davyK wrote:So what is the legal system going to do if over 75s don't pay their licence fee?
My mate's mother is 90 and terminally ill and is worried about the licence. He has told her not to pay it. What the feck are they going to do about it?
Removing that tiny benefit to old people is one of most ludicrous and callous things I've ever heard of.
Yossarian wrote:As far as callous acts by the government in the name of austerity goes, this would be lucky to break the top 50.
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Blocks100 wrote:Scrap the License. The BBC long ago lost its impartiality as a broadcaster. Let me pay a separate subscription fee for Match of the Day. You can bin the rest.
RedDave2 wrote:Don't want to get into an argument on this, but I find it funny that this type of thing is often said by every side of an argument. The BBC is constantly scapegoated. And yes, sometimes they botch things up so that in trying to get balance they balls things up but I think its more from an incompetence issue than from any major bias. Speaking with a person who insisted that the stories of Hindus attacking Christians in Sri Lanki was BBC propaganda was the nadir of this.Scrap the License. The BBC long ago lost its impartiality as a broadcaster. Let me pay a separate subscription fee for Match of the Day. You can bin the rest.
Minnesänger wrote:The BBC is NHS-tier is how I think it should be protected. It's not perfect, aye, but there's few better outlets bigger or better than it, and it's far more than just a news outlet, as Kaz says.
Dark Soldier wrote:Minnesänger wrote:The BBC is NHS-tier is how I think it should be protected. It's not perfect, aye, but there's few better outlets bigger or better than it, and it's far more than just a news outlet, as Kaz says.
The NHS is an absolute shambles apparently, from what the missus tells me. She's high up in the organisation and wouldn't be surprised if it crumbles in the next five/ten years.
Kinda like the BBC tbf
equinox_code wrote:Underinvestment will do that to anything.
equinox_code wrote:Underinvestment will do that to anything.
monkey wrote:Like what?
Kazuo wrote:The value for money people get from a license fee is actually obscene.
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