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Spending Review: TV licence frozen for six years

Former_MSE_Guy
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Spending Review: TV licence frozen for six years

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  • Butterfly_Brain
    Butterfly_Brain Posts: 8,862 Forumite
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    Should be abolished altogether in my opinion. We are the only mugs in the world who pay a licence fee
    Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones that let in the light
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  • theGrinch
    theGrinch Posts: 3,133 Forumite
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    i second that. the technology is there for pay on demand.
    "enough is a feast"...old Buddist proverb
  • le_loup
    le_loup Posts: 4,047 Forumite
    I agrre. Let's have our televion as good as American TV!
  • notbritishgas
    notbritishgas Posts: 2,314 Forumite
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    Lets see Sky do the same!
  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    Murdoch will be highly pleased with this news, The BBC is the best broadcaster in the world IMO, this is purely political interference, no doubt encouraged by Murdoch, from his office in New York.

    Bad news for us all.
  • lincroft1710
    lincroft1710 Posts: 19,038 Forumite
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    le_loup wrote: »
    I agrre. Let's have our televion as good as American TV!

    I'd want mine a whole lot better than US TV. The US TV programmes shown over here tend to be the "best", the rest (majority) is rubbish.
    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
  • chattychappy
    chattychappy Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    I'd like to see it abolished too. Ridiculous! You can buy or subscribe to quality newspapers, magazines, books etc. So why not choose your TV?

    The BBC has had it's chance as a public service broadcaster and blown it through endless dumbing down. IF we really must have a "public service broadcaster" I would prune the BBC right down to a few "serious" channels with highly educational programming. No drum rolls building up to news programmes, no ratings-chasing reality shows, no "top talent" celebrities.
  • le_loup
    le_loup Posts: 4,047 Forumite
    lincroft1710 wrote: »
    I'd want mine a whole lot better than US TV. The US TV programmes shown over here tend to be the "best", the rest (majority) is rubbish.
    Don't you understand irony?



    It was a violent disagreement with the two idiots who posted before my posting and the one directly above this one!.
  • lincroft1710
    lincroft1710 Posts: 19,038 Forumite
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    le_loup wrote: »
    Don't you understand irony?



    It was a violent disagreement with the two idiots who posted before my posting and the one directly above this one!.

    Yes, but some people do believe US TV is better, and your short post didn't convey any sense of irony.
    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
  • chattychappy
    chattychappy Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    Great stuff!

    As we all know, all foreigners are envious of the BBC and the NHS. Thou shalt not joke about these things. They are too holy.
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