Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Absolutely outrageous this imo. What do we pay a licence fee for - the occasional good documentary and a host of repeats like Dad's Army.

"The BBC is to pump £740million of licence fee payers’ cash into its pension scheme, to try and close a funding deficit that has nearly doubled over the last three years.


According to a new valuation, the deficit in the BBC pension fund – ie, the value of its assets minus its projected liabilities to retiring staff – has grown from £1.1billion in 2010 to £2billion in 2013.


However the BBC has decided not to ask its long-serving staff – who, in common with much of the public sector, enjoy guaranteed pension benefits when they retire – for any additional contributions.


As a result, licence-fee payers will be expected to foot the entire bill, at an additional cost of £365million over the next four years.


The amount that the BBC pays to its pension fund over the next four years will increase from an already-agreed £375million to £740million.




That averages out at £185million per year – or roughly twice the annual budget of Radio 4.

It also means that every licence fee payer will be paying roughly £7.36 a year, out of an annual licence fee of £145.50, solely to pay down the BBC’s pension deficit.

The decision to force licence-fee payers to pay the entire increase in the pension fund deficit has been made by BBC management, led by the director-general Tony Hall, and agreed with BBC pension fund trustees.

It has not been publicised to licence-fee payers, instead being announced by email to BBC staff who are members of the pension scheme.

While costing licence-fee payers dearly, it will ward off any conflict with the unions who represent BBC staff – principally the National Union of Journalists and Bectu.

In 2010, the BBC suffered industrial action, including strikes, when it asked staff to accept lower benefits and higher contributions to help pay down the deficit.

The supervisory BBC Trust, led by chairman Lord Patten, has not yet made any comment on the decision.

The BBC Trust is tasked by the BBC’s royal charter with ensuring that the BBC provides value-for-money for licence-fee payers.The Daily Telegraph is seeking comment from the BBC and the BBC Trust."

hays - you're right .... a proven arsehole once again :-)

English is defined by common usage as opposed to the French who have the Academie Francaise. If enough people say something in English then it is correct by common usage. Opposite to is a common variant. The use of it has been the subject of discussion for years. That very fact alone defines it as common usage. Fortunately we have no formal definition of our language.

Cynic.

You are improving and gained insight at last!

Keep it up,

8-)

strangely, and unlike you, i don't have my head stuck up my own or anyone else's fundament

Are you sure?

Often, self assessment is often an imperfect method of evaluation.

Especially, when at your age and state mistakes are often easily made.

i'm pretty sure .... i had a good peer around and saw a few golf balls, unless they were polyps of course
had a PSA check recently too, and the urologist reckoned all was clear too!

Seems to be a little doubt creeping in!

But the contortions some will go to still amazes me.

Wonder what their electric bill is!!!!!!!

but i bet he's got a hammer and sickle tattoo on his prick

Now now c, we all know it's on his ass (close to his brain)

i'm sure i'm not mistaken .... he'ld like to fuck over anyone who isn't a member of unite or similar

Who's his prick ?

Maxk

we all know it's on his ass (close to his brain) Thats were Fred's is

What is really driving these cases, a quest for justice or misdirection?



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/dave-lee-travis-trial-former-radio-one-dj-was-an-opportunistic-sex-offender-court-hears-9058744.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/rolf-harris-pleads-not-guilty-to-a-string-of-sexual-assaults-against-four-girls-9059432.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/william-roache-trial-coronation-street-actor-sexually-abused-14yearold-fan-in-his-rollsroyce-9058414.html

Bonuses back in favour!

It does look like President Hollande does not want to get his Monies mixed up with his Manets .......

MaxK - post 35410 - there is surely a difference between Saville, who was a serious sexual preditor and someone like Dave Lee Travis. The Travis case sounds more like kids playing ' Doctors & nurses ' - which is what most teenagers get up to at some stage.