The Save BBC 6 Music Petition...

I was reading this piece in this morning's Metro News & have transcribed it : I've long held that the BBC needs the budgetary equivalent of a gastric band but axing 6Music 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' 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 6Music's output could be easily absorbed by Radio 1. So, they'll play an obscure Welsh language indie band between GaGa & Ke$ha ? Phill Jupitus rightly brands the threatened closure as "an act of cultural vandalism". Join the clamour to save it at www.petition.fm/petitions/6musicasiannet/1000/ and remind the Beeb who foots the bill.