Wage Rage: How should we fund the BBC?

The BBC was under fire today for the organisations seemingly out of control spending. £70m goes in salaries to employees earning more than £100,000 per year. £229m goes to performers on the television and radio channels.


It isn’t only salaries that are under scrutiny. BBC allows top executives to take business class long haul flights- as the Director-General, Mark Thompson did recently to Korea at a cost of £5,600. One also wonders how the Technology Director managed to spend £4,750 on taxis in 3 months, unless he joined his boss in Korea by taxi.

The BBC is an important national institution, and Poli-Chick enjoys Eastenders, Chris Moyles and Mock the Week as much as the next bird, but in our new post-recession world, can all this public expense be justified?

No, says the Tories. They want to freeze the license fee and use some of the proceeds of the fee to fund new broadband infrastructure in the UK. Labour have considered ‘top-slicing’ the license fee, but didn’t go through with it. The Liberal Democrats have said they are committed to an independently funded BBC- although they do say that want it to enter into more private partnerships, where possible.


So, how do you think the BBC should be funded?



Poli-Chick xx