On the day the BBC reveals that 100 of its employees earn more than the PM, here is a new OPEN thread. To me, the scandal is not the red herring of ‘pay gap” but rather one of the annual extortion of £3.5bn from anyone who owns a TV. A stalinist construction in 2017. Thoughts?
MID WEEK OPEN THREAD….
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I’m not sure what I think about the BBC salaries. Some of the stars may on paper do the same job but actually each individual has their own popularity level with the public. The broadcaster has to take this factor into consideration and will therefore have to negotiate a unique remuneration package with every star based on their popular appeal and ability to pull in the viewers. I don’t think the salaries are particularly surprising apart from Fiona Bruce’s. I regard her as a supreme professional and a credit to the BBC. My initial reaction when I learned she was only being paid £350,000 was that she was being very badly treated. Then I compared her salary with mine and I came to my senses.
https://twitter.com/victorialive/status/887599165294788608
Just love the total lack of self awareness to this.
The BBC thinks it is an absolute monarch and can summon anyone anytime. It is deluded.
All going to get a bit awks as they gather for the next SWP kick off march from W1A.
John Bercow is receiving a lot of criticism for allowing an SNP MP to wear a football shirt in the House of Commons.
I think we should cut him a bit of slack. If you were only 4’11” and your wife was a lying drunken slag that was sleeping around you too might struggle with a few details.
Little cretin that he is.
Charlie,
He is worse than that .
It is impossible to comment without justifiable anger on this travesty of the BBC wages. This bunch of semi literate troughers takes money from us via threats of prison.
When they have to come clean as to their wages they try to obscure the matter by whining on about diversity ,gender -you know the usual.
I have a suggestion. Cut the wages by 75% and wait and see just how desirable these people really are.
Better still sack the lot and put them on average wages or no job. . I bet most of them will still stay so unemployable are they anywhere else.
Zero hour contracts for all at the BBC for a year – they so loved their jobs, they were willing to do it for (near) free!
Gary “£2million of enforced money” Lineker paid at the minimum wage that he supports under Labour.
Tony “£450K of enforced money” Hall can try a zero hour contract – minus expenses and free gifts to visit shows and dinners.
The BBC can run like a true gig economy – a new Uber company!
Victoria Derbyshire gets between £200 – £249 a year according to bbc …what a bargain!!!
Sadiq Khan says a Trump state visit to UK may not be ‘appropriate’ given how much British people disagree with him (1.8 million in petition of 46.5 million electorate / 3% of Electorate) {independent.co.uk jul2017}
“State visits are different from a normal visit and at a time when the President of the USA has policies that many in our country disagree with (3% of the electorate, online poll), I am not sure it is appropriate for our government to roll out the red carpet,” he (Sadiq Khan) told CNN.
See the use of language here ‘many in our country disagree’, why not mention the value of 3% of electorate, from an online petition? Because it turns the ‘Many’ into the ‘Few’.
When Sadiq Khan speaks the response should always be, in no particular order …
– #LondonIsOpen … you mean open to everyone, except the President of the largest economy in the World.
– Halal Food Production … positive discrimination for Muslims?
– Chicken Cottage … more for the Islamic Companies (2012) or less for citizens of London (2015)?
– Funds … London had £37 million in reserves to spend on protecting the citizens of London
– Religious dilemma …. gambling and drink under Islam (abomination) verses looking after a modern city
When Sadiq Khan answers the above to the public, then he might be ready to look after a modern civilised city … depending on his answers.
When Saddiq speaks, Treezer listens and appeases him.
In effect Saddiq has banned Trump
GWF,
If Treezer and Saddiq were not so sexless, I would think there is something between them. I suggest that Trump should have a state visit to Edinburgh . He has Scottish links ( no pun intended ) and so does the Queen. She could be there. Stuff London and stuff Treezer .
Grant
I doubt if Saddiq would be interested in Treezer – she probably hasn’t undergone FGM.
Lobbie,
That is totally out of order ! You are a disgrace to this website. Typical Yam -yam . Keep it up, so to speak !
Minneapolis : BBC do a story on White Australian woman shot dead by Somalian immigrant cop
when she was in her pyjamas reporting hearing a crime.
Poor lass didn’t know something HRC and Bill didn’t want getting out?
As Obama once said “If I had a policeman, he’d look like this guy”
Stew, both the police body cams and the car camera were not switched on.
Not at all suspicious.
I wonder if that will be the way these things will go in the future, bodycams that show the police acting correctly will be switched on, when the police are in the wrong they will be conveniently switched off or not working.
“Oops, the brass neck isn’t working. Haul up the drawbridge and ask each other questions we like as ‘news'”
https://order-order.com/2017/07/19/jeremy-vine-asks-james-purnell-justify-750000-salary/
Or……. get BBC Press Office to ‘help’. Never fails.
Going well I see.
Hang on a minute and apologies if it’s already been mentioned. Isn’t one of the reasons they pay those amounts to enable them to retain “talent”? Well how come Liniker is also on BT sport……it doesn’t compute.
