The Beeb’s bungling

THE BBC not only seems incapable of running its sprawling business, but also its pension fund, which has a £ 1.8 billion deficit ( Mail). rather than planning to plug this black hole with a tenth of the revenue raised by the licence fee, it should be forced to do what any sensible business would do and pay for it by selling off its assets.

Why should the public have to suffer the financial burden, inferior programmes and more repeats to finance over-pampered and self-regarding BBC staff? And the thorny issue of the public sector pension deficit makes the BBC problem look minor. SIMON SMITH, Margate, Kent.