[garinda]

The next time you go to pay for your ever increasing television licence, and thus fund the coffers of the BBC, bear this in mind.

In it's wisdom the BBC decided to use £60,000 of licence payer's money, our money, to commmission a public work of art by the artist Tracey Emin. The sculpture is of a bird sat on top of a plinth, and is called Roman Standard, and is sited outside Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral.

Tracey Emin is quoted as saying she is 'very happy', and thinks the BBC has bagged a bargain.

The sooner the licence fee is scrapped the better. For the BBC to waste money like this is outrageous. It should take it's place in the market place like every other company, and either survive or perish on it's merits.