er what jeremy said.... There were no appeals as the US and Britain and Nato and the European Union had already committed to huge restructuring programmes and aid supplies, so it would have looked like the BBC were telling this government that they were not fulfilling their promises and Mark Thompson would have really lost his job...... Actually jeremy your short sighted reading of the situation is genius, what a trick we missed we could have got this editorial pygmy fired years ago !! and he is not so much defending his decision, which is frankly contradictory and balls, as defending his own image...shamefull. Boycotting !! you must be mad i will have my ice skates and lycra on, standing ready in front of my TV come Saturday night.