Institutional takism

At lunchtime today I listened to a senior executive from the BBC confidently assert that licence fee payers would approve the idea of production staff spending their money on a llittle junket to celebrate the end of a successful program.
What?
What prompted this example of talking down to the masses was the information that the crew of The Apprentice had dipped into BBC funds for £260 to have a little party. Yes, I know the amount is trivial but it does convey this assumption of entitlement of just about anybody whose lifestyle is funded by the public purse.
Should we now expect teachers to dip into school funds for a big bash after surviving an OFSTED inspection?
Should the police budget allow for boozy parties every time a team solves a case?
Should hospital teams anticipate a publicly-funded celebration every time someone survives a succesful heart operation?
Our governing classes have set the morally bankrupt standard in these matters and it is perhaps no surprise that BBC executives expect to trough with the best of them.
It won't do, and although the BBC believe they are teflon-coated there is a growing number of us who are fed up with this arrogance. I get better service from my local council - and they only collect bins every two weeks!