So, thousands of soldiers lose their jobs. The very people who have risked their lives every day in order that the BBC can function and fail, over and over, to support the sacrifice they make .

The BBC will only receive the equivalent of a 16% cut over five years. That just isn’t good enough.

The BBC has done a very good job over the last thirteen years to support the Labour Government. They have facilitated the very process which has resulted in the cuts every family in the nation has to bear. The blood which will flow from the cuts is all over BBC hands too.

Having displayed such bias, the Corporation should take more of the pain.

We should demand to know what each presenter is paid. Because we pay.  Students who have to buy a TV licence for each room in a student halls. Each person who is ill, elderly or infirm - we all pay from our taxed income.

We know what teachers, nurses and MPs are paid. Why is the BBC allowed to function under this veil of secrecy?

We need to know the exact cost of every production. How much each person on the production team receives. Every expense receipt going back over five years should be produced for everyone to see. Because we paid.

The argument to justify the BBC licence fee used to go that the BBC made outstanding period dramas.

I have a two word answer to that.  Downton Abbey.