely hope it's unveiled efforts to shoe
wallace into office at the general election come unstuck !

as a licence fee payer i will have my say

[TundraWolf]

What and where is the website for BBC jobs...please respond asap!!!

I searched on line "work-a-half-day", "sleep late", and "overpaid/underworked" and came up empty!?

[Mr.D]

What and where is the website for BBC jobs...please respond asap!!!

I searched on line "work-a-half-day", "sleep late", and "overpaid/underworked" and came up empty!?

- view external link

[Greavseywolf]

i have my figures wrong

so apologies to all

the BBC does not spend £35,000 every week on
taxis, it spends £31,000 every day !!

if it were owt to do w'me ,i would close the
BBC down tomorrow. - view external link

[MichiganWolf]

Over here in the States, the NFL main office is registered as a non profit so they get a great deal of tax breaks. The league generates $9.5 billion (~6.6 billion pounds) in revenue each year (average team value is $1.5 billion)The commissioner, Roger Goodell, makes $44 million annually (~28.5 billion pounds).

You don't hear much about it, but there is sure a h3ll of alot of chatter about "welfare waste." Just making the NFL register as a for-profit generates hundreds of millions of tax revenue. And I'm sure there's other for-profit companies getting through this loophole. I brought up a Howard Zinn quote in another thread, but it's appropriate here - grand thieves are running the country, but the petty thieves (and middle class) pay for it.

[tony]

Funny how things change isn't it? When did this apparent left wing bias creep in?

I distinctly remember years ago the complaints about "Auntie" with its plummy voiced newscasters, Home Counties based coverage and posh presenters being far too Tory! They actually addressed the accusations on "Nationwide" (remember that?)

Mind you that was about forty years ago, when the BBC was very snobbish. Even their very rare working class characters like Alf Garnet voted Conservative and let you know about it! You'd certainly never have found snobs like Margo from "The Good Life", or toffs like Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who, Basil Brush or Sgt. Wilson from "Dad's Army" over on ITV where everyone was common.

Those vulgar lefties from "Love Thy Neighbour", "Rising Damp" or "On The Buses" would never have been given airtime by the snooty old Beeb.

[Greavseywolf]

Funny how things change isn't it? When did this apparent left wing bias creep in?

I distinctly remember years ago the complaints about "Auntie" with its plummy voiced newscasters, Home Counties based coverage and posh presenters being far too Tory! They actually addressed the accusations on "Nationwide" (remember that?)

Mind you that was about forty years ago, when the BBC was very snobbish. Even their very rare working class characters like Alf Garnet voted Conservative and let you know about it! You'd certainly never have found snobs like Margo from "The Good Life", or toffs like Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who, Basil Brush or Sgt. Wilson from "Dad's Army" over on ITV where everyone was common.

Those vulgar lefties from "Love Thy Neighbour", "Rising Damp" or "On The Buses" would never have been given airtime by the snooty old Beeb.

rentboy

fictional entertainment from the past provided
by the bbc is nowt to do with what i meant

li

[tony]

fictional entertainment from the past provided
by the bbc is nowt to do with what i meant

I know that mate

And you know me well enough to know that I just like to take things off on a mischievous, lighthearted tangent from time to time

But there WAS a time when The BBC was regarded as a central pillar of the establishment, and, as such, though ostensibly impartial, held an undeniably softly conservative (with a small 'c') stance on most issues. Admittedly that was decades ago; I'm just bemused at how the pendulum appears to have swung the other way - or has it?

I read online that at least one recent independent survey has concluded the Beeb is biased to the right - relying (so the report argues) too much on feedback and soundbites from the City and economists to drive forward its news coverage. A lot of the (be honest, almost entirely right wing) printed media peddle this idea of left leaning at the BBC.