BBC's gravy train...1st class all the way: 'Feckless'

[mouse]

BBC's gravy train...1st class all the way: 'Feckless' Corporation is pleading poverty in face of cuts... yet wastes millions on luxury travel, celebrity bashes and OVERPAYING its staff!
Corporation shells out £13.7million on flights and £8million on trains
Spent £55,000 on tickets for celebrities and staff to go to Baftas
Overpaid employees by £2million in two years



A damning catalogue 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 licence fee payers’ money being wasted.


Glamorous: The BBC spent more than £55,000 on tickets for the Baftas for celebrities including Strictly Come Dancing hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman

The documents reveal the BBC, which receives £3.7 billion a year from the public, has:
Forked out almost £14 million for plane travel in two years – including £2.2 million on first and business class tickets;
Splashed out nearly £11 million on train journeys, including more than £680,000 for first class tickets;


Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3166617/BBC-s-gravy-train-1st-class-way-Feckless-Corporation-pleading-poverty-face-cuts-wastes-millions-luxury-travel-celebrity-bashes-OVERPAYING-staff.html#ixzz3gJtShpcM
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[mouse]

travel..revolving door...and that's without entertaining and tickets to this or that
not so much a gravey train as an entire fleet of luxury liners troughing up and down the country and beyond

[fretslider]

The BBC has tried to move the centre of gravity from London to Meejah city in Salford.

London is still the place where the 'important'people are. So, they ferry them up to Salford and then they ferry them back again.

The cost of the relocation and reproducing the folly of Strasbourg/Brussels - yes, apeing the EU circus by going backwards and forwards, is eye-watering.

[josephdphillips]

Jul 19, 2015 2:26:52 GMT -5 mouse said:

BBC's gravy train...1st class all the way: 'Feckless' Corporation is pleading poverty in face of cuts... yet wastes millions on luxury travel, celebrity bashes and OVERPAYING its staff! Corporation shells out £13.7million on flights and £8million on trains Spent £55,000 on tickets for celebrities and staff to go to Baftas Overpaid employees by £2million in two years A damning catalogue 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 licence fee payers’ money being wasted. Glamorous: The BBC spent more than £55,000 on tickets for the Baftas for celebrities including Strictly Come Dancing hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman The documents reveal the BBC, which receives £3.7 billion a year from the public, has: Forked out almost £14 million for plane travel in two years – including £2.2 million on first and business class tickets; Splashed out nearly £11 million on train journeys, including more than £680,000 for first class tickets; Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3166617/BBC-s-gravy-train-1st-class-way-Feckless-Corporation-pleading-poverty-face-cuts-wastes-millions-luxury-travel-celebrity-bashes-OVERPAYING-staff.html#ixzz3gJtShpcM Follow us: @mailonline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Here's a thought. Abolish the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Do you need it? There is no analog here in the states, and everyone's happy.

[mouse]

nany of us would be quite happy to do that,,,its no longer fit for purpose
as its no longer unbiased news but the trough for luvies lefties and rightons...streth it couldn't even get the Queens Jubilie righ...a pagent that really a child would have been hard pressed to mess up

[fretslider]

Jul 19, 2015 20:16:29 GMT -5 josephdphillips said:

Jul 19, 2015 2:26:52 GMT -5 mouse said:

BBC's gravy train...1st class all the way: 'Feckless' Corporation is pleading poverty in face of cuts... yet wastes millions on luxury travel, celebrity bashes and OVERPAYING its staff! Corporation shells out £13.7million on flights and £8million on trains Spent £55,000 on tickets for celebrities and staff to go to Baftas Overpaid employees by £2million in two years A damning catalogue 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 licence fee payers’ money being wasted. Glamorous: The BBC spent more than £55,000 on tickets for the Baftas for celebrities including Strictly Come Dancing hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman The documents reveal the BBC, which receives £3.7 billion a year from the public, has: Forked out almost £14 million for plane travel in two years – including £2.2 million on first and business class tickets; Splashed out nearly £11 million on train journeys, including more than £680,000 for first class tickets; Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3166617/BBC-s-gravy-train-1st-class-way-Feckless-Corporation-pleading-poverty-face-cuts-wastes-millions-luxury-travel-celebrity-bashes-OVERPAYING-staff.html#ixzz3gJtShpcM Follow us: @mailonline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

Here's a thought. Abolish the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Do you need it? There is no analog here in the states, and everyone's happy.

As far as the government is concerned it's an essential propaganda tool and a means of influencing behaviour. It should be on a subsription basis, but they hang onto the Licence fee which is in effect a television tax.

[josephdphillips]

Jul 20, 2015 6:57:49 GMT -5 fretslider said:

As far as the government is concerned it's an essential propaganda tool and a means of influencing behaviour. It should be on a subsription basis, but they hang onto the Licence fee which is in effect a television tax.

You can't get the license fee? I'd just get a computer monitor and get what I want to watch over the Internet.

[ladylinda]

Jul 20, 2015 13:09:25 GMT -5 josephdphillips said:

Jul 20, 2015 6:57:49 GMT -5 fretslider said:

As far as the government is concerned it's an essential propaganda tool and a means of influencing behaviour. It should be on a subsription basis, but they hang onto the Licence fee which is in effect a television tax.

You can't get the license fee? I'd just get a computer monitor and get what I want to watch over the Internet.

Joe, even if you do that they still regard you as having 'television receiving equipment' so you get fined for watching without a license.

[fretslider]

Jul 20, 2015 13:09:25 GMT -5 josephdphillips said:

Jul 20, 2015 6:57:49 GMT -5 fretslider said:

As far as the government is concerned it's an essential propaganda tool and a means of influencing behaviour. It should be on a subsription basis, but they hang onto the Licence fee which is in effect a television tax.

You can't get the license fee? I'd just get a computer monitor and get what I want to watch over the Internet.

The current law states that if you watch live television on any device you must have a licence.

Owning a television means you must have a licence.

Catch up services are exempt.