Cut men’s pay at BBC

The decision by the BBC to hike the pay of women to achieve parity with the men is a further slap in the face for those pensioners who will now have to fork out for a TV licence.

if it is so strapped for cash, our cash i might add, then why not reduce the pay of their highly paid male ‘stars’ to the level of the women, as and when each contract ends?

Parity will be achieved, albeit over a longer period, and the overall wage bill will be significantly reduced.

To Joe Public the wages paid for presenters to read the news, front a quiz show or spout about football are inflated beyond belief. This is without the additional trial of having to listen to certain presenters lecture the rest of us on how we should live our lives.

The BBC is regarded as being increasingly unaccountable when it comes to being non-partisan and providing value for money, so pushing up wages at the start of your tenure is unlikely to be seen as a good beginning for new director-general Tim davie.

C. SIMPSON, Wokingham, Berks. The BBC seems to have a problem with white presenters . . . but not with white managers. They only appear to be applying diversity quotas to other people’s jobs.

PHIL NORTH, Brigg, Lincs. If Sue Barker is too old to present a Question of Sport, then surely Gary Lineker is too old to present Match of The day — particularly as he is a white male!

ANNIE ADAMS, Address supplied.

ALL these ageing women in the broadcast media are complaining that they are being replaced by younger women.

aren’t these ageing women the same women, who, in their younger day, were content to edge out the older women and take their jobs?

PAUL SIMPSON, Lewisham, London.