Even Mark Thompson Admits BBC Ridiculously Over Staffed
Guido has been accused of relishing the reduction in the headcount at the BBC. That is unfair and a gross misrepresentation of the true position. He feels their pain. Guido is not relishing that pain, he is too busy celebrating. Loafing Beeboids are (after the Houses of Parliament) the biggest identifiable group of readers from Guido's server records. Do some real work you mongs...The BBC boss Mark Thompson made a revealing comment, he said that following the announcement of staff reductions he had "one interview request from ITN, one from Sky and 37 from the BBC". All asking the same bloody questions...
UPDATE : On the Sky News blog Jon Craig points out that the Beeb has in Brussels today; Chief Political Editor Nick Robinson, News 24 Chief Political Correspondent James Landale, Newsnight Political Correspondent David Grossman, Radio 5 Live Political Correspondent John Pienaar, Europe Editor Mark Mardell. All at the same press conference, with their production teams, running up expenses....
66 comments:
Can we have a post about Brown in Lisbon and the EU Treaty perlease?
well if they are reading; fuck off you lazy socialist twats - youre man is going to get the boot at the next election and then you will be privatised. that is unless you start doing your job properly and exposing this scum government.... its up to you
Dear Mark Thompson,
Please sack that potato headed cunt who keeps referring to gordon shitpants as 'our glorious leader'... cunt
p.s. you're all a bunch of fucking cunts
So, I can expect a reduction in my TV license as a result of the £2-billion saving? No, didn't think so.
And I think that this hits on the head the fable that the BBC is pro-NuLab.
Just sack all those at the BBC who voted Labour last time. They clearly showed a woeful lack of judgment and a reckless disregard for this country - and are clearly still wedded to Labour at the expense of all of other possible parties.
I suggest someone finds out the annual taxi bill for the whole of the BBC.
Poisonous Kevin - shut up
ITN showed the four BBC teams covering the Huhne campaign interview - there was only one ITN news crew present. You really have to ask why the BBC needed four film crews to record exactly the same event. It definitely needs to be broken up and privatised. It no longer serves any purpose and is severely over-staffed.
Over half the entire work force of the BBC, signed up to Facebook, using a BBC e-mail address.
Re-Privatise, the best quick fix for these parasites.
http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/the-bbc-invades-facebook/
"The BBC is pro tory. Stop falling for easy lies. You are extrem tories so think anyone who is not continally supporting your group of coke junkies is a bias to labour."
Of course it is you tosser......
That why some of our best known lefties are not doing any work and ranting outside TV Centre:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7047060.stm
You need to scroll down.
Why its Paul 'The Marxist' Mason,and possibly Steph "The Single Mum" Flanders.
The third one I can't recall-but she is some bint from the Middle East News Desk.
WASTING TAX PAYER TIME AND MONEY-THIS IS WHAT WE DO
AND THIS IS WHAT WE DO
Dig the navel gazing self-interest. The World at One, Radio 5's Drive, they can barely talk about anything else.
Most other corporate restructurings are barely referred to, now they're barking on about themselves.
With any luck the entire staff of the BBC will now go on strike, which means we can sack the lot of them, shut down the Beeb and all its works and refund 60 million licence fees, or however many it is. This is an organisation which has long outlived its usefulness, except as the political wing of New Labour. There is no justification whatsoever for a compulsory poll tax to fund a broadcaster which exists simply to spread its own institutionalised bias.
Anonymous said... (4:49 PM, October 18, 2007)
Spot on
sell it off and refund my money!although i bet a new tax would soon hoover up the cash.just think no eastenders no biased news.
Sorry, unrelated article ... but check out this article re the worrying Male life expectancy rates in Scotland
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/
"Loafing Beeboids..."
Today's hot tautology from Guido.
Meanwhile over at BBC Biased we've worked out the following:
http://bbc-biased.blogspot.com/
Salaries and wages come to £969 million for the year 2007. Total staff employed is just over 23,000. Divide the £969m into 23,000 and you get an average wage of £42,130. The UK average wage is around £22,000 to £23,000.
