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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
Radical idea why not let the public vote on it after all they are civil servants and should be serving those who voted them in . A group of rich out of touch elite making decisions for us without even consulting us
Simple vote do you want to keep the BBC as is or not. Lets me honest the BBC has lost a lot of faith over the last 20 years and the age of unquestioned propaganda is long since gone .
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The BBC is very much the author of its own misfortune. The endless corporate reads over closing credits, thanking people for paying their TVL, and the seemingly endless variants of that annoying Romesh advert they keep playing, is some indication of how deep in the doo-doo they know they are. Cancelling Ru Paul’s Womanface Minstrel Show is perhaps a small but interesting insight into how they might be starting to realise that their cultural obsessions have been turning people off.
Funding the BBC out of general taxation has long been considered a no-no because it puts the BBC much more directly at the mercy of government which isn’t a good look for a broadcaster that’s supposed to be impartial. The present system allows the BBC to manage collection itself (even though the licence fee money still passes through the government’s general fund on its way to broadcasting house).
A service tax, even a hypothecated one, makes the management and collection of the money an HMRC matter which the BBC might be uncomfortable with. But then again, they’re losing money hand over fist right now, and they’re clearly getting desperate, so who knows what might happen.