Letter: ‘We’re all in this together’ – but some more than others
Thursday 21st October 2010, 8:44AM BST.
Letter: In the present economic crisis we are reminded that “we are all in it together” – unfortunately some are in it far deeper than others.
Hundreds of thousands have seen their pension plans seriously depleted over the last three years, many have seen their pensions abolished altogether.
How do they react to the news of the 52-year-old deputy director general of the BBC leaving his post with next year’s salary of £435,000, a redundancy payment of £800,000 and a pension pot of £3.7 million?
The BBC is a licence fee-funded institution. Those fees generate more than £3.5 billion per annum which in turn produces over one hundred important management positions which warrant a bigger pay packet than the Prime Minister.
I ask why this supposedly unbiased organisation has had a £100,000 loan from the EU and why it never broadcasts anything anti-EU?
You will find that “all in it together” is a euphemism for “I’m alright Jack”, you will also find that there are no Jacks in Westminster, the higher echelons of quangos, senior banking positions, the boards of the utilities, the NHS or the police and none, of course in the BBC!
Bob Wydell
Oswestry
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I was previously unaware that the BBC was saying ‘we’re all in this together’, I thought that was the PM. With that in mind and considering context, I think this letter can be condensed to be just paragraph 5.
I ask why the supposedly un-biased Bob Wydell with his UKIP associations never says anything pro-EU.
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Next time Nistagmus, why not try reading a letter that you comment on. Oh, go! You mind find you enjoy it, once you get the hang of the concept
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Nistagmus, you missed the point. Bob did not say the BBC was responsible for that quote,yes, the prime minister did say it, but it does not seem to be as simple as he would have us believe.
As Bob rightly pointed out, many people have suffered huge pension cuts, or, in some cases, total wipe out yet here is one of Cameron’s “fat cats”, walking away, at 52, with nearly 5 million pounds of licence payers money.
Yet again as laid down by the untouchable powers that be, there is one rule for them and a totally different rule for “us”.
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