Shake-up of BBC promised by Culture Secretary cannot come soon enough

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THE shake-up of the BBC promised by Nadine Dorries can not come quickly sufficient.

The Tradition Secretary’s plan to freeze the £159 annual licence payment for 2 years is a superb begin.

Director Common Tim Davie has been bleating that freezing the £159 annual licence payment for 2 years will power huge cuts to programming and job lossesCredit score: PA

We reveal at present the BBC is losing tens of millions of kilos of licence payment funds on absurd woke initiativesCredit score: Alamy

Director Common Tim Davie has been bleating that this may power huge cuts to programming and job losses.

However as we reveal at present, the broadcaster remains to be losing tens of millions of kilos of licence payment funds on absurd woke initiatives.

On £525,000-a-year Mr Davie’s watch, the Company has taken on but extra bosses on eye- watering wages.

One range champion takes dwelling a whopping £267,000 a 12 months for a three-day week.

Having already put aside £12million of its Radio and Music finances for virtue-signalling content material, the Beeb claims: “That's simply the beginning.”

In the meantime, it promotes woke podcasts whereas censoring “politically incorrect” jokes in basic exhibits.

The tragedy of all of it is that the Company’s efforts to show it's “related” to the youthful era could also be in useless.

They're switching in droves to Netflix and Amazon anyway.

Increasingly more will marvel why they need to pay the BBC’s outdated licence payment after they by no means tune into it.

Absolutely the time has come to modify off the Beeb’s obligatory faucet of money.

PM’s destiny a Grey space

BORIS Johnson is holed up at Chequers this weekend, awaiting civil servant Sue Grey’s make-or-break verdict on Downing Avenue lockdown events with trepidation.

However earlier than MPs and voters rush to judgment, they need to keep in mind his very actual achievements.

Boris Johnson awaits civil servant Sue Grey’s make-or-break verdict on Downing Avenue lockdown events with trepidationCredit score: PA

After the crippling paralysis of Theresa Could’s regime, Boris promised Brexit and delivered.

He then received a stonking 80-seat majority within the 2019 Common Election.

He almost died from Covid however bounced again — very similar to the British financial system underneath his management.

His world-beating vaccine roll-out has allowed the UK to steer Europe out of the pandemic.

All this within the face of hysterical abuse from the Opposition and sniping from MPs who owe their careers to his verve.

Sure, he has made many errors and has been too gradual to apologise.

However when trying on the ledger, the Tory MPs who will determine the PM’s destiny might want to think about his achievements, too, and the actual fact it was his imaginative and prescient of levelling up that Crimson Wall constituencies voted for.

The UK wants a Authorities targeted on the on a regular basis issues of voters — such because the terrifying cost-of-living disaster.

BoJo wants to indicate that he's nonetheless able to seizing the day.