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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I know that some take the view that the government plans for the BBC and Channel 4 are ‘revenge’, but there are genuine reasons as to why the government is taking that view. And it has nothing to do with revenge!
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That's characteristically an old Boy opinion proclaimed as a fact and devoid of any supporting evidence. Channel 4 is a successful broadcaster and has adapted well to streaming. Its management state that it should remain constituted as it is. Advisers commissioned by Channel 4 estimated privatisation would raise £500m-to £1bn for the public purse, but hit the supply chain outside the capital, thereby at odds with the government's levelling-up agenda.
This was not in the Conservative Manifesto and is just going to waste valuable time in the Lords and Commons and will likely become another Johnson flip-flop.