Should the BBC boss be paid five times salary of the PM?

Mark Thompson needs to enter the real world

Iain Dale has rightly highlighted this absurdity regarding the pay of the Director General of the BBC, Mark Thompson:

Andrew Marr to Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC: "You're paid five times what the Prime Minister is...

And answer came there none. Instead he wittered on about recruiting a new controller of Radio 4.

Mark Thompson earns