Joe: He talking about the UK Conservative party's attempt to reduce the British population's trust in the BBC in persuance of their ultimate goal of privatising it. Theresa May has mandated the BBC's publishing all salaries over £150K (~$200K) pa triggering predictable outrage from the Conservative-supporting press. And some valid concerns like the fact that women are being paid much less than men.

FWIW I find Evans' salary unjustifiable when compared to care workers too, but this initiative by the government was not made in pursuit of equality. The BBC employ 'stars' like him because the readers if those same Conservative-supporting papers like him.

The licence fee method of funding is only fair if the BBC caters for the whole population. The government's strategy is to get rid of such popular programmes from the BBC so the they can claim that 'ordinary hard-working people' don't watch BBC programmes, so the licence fee is not fair.

Meanwhile Murdoch - he of Fox news - has got his employee Gove - arch-Brexiter and avowed Trump admirer - into May's cabinet as Environment Secretary. (At least, she didn't deny it when specifically asked in Parliament.)

Full disclosure: I listen to huge amounts of the BBC's classical radio station, Radio 3, who sponsor the Proms, and which is funded by the TV license fee. So I want these popular TV shows - which I don't watch, to continue. If that means paying Evan a lot, so be it.

Humphries is overpaid, though ;)