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Abolish the BBC TV licence fee

Abolish the BBC TV licence fee

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Started by Anonymous 17 years, 9 months ago
A Petition To The Government To Abolish The BBC Licence Fee: We are no longer prepared to pay the BBC Licence Fee of 139.50GBP a year. Times are hard but the BBC do not appear to have noticed this, judging by the way they continue to spray our money over their executives and overpaid presenters. Many of us prefer to watch other channels anyway so why should we pay for something we do not watch. Sky do not expect those who do not watch their programmes to pay for them. Why should the BBC If the BBC think that they can attract viewers then let them have a subscription service and let them live on the proceeds instead of on we licence payers. The BBC have increasingly entered the commercial world by competing with commercial companies, using the licence payers money. So let us see if they can survive by going the whole hog and living by pay-to-view. Public service TV broadcasting of high quality could possibly be provided out of general taxation on a very much slimmed down basis and very strictly regulated to avoid any political bias or competition with what is provided elsewhere. A modest radio fee could also be charged for that service if required. These latter points are matters to be decided later but, in the interim, to concentrate your minds we, the undersigned, give notice that we will not pay any further general TV licence fee at the present level:

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Lee Bramham
1 year ago Featured

It is nota world class service. It is a tax on ordinary people. It does not deliver anything that can be said to be better than itv, channel 5 or any of the other broadcasters. The only people who truly support the status quo are either channel 4, another state funded quango or the middle and upper middle classes who see it as a cash cow for them and their children.

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stephen bushell
7 years ago Featured

quite simple this gov. is supposed to believe in a free market economy other channels manage fine make them stand on their own two feet and stop fleecing us to over pay their staff and so called stars.

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Robert Clarke
7 years ago Featured

I think it is a disgrace, especially when so many BBC employees earn more than the Prime Minister.

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Jill Barr
7 years ago Featured

Please note that the BBC is now a commissioning publishing house with no in house production staff craft staff or training but still has over 29 thousand so called staff which is quite appalling when apart from say EastEnders under the guise of BBC studios it contracted out everything else nearly 20 years ago with the main exception of news but no one seems to have taken this on board.

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Roy
7 years ago Featured

I cannot stand the bias. Tax on TV as I cannot opt out and watch commercial channels.

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pat mcveigh
9 years ago Featured

This is a very bloated and biased organisation with no regard for the majority of the viewing public The cancellation of the fee would be a welcome tax reduction at no cost to anyone but this orginisation which should be renamed the Anti British Broadcasting Corporation

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Louise Verified
1 day ago

Why not call it the POLL Tax Mark 3?

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Lorraine Evans Verified
27 days ago

Because it is not an unbiased channel which the public are funding

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