BBC PAY OFFS
The Public
Accounts Committee has condemned the BBC’s bosses huge pay off as cronyism. The
BBC used our money to pay 150 executives a total of £25m and has the departure
of so many BBC bosses led to blank screens?. No it hasn’t, and if them not
being there has made absolutely no difference so what were these 250 bosses
doing then.
That is our
money they’ve been giving away, but they are good at throwing our money about,
such as the enormous wage they give Bruce Forsyth to stutter his way through
his truly awful links on Strictly Come Dancing. Brucie must know where the
bodies are buried for the BBC still to be employing him. And where are those
bodies………….well I would start by digging up the foundations of Jimmy Savile’s
dressing room. Nice to CSI you, to CSI you nice.
The BBC must
be the only corporation in the world where you have to take their service and
pay them for it. Because if you don’t you can be heavily fined and even jailed.
Even if you don’t watch any of the BBC channels or listen to any of the BBC
radio stations the fact that they are available to you whether you want them or
not means pay up or else.
That’s the
equivalent of Tesco opening a store nearby where you live and then charging
everyone in your area for a weekly shop.
But you haven’t carried out your weekly shop in Tesco. So? You could, so
pay up.
Basically
the BBC bosses who remained gave all their mates who were going loads of money.
“Well it’s only the licence payer’s money and they have no say whatsoever in we
spend it on”. Just as well for Kate Humble then isn’t it because if we did have
a say the nation would speak with one voice and saying “stop paying her to make
stupid programmes about sheep” and “you can get rid of that ridiculous
Masterchef with Gregg Wallace too”. Here’s the food, you can see it but you can’t
smell it or taste it. So what’s the point? And his stupid “it doesn’t get much
tougher than this”. Yes it does, the contestants throwing something in an oven,
they aren’t defusing a roadside bomb in Helmand Province. The nearest that lot
get to Helmand is a misspelling of the mayonnaise.
The biggest
pay out was £1,022.000 paid to Deputy Director General Mark Byford. Have you
any idea how many licence fees that is?. Me neither but it’s a lot. Do you know
how many people would have gone to jail for refusing to pay their licence fees
to fund Byford’s £1,022.000 pay off. Me neither, but there would have been a
lot of prison overcrowding.
The
corporations governing body has accepted that it let down the licence fee payer
and now says that that a £150.000 cap will be introduced. That’s a bit locking
the revolving doors at BBC HQ after the bosses have bolted with so much money
that it’s made the Great Train Robbery look like a minor mugging.
RIP NELSON MANDELA
That’s the
great Nelson Mandela in his last resting place now which will not only leave a
huge hole in the hearts of South Africans, but it will leave a huge hole in the
news programmes schedules. Not even the death of Jesus received so much
coverage. Having said that they didn’t have much of a media back then, which
was just as well for Peter, Mark and Mary Magdelene who took a selfie at the
crucifixion.
True, but it’s not common knowledge because it didn’t end up on
the front pages because there were no front pages in AD 30.
The news
programmes will manage to fill many, many hours of news however with reports of
the Mandela family squabbling over Nelson’s reputed £10m.
Apparently
they have decided out of respect for Nelson to give it a week before they start
the grubby money grabbing.
So normal
news will be resumed until then.
WEEKENDS OFF
If you go
into hospital at weekends there’s a pretty fair chance that you’ll die. And the
situation is even worse for patients. For visitors there’s 40% chance, for
patients, it’s up there in the 90%s.
The reason
for this that last Labour government signed a contract with senior consultants
and senior doctors which gave them every weekend off.
So if you do
end up in hospital your condition will be diagnosed by either a cleaner or one
of OAP’s who works in the WRVS shop.
What other
emergency service would get away with such a practice. None.
If you need
the police on a weekend they turn up, they don’t send a couple of Special
Constables or a couple of Traffic Wardens because the real police don’t work
weekends.
And how bust
would insurance companies be on Monday mornings dealing with the burnt out
shells that were once homes. Homes that minor chip pan fires wouldn’t have seen
destroyed on a weekday because the Fire Service are available to extinguish them
Monday to Friday, not at weekends though because that’s when they are off.
The actual
figure is that you are 16% more likely to die in a hospital if admitted on the
weekend. That’s for your average hospital. The rate is slightly higher in
Stafford where to save time and cut out the middle man ambulances take you directly
to the morgue.
Plans are
now being drawn up to ensure that hospitals provide the same level of care
seven days a week. Good news for patients, bad news for golf clubs because their
courses and their 19th holes are always jam packed with consultants
at weekends.