When you include pension costs the average Beeboid wage rises to £52,000.
Director general Mark Thompson's salary rose to £609,000 in 2005-6, with his deputy Mark Byford receiving £403,000.
Mr Thompson's pay packet was £459,000 in 2004-5 - although that sum was not for a full year - while Mr Byford's basic wage rose £52,000 this year.
Director of television Jana Bennett saw her basic pay increase from £255,000 to £321,000, while director of radio and music Jenny Abramsky was paid £295,000, up £62,000.
These are the last figures (2005-2006) that have been made public
STEALING YOUR MONEY-THAT'S WHAT WE DO
Anyone who thinks the presenter of the daily politcis is labour is idiot. He was memberof the tories, edited the times, runs the spectator, etc: . The cheif politcial correspecondient is former young tory. Under what cloud cuckoo land logic is this s apro labour I donlt care we are nopt as vindtice as lot you;
The BBC is out of control. It should be broken up and sold off.
Then those parasitic Beeboid loafers will know what its like to work in the real world.
There's a lot of pent up, daddy-wasn't-there rage being posted here. Why is everyone getting so fired up - if you don't like the beeb, don't watch it, and don't pay the licence fee. It's not compulsory, you are aware of that, no?
poisonous slippery V Stalinist ruthlessness: Triples all round in the BBC staff club, I see!
according to the BBCs own accounts, staffing costs are running at over £1 BILLION...
thats about 1/3 of the entire budget.
Erm, If the BBC isn't pro Labour, why is its colour such a fetching red? one that matches 99% (acording to the pantone system at least) Labout red? No other BBC channel is so in line with another political parties colour: BBC 2 is off cyan (not Tory blue) and I've yet to see a yellow one (but I'll admit I don't have digital).
Its either an AMAZING coincidence or the most clever subliminal messaging i've ever seen.
unbiased my arse
Clearly our illiterate chum poisonous is one of the loafing beeboids, useless twat.
Charlieboy, the whole point is that the licence fee IS compulsory, where've you been? To have to pay the Marxist Broadcasters to watch Sky is simple extortion.
Fed up with the BBC? I am. I threw out the TV set some years back and made the mistake of telling TV Licensing I would no longer need a licence. For my pains I got letter back which, in so many words, accused me of being a liar and cheat.
TV Licensing is a trading name of Capita plc. The TV licensing authority is the BBC itself. So when you get a threatening letter from TVL, it may as well be on BBC letterhead.
Among their arsenal of threats are these:
(1) They have sophisticated electronic detectors which can pinpoint your TV set and even reveal which channel it's tuned to.
(2) They will obtain a warrant to search your house if you refuse them entry.
(3) If you are caught with a TV set you will be fined £1000.
The reality is this:
(1) The "detector vans" are almost certainly a myth. Evidence from electronic detection has never been adduced in court. In any case, only cathode-ray tubes could provide a detectable signal. Plasma and LCD screens could not.
(2) Warrants are extremely rare, and are issued only in cases where householders have, in effect, stuck two fingers up at TVL. They can be obtained from a magistrate only when there are serious grounds for suspicion -- a TV set has been heard or seen receiving live broadcasts, neighbours have ratted on the suspect, etc. TVL operate mainly by terrorizing the ignorant into paying up. It is a sales-based organization, and the enforcement officers get a bonus of £18 for every licence they can sell. That's why "detector vans" have gigantic "aerials" on the roof; that's why the whole farrago of Big Brother propaganda is promulgated by the BBC. They know they have no real means of catching evaders, so they use mind-games instead. The vast majority of prosecutions result from people incriminating themselves on the doorstep when an EO calls.
(3) The average fine is £130 -- less than the licence fee.
I found all this out when I started protecting myself from their attentions. Now they leave me severely alone. I still do not want a TV set, but if I bought one (giving a false name and address, because retailers must report sales of TV receivers to TVL), I could watch it with impunity.
More details and reproductions of TVL threatograms are on this website, which also provides links to all the other anti-TVL sites where I learned what gives:
http://www.bbctvlicence.com/
There is an informative forum here:
http://www.tvlicensing.biz/phpBB2/
which was jointly set up by the Sunday Times journalist Jonathan Miller.
