Letter: 'We're all in this together' - but some more than others
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.
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
