Not Nadine Dorries, Hugh Grant.
Hugh Grant has hit out at the government over plans to scrap the licence fee that funds the BBC by 2027.
On Sunday (16 January), the Conservative party announced that they would abolish the licence fee at the next opportunity if they are still in government, with culture secretary Nadine Dorries introducing a two-year freeze that she said would “be the last”.
Instead, she said, the UK will have to “discuss and debate new ways of funding, supporting and selling” television programmes.
On Sunday night, Grant joined the entertainment industry figures speaking out in defence of the BBC and against the planned funding changes.“The BBC is something the whole world admires with envy,” the A Very English Scandal star wrote.
See also, NHS. The world admires and envies that, too. However, Dorries is the one with her finger on the pulse. People have been cancelling their licences in their droves and there is significant backlash building against the ingrained wokery at the Beeb. In seeking to cancel the licence and with it the nasty intimidation tactics they and their lap dogs Crapita use, Dorries is more in touch with the ordinary viewer. Grant has his head so far up his arse, he can lick his tonsils.
“It is entirely appropriate that the insecure, spittle-flecked nut jobs of this government want to destroy it.”
That’s some serious projection there.
Initially leading criticism of the government plans was comedian Nish Kumar, who called the Tories “a pack of p***ed up cultural vandals”.
Ah, yes, Nish the unfunniest man in comedy Kumar. The least said about that charlatan, the better. All I will say is if he is on the same side as you, you ought to be considering where you stand.
BBC Breakfast host Dan Walker tweeted: “??I am well aware that the BBC makes mistakes and needs to change but the media landscape would be much poorer without it. Those 3 letters are trusted and respected around the world.”
Delusional. No one takes this organisation seriously anymore. Trusted and respected, my arse.
But, then, the likes of Grant and other entertainment figures are worried about the taps being turned off and the hysterics are evidence that Dorries is over the target. Oh dear, how sad, never mind. Why should ordinary people be forced to pay for their lifestyles?
Update – I see that Polly Toynbee regards defunding as cultural vandalism as well. Using the Guardian and its contributors as a moral compass, I am convinced that defunding is absolutely the right and moral thing to do. Remember folks, the Guardian; always wrong about everything all of the time. Not to mention morally bankrupt.
As long as they don’t chicken out and start funding it from general taxation this is excellent news. You can tell why these particular people are squealing though, the fountain of stolen money is under threat. As for the BBC being trusted, maybe it was half a century ago, nowadays their output is mostly lies and propaganda.
Aye, those “envies of the world” that the world never seems to be in any great hurry to replicate, for some reason. There are other state-owned broadcasters, and there are other public broadcasters, but to my knowledge, the only one consciously modelled on the BBC is NHK in Japan. As for the National Elf, well, there’s Cuba and North Korea…
The sooner the woke BBC is abolished the better. I resent paying £159 for an organisation which derides all things i hold dear.
You still pay?? Received my monthly love letter from Capita this morning containing the usual threats they have been making since 2006 when I woke up and cancelled (yes – I have been ‘under investigation’ that long).
I didn’t notify them I was cancelling, because I’m not obliged to.
I don’t reply to any correspondence, because I’m not obliged to.
I do not communicate with their ‘enforcement officers’ – simply close the door in their face.
The reason why my property is unlicenced is none of their business.
Sign *nothing* on the doorstep – this also goes for everything else like charities wanting direct debit donations.
In the beginning, the acidic monthly letters can create anger but this soon passes. Now, they go into the shredder without even being opened.
“As for the BBC being trusted, maybe it was half a century ago”
When I was a regular short wave listener in the 70’s & 80’s the BBC World Service was generally O.K. – but the domestic Beeb was going downhill even then…
It is my preference not to watch broadcast TV, not to be told when I can watch whatever they tell me I want, not to be talked at and propagandised. My money my choice.