The BBC's treatment of non-viewers made me so angry that I have been campaigning ever since to deprive them of funds.
dennis - good for you i wont pay either....they can fuck off.
bbc 6 news.....no mention in the headlines that gordon traitor snotgobbler is signing our country away. just more shite about bbc staff cuts. cunts
Charlieboy
"Why is everyone getting so fired up - if you don't like the beeb, don't watch it, and don't pay the licence fee. It's not compulsory, you are aware of that, no?"
READ AGAIN YOU MONG
(1) They have sophisticated electronic detectors which can pinpoint your TV set and even reveal which channel it's tuned to.
(2) They will obtain a warrant to search your house if you refuse them entry.
(3) If you are caught with a TV set you will be fined £1000.
Sounds like to the NKVD to me....
Follow Dennis's option-Throw the TV out and fuck'em
ive just watched mark mardell looking like dawn french in an ill fitting suit report from portugal on that traitor browns skulduggery over the EU treaty. tell the fat twat to file the report from london. bloated wasted of space
The BBC should offer incentives rather than threats.
I'd be perfectly happy to cough up £130 for a licence fee if included a free blowjob from Kirsty Wark or an erotic massage from Emily Maitlis.
That would be value for money. But instead they prefer to threaten people with fines.
Stupid bastards, all of them.
All together now - WE REFUSE TO PAY THE LICENCE FEE EXTORTION.
You don't have to throw your TV away. Pretend you're a politician, and just lie about it.
There is NOTHING they can do.
ps v sr
Has it ever dawned on you that the BBC is not a friend of the Conservative Party and is not a friend of the Labour Party, it is indeed a friend of no representatives of ordinary people at all?
IMHO
The BBC has an agenda that has no natural relationship to democracy at all, in fact the complete opposite. The BBC is not the mouthpiece of any elected government of any democratic Party.
(The BBC does not give a toss about which political party it was ordered to get elected last time around.)
The BBC is a mouthpiece for something far more important, powerful and potentially dangerous then transient, incompetent, hypocritical, lazy, and cowardly elected politicians.
The BBC is dedicated to the New World Order. Which is a concept both of the right and the left, in as good as damn it, equal amounts.
Better described as a freedom sapping combination of Marxist Communism Nazi Socialism and ruthless one government one World Bank and corporate controlled capitalism.
Dont get too depressed we might even like it, if we live long enough to gain an opinion on the matter.
In the big scheme of things the BBC is small compared to the sell-out going on in Lisbon.
Dennis
Crapita PLC-Who former boss was Cash for Peerage doner Rod Aldridge?
The same Crapita who runs BBC People and BBC Information?
The same Crapita PLC who employs short term foreign workers in the
DWP records storage and retrieval system?
The same Crapita PLC who runs the London congestion charge;Connexions Card,National Strategy (Education); Lambeth, and Blackburn with Darwen Council Tax and Blackburn with Darwen, Westminster, and Rossendale Housing and Council Tax Benefits
Now I wonder if Rod and Mike (Lyons)are best buddies with Gay Gordon
I think some of the muppets down the BBC must have seen their arse with Brown judging by the knifing John Pienaar gave him on radio 5 news tonight. He more or less called Brown a liar and a conman.
Oh dear, Gordo's upset his pals at the Beeb, whatever next for the Glorious Leader?
A public outing?
Useful to remember that 1984 was inspired by George Orwell's experiences in working for the BBC.
sack em all sell it off and watch murdoch/bransons brand of rubbish.
Told you ... the establishment is moving against the dark side.
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2007/08/bbc-responds-to-redwood-bias.html#1869472308960847317
javelin said...
It doesn't matter Iain - there's a draft proposal to privatise the BBC waiting on a hard disk in an Investment Bank in Docklands.
I can't see any Minister refusing a windfall of a few billion in the next recession when finances get a little tight. "The BBC - a luxury we can afford to do without."
August 16, 2007 8:50 PM
What javelin said.
