Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
Did you know if we only paid Gary Lineker £500,000 a
We could fund loads of free TV licences for over-75s –

How did we get to a point of paying a football presenter £1.75 million, from tax payers money , where's the social outrage ?
The cost of free TV licences is around £750million. Lineker's wages are a drop in the ocean. In fact, I reckon if you got rid of every BBC employee earning over half a million you wouldn't get remotely close to £750m.

The social outrage comes from a government that decided it wants war with the BBC to please Murdoch. The Tories stopped funding the free TV licence and told the BBC they had to fund it. The BBC said no.

When you hear about the hundreds of millions wasted on PPE or the failed app, that money could have been used to fund free TV licences, yet you prefer to go on about Lineker?

Cretin.