Love to see the Business Case ostensibly behind this proposed sell-off.
In order to arrive at a conclusion, normally people would have had to see evidence, weigh arguments, consider pro & cons and decide on best path forward - normally documented and scored against an agreed requirements list; I wonder if this will be available to MPs when they have a vote on this?
It’s stated that by Nadine Dorries that
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Channel 4 rightly holds a cherished place in British life and I want that to remain the case. I have come to the conclusion that government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon.
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So we’re going to move from a company that costs the viewers and the taxpayers nothing, and that has in it’s remit to purchase locally produced programmes, to a company that will compete with Netflix which costs just under £16 per month, had £18 billion of debt, and makes most of its programmes in the USA?
It would be interesting to see the evidence behind the statement "
government ownership is holding Channel 4 back", considering the Government has no input in how C4 is run (they appoint the Board, but don’t have day to day oversight - or is she implying that the Government appointees are holding C4 back?).
I wonder if that is based in fact as much as one of Dorries recent statements, which was that C4 was in receipt of public money*?
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spoiler alert - it isn’t…