O/T The BBC time to go?

[seriouspie]

It's disgusting. I'm in a position to afford to pay the licence fee again but millions aren't. It's akin to sticking another £12 odd per month on your utility bills which many are struggling to pay anyway. I don't understand all this pension credit stuff - does it mean that someone receiving say help with housing benefit or other benefits be exempt or is this classed as pension credit?

Whatever, in another context, this increase is nigh on doubling the price of a season ticket for many over 75's, something that will put renewing their ticket out of the question for the 20/21 season.

[sidders]

TRICKY says
I know of no one, who would willingly pay a penny to this flea pit.
Don't fib, Tricky, you know me and Swale for a start on here ...

[Trickytreesreds]

TRICKY says
I know of no one, who would willingly pay a penny to this flea pit.
Don't fib, Tricky, you know me and Swale for a start on here ...

I don't know you?

When have we ever spoken?
You could be Elites parents for all I know.

For a man champions social justice and wants a socialist happy ever after.
You've just shot yourself in the foot.

[SwalePie]

I don't know you?

When have we ever spoken?
You could be Elites parents for all I know.

For a man champions social justice and wants a socialist happy ever after.
You've just shot yourself in the foot.

I am Elite's uncle and so is my wife.

[sidders]

I don't know you?

When have we ever spoken?
You could be Elites parents for all I know.

For a man champions social justice and wants a socialist happy ever after.
You've just shot yourself in the foot.

Here's an interesting stat for you. During an entire Premier League season (2017-18) the total attendance was 13 million. IN the same time, 22 million people attended shows in London.
So what, you may say?
The arts in all their forms dwarf football for spectator power and arts lovers will visit the BBC on a regular basis. Watched Coxy on Jupiter (you know what I mean) last night and thought where on earth would you get a programme of such depth and power? I bet women's football is eternally grateful for the Beeb and the job it's done enhancing its popularity.
Think of it like the NHS. I went almost 60 years with hardly using it at all and then (like you, I understand) I had to cash in my chips big time and didn't at all begrudge my years of paying for others to use the service.

[Trickytreesreds]

Here's an interesting stat for you. During an entire Premier League season (2017-18) the total attendance was 13 million. IN the same time, 22 million people attended shows in London.
So what, you may say?
The arts in all their forms dwarf football for spectator power and arts lovers will visit the BBC on a regular basis. Watched Coxy on Jupiter (you know what I mean) last night and thought where on earth would you get a programme of such depth and power? I bet women's football is eternally grateful for the Beeb and the job it's done enhancing its popularity.
Think of it like the NHS. I went almost 60 years with hardly using it at all and then (like you, I understand) I had to cash in my chips big time and didn't at all begrudge my years of paying for others to use the service.

So you are blaming the Tories then? Not the BBC?

Interesting that you bring the NHS into it.
Yes I am alive because of them. But I don't think there is a person in the country that doesn't appreciate the NHS, unlike the BBC.
The NHS is accountable in many forms and run like a business ( arguable as to the efficiency).
When the NHS doesn't perform, it gets slaughtered and has to answer for it.
As for womens football, it is all the BBC has left as it won't pay for anything else.
Football/Golf/Motor racing? Nope, all gone. Yet it can find £16 million for 106 executives. As a socialist, you should be outraged by that.

So I'll ask again, what gives the BBC the right to exist on taxpayers money, when it answers to no one?
The same people it has now targeted for money, are the same ones dodging German bullets up French beaches 75 years ago.
That is outrageous in many forms.
Funny how you can blame the government for this, when it willingly gives £14 billion to foreign aid.

[BigFatPie]

So you are blaming the Tories then? Not the BBC?

Interesting that you bring the NHS into it.
Yes I am alive because of them. But I don't think there is a person in the country that doesn't appreciate the NHS, unlike the BBC.
The NHS is accountable in many forms and run like a business ( arguable as to the efficiency).
When the NHS doesn't perform, it gets slaughtered and has to answer for it.
As for womens football, it is all the BBC has left as it won't pay for anything else.
Football/Golf/Motor racing? Nope, all gone. Yet it can find £16 million for 106 executives. As a socialist, you should be outraged by that.

So I'll ask again, what gives the BBC the right to exist on taxpayers money, when it answers to no one?
The same people it has now targeted for money, are the same ones dodging German bullets up French beaches 75 years ago.
That is outrageous in many forms.
Funny how you can blame the government for this, when it willingly gives £14 billion to foreign aid.

What have you got against the poor old Beeb really?

Did you write in to Jim’ll Fix It and all you got back was a signed photograph?

[Trickytreesreds]

What have you got against the poor old Beeb really?

Did you write in to Jim’ll Fix It and all you got back was a signed photograph?

Actually you raise a very good point.
Some the worst deviant perverts going have arisen from the BBC umbrella.
You should join, then at least you'd get a *** life.