It doesn't take a genius to spot that the BBC is the 2007 equivalent of British Leyland - best to sub it out, do it elsewhere. The BBC have already done the subbing bit but have so far cleverly sidestepped the dismantling of their factory, and more importantly, their "head office function".
Ladri di ossigeno, as the apparently say in Tuscany,
you certainly will NOT be fined £1,000 for not having a TV licence.
I've (or rather the Mrs. has) been caught with a TV and no licence - they saw it on through the window. They sold me a licence, job done, money saved for the previous months.
I've had them come round to another address, they say something like 'We know you don't have a licence, you need to buy one', me: 'go away, i'm not speaking to you'.
If they come to your house they will try to get you to sign a form saying you have a TV but no licence. Don't answer any of their leading questions, just tell them to go away.
The only people that get fined are the council chavs who get busted, then get a letter through the post offering them a licence, and ignore that as well, THEN they get taken to court.
The enforcement is nothing of the kind, it is in reality a SALES job - they have door-to-door salespeople selling TV licences. Not for me thanks.
Oh, just Fuck Off, Guido. I like what you do, but just Fuck Off with this 'Ban the Beeb' crap. The BBC ain't perfect - no big organisation is - but it is a lot better in this country with the BBC than it would be without it. If you don't want to watch it, don't - just don't stop the rest of us from enjoying it.
Bastards like you would abolish the NHS as well, and don't tell me that you would 'save money' as Sky, or Private Health companies, would soon find a way to crowbar the money out of you by another route.
BBC people read this?! Then go and look at the end of last eek's Question Time! Harriet Harman gives a clear 'NO' to a referendum on the European Constitution.Dimbleby,realizing she put her foot in it again,asks her the question a second time:allowing her to trot out the 'red lines' nonsense and that because of those 'the need would not arise'.Dimbleby was up for DG.We all know how bent you are.
Anon, 8:38
Abolishing the NHS would be a good idea. Then old people in this country might not be terrified of going into hospital and being abused and infected and possibly murdered by psychopathic nurses or fellow-patients left to wander the corridors.
The NHS is a socialist construct. Thank God the 1945 Labour govt didn't nationalize food and clothing as well, or we'd all be naked and starving.
If you want to see how healthcare can be managed, I suggest you nip across to France. You might get a big surprise.
"The NHS" is just a mantra like "the BBC". Both organizations are rubbish, partly because they're overfunded and unaccountable to their customers, and partly because fuckwit politicians use them for footy practice. If you pay a builder in advance does he do a good job? Yet, on pain of imprisonment we must pay the NHS in advance.
Where I come from, that's called "demanding money with menaces". Which is also what the BBC does.
Dennis, it's like talking to the wall with these socialist cretins.
Anon exhorts us if we don't like the BBC, just stop watching. Fine, then why must we keep paying, you cunt? He'll probably tell us next, that it's so nice because there's no advertising. Oh yes there is, just monotous self-advertising without any redeeming feature. Drive you mad.
How much proof do these people need that the NHS, and the BBC, like the Briish Bobby, are not the best in the world - they are the fucking worst - and the most expensive.
Another newsflash you cunts - if taxes are REDUCED, the exchequer receives MORE revenue. PROVEN, time and again - inconvenient for you Marxist morons, but true.
BTW the mongs don't do overtime do they? Cunts, each and every one.
how much
thompson on 609,000 !!
byford on 403,000 !!
a million for the two them i bet the bounus of the managers are good on top of celeb wages.
bloody hell so with reasonable pay we could get back to £100, so what about all those technical whizz kids that led the world.
so whilst the pigs are in trough all the ordinary workers will get stuffed , 10% less programs is going to hit them , and selling off tv centre to do what fund these bloaters pension and pay increases with our past tax money.
i would think the journos union aught to be asking more about cost savings from mangers pay and expenses , but iff the beeb goes i will miss programming without adverts , but this mangers money thing is beyond me.
another british institution rubbished by brown and co.
thanks
red despo spotter
45govt, talking to the wall is more fun. At least it isn't brainwashed.
