Sharon Feinstein

Gary Lineker once observed that football was a simple game in which 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and then the Germans win. The same is true of the BBC. 28 million people pay their TV license fees and Jonathan Ross starts laughing. What does he do with his £6 million annual salary do you think? That’s considerably more than the gross national product of my home country, Zimbabwe which has a population of 11 million, or used to have before they started dying  from starvation, cholera and Aids.
The population of Jonathan Ross’ home is a mere 5 humans, a couple of pigs, dogs, cats and other wild life, but I can’t imagine it takes £6 million to keep them happy, fed and clothed. Of course he does have every single Apple computer in the world 10 times over, sounds systems in each room, a lot of zany clothes, a home in Florida, hairdressing bills for his increasingly pink looking wife, and classic cars, sports cars, family cars and just plain gas guzzling cars. But £6 million in 12 months, quite unimagineable, even for my ever-fertile imagination. That’s more than £115,000 a week and he can’t even play football and doesn’t so much as attempt to look like Ronaldo. I think we should all suggest a reasonable compromise – we’ll pay our TV license fees if Ross shares his salary with needy Zimbabweans, and tip the balance just a little bit.