BBC should hang its head in shame at staggering PAY RISES for stars while stripping OAPs of their free TV licences

THE BBC should hang its head in shame.

And shame is plainly what bosses feel at the staggering pay rises they have lavished on millionaire stars while stripping OAPs of their free TV licence.

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That’s why the most shocking salaries are squirrelled out of sight via a commercial arm whose payroll remains secret.

The BBC even took the coward’s route to closing its gender pay gap: handing colossal hikes to already fabulously paid women instead of slashing the wages of all their overpaid men.

So Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley bafflingly gets a £100,000 rise (about 666 old folk will fund that alone). But grasping Gary ­Lineker keeps his £1,750,000 salary for reading the Match of the Day autocue.

Don’t worry, though, Gary . . . 11,000 over-75s can always cut down on their food and heat to keep Twitter’s favourite social justice warrior in clover.

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The BBC is now indefensible. If it cannot survive on a £4billion-a-year bung without fleecing OAPs  it is far too big.

It needs total reform. Whole sections should shut, including its website.

If the BBC wants to pay its favoured luvvies commercial salaries, let them be a fully commercial operation funded by voluntary subscription like Netflix. Non-payment of the licence must be decriminalised, prior to abolishing the fee.

It has had its time . . . last century.

EUseless lot

THERE is a sobering lesson in the EU’s ­dismal inability to agree a new leader.

This bickering club of 28 nations is structurally incapable of decisions. When it did finally put forward a candidate for President, she was a scandal-plagued German defence minister.

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Even President Macron moaned: “Our credibility is profoundly tainted.”

Yet this unwieldy, dithering EU will supposedly make a rapid trade deal with Britain rendering the toxic Irish backstop obsolete. We no longer believe it.

The EU does nothing rapidly. Besides, it would prefer us trapped for ever in its customs union. That would be fatal to our economic future post-Brexit.

The Tories must ensure an escape route to the backstop — or No Deal.

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OUR MEPs disgrace us with their juvenile antics in Strasbourg.

It is stomach-churning to see Lib Dems flaunting snarky little “B***ocks to Brexit” shirts — as pathetic an act of virtue-signalling as we have ever seen.

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And we thought the Brexit Party were above the moronic displays we used to expect from Ukip. We don’t like the EU’s “national anthem” either. But turning your back, like sporting a sweary T-shirt, is for fifth-form protest rabbles.

It is not Brexit that makes Britain look foolish to the world. It is politicians  acting like kids for social media “likes”.

Grow up, you muppets.