Cue nashing of teeth and much shaking of fists…
So, thousands of soldiers lose their jobs. The very people who have risked their lives every day in order that the BBC can function and fail, over and over, to support the sacrifice they make .
The BBC will only receive the equivalent of a 16% cut over five years. That just isn’t good enough.
Just what the fuck does that second sentence mean? It makes some sense up to the comma, where you start to feel the rage stoked by the army cutting the numbers of soldiers turns Dorries’ limited ability to construct a coherent sentence to goo.
5 years? 16%? Is that it? Oooh, those bloody lefties have gotten away far too lightly. Again.
The BBC has done a very good job over the last thirteen years to support the Labour Government. They have facilitated the very process which has resulted in the cuts every family in the nation has to bear. The blood which will flow from the cuts is all over BBC hands too.
And the BBC will undoubtedly be a little more bias towards the Tories, because although there is the independent board of what-ever-they’re-called running the BBC, it is still the government of the day that pulls the strings and can completely fuck the BBC if they wanted.
Although the BBC might have been a bit soft on the Labour government, I think Nadine will find that it was the Labour government and it’s love of the ‘wealth creators’ of the city that facilitated the slide down the u-bend in to the cess-pit we currently find ourselves. You can hardly say the BBC were willing facilitators. You’ll probably find the current demand to fuck over the BBC is just a continuation of the shit started in 2004 by, yes the Labour government. Bullied into submission that it is still trying to recover from.
Having displayed such bias, the Corporation should take more of the pain.
Oh? How, Nadine? Please, do tell.
We should demand to know what each presenter is paid. Because we pay. Students who have to buy a TV licence for each room in a student halls. Each person who is ill, elderly or infirm – we all pay from our taxed income.
We? who the fuck is this ‘we’? Some people might want to know what the presenters and ‘stars’ are paid. Some people couldn’t give a shit.
We know what teachers, nurses and MPs are paid. Why is the BBC allowed to function under this veil of secrecy?
We know what MPs’ are paid because they proved themselves to be extremely untrustworthy when it came down to spending and justifying the spending of other peoples money. And until recently MPs’ set their own pay. Who the fuck else got to pay themselves what they wanted from other peoples money?
We know the pay of some of the top paid headteachers, but not because of any dishonesty or lax rules, but because the information got leaked or the head disclosed it themselves. And nurses? Where can I find out how much a specific nurse gets paid? Go on, where?
The ‘veil of secrecy’ that the BBC is supposedly operating under is probably less secret than Nadines recruitment process for her constituency helper. *cough**daughter**cough*.
We need to know the exact cost of every production. How much each person on the production team receives. Every expense receipt going back over five years should be produced for everyone to see. Because we paid.
We need to know, do we? Does it really matter what the runner got paid, or the second soundman? It’s the total cost of the production that should be monitored, if you wanna go that way. It probably is already. Programmes rejected or not commissioned because of cost.
And where is the money going to come from to gather and collate and show this information in a meaningful way? From the BBC itself, so that there is less for actually producing shows or is this another job for the Big fucking Society?
That just sounds like petty vengeful snarking. ‘I’ve got to so you have to, too’ kind of thing. Oh fuck off you stupid fucking bint*.
The argument to justify the BBC licence fee used to go that the BBC made outstanding period dramas.
…and documentaries. Don’t forget documentaries, because everything else the BBC is utter shite.
I have a two word answer to that. Downton Abbey.
Man, that’s one killer argument. What’s Downton Abbey? I’m guessing it’s a period drama, but is it a shit BBC drama that proves the BBC don’t make outstanding period dramas anymore or is it an ITV one that shows that the BBC must be a shit waste of money because someone else can do good drama too?
It’s a bit longer than 2 words, but I have an answer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3q2iZuU5WM
Should Dorries MP be allowed out in public?
Anyone thought about calling her healthcare provider?
Presumably she’d approve of all BBC execs (and down to runners & cleaners) chucking their expenses guides out of the window…
http://blog.dorries.org/id-1630-2010_7_IPSA_in_the_air.aspx
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Yes Dorries, ‘cos when I worked at the Beeb, it was a story by Gilligan which overwhelmingly supported the Labour government, resulting in Greg Dyke being chucked out, Thompson coming and immediately massive cuts in funding, the sell off of various profitable arms of the corporation and a privatised phone system which was absolutely useless.
All because the BBC so clearly “backed” Blair and that man Campbell really, really fucking loved the corporation for being so very kind to New Labour.
Whereas it was sooooooo fucking easy for journalists to get the Government to reveals its expenses accounts… wasn’t it?
Her claptrap is the same shit we got when Norman Tebbit used to complain that the BBC supported the miners by doing stories about how bad they were suffering during the strike. And there he sat, with his stopwatch, timing each and every interview and then claiming “oooh, they gave that Labour MP one minute forty seconds, but only one minute thirty seconds to the Tory MP, proving it’s a biased left-wing riddled organisation.”