[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by punky

Are you deliberately obtuse?

There is no need to be rude.

For some decades now we have had the ability to restrict channels on the basis of payment. It isn't rocket science. Have BBC Free with commercials or BBC commercial free on VM, Sky, Top-up TV for the extra £12 a month extra.

And what happens to transmissions when the adverts are on? Do they show a blank screen for five minutes, every quarter of an hour?

It wouldn't be sustainable anyway. If say twenty per cent didn't want to pay the licence fee wanted the BBC to show commercials, no company in their right mind would want to pay loads of money to access only twenty per cent of the audience.

If people had to pay £142 to a state-owned airline before they were allowed to fly anywhere (regardless if they fly or with whom), noone would stand for it. Its a poll tax. If I don't want to watch the BBC I still have to pay for it. It goes against everything that's fair and equitable in a reasonable society.

I would love to have a state owned airline that costs me only one hundred and forty two pounds a year, if it meant I could fly anywhere I wanted, without having to pay anything more. I am pretty sure everyone in the country would be cock-a-hoop with a plan like that.

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy

And this from an MP:



Source

Carswell is hardly a good source for advice on the funding of the BBC. His collaboration with Hannan on the NHS plan is testament to his bias.