Don't Foulke with me buddy.
he is the last person
in the whole of Westminster/Holyrood/Labour/Edinburgh to be lecturing the taxpayer about expenses, he did get TB thinking about the BBC earlier.Foulkes is a canny operator and would have prepared the
elephant trap
he set for Carrie Gracie over how much she is paid. And lets not forget that she technically is a public servant, just like an MP shouldn't we have a look at her expenses account too?And while we are at it lets look at Nick Robinson's too. He hasn't exactly stuck the knife in has he? Infact all of the BBC reporting has been rather mute compared to Sky.
Stephen Fry completely missed the point last night when he said that journos were rich to talk about expenses. No doubt they are dreadful at it, but TB doesn't give a damn what some hack charges a private company. The BBC expenses however are on the taxpayer.
Let's blow the lid off Pandora's second box.
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Nice.... I'm glad you picked this up, credit where credit is due. He tells it exactly how it is.
Tony Benn just told Poxbottom on Newsnight that he was accountable to the taxpayer! Such a sham he's a nasty Socialist, he is jolly clever.
Foulke is a thug, like many of his Labour peers. His 'debating' tactic is to talk over those who are in the process of making a viable point.
Whatever people might think of Tory grandees, at least they have the ability to think and to string together a cogent argument.
Glad someone points out Foulkes' hypocrisy.
And let's be straight - the BBC aren't public servants, the licensee fee isn't a tax and 100 Nick Robinsons & Carrie Gracies are worth more than 1 Foulkes and half of Parliament. Including some Blue twits.
The TV licence is a tax!
And Stephen Fry, who said he'd fiddled expenses himself, has been a BBC employee for most of his working life. I think that might be worth investigating too.
ToryBear - it's not; it's a fee. Sounds like semantics, but actually the reasoning behind who pays it, how it is paid for and how it is distributed are different.