Quote Originally Posted by Trickytreesreds View Post
Rearrange please

Wall your against banging head a

You never answered my question, why should folks pay for the BBC when they only watch ITV/Sky etc?

Here's 5 reasons, if you want it, aren't bothered by this. You pay for it, like I 'm prepared to do for Sky.
But you seem to think, blackmail is fine.
It's been fun watching the same 3 who bang the Tories on every thread, so passionately scream to the BBC's defence. Here in lies the answer.

Here's 5 anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVxA...ChilliJonCarne
Does anybody actually watch ITV any longer? Apart from the occasional time when they stump up to buy mainstream live sport, and reruns of old episodes of Family Guy on ITV 5 catchup +1,that is. The rest of its programming its unadulterated ****e now Jeremy Kyle has been axed - culminating in the appalling pulp called Downton Abbey.

Without central funding, this is what the BBC would become and,for all its faults, I still believe its better than what it would become with no licence fee. As for making pensioners pay, they are amongst the wealthiest sectors in the economy - if anyone should get it free, then it should be means tested for the needy, not based on the baseless assumption that old = poor