Colin Bloom » Mark Thompson http://colinbloom.co.uk Your Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Erith and Thamesmead Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:26:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Is there a whiff of hypocrisy about the BBC at the moment? http://colinbloom.co.uk/2009/06/196/ http://colinbloom.co.uk/2009/06/196/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:44:02 +0000 Colin Bloom http://colinbloom.co.uk/?p=196 It was reported on the radio this morning that the Director General of the BBC Mark Thompson earns in pay and benefits about £800,000 per year. His monthly income is the same as the annual basic salary of an MP!

In fact, the top hundred earners in the BBC all get paid many many times what an MP earns.

I don’t know whether the DG and his senior staff are worth that much or not, I have no problem with people being paid well, but it helps get the accusation that MP’s all have their noses in the trough in perspective doesn’t it?

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