Should The Bbc Licence Payer Fund A Diversity Creative Talent Fund?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3642062/Millionaire-ex-Premier-League-striker-Dion-Dublin-trained-Homes-Hammer-presenting-role-using-50-000-BBC-fund-boost-ethnic-minorities.html

Even so, why should a millionaire ex footballer benefit from £50,000 from such a fund?

[ToraToraTora]

you are kin joking! please wake me up someone! We paid £50 large so a millionaire footballer can have a career change? Gawd elp us!

[Svejk]

Seems odd to me, aog. If you must waste money on these schemes, surely they should be aimed at 'giving a leg up' to poor kids.

[Gladeian]

Probably ticks quite a few boxes on the BBC diversity agenda.
Doesn't matter that it appears to the licence fee payers as a gross misappropriation of funds.
If this ex-footballer who earned masses wanted training in his new career let him pay for it.

[Bazile]

Waste of money using it for this particular example.

Just as it is , paying hundred of thousands to so called football 'pundits' , for example

[webbo3]

So let me get this straight, the bbc gave Dion Dublin £50k of my/our money to train to be a presenter on homes under the hammer to make up "diveristy" numbers when he is worth £16M, you really couldn't make it up.

$16 Million.
Dion Dublin net worth: Dion Dublin is an English television presenter and former professional soccer player who has a net worth of $16 million. Dion Dublin was born in Leicester, England in April 1969. He was a center-forward and center-back who played his youth soccer for Wigston Fields and Norwich City.


Dave.

[Baldric]

But, it's Diversity at work innit, makes you proud to be British
:o(

[Mamyalynne]

Quite happy with the premise of the fund, however anyone with sufficient funds of their own should use them to train for a new direction in their career.

That would leave the funds resources for those who could make a great contribution but cannot afford to train up.

[pixie374]

It does say "reportedly" and then "up to"... I think they aren't sure, but if he needs £50k worth of training, he probably is not the best person for it anyway.

[jackthehat]

He hasn't been paid any of this, it will have gone to other 'workers' who would have received the same amount whomever had been chosen to take the role....

[Mamyalynne]

Ah, so the article is somewhat misleading or I've not understood it.

But I think the gist of my reply stands.

[youngmafbog]

Aog states he benefited nit he was paid it.

Tottally wrong.

[-Talbot-]

What is odd about it is the HUTH were the first to initiate contact with Dion.

Well done him if he is actually worth 16 million dollars, he obviously looked after his earnings.