Equal pay at the BBC

A classic example of your leftist lack of grasp of reality is the Guardian's current headline regarding the BBC pay row. I won't dwell on the Guardian's virtue signalling, as there's more to this than the media like to admit.

 For those not in the know , last year the BBC - 

Ok . If you  don't know what the BBC is , well it is the British broadcasting corporation , a  state funded, but not state controlled,  media conglomerate. The costs of this company are met  from a de facto tax or license fee  and profits from its "corporate " arm , e.g. selling Dr Who merchandise and selling their shows worldwide . If you want to have any t.v. or radio in the UK ,   you need to pay this "fee" , even if you NEVER watch the BBC channels or radio services. If you don't pay this fee, you get criminal, rather than civil punishment ( i.e. go to goal) . Oh and it's got a very soft left  liberal bias in its outlook and is unhinged when it comes to Israel. 

- released details of the newsreaders  and presenters who earn over -£150,000. (Circa $190,000) . And it was a fairly long list. But what got media attention was the gap between the amount the BBC paid male staff and female staff. So male presenter A got £400,000, but female presenter B got a 'mere' £330,000. It's like saying Mr Gates earns a trillion, but Mrs Gates 3/4 of a trillion. When you reach a level , a plateau , enough for comfort and some, does the equivalent to them odd 'loose change' matter?

The result is a big backlash by those  middle-class women at the BBC , demanding pay rises to match the men , accusations of institutional sexism etc. Or the usual. The BBC response is that they're trying to cap pay at £320,000 maximum and cut the male staff's pay to the level of the women. Thus feminist outrage is utterly backfiring , even if the BBC agree to fund the current crop of women for increases and back pay.

As a side comment-

The cutting of male salaries to be equal of female salaries is a working example of  socialism in a nutshell. You don't, or rather can't,  make people equal by giving everyone a million. So socialism  cuts (via taxation)  the ones earning the million , so everyone gets a rough average. 

But the key thing for me was :  why did no-one comment on the enormous  amounts these staff get? . Several hundred thousand pounds is more than a doctor of medicine earns and puts anyone in the highest income tax bracket of 45%.   Why do these privileged BBC bods think they're entitled to more from  a taxpayer funded machine? . And why do the women moan when they're earning several times the actual average wage and have a good set of earnings compared to other women?  Aren't they earning enough? What about the sisters earning the minimum wage and paying for their female betters  via the license fee tax ?

It couldn't be that this is middle-class feminist ideology ?

Funny old world.