Today, Ofcom - tireless defender of the UK public from the forces of televisual evil - has slapped a £50,000.00 fine on much loved sticky-back plastic bothering kids prog Blue Peter.
For those of you not familiar with the 'The Peter', as kids never called it, it is a bracing, Victorian children’s entertainment, devised by farsighted, bearded philanthropists before the advent of television itself and has been steadfastly ignored by its target audience ever since.
And what was the crime committed by this loved but faded institution? What inequity warranted a fine of £50k (or $4m by today’s exchange rates), when criminal compensation for a violent assault in this country is about £9k? A feature on bomb making? A drive by? No... They raised money for charity with a phone-in competition.
Unfortunately they could not pick a competition winner because of some IT screw up, so in a fit of initiative, a junior researcher grabbed a passing kid and it was she who was announced as the winner of the top prize; a toilet roll made up to look like the Duchess of Argyle (or something). £50k for that Ofcom? Have you been watching any other telly at all you bunch of berks? Right, if £50k is the going rate for a white lie, in the spirit of proportionality I expect the makers of The Friday Night Project to be suppressed with shellfire for fraudulently claiming to be a ‘comedy variety show’, rather than ‘utter shit’. Bastards.
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50k? Is that the rapper who is friends with Eminem? Thug life? Pah! I had an upbringing so hard it made Oliver Twist look privileged.
Whereas we were so posh, my mother thought that a creche was high speed coming together of Range Rovers (more of which later).
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