Axe the licence fee! Let the BBC fend for itself
THE resentment felt by the public towards the BBC should not be underestimated.
We have become accustomed to the anti-Tory bias of its political reporting, to the extent that many no longer consider BBC News worth their time.
However, a line has been crossed when those of us dealing with austerity are forced to fund the obscene salaries of its presenters.
Happy in the knowledge the system protects them from commercial competition, they appear to believe the rest of society should fund their luxurious lifestyles.
Match Of The Day’s Gary Lineker, who is paid £1.8million, may think he is entitled to sneer, but so did Marie Antoinette.
The BBC is a dinosaur institution no longer fit for purpose, but the people who have to pay for it have no control over it.
Surely it’s time to let it fend for itself as a commercial channel. Perhaps then we will discover just how much these presenters are worth in the real world.
I doubt if Gary Lineker, Chris Evans and the rest of that army of pampered ‘celebrities’ will agree to that. I wonder why? CLIVE NELSON-SINGER,
Beare Green, Surrey.