Posted on 07/18/2015 9:36:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A damning catalog of multi-million-pound waste within the BBC is exposed for the first time today by The Mail on Sunday.
Documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws reveal a climate of “feckless” excess and extravagance—including millions spent on first class travel.
The figures expose a revolving door culture in which staff are given large redundancy payments and then rehired at exorbitant rates, as well as overpayments leading to vast sums of license fee payers’ money being wasted. […]
The news of BBC excess comes at a time when the beleaguered Corporation is facing the prospect of root and branch reform. Culture Secretary John Whittingdale last week announced a review into the future of the BBC, which could make it a much leaner and smaller operation in the future. The Government says the BBC is now too big for its own good, and that it spends too much time chasing ratings and making programs which could easily be made by its commercial rivals. …
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So nice when you’re a government corporation with almost no accountability, and get funded by the “TV license” scam.
Employees of a largely gay-run government entity living large on Other People’s Money...
WhoDaThunkIt.
How unoriginal.
Plus they threw away $150 million when they got rid of Top Gear. Of course Jeremy Clarkson was asking for it...
Look who they hired to replace him. Chris Evans who looks tanked most of the time. http://i4.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article5851891.ece/ALTERNATES/s1023/Evans.jpg
Never heard of Chris Evans. From the pic I thought it was Eddie Van Halen in a blond fright wig and bad glasses. Phew! [Sorry, Eddie!]
This is not the new Top Gear team. Not at all!
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