Before we even start talking about the fiasco at the BBC involving The Queen, I’d like to tell you about a grievance I have. The Royal hubbub at Television Centre has seen the media dubbing the incident as ‘Crowngate’. The suffix of ‘gate’ stems from the Watergate scandal. In that case, if scandals are all tagged with ‘gate’, then Watergate should really have been ‘Watergategate’.

Anyway, enough of that. As most of you will probably know, Peter Fincham has tidied up his desk, taken down his foam dart board and loving stroked his vast desk for one last time, as now, he’s just another bloke sat at home in his pants eating pork scratchings. However, most blokes in that position aren’t the former controller of the British Broadcasting Corporation. He was fired because someone re-edited Her Majesty to look like she was storming out of a room… as opposed to storming into a room. What’s all the fuss about? Are more heads going to roll?

The BBC at present is “a pretty gloomy place” according to The Guardian. And they’re right. Scandal follows shock, shock follows horror as we’re all drip fed tales of viewer deception and bare faced cheating on phone-in competitions and the naming of Blue Peter pets. They’ve also got a budget cut to deal with to the tune of billions. Of course, it’s not all Fincham’s fault and he’s obviously jumped on the grenade to save the skin of his colleagues. I hope they buy him a pint (not out of the licence fee mind you).

Quite why the furore surrounding The Queen was deemed the straw the buckle the back of the beast is unclear to me. To be quite honest, I couldn’t give a fig about the blueblood. To me, it is far worse to cheat those who pay your wages, rather than some toff in one of her many houses who basically does sweet FA for a living. In this particular scandal, The Queen should not matter one bit.

So who is next on the BBC hitlist? Well, the future of Jana Bennett, a lady who is in charge of both TV production and commissioning, must now be in doubt. Also, surely accusing eyes will be looking to Director General, Mark Thompson. His financial cuts, both with staff wages, possible loss of channels, combined with a move to Salford have seen many losing faith.

Of course, all this has led to desperate measure in the shape of staff revolt. In the news departments, middle-ranking managers are leading a charge to strike action, and senior presenters such as John Humphrys and Jeremy Paxman have publicly condemned the planned cuts. It seems that Auntie’s stock is in freefall.

The way Thompson has handled the viewer deception sham has left a sour taste in many mouths, including mine. When there were admissions of deception in Sport Relief and Children in Need, where was the big cheese to settle us down? Thompson lumbered into view only recently, and that was to state the bleedin’ obvious. In the quagmire, Thompson poked up his head and mewed that rigging a poll to name the Blue Peter cat is not the same as GMTV ripping off its viewers to the tune of millions of pounds.

The BBC isn’t just lacking in money at the moment… it’s lacking in brains and bravery.