Is It Time to Scrap the Licence Fee and Privatise the BBC? | Good Morning Britain

So what is the future of the BBC we all pay for, whether we use it or not? I think in one way or another we all probably use it subliminally, we don't even realize that you are using the BBC and we are you. We've got the usual suspects at the base Esther Rantzen, you must have talked about this so many

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s, who thinks privatization of the Beeb is a terrible, rotten, desperate idea, and the assistant telegraph commentators at Madeleine Grant Lee say yes, ya It's

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for the Beeb to be unfit. purpose and it should be privatized, so we will come to you first, that is a big step.

I mean, this is a huge institution that this country really owes a lot to. We have our rounds with the aunt. You know she has her rounds with us, but why should she? We preserve it because it is part of the fabric of the country. I don't think the BBC should be

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ped or abolished or should no longer exist. I just don't think people should be forced, under penalty of prison, to pay what they are. essentially a highly regressive poll tax that disproportionately affects the poorest people each year. Dozens of the most vulnerable people are jailed for failing to pay license fees.

I think Ella got so much better, why, well, everyone's out, so you're mad at oh love, but why should we have the license fee? Do you know why it should exist and with the BBC being able to continue in its current form without the license fee? The government's opinion and I think this is part of the punishment that could come into this equation: that the BBC is biased in you listening to The Today programme, in which the government will no longer put the Witnesses on because they say they are treated unfairly . BBC news at 6:00 and 10:00 and thank God neither is my program and the government says that is biased too.

Do you agree? I think in a way yes, I'm a big fan of the BBC. in many ways, but I think what he suffers from is his obsession with diversity, but he really struggles with diversity of opinion. Most of the people who populate the BBC and work there tend to subscribe to liberals in particular. This is exactly why Corbin East is also hated. by the way, because it's not super leftist, but it's a particular worldview and I think it's particularly bad for articulating a conservative right, but and that's one of the reasons, I think probably if you're turning on the TV at home, the other vision is that in reality Esther who already pays for Netflix I already pay for Sky they already pay for many things that they really want and they also have to pay a hundred and fifty seven pounds for some things that they probably don't want So, in the modern way in that people watch the shows they choose to watch, the BBC is becoming a bit of a dinosaur - isn't it just in the way we all consume our entertainment news these days?

Never underestimate how big The Beloved Dinosaurs are and we can't put them back together. The BBC is deeply loved. Yes, it bothers us from time to time. Yes, oftenly. On today and other shows you become intimidating and belligerent, usually men who are very rude to their interviewees and that annoys and annoys me. them so that they don't pay huge amounts of money to the big stars and we all have to pay for that and I think people find it quite annoying, okay, here's the solution, keep the license fee please, because the People look by accident and find something of real value.

The reason I studied English literature was because when I was a kid I listened to a radio version of Pride and Prejudice and loved it every night. Now I'm sleeping with the most amazing comedian named Mark Steele, who I discovered by accident and marks Steele around town. of the perfect comedy bits look at fleabag emerged from BBC three if this planet survives if it will be because of two words David Attenborough and David Attenborough spent his career and there are shows that no other channel could afford to make. and that's true, sigh, so The Crown is the most expensive show of all time and that's a Netflix show.

I just don't think it's true and also the time when one could only experience these things through the BBC. I think time has passed. It is much more pluralistic than it was before. I don't think the BBC has now forced you to subscribe, so if they want to remove the license fee, but we want to keep the BBC because those two things could have removed the

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. fee and then it's a subscription just for you Colin, is there advertising at the moment? Right now you can't subscribe anyway. It's crazy because you can't actually stop the preview and you can't stop it. radio, so eight million out of 18 million people don't think about broadband, so you couldn't, yeah, you're right, you can do it.

The BBC, in its quirky, eccentric ways, takes risks, which is why The Crown isn't the riskiest drama you'll ever hear. Frankly, there are many dramas that are much riskier than the crowd. I'm just using it as an example of one that was very well funded. I was simply throwing a statistic at the BBC that they really like and they reminded me of it in the teardown, they would tell you, look at this piece of paper that allows you to watch television and they will send you to jail because if you don't pay for it it costs you 40 P a day and for 40 PA a day they give you a multiplicity of services and diversity, that's true, isn't it?

I mean, with

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courage, so why does it have to be done under penalty of prison if it is so brilliant and if we love the Guru so much? Do you agree because I think it's ridiculous that you go to jail for it? Don't pay this, yeah, what do you think? Well I think there is a problem, there isn't because no one pays money if they can get away with it and the cost of the BBC going to court is huge too so it's a peculiar anachronism. Okay, but if you take a look for a moment at what it costs you to go to the theatre, for example, I was looking at Mary Poppins tickets £210 to be in the stalls £162 to be in the shops, whereas you say, yeah. you get radio, you get television, you get BBC online stuff all year round, why don't these bigwigs, these people who are paid huge sums of money, have regular radio programmes, for example on Sundays the

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Why don't they go out to Laughter, go out to the community and sell the BBC to the man. Dominic Cummings likes three-word slogans, doesn't he? So why don't they come out with a three-word slogan? Richards, save the BBC, just get out there, you Graham Norton, you Gary Lineker, you Vanessa, they do it, but I think actually, I mean, me. Do you know a lot of young nieces and nephews and if you ask them they certainly don't want to pay £157 because I literally don't think so, unless maybe they'll listen a little more now and then? again or a bit of BBC Asian Network, you know, or whatever, and they can click on the BBC from time to time, but they would say they'd rather live without all that and then they'll have to pay £157 because they'd rather watch. the oscillation over time they media the people who want to continue, I mean in a market, although the BBC model does not work, they will age, they will depend on it like people my age and local radio is the one.

What the boys should do for local radio and when we have floods like this absolutely embryonic and parts of a BBC local radio do something absolutely incomparable, sir, when talking about loneliness, for example, which is what I do like. I focus on when the people who call me and talk to me about loneliness, our local radio stations and the people who depend on them and they hear this question about fear of the engine, you want to save the BBC, yes, the reasons for those who do, and you want the BBC. be scaled back and basically teach a lesson for the reasons why I think the BBC could thrive as a subscription model or move straight to strengthening license fees in some way.

A bit of my point is that their arguments are not really political and they are not selfish, the government wants to tame the BBC. I would suggest because they don't like it because they don't like it. I don't think Boris wants to. I think Boris cares about his legacy. He does not want. be known as the man who destroyed the BBC, yes I think there is someone called Benedict Cumberbatch in numerical terms and I think he may be the person, yes it's interesting because here they say that Robert Half and the Conservative MP and former minister suggested that he should There should be a referendum on which field should be given control.

No, no, could you? I mean, it's interesting, isn't it? I think the BBC is under enormous pressure to change the way it is funded because it seems like a lot of money for many who want a referendum, so you want a reference, Robert Halfin. Oh Robert please two things from the National Division for years and years and boaty mcboatface yes we could change the name of the BBC BB McBee see ya yes.