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Because no parliament can bind a future one - and there is a general right wing movement that the BBC is "biased" (despite them stacking the news leadership wit
by philjohn 2y ago
Because no parliament can bind a future one - and there is a general right wing movement that the BBC is "biased" (despite them stacking the news leadership with their own appointees since 2010), and so the tax would be rife for cutting.
- wkat4242 2y agoMakes sense but the same sentiment is present in Holland (that currently has an extreme-right government) and it didn't actually get cut. And of course traditional media aren't really an important source of news anymore anyway.
- amadeuspagel 2y agoAny kind of funding for public television necessarily depends on political approval, regardless of whether it is formally a tax. No ordinary private media organization can go collect license fees from people who haven't subscribed to anything.