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I use the word illegitimate deliberately. The BBC license fee has zero democratic legitmacy. Having tried to ask questions about this taxation as an elected MP, I've been barred from doing so. We're forced to pay it, but no one we elect is able to oversee how it is spent.
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The BBC is independent of government with good reason. It's a rather cheap shot because if MPs did have a say in how the BBC was governed the tact that would have been taken on here would be to question it's independence and compare it to governments which own TV stations and use it for self-promotion/censorship.