[Sephiroth]

I don’t believe we can have it both ways. The BBC is a bloated organisation with too many channels than are needed to provide a quality public broadcasting service. They need to trim their cloth according to their income via a dose of reality.

The licence fee is itself iniquitous especially since failure to pay criminalises the victim - something the Guvmin hasn’t yet rectified.

If the BBC trimmed its channels., switched to advertising, there’d be no need for a licence fee.