Well, no surprises there, of course. As usual it’s all the fault of those nasty Tories; and of course ‘Germany in the 1930s’ doesn’t refer to the Nazis. After all, Hitler would have been very happy for those immigrants to die in the freezing Channel having given their life savings to leave a perfectly safe EU country in a dodgy dinghy.
Good old Gary, no doubt he’ll be beatified for putting his £1.35m freelance income on the line, even if that helps him prove to HMRC that he should be exempt from paying over £5m in tax. I mean, what else is someone worth over £25m, built entirely on his BBC career to do from his working-class mansion in one of London’s most exclusive neighbourhoods? Goodness, he’s even taken in immigrants and rescue dogs. The sacrifices this man makes.
Deerey, quite why someone who worked in London for so many years wouldn’t know people in the BBC is beyond me, especially given that person worked in PR. Of course, I’m forgetting your ignorant, hackneyed and stereotypical view of PR, which is about as close to reality as Gary Lineker’s life is to that of the ordinary working man.
All of that aside, what these comments have confirmed is why the BBC can’t possibly continue as a taxpayer-funded organisation; and, NI, I think you’ll find that being funded by the taxpayer is very different from being paid through taxes, although many would argue that the BBC licence is just another tax in everything but name.
