Days of reckoning for the Beeb?

[TheOstrich]

Oh, I do hope so!

I really hope the new culture secretary John Whittingdale does them over. I want to see that Andrew Neil suspended upside-down by his unmentionables from the underside of Tower Bridge. I want to see the whole of the staff and production team of BBC Migrants (sorry, Midlands) Today purged and cast wailing into the Gas Street Canal Basin. And if it's no longer going to be a crime not to pay the license fee .....

Not that I'm in any way biased, of course .....

[Workingman]

A lot of newspapers are headlining it and there is not a lot of sympathy but bucket loads of schadenfreude.

If the comments from readers are anything to go by Auntie would have to make its own way in the world and not rely on the licence fee "Tax". The BBC Trust would be scrapped and it would be slimmed down to BBC TV 1, 2, 4 & News, and Radio 2 & 4.

[cromwell]

I really hope the new culture secretary John Whittingdale does them over. I want to see that Andrew Neil suspended upside-down by his unmentionables from the underside of Tower Bridge. I want to see the whole of the staff and production team of BBC Migrants (sorry, Midlands) Today purged and cast wailing into the Gas Street Canal Basin.

Lol!

Oh, let it be so, please. Let the members of the BBC clever dick club like Evan Davies and Kirsty Wark try and get a job as bus conductors or something. Let Harry Crate Egg and the rest of the Look North crew end up on zero house contracts at a DHL warehouse... Andrew Marr working at Maccy D's...

There is good in parts of the BBC, like drama and sports, but it's news and political coverage has been so biased for so long that if the Tories get rid of the license fee and make the BBC a subscription service, well then they only have themselves to blame.

[medsec222]

Preferably on Zero hours contracts.

[Paddypix]

W1A is said to be a parody. I'm not so sure. It looks all too believable to me. The biggest advantage of Auntie for me is the absence of adverts and I'd be afraid of it having woo the lowest common denominator if it didn't have the licence fee.

[pederito1]

I wonder how long they will stay in mourning.

[Suff]

I can see the first meeting.

"OK so you lost your £multi million franchise for Top Gear, what are you going to fill that budget hole with?? Because it's not going to be with a license hike"...

In the private world a dearly held belief is for the church and home life. Everything else is business and as we've seen with Sugar this week, business does not like those who hate business or successful businessmen....