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How are you giving tv advice (http://www.ccmb.co.uk/showthread.php...99-or-%A33-999) if you don't watch a tv?
And watching bbc wales here - http://www.ccmb.co.uk/showthread.php...Mondat-evening
Even if you never watch it you are still enjoying many benefits of its being there.
It has a profound effect on the quality of program making in the UK. Look at other countries like France or Australia, the locally produced TV there is really amateurish. The tone of news broadcasting.
The money spent by the BBC brings much more than that back into the country, many times over.
It is a key part of UK soft power, which considering we are about to leave the EU, seems more important than ever.
It's like saying you don't drive a car, so you don't benefit from money spent on the roads, or you have no kids so you dont benefit from spending on education. Equally bogus.
to pi33 you off
What’s been on them that’s any good?What do you get from Sky? Many more channels than on the BBC.
Genuinely interested.
Look at the comedy that’s been made/shown on the bbc that would never have got a chance otherwise, in the last year it’s had:
Fleabag, derrygirls, vic and bob’s big night out, This time with Alan Partridge, What we do in the shadows, inside no 9, still game, gone fishing, cunk on Britain, limmy’s show....
I love the Beeb and happy to pay its tax.
I think the programming is crap, but needed to provide a outlet for the broader spectrum.
Only professional moaners and groaners could possibly disapprove of coughing for a licence fee. Going forward over 75s will effectively have to pass a means-test to qualify for a free one. Those wrinkly b'stards whose income is too high or have assets and/or savings above a certain threshold shall have to pay full whack.
The government should implement similar with regard to Winter Fuel Allowance as it would save billions that it can add to the £15 billion it's giving away in Overseas Aid this year. Continuing austerity for Britons while foreigners have a knees-up at our expense is something we can all fully support, or had better else risk being branded a racist, xenophobe, white supremacist, Brexit nutter, etc.
The money is given away and £15 billion will be gifted this year. The budget is ring fenced and increases each year, while - for example - many benefit payments have been frozen since 2016. As I also stated, it's continuing austerity for Britons, millions of 'em.
This attitude reminds me of this. People who are struggling being made to blame other people who are struggling.
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If pensioners can afford to pay it they should. Those who can't will get it free. I do not see what's wrong with that.
The reason why some folk have a dig at the BBC is probaly ( we hate anything British ) campaign.
I wish they would all go live in some anti western despot place like Russia or China if I'm honest , where real state television can be enjoyed, as it might be more appealing to them .
From what I’ve read, it only affects those that can afford it anyway
If all the idiots who don't pay it because they claim they don't use the BBC coughed up the stupidly small sum of £150 a year - then perhaps we wouldn't have to force the poorer and more vulnerable members of our society to do so. Nothing as thick as a working class capitalist.
The licence fee is excellent value for what you get I'd be lost without the BBC , TV, Radio,Podcasts and the I Player, all for £154 quid. 🤣
If you have over 15 devices you then pay another £154. Lol.
Some burn £154 in a weeks drinking and eating.
Nuts