LETTERS

Cut BBC down to size

NOW we know the real reason the BBC asked people who no longer have to pay for a TV licence to voluntarily send their money to the Beeb.

It wasn’t that it was struggling financially due to the licence fee being frozen for several years, as claimed, but because it needs more than 15,000 licence fees a year just to cover Chris Evans’s salary.

The time has come for the abolition of the licence fee and for the BBC to make its own way in the tough world of broadcasting.

It has become obscenely bloated and needs to be cut down to size.

PETER GIBSON, Dursley, Glos. I AM male, was born in Wales and can read. I am prepared to assist the BBC in narrowing its gender pay gap by offering to undertake Huw Edwards’s role of reading an Autocue in a suit for the same wage as Fiona Bruce. I promise not to sneer or look pompous.

IDRIS WHITE, Sevenoaks, Kent. I HAVE never watched EastEnders or Casualty. It seems a large lump of my licence fee pays for these two programmes. Can I have a rebate?

MIKE SMITH, Stafford.