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Originally Posted by Jimmy-J
will the licence fee increase after the cuts, yes or no?
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I'm not interested in hare-brained attempts to frame questions so that the answer appears to back up your view. All you're doing is trying - and failing - to dodge the inconvenient fact that Parliament has banned the BBC from increasing the licence fee until 2017
at the earliest.
Insisting that your cynicism is justified simply because the licence fee will at some point in the future go upwards is about as clever as pretending you're some sort of soothsayer for claiming that the sun will come up tomorrow morning.
If there was any spark of intelligence about your argument you might at least try to factor in by how much the licence fee would have to go up in 2017 - assuming it does go up - in order to counteract the effects of six years of inflation.
The value of the licence fee, by staying static in cash terms, will fall significantly in the next 6 years. The next time it increases, it is entirely possible that it won't be allowed to go up far enough for its value to be even the same as it is today, never mind greater.
Please, stop me if this is confusing you.