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

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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 .

Claig. Harriet Harman or Jackboot Jacky? Both as bad as each other and have done nothing to promote womens' image in politics. Fortunately for me Claig I have never known 'my place' and therefore am quite comfortable in attacking all of the parties! But mainly the Labour Party! Prescott wasn't all bad, he did give us some laughs with his 'leg-over' antics!

Hear, Hear When are you standing, you've got my vote?

Off out, have a nice evening. Cheers

Welcome back LFN, sorry about the illness.

TBH I thought you had been away to have a new set of Jackboots fitted.

How are things in swivel eyed foaming mouth land.

It can get a bit nasty (e.g. the Guardian) but usually it balances out. The best journalists actually engage in that debate rather than try to control it.

muminlondon

Nasty! you sure? imho it's beyond bland most of the time, and I say that as a regular poster on there.

Sometimes it just gets a bit weird. It depends on the subject and the journalist writing the comment piece. Not bland though - that would be the Daily Mail - lots of people agreeing with each other. Maybe that's because lefties don't bother to go there!

all this guardian bashing you lot blindly blithely indulge in sent me back to it out of simple curiosity after years away and - you know what? - it's bloody brill! ta for reconverting me to the groniad!!!!!!!!!

a special heartfelt "grazie" goes to claig

Prego.
I'm glad you have returned to the Guardian, it is a big improvement on the 'Morning Star'. I would recommend you also look at 'Il Sole 24 Ore', that is an improvement on the Guardian. But I have it on good authority that the paper read by decision makers in Italy is the London Daily Mail, but you need to queue up early for it, as it tends to fly off the shelves, just as it does here in the UK.

i read il sole 24 every day out of duty not choice and in theory i should read the DM too out of duty but have overwhelming urge to wash after each read.

and have never read the morning star sweetie.
il manifesto is the paper for me.

Where are you in Italy? In Milan? Do you work in finance?

i was shocked when i read of his salary too (plus he dissed mn )

i thought he would t least mention it on show this morning.

chill, claig am not in finance. in a much grubbier biz than that. am in bologna - the former bastion of the late great italian communist party and latterly home to Prodi.

Good food in Bologna, some of the best in Italy. I take your point about the Guardian, it does have some bloody brill aspects. It urged its readers to vote for Nick Clegg.

plus don't think marr's a commie or even vaguely pinko and even if he were what's OP objecting to exactly? only right wingers are allowed to earn vast amounts?

he's not just paid for the sunday morn prog. the beeb get their relative money's worth out of him.

I don't know the OP's thinking. But my guess is that she thinks that the BBC is leftwing. I don't think the OP wants anyone at the BBC to earn that sort of money, paid for by the taxpayer, whether left or right. I don't think she has anything against leftwingers earning those salaries in the private sector. The Beeb gets its money's worth, but does the taxpayer?

I think the OP has heard that "we're all in it together". I think she is wondering if the BBC is too?

the BBC is not leftwing in the slightest unless you consider blair to be leftwing. i feel your notion of leftwing is anything that's not blatantly radically rightwing. the goalposts have been shrewdly misleadingly shifted on perceptions of political positions.

if OP was against those exorbitant wages per se regardless of the recipients' perceived politics she should've made that clear. and in that case hear hear. it was still more unjust for jonathan ross getting paid unreal amounts though.

and yeah the food is good here in bologna (home to Prodi) even though i personally don't partake of the swine/bovine variety but i really like bologna for its glorious communist tradition which created the best welfare system in italy and excellent nursery schools. it's been eroded somewhat over these poisonous, dark berlusconi years by a central government bent on punishing her for her dissident nature but good times will be back.

i'm sure you're pleased with the groniad for supporting libdems at last election as without them your lot wouldn't be able to follow through their sinister neocon agenda.

I agree that Blair is not leftwing. But they are different from the right, in that they are anti-freedom, anti civil liberties and politically correct. I agree with you about Jinathan Ross and all of the rest of them.

I wasn't happy with the Guardian backing Clegg, because I thought the Guardian was conning its readers, but it didn't surprise me at all. All of the media contributed in building Clegg up, it was obvious. I wonder if the neocon agenda is really the Guardian's agenda. I wonder if they are of the belief that "four legs good, two legs better".

maybe the guardian scribes are ingenuous trusting souls who naively believed in clegg et al? don't always think the worst of people. not even journos.

I don't believe all those clever Oxbridge educated Guardian journalists, many of whom were educated at public schools, are naive enough to believe in Clegg. I think they believe that the public is naive.

I don't know the OP's thinking. But my guess is that she thinks that the BBC is leftwing.

LFN is so far off the right wing scale she thinks Norman Tebbit is a pinko.

Some of my favourite LFN lines are:

No one should strike to protect, jobs, wages or terms and conditions only in health and safety disputes.

It should be illegal for train drivers, Fire fighters and other essential services to take industrial action.

The unemployed should be forced to take any job offered, when I asked where these jobs were she had no real answer.

She is a typical Daily Hate reader.

Well I was taken in by Clegg

newwave, I don't think LFN is a Daily Mail reader. She is not a populist Tory, I don't think she is that keen on the Daily Mail. I think she prefers the Times and the Telegraph. I doubt that LFN would liek Richard Littlejohn, for example, who is a populist Tory.

I want to have NO licecnce fee and then for all channels to have adverts. I 'd rather watch a few ads in the middle of East Enders than have these jokers on that kind of money - complete bonk

but they're not all oxbridge educated. that's an intentionally misleading assertion to tar them all with the same brush. i'm sure you've studied machiavelli and after residing in conspiracy laced, paradoxical italy for quite a while now i'm all too au fait with these tactics i'm afraid. do you happen to know the academic background of every single gaurdian journo?

and as a working class woman myself my mum would've loved for me to have got into oxford. it has produced some great minds. it isn't simply a members of the elite spitting out factory. there is room there for original thought.