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Post by staffordshrew on Aug 17, 2024 14:25:51 GMT 1
"an annual salary from GB News of £1,175,140.80" They certainly look after their own. Nigel, man of the people 'eh?
Makes Gary Linekar at the beeb look positively under paid.
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Post by armchairfan on Aug 17, 2024 17:01:21 GMT 1
Heaven forbid that any person shouldn't be permitted to earn what the marketplace - the customers -dictates.
If he can still do his taxpayer funded job as a representative of his constituents, I really don't care.
Mr Lineker's salary is of course funded by the taxpayers, you and I but I don't think we can vote Mr Lineker out of his job.
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Post by theNOTORIOUSfbs on Aug 17, 2024 23:16:52 GMT 1
NIGEL FARAGE -
"To be clear... the GB News sum paid to me and declared includes VAT, and was for several months of work. It was paid to my company, which has significant expenses.
Sorry to disappoint the media."
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Post by DiglisShrew on Aug 21, 2024 1:01:03 GMT 1
NIGEL FARAGE - "To be clear... the GB News sum paid to me and declared includes VAT, and was for several months of work. It was paid to my company, which has significant expenses. Sorry to disappoint the media." And paid through his personal company so as to avoid income tax and NiC 🤔🙄 |
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Post by staffordshrew on Aug 26, 2024 18:50:18 GMT 1
Heaven forbid that any person shouldn't be permitted to earn what the marketplace - the customers -dictates. If he can still do his taxpayer funded job as a representative of his constituents, I really don't care. Mr Lineker's salary is of course funded by the taxpayers, you and I but I don't think we can vote Mr Lineker out of his job. Mr Linekar is not paid by the taxpayer. Mr Farage spends a lot of time on the TV and in America, it's up to the voters of clapped out to decide if he is doing a good job for them. |
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Post by armchairfan on Aug 27, 2024 17:26:14 GMT 1
Heaven forbid that any person shouldn't be permitted to earn what the marketplace - the customers -dictates. If he can still do his taxpayer funded job as a representative of his constituents, I really don't care. Mr Lineker's salary is of course funded by the taxpayers, you and I but I don't think we can vote Mr Lineker out of his job. Mr Linekar is not paid by the taxpayer. Mr Farage spends a lot of time on the TV and in America, it's up to the voters of clapped out to decide if he is doing a good job for them. It isn't often that I am reduced to accusing another member of naivety.... What do you think is the main source of BBC income?? |
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Post by staffordshrew on Aug 27, 2024 17:46:08 GMT 1
Mr Linekar is not paid by the taxpayer. Mr Farage spends a lot of time on the TV and in America, it's up to the voters of clapped out to decide if he is doing a good job for them. It isn't often that I am reduced to accusing another member of naivety.... What do you think is the main source of BBC income?? The BBC's main source of income is the annual television license fee, which is paid by British households, companies, and organizations that use equipment to receive live television broadcasts or use iPlayer. In 2022/23, the license fee accounted for 65% of the BBC's total income of £5.73 billion, or £3.74 billion. The remaining 35% came from commercial activities, grants, royalties, and rental income. The license fee also funds the BBC World Service and S4C. |
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Post by armchairfan on Aug 27, 2024 18:56:30 GMT 1
It isn't often that I am reduced to accusing another member of naivety.... What do you think is the main source of BBC income?? The BBC's main source of income is the annual television license fee, which is paid by British households, companies, and organizations that use equipment to receive live television broadcasts or use iPlayer. In 2022/23, the license fee accounted for 65% of the BBC's total income of £5.73 billion, or £3.74 billion. The remaining 35% came from commercial activities, grants, royalties, and rental income. The license fee also funds the BBC World Service and S4C. Quite so - in other words, taxpayers, yet those same taxpayers cannot dismiss Mr Lineker, whereas the taxpayers in Mr Farage's constituency most assuredly CAN do so! |
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Post by staffordshrew on Aug 27, 2024 22:04:09 GMT 1
