Strike!

Woke up this morning (da-da-deeda) to find that the BBC journos were all on strike over changes to their pension rules. The poor dears are faced with having to work for longer, contributing more while they're working, and receiving less than before once retired, and their final salary schemes are all going in the dumper. Welcome to the real world guys!

Anyway, this presented B & I with a dilemma - do we come round from the land of slumber to the BBC News channel where they have no news to report on, or decent presenters to look at as even Charlie & Susanna were on the picket line (not), or do we switch to Daybreak on ITV? Dilemmas dilemmas.

After sleepily watching an interview with a couple of sports psychologists, the next item was about F1 drivers being trained using games technology. At least ITV might have some actual news on methinks, so I switched over to Daybreak starring Adrian Chiles & Christine Bleakley. Are these two a couple? I ask because she's sitting so close to him she's practically sitting on his lap, and simpering with it. Mrs Chiles should be told.

In the half hour or so it was on we saw about 8 minutes of actual news, 5 minutes of adverts, and the rest featured an "interview" with that complete waste of space and talent-free zone that is Peter F*cking Andre (possibly not his real middle name) waffling on about nothing in particular, another in-depth grilling of the very annoying TV naturalist Nigel Marvin on the subject of cute baby pandas, and an item on the re-unification of the cast of The Sound Of Music. Have you seen Julie Andrews lately? She looks like she's wearing someone else's face.

What made me switch off was a musical number by Four Poofs Without A Piano or whatever they're called now, rounding up the week's news. J Harry Christ on spoons - this makes The Daily Mail look intelligent!

Talk about inanity, or vacuosity, this lot have it down pat. At least Breakfast waits until about 8:45 before wheeling out the celebrity nonsense, when most of us have left for work.

Note to BBC journalists - don't you dare carry on striking when Bill & Sian are due on, or I'll have to put Sky Fictional News on!