The Enemy is at the Gate! Bring out the Bolly!

BBC splashed out £81,000 of licence fee cash on lavish Wimbledon hospitality event

My first thought was to wonder just how many were there to watch the tennis and how many to simply suck up and schmooze. Until recently that may have been fine, if sickening, for an independent bank. Not so much the BBC, though. IMHO.

And if they are 'doing business', are they buying or selling? If it is not a staff jolly, where I come from you only blow such money to make it.

Don't people come to the BBC to try and make a score of the £3.5B, 60M audience and worldwide access? They should be the ones throwing the party!.If it is the other way (and I know there is, and maybe even has to be, and aspect of that), is this not a sorry further sign of the creeping, one-way commercial intrusions Aunty is making. What next? No one attends a legitimate business launch because the public have pony'd up for an event they a) would be booted out of and b) may be to help promote something directly competitive?

Since when did I authorise such use of funds via my licence fee?

Between the antics of the Labour Party, their camp followers and cheerleaders in chief, this getting to be like a mix of the Last Days of the Raj and the bunker behaviour of the Fall of Berlin.

ps: Nice picture of No 11 stocking up