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On Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:38:50 +0000 (GMT), Bob Latham <bob@coward> wrote:

A socialist hellscape awaits, It's started already.

That will be a welcome change.
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On 02/12/2025 19:48, Scott wrote:

On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 19:10:14 +0000, JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> wrote:

On 01/12/2025 16:37, Scott wrote:

But what would you expect the outcome of a referendum to be on the
licence fee? That was my underlying question.

Similar to a referendum on the price of newspapers campaigning against
the BBC or the cost of ITV and CH4 that is passed on the consumers
through the cost of advertising.

Exactly. I am asking the likely outcome of a single question
referendum on the abolition of the licence fee, with options 'Yes' or
'No'. I am not saying that I support abolition.

If the question were to be phrased as "Should the BBC licence fee be abolished?" with no mention of alternative funding models, the answer
would probably be a resounding YES!!!!.

Now ask how people would prefer that it be funded with all sensible alternatives getting a mention... (Subscription, pay per view, adverts, Government grant, licence fee...)
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Tciao for Now!

John.
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In article <10gnpff$2jll1$4@dont-email.me>,
J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:

Personally, I am very much pro-BBC, with all its faults. I am
aware, however, that this is a declining opinion, especially among
the young. I think it is something - like the NHS - that is part of
the fabric of the nation; but, I am aware that increasing numbers
think otherwise.

So I conclude you like be lied to or at least, you like the lies they
tell.

For me and for millions like me, it gives me no pleasure to call for
the end of the BBC, none at all. I would much prefer the BBC to
return to reason, rationality, truth and drop agendas and wokeness.

The BBC is an activist propaganda machine not a news outlet.

Just drop the bullshit, Climate science like all science is NOT
settled, biological sex immutable, Britain has done more good than
barm to the world by far, etc. etc. etc. . it's simple, tell the
bloody truth instead of Islington woke BS.

So because they will not tell the truth they do not serve the needs
of the vast majority of the country, so what's the good of paying for
them at all?

I'll make a prediction, if the polls continue to predict a Reform
government, the BBC will turn everything they have against Farage and
co., no hint of truth will remain. As a teenager he ate live animals
and was for ever doing nazi salutes, don't worry, the BBC can always
find activists to make these claims. Master mind champion and useful
idiot Lammy has already claimed he hung around with the Hitler youth,
19 years before he was born.

Do you remember being told if we voted Brexit we would have no drugs,
no green salad and a lot more besides and for some reason even our
water supply was threatened. It will be worse for Reform much, much
worse. The BBC is an activist propaganda machine not a news outlet.

As a national broadcaster paid for by taxation it should be neutral
and fair, stop laughing at the back.

Bob.

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