YP Letters: Pretty simple way to solve women's beef with BBC

From: Richard Godley, Meadowfields, Whitby.
Many people feel BBC 'stars' get paid too much. (PA).Many people feel BBC 'stars' get paid too much. (PA).
Many people feel BBC 'stars' get paid too much. (PA).

These 42 BBC women broadcasters are paid an obscene amount (the lowest being £150,000, or put another way, just over a thousand licence fees) for looking pretty and reading from auto-cues.

They say it is on behalf of the fight for women’s equality. However, some, myself included, believe that it is for sheer naked greed.

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The BBC has promised pay equality by 2020 but I can proffer a solution which could be applied from next month’s salary cheque run.

Instead of paying Chris Evans (£2.2m) and the economically illiterate Laura Kuenssberg (£250k who knows not the difference between the national debt and the deficit) the BBC should total all the broadcasters’ salaries and divide them by the number of broadcasters. Et voila – all on equal salaries so no quarrel with the feminists and no additional cost to the taxpayer – job done.

From: Charles E Haywood, Doncaster Road, Whitley, Goole. These 42 BBC women broadcasters are paid an obscene amount (the lowest being £150,000, or put another way, just over a thousand licence fees) for looking pretty and reading from auto-cues.

They say it is on behalf of the fight for women’s equality. However, some, myself included, believe that it is for sheer naked greed.

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The BBC has promised pay equality by 2020 but I can proffer a solution which could be applied from next month’s salary cheque run.

Instead of paying Chris Evans (£2.2m) and the economically illiterate Laura Kuenssberg (£250k who knows not the difference between the national debt and the deficit) the BBC should total all the broadcasters’ salaries and divide them by the number of broadcasters. Et voila – all on equal salaries so no quarrel with the feminists and no additional cost to the taxpayer – job done.

From: Charles E Haywood, Doncaster Road, Whitley, Goole.

Looking at the news tonight it must be a victory for women “stars” to be paid the same as men “stars”. However, looking into the salary paid to these women “stars” surely the way forward would be to pay the men “stars” the same as the women “stars”.

Looking at the news tonight it must be a victory for women “stars” to be paid the same as men “stars”. However, looking into the salary paid to these women “stars” surely the way forward would be to pay the men “stars” the same as the women “stars”.