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Andrew Marr is paid £600k to spout his pseudo-communist nonsense on the BBC

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longfingernails · 19/02/2011 13:36

Sorry I've been away for so long, but we had a family illness... thankfully all is OK now.

Anyway, I was outraged to learn that Andrew Marr is paid such massive sums of our money to read out Guardian editorials on the BBC - and we are not able to do anything about it. A fair salary for his job would be more like £60k.

If he wants to earn more, he could go and work for a private broadcaster.

All BBC salaries should be disclosed, in full, as soon as possible. Then, all BBC salaries should be capped at a maximum of £100k.

I do hope no-one missed me too much Grin.

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Bucharest · 19/02/2011 13:38

How much is Nick Thing paid to spout his UpTheToriesArse twaddle?

Hope it's just as much as Andy.

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longfingernails · 19/02/2011 13:40

Do you mean Nick Clegg? I think his salary is the same as Cabinet members - about £100k - but am not sure. It seems quite reasonable to me.

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Bucharest · 19/02/2011 13:41

No, of course I don't.

I mean the bald bloke with glasses who does for Conservatives what AM does for Labour.

Robinson, possibly?

EdgarAleNPie · 19/02/2011 13:42

the rime ministers salary is about £110 - n'est pas?

who is aNDREW mARR?

can yo pick out a piece that you find particularly illustrates your point?

seeker · 19/02/2011 13:42

"pseudo-communist" Grin

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longfingernails · 19/02/2011 13:43

The only out-and-out Tory on the BBC is Andrew Neil - and he is very much a Thatcherite working class Tory. There are no Cameroons in their entire journalist stable.

The sooner the BBC is privatised, the sooner. I was livid when they escaped with a pathetic 16% cut over 6 years.

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said · 19/02/2011 13:43

Isn't Andrew Marr one of Osborne's bezzy mates?

Nick Robinson is the Nick

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longfingernails · 19/02/2011 13:45

Nick Robinson is NOT a Tory. He is a Blairite though - though slightly to the left of Blair.

Yes, he was involved with the Young Conservatives at university. Nevertheless, he is to the left. Even in his Young Conservative days, he was derided as being a "wet".

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longfingernails · 19/02/2011 13:47

To give a similar example, John Bercow was once thought of as being a Conservative. Now, everyone can see what he has become.

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claig · 19/02/2011 13:48

Good question. I think we all know the answer. Good to see you back, reason has been restored.

Prolesworth · 19/02/2011 13:53

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claig · 19/02/2011 14:13

Has he had a pay cut? I am surprised it is that low.

claig · 19/02/2011 14:14

The BBC must be bowing to this new 'we're all in it together' with the taxpayers' money spirit

claig · 19/02/2011 14:19

I bet he earns more than the Minister for Culture, Jeremy Hunt. But even on such a generous salary from the taxpayer, he was still not able to pronounce the Minister's name correctly. But he had a good giggle.

duckyfuzz · 19/02/2011 14:21

I would never have classed AM as a lefty!

claig · 19/02/2011 14:23

do you mean you classed him as a far lefty? I've never considered that.

Paul88 · 19/02/2011 14:24

"Nick Robinson is NOT a Tory"

falls off chair

I have never seen a more biased interviewer on any channel (mind I don't watch Fox or Sky). I presume the only reason he got the job was to appease the tories and try to avoid excessive damage.

BBC is wonderful but that is in spite of the excessive pay not because of it. yes I wouldsupport a pay cap, let the prima donnas walk elsewhere if they want and others will come up through the ranks and do just as good a job for less £££

Prinnie · 19/02/2011 14:24

Political bias aside, 600K seems a rather OTT salary for just his Sunday show (which is a bit rubbish - R4 much better) presumably that figure includes other series he makes etc? Still a lot though considering it's essentially a tax payer funded institution.

bibbitybobbityhat · 19/02/2011 14:26

That is an absolutely shocking salary.

Quite like Andrew Marr, but he is not worth that kind of money.

claig · 19/02/2011 14:48

I just went over to Guido's blog to see what Tories think of Nick Robinson. They don't think he is a Tory, they've got nicknames for him, which I don't understand. They are not impressed with his membership of the Young Conservatives at university. One amazing fact that I just discovered over there, was that Ed Balls was a member of the university Conservative Association at Oxford

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1286627/Ed-Balls-forgets-Tory-Oxford-dressed-Nazi.html

Also, let's not forget the chap with the butler, who was once a Director of Communications for the Conservative Party, but is now a Labour MP - Shaun Woodward.

claig · 19/02/2011 15:04

Just googled Marr as well. Galloway says when he first met Marr, Marr was a Marxist

blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/georgegalloway/2010/02/how-bbc-took-the-marr-out-of-m.html

In Marr's book, 'A History of Modern Britain', Marr wrote that Pizzey had been a 'cadet enthusiast' in the Angry Brigade, the militant anarchist group that detonated 25 bombs around London. She took legal action against him, unsold copies of his book were returned and future editions will have the allegation removed.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1167483/Erin-Pizzey-When-Andrew-Marr-accused-terrorist-like-bomb-going-chest.html

claig · 19/02/2011 15:04

Erin Pizzey

muminlondon · 19/02/2011 16:00

Was Ed Balls a Tory? I find it really puzzling how people can go from one extreme to another. Like Eric Pickles - wasn't he a Marxist as a boy?

That Nazi fancy dress picture is ringing a bell from from old news, something to do with Derek Draper, Charlie Whelan and the Scottish PR adviser guy who had to resign.

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longfingernails · 19/02/2011 16:01

Anyway, the great thing about this, and Eric Pickles' transparency revolution, is that the public has now seen for themselves the ample example of taxpayer funded largesse that goes on.

Apparently, now that people have seen the grossly inflated salaries of council chief executives; the "fact-finding missions" taken by local government officials to the Maldives. The ridiculous amount wasted by Labour councils on directly funding trade union officials has been exposed. The grossly bloated "equalities state", full of useless diversity officers and useless translations of public documents no-one even bothers to read in English, is ripe for ridicule and shutting down. The "nanny state", full of five-a-day co-ordinators, council staff spying on your rubbish, and misusing anti-terror laws to try to deny parents their choice of school will be demolished.

And the more useless left-wingers exposed for being grossly overpaid whilst doing tax-sapping, economy killing jobs - including at the BBC - the better.

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claig · 19/02/2011 16:09

amazing, muminlondon, you are right, I didn't know that about Pickles

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6926960.ece

'I find it really puzzling how people can go from one extreme to another'

I'm starting to believe that they don't believe any of it. They are neither left nor right, just all part of the one party coalition - the ruling party. I think it's all a bit of game, just a big act, pure theatre for the masses.