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BBC Workers to Strike
Mr_Mumble
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Okay, BBC employees want to strike to keep their luxurious pensions that have vanished from the private sector. They have a right to do so despite it making them look like tax-thieving fat cats but the days they've decided to strike are most telling:
Journalists, technicians and other broadcast staff will walk out on October 5 and 6, when the Conservative conference will be held, and again on October 19 and 20, the date of the spending review.
:rotfl:
How can BBC employees possibly say they're collectively independent here? The timing of these two strikes are blatantly political, anti-Conservative and anti-coalition. About time Guardian TV was privatised!
"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.
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seems extraordinarily stupid: Scargill comes to mind0
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Okay, BBC employees want to strike to keep their luxurious pensions that have vanished from the private sector. They have a right to do so despite it making them look like tax-thieving fat cats but the days they've decided to strike are most telling:
How can BBC employees possibly say they're collectively independent here? The timing of these two strikes are blatantly political, anti-Conservative and anti-coalition. About time Guardian TV was privatised!
Good post! It certainly does look politically motivated. The BBC was as the forefront of smearing John Major's government. Why are we forced to pay their salaries?
.... and I say that as someone who has been far from enthusiatic about Cameron winning the election.0 -
Looks like another nail in the BBC coffin to me.
The sooner this anachronism dies the better (IMPO).In case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:0 -
Good post! It certainly does look politically motivated. The BBC was as the forefront of smearing John Major's government. Why are we forced to pay their salaries?
.... and I say that as someone who has been far from enthusiatic about Cameron winning the election.
I think they had a good go at smearing pretty much everyone in recent years.
Not quite sure if its an external agenda or gutter journalism. Or both..Not Again0 -
1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »I think they had a good go at smearing pretty much everyone in recent years.
Not quite sure if its an external agenda or gutter journalism. Or both..
The BBC consistently attacked Blair's (and later Brown's) government. They are now doing the same to the coalition.
In both cases, from the Left.0 -
The BBC consistently attacked Blair's (and later Brown's) government. They are now doing the same to the coalition.
In both cases, from the Left.
Agree
they did attack the labour reign, but i dont believe they would have done this under a labour govermnent..
still i am unsure and agree with 1984ReturnsForReal,0 -
1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »I think they had a good go at smearing pretty much everyone in recent years.
Not quite sure if its an external agenda or gutter journalism. Or both..
The BBC news formats see part of their duty is to oppose the government, whatever the colour. This is particularly true when the political opposition is weak (Labour under Foot & Kinnock, the Tories under Hague, Howard & IDS) or the government has been in for a long time.0 -
Okay, BBC employees want to strike to keep their luxurious pensions that have vanished from the private sector. They have a right to do so despite it making them look like tax-thieving fat cats but the days they've decided to strike are most telling:
:rotfl:
How can BBC employees possibly say they're collectively independent here? The timing of these two strikes are blatantly political, anti-Conservative and anti-coalition. About time Guardian TV was privatised!
Good on them! I wish them luck. We need more of this action to cause trouble for the rotten Con-Dem coalition.0 -
But that's a political decision. So why should I be forced to pay for it?
The strikes are about the pension, not about the election results...think of it as an added bonus
Best thing the BBC have done with licence money in a long long time.
Its also the Tories fault with the public sector cuts that their pension fund is collapsing.0
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