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2020-02-06 Britain

Alarm over BBC future as UK proposes fee changes

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Posted by trailing wife 2020-02-06 03:13|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Axe the TV-Tax

In the meantime Make non-payment something civil and not for the courts.

Go subscription, taxpayer to hold title on back-catalogue as they paid for it.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-02-06 03:22|| 2020-02-06 03:22|| Front Page Top

#2 plans to stop prosecuting people who do not pay the BBC's compulsory subscription fee

Tyranny! Fascism! Unprecedented violation of Human Rights!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-06 03:24|| 2020-02-06 03:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Do the same here for PBS and NPR - remove taxpayer funding

Posted by Frank G 2020-02-06 05:36|| 2020-02-06 05:36|| Front Page Top

#4 The BBC doesn't represent the British people. End of story. Like the rest of the media it despises the British people.

Why people should be forced to pay for a service that mocks and ridicules them is beyond me.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-06 06:55|| 2020-02-06 06:55|| Front Page Top

If one substitutes BBC for NYT, CNN, MSNBC, you can again a much clearer understanding. It's simply a tool of the British Deep State. We are after all, cousins.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-06 07:39|| 2020-02-06 07:39|| Front Page Top

#6 The BBC is nothing but a broadcast Raj, run by functionaries that are hostile to the native population.

The consultation comes at a particularly challenging time for the BBC

Poor babies.

But the proposal to decriminalise non-payment sparked alarm

Kinda says it all about these paladins of Teh Troof.

Even as they whinge about Muh Fascism, they're happy to see people imprisoned for failing to pay tribute.

Posted by charger 2020-02-06 07:45|| 2020-02-06 07:45|| Front Page Top

#7 charger - I'm not in the broadcasting business!

If you need help with your tax returns, though...

Posted by Raj 2020-02-06 07:53|| 2020-02-06 07:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Raj, as soon as I saw your nym as the latest commenter, I had a feeling this was coming,:)

Posted by charger 2020-02-06 07:55|| 2020-02-06 07:55|| Front Page Top

#9 I seem to remember this discussion earlier in the Brexit process when the question was "Why does the BBC hate Brexit?"

The answer as almost always was "follow the money".

Posted by AlanC 2020-02-06 08:12|| 2020-02-06 08:12|| Front Page Top

#10 "BBC a Raj? But why, Dad?"
"Because it's Indian!"

Posted by Blossom Glesh7427 2020-02-06 08:57|| 2020-02-06 08:57|| Front Page Top

#11 Boris is having the same problems as Trump. Media on constant attack and anti Brexit BBC.

Posted by Dale 2020-02-06 09:29|| 2020-02-06 09:29|| Front Page Top

#12 If the mandatory fee goes, so goes the BBC. And they know it.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-02-06 09:33|| 2020-02-06 09:33|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm out in the boonies and the only source of high speed internet is Comcast which requires I take basic cable TV. Well, that includes the local tv stations that enjoy a tax on the cable because they obviously don't make enough money from commercial open broadcast under FCC licensing, so they got the Congresscritters to endow them with a new revenue stream even if those so taxed don't watch. Beeb indeed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-06 10:05|| 2020-02-06 10:05|| Front Page Top

#14 Brits get ready for pledge breaks.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-02-06 11:11|| 2020-02-06 11:11|| Front Page Top

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