Oh no! The BBC could be preparing to go on strike. That might mean we are denied their award-winning programmes, their intrepid fearless investigative journalism, their 24/7 global output. So, let’s hope the strike goes ahead. Then, sack them all.
STRIKE!
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They must be encouraged to do so. “Industrial action” a misnomer in their case if ever there was one. Please let it be true. It will make my day.
Have they already called Bob Crowe to organize a sympathetic UNITE strike?
I don’t think they would have needed to.
God I hope the BBC goes on strike, people won’t miss it one litlte bit and then perhaps they might wonder why they pay £150 for these mongs.
Do it. There’s no better way of taking your job, dousing it with lighter fluid, and tossing a lit match at it than going on strike. Do it. All of you feeble minded parasites/BBC employees do it. Please.
That only works if management has any sense. At the BBC they are the same lefty prats as the workers (ha ha).
Good God I hope that the S.W.P/U.A.F. also get involved to fight their beloved BBC Comrades corner. It would be like exposing everything that’s wrong with this Country in one easy lesson.
Hope they don’t strike when there would be something good on the BBC. Sorry, I’m living in the past, back when there actually were a few good programs. Mmmm don’t think I will notice…
Yes Top Gear doesn’t start until November.
I was thinking of The Two Ronnies but I have been known to watch Top Gear on occasion. I’m having a hard job thinking of anything I would miss watching other than some 50’s to 80’s stuff which I already have on DVD.
But…but…but…..
<b>ZOMG ! You’ll miss the Party Conference season ! <b/>
Who remembers lefty newsreaders crossing a BBC picket line years ago because they thought that broadcasting bad news for the Tories on EU election night would be more helpful to The Cause?
Guaranteed this strike action won’t interrupt the constant labour leadership election coverage.
Ah, that’s a point.
i was going to say there is no need for sacking; just let the strike go on… and on.. unless they have somehow also worked out how to get the public to fund their strike pay, too.
My main concern was that the market rate talents, on full salary paid by us, would eventually give in and meet their demands… paid by us.
It might serve to focus minds that we are talking a hardly essential service here.
£142.50 almost seems worth it for getting nothing, especially if it shows the BBC to be like a Mafia protection racket:
‘Pay up our pensions, and we’ll run endless repeats, or else… plus we’ll run ever more rabid propaganda from our new student uni intake to rub it in’.
Will we get a rebate on the licence if there’s nothing being broadcast ?
HAHAHA, this is one of my favourite stories (alongside the wonderful “expose” that all French are racists, apparently, and that all Frenchies of arabian descent now have to change their name to get a job, citing one woman who has sent over 100 applications and not got a job – err, maybe she wasnt qualified? Maybe, given the dire economic state of France, there were thousands of applications for the same role? No – according to the bloody BBC, the French are ALL RACIST!!!!).
Anyhoo, when other public servants go on strike, it may occasionally bee irritating. Binmen for example. But the fact these jumped up left wing union idiots think going on strike will do anything other than hopefully remind otherwise thick people that the BBC is a corrupt, left wing hive of unscrupulous post marxists students and it should be disbandede forthwith, tells you all you need to know abnout the fuckwits who work there. Please excuse the swearing. I have become so utterly exasperated with the BBC and the fact it gets worse, day after day and there is nothing we can do about it, other than occasionally vent on this fine blog, just drives me to utter distraction.
Anything that opposes the NUJ is to be applauded
Not that the BBC and the NUJ would work together to manipulate the issues to their own benefit would they? I mean the BBC and the NUJ have never conspired to pervert and manipulate the output of BBC news gathering and disemination have they?
Punch and Judy have a fake fight, the policeman comes in and breaks it up and everyone goes home happy with lashings of public cash in their pockets and yet another excuse to hide behind.
Beware of faked up disputes between two groups who share a common purpose, the NUJ claim an obscene rise and the BBC offer a grossly bloated rise and the NUJ end up with a massive rise and the BBC get a rise in the slave tax, everyones a winner eh? apart from the mug taxslave of course who has to foot the bill.
Let these morons do it, if any of them have the brains or courage that is. It would be interesting to see how much genuine support they get from the hard-pressed public. Better still, if everything is as dire as they make out, let them leave and see what things are like elsewhere.
Like much of the public sector, BBC pensions have been stupidly underfunded for too long. These pension promises, which are all too easy to make during the good times, include very generous cost of living allowances and relatively early retirement and will be anything but easy to keep up. Unless action is taken now, the taxpayer will be in for one hell of an unpleasant surprise.
I see that the DG has already feathered his pension pot nest, at licence payers expense.
Why the hell should the taxpayer and licence fee payer and their children and grandchildren pick up the tab for the BBCs profligacy and lack of foresight 10, 20, 30 .. years down the line?
News just in, the NUJ goes on strike and the BBC is closed down, news quality increases massively and everybody goes online to check out whats really happening out in the world and people start to realise just what what a nasty piece of work the BBC really is!
Well, a girl can dream eh?