The BBC's main source of income is the annual television license fee, which is paid by British households, companies, and organizations that use equipment to receive live television broadcasts or use iPlayer. In 2022/23, the license fee accounted for 65% of the BBC's total income of £5.73 billion, or £3.74 billion. The remaining 35% came from commercial activities, grants, royalties, and rental income. The license fee also funds the BBC World Service and S4C. Quite so - in other words, taxpayers, yet those same taxpayers cannot dismiss Mr Lineker, whereas the taxpayers in Mr Farage's constituency most assuredly CAN do so! They are licence payers because they choose to watch live TV, Mr Linekar is a part of that package. Those licence holders may or may not be taxpayers. |
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Post by armchairfan on Aug 28, 2024 16:50:58 GMT 1
Quite so - in other words, taxpayers, yet those same taxpayers cannot dismiss Mr Lineker, whereas the taxpayers in Mr Farage's constituency most assuredly CAN do so! They are licence payers because they choose to watch live TV, Mr Linekar is a part of that package. Those licence holders may or may not be taxpayers. FFS.....I'll try one more time; I venture to suggest that in excess of 99% of BBC license payers are, one way or another, real actual taxpayers. As for Mr Lineker being "part of that package" we, as the main funders of the BBC, are entitled to voice our approval or disapproval as appropriate, although I do accept that, technically, WE can't dismiss him. By the way, I do not begrudge him his earnings, which possibly go into a tax-saving finance model anyway; as I said at the outset of this little diversion nobody should be denied the freedom to earn such amounts to which he/she is lawfully entitled if the work is legal. |
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Post by staffordshrew on Aug 28, 2024 22:13:34 GMT 1
They are licence payers because they choose to watch live TV, Mr Linekar is a part of that package. Those licence holders may or may not be taxpayers. FFS.....I'll try one more time; I venture to suggest that in excess of 99% of BBC license payers are, one way or another, real actual taxpayers. As for Mr Lineker being "part of that package" we, as the main funders of the BBC, are entitled to voice our approval or disapproval as appropriate, although I do accept that, technically, WE can't dismiss him. By the way, I do not begrudge him his earnings, which possibly go into a tax-saving finance model anyway; as I said at the outset of this little diversion nobody should be denied the freedom to earn such amounts to which he/she is lawfully entitled if the work is legal. As an example, every student at uni will soon be hounded as to if they might need to TV licence, most are probably not taxpayers. They will be reminded that if they watch live TV on any device then they are not covered by their families licence back at home. As for Farage,he had the audacity to post that the media were wrong about his earnings as they were paid to a company, no doubt for tax purposes. Not the first time he's taken the public for fools. |
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Post by armchairfan on Aug 28, 2024 22:40:16 GMT 1
In the grand scheme of things, the status of students is not of great importance, though it may be, of course, to students; I have lost my Winter Fuel Allowance, and, unlike most students, I HAVE been paying tax for many years; changes of this sort happen....whilst I don't like it, I shall make the necessary adjustment to my expenditure.
Can I make it clear, in another way, that I simply DON'T care about how much Mr X or Mrs Y are earning, provided there is no illegality, nor do I care how they spend that income - such concerns are the root of that most dreadful human emotion, that of envy.
Enough already, I'm bored by this.
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Post by servernaside on Aug 31, 2024 14:28:16 GMT 1
The Licence Fee is a dinosaur and its demise is long overdue.
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Post by staffordshrew on Sept 1, 2024 12:08:19 GMT 1
The Licence Fee is a dinosaur and its demise is long overdue. To be replaced by? |
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Post by servernaside on Sept 1, 2024 13:11:06 GMT 1
The Licence Fee is a dinosaur and its demise is long overdue. To be replaced by? Commercial or subscription TV like everywhere else. The BBC brings nothing to its viewers these days that other terrestrial, or streaming companies cannot do. As for the BBC being the custodian of honesty and truth in reporting domestic and foreign affairs....well, that died a death at least two decades ago. |
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Post by staffordshrew on Sept 1, 2024 13:41:18 GMT 1
Commercial or subscription TV like everywhere else. The BBC brings nothing to its viewers these days that other terrestrial, or streaming companies cannot do. As for the BBC being the custodian of honesty and truth in reporting domestic and foreign affairs....well, that died a death at least two decades ago. Perhaps it should be funded by the taxpayer🤣 |
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