Heard a piece on t'wireless t'other day about dentistry, arising from yet another NHS fiasco. Some international dental bigwig opined that British public-sector dentistry was the "worst in the developed world". Forget where he practises now -- he said he could always spot a Brit as soon as he/she opened his/her mouth, literally.
"if you don't want to watch it, don't - just don't stop the rest of us from enjoying it.
Bastards like you would abolish the NHS as well"
yeah - and thousands dying in the NHS because of MRSA... yeah i would abolish it.i'd privatise the whole fucking lot.
And dont be such a cunt about the BBC - we have to pay for the license fee on pain of a jail term.
so fuck off you socialist numpty. you have no idea what "freedom" or a "market economy" is, because your chimp sized fucking mind is stuffed with Marxism. Now go fuck off and go live in Burma or Saudi Arabia where you will find similarly chimp sized brained thick fucking autocrats.
Serves them all right for being left-wing-snivellers, who don't believe they have to deliver. When you drive past White City it looks like the annual convention for Big Issue sellers.
anonymous said:
I'd be perfectly happy to cough up £130 for a licence fee if included a free blowjob from Kirsty Wark.
They do,if you don't pay you get one from John Pienar
well if they privatise the beeb how will it work ??
advertising revenue ??
or perhaps the digital age will make pay per view more possible.
where else will you get someone like palin making a joke about lumberjacks , some things about the beeb are institution.
but it does look odd , the science programs have been shit , the news programs run by monkeys, occasionally john simpson gets an appearence , i think nu lab have twisted it into somthing very expensive.
dont know its got to be sorted , but somthing is definitely wrong with cost and quality .
thanks
red despot spotter
red despot spotter said...
well if they privatise the beeb how will it work ??
advertising revenue ??
BBC is one very VERY big landowner in London and around the UK. Look at how many big office blocks they own in just Great Portland Street alone (4 or 5 I think, plus large amounts of office space). Now add to that all that area around White City, those North Kensington studios and adjacent land, the real estate in North Acton (now mostly excellent BBC production facilities rented out at ridiculously low charges) and not forgetting the much-loved Ealing film studios.
Suffice to say that the BBC would not be going short of a bob or two if they had to forego the licence fee tomorrow.
If Socialist love the BBC so much, perhaps they can fund it.
If you dont like the BBC and their bias propaganda, DONT pay the license fee.
Stop moaning and do something about it.
If 1 million people stopped paying the TV license, it would shut them down.
You're right anon, about the Beeb shutting down if we stopped paying. You are mistaken if you think the socialist cretins love it so much, they'll fund it. They just love it enough they want to make you fund it. Worked so far: time for the blackmailed to fight back against the extortionists.
Mes amis Dennis et M'sieu 45
Les mots justes. As we say in la belle Poland
How about a 'can pay wont pay' campaign to starve the BBC parasites of the cash they guzzle? The only thing these arrogant bullies understand is force!
The BBC "Its your money you mugs so why should we give a flying fuck about saving money?" its what we do(best)!
Dennis, you cannot be serious. No TV = no Horse and Country (SKY), no Air New Zealand Cup, no Currie Cup, no Tri Nations, no Guiness Premiership (ALL SKY).
Simply write several detailed letters outlining specific bias to the head beeboid, then enclose copies along with some extracts from Jonathon Miller's bbc resistance site , with their demand for a licence. Point out that you would be delighted to see them in court and that you will make sure that selected journalists are present. You will find they seem to loose all interest in you !
On the subject 0f economies at the Beeb.
BBC Pioneer Productions has developed the reality show format of the century!
The Beeb already has the talent, the show costs nothing at all and audience satisfaction is guaranteed.
Consider:-
1. The Beeb has to save around £2 billion and get rid of 3000 staff.
2. They've already asked them to justify their jobs by reapplying for them.
3. The unions want a fair system.
Solution:-
Let them compete to keep their jobs on prime time TV with the audience deciding who stays and who goes.
Hire Simon Cowell, Alan Sugar, Andrew LLoyd-Weber and Sharon Osbourne as impartial judges of renowned and impeccable integrity - and let the viewers have the last word.
