Limobscene
BBC boss's £58k chauffeur
BEEB BEEP! Make way for the latest BBC cash scandal!
We can reveal a Corporation boss has a £58,000-A-YEAR chauffeur-driven limo to take him just SIX MILES to work every day.
Deputy director general Mark Byford, who earned £513,000 last year-can't be bothered to catch the Tube like millions of hard-up BBC licence-payers.
So he orders his chauffeur to pick him up at London's Waterloo Station for a return journey that works out at £240 A DAY.
"There is no clearer sign that BBC fatcats have lost touch with TV licence payers," said a Corporation insider.
"He could use the Underground, get a bus or hail a cab. Why does he think he needs to be treated like royalty at the public's expense?"
The scandal is revealed in documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
The BBC limo reserved for bosses cost £174,148 over the last three years as the corporation axed thousands of staff and froze wages to cut costs. But Byford, 50-whose pension pot is worth £2.7 million- has no intention of helping save money by taking a £2.20 Tube ride, or a £1 bus journey to White City after his train journey from posh Winchester in Hants.
A BBC spokeswoman told us the car allows Mr Byford "to maintain office telephone contact throughout, while also enabling him to work on papers required for the day ahead".
But as any Londoner could tell her, he could do all that in a black cab which would cost licence-payers TWO HUNDRED QUID a day less at £40 there and back.
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