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    Red face UK Government Seeks To Punish Left-Wing Media By Scrapping The BBC Licence Fee

    The BBC (Biased Brainwashing Corporation) licence fee is set to be scrapped and replaced with a subscription service.

    Boris Johnson's Conservative government seeks to decriminalise the non-payment of the TV licence fee which funds the BBC by scrapping it.

    Senior aides to the government insist they are “not bluffing” about changing how the UK state-funded left-wing media corporation is funded.

    This month (after the media snub of Brexit Day, along with three and a half years of hysterical fearmongering lies against Brexit in the media, and the constant remain-stream media demonisation of Boris and of Brexiteers,) senior government aides snubbed the journalists from entering into a press conference at 10 Downing Street with the Prime Minister.... by simply not inviting them into the room from the group of waiting journalists. They hand-picked the journalists who could enter the room instead. Journalists walked out in protest and made-out in the media that Boris was 'banning' the media and cherry-picking journalists instead... but they weren't banned;- they just weren't invited into the room.

    - The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is a biased left-wing state-funded corporation.

    -The BBC put out daily fearmongering against Brexit for three and a half years after the referendum was held in June 2016.

    - The BBC refused to show Boris Johnson, the Queen, and the EU Presidents signing the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.

    - The state-funded BBC showed a few thousand people in London protesting against Brexit (even though over 17.4 million people voted for Brexit!) - yet refuses to show all the mass protests against the EU happening in Europe which is shown each day on social media. https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...ropeans-to-see

    - The BBC (B̶r̶i̶t̶i̶s̶h̶ Brussels Broadcasting Corporation!) gave minimal coverage to the Brexit/Independence Day celebrations, pretended only 'a few hundred people' attended - when the reality was there was massive crowds of many thousands (as shown in videos all over social media).... the BBC scorned the celebrations.... and made and uploaded an anti British video instead ridiculing the English and Queen Victoria.

    - The BBC demonised Boris Johnson each day for months last year after he came into power.

    - The BBC covered up decades of child abuse by their top BBC childrens presenter Jimmy Savile. (The UK's most prolific child rapist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile)

    - The BBC TV Licence goons harass people in their homes if they don't have a TV Licence.

    And that's just a few of the many reasons why millions of UK people hate the BBC.

    'What has the BBC come to? Toilets, that's what!' Boris Johnson writiing in an article for The Telegraph in 2002.

    - The final straw came on 31st January 2020 on the eve of U.K. Independence / Brexit Day.... the biggest event in modern British history.... and the state-funded national BBC media snubbed the UK people and our democratically elected UK leader - and refused to broadcast his 3 minute Brexit Day speech to the nation. It was a step too far - and the final straw which broke the camel's back.

    So now Boris Johnson (and his mastermind/guru/chief adviser Dominic Cummings) will punish the BBC and their Ł200 million annual state-funded budget by scrapping the licence fee to fund them. People will no longer be legally forced to fund the BBC.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/109733...vice/#comments

    Boris broadcasted his speech on Twitter and Facebook on Brexit Day. The mainstream media can no longer control the narrative, thanks to social media. Sorry guys, but your party's now over... it was fun for you while it lasted. Trump and Boris both use Twitter to reach people.
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    Downing Street declares war on BBC with plan to ABOLISH licence fee

    The government is planning to scrap the BBC licence fee and force the corporation to operate as a subscription service according to incendiary reports.

    16th February 2020

    Such a move could lead to multiple BBC TV and radio channels being sold off or closed in the biggest shakeup of British broadcasting in decades.

    According to the Sunday Times senior figures in Downing Street have decided the BBC needs to be dramatically cut down in size. A source told the newspaper: “We are not bluffing on the licence fee. We are having a consolation and we will whack it. It has to be a subscription model.

    They’ve got hundreds of radio stations, they’ve got all these TV stations and a massive website. The whole things needs massive pruning back.

    “They should have a few TV stations, a couple of radio stations and massively curtailed online presence and put more money into the World Service, which is part of its core job.”

    John Whittingdale, former Culture Secretary, is now back at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as minister of state after Nigel Adams was moved to the Foreign Office in the latest reshuffle.

    Mr Whittingdale is set to play a leading role in the plans and a source said his brief from Number Ten was: “Mission: attack”.

    A source also told the Sunday Times Boris Johnson was “really strident” on plans regarding the BBC.

    It follows tensions between the Government and the BBC, with ministers being banned from appearing on the Radio 4 morning programme Today.

    The plans could include banning BBC stars from second jobs.

    BBC News Editorial Director Kamal Ahmad apologised to staff earlier this week after accepting Ł12,000 to speak for 40 minutes at a banking conference in Aberdeen.

    Mr Ahmad earns Ł205,000 a year and according to City AM, will not accept the conference payment.

    A source suggested that payments for second jobs could be used as donations to charities such as Help the Aged, following the controversial decision to scrap the free license fee for over 75s.

    Ministers are currently looking at the fee itself.

    Non payment could be decriminalised by 2022.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/12...ng-Corporation
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    The BBC is a cultural icon. Dismantling its financial base could be a mistake. Surely just a good spring clean might be a better start.

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    Hold on what the hell is this then

    BBC News Editorial Director Kamal Ahmad apologised to staff earlier this week after accepting Ł12,000 to speak for 40 minutes at a banking conference in Aberdeen.

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    About time tbh

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    Quote Originally Posted by frankhammer View Post
    The BBC is a cultural icon. Dismantling its financial base could be a mistake. Surely just a good spring clean might be a better start.
    Why would you want to keep a dead horse moving if it doesn't serve a purpose anymore? Especially if it involves enforced taxation. Turning it into subscription service will be more reasonable solution. It will show how many people care about it.

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    Would not say it was left wing.

    The Spectators Andrew Neil dismantled Corbyn early on and their election went down hill after. Labour's left have more grievances with the BBC than the Tories do.

    The BBC tries to take the centre ground or status quo and against anything radical.

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