The BBC has been all over the news in the last few days for all the wrong reasons. Nobody seems to love dear old “Auntie” anymore. Nor does calling it “OUR BBC” appear to have convinced anyone that it is ours. The only people who believe that are the 21,000 people who work there.
It’s President Tramp, who has brought it into the headlines recently by threatening to sue it for a billion dollars. That’s quite a big slice out of its annual budget of £5.4 billion.
His is not the only complaint, the BBC has been digging a hole for a long time and it’s finally fallen in😂
Some of its fallen stars :-
- Jimmy Saville stopped “ fixing it for you”
- Hew Edward’s brought us “ bad News at Ten”
- Gary Lineaker went offside in “Match of the day”
- Greg Wallace cooked his own goose
- Martin Bashir for hoodwinking Princess Diana.
But also the endless repeats and repeats and repeats; it’s drive to be ever more WOKE and the relentless rise in the License Fee —- £169.50 and counting !
The Beeb needs a haircut and the LLLP are ready for the challenge.
- Strip out all the highly paid presenters.
- Forget 24 hour news. Limit news broadcasts to breakfast/ lunch/ tea/ supper time.
- Take out all the middle managers; editors; assistant editors; production co-ordinations; content creators; floor managers; shift leaders; communications officers; business development managers; delivery staff… the job list grows faster than I can type🤡
- Only have real celebrities on Strictly not people you don’t recognise.
- Have at least one Clint Eastwood film on every night.
In an excellent book published in the 1970’s, Antony Jay wrote about the BBC from the inside. It was about group think, entitled “Corporation Man” and the thing I remember most was his description of the extravagant use of Corporation money. To Licences Fee payers it was their ££££££.
GrumbleSmiles 
Bbc
Dear John, remember those communications in days gone past? I go back to my younger days, in Hambugh when my mother and father served with the foreign office 1946-1949 as an official in the British army of the Rhine, and then the radio BBC- Programmes Wilfred pickles-Down your way, and Life with the Lyons, and the BBC World News, Great!
Then when I went to as an apprentice marine engineer to sea and served on tankers between the UK NW Europe, Arabian Gulf, to the USA, South Africa, Australia, South Korea, Singapore, and Venezuela, most different parts of the world 1956 to 1973 . Ones reminder of the day was the BBC Light Programme which could be picked up until Cyprus on the way to Suez. BBC world service on the radio, and all the programmes they issued, Music from Scotland, one of the Scottish bands, and then mor music and news from the UK and from around the world on the BBC world service news broadcasts, A great reminder of home. Wonderful and lts of memories.
I felt I belonged to a nation of people who cared ‘what went on in the world;?
Today with TV and radio the nation has appeared to have lost its identity, and care for what the ‘world is about’? It is a shame!
During the early days of unrest within Europe and the world in general we had a voice/concenious of what we were as a nation? Today all aspects of our national community are or appear to be fighting like ‘cats and dogs’ screaming at each other, and we do not appear to have a political party with a Prime Minister who is willing to be British, and lead the BBC elect to the BBC board of governors people who whom are willing to be British In this modern world of ours.
We as a nation have lost our way, and the new citizen, whoever they may be have no firm beliefs in what it is?/ TO Be British? Other than take benifits and monies from the nation? I just wonder where we are going, and where or what they wish their children grow up to be??