I am quite happy to pay for my TV license and think the BBC despite pressure from the government is still striving to produce some excellent quality across its network.
That said I am no fan of Adrian Chiles, and would like to use this same catalyst to just get rid of premiership football. Not only will it mean that the overpaid afore mentioned presenter will have nothing to comment on, we will also lose Tim Lovejoy from our screens (a fantastic thing). Not to mention the hundreds of insanely overpaid players.
It grinds me when you see people bemoaning bankers, or having a go at the BBC when week in week out they go and fork out to watch a bunch of grown men act like children in a park. Then when in the crowd we the tax payer have to pay to provide policing to keep two groups of (I am sure) normally civilised adults from clashing with each other and their surroundings. Then there is the cleanup cost, even the most calm of matches results in a trail of trash from the stadium to all the local transport hubs, our council taxes go towards picking up after these over grown children too. Its frankly ridiculous and disgusts me.
So get rid of premiership football, the clubs, the league, the players and all. Free up money for vast sums of private money, some of which will hopefully land in social interest companies and do some good for the world. Free up funds within the BBC to provide more quality programming, and at the same time lose Chiles from the screen. I see absolutely no downside.
The BBC and the NHS although not perfect by any means are two of the countries greatest assets.
