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Isn't It Time
the BBC stop wasting the money we have to give them on things like giving Garry Lineker over £3500 every day?
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There is a myth that Lineker is popular, so warrants the high figure. I've never understood why he, or any other retired footballer/sportsperson recieves the money that they do. All they talk about is conjecture. It's money for old rope and, as I keep saying, don't blame them for doing it. I'd do it myself if I thought I could get away with it.
//What are they doing, not watching any tv and just streaming on a pc or device?//
Not had a licence for years now, its odd at first but then you dont miss is, big thing is the tv is not turned on so much so good.
What do we watch, well all tvs in the house are smart so we have Amazon, YouTube and if my daughter is around Netflix. Plenty on there.
The other really good thing is you forget what an advert is, I only ever see one if round one of my daughters houses, it really is quite quaint.
Lineker's a freelance, not a BBC employee. They'll calculate his pay according to what they think some other outlet would offer in order to steal him.
The current BBC director general is a former Conservative party electoral candidate. The last BBC chairman guaranteed an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson. The last but one political editor was chairman of the Oxford University Conservative Association. I do wish people would stop blathering on about champagne socialists. The BBC has been dyed-in-the-wool conservative since it was founded. It's true that the founder loathed Churchill - but only because he admired Hitler.