howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i must admit that i didn't know that the bbc were getting funding from the e.u. this must be stopped as they have enough income from the licence fee and overseas sales of their programmes.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"The BBC admitted... that it has received nearly £3million in grant money from the European Union over the past four years.
Other grants totalling £16million came from local authorities across the UK. The money was spent on "research and development projects". "
I must have missed the list of Local Authorities, it is surely in the piece somewhere?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9055183/BBC-admits-receiving-millions-in-grants-from-EU-and-councils.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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This is easy to resolve, just make the licence fee optional.
There'll be millions like me who wouldn't bother.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Three million is small beer is it not...would hardly pay for the tenure of a director general.
You would probably find that other national broadcasters across Europe are getting the same or similar funding.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,897
"Other grants totalling £16million came from local authorities across the UK. The money was spent on "research and development projects"."
The above is from Tom's link, possibly the real reason for the partial move to Salford.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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agree that £.3 million over 4 years is unlikely to affect editorial policy, of more concern is the £.16 million from local authorities.
council tax payers will be miffed to hear that when there are basic services being cut all over the place.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Not true Peter.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Then I should have gone to Specsavers.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Yes Peter, perhaps you should do just that.
I copied and pasted the entire Wiki entry from the word 'Appointments' down to the word 'Governors', just as it appears in the original, (oops!), except that, for reasons of textual clarity, I put the sub-headings in Bold. I then, for reasons of fair-play and balance gave a 'live' link to the whole page.
[Final paragraph removed]
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Well, Tom, for reasons of fair-play and balance I therefore found it appropriate to draw attention to Thompson's admission of left-wing bias which many might have missed.
Thank you, Chris, for your edit.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I could think of better places to go for a holiday,take your tin hat with you and keep your head down,
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Peter, you finding something appropriate does in no way equate to you accusing me of "editing out" anything. You were mistaken, but instead of making your own point you chose to cast me as the villain. A response from me on that very point was necessary, that I chose to respond with some élan is nothing more than would have been expected.
A thrust merits a parry, a renewed thrust deserves a counter strike, that's life. Enjoy your hols.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Ok so you didn't edit it out, you just chose not to draw attention to it, buried as it was in the footnotes. That is fine, nobody expects you to put both sides of the debate, but that does not excuse your personal attack on me. Obviously in your lexicon, élan and vitriol are synonyms. Not in mine.
However, I was making my own point - that the BBC is riddled with political bias. The fact that I pointed out the 'missing link' and exposed the poverty of your argument does not cast you as the villain.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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trust you will wear your headdress when you are there peter, will make it a real arab spring.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
patton was as involved as all those making the decision
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Perhaps the post of BBC chair ought to be an elected one.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Personally I prefer to sit on a chair Peter rather than elect one.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#36 As he is chairman I would hope so.
#37 Help not another election
#38 A nice comfortable one
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