[Gllug] BBC looking for campaigners

[Doug Winter]

On Wed 30 Jul Bernard Peek wrote:
> In message <20030729192632.GA4265 at pigeonhold.com>, Doug Winter 
> <doug at pigeonhold.com> writes
> >On Tue 29 Jul Bernard Peek wrote:
> >>We could all have done without one particular fat cat. The IR35
> >>clampdown came after it was revealed that the Director General wasn't a
> >>BBC employee, he was employed as a contractor through his own company.
> >
> >That has the smell of Urban Legend about it.  I was working at the BBC
> >at the time and don't remember hearing that (and the place is such a
> >rumour-mill I would expect to have if it were true).  Got a link?
> This is the first link I found through Google. It's kosher. My source is 
> the news on TV.
> 
> http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR104470
> &cs=1

Heh.  I stand corrected.  That was in 1993 though, quite a bit before
the IR35 thing (and a few years before I started working there too :)

doug

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