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Re: June 8th General Election
Ukip pledge to scrap licence fee to punish ‘BIASED’ BBC and save families £400 a year
now that's a policy they could all adopt
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/798...t-paul-nuttall
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30-04-2017, 08:36
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Re: June 8th General Election
If it's £147 a year, how would it save an average family £400 every year?
It isn't explained in the article.
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30-04-2017, 08:40
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Re: June 8th General Election
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If it's £147 a year, how would it save an average family £400 every year?
It isn't explained in the article.
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no idea but the idea of scraping it is appealing
found this-- i'll leave you to work out the average spend on fish and chips based on vat saved
UKIP BATTER BEEB Ukip pledges to scrap VAT on fish and chips and axe BBC’s TV licence fee to save families £400 a year
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/344635...c-license-fee/
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30-04-2017, 08:41
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Re: June 8th General Election
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no idea but the idea of scraping it is appealing
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It might be appealing but its totally unrealistic..
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30-04-2017, 08:50
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Re: June 8th General Election
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It must be appealing but its totally unrealistic..
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why? it's a business if it can't survive on it's own sell it to some one who can make a profit .
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30-04-2017, 09:19
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Re: June 8th General Election
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why? it's a business if it can't survive on it's own sell it to some one who can make a profit .
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30-04-2017, 09:54
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why? it's a business if it can't survive on it's own sell it to some one who can make a profit .
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It's not a profit making business, it's a public service broadcaster. It means it doesn't have 20 minutes of adverts every hour and makes programmes that others won't because they're not profitable. It would just become a Sky clone going down market. Another in the 100s of crap cable channels, many of whom are showing repeats of BBC shows.
As for bias, all politicians try to bully the BBC. The main complaints this week have been complaints of a bias against Corbyn. A lot of their presenters have a Tory background bias e.g Kluennsberg /Nick Robinson. I'm not too worried about that as every is entitled to their own slant on things as long as it's broadly balanced out by others.
The BBC has had a lot of cuts, e.g BBC3; however the £13 a month it costs compares very favourably to other providers esp. since most of it is new/original. We'll be sorry when it's gone, like the NHS better keeping politicians away from it.
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30-04-2017, 10:03
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It's not a profit making business, it's a public service broadcaster. It means it doesn't have 20 minutes of adverts every hour and makes programmes that others won't because they're not profitable. It would just become a Sky clone going down market. Another in the 100s of crap cable channels, many of whom are showing repeats of BBC shows.
As for bias, all politicians try to bully the BBC. The main complaints this week have been complaints of a bias against Corbyn. A lot of their presenters have a Tory background bias e.g Kluennsberg /Nick Robinson. I'm not too worried about that as every is entitled to their own slant on things as long as it's broadly balanced out by others.
The BBC has had a lot of cuts, e.g BBC3; however the £13 a month it costs compares very favourably to other providers esp. since most of it is new/original. We'll be sorry when it's gone, like the NHS better keeping politicians away from it.
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Around a quarter of BBC revenues come from its commercial arm BBC Worldwide Ltd, which sells BBC programmes and services internationally and also distributes the BBC's international 24-hour English-language news services BBC World News, and from BBC.com, provided by BBC Global News Ltd.
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30-04-2017, 10:07
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Around a quarter of BBC revenues come from its commercial arm BBC Worldwide Ltd, which sells BBC programmes and services internationally and also distributes the BBC's international 24-hour English-language news services BBC World News, and from BBC.com, provided by BBC Global News Ltd.
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All of which go back into funding the BBC otherwise we'd be paying a much higher licence fee.
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30-04-2017, 10:16
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Re: June 8th General Election
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Around a quarter of BBC revenues come from its commercial arm BBC Worldwide Ltd, which sells BBC programmes and services internationally and also distributes the BBC's international 24-hour English-language news services BBC World News, and from BBC.com, provided by BBC Global News Ltd.
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And all the profits from BBC Worldwide get invested back into its broadcasting operations and as we all know its funding has been cut these past few years so l am glad that this has helped replace some of the funding lost from that..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Worldwide
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30-04-2017, 10:21
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All of which go back into funding the BBC otherwise we'd be paying a much higher licence fee.
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which proves it is capable of selling it's product world wide ,time to wean it off mummy's teat . those happy with giving the beeb money could invest in it's shares .
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which proves it is capable of selling it's product world wide ,time to wean it off mummy's teat . those happy with giving the beeb money could invest in it's shares .
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Well that is your opinion about the BBC which l respect but the majority think rather differently. 
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Well that is your opinion about the BBC which l respect but the majority think rather differently. |
what majority  - link please
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30-04-2017, 10:28
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I'm sure we've had this BBC debate many a time before even if UKip have now announced it in their manifesto.
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30-04-2017, 10:32
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http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-...upport-for-bbc
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