The Save 6 Music petition

I’ve long held the BBC needs the budgetary equivalent of a gastric band but axing 6 Music is insane. An incubator for potentially world-conquering British musicians - watch Mumford & Sons go! - it’s run on a shoestring budget of around £9 million. Ditching it is the equivalent of a morbidly obese glutton removing the lettuce leaf from his afternoon snack of half a dead cow on a bun with chips. Slash the insane sums wasted on a bloated administration, vanity building projects, overpaid ‘talent’, Shearer and  Hansen’s taxis, or indecently large crews at events such as the Winter Olympics where BBC staff outnumbered Team GB. On breakfast TV, one fat cat chirruped that 6 Music’s output could be easily absorbed by Radio 1. So, they’ll play an obscure Welsh-language indie band between Gaga and Ke$ha?  Phil Jupitus rightly brands the threatened closure ‘an act of cultural vandalism.’ Join the clamour to save it at  http://www.petition.fm/ and remind the Beeb who foots the bill.