Not quite all sport Halifax. They tried to jemmy jugears into the golf a year or so back but great raconteur and uber-snob Peter Allis obviously wasn’t having anything to do with a soccer-player of sorts and the idea was dropped. Good for you Mr Allis, have a brownie point and the thanks of a grateful minority.
With a bit of luck the disclosure of the obscene salaries at beebistan will produce internecine strife, dissent, envy, vitriol… and the eventual implosion of the entire corrupt edifice.
Course not, but one can dream.
Apart from specifically right-wing feeds, my social media today has mostly been people tut-tutting about the ‘gender pay gap’ in the Beeb salaries, not whether any of them deserve such huge amounts of public money in the first place.
People today are like guards in old movies – if you want to distract them, you just shout ‘look up there!’ and you can make your getaway. All the Beeb needs to do is to shout ‘Gender pay gap!’ ‘Racism!’ ‘Austerity!’ and people will immediately be distracted from the real issue, while the BBC gets away scot-free.
Nothing at all to do with this or BBC bias but your post reminded me of a bugbear.
When coppers like those on ‘The Bill’ are approaching criminals, at about 100 yards away they shout ‘Stay where you are” or “Stop”, something like that giving the criminals a 100 yard start to run away instead of getting as near as possible before trying to catch them.
Australia : Greens are special, they don’t have to obey normal laws
2 Green Party Senators have been forced to resign after it was revealed they’d forgotten to comply with the rules that require Australian politicians to have already renounced their duel-FOREIGN citizenship.
Both entered the country as toddlers.
but for one there’s a 3 year old petition calling on him to prove he had renounced his New Zealand citizenship.
The media seemed to have ignored it.
Its 2014 claim was
“Scott Ludlams refusal (under a Freedom of Information request) to provide his Form RN renouncing his New Zealand citizenship before being elected raises serious questions about his legality as a Member of Parliament. ”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/did-ludlum-really-not-know-he-was-ineligible/news-story/3805b5279f755a05938803658f337a59
100 BBC employees earn more than the Prime Minister.
Not very democratic is it?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/830313/BBC-pay-million-Theresa-May-Gary-Lineker-Chris-Evans-John-Humphrys-wage-salary-gender
Just revisiting the Not the Nine O’Clock News videos again & I wonder if the BBC would actually allow this any more, I feel it’s now more of a risk they would actually try to enforce this rather than laugh at it:
” … you have to be fat to be stout now do you?” @4:27
and at the end as the titles roll … Next Week: NEXT WEEK NAZIS AGAINST FASCISM …
The Owen jones impersonation at the end is priceless
http://www.punk77.co.uk/groups/nazisagainstfascism.htm I’ve still got the 7″ single.
Oh dear. Godfrey Elfwick has been banned from Twitter for speaking truth about Gary Lineker. Never fear, he has a new account.
https://twitter.com/ElfwickGodfrey/status/887681064998711297
Will Mr. Lineker and friends @ the BBC now tell us how long they have been on these salaries?
Imagine if Gary Lineker has been paid this generous amount of £2million, extracted as the TV License-Tax by court orders at times, for 22 years?
Gary Lineker // Worked at BBC 1995 – 2017 // 22 years @ £2million = £44million (complete guess)
– did Gary Lineker and friends have a pay increases every year as the TV license went up?
– will the employees of BBC with wages over £100K say how long they have been on these wages?
– will the UK media say why it’s never reported or chased these these facts before?
– will UK MPs step forward and declare how they were paid for BBC TV shows whilst being paid to be an MP as well (double pay!)
Lineker was originally signed to Walkers in 1994 in a £200,000 deal. Glenn said: “It was a big risk for us but it’s the best thing we did.”{campaignlive feb2016}
– Gary Lineker – Walkers Deal – 21 years @ £200K = £4million (under-estimate)
Marky Mark.
What an interesting graph!
I wonder if the generous year on year increases under Labour and the freeze under the Tories could possibly explain some of the bBBC’ s ‘impartial’ reporting.
Still not buying Walkers crisps.
Walkers crisps?
Like scabs – they need picking off, and Lineker’s just lost several hundred thousand packets of the trashy substance they call ‘nice’.
I suppose, as I don’t ever watch football, Walkers didn’t know that normal people aren’t really interested, but to get a twat from the bbbc on 1.7 mill as their ad prat, well, they deserve to fail asap.
Tonights SJW TV ?
11:25pm BBC1 About Native Americans (Red Indians) repeat
“The film follows
– a symbolic buffalo kill at Little Wound High
– 18-year-old Arthur’s journey as a new father.
– * Transgender teen Sky and his friends join thousands of other activists at the Standing Rock protest camp to protect the Sioux Tribe’s water supply, which they say is under threat from the Dakota Access pipeline. * ”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04sj7b0
A Thomas Sowell Trade Off: Oil independence from the Middle East (Saudi) and reducing Islam’s influence or .. ?? ..
“ … .reservation is desperate to revive ancient traditions … {bbc.co.uk ‘The Natives: This Is Our America’}”
– scalping?
– no hospitals?
– witch doctors?
– spirit gods?