People who wouldn't normally be seen dead watching reality shows will be glued to the screen as:-
-Kirsty and Paxo, on unicycles, shout at a cowed Tory politician in one corner while Spangles Kaplinsky and Marr attempt synchronised news reading and tango dancing in the other .
Meanwhile - Naughtie sings the "Red Flag" in an operatic tenor while Wossy gets his tackle out again with Four Puffs and a Piano.
Just imagine, if you will Simon's one liners:-
"Kirsty love try a new bra and wash the hair next time"
"Andy mate, are you sure - with those ears?"
"Spangles dear, bit less skin and don't try so hard
"Jeremy - my spaniel can sneer better than that"
Ah! The drama, the tension, the tears and the tantrums!
- and, at the end of the show you have the sublime pleasure of making that premium rate call, knowing that you're getting rid of your pet hate and saving a couple of hundred grand of your licence fee at the same time.
It would almost make the licence fee seem worth it.
In a gesture of stupendous magnanimity - BBC Pioneers are offering this priceless programme concept free to the first BBC executive to email us.
Failing that, we may just have to run our own competition in the blogosphere.
See the full blog with pix at our homepage.
Backwoodsman, 8:59
What makes you think I like watching sport? I would happily pay 5p not to see each of the events you list. In school rugby I would throw the ball to the nearest person (the referee on one occasion) as soon as I got possession, just to stop the other bastards from leaping on me. I got out of it altogether after one of the fellows ran into a goalpost and underwent a personality change (not for the better, I can tell you). I consider rugby to be a dangerous and stupid pastime, suitable only for hypertestosteronic fuckwits.
As for writing to the BBC, forget it. All such letters are routed to Mr Wastepaper Basket for action.
As for venturing near the courts, manned as they are by lunatics, you must be kidding.
As for watching TV at all, let me tell you this: TV rots the brain.
"ive just watched mark mardell looking like dawn french in an ill fitting suit report from portugal on that traitor browns skulduggery over the EU treaty. tell the fat twat to file the report from london. bloated wasted of space"
Jesus, you're not wrong about the suit, it looked like one of Krushchev's cast offs. Perhaps he thought he'd get one with a bit of room for him to grow into, given the number of EU subsidised lunches he must shovel down on his freebies.
despite all the talk of job cuts, the BBC has enough in its kitty to pay for two disabled people to have sex with prostitutes.
http://www.outsiders.org.uk/news/controversial-bbc-documentary
"Lee and Shah went on a trip paid for by the BBC and led by BBC employee Asta Philpott, all the way to a brothel on the Costa Brava to lose their virginity. This highly entertaining programme will be screened on Wednesday 24th October 2007 on BBC1 at 10.40pm."
.
the bbc - promoting prostitution. that is what they do.
oops.
here's the link
re julians post on possible funding from site sell offs
still think selling off what we have already paid for to fund fat salaries of management and celebs is somehow wrong. they are supposed to work and agree to budgest 2billion wrong over six years.
time to look at pay cuts .unless it really nu labours plan to destroy the institutions of this country to give us marxism.
unions already gearing up as they now sniff the conspiracy .
thanks
red despot spotter
When they got the Brown exclusive on the No election to be called they did not even have a spare ear piece for jug ears to do a piece to camera he had to use James Langdales then they fell off air
Yes great News
You really aren't up on how the BBC operates, are you?
Sky has one news channel. ITN has pretty much one news channel...
BBC has oodles of news outlets, each taking a different line with a different audience - half a dozen national TV stations, shedload of regional TV, several national radio stations, even more shedloads of regional radio stations, internet site, publication (in house rag, Radio Times) etc.
So each has a news department who want a line on the national story.
Are you suggesting the guy who reports for Radio 4 6pm news should also do the BBC Newsround for the 7 to 15-year-olds? And the live interview on BBC One 6pm news, and the 10pm news, and the internet reporting, and the...
Well, you see what I'm getting at.
Your vindictiveness (and probably bitterness following your "spitroast-on-Newsnight" outing) towards the BBC is showing again.
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