The BBC is a corporation funded entirely via the licence fee paid by viewers. That is no less than a stealth tax, but it means that any and all personnel, from cleaners to international stars employed by the BBC are paid with money from our wallets. Quite simply, if we don't pay to have a television licence, we simply cannot watch television, and we can even be prosecuted and/or imprisoned if we don't comply.
If we pay money into a service, we are entitled to complain to the provider if the service is less than satisfactory and/or if the personnel are not performing adequately. This applies to he BBC. And it applies to the programmes they broadcast.
The cast of Eastenders is funded by us. Our licence fee monies pay for their expensive holidays, their big homes in posh neighbourhoods, their botox, their nail jobs, the school fees for their kids, the holiday homes and yachts moored in Spain and Florida, the expensive cars and the nannies.
Therefore, when we are less than satisfied with service rendered - as is the case with many who find Eastenders sub-standard at the moment - we are entitled to complain.
It's not just a matter of turning off or switching the channel. The licence fee continues to fund lifestyles of the rich and famous, who owe a lot of those lifestyles to us and who thinks this gives them the entitlement to behave badly and boorishly in public.
Now that it's been revealed that the BBC actually advised its stars to use offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes that the plebs who fund them have to pay, I think it's even more important that such people be revealed for the assholes that they are.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Shane Richie, who plays cheeky, chirpy, lovely jubbly and cuckholded landlord Alfie Moon - the man all Eastenders' fans are supporting against his bitch of a wife. When I posted a blog yesterday about not giving a shit about Lola's baby, in which I remarked that one of the reasons I didn't give a rat's arse was because the actress, herself, is pretty dire, I got a tweeted stream of abuse, whcih I include below:-
Click to enlarge, including the remarks from an American political commentator, a media professional who was less than impressed with the way Richie, another media professional, reacted to criticism from a viewer.
Someone's got an icon complex and pretty thin skin. And someone needs to be reminded of the people who put him where he is today - or maybe he's like to go back to the Daz Doorstep Challenge.
If we pay money into a service, we are entitled to complain to the provider if the service is less than satisfactory and/or if the personnel are not performing adequately. This applies to he BBC. And it applies to the programmes they broadcast.
The cast of Eastenders is funded by us. Our licence fee monies pay for their expensive holidays, their big homes in posh neighbourhoods, their botox, their nail jobs, the school fees for their kids, the holiday homes and yachts moored in Spain and Florida, the expensive cars and the nannies.
Therefore, when we are less than satisfied with service rendered - as is the case with many who find Eastenders sub-standard at the moment - we are entitled to complain.
It's not just a matter of turning off or switching the channel. The licence fee continues to fund lifestyles of the rich and famous, who owe a lot of those lifestyles to us and who thinks this gives them the entitlement to behave badly and boorishly in public.
Now that it's been revealed that the BBC actually advised its stars to use offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes that the plebs who fund them have to pay, I think it's even more important that such people be revealed for the assholes that they are.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Shane Richie, who plays cheeky, chirpy, lovely jubbly and cuckholded landlord Alfie Moon - the man all Eastenders' fans are supporting against his bitch of a wife. When I posted a blog yesterday about not giving a shit about Lola's baby, in which I remarked that one of the reasons I didn't give a rat's arse was because the actress, herself, is pretty dire, I got a tweeted stream of abuse, whcih I include below:-
Click to enlarge, including the remarks from an American political commentator, a media professional who was less than impressed with the way Richie, another media professional, reacted to criticism from a viewer.
Someone's got an icon complex and pretty thin skin. And someone needs to be reminded of the people who put him where he is today - or maybe he's like to go back to the Daz Doorstep Challenge.
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