Drinks All Round - The Taxpayer is Paying
There was a veritable tax parasites ball at Westminster's fancy Atrium restaurant on Wednesday. The BBC spent some £5,000 pouring booze down MPs throats. Perhaps they were celebrating the expected 2,000 jobs being cut at the BBC? Maybe not, but Guido is celebrating - it is a good start...
17 comments:
Its called "oiling the wheels of democracy !"
Still smarting over Newsnight, I see.
I enjoyed it I must say - I like free stuff!!
They can either spend the licence fee cash on foreign travel, five stars hotels and fine wining and dining for themselves, or they can spend it on Premier Division football, Test Matches and Rugby World Cups. As the numerous BBC managers and executives attend all these events anyway they can see no reason to make them available to viewers. So what else would they do with the cash but squander it on themselves.
If Uncle Brown was there I hope he stayed off the hard stuff. Booze doesn't mix well with antidepressants, sleeping pills, and beta-blockers.
Privatise the BBC nooooooow!
Love to see the BBC privatised but not their library of films,plays etc ,we have payed for those over the years and they belong to the country,they have become just another broadcaster, so not a problem SELL the BBC.
And the taxpayer is also paying for Speaker Martin's legal bill to Carter-Ruck who were employed to represent him following articles querying his conduct. Apparently some £20K over 3 months!
anon,
a forcefull word with your MP, that reform of the bbc is one of the non-negotiables he has to sign up to to avoid a nasty re selection spat, seems to work !
It's all bollocks said...
And the taxpayer is also paying for Speaker Martin's legal bill to Carter-Ruck who were employed to represent him following articles querying his conduct. Apparently some £20K over 3 months!
What an odious little man Sqeaker Martin is. The worst Speaker in my lifetime.Typical Nulab, snout in the trough, jobs worth. A disgrace to a post that has previously been occupied by impartial men from all political persuasions.
He reckons his good for another 15 years in the job.
The day a government seriously looks at plans to sell the BBC, there will be a protest the likes of which has never been seen. Middle England will rise up.
Rick, "Middle England" knows full well that the BBC is just a cesspit of left-wing jobsworths. It will be the same brainless halfwits who think the NHS is "untouchable" and that education can't be provided privately who will be screaming when the necessary changes to the licence fee tax come about.
Rich, are you crazy? Middle England will rise up in JUBILATION: you have heard of Satellite TV? What the fuck do we need with a propaganda channel which we are forced to pay for?
Get your ear a bit closer to the ground, and you will find that the only dissent would be in government offices and White City.
The Al Beeb cunts are already shitting themselves. Yippee!
Winston Churchill; that chip-on-shoulder uneducated cunt who is pretending to be Mr Speaker, is not only the worst in our lifetime, but EVER. Even a middle ages toady would have at least been intelligible, whereas, the only person who can understand that asswipe is the other on McCartney. WHY are they running us, not Scotland???
Thank god i didn't pay the licence fee this fee.
I say again to all: don't pay your licence fee. The "detector vans" are a myth. Evidence from them has never been used in court. There is no way TV Licensing (a mere sales-driven subsidiary of Capita and no longer the "TV Licensing Authority") can know whether you are using a TV set to receive live broadcasts unless (a) they can see or hear it doing so or (b) you are a moron and incriminate yourself with a doorstep confession.
You can even withdraw TVL's implied right of access to your property so they can't get to your threshold or shout through the letterbox (as is their wont when disappointed). More details here:
http://www.bbctvlicence.com/
Since TV Licensing is now a divisionof a private company hasn't the BBC technically broken its own code of conduct on advertising, by permitting Capita to run adverts on TV licensing on the BBC TV networks?
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