“We were hunters and foragers @0:00… one of the great revelations of space exploration is the image of the Earth, finite, lonely and somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through space and time.@3:20” – We Are One Planet – Carl Sagan
Can we please have a discussion about why Alan Yentob is still earning £200-250k p.a. after “resigning” in 2015 when the Kids Company stuff hit the fan? Am I the only one thinking that this is the single biggest scandal revealed today?
He is being paid as a ‘presenter’ what does he present?
He simply presents himself at the counter and asks, is my pay ready yet?
He has his own private lift.
Allegedly.
Does he suffer from flatulence? If so, that could explain it ….
Lobbie,
Certainly verbal flatulence. He is an asshole !
Well qualified to turn up in Langham Place then Grant!
“What does he present?”
Perhaps he presents his expenses claims at the end of each month
“Imagine” is Yentob’s little baby, although it doesn’t require much nappy changing, just a bit of cut-and-paste. He is not a natural in front of camera and is, arguably, aesthetically challenged. His pension pot is well over £6 million, having worked in the BBC since 1968. Mrs Mustapha told me earlier, quite unexpectedly, that she thought the BBC (which she doesn’t think is very Left-wing!) could save a lot of money – and make way for new talent – by getting rid of old has-beens like the Dimbleby boys, Humphrys and Yentob.
‘Imagine’ a show which airs a maximum of 6 times a year?
It is indeed usually a bought in documentary where Yob introduces the film and occasionally interviews the protaganist.
His visage is definitely suited to radio..maybe he could introduce this anthem…
Imagine there is no BBC
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only ‘Sky’
Imagine all the people
Living without ‘Today’
Imagine there’s no charter
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or lie for
And no telly tax too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…and quiet
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no Linekers
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hypocrisy
A brotherhood of man?
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the savings
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be bias free
Apologies to J Lennon
The albeeb annual report boasts the forthcoming ‘civilisations’ series with Simon Sharma ( now an American I understand and champaign socialist) Mary berry or beard – one other fashionable leftie and a member of an ethnic minority.
It’s going to be a long way from the Lord Clark version methinks.
The Trust (BBC) has since concluded it would not be “appropriate or cost effective to look further at these matters” – Alan Yentob – tried to influence BBC coverage of the charity’s ‘Kids Company’ demise. {bbc.co.uk dec2015}
“Many successful careers are owed to him (people had to pay back the debt? Intimidation?). What is less known about him is that he (Yentob) is passionate about social justice. (passionate, but nobody knows about it … so not very passionate?)”
£200,000 – £249,999 Gary Barlow – Contributor Len Goodman – Contributor Danii Minogue – Contributor Bruno Tonioli – Contributor Alan Yentob – Presenter {order-order jul2017}
The arts series edited and presented by Alan Yentob: Alan Yentob follows the celebrated Turner Prize-winning British artist Chris Ofili as he creates a spectacular contemporary tapestry – The Caged Bird’s Song. { available on bbc 15 Jul 2017 }
BBC for Alan Yentob = ‘job for life, people owe you, carry on with same wage’
Seems the problem is mainly with the folk they used their vast money to hire to make more vast money, as with dubious tax schemes.
https://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/secret-agents.html
Classic FM Global news decided to run with Lord Grade’s horror at all this being exposed rather than the hour of the numbers involved. For some reason.
Top trolling:
https://twitter.com/rupertmyers/status/887683921508532224
BBC slip in Islam discussion R4 8pm : MM is about Faith Schools
& Gender segregation
The legal battle between Ofsted and the Al-Hijrah Islamic state school in Birmingham has reached the Court of Appeal
Ofsted’s lawyers argue that it is “a kind of apartheid”, leaving girls “unprepared for life in modern Britain”.
The Muslim school maintains that gender segregation is one of its defining characteristics
The case is based on the Equality Act, which means the implications of the ruling will be far-reaching and will apply to all schools, not just state schools.
Should gender segregation be allowed in co-educational faith schools?
Witnesses are Afua Hirsch, Prof Anthony O’Hear, Iram Ramzan and Assad Zaman.
Shows how arrogant these Muslims are, challenging OFSTED in court, what they are for…
“Every week, we carry out hundreds of inspections and regulatory visits throughout England and publish the results online.
Our goal is to achieve excellence in education and skills for learners of all ages, and in the care of children and young people.
We report directly to Parliament and we are independent and impartial.”
Yet these people from alien cultures are challenging them.
“Yet these people from alien cultures are challenging them.”
You obviously don’t know how Politically Correct right on trendy leftie OFSTED are:
“Town and Country Kiddies Nursery in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire has just been stripped of its Ofsted “outstanding” status. It has been downgraded to “good” on the basis of it not providing enough opportunities for babies and toddlers to “to learn about people who are different to themselves.” This was evidenced, in part, by the inspectors deciding that there were insufficient black and Asian faces on the walls of the nursery.”
Ofsted tells inspectors that they must evaluate the extent to which “equality of opportunity and recognition of diversity are promoted through teaching and learning.”
Nurseries must be judged on the extent to which they “actively promote equality and diversity”
Distinctions in terms of educational quality disappear because promoting ‘ethnic diversity’ trumps all.
