Not necessarily. But the BBC are. The current UK government has asked all departments to cut spending by more than ever in history, even more than when the empi

Not necessarily. But the BBC are. The current UK government has asked all departments to cut spending by more than ever in history, even more than when the empire nearly went bankrupt after the napoleonic war. The BBC whilst nominally independent are funded through a state tax and are a state-owned chartered corporation. The current tories have always been treated with hostility by the BBC as the tories tend to want to reduce the BBC's funding, and the Lib Dems never really got much of a word in edgeways. Consequently the BBC (with it's massive media power) is pushing this to make it very visible that they're doing something about cutting costs.