One Jewish school formally complained to Ofsted after girls aged just nine were humiliated by inspectors who interrogated them about how babies are made, and whether they knew any gay people.
The targeting of Christian and Jewish Schools was confirmed yesterday by Rabbi Nessanel Lieberman, a registered schools inspector, who told a meeting of primary teachers that the education watchdog had “an agenda to knock down our schools”
I would suggest that the Muslims have ample evidence to believe that OFSTED is absolutely on their side and it’s quite a surprise they actually carried this through to court.
Let’s hope they ask some interesting question regards ‘Ofsted and the Al-Hijrah Islamic state school in Birmingham’ and get some straight forward answers. Would be interesting to reveal what they teach in the classes as well …
We can’t even utter the word ‘NO’ to say it is wrong … ‘Ofsted’s lawyers argue that it is “a kind of apartheid”‘
Is Muhammad the Perfect Moral Example?
… is everything done in the Qu’ran acceptable in the 21st Century?
Ye have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern (of conduct) for anyone whose hope is in Allah and the Final Day, and who engages much in the Praise of Allah. Qur’an 33:21
Is Slavery Acceptable Today?
When following Muhammed, what would you do?
Prophet, We have made lawful to you the wives to whom you have granted dowries and the slave girls whom God has given you as booty. Qur’an 30:50
Should alcohol be banned?
Who is in charge of 7000+ pubs in London?
“O ye who believe! Intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are an abomination…” Qur’an 5:90
Are non-Muslims free under Islam?
Can they go about freely and without cost?
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold forbidden that which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, … until they pay the Jizyah (Tax) with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. Qur’an 9:29
Do you believe everything in the book?
Winged horses, splitting the moon, man made from a clot of blood…
Is violence against women wrong?
Should I follow advice from the Qur’an?
But those (wives) from whom you fear arrogance – (first) advise them; (then if they persist), forsake them in bed; and (finally), strike them. But if they obey you (once more), seek no means against them.Qur’an 4:34
The ability to get public funding for faith schools is allowing Muslims to drive a coach and horses through legislation on equality and on educational standards. As pointed out , it is reinforcing apartheid through the creation of Muslim ghettos cut off from the culture and norms of the rest of Britain. The legislation will have to be changed but will any politician have the guts to propose it?
I was a bit bored so I drew this…
https://ibb.co/jX0jKk
Good work! Can you do individual highly paid battle buses? For highly paid BBC employees like Evans and Lineker. Lord Hall might want his own bus as well @ £450K.
What amazed me about that bird in the Scotland strip was that she was not wearing thc he Pink version of the Scotland outfit.
Nonetheless the fact this woman chose to wear this sort of apparel shows the true extent that this second rate snp hate mob think of British Institutions .
On the subject of that Scotland strip…………..it is now inhabited with cult nationalists and republican trouble makers………no unionist fans attend these matches anymore.
And beware the bBC total smoke screen………….this is cleverly managed both in its content and timing ( summer holidays) to deflect from the complete overhaul and mass outsourcing this offensive and costly organisation requires.
It must be so easy to live with open borders and mass Islamic immigration when you are paid hundreds of thousands a year – that kind of money insulates you from all the ‘challenges’ their progressive politics creates. That they could condemn Brexiteers as racist when they pay themselves money like that – no Polish man is going to be nicking their jobs. I see a complete lack of EU migrants on the BBC payroll.
As for their whining about the bedroom tax and nurses going to food banks, what if they did not have to pay the tv tax? I am sure that extra money would come in handy. If they all gave just 10% of their money to the poor that would be a nice gesture.
All the msm are the same aren’t they, they are supposed to be profesional writers, and the organisations they work for ”respectable” even ”refined.
Their grammar and spelling near perfect, when you start reading the Quality press and get this straight off the bat, i struggle to read further to be honest, i read far better written posters here than those muppets.
Television presenter Gary Lineker has tweet it that he thinks it is a “disgrace” that Chris Evans is paid more than him.
Mr Linekar, who is paid £1,750,000-£1,799,999 for his work said…………yada yada.
Lineker Linekar tweet tweeted tweet it, make your yer f/n mind up.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/19/tin-helmet-gary-lineker-braces-bbc-pay-backlash/
“You should not worry. You are in a market where presenters are paid at going rates ITV CH 4 pay more than the BBC. You have shown loyalty” – Lord Sugar – Twitter – jul2017
– Lord Sugar, Gary Lineker is not in a ‘market of presenters’ when the monies for Lineker’s salary are collected under duress and possible court order summons. Where the stake holders (TV License-Tax Payers) have no say in how it is ran. Where the independent body for the business is ran be ex-BBC employees. When the BBC can write emotive programmes such ‘3 Girls’ to reduce the numbers and wipe the guilt, anger and hate away, try this title instead Lord Sugar – “47 Innocent Rochdale Girls Raped (2008-2010)”.
“Market” – an area or arena in which commercial dealings are conducted.
The licence fee allows the BBC’s UK services to remain free of advertisements (but it advertises itself?) and independent of shareholder (also public) and political interest.
It’s not a market Sugar, you tosser, it’s a bloody tax ferchrissakes!
You may think that your crap computers were great back in the eighties, but like you, they got broke pretty damn soon after we shelled out all that hard earned dosh!
Wy doesn’t the bbbc just kick his ass into touch, and have someone decent on, not a boom-bust ugly face from the past.
Marky
Makes you wonder a bit why there have to be people in a studio for a highlights programme like match of the day. Just show more footy with a voice over linking the games, would save on lineker, shearer and whoever else they put up. Could save 3 million a year just doing that. Serious footy types just watch sky and bt. – declaration – I don’t pay for any of them anymore .
Sadly this story will be gone tomorrow for many.
Nope. I’m trying really hard, but I’m just not getting the vibe that Gary Linekar is giving me 3-8 times the added value of other presenters. Or for that matter that Alan Shearer is giving any added value at all.
And if anyone can explain (apart from having a better agent) why Huw Edwards is worth four times more than Sophie Raworth I should be pleased to know.
Still, my prediction for the bBBC solving the pay gender gap is to give humungous pay increases to all the female ‘talent’.
It’s rotten to the core.
Claudia Winkleman can’t even read the autocue, is she worth the minimum wage?
Gender gap = bring the girls’ wages up to the blokes and raise the tv tax yet again.
Lord Hall Hall will want a pay rise as well, as it’ll be his idea.
All diversionary is this ‘gender gap’, they still don’t need to pay such eye-watering money to crap ‘presenters’ like Norton, who is so bloody irritating all of the time.
I don’t watch Lineker as he’s ‘presenting’ a game I have no time for, but 1.7 mill? Piss off!
Anyone organising a march through London to protest against the BBC salaries? These marches usually start at Broadcasting House so we may as well keep that as a meeting point!
SHOCK HORROR BBC HEADLINE!
In a typical dastardly Tory move it was announced today that SIX MILLION men and women will have to wait an extra YEAR before becoming eligible for their state pension, an all too predictable, vile and avaricious move which will deny hard-working people their rights.
PS. The proposed change is scheduled to commence in 2037 and be implemented over the following two years.
Who knows what the position will be in over 20 years time, but don’t worry, the BBC are on your side. Protest NOW!
Beltane,
2037 ? The Sharia Courts will decide !
They won’t just decide Grant, they’ll just order it to happen…
Beltane –
Good day to put that news out don’t you think? I can’t remember how much the government saves by doing this – think it’s a billion or more. Every time they do this – and it’s been done a good few times now – I have been personally affected by it – it shows how deceitful politicians are.
I can’t remember it being discussed during the election. But if it had the response would have been the John major lie method ” we have no plans to change arrangements at the moment” which he used to deny putting vat on household fuel….
Yes and the libtard still can’t see the link between mass immigration and the fact that they will have to work longer to pay for it.
[innocent face] 🙂
Meanwhile, tongue firmly in cheek, the Press Gazette calls them ‘journalists’:
http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/more-than-40-bbc-journalists-paid-more-than-prime-minister-theresa-may-full-list-with-salary-details/?
Racist bigots!
Sweden is now playing cricket, radio 4’s PM tells me, thanks to the ‘new’ Swedes, so that’s alright then!
Who knows, they could be Archers fans too!
Do they use a cricket ball … or a grenade?
I ask only because I hear lots of reports (not on the BBC of course) of grenades going off there.
‘OMG we’re going to get it in the neck over these pay rates, has anyone got any ideas about other news items?’
‘Well, the government have announced a plan to raise the state pension age to 68 from 2037, rather than 2046, so people have now only got 20 years to make plans to have another £8000 in savings’
‘Great! We can go in really hard about the nasty Tories , shock, horror, denying people a pension. That way, we can relegate the BBC pay story down the running order’.
Readers, this imaginery bBBC news editor meeting is guessed but it’s logical outcome is not. It really happened at 1700 on PM with Eddie ‘only 300k’ Mair.
Interesting/worrying how my Apple I-phone pushes out this story showing the Independant article , apparently the story here is the gender pay gap ! No it’s not, it’s the shear scale of the pay
Interesting/worrying how my Apple I-phone pushes out this story showing the Independant article , apparently the story here is the gender pay gap ! No it’s not, it’s the shear scale of the pay
It’s a shame really that the earnings of journalists and so called entertainers are not made public more often . But I suppose they instinctively protect their own and all either have or want their snouts in the public taxpayers snout at some time .
Listening to a wealthy man like Lord Grade today saying it was disgraceful that BBC pay should be made public shows what sort of character he is. Wealth distances them from the common reality and accountability is for others – not them. Thank god for the likes of this website which remains unmentioned in the main stream media for some reason..
Loved young Mr Grades pathetic attempt to tie us all up in red braces.
Inflation will now rise.
We`ll not get any more Robbie Savages if we don`t pay Huw Edwards and Alex Jones more.
A Poachers Charter-as if any of that lot even need to cook an egg themselves.
Desperate rearguard crap-gender pay gaps, BBC management and spin doctors all over it, James Purnell as Will Young threatening us with a lack of Eurovision if we`re not nicer to Lineker etc…
This needs sorting-none of this scooting off when they replace a Martin with a Bercow as in 2009.
This is a scandal-especially when they puff on about how poor we all are and why THEY are right and proper people to advocate for us.
Push the fat fuckkers offf the woolsack-give us Vance not Nolan. Come on DUP-give us a head on a plate, before they scurry off to scuppers you.
When ARE we going to stop letting our faces get slapped for the rst of the world to laugh at.
No wonder the EU think we`re soft shits re Brexit!
Only thing I got from Grade was his “Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise” tall stories re getting poached by ITV.
That only reminded me of when we HAD talent worth poaching. I mean-only Grade would presume that Kuennsberg going to the BBC and Peston going to ITV is somehow of equal historical moment. Sad old fool.
No-all overpaid, where are our Latvian newsreaders and Malian sporting blaggers?
Why are the BBC executive salaries above £150k not on the list?
Why is Lord Hall not on the list?
The response that he/they may be on another list is no answer.
Management salary List is here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/corporate2/insidethebbc/managementstructure/biographies/
Ian Katz £151K
Hall : Total remuneration: £450,000
(This information is correct as of March 2017)
Tax evasion techniques through “salary sacrifice schemes”?
Personally I don’t give a toss about the liberal / feminazi obsession with equal pay, but how delicious to watch the beebistan tearing itself apart over it. It’s already started on Eddie Mair’s PM. Excellent.
A must listen.
Eddie Mair surprisingly hacked off with James Purnell. Does a very good impression of a newshound on the student paper.
You could almost imagine that Eddie himself was not one of the grasping show hounds, guilty of bagging all the gravy.
What a performance.
Great entertainment, news as showbiz and ironic comedy. Have a listen.
Joan Bakewell probably being revived with smelling salts even as we speak.
Now HERS was the very reprise of Dame Edith Sitwell, as a full doggie bag was offered instead of the petit fours!
What a performance.
Enjoy it!
To sum up the ‘Today’ presenters’ salaries; John Humphries is at the top of the tree and his salary is gynormously massive; Nick Robinson next, whose salary is enormous, third spot goes to Mishal Hussein (why?) whose salary is huge; fourth we have Justin Webb who must make do with a salary level only a mere 50kish above the Prime Minister’s.
Sarah Montague doesn’t even get 150k. Maybe she has to resort to food banks?
I wonder how the team spirit is in the office now……. 🙂
And the repulsive, useless Chris Evans earning millions for what? Rubbish Top Gear?
Puke.
I am becoming increasingly suspicious of callers in to Five Live. ‘Liz’ from Enfield was just saying how we are so lucky to have the BBC and other countries are jealous; just throw a quid in a pot every couple of days and you have paid for it! Someone else texted in saying how outrageous it was that the salaries were published, expressing solidarity with the Beeb millionaires, which really is what most people are thinking.
Orwell was spot on calling it the Ministry of Truth. How disgusted they are having to be honest with us!
Unfortunately there will always be the thick sort of bloke in fuck-me trousers and a fag on who believes everything he’s told by the bbc.
They’re like the people who come and park next to you in an empty car-park, or bring their towels and plonk themselves nearby on an empty beach.
Sad, but loved by the bbbc, who couldn’t really give a toss as they’re paid by the tax-payer.
Its this sort of comment that makes my blood boil……………….
“But BBC Breakfast’s Dan Walker took to Twitter to say he earns the same as co-host Louise Minchin for the programme – it is his other BBC commitments in BBC Sport that take his total salary higher.”
For Christ’s sake, why ? surely one salary covers all the commitments for the BBC ? clearly not. Is that why Winkleman’s salary is so high because she does a few weeks stint on Strictly and another few weeks on a now defunct Gt British Sewing Bee ?
Wasn’t Louise Minchin whining when Dan Walker started on BBC Breakfast because of which side he was sitting making him look superior to her?
LBC now JRM is on Farage show
prog before was Mrs May saying BBC is sexist
Oh dear JRM said “the reason solar power is so expensive , is cos of the huge tariffs on Chinese panels , which exist to protect German makers”
He opened by saying “article 50 makes it clear, when a country leaves there are NO EXTRA fees due
.. we only pay them more stuff in return for advantaged trade terms”
Worked out that I`ll be earning about a 0.05 of a Yentob. This definitely puts me at the rougher end of the Birt Index-like so many others doing grunt jobs in real life and out beyond the M25.
I`m worth even less -0.025 of a Huw, but at least I`m approaching a 10% of a Montague as long as she goes part time.
Still though eh?…apparently this outbreak of transparency is now going to cause all manner of infaltionary pressures-so no more Brexit excuses for the economy tanking.
It`s because we`re not paying Womans Hour poppets enough.
And who classifies Alan Shearer as a “personality”?…dull barely covers it.
Really hope that guests on Today remind the Today troughers that we`ll need no more lessons or crocodile tears re migrants,sexism or Grenfell
These people have way too much money-let THEM stump up for a while.
Prize to the first people on the media to point this out.
How much do Channel 4 News creeps get-they seem to be off the air tonight?
It’s the little things…
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If minorities represent less than 10% of the staff then it would be surprising if one was in the top 10 most highly paid.
Mind you, I suspect most of them are cleaners and doing unskilled jobs to keep the cost of lunch at the BBC canteen down.
There are more EMB females reading BBC main news than white English males…who make up 42% of the population of the UK. In fact try naming an English male newsman!
theres a gay one though so at least their over represented
Em bottomline older more experienced people get paid more
..and BAME are skewed towards school age
plus the BAME have prob gone the tax avoidning private company route so don’t appear in today’s stats
Isn’t that right Lenny, Adil Ray etc. ?
BBC asking questions about the Muslim cop who shot a white woman, but playing down the fact that he was a Somali.
Talk on the social media is that the cop’s appointment was for diversity reasons and complaints about him regarded as islamophobic
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-40647014/i-don-t-know-why-cameras-weren-t-on
Al Beeb have been autonomous for far too long. They thought that they were all powerful and untouchable just like the EU, but as the old adage goes “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Trump took on the media and is at war with them. I am not a Tory voter, but I do believe that Theresa is taking up the challenge this side of the Atlantic and has declared war with Al Beeb in a more subtle way. More power to her elbow!
Beware maxincony.
Where is Essexman when you need him?
taffy,
The BBC are totally out of control and unaccountable . So they can do what they want .
Many of you don’t know I am a football expert, REALLY. I compile football odds for bookmakers.
I am going to give you a good tip. No its not IRAN to win the World Cup , I have already bet them
them at 5000/1 a couple of years ago. They with Brazil are the only country that have now qualified.
They will reach the 1/4 finals at least, but you can’t get 5000/1 anymore.
NO I am going to tell you who will replace Gary Lineker when he either resigns as the BBC makes
him the fall guy over the wages fiasco. If he does not resign the positive discrimination and diversity
department will get him! The LADY who will succeed him believe me ticks all the right boxes AND
she does know her football, MINA RZOUKI. I reckon the BBC will pay her more than Gary Lineker !!
I reiterate that either Gaby Logan or Jermaine Janus will be favourites . Some think that Ebony Rainford
Brent will be in with a shout. But she will take over Jonathon Agnews’s job sooner or later , and anyway
cricket is her sport , even if it wouldn’t make any difference to the diversity department.If you see any
betting market on next Match of the Day presenter and 20/1 or better is offered for MINA, GET ON !!!
Notable absentees for the albeeb rich list ;
The dimbley twins.
Obviously so wealthy they don’t take taxpayers cash from al Beeb….. there must be more – Merton and that little sh-t from Private Eye ? They’ve been coining it for years with their tedious smug humour…
Fedup,
It will all be tax avoidence, trusts, offshore. Cnuts like the Dimble boys will have the best lawyers and accountants . Because they deserve it. Assholes who have never done a real day’s work in their lives. Parasites.
Yes agree Grant – but sad for both really living off dads reputation after he had a good war. I suppose there are younger dimbleys somewhere in albeeb already living off the licence tax.
Fedup,
Wankers !
Dad also had quite a fruitful peace with his boys selling off his local newspaper empire – long before the BBC hand that fed him titbits closed them all down – for just over the £12mil. His boys are comfortable enough, have no fear.
Foscari, et al
Will Al Beeb face legal claims because of the ‘Gender Pay Gap’?
They will have to fund more wages now so it will give them an excuse to put up your telly tax,
especially when they employ your favourite and my favourite female – Laurie Penny.
Ask David Starkey
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What`s all this crap about our underfunding of the NHS?
Clearly Holby City and Casualty arer paying top dollar, and maybe a few more nurses and doctors could apply for these plum jobs. If we`ve learned nothing else today we know that acting like a doctor or a nurse without being one pays FAR more than actually being one.
Guess that this reads across to journalists too-those who pretend, act and masquearade as such end up with far more dosh than the poor sods who faithfully cover the country fetes on the Stretford Journal.
ChrisH
Divert all Foreign Aid and the Telly Tax to fund the NHS – There – Job Done !
Perfect solution Taff!
Look after our own first, if some degenerate country wants to paralyse its population, well, that’s diversity for you. Thank Blair and the rest of the nasty party.
Chris – I think this same principle also applies to the BBC current in equal measure. Obviously creating and reporting fake news with “BBC approved fake journalists” must be a lot more profitable than reporting the truth with “real” journalists who can actually be bothered to research their story instead of towing the BBC/Labour approved party line.
I am afraid the BBC have become a joke to much of the population. Down here in Cornwall I even had a normally reticent farmer complaining to me about how left wing the BBC have actually become. The local BBC Radio Cornwall phone in DJ – Lawrence Reed said words to the effect that (with absolutely no irony) If you cant trust the BBC then who can you trust?
One caller on the phone in also made the valid point as to “why when local BBC reporters film and report on a local/national news story (such as the recent floods at Coverack) do the BBC also have to send a national BBC news crew down as well to film the same bloody story. BBC DJ Lawrence Reed – could give no credible answer. The answer is of course either
1 The local news crews are crap or
2 This organisation is awash with other peoples money and is quite happy spending it by duplicating news gathering efforts in an attempt at laundering this money so it appears as if it is being spent legitimately.
I am afraid waste and lies are hardwired into this organisation from the top to the very bottom and no amount of ” swamp draining” will ever be able to reform these swiss bankers. Time to say night night I think.
very true my friend
What an utter disgrace the bbc is now.
It used to be such a comfort for old farts like me (70 today), and is just not worth watching in any shape or form.
They’ve really hit the bottom of the bucket as far as I’m concerned, They serve nobody, and have such eye-watering wages for doing so very little just sticks in my craw.
Sod the lot of them. They’re just dross, and we have to pay taxes for their crazy lifestyle.
C’mon Gumint – do something about it – prats…
You forgot BBC employee expense claims {bbc expenses – Gary “£2million + Walkers + BT + Book Deals” Lineker not there} and unsocial working hours bonus and free gifts from corporations to rub shoulders with the mighty, oh and membership to the three BBC London gyms at £20 per month {bbcclub}.
So Montague only gets a quarter of what Humph does?
Thought the Today lot would have been a bit more Venezuelan in regard of all that fat salary stuff that they get from the wages office every Friday lunchtime.
They bang on about the Tories saying “we`re all in this together” and bang on about “equality”,” solidarity” with the poor and vulnerable do they not?
They clearly like the idea of communism and a flat pay cap.
But like all true lefties seem only to extend this to those of us below.
Come on Humph-split your salary with the poor working mum will you?
Let`s see some BBC money sharing-“all for one” and all?
Tell me this.
Why is Jim Naughtie still on the payroll and getting more that our Sarah?
Alicia,
Naughtie will be for ever on the albeeb taxpayers payroll. I enjoy those unintentionally funny pieces he does as a roving reporter trying to sound like the revered Alister Cook . No chance- his left al Beeb bias forever peaks through – his pomposity is still funny though.
Al Beeb will probably give these punters a bonus for disclosure of their tax paid salary
Probably as part of a government health warning on where being a pompous verbose pretentious tartan trot gets you(if you think you`re Fyfe Robertson and not Charlie Mc Drake with a hip flask).
Florid fop-stay off the whiskey lads.
Anybody else willing to bake a few cakes and offer them to poor Sarah as she sweeps past in the chaise longue or the Covent Garden rickshaw these next few days?
Early start I grant you, poor lass probably housekeeping for Humphrys as her kids make do and mend.
This is one for all Doreen’s new fans on the site – here she is in a different incarnation!
BEWARE! It’s rather rude!
https://en-gb.facebook.com/doreentiptonlazycow/videos/782707528521010/
This story about BBC TV Tax being used to pay inflated wages to BBC employees must continue …{bbc.co.uk jul2017}
Day 1 … BBC reveals inflated pay of it’s employees
Day 2 … TV Tax Payers request to know the stars schedule to know they get value for money (hours worked) : Lineker BBC + Walkers + BT = is he superman?
Day 3 … TV Tax Payers request to know which politicians have been appearing on TV and getting paid, which party and how long on screen.
Day 4 … TV Tax Payers request Gary Lineker responds to all people (200,000 in 2013) who have been charged with not paying his wages, sorry I mean the TV Tax, sorry I mean avoiding the TV License, sorry I mean undocumented TV License usage.
Day 5 …. TV Tax Payers request for information on all stars that are hiding their wages in different companies – will these stars step forward and say how much they are being paid from the publics purse?
Day 6 … TV Tax Payers request how long these inflated wages have been paid – last 20 years
Day 7 … TV Tax Payers request that the BBC employees wages 80K or above are added to the website just like Lord Hall’s £450K + expense claims of £34.76 {2014} for hospitality
Day 8 …. TV Tax Payers request all expenses and claims for employees above 80K are shown
Day 9 …. TV Tax Payers request all employees above 80K respond to ‘is it work toy force money out of people to pay your wages?’
Day 10 … TV Tax Payers show that BBC wages went up as public and private sector stagnated
Day 11 … TV Tax Payers request payments made to all the criminal paedophiles in the BBC
Day 12 … TV Tax Payers Request payments made to Anjem Choudry and other known extremists
Day 13 … more will shake out the tree if we get this far …
If the waiting defendants are representative of the 5% of households who do not pay their licence fees every year, then most are struggling financially and there appears to be a lot of confusion about what the fee is for and why it has to be paid.{theguardian.com sep2014}
– Gary “2 Million Pound Kid” Lineker and BBC friends, please respond to all those who have paid for you wage, under protest and whilst struggling financially., many thanks.
“Most, but not all, of the more serious incidents of rape and attempted rape and some of the more serious sexual assaults I have described took place on Savile’s own premises and not at the BBC. They were, however, connected with Savile’s work for the BBC. Usually, Savile either met the victim at the BBC or else he groomed the victim by offering the opportunity to attend the BBC before taking the victim elsewhere, often to his home or campervan. … For example, the News of the World made allegations about the taking of pornographic pictures of young girls and the picking-up of girls under 16 by male members of staff on the programme (Top of the Pops 1969-1971). {THE JIMMY SAVILE INVESTIGATION REPORT